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it’s heartening to hear that more investment is going into Discover but it feels so long since anything improved on that front that it’s hard to believe it can get better at all. does it need to be burned down and rebuilt from scratch? or is there genuine incremental improvement possible?
Ich hab so genug von der ganzen Kackscheisse.
India is becoming a global accelerator for AI that advances social good.
Open collaboration, digital public infrastructure, and engineering depth are shaping a model for inclusive growth.
Read the full blog from Hilary Carter.
🔗 https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/scaling-inclusive-growth-why-india-is-the-worlds-ai-accelerator-for-social-good
#OpenSource #AIForGood #LinuxFoundation #ResponsibleAI #India
The California age verification law imposes behaviour of application developers that I consider morally absurd.
As an application developer, I will never request any information from the OS or any other place to gather personal information about a user - especially if the act of that request has legal implications on what I am deemed to "know".
I simply won't.
Any system that enforces such a check, is a system I will not support.
the overall feeling from this is that Discover is still “stupid” in a way that For You isn’t. i understand that popular accounts are unavoidable, just like they were on Twitter. but both old Twitter algo and For You somehow manage to discern taste. Discover by comparison feels very undercooked
Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/stop_tahoe_update/
Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince your Mac it is under organizational control
<- by me on 
@theregister
Good Idea: Make GrapheneOS Mainstream
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
Most people never get to choose a truly private phone, not because they don't care, but because the secure options always felt too technical or too niche. That's changing.
Motorola just announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation! Bringing one of the most respected privacy-focused operating systems into the hands of everyday users.
No more choosing between security and a phone that just works.
Free IP Geolocation Database https://lobste.rs/s/gmhq26 #networking
https://ip66.dev/
I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled
i opened Discover for the first time in a while — again, some parts are good — but then every five posts there’s some political ragebait from complete randos (for me) who are popular here. i haven’t experienced this problem with For You in months! there are political posts but within my taste
hmmm
Man, bsky is discouraging rn. So much of my feed over there is basically "the world may be on fire*, but it's okay as long as I've got my emotional support matches**"
*Numerous spreading and escalating wars and genocide in service of rampant technofascism
**Claude ai***
***Technofascist word normalizer branded for computer touchers
Ned Batchelder
Stefano Marinelli
contact/ page updated with all of my chat, talk and social accounts: https://recondo.com.br/contact/Shameless plug: open registration for a FreshRSS (feed reader) account.
https://blog.woodpeckersnest.space/2026/03/02/roughnecks/now-opening-freshrss/
#RSS #ATOM #SYNDICATION #FEED #READER #WPN #FRESHRSS #ALWAYSON #SELFHOSTING
shrimple 🇵🇱 🏳️⚧️ @shrimple@www.shrimple.pl
600 words piece of prose about software and system distractions
Read more →RE: https://mastodon.social/@csilverman/116157820750272718
I believed in the dream of eWorld
contact/ page updated with all of my chat, talk and social accounts: https://recondo.com.br/contact/Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05v0p1d0peo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221994
I've done it. I finally understand pointers. I know it may not seem like a huge achievement to others but I get pointers in C now.
Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use the name “Microslop”
Microsoft is pushing "AI" hard in Windows, Office, and in their other products, and it's earned them a cute new nickname: Microslop. It turns out the company really doesn't like it when you use this nickname, however, and its official Copilot Discord server - yes, there is an official one - has gone into a co
https://www.osnews.com/story/144518/microsoft-really-doesnt-want-you-to-use-the-name-microslop/
I'm having this issue with every Firefox based browser (Firefox, Floorp, Librewolf, ...)..
Whenever I leave the browser open for a few days (for example when I only close the lid on my laptop), it slowly becomes almost unresponsive on heavier sites such as Youtube, especially with more than one YOutube tab open in the background - to the state where a simple pause of seek takes several seconds, sometimes up to maybe 20 - or when the tab is still playing the video even though it was closed seconds ago... etc.. basically, there's a lag with every action on Youtube. The same browser on other pages, working just fine, everything else on the computer is also working just fine.
This is how it works on my slower i3-6300 based laptop (my bed companion), it's a bit better with a newer and more powerful hardware, but still visible.. and annoying.
It is not a lack of RAM, once it starts to behave like this, I can close those tabs and it still happens even with only one youtube tab open. According to the "top" command, I have plenty of RAM available, with another huge amount only occupied by the cache.
And when I restart the browser, even with 20-30 youtube tabs loaded, it works just fine, for a day or two, then it starts to slow down...
I am obviously using an adblock, so it crossed my mind that's the reason but honestly, I'm not sure what's more annoying - a slow browser that can be "cured" by a restart or the internet with ads 🙂
Anyone with the same experience? Or maybe even a solution?
So, the rules is bot is back.
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Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use the name “Microslop”
Microsoft is pushing "AI" hard in Windows, Office, and in their other products, and it's earned them a cute new nickname: Microslop. It turns out the company really doesn't like it when you use this nickname, however, and its official Copilot Discord server - yes, there is an official one - has gone into a co
https://www.osnews.com/story/144518/microsoft-really-doesnt-want-you-to-use-the-name-microslop/
We're putting together some grant applications, and are wondering what skills and availability exist in our wider community 🧑🏭✨
We're particularly looking for people who can do feature work and technical management around things like GNOME, Flatpak, systemd, Freedesktop, Pipewire, ModemManager, etc.
Contact us if you think you'd be a good fit, either DM or email hi@modal.cx
Came across a weird new-to-me kind of object at the thrift store. 45 RPM single with a handwritten label, "take 5" after the song title. I looked it up and it seems this is from a studio that did direct-to-vinyl lathe cut recordings - they got a band into the studio and had them perform the same song a bunch of times, with each take being cut to a vinyl exactly once during the recording process itself.
Sound quality is pretty bad, but it's a cute concept.
When I say "new-to-me", I mean that I've seen lathe-cut records before, but the "live recording straight to vinyl during the performance" concept is new to me.
(I'm far enough behind the times here that this company has shut down already after doing this idea for a few years, haha.)
Came across a weird new-to-me kind of object at the thrift store. 45 RPM single with a handwritten label, "take 5" after the song title. I looked it up and it seems this is from a studio that did direct-to-vinyl lathe cut recordings - they got a band into the studio and had them perform the same song a bunch of times, with each take being cut to a vinyl exactly once during the recording process itself.
Sound quality is pretty bad, but it's a cute concept.
My wife is currently trying to get a python script working on her computer and she's encountering the "fun" of python not having any package manager built-in
How to Use an iPad as a Secure Calling and Messaging Device https://lobste.rs/s/7drxuo #ios #privacy
https://yawnbox.eu/blog/how-to-use-an-ipad-as-a-secure-calling-and-messaging-device/
Shameless plug: open registration for a FreshRSS (feed reader) account.
https://blog.woodpeckersnest.space/2026/03/02/roughnecks/now-opening-freshrss/
#RSS #ATOM #SYNDICATION #FEED #READER #WPN #FRESHRSS #ALWAYSON #SELFHOSTING
Høiland-Jørgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy
edited to add: thanks for all the suggestions. I knew this would be the right crowd. (^_^) it seems like my nextcloud might be the lowest friction option, so I'm giving that a try first. so far I'm liking how easy it has been to just upload my music and it just shows up, and I like that there are multiple subsonic apps I can try. and I didn't have to do anything extra to be able to stream from anywhere (except read the actual help file, of course, it's not just your nextcloud's regular url that you want to point your app to, but once I realized that, it was dead simple). job well done everybody, another victory for self-hosting~
original post: alright, Linux havers, what are we using to wrangle our music libraries these days? I've got a fairly large collection (~85 gb) almost entirely mp3s, and I need the capability of syncing to my phone. I use Ubuntu and android. I do have a nextcloud self-hosting setup, do any of you use that? is it good? a lot of these google responses are kinda old.
We're back to the #BayArea, with #CampaignFinance data added to #Antioch, going back to 2020:
"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.
They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."
(Original title: How to grow strawberries)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/
$80 no low balls i know what i got
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
No thanks, I'm all set.
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#バイク旅
#風景写真
#photography
撮影日 2026/02/23
The next version of NodeBB (v4.10.0) will ship with the ability to set alt-text with images 
While this was already natively supported in-site, the alt text wasn't federated out until now.
Thanks to @kirk@social.coop who filed the original bug report (a long time ago actually 
)
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kitsune tails is 33% off on steam and itch.io! https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
an award winning gay fox girl platformer sitting at overwhelmingly positive with 800 reviews on steam, in this economy? it's more likely than you think!
julian @julian@community.nodebb.org
<p>The hardest part of building a community is getting your users. If you don't have users, you don't have content, and if you don't have content, users won't join your forum. This chicken-and-egg game leads to many communities closing down due to lack of usage. Federation allows you to bypass this step by allowing you to "adopt" the fediverse as a source of content, so you don't have to worry about retaining users, but just creating content.</p> <p>NodeBB ships with a couple of powerful features that allow you to jump-start any new forum with live conversation and discussion with only a few clicks. This guide introduces you to these tools and teaches you how to use them.</p> <p><em>This article is part of the <a href="https://community.nodebb.org/category/28/answers">NodeBB Answers</a> category, where you can learn more about setting up, maintaining, and using your NodeBB forum.</em> [...]</p>
Read more →Im Gegensatz zur deutschen Bundesregierung zeigt die spanische Haltung und untersagt der USA die Nutzung ihrer Airbases und des Territorium für Zwecke der Kriegsführung gegen den Iran. Spanien will nichts mit den Angriffskriegen zu tun haben.
15 Flugzeuge verlassen direkt daraufhin spanischen Luftraum. Ein Teil davon wird nach Deutschland verlegt.
»Spain denies US permission to use jointly operated bases to attack Iran«
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/spain-denies-united-states-permission-military-bases-iran-pedro-sanchez
Reminder that boosting on the #forkiverse is free, costs zero energy, and is the single best thing you can do to help someone's post reach people who actually want to see it. Don't just fav, BOOST.
Felix "fx" Lindner has died
Link: https://blog.recurity-labs.com/2026-03-02/Farewell_Felix
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219558
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