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🎉 Applications for the Sovereign Tech Fellowship are officially open!
What’s new? For the first time, community managers, and technical writers can apply alongside open source maintainers until April 6, 2026, to become Fellows.
The #SovereignTechFellowship invests directly in the people behind the code, supporting key experts whose work underpins the health and stability of critical components in the #opensource ecosystem.
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Overreliance
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I'm really not a huge fan of how ready people seem to be to just completely relinquish their ability to code. It does not take long for your brain to wallpaper over entire skillsets.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber also, I can see this type of situation very, very easily spiraling into a classic "death by convenience."
How long until the primary engineers no longer understand the how their program is built or what motivated ostensibly insignificant decisions that eventually add up
I hope one day to see AI and quantum computing solve the most intractable, complex problem in digital technology, one that has defeated our most powerful programming minds: making web forms that don't care whether you put a space in the postal code.
Welp, there we go https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3mgaqaaisfs2e
> Oh interesting, people who don’t know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute.
>
> Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.
https://kawkaw.app/
日本人做了一个虚构购物网站，可以随便买东西满足购物欲（当然不会真的花钱），能买的商品也好好玩，还可以看评论
Last boost: recursion actually can be hard because lots of very hard problems are naturally recursive, but the alternatives are even worse
Lots of renewed talk about static site generators 'round these parts (which is awesome), so let me do a little shoutout to Pelican https://getpelican.com 
@pelican
I chose this over 11ty (which I did try!) because it's written in Python, which is one of the few (the only?) languages I know(ish), and because I'm more comfortable with their upgrade schedule (more like yearly instead of what felt like weekly with 11ty - that just stresses me out - YMMV, of course).
Anyway, it's a great little SSG if the other ones out there don't float your boat. It powers my site at: https://mitten.lol
맥오에스 돌아가는 아이패드인 건 맞는데 게임 안할 거면 이거 안사고 못쉥긴 크롬북이니 서피스니 살 이유가 없음
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7zfcnnagck3iuyiuivk6ie7c/post/3mgar27upg52l
So I joined the Fediverse only to find the trending seems to be the same far-left echo chamber as the other sites. Kind of disappointed. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
Yesterday, I learned how to mute hashtags so I could remove politically related ones. Today it's like a new Mastodon.
"Israeli forces have advanced into a number of towns and villages in south Lebanon, a source from the U.N. peacekeeping force in the country, UNIFIL, told AFP"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/910436/israeli-forces-have-entered-several-lebanese-villages3a-unifil-source/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
I had a personal #Linux win! My buddy wanted a cheap laptop and he asked me to find him a $200 #Chromebook. I told him any $200 Chromebook would be of crappy quality. Instead I found him a $200 #Dell #XPS for sale on #Swappa. I'm gonna install Linux and he will have a high quality kick ass fast laptop!
This is why you need to have at least 1 tech nerd friend 😀
Our industry has always been a mess of contradictions, because people are a mess of contradictions.
The following sounds like open mic humour, but it's a real part of our history: There was a moment in time when recursion was considered an advanced thing to be avoided as "too complicated,' while we simultaneously required new hires to have a degree in Computer Science.
I used to ask, “Which is it? Are we educated professionals who know how to use our tools? Or not?”
Moderna has agreed to pay Roivant up to $2.25 billion to settle claims that the mRNA vaccine developer infringed on Roivant’s patents in its Covid-19 shot. https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/03/moderna-settles-covid-vaccine-suit-roivant/
RE: https://hear-me.social/@Lacze/115936258910866320
The "brilliant" minds behind the new social network wsocial.eu forgot to grab related domain names, so I applaud the efforts of the creator of w-social.eu... encouraging people to be social and simply join the fediverse.
Fun fact: yesterday I almost registered wsocial.lol (1 Euro for the first year) and wsocial.wtf.
I guess if I see an article in mainstream media about wsocial.eu I may do it (if the domains are still available).
Journos, you should cover the fediverse!
I was this close to registering a domain name & creating a splash page to expose why https://wsocial.eu is such a terrible idea.
Why did I stop?
I have a big hunch that their initiative is going to FLOP. Big time.
A fork of Bluesky that requires government ID to post? Bahahahahaha.
Sure you can have rich and powerful friends helping you launch at Davos but getting people excited about a new social network isn't easy.
I will use my limited time in propping up the fediverse instead ✊
RE: https://hear-me.social/@Lacze/115936258910866320
The "brilliant" minds behind the new social network wsocial.eu forgot to grab related domain names, so I applaud the efforts of the creator of w-social.eu... encouraging people to be social and simply join the fediverse.
Fun fact: yesterday I almost registered wsocial.lol (1 Euro for the first year) and wsocial.wtf.
I guess if I see an article in mainstream media about wsocial.eu I may do it (if the domains are still available).
Journos, you should cover the fediverse!
Monica Vargas de 
@GRAIN in conversation with journalist Gina Rigols about #TechnoFeudalism vs #FoodSovereignty
-> #bigtech and #bigagroo corporations intimately working together to "help" transforming farmers being more productive based on pesticides, tech platforms, privatisation of natural knowledge
-> they increasingly know and control what we eat
-> otoh, we are what we eat
-> 70% of global population is active in farming
-> what kinds of resistance are farmers waging against this?
--> resistance against int'l trade agreements (that facilitate this bigtech bigagro privatisation of code and data)
--> collective seed banks where communities keep seeds, share knowledge
-> also fight tax paradises, that help keep this status quo
At #msc26 #msc2026 #mobilesocialcongress2026 in @canodrom
Do you know an organisation (big or small) that might be interested in joining Mastodon and the wider Fediverse? Here's a guide that tries to answer questions they might have about it:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/tips-for-organisations-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse
If any organisations want to ask further questions or want help joining, please let me know!
I've tried to cover all the basics in relation to organisations, let me know if I've missed something or if you have other feedback 🙂
Do you know an organisation (big or small) that might be interested in joining Mastodon and the wider Fediverse? Here's a guide that tries to answer questions they might have about it:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/tips-for-organisations-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse
If any organisations want to ask further questions or want help joining, please let me know!
I've tried to cover all the basics in relation to organisations, let me know if I've missed something or if you have other feedback 🙂
Overreliance
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249343
RE: https://hci.social/@amyjko/116171749536480692
This keynote by 
@amyjko reminds us educators (in computer science and beyond) of our mission while also offering perspectives to guide and expand it.
To my dismay I have to postpone watching it in full until I can set aside an hour (plus likely some time to digest), but after skimming through the video I feel comfortable sharing and recommending it.
Where does oomf / oomfie even come from
You may not need that “AI” voice thing that reads your web pages aloud to users. It comes free in the browser:
• Edge’s Read Aloud (Ctrl + Shift + U),
• Firefox’s and Chrome’s reader mode text-to-speech,
• Safari’s Speech feature.
Stop adding trackers to your sites. Don’t add WCAG risk.
무역 장벽 높이는 EU…'메이드 인 유럽' 규정 공개(종합)
(브뤼셀=연합뉴스) 현윤경 특파원 = 유럽연합(EU)이 중국산 저가 수입품 공세에 맞서 역내 제조업의 경쟁력 강화를 위해 '메이드 인 유럽' 전...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260304189051098
End the week with free software! Join Dr. Richard M. Stallman for a lecture on #FreeSoftware and freedom in digital society this Friday, March 6, 2026 at 17:00 CET at the Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology in Risch-Rotkreuz, Switzerland: https://u.fsf.org/4am
You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop 💩🕶️
facts
ブラシ配布サンプル用に描いてた
モノクロ線画用ブラシです
TIL:
The Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA) is a security and defence pact between the countries of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Mutual_Defence_Agreement
The pact was signed on 17 September 2025.
#US #CENTCOM said in a statement on social media that it has “struck or sunk to the bottom of the ocean” more than 20 ships “from the Iranian regime.” It is the first assessment of the extent of naval damage by the #military since CENTCOM last said it had destroyed one ship.
#ForeverWars #Iran #war #Trump #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
#Pakistan, a #nuclear-armed nation, warned #Iran that it has a mutual defense pact with #SaudiArabia, which considers an attack on one nation to be an attack on both. “It is a sovereign agreement & we are bound by that,” Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar told the Pakistani Senate. The Iranian leadership, he added, “should keep that in mind.” It remains unclear if Pakistan is prepared to enter a broader conflict against Iran.
#ForeverWars #war #Trump #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
What alternatives exist for Anonymous Github? https://lobste.rs/s/brkdxd #ask #vcs
大学生俺くんに夕飯お裾分けしてくれる大家さん♂
Today I discovered both a brilliant mug, and the University of North Texas’s extreme desire to avoid the joke of the brilliant mug
How Polymarket and Kalshi bet on Iran; AI translations are impacting Wikipedia; and an Amazon change impacting wishlists.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116147473691110417
„Für die Studienautor:innen ist die hohe Demokratie-Zustimmung unter Linken ein „überraschend gutes Abschneiden“.
Doch überraschend ist das nur, wenn man ein Bild von Linken pflegt, die einem autoritären Staatssozialismus anhängen, statt den Ideen einer vertieften Demokratie, die (…) sich nicht auf rein repräsentative Mechanismen beschränkt.
Das Zerrbild der Linken dient dem bürgerlichen Lager zudem dazu, die eigenen antidemokratischen und autoritären Einstellungen zu verstecken.“
Knold's wild whiskers game never ceases to amaze me😻
#WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold
Did you fill out a lumbar support ticket first?
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116171010892060733
I think this is great, but I’d stop short of suggesting that Anthropic/Claude is a superior choice. Don’t forget that the reason this whole thing blew up is that they have an existing deal with Palantir and Microsoft to use their models in the DoD and want to continue to do so, but don’t want to authorize *further* use of it in autonomous weapons and surveillance.
Anthropic also appears to be run by a bunch of TESCREAL accelerationists. They may be the less-bad choice compared to ChatGPT, but I’m wary. https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/the-cult-that-wants-to-give-human-rights-to-robots/
i did not watch the video before but i'm putting it on in the background now, thanks for that
怎麼是這個平啊（失望臉😔）
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
Link: https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246110
Hundreds of computer researchers have signed an open letter calling for more careful public review of the ongoing wave of online age verification requirements and the #privacy costs, https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb2026. IEEE Spectrum explained the tradeoffs here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification
I’m building a new tool and looking for volunteers to test it! A #fediverse linktree. (UPDATE: https://hub.vocalcat.com )
It’s designed for two types of people:
Normies / newcomers – Think of it like a free, privacy-respecting Linktree. No trackers, no ads. But here's the cool part: it's a Trojan horse for the fediverse. Your profile link is itself an ActivityPub actor. That means people can interact with it directly in the fediverse, and it encourages exploration of open platforms.
Fediverse users, If you have multiple accounts (#Mastodon, #Pixelfed, Loops, a federated blog…), you know the struggle: sometimes you just want one persona to follow. This tool gives you that. It doesn’t post on its own (read-only), but it boosts all your other accounts and even has its own #ActivityPub inbox. PLUS it can receive and show your badges issued by 
@badgefedThe BadgeFed Project !
Interested in testing? Right now it only supports mastodon authentication, so if you have a mastodon account reach out in private mention for the invitation code.
There are obvious deficits to the MacBook Neo — connectivity is a huge one, but I’m just stoked there is a $500 MacBook (assuming you use the student discount, which of course you obviously should) and in fun colors!
By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings
I had a personal #Linux win! My buddy wanted a cheap laptop and he asked me to find him a $200 #Chromebook. I told him any $200 Chromebook would be of crappy quality. Instead I found him a $200 #Dell #XPS for sale on #Swappa. I'm gonna install Linux and he will have a high quality kick ass fast laptop!
This is why you need to have at least 1 tech nerd friend 😀
Evan Prodromou
MJ+
Maho 🦝🍻
Ael Yokan
Inside Fediverse
pkg update
んなぞめ
