Just meta, I'm not going into specifics in this thread.

I CW my uspol + trans stuff for a reason, and believe that's the right choice.

But for those who have been avoiding looking at them lately, you might want to catch up. It might be important to you and your friend group.

That's all. 💜🫂❤️‍🩹

"[...] the projects that invest as deliberately in community cultivation as in protocol architecture are the ones most likely to endure."

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr157-social-software-distribution/

via @fediversereportConnected Places

#fediverse

FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

on how @altstore, Tangled and npmx.dev are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr157-social-software-distribution/

@owen @mhoye the three main BSD projects have all rejected LLM for code

Leech lattices and ML in the same context. That's a bit of a surprise.

It makes sense though. The Leech lattice gives a nice way to quantize vectors in high dimensional spaces. Builds on older work to find nearest neighbours in a Leech lattice which sounds kinda tricky to me.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11021

おはよございます​​猫ちゃん​​で起床

Astro 🤝 CloudCannon

We're excited to welcome CloudCannon as an Official CMS Partner and sponsor of the project! Their Git-based CMS is a perfect match for Astro, and agents love it when you code + content live together.

https://astro.build/blog/cloudcannon-official-cms-partner/

Remember, FediForum is an unconference! So it is you, the attendees, who determine what topics will be discussed, and you only need to announce them at the very morning of the day of the conference. This makes for a relevant and completely up-to-date agenda!

What topics will be discussed at the next FediForum, April 28-30?

We are only find out, too! When people register for FediForum, we ask them what sessions they are planning of running, or wishing to go to. And the first answers are beginning to trickle in. Check them out!

https://fediforum.org/2026-04/#topics

Mahjong Handle* 1500 4/6
https://mahjong.xnu.kr/

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this week's news is about how @tangled.org@bsky.brid.gyTangled @npmx.dev@bsky.brid.gy and @altstore@alt.store are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

FR#157 – Social Software Distr...

If folks in small cities and towns can’t assemble and protest Republican Fascism, the U.S. will never be rid of it.

Newspaper coverage of the situation in #SantaFe #NewMexico. https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/onetime-organizer-of-next-no-kings-march-in-santa-fe-calls-city-fees-for-event/article_1a692563-5058-4536-a4b2-4eb08d99850b.html

Screenshots of paper’s print version in photos.

Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics

Link: https://github.com/obsessiondb/rudel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350416

You wish you had this much goo gold

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ WILL BEING ACTIVIMATED INTERRUBT MY NAP? IF SO SKIP IT.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

Panther Bread

Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

Meaning: We stole all your knowledge , writing, and art, and now we’re gonna put a meter on it and sell it back to you. You’re welcome.”

How Would a Field Sequential Home Computer Have Worked?

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/how-would-a-field-sequential-home-computer-have-worked/

Es gibt ne neue Beratertreppe 🤩#Verwaltungsdigitalisierung

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

I know it's not Tuesday but have some toebeans anyway

I quit Rails core 4 years ago, here’s what I’ve been up to https://lobste.rs/s/9fslqf #ruby
https://kaspth.com/posts/i-quit-rails-core-4-years-ago-heres-what-ive-been-up-to

Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/more-modular-design-makes-macbook-neo-easier-to-fix-than-other-apple-laptops/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353993

Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3)

Link: https://thecloudlet.github.io/blog/project/emacs-03/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349780

Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust

Link: https://github.com/onecli/onecli
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353558

Grammarly Turns Off 'Expert Review' Features, Faces Lawsuit From Author
https://uk.pcmag.com/productivity/163759/grammarly-turns-off-expert-review-features-faces-new-lawsuit-from-author
The feature presented editing suggestions designed to emulate the style of journalists, authors, or other writers without their permission.

Somebody would like you to know he is entirely unimpressed with the food you just gave him, which has nothing to do with the fact that he had lunch just two hours ago.

(EDIT: It's also possible he's just looking for cuddles.)

#CatsOfMastodon #FediCats #Cats

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠

does getting eye lashes in bulk improve your "batting average"? :)

The Met Releases High-Def 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects

Link: https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-met-releases-high-definition-3d-scans-of-140-famous-art-objects.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352459

Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication

Link: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353533

TIL that

async function h() { return Promise.resolve(456); }

and

function h() { return Promise.resolve(456); }

are semantically equivalent in JS and I am LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND

WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING

What topics will be discussed at the next FediForum, April 28-30?

We are only find out, too! When people register for FediForum, we ask them what sessions they are planning of running, or wishing to go to. And the first answers are beginning to trickle in. Check them out!

https://fediforum.org/2026-04/#topics

If you want to transfer your Mastodon account to a different Mastodon server, there's a step-by-step non-technical guide at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

There are a lot of steps, but each step is hopefully clear and easy to understand.

The guide also answers many questions people have about transferring their account. (If I've missed something please let me know!)

#FediTips #Mastodon

If you want to transfer your Mastodon account to a different Mastodon server, there's a step-by-step non-technical guide at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

There are a lot of steps, but each step is hopefully clear and easy to understand.

The guide also answers many questions people have about transferring their account. (If I've missed something please let me know!)

#FediTips #Mastodon

We're really out here federating everything now

#ActivityPub #fediverse

The Cost of Indirection in Rust

Link: https://blog.sebastiansastre.co/posts/cost-of-indirection-in-rust/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312226

In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @Mer__edithMeredith Whittaker's stewardship.

In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?

The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.

It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.

California has a lot to fucking answer for.

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

큐어스파이시생일그림

Looking at some numbers in a spreadsheet today, and coming to the realization that my patreon+tidelift+github income now slightly exceeds one (1) hour of my standard consulting rate, and so I may thus *rationally* spend 60 minutes per month on open source work and writing.

Lucky for you I am an almost entirely irrational person and I might be doing more than that but feel free to make my priorities seem retroactively more calculated than they were https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph

Proposal: code pre 2026ish should be refered to as low background code.

Good news! Turns out the threat the Nazis fear is being kicked out of the bar!

"“The real threat that we face is social pressure and ostracization,"

Also white supremacists think that journalism is "fake gay feminine terrorism" and it would be hilarious if it weren't deadly serious:

“So it’s like, it’s a very fake, gay, feminine kind of terrorism. But it has the same intention, which is to discourage people or punish people for political associations [with white supremacists] and [neo-Nazi] ideological beliefs.”

Bonus neo-Nazi explaining where to get involved:

it’s the [Canadian Anti-Hate Network], the CBC, random Antifa... they will do much more damage to your life for being part of an [neo-Nazi] organization like this than the police will,” he explained.

and

"...it’s only social pressures or cultural pressures that really do a lot of damage to people who take part in this."

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/03/12/Fallout-Reporting-White-Nationalism-Canada/

#CDNPoli #Canada #theTyee

I've never been at a company that puts so much emphasis on appreciation, and it feels really good.

Cindy Cohn has spent 30 years standing up to the DOJ, taking on the NSA, and tangling with the FBI to protect our right to digital privacy. Join our livestream with Jason Koebler of @404mediaco404 Media on 3/19 at 11am PT for a conversation about Cindy's new book, "Privacy's Defender." https://eff.org/livestream-defender

Bubble Sorted Amen Break

Link: https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354098

個人用途で買うなら Canon の Satera 推している。

I've never been at a company that puts so much emphasis on appreciation, and it feels really good.