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I've been spreading the word about the Fediverse among fellow authors. I was asked which server is dedicated to indie authors, fiction. The one recommended to me before is writing.exchange, so I'll recommend that one. Are there any other servers I should recommend?
If an author wants to publish their short stories in full, which server is better? Would it be Venera.social, Write.as, or Fediverse.blog? I haven't tried any of those myself, I don't want to recommend something blindly.
#Fediverse
Nobody tells you "resistance is futile" unless they are desperately trying to talk you out of resisting
RE: https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597
I'll spare you my rambling thoughts. If someone wants to fork HarfBuzz 12.3.2, go ahead, that's before AI "slop". I let 
@khaledKhaled Hosny, the HarfBuzz maintainer, decide whether AI-assisted code is allowed in the upstream HarfBuzz or not.
As for code quality, I'm ultimately the only one responsible for code that I push out.
Finally, if this technology is good for Linus, Guido, and Knuth, among others, I'm not gonna ignore it and let my projects and skills become irrelevant and obsolete.
I respectfully ask that you refrain from your urge to leave a 🤮 or equivalent in the comments. Thanks.
The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the 
@effElectronic Frontier Foundation, 
@OpenMediaOrgOpenMedia, 
@brave, 
@Vivaldi, and many more!
Oooh, never good, a poo-pumper truck down the street with a tube down a manhole, that's never good. #sewage
What was a concert experience that blew you away?
What was a concert experience that blew you away?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hotdogsladies/116169059679233653
every day somebody's born who hasn't heard merlin mann's flintstones analogy
Dieses Wochenende bin Ich auf dem Bundeskongress der Jugendorganisation (Jonk Lénk) der Partei Die Linke in Luxemburg (Déi Lénk) und dem Feministischen Kampftag dort!
Vor nur wenigen Tagen ist es Déi Lénk dort gelungen das Recht auf Abtreibung, also das Recht auf körperliche Selbstbestimmung, zu erkämpfen. Es gibt einen Erfolg zu feiern! 🕊️
RE: https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597
I'll spare you my rambling thoughts. If someone wants to fork HarfBuzz 12.3.2, go ahead, that's before AI "slop". I let @khaledKhaled Hosny, the HarfBuzz maintainer, decide whether AI-assisted code is allowed in the upstream HarfBuzz or not.
As for code quality, I'm ultimately the only one responsible for code that I push out.
Finally, if this technology is good for Linus, Guido, and Knuth, among others, I'm not gonna ignore it and let my projects and skills become irrelevant and obsolete.
I respectfully ask that you refrain from your urge to leave a 🤮 or equivalent in the comments. Thanks.
I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.
Kill cats with JavaScript (RTS game) https://lobste.rs/s/vwqn0j #ai #games #javascript
https://yare.io
Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
Link: https://www.wikimediastatus.net
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323
님들은 저처럼 후회하지 마시고 아예 처음부터 듀얼부팅 셋업을 하거나 백업을 하세요........
Fediverse admins with public servers,
If you want extra advice and info for screening new members wanting to join your server, there's a list of resources compiled by 
@iftas at:
🌱 https://about.iftas.org/library/url-domain-and-ip-reputation-resources
The resources cover IP addresses, email providers and web addresses. The web address section could also be used for moderating links on platforms that support this.
(Thank you to 
@CrazypediaCrazypedia won't Comply for raising this topic and @iftas for providing the resources 🙏 )
URL, Domain and IP Reputation Resources
When managing online communities, ensuring the safety and reputation of external content is critical to protecting users from malicious activities such as phishing, spam, and malware. Moderators an…
about.iftas.org · IFTAS
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after several failed attempts to write an update today and a dozen very frustrating interruptions, let's try a new self-promotional tactic:
give me money. no explanation just do it https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph
헤드헌터한테 그… VR이나 메타버스처럼 보여주기식이거나 명품 어쩌구처럼 대동강 물팔이이거나 성형플랫폼같은 윤리적 문제가 있는 서비스는 취직 안하고 싶다고 대충 쿠션넣어 뭉뚱그려 말했더니 날 졸라 이상한 사람으로 봄
[Monhun fan comic] True Identity
I find it funny that sword and shield is also actually a dual wielding weapon, but instead of wielding dual blades, you wield a sword and a shield that you beat the heck out of monsters using blunt force trauma. Especially in MHrise, with the counter move (metsu) the shield can knock out a monster SO fast.
We’re excited to introduce the new teams of Djangonauts, Captains, & Navigators who will be collaborating, learning, and contributing across projects.🌍
Huge thanks to our incredible volunteers making this program possible!
Read more: https://djangonaut.space/comms/2026/02/19/session-6-team-introductions/
#DjangonautSpace
Okay fine I wrote an update anyway. Now give me _more_ money
https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-152185525
(I actually have jury duty this week and then maybe—although let's hope not—for *several* weeks after that, so there's a good chance you'd literally be giving me money for literally zero work. But California law says you can't discriminate against workers doing jury duty so actually, when you think about it, you have to.)
According to Ukraine's President Zelenskyy more than 800 PAC-3 Patriot missiles have been used in the latest Iran war, more PAC-3 missiles Ukraine ever possessed, altogether.
$4 billions in 5 days for shooting down flying mopeds. Well done.
완전히 고장난 건 아니고 인터넷만 안 되고 있어서 다행이 사후(😰) 파일 백업은 할 수 있다.....
Re: genAI killing open source, one strategy I've been pursuing lately is closed-sourcing everything going forward, but forming human relationships with other developers. I then literally just... send them code for stuff that would help their projects, from my own codebases, and tell them they can feel free to integrate it without owing me anything.
I've been feeling pretty good about that strategy so far. I like that it places my human relationships first, without exposing my work to either corporate exploitation or LLM mining (for later corporate exploitation).
사실 강ㄴ언니니 바ㅂ톡이니 하는 어플들도… 문제지 뭐 우리 it새럼들은 이런게 윤리적인 문제가 있는 서비스라는거 몰라여 흐린눈
blue sky discourse
i wonder if there's a betting pool for how long bs can keep going before the slop coders total it
Book of Revelation ass headline
happy birthday, Rosa Luxemburg 
아 역시. 인도 전 외무장관이 "우리가 이란 군함을 초대했고, 인도 대통령 앞에 사열했고, 그렇기 때에 그들은 무장하지 않았다."
"미군은 초대 받았지만 마지막 순간에 행사 불참을 결정했다." "도덕적, 인간적 책임감을 느낀다." 라고 씀.
x.com/KanwalSibal/...
미국이 일극이 아니게 되는 시대에 정말 업을 쌓는구나 싶다...
Kanwal Sibal on X: "The Irania...
Re: genAI killing open source, one strategy I've been pursuing lately is closed-sourcing everything going forward, but forming human relationships with other developers. I then literally just... send them code for stuff that would help their projects, from my own codebases, and tell them they can feel free to integrate it without owing me anything.
I've been feeling pretty good about that strategy so far. I like that it places my human relationships first, without exposing my work to either corporate exploitation or LLM mining (for later corporate exploitation).
Good software knows when to stop
Link: https://ogirardot.writizzy.com/p/good-software-knows-when-to-stop
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261561
Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
Link: https://www.wikimediastatus.net
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323
remember when twitter fired 2/3 of their employees and decided to stop paying their cloud bills
..is this what github also did? is this what's happening? why it's down every. single. day?
Last station before Hamburg, 7 Minutes late. I have 8 minutes to make my connection. Thrilling!
❗️Trump said Mojtaba Khamenei's leadership is unacceptable and that he personally must have a role in selecting Iran's next supreme leader, comparing it to what was done in Venezuela.
Like a true dictator. #Iran
nicole mikołajczyk shared the below article:
ActivityPub for WordPress @activitypub.blog@activitypub.blog
WordPress ActivityPub 8.0.0 makes your blog more interactive in the Fediverse: visitors can Like/Boost posts directly on-site, with faster repeat interactions and clearer guidance. New Fediverse block patterns/templates speed setup, a pre-publish panel suggests post formats, community snippets land in-repo, and remote media caching is rebuilt for reliability. PHP 7.4+ required.
Read more →현실을 보면 악당들은 참기 어려울 정도로 멍청하고 좋은 사람은 정말 드물다. 그래서 픽션이 필요한 것 같다.
One of the reasons why, over time, I've learned not to condemn things outright is that life itself teaches you something important: sometimes you have to make the wrong choice for the right reasons.
Life is full of compromises. And the more you live, the more you learn (or should learn) to be at least a little tolerant of the choices others make, even when they seem to clash with your own convictions.
In the past few weeks I've had to make decisions I would never have imagined a few years ago. Choices very far from my own point of view. But sometimes reality pushes you into a corner, and the options are simple: give up, or make a "wrong" choice now and fix things later.
A recent example I can share: I advised a client to reinstall Windows 11. I wasn't happy about it, but at that moment there was no real alternative.
This morning he told me their software will soon move to a web-based platform. Which means the next step will be a new FreeBSD server and, at that point, the clients can move to Linux or a BSD system.
Fight your battles. Stand for what you believe in. But try to remain clear-headed.
Life teaches that you often go farther by moving slowly but steadily toward your destination, stopping every now and then to look around.
@stefanoStefano Marinelli life is a bus trip. Take the next hop that gets you closest to where you want to be. And remember to look out the window and talk to your fellow passengers along the way!
The Costs of #TrumpsWar ... #ABlueView 🧵1/3
... are rising and compounding daily.
웃자랐는지
긴가민가한
생명체들의
각자도생법
웃. 긴. 생. 각.
If you're using slurs at hammers, I feel like you're inclined to use slurs at people. It comes from somewhere.
The chardet open source library relicensed from LGPL to MIT two days ago thanks to a Claude Code assisted "clean room" rewrite - but original author Mark Pilgrim is disputing that the way this was done justifies the change in license - my notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/
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