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Legal vs. Legitimate, good article by 
@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
> Whatever courts eventually decide about AI reimplementation, the question we need to answer first is not a legal one. It is a social one. Do those who take from the commons owe something back? I think they do. That judgment does not require a verdict
"Can the commons expect something back from those who extract value?" is a key question of Social experience design. The answer forms one of 3 core principles: The Mindfulness principle.
No. You can't expect *anything* back. That philosophical insight is crucial to organizing a healthy commons that's able to retain its value and evolve.
Paint any principles and values on a flag but as long as the battle is scattered farmers holding feeble Copyright Law pitchforks against a vast drone army, its no use. Know thy enemy helps too. It's not proprietary code or corporations. It's hypercapitalism: The Rules of Battle.
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310160
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#chaordic-organization
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
writings.hongminhee.org · Hong Minhee on Things
Link author: 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) @hongminhee@hollo.social
Do not prepare returning user for unpersisted records (#38136) by mjankowski has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/64629eadb71afab79a741b016dc56a8bdf1d46f2
My friends, as it is Superb Owl day, I would like to show a more recent picture of Baked Beans, taken back in January. He now has his adult plumage and is quite majestic, particularly since he's all sticky-uppy. He was being taken past the gorilla play room and did not like the gorillas.
#superb_owl #SuperBowl #BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #screechowl #screechowls #superbowl2026
Heyguysheyguysheyguys
LOOK AT THIS OWL! HE IS SO UPSETTY!!!
There are 2 baby penguins who are staying in a pen in the hall. They're also going to be ambassador birds, so all the keepers are encouraged to pick them up and cuddle them multiple times a day to get them used to people.
BEANS DOES NOT LIKE THE BABY PENGUINS.
#BakedBeansOwl #screechOwl #zoo #animals #owl #owls #screechowls
As long as Eve can't see it!
(aww, who'm I kidding? I love that girl)
@evanEvan Prodromou https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116029846041824163
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I’ve noticed that although my account is accessible from other instances, not all of my posts appear there.
for example: norden.social shows only selective posts form my account https://norden.social/@prashantadvaitunoff@mastodon.social
Has anyone else experienced this or knows what might be causing it?
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PBX サービスの１つである 03plus が市外局番の電話番号の取得の為 [1] 、サーバーの設置（正確にはルーター）の協力を有償で求めています。
協力には少なくとも、下記の内容を満たす必要があります。
- いわいる光コンセントが既に設置されている
- 光コンセントがない場合工事が可能である
- ハードウェア（RTX 840 ルーター程度）を設置する物理的スペースがある
- 03plus が市外局番の取得を検討している地域である
気になる人は連絡してみてください。
03plus.net/
1 : 市外局番の電話番号を取得するには物理地域に回線が設置されている必要がある
@stesnac@snac.bsd.cafeStefano BSD Cafe (snac instance account)? 
@stefano@bsd.cafeStefano MarinelliMeta acquires Moltbook
Link: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323900
Today is the deadline to propose sessions for W3C Breakouts Day. If you participate in a group, propose a session!
I proposed a session on the ActivityPub API.
`alias fucking='systemctl --user restart'`
`fucking pipewire`
`fucking kdeconnect-indicator`
It's here. The 1st iteration of https://www.HireHumanArtists.com. Hire Human Artists . com is, currently, a spreadsheet directory of visual artists who've pledged to never use AI in their works. You can commission them for book covers, character art, & more! Use the pre-made filters to find what you want or make your own. Please share with authors & anyone else looking for art!
Masto is the first to know about this as I try to roll it out a bit slowly but YES you can apply to be added.
When my parents ask me why I'm jobless and I have to EXPLAIN to them who Sam Altman is.
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116205777717574095
Impossible to predict says only industry where this is now starting to happen regularly.
I’ve had some questions about why a few of my Fediverse related projects are down.
Some of my Fediverse projects were developed just by me. While with others I worked with others — with friends.
Some of those friends live in cities that are having bombs dropped on them right now.
We split up our server management (including the costs). Some I managed and paid for. Some a friend did.
The ones he did are down.
I am working on bringing some of them back up.
But, we didn't plan for this. We didn't make things "bus proof" (as some call it).
So, it will take some effort and time to address this.
I’ve had some questions about why a few of my Fediverse related projects are down.
Some of my Fediverse projects were developed just by me. While with others I worked with others — with friends.
Some of those friends live in cities that are having bombs dropped on them right now.
We split up our server management (including the costs). Some I managed and paid for. Some a friend did.
The ones he did are down.
맥북네오 벤치마크 리뷰어들이 돌린거 떴는데 생각보다 준수하고 프리미어 돌리면서 다른거 많이 틀어놓는거 아닌 이상 괜찮은 성능이라고... 다만 P3 색영역을 지원하지 않아 그림그리기용으로는 어울리지 않으며 인터넷하거나 넷플릭스 보는 용도로 좋은듯. 나도 사실 그럴라고 삼. 서울에 갖다놓고 쓰게.
Did you know that you can follow all Fireside Fedi #podcast episodes directly from where you're reading this post? Just follow @firesidefedi@tubefree.org like you would any other user and you never have to leave your platform of choice! #fedi #fediverse #peopleOverPlatforms #vodcast #fedicast #FsFd #FiresideFedi #chat #peertube #mastodon #vods
독일 총리 "탈원전 잘못됐지만 되돌릴 수 없다"
베를린 김계연 특파원: 프리드리히 메르츠 독일 총리는 10일(현지시간) 독일의 탈원전 정책이 잘못됐지만 되돌릴 수 없다고 말했다.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260311001900082
As instructed.
The TAG is pleased to appoint our first 3 associates of 2026: Ehsan Toreini (Samsung), Dan Clark (Microsoft) and Luke Warlow (Igalia). Thank you for your willingness to share your expertise. We’re looking forward to working with you!
Okay cool, we’ve been trialling a EU hoster to move away from DigitalOcean eventually, and found one that had a really nice ARM VPS offering that is now just sold out with support saying they don’t know when they will be in stock again and they don’t even know how they can be made available again at all.
I was gonna commit to possibly spending quite a bit there, but without confidence in scale-out planning, that’s not gonna happen.
Thanks for nothing “AI”-bubble 😡
All fear the clawed tail
blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...
it was going to happen, death comes for us all. but man. what a legend
Tony Hoare (1934-2026)
This album by Craven Faults popped up in my Mastodon stream the other day so I gave it a listen. Oh wow do I love this. Make me wonder why I ever bothered with all that tunes and melody nonsense. This is actually what I want - crave in fact.
https://cravenfaults.bandcamp.com/album/sidings
Reminds me a lot of another track I love that I also think channels some of that train energy: https://dedekindcut.bandcamp.com/track/american-zen-1-2
me: what the hell is this?
rossini: u think i know?
me: yeah
rossini:
rossini: why
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116204764577950180
There is a lot happening on the project right now, especially in the lead up to 4.6. We're also now part of the Social Web Working Group at the W3C. As usual, many moving parts to coordinate. I'm always excited to see the team's progress as we pull together our monthly update for the community.
독일 총리 "탈원전 잘못됐지만 되돌릴 수 없다"
베를린 김계연 특파원: 프리드리히 메르츠 독일 총리는 10일(현지시간) 독일의 탈원전 정책이 잘못됐지만 되돌릴 수 없다고 말했다.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260311001900082
"1시간 기다렸다" 정상서 30m 줄…돌연 MZ 몰려든 관악산, 왜
https://n.news.naver.com/article/025/0003508033?ntype=RANKING
아니 고작 관악산 정도로 정기 타령은...
Listening to @404media.co@bsky.brid.gy talk about how insanely huge @roblox.com@bsky.brid.gy is as a social network in their latest podcast. I had no idea. Makes me remember that it might be useful to think of bluesky or the fediverse in terms more like MMOs or whatever that acronym is
Shitpost projects, where someone takes an objectively terrible idea and puts way too much effort into executing it well, don't hit the same when we're all drowning in slop.
Did they put any effort into it? Do they realize it was a terrible idea?
Impossible to tell.
Poe's law comes for us all.
Random thought.
If public libraries didn't already exist, capitalism wouldn't let you invent it. Can you imagine how many billions Jeff Bezos would plough into fighting the idea, destroying any politician who dared to back it?
Support your local library.
#OpenSSL 4.0.0-alpha1 is released and current curl master builds and runs fine with it. Even doing ECH,
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-4.0.0-alpha1
New, by me: How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting the security priorities for organizations, while blurring the lines between data and code, trusted co-worker and insider threat, ninja hacker and novice code jockey.
Read more (and boost please!):
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts/
ねまそす
這幾天中午的氣溫略略高於15度，下午還是會比15度低，但是小屁孩們已經在室內待不住了，嗷嗷叫著要去公園玩。於是娃兒們跑得滿頭大汗，老母親抱著電腦縮著脖子在戶外工作。
Big Tech occupied our free web. So what do we do?
We are loud about it. 😎
(Translation: The internet is occupied)
예전에도 든 의문이지만 리디 달달함 태그는 아무튼 혀를 녹일 수 있으면 달달함 판정인걸까
WHAT? We’re hosting a launch party for Privacy’s Defender, a new book by EFF’s Cindy Cohn!
WHEN? Thursday, March 12 at 6:30 PM.
WHERE? Ciel Creative Space in Berkeley, CA. RSVP Today! https://www.eff.org/event/privacys-defender-book-launch-party
jnkrtech
놋치 
Inside Fediverse
nicole mikołajczyk
pkg update
Em 
wakest ⁂
Glyph
青少納言🎨🐏 
