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Airplane view of Bangkok in the midnight (flight Chengdu -> Singapore)

Wikipedia receives hundreds of legal demands every year to remove user-written content. Almost all are rejected. We spoke with Wikimedia’s legal team about how Section 230 helps protect volunteer editors and public knowledge. https://www.eff.org/pages/internet-still-works-wikipedia-defends-its-editors

@mariusormarius What convention do you use to iterate through an ordered collection? Suppose I need to get items starting with <object-id>.

I don't see an operator for this in FEP-6606: ActivityPub client to server collections addressing conventions

I set up another recurring donation to open source: https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/ (@peertube)

You should too. It's what powers https://phpc.tv

Hi All, Hack & Craft is starting in about 10 minutes! I hope you'll join us from 2-4 ET.

https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

My back is killing me from shoveling snow, so I'll be finishing these socks from the ergonomic comfort of my couch!

으어어

Well this was a bizarre journey https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/

며칠전 구매한 안드로이드판 툼레이더를 플레이해봤는데 조작감이 좀 어색한 것을 빼면 나름 할만했습니다. 잘 만들었네요. 플스3 급 게임들은 모바일로 다 가능한 시대가 된듯.
그럼 자볼까 ..

Come on

Have you ever wanted to run your build system of choice inside a sandbox that forbids looking up the absolute path of the current working directory (so `realpath`, `pwd`, and such all fail)? No?

Well now you can. https://github.com/ComputerDruid/anticanonicalize

Hi All, Hack & Craft is starting in about 10 minutes! I hope you'll join us from 2-4 ET.

https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

My back is killing me from shoveling snow, so I'll be finishing these socks from the ergonomic comfort of my couch!

TIL: if you have a laptop with multiple gpus, and its set in eco mode, the steam video exporter wont let you export to h.265/hevc because it exclusively uses the high end gpu for that. ghelper on the asus rog laptops is great, but if you have it set to eco mode, the nvidia gpu is 'just off', and even the nvidia installer will complain there is no gpu present. seems like none of these apps talk to eachother and it seems to make for a kinda dumb ux.

there's this line from Adventure Time that I'm obsessed with...

"I learned to read braille from my ex."

"Your ex was blind?"

"No, just cool."

absolutely sums up my love for that show. just teaching excellent vibes all the way through without being preachy.

there's this line from Adventure Time that I'm obsessed with...

"I learned to read braille from my ex."

"Your ex was blind?"

"No, just cool."

absolutely sums up my love for that show. just teaching excellent vibes all the way through without being preachy.

Have you ever wanted to run your build system of choice inside a sandbox that forbids looking up the absolute path of the current working directory (so `realpath`, `pwd`, and such all fail)? No?

Well now you can. https://github.com/ComputerDruid/anticanonicalize

Released today, this is the album I would have loved to have made 25 years ago when I started learning to play cello. I gave up the cello, but at least I get to listen to Isabella Pine play hers!

https://isabelpine.bandcamp.com/album/fables

A reminder that while there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, you don't have to lean into it.

FYI for Brandi Carlile fans: she’s performing live this evening in Minneapolis. The concert is sold out, however The Current (https://www.thecurrent.org/) will be broadcasting the audio on-air (89.3 FM in the Twin Cities area) and on their website.

Additionally! You can purchase an online stream viewing ticket here if you want to watch the concert:

https://veeps.com/brandicarlile/10bee30f-604a-40a8-9c39-6a0a6553d878

@smallcircles@social.coop I say unseating, as in, this sort of significant shift in architecture would like be appealing to people who want to use multiple social apps. The cracks would immediately be visible to everyone with the current social app vertical architecture of the fediverse.

Sure, it'd be more microblogging, which is good for Mastodon, but people on Mastodon wanting to use other apps would feel annoyed and want to migrate to gain access to more applications in the ecosystem — where as right now the choice is to migrate from one vertical platform to another vertical platform, which isn't really beneficial to most people.

I think @cheeaun@mastodon.social will likely be the person to build the first "killer" C2S app.

mastodon UI elements with threatening energy

there's this line from Adventure Time that I'm obsessed with...

"I learned to read braille from my ex."

"Your ex was blind?"

"No, just cool."

absolutely sums up my love for that show. just teaching excellent vibes all the way through without being preachy.

Wrote something a bit personal today.

18 years in healthcare admin at Duke → coding bootcamp → Django developer → Core Contributor → DjangoCon Communications Chair.

The Django community was a huge part of how that journey worked. Felt worth saying out loud.

🔗 https://judkins.dev/blog/2026/02/21/from-bedside-to-bytes-my-journey-out-of-healthcare-and-into-tech/

#Django #Python #CareerChange

I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.

When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽

Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.

An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.

(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse

I've seen an ongoing debate between "Note" versus "Article" in ActivityPub / ActivityStreams.

When is something a "Note"‽
When is something an "Article"‽

Personally — I would probably have made the distinction this way.

An "Article" has a title.
A "Note" doesn't have a title.

(In ActivityPub / ActivityStreams, a 'title' seems to tend to get represented in the "name" field.)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse

"Across the nation, people are dismantling and destroying Flock cameras that conduct warrantless vehicle surveillance, and whose data is shared with ICE."

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

Battle is over!
Dance time! 💃

#KungFuSat

you ever think about how if you call someone "unsavory" you are remarking on their moral character, but if you call someone "savory" you are remarking on how delicious they are

Did you just say... Treats?

#バブカ

#Caturday #Cats

Mainstream media and the Trump administration praised Alpha School, an "AI-powered private school" that can cost up to $65,000 a year. 404 Media has learned that the school is AI-generating faulty lesson plans.
https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school/

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island after nearly 200 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wn1jrzk4go?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-BBCNewsWorld

It has been heartening to see the steady trickle of projects moving away from Microsoft GitHub to #FOSS friendly code forges like #Codeberg and #SourceHut, or self-hosting with tools like #cgit and #Forgejo

#Gentoo has been up and running on Codeberg all week which has made it easier for me to contribute to the O/S I use every day.

I'm now Proxy Maintainer for a handful of packages, including #VinylCache who also moved their bug tracker on Monday, making it possible for me to contribute 😀

Translation for lay people

“Move fast” : management decisions are absolute P0 and based on some billionaire’s last tweet. Everything else goes in the backlog. Especially error reports.

“Act like an owner” : be ready to take the fall when the whole thing falls apart (but actually fixing stuff is for a mythical backlog sprint)

“Thrive in ambiguity” : everything is P0. You get to figure out which are important. Hint: probably not the fixes.

@silverpill
What's going on with
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/0837/fep-0837.md
are there any activities ?

#activitypub #fep0837

terminal redirects

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/terminal-redirects

Behold! Glorious #IKEA #hack! The VARIERA #recorder stand.

Is curl-rustls unlikely to exit experimental status?

https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/20615

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@smallcircles@social.coop oh definitely, and like, I think part of that is down to the fact that W3C received the first version of each of the specs and went "that's good enough for 10 years", when there were so many unaddressed and incomplete aspects of these specs. The fact that there wasn't actually authn/authz in the original specs should have kept the WG open until that was resolved. Without it, half the spec was basically pointless.

I really hope the activitypub ecosystem can escape the inertia of the existing network and architecture that is widely deployed today. I've said a few times that Mastodon's threat isn't Bluesky, no, it's the next generation ActivityPub app that does microblogging well but built with C2S. That's what will unseat Mastodon from it's dominant position, not a social app on a different protocol that has different features.

Looking for people who can let my friend crash with them for a while. Or for organizations that will get them support and/or housing. They're black, trans, and very young, and have had no success with being able to find a shelter or other stable housing or a job.

I've posted asking for mutual aid before (https://retro.pizza/@uncoolmouse/115815824713819696) and some of y'all have been super helpful, but they're feeling really exhausted and hopeless after telling their story again and again and being turned away because the systems are overloaded.

They're currently in Bellingham, Washington, but if you're anywhere in Washington or Oregon, my friends and I could chip in to get them there.

(Boosts really appreciated)
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest

Hack & Craft! At the top of the hour! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

Bring a coding project, an art project, a sewing project, or something creative! Cya then!

졸려서 이만 자러 갑니다 안녕히 주무시고 좋은 꿈 꾸세요 고양이 사진 투척

@ajlewis2Anita Lewis @stefanoStefano Marinelli this stuff is pretty good https://ysap.sh/

https://keepandroidopen.org/zh-TW/ 的正體中文翻譯到底是哪根筋不對，還是真的很喜歡學測國文那一套花招（這好像也是高中國文的唯一用途：「把中文寫到沒人看得懂」），寫的文縐縐咬文嚼字、硬要堆積一些罕用到甚至詞不達意的詞上去顯得好像很厲害，結果連冗詞贅字都沒發現。 難得看中文非技術文件會看不懂、還要點開英文原文來看的……

Over the past couple years, I have come to know the #dotnet platform pretty well, from a developer's and a #reversing standpoint.

I can’t always say the same the #infosec community.

Today, I decided to rant a little (or maybe a lot 🙃)

👉 https://blog.washi.dev/posts/misconceptions-about-dotnet/

Gitas – A tool for Git account switching

Link: https://github.com/letmutex/gitas
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045175

Don't let your zpool fill up completely by creating a dataset with
reservation.

# zfs create -o refreservation=<5% of total pool space> <poolname>/reserved

You can always shrink the reserve if you need the space, but your pool will
always have space left this way.

-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>

@stefanoStefano Marinelli

Do you have any advice on learning programming in bash? Did you learn in a course or a book or some other way? I've just spent a couple weeks with a book on Perl and have decided that since I'm more familiar with bash, it might be better to learn a bit of it.

I dunno, if I had concerns that a protocol I liked was concentrated too much around one company, I'd work with the existing community of people working hard to distribute that network as quickly as possible instead of just writing a blog post telling people nothing can be done