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@apontiousAndrew Pontious 
@kkarhanKevin Karhan 
I fart too, so it's okay 🐈💨
It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine nonbinary Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)
It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.
Hey hey hey
You know what you should do?
Right now
Tell someone you love them.
Guaranteed it'll boost your mood and that of the creature you tell.
Trust me. Just do it.
🩵🩵🩵
I'd planned a server migration off Netcup for 29th Feb.
except there is no 29th Feb, and it turns out the actual termination date is 25 Feb. So, today. Anyway I did it, just earlier than planned.
Thanks FreeBSD & jails, with 
ansible tooling it was pure cake. I even renewed the ACME certs just for funsies.
Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters
Link: https://paultendo.github.io/posts/unicode-confusables-nfkc-conflict/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121716
Friends,
It feels like it was in a different century, but at the beginning of the #russia-#ukraine full scale war I speculated that you could predict development in conflict based on the intensity of attempted #cyberattacks, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/Predicting_developments_in_real_world_conflict_from_patterns_of_failed_logins.html. The data now covers four years.
I ponder whether it's worth using the data (linked in the article) to see how these things correlate.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
#ssh #passwordguessing #cybercrime #passwordgropers #hailmarycloud
낼은 오픈코드 셋팅이다
Need to leave your terminal for a few minutes and don't want to logout?
Use "lock -p". When you return, use your password as the key to unlock the
terminal.
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
Stop Ironing 3D Prints
아 opus라 그런가 아니 그래도 하나 시켰는데 ㅡㅡ
Feel free to throw your acks here: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/744
We've also now started a discussion for the appcenter submission process if we'll allow submissions to our flatpak remote that are known to contain LLM-generated code
https://github.com/elementary/appcenter-reviews/discussions/647
ai
i do not want (llm-flavored) ai and i do not want it to succeed. but i think it will succeed despite my spite. a vexing state of affairs
아니 근데 클로드 일 하나 시켰는데 토큰 다 먹네 너무한거 아냐
remembering old great web comics, this one is ebbits
작업시간도 채웠고 드디어 루틴 정상화가 되는건가
오늘 뭔가 의욕이 고갈되지 않아서 계속계속 묵은 일을 했음 강의도 들었음 강의를 들었다는 것은 의욕이 만땅인 것
@box464@mastodon.social is doing another live stream in parallel here:
https://mastodon.social/@box464/116125983228506874
I won't be able to talk about my own talk in real time, so check out that stream too!
Q: how should we grow the fediverse?
A: we should worry less about growth, and more about empowerment of the end user
@cwebber@social.coop "I am pro fediverse but I am more pro empowerment... The majority of people on the fediverse were somewhere else first. Then something bad happened."
Hey hey hey
You know what you should do?
Right now
Tell someone you love them.
Guaranteed it'll boost your mood and that of the creature you tell.
Trust me. Just do it.
🩵🩵🩵
New blogpost about atproto
It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical.
www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...
Practical Decentralization
"People are co-participants in the distribution of messaging. Which is something the Fediverse has."
"If data isthe new oil, then data centers are the new pipelines."
"Where are the centralization points of our technology?"
"Data centers are a centralization of power."
Incredible pull quotes from 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber.
Max never sits on me
Molly does, all the time. But Max never sits on me
Except today he did
I put a chair on the balcony, because it was unseasonably warm in London. I sat down, and he jumped straight onto my lap
I have never been more excited while having to stay absolutely still
Now it's evening & Molly is sitting on me. I am officially a cat chair
I finally found my calling
Missed opportunity when someone asks a question about age verification and says "explain it to me like I'm 5".
@box464@mastodon.social is doing another live stream in parallel here:
https://mastodon.social/@box464/116125983228506874
I won't be able to talk about my own talk in real time, so check out that stream too!
Q: how should we grow the fediverse?
A: we should worry less about growth, and more about empowerment of the end user
@cwebber@social.coop "I am pro fediverse but I am more pro empowerment... The majority of people on the fediverse were somewhere else first. Then something bad happened."
Any mastodon admins out there with opinions on c.im's moderation? There were some serious problems a year or two ago, but I haven't seen any word on whether they've cleaned that up or not yet.
Survey of the normal people - "What is the fediverse?". Oh boy. We've got some work to do, y'all. Tho I'd love it if we were all part of an MCU plot.
Open Social fared a bit better than this.
Not knowing exactly what the fediverse or open social web is - isn't a bad thing - we have a blank slate. That's a good thing.
How do we introduce normies to the fediverse?
The current fediverse culture isn't as welcoming. And there are UI issues that need to be addressed. Even small UI issues can push people away - an accidental posting of a private post to a public timeline for example.
Oh I really connect with this title "The Loneliness Rebellion" - love that.
Users are tired of screaming into a void, not being able to reach the people and topics they are interested in with ads and attention grabbers in the way.
Survey of the normal people - "What is the fediverse?". Oh boy. We've got some work to do, y'all. Tho I'd love it if we were all part of an MCU plot.
Open Social fared a bit better than this.
Just like 2008 had "Subprime Mortgages (or "Dot Com" crash) that nobody understood, 2026 has "Circular AI Revenue" deals. Ex: Microsoft gives money to OpenAI, who gives it back to Microsoft for Azure credits, which Microsoft then reports as "AI Growth".
Microsoft and Nvidia fund AI startups that buy their own tech back to report "growth." With $600b burning in data centers in 2026 alone but no real revenue to back it up.
If that loop snaps, the "fuck up" will be massive.
嫌な夢見た
Watching the new Hannah Fry series on AI, and something occured to me. Given all the “progress” and AI in healthcare and genetically selecting physical characteristsics for your IVF procedure...
...how long before someone claims to (or attempts to) prompt an entire human genome containing “best” DNA?
Or is there already a startup for that?
애매햔 시간에 일어낫은ㄴ
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@PagedOut/116097214033179367
I have published an article in 
@PagedOut, an experimental technical magazine :) You can see the magazine issue on PagedOut's website and the standalone article on my website.
My article is titled "computers should be liberating", and it's about the world I want to live in.
This is an extreme longshot, but if there's anyone out there who owns this physical CD (or any other CD in this series), please reach out. I need your help with something. https://www.discogs.com/release/36547942-Various-XD-Submit-Vol-2
This is an extreme longshot, but if there's anyone out there who owns this physical CD (or any other CD in this series), please reach out. I need your help with something. https://www.discogs.com/release/36547942-Various-XD-Submit-Vol-2
RE: https://social.coop/@spritely/116132867771534636
Hoot 0.8.0 is a HUGE milestone! Being able to live develop browser applications in Hoot is a game changer! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-8-0-released.html
Scenario: You slightly botched a trombone solo during last night's band rehearsal. When the director stops and says "Is that how you meant to play it?", what's the best answer?
a) Yes, confidently!
b) No! Of course not!
c) Well I got a haircut today and it's kind of throwing off my whole embouchure
Spritely Hoot, our Scheme->WASM compiler (and all-around WASM toolkit) hits 0.8.0, and this one is a BIG release! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-8-0-released.html
For the first time you can LIVE develop web applications using Hoot, from the comfort of your own editor! See the video at the top!
Plus lots of other bugfixes and goodies!
Spritely Hoot, our Scheme->WASM compiler (and all-around WASM toolkit) hits 0.8.0, and this one is a BIG release! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-8-0-released.html
For the first time you can LIVE develop web applications using Hoot, from the comfort of your own editor! See the video at the top!
Plus lots of other bugfixes and goodies!
So far, not much interest from Patreon to do this. Should we setup an alternative? Some already exist.
And some have come and gone, like SubClub.
PeerTube has recently added the ability to incorporate funding options into channels as well.
“I kept asking it, like… are you sure?”
NodeBB distributing content into the fediverse, leveraging the existing structure that exists - microblogging.
Learning some of the secret backend sauce of NodeBB. It uses a relay - FediBuzz - to pull content from specific hashtags into its federated forums.
I knew that when I tagged #ActivityPub it ended up showing in activitypub.space, now I know how!
It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine nonbinary Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)
It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.
It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.
To clear up any confusion, this action is not about the Internet Archive, which is at archive.org, or the Wayback Machine.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-after-alleged-ddos-attack
It is with profound sadness that the MetaBrainz Board of Directors announces the unexpected passing of our Founder and Executive Director, Robert Kaye.
Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MetaBrainz and left a lasting mark on the music industry and open source movement. His contributions were significant and his loss is deeply felt across our global community.
#LibreQoS Executive Dashboard:
https://devblog.libreqos.com/posts/0011-executive-dashboard/
We decided to display the global network-wide statistics as a simple heatmap.
Utilization, #QoO - Quality of Outcome, round-trip time, and retransmits follow a similar pattern.
A huge thank you to 
@nlnetfdnNLnet Foundation @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz 
@nlnet for sponsoring this development.
h/t 
@herberticusHerbert "Bracket" Wolverson
#QoE #bufferbloat #latency #broadband #QoS #jitter #ISP #WISP #FISP #QualityOfExperience #QualityOfService #FLOSS #QualityOfOutcome #FTTX #FTTH #FWA #OpenSource
RESEARCHERS AND REGULATORS! Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab is launching a vital new corpus of 22,000 privacy policies, terms & conditions, and community standards for over 300 companies. Woohoo!
Making the Fine Print Visible:...
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