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I wrote a short guide for less technical people on measuring and improving a website's carbon footprint
https://curlybracket.net/en/2026/01/27/web-carbon-footprint.html
酒も飲まずにねーてーまーしーた！！
What does OKR stand for? Wrong answers only.
Nice, my parcel from the FreeBSD foundation with some swag did just arrive 
Ever wondering where the QR codes in #deltachat come from? each of them is handmade, as everything in delta :) #fosdem
Rewatching 
@hynekHynek Schlawack's keynote from 
@PyConUK this year. (Not yet on his Talks page, I noted.)
Can't miss the chance to (re)?post this slide:
> Giving everyone what they want is a failure of leadership
The official Python Developers Survey 2026 is in full swing! We want your perspective 🐍🔎 #python #pythondevsurvey https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-developers-survey-2026
https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-developers-survey-2026
An absolutely awesome talk from 
@benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 and highlighting just how early we all are in the journey of the Fediverse as a whole.
The LOLA data portability standard from W3C sounds really awesome and I really hope we see this sort of standard adopted across the fedi as it helps solve one of the bigger pain points where your posts are stuck on the instance you write it on.
There's a whole load of other really good points that again continue to align with the sorts of feedback I see regularly about "why fedi will never be mainstream" and the more talks I'm listening to today, the more confident I am things will become more mainstream and easier to adopt for those new to the network.
Ever wondering where the QR codes in #deltachat come from? each of them is handmade, as everything in delta :) #fosdem
졸려서 이만 자러 갑니다 안녕히 주무시고 좋은 꿈 꾸세요 고양이 사진 투척
An absolutely awesome talk from @benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 and highlighting just how early we all are in the journey of the Fediverse as a whole.
The LOLA data portability standard from W3C sounds really awesome and I really hope we see this sort of standard adopted across the fedi as it helps solve one of the bigger pain points where your posts are stuck on the instance you write it on.
There's a whole load of other really good points that again continue to align with the sorts of feedback I see regularly about "why fedi will never be mainstream" and the more talks I'm listening to today, the more confident I am things will become more mainstream and easier to adopt for those new to the network.
"What is plurk?" - @benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻
@benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 is now showing off Atlas Maps
사람이 어떻게 영어를
I think more #Fediverse developers should take a look at FEP-3b86 Activity Intents https://codeberg.org/benpate/fep/src/branch/fep-3b86/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md #FOSDEM #SocialWeb
영어 어려워
Why do social media platforms fail
"What is plurk?" - @benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻
や、まあCC BY NC 4.0で公開してるので何らかのクレジットがあればOK。びっくりした
How to make Mastodon less US-centric? I wanna engage with LatAm, European and Asian politics probably more than US ones.
Holocaust history
We learn the history of the Holocaust not just to remember the victims, but to prevent it from happening again. “Never again” is a call to ceaseless, eternal action. It is a call to recognize the trajectory of genocide •before• we reach the worst, to recognize that we are still in those precious years before, and to recognize that a Final Solution is coming again, unless •we• stop it.
And the way we stop it is not by making the concentration camp guards sit through a Powerpoint deck on de-escalation.
4/
The piece linked from the top QP has a lot of important information about mass detention as a pattern, and goes into much better detail than my little thread above. It’s extremely alarming, and it deserves careful study:
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss
/end
This stuff scares me sometimes.
I think more #Fediverse developers should take a look at FEP-3b86 Activity Intents https://codeberg.org/benpate/fep/src/branch/fep-3b86/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md #FOSDEM #SocialWeb
ドット絵村上さん
#村上さんアート
わしのクレジットか日本のFediLUGのクレジットいれてや〜
https://fedilug.it/fediverse-linux-users-group-fedilug-chi-siamo/
Sharing this especially for @benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 https://www.plurk.com/m/andypiper #plurk
우리.인생 
의 여러분, 안녕하세요.
우리.인생 은 2026년 2월 1일 오전 1시를 기준으로 에모지 리액션 기능을 정식 지원하기 시작했습니다.
앞으로도 우리.인생 과 함께 멋진 여정을 이어가 주세요.
언제나 함께해 주셔서 감사합니다!
Did you know that you can get rapid tests for all kinds of things now to test yourself at home? Handy, especially if you have kids or no GP.
Covid, of course, but also Flu A+B, RSV, Adenovirus, Strep A. You can even test your vitamin D levels!
またこんな時間になってる…寝よう 
「６８年の全共闘的な前衛芸術」に労農派とか出してくるのさすがに頓珍漢すぎるとおもうんだが。というか美術にかぎっていえば、そんな文脈はほぼ存在しない。あと正史が書かれなければならない理由もわからないし、一般的な美術史を無視して批評側が「正史」を云々している言葉遊びそろそろやめてほしい。 https://note.com/1484_naoki/n/nc50a8ca85cfd
just stumbled upon an incredible piece of MUD/MOO history from the mid-90s web that disappeared in the 2000s and is now all but forgotten. it is a testament to the interactive and creative possibilities real people imagined in the 90s, before greed and pessimism spread through the world wide web.
MOOSE Crossing: A MUD for Kids was a mud/moo designed by Amy Bruckman at MIT as her doctoral dissertation project in 1996
"MOOSE Crossing is a MUD designed to get kids 9-13 excited about reading,
writing, and computer programming. It includes a new programming language
(MOOSE) and client interface (MacMOOSE) designed to make it easier for kids to
learn to program.
Kids have made things like pigs you can hug, light bulbs that tell light
bulb jokes, and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow that ask you a
riddle! They're doing creative writing and computer programming in their
spare time for fun, and meeting other kids from around the world."
(from a rec.games.tiny.mud announcement https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/rec.games.mud.tiny/c/MhnTf0G3C_0/m/BKWIngCp440J)
while a moo wasn't anything new at all in 96, what i find incredible is that her team also built a custom graphical mud programming WYSIWYG client, for Mac and Windows. the clients - MacMOOSE.sea.hqx and WinMoose.exe appear to be lost to time (edit: macmoose has been found! https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/115988260112466194), but i found this screenshot buried in the wbm. you can see how an object is broken down into verbs and properties.
i have about a million questions about how the client-server system worked because this is adorable and user friendly. but for now, i'm excited to just think out loud about what the world wide web could be made into today, if developers got more interested in user-driven interactivity
this is the original site for MOOSE Crossing:
https://web.archive.org/web/19981202051515/http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/moose-crossing/
Amy's dissertation in html:
https://ic.media.mit.edu/Publications/Thesis/asbPHD/HTML/
#mud #moo #retroComputing #macintosh #vintageApple #worldWideWeb #indieWeb #smallWeb #history #digipres
am overcome with gratitude. after hours of searching usenet, ftp indexers, ftp sites, archive.org, discmaster and every archival tool i know of and coming up with zilch, i jusssst found the MacMOOSE software buried in a professor's apache open dir! he worked in the same research group as MacMOOSE (Epistemology & Learning Group @ MIT) and had the foresight to make a tarball of the lab's FTP server before it died years ago
this is the kind of archival once in a million thing - that someone self-archived an incredibly important and obscure piece of software by accident, and left a copy on the web. thank you prof fred g. martin 🙏
this archive of the MIT ELG ftp server is going straight to archive.org.
update: WinMOOSE has also been found thanks to https://mas.to/@justinto/115990209538195283
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#Africa accounts to follow:
NEWS
@thecontinent - Pan-African online newspaper, run by non-profit
@TUKOcoke - Kenyan news site
@ZekuZelalemZecharias Zelalem - Amnesty prize-nominated journalist on Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, regional conflict
@beverly_ochieng - Security & media analyst on Africa, Sahel, Wagner Group
@JonathanMBRJonathan - Kenyan teacher, long-time Fedi user, often commenting on African news
@teachersupdates - Education news in Kenya
@indexZitamar News - English-language news on business/industry in Mozambique
🧵 1/3
32000 whistles shipped yesterday alone.
I’ve done 1500 in a week.
The scale these part time folks are operating at is insane.
←これCC BY NC 4.0のワシの著作物なんやが
Reminder for all of us to lead by example.
https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113623004004461223
See an image with missing alt text? Maybe the person is dealing with a disability themselves! Be more helpful and suggest a good alt text for them to copy and use!
Reminder for all of us to lead by example.
https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113623004004461223
See an image with missing alt text? Maybe the person is dealing with a disability themselves! Be more helpful and suggest a good alt text for them to copy and use!
Now 
@mobilizon is presenting a quick overview of their event software
@benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 is up now presenting Emissary https://emissary.dev
I have zero interest in hating systemd, what came before it was awful. But I do wish systemd did not keep biting me with features.
I just learned that you can have both a foo.service file *and* a foo.service.d directory, with extra parameters in the directory that breaks everything. (Hidden from tab complete by the file.)
You are apparently meant to change the way you open your text editor and use `systemctl edit service` to combine the files.
Do you repost content from other social platforms to the fediverse? e.g. reddit, instagram, etc? Do you link or use a screenshot?
(I'm not as thoughtful as 
@evanEvan Prodromou so don't come at me about poll question design).
trans related anger
so it's hardly a fucking surprise, but having the latest epstein dump confirm that the anti-SJW movement - and the whole anti-trans accusations of 'grooming' children - was orchestrated by and for the benefit of rich pedophile sex traffickers, framing us for their crimes, has me extremely angry.
next time someone brings up that shit I'm going to ask them point-blank how many degrees of separation they are from epstein.
In an effort to reclaim some social media autonomy, I built myself a little tumblelog https://links.robb.is/
who called it LLM training and not enclosure of the creative commons
Reminder for all of us to lead by example.
https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113623004004461223
See an image with missing alt text? Maybe the person is dealing with a disability themselves! Be more helpful and suggest a good alt text for them to copy and use!
Every storefront in a community is a member of that community. When a community is under attack, members come to each other’s aid.
Today, protesters planned nearly 40 Target store sit-ins across the U.S. to protest ICE.
Target was founded in Minnesota. It became a national chain. Yet its leadership allows ICE to come on premises and illegally arrest its workers. It caves to anti-gay rhetoric and threats. It straddles a fence doing nothing.
Shop elsewhere.
誰がやってるんだ…
https://mastodon.uno/@linux
US judge declines to halt Trump's #Minnesota immigration agent surge
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-declines-halt-trumps-minnesota-immigration-agent-surge-2026-01-31/
A Minnesota federal judge on Saturday declined to order a halt to President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown in #Minneapolis, in a lawsuit by state officials accusing federal agents of widespread civil rights abuses.
勉強中の馬の骨のれっしゅさん 
@
Stefano Marinelli
@
Glyph
Andy Piper
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Jim DeLaHunt
Misty
Stefan Bohacek
robb
Jan Lehnardt 
@FOSDEM
