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@liaizonwakest ⁂ asks me to weigh in on this over here https://bsky.app/profile/wake.st/post/3mgfbypawxc23
My friend, you know not what you ask of me. If I wrote about this it would not be "ATproto conference taking Google money bad" it would be a 500 page piece called "There Is No Ethical Fundraising Under Capitalism" that people will blame me for being simultaneously overly sympathetic and damning
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @liaizonwakest ⁂ Ah, the good old ADHD curse of being either completely unable to get anything done, or doing such a hyperdetailed deep dive considering all angles (including from the point of view of spatial hyperdimensions discovered along the way), that nobody is able to sift through the actual mountain of output unless they're also people with ADHD going through the same thing.
유연성 마이너스가 뭔지도 모르는 고영
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
Can you please restate this in "Formally, ..." terms? I refuse to believe what you say unless you use our secret language.
마스토돈으로 수익 창출하는 방법 소개합니다
@anagnostesFrank Küsel 
@20002istLive, Laugh, Punch Nazis 
@briankrebs - You're both wrong! Nano for lyfe!!!!
Hey everyone, so my time with Vantage comes to an end at the end of this month. I feel so lucky to have worked on the stuff I did. I am looking for full time work. If anyone knows anyone, my DMs are open. People at Vantage are able to vouch for me and the services/experiences I can produce.
🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! https://openmedia.org/C4Sunset-mtd 
@OpenMediaOrgOpenMedia
She's right, you know.
They didn't care about privacy and anonymity when they built the data economy or when they built these tools premised in surveillance capitalism. They still don't care about these fundamental democratic rights now.
If you run BIND, you may wonder what kinds of improvements you'll see when upgrading from one version to another. Occasionally we like to publish benchmark test results to help with those decisions.
We've just posted a blog on BIND 9.20 resolver performance compared to 9.18. tl;dr: under mid- to heavy traffic loads, 9.20 has even lower latency than 9.18, particularly while starting up.
Read more about our performance benchmarking at https://www.isc.org/blogs/2026-03-05-bind-resolver-performance/
Thanks for using ISC's software!
@alice🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) Did you see Strange Æons' deep dive into the etymology of rawr XD recently?
If not, it was pretty epic and funny. Totes recommend.
It may well be true that we're observing the terminal arc which leads to the implosion and death of the FOSS movement. But suggestion that the deciding factor isn't the attack from without, but a variable from within - the socio-political cluelessness of the movement's own participants. Yesterday's demand to "keep politics out of it" is today's embrace of AI psychosis
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Greetings Fedizens!
It's that time again. ://hackers.town is offering a limited edition t-shirt to raise funds for hosting costs.
https://www.customink.com/fundraising/always-be-n00bin
This spring's design features art by analog nowhere's artist 
@prahouTomáš
The fundraiser closes in 4 weeks on Friday, April 3rd, 2026.
If you do not need yet-another-black-t-shirt, there is an option to simply make a donation. (Fixed)
Thank you for helping keep town running!
<3 c0debabe
They didn't care about privacy and anonymity when they built the data economy or when they built these tools premised in surveillance capitalism. They still don't care about these fundamental democratic rights now.
@lcamtuflcamtuf I understand why people think this, but I actually don't think it's true at all. It only seems that way when you encounter a new subject for the first time, and the unfamiliar jargon makes your head spin. But properly getting your head round something like tropical geometry is SO much harder than remembering the terminology, that really even if the terminology were somehow so magically perfect that it took no effort at all to learn, the overall difficulty of learning the material would be identical up to a rounding error.
Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom - Ars Technica
nothing feels better than telling people to be the change they want to see in the wold and seeing a change request pop up afterwards.
bug reports are for users - engineers just fix the damn shit \o/
@anagnostesFrank Küsel @20002istLive, Laugh, Punch Nazis @briankrebs - You're both wrong! Nano for lyfe!!!!
@tinkerTinker ☀️ @anagnostesFrank Küsel @20002istLive, Laugh, Punch Nazis @briankrebs 🌸 nano gang represent 🌸
Your next Chromebook might have its first piece of open-source hardware inside! What's open-source hardware, you ask? https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-titan-chip
@anagnostesFrank Küsel @20002istLive, Laugh, Punch Nazis @briankrebs - You're both wrong! Nano for lyfe!!!!
This app is shaping up to be a bit of a "USB Doctor".
I'm calling it Hubble (hub+trouble, and a different way of looking at things)
@theresnotimeSammy (Fox) Fox "only if you want me to continue to be alive... which given the political climate I would like you to state explicitly"
@MiaWinterMia Rose Winter 
look i can stop but my bones aren't going to enjoy it
はじめまして。
ひたすら🔞の落書きをあげるアカウントを作りました。
よろしくお願いします
@shriramkShriram Krishnamurthi 
@tonygTony Garnock-Jones 
@GeorgWeissenbacher @krismicinski@types.pl 
@jfdmJan de Muijnck-Hughes 
@csgordonColin Gordon 
@jeremysiekJeremy This comment made me realize something about myself: this is *not* a kind of programming I always wished I could do. I really only like programming because I like manipulating formal systems. That might explain a lot about why this kind of programming doesn't appeal to me, aside from all the bad externalities.
Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android
Link: https://opencamera.org.uk/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219462
Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway https://theregister.com/2026/03/06/openai_dod_deal/ via 
@theregister & 
@sjvn
OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrived.
헉 대박!!!! 발싸!!!! #고양이보여줄게
Me: Does anyone know why each call to float('nan') gives a different instance?
#Python Core Devs: https://discuss.python.org/t/question-about-float-nan/106378
I guess I have a lot more fodder than I bargained for for that talk I'm working on.
2006: don’t be evil
2016: but really, what *is* evil?
2026: meet your new assistant Evi L® delivering +225% ROI on prison labor
Hackaday Podcast Episode 360: Cool Rubber Bands, Science-y Stuff, and the Whys of Office Supplies
Miranda (https://mirandaheath.website/) joins host Richard (https://mastodon.social/@richlitt) to dive into altruism, maintainer motivation, and burnout in open source communities.
Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/285
やべ毛根！
No to ID checks for web #access
Tell your MP:
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access
#UK #ID #oppression #ToxicTories #censorship #tracking #security #privacy #Internet #web
アークナイツ新イベでも開拓と生産に勤しむという……というかBGMとUIデザインがめっちゃ良い最高です。
エンドフィールドも頑張れ。
“Iran is run by religious fanatics.”
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116182783485135915
Sometimes I write something on here worth capturing https://dustycloud.org/blog/reflections-shattered-by-a-thousand-faces/
リクエストありがとうございました
https://skeb.jp/@hino_evening/works/44
#Skeb #Commission
Hive mind! My partner has fairly extensive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and is meant to wear hearing aids but found the NHS ones very uncomfortable.
We’re looking at private options, and I’m wondering if anyone in my network has any recommendations for something comfortable that can be worn with glasses.
[$] Fedora shares strategy updates and "weird research university" model
In early February, members of the Fedora Council met in Tirana, Albania to discuss and set the strategic direction for the Fedora Project. The council has published summaries from [...]
僕の個人的な感覚ではピアレビューを通って学会の発行してる雑誌（なぜかNatureとScienceは含む）に載ったのが論文で、学会のまとめ（集録）に載ったのは集録（わかりづらい）、それ以外は記事なんだけど、人によっては研究者の方が自分のサイトとか紀要とかで公開してるのも論文と呼ぶ感じがする
The session notes from our un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web are online now, too. Happy reading! Also, look at the submitted position statements if you haven't already, many of them are quite interesting (linked from there)
https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/notes/
It is entirely possible of course that 20th century Communist governments were so touchy about athletic clubs becoming large enough to become a vehicle for anti-government organizing *because* they had studied history and knew about the two (I think) times this happened in Imperial China in the 1800s
Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025)
Link: https://matejlou.blog/2025/02/11/analytic-fog-rendering-with-volumetric-primitives/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263441
Nap is good for your health, human.
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