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M3 progress ๐ฅณ
https://mastodon.social/users/shiz/statuses/115906763349020772macOS on M3 (T8112) booting under m1n1 after some real debugging hours with @noopwafel!
(no credits for the hacky mess to us, but all credits to 
@janneJanne Grunau & 
@svenSven Peter & all the other Asahi folks for doing the actual major work)
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"privacy warning", what fresh hell is this
macOS on M3 (T8112) booting under m1n1 after some real debugging hours with @noopwafel!
(no credits for the hacky mess to us, but all credits to @janneJanne Grunau & @svenSven Peter & all the other Asahi folks for doing the actual major work)
Anyone know how to get your app on ProductHunt.com? Is it worth doing now or waiting until not in alpha?
Iโm gonna go on a #StarWars marathon, watching the nine mainline movies with my partner over the coming weeks. Confession time: Sheโs never seen any of it. Iโve only seen snippets of the original movies as a child on public television (and through memes, I guess). I saw the prequels in the cinema when they came out, but never again since (20+ years, omg). Same for the last trilogy. Curious to watch all of them in a relatively short timeframe for the first time. Which order though?
i'm really thankful to be working for the kind of studio where one of my duties as a team lead is to remind my team not to crunch under any circumstances
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#232 Upcoming Deadlines
https://thisweek.gnome.org//posts/2026/01/twig-232/
How about renaming the Labrador Sea to "Gulf of Denmark"?
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Been thinking a lot about 
@algernonI'm in my database, and I don't like it's recent post on FLOSS and LLM training. The frustration with AI companies is spot on, but I wonder if there's a different strategic path. Instead of withdrawal, what if this is our GPL moment for AIโa chance to evolve copyleft to cover training? Tried to work through the idea here: Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them.
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@algernonI'm in my database, and I don't like it Personally, I don't mind AI scrapers. Developers of closed-source projects have always been using copylefted code, today it is just easier as they don't need to hide anymore.
However, I don't think the resistance is futile:
>OpenAI and Anthropic have already scraped what they need. GitHub already has everyone's code. The training data exists.
Because they will need more data, and easily accessible training data pools (e.g. Github) are slowly becoming poisoned with slop. Did they find a solution to this problem?
>GPLv4
I like this idea!
Elasticsearch Was Never a Database
Link: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579954
website: want to try our new AI feature?
me: the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has convened a subcommittee to define a new SI prefix suitable for describing the infinitesimal fraction of a femtoshit that I give about your new "AI" feature
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RE: https://chaos.social/@derPUPE/115894826052801889
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@jtonline level tea hacking.
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If history really repeated itself then life would be a lot more predictable than it is.
website: want to try our new AI feature?
me: the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has convened a subcommittee to define a new SI prefix suitable for describing the infinitesimal fraction of a femtoshit that I give about your new "AI" feature
@fediversereportConnected Places I think that's a really healthy structure. I think it's likely that the Working Group will be focused on upkeep and maintenance of the core docs (ActivityPub and Activity Streams), and the Community Group will work on broader applications of the protocol through extensions.
@fediversereportConnected Places I hope people in the ActivityPub community put the invited expert policy to the test. There's a good explanation of the IE role here:
https://www.w3.org/invited-experts/
I would be really surprised if qualified ActivityPub specialists are turned down for IE roles!
@fediversereportConnected Places Finally, we've been planning to work in a "staging process", where ideas and changes come from the developer and user communities, through the Community Group, and then optionally go to the Working Group if they need the structure of an official W3C standard.
@fediversereportConnected Places I think that's a really healthy structure. I think it's likely that the Working Group will be focused on upkeep and maintenance of the core docs (ActivityPub and Activity Streams), and the Community Group will work on broader applications of the protocol through extensions.
@fediversereportConnected Places We also proactively reached out to distributed social network projects and commercial social network implementers. I'd been organizing the Federated Social Web Summit events for a few years, and we'd talked to dozens of different projects, so we had a lot of contacts there.
@fediversereportConnected Places Finally, we've been planning to work in a "staging process", where ideas and changes come from the developer and user communities, through the Community Group, and then optionally go to the Working Group if they need the structure of an official W3C standard.
@fediversereportConnected Places
I think all of the editors and authors of ActivityPub and Activity Streams in the previous iteration of the working group were "invited experts", except one (
@jasnellJames M Snell ). One of the chairs (me) was as an invited expert.
The chairs (
@tantek.comTantek รelik , 
@lehorsArnaud J Le Hors and I) had a "knock to get invited" policy: anyone who expressed interest in participating in the working group was invited to join. I can't remember a situation where we turned someone down.
@fediversereportConnected Places We also proactively reached out to distributed social network projects and commercial social network implementers. I'd been organizing the Federated Social Web Summit events for a few years, and we'd talked to dozens of different projects, so we had a lot of contacts there.
@fediversereportConnected Places So, I think this is a really interesting article, and I agree that participation and representation matter here.
I hope that more ActivityPub implementers step up to become W3C members. There are several funded nonprofits and commercial organizations that could probably afford it. I'd recommend that people who use ActivityPub software let the software creators know that they should participate in the WG process!
@fediversereportConnected Places
I think all of the editors and authors of ActivityPub and Activity Streams in the previous iteration of the working group were "invited experts", except one (@jasnellJames M Snell ). One of the chairs (me) was as an invited expert.
The chairs (@tantek.comTantek รelik , @lehorsArnaud J Le Hors and I) had a "knock to get invited" policy: anyone who expressed interest in participating in the working group was invited to join. I can't remember a situation where we turned someone down.
#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
@fediversereportConnected Places So, I think this is a really interesting article, and I agree that participation and representation matter here.
I hope that more ActivityPub implementers step up to become W3C members. There are several funded nonprofits and commercial organizations that could probably afford it. I'd recommend that people who use ActivityPub software let the software creators know that they should participate in the WG process!
#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
After 3 months, we finally got the water system fixed and added a reverse osmosis, which means I can omce again enjoy tea without it tasting like iron and other minerals!
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As hosts of RustConf 2026, weโre looking forward to reading proposals that share practical experience using Rust โ what people are building, learning, and discovering in the real world.
We invite the community to submit talks that reflect how Rust is being used today. https://bit.ly/4sO0YBc #rustconf #rustconf26
When they say AI is optional, but your option is to turn it off because they decided AI is default.
NEW, by me: A hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East this week, sent as a phishing lure over WhatsApp.
I obtained a copy of the phishing page and analyzed it with the help of experts. The attack aimed to steal passwords, hijack WhatsApp accounts, and grab victims' location data.
But a bug in the code also *exposed* victims' data, allowing us to see dozens of people who had fallen victim.
How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East | TechCrunch
The phishing campaign targeted users on WhatsApp, including an Iranian-British activist, and stole the credentials of a Lebanese cabinet minister and at least one journalist.
techcrunch.com ยท TechCrunch
Link author: 
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
US ICE agents have been using tear gas on protestors in Minneapolis. There's been plenty of tear gas misinformation flying around on social media; here's a summary of the chemistry and the best way to get rid of it (TLDR: water): https://www.compoundchem.com/2020/06/09/tear-gas
When they say AI is optional, but your option is to turn it off because they decided AI is default.
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
Link: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649577
Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis https://lobste.rs/s/xankns #lisp #programming #vibecoding
https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-01-16-lattice-mcp.html
Hello from the other side!
(More information in the coming days)
New: Here is an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. More than 600 companies have been working with Trumpโs ICE, including businesses in nearly every state.
Free to read:
US ICE agents have been using tear gas on protestors in Minneapolis. There's been plenty of tear gas misinformation flying around on social media; here's a summary of the chemistry and the best way to get rid of it (TLDR: water): https://www.compoundchem.com/2020/06/09/tear-gas
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Transparency is a pageant. This is a fascinating paper (via 
@yvonnezlamYvonne Lam, thank you.)
It's great that the Protocols for Publishers 
@teamProtocols for Publishers has an account with their own domain here on the Fediverse. Bravo!
There's an upcoming PfP event in London. Great speakers like 
@saskia , 
@JeremiahJeremiah Lee , and @fediversereportConnected Places .
As hosts of RustConf 2026, weโre looking forward to reading proposals that share practical experience using Rust โ what people are building, learning, and discovering in the real world.
We invite the community to submit talks that reflect how Rust is being used today. https://bit.ly/4sO0YBc #rustconf #rustconf26
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/115906304850499236
Registrations on #holos are now open. Keep in mind this is a beta, your feedback helps us build this project.
It has two components: the App (hosts its own ActivityPub server) and the Relay (provides stable identity).
For advanced users: the relay supports CNAME records, allowing you to use your own domain. This makes you independent from the relay, which becomes just infrastructure.
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Alexandre Mutel
@reiver โผ (Charles) 
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