(comic) Urgent Important Matrix https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-urgent-important-matrix
@Federation_Bot
I must stress that both the STRONGEST PUBLIC LICENSE and BIG BILL HELL'S LICENSE are real and have been used in real(?) projects, which whips ass
@decay I am increasingly in favour of not putting a license on my code at all. So what if that legally means you can't use it. I expect you to steal it, and get away with it. If you can't do that, well, suck less.
Nothing in software development is less interesting than license lawyering. Who the fuck convinced everyone that this is a normal thing that normal people should be thinking about. Psychopath behaviour tbh.
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After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection (see Slow Software for a Burning World), we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
We invite communities to install their own instances, explore the features, and help identify any remaining bugs or usability issues. Reach us at @Bonfire or through our issue tracker. Your input will help ensure Bonfire Social 1.0 is stable, accessible, and genuinely community-ready.
What is Bonfire Social?
While Bonfire isn’t just another federated social app — it’s a modular framework for building digital spaces governed by communities – Bonfire Social is the first "flavour" of Bonfire to reach 1.0, and is a starting point for communities who want a space of their own, that's locally governed and fully customizable, yet connected to the wider fediverse. It’s ideal for people who value self-determination and meaningful connection, balancing local autonomy with global conversation.
> A flavour is a pre-configured bundle of Bonfire extensions that defines which features are included, how they behave, and what defaults are in place. Each flavour can have its own governance group, extensions, roadmap, and priorities. Besides Bonfire Social, other flavours like Bonfire Community and Open Science are already in development, and any community can create their own.
Many features in Bonfire Social will feel familiar: feeds, profiles, following users, sharing posts, flagging or blocking content. Others might be new: rich-text posts, feed customization, nested discussions, multiple profiles per user, and fine-grained access control.
Let’s explore some of the key features:
Key features in this release
Custom feeds
Bonfire puts users in charge of what they see. Instead of relying on hidden algorithms, you can easily create your own custom feeds using a simple interface—no coding required. Filter and sort content by type, circle, date, engagement level, source instance, and more to surface what matters most to you.</p>
Save presets and choose which ones to see in your sidebar and in what order.
Circles
A circle is simply a list of people. Bonfire includes default circles like “local users” or “people I follow”, and you can define your own, e.g. "friends", "mutual aid crew" or "monster movie fans."
Circles are private by default but can be shared with others.
Boundaries
Boundaries help you control who can see and interact with your content. E.g. you can share a post with several circles but only allow replies from a specific circle, or make a post public but invisible to specific people.
Nested discussions
Bonfire supports threaded conversations, where replies can branch into focused sub-threads without losing context. It’s ideal for deep discussions, collaborative work, or simply following a conversation’s collective train of thought. This structure is especially useful in communities that value dialogue over noise — where replies build on one another rather than compete for attention.
Themes and customization
Bonfire ships with 16 colourful themes — but you can go further. Design your own colors, fonts, and layout styles. Do you prefer a sleek minimalist space or want to recreate the GeoCities era? Go for it.
Multiple users profiles
In Bonfire, accounts and profiles are separate. One account can create multiple independent profiles, each with its own followers, content, and settings.
Shared profiles can also be managed by multiple accounts — ideal for collectives, publications, or project teams.
Additional features
* Install Bonfire (as a Progressive Web App) on mobile devices.
* Import community-curated blocklists to ease moderation.
* Migrate your data and connections across instances and platforms.
* Custom roles and permissions to distribute admin powers
* Custom emoji support
* Direct messages and private group discussions, with the same nested threads and discussion features as regular posts
* Full-text search across posts, discussions, and profiles (users can opt out from being indexed)
* Federates with Mastodon, Peertube, Mobilizon, and many more
* Extensions can be enabled or disabled by admins and by users — for example, you can disable likes or boosts if they don’t suit your needs
You can find more details on Bonfire Social on our website or have a play on the demo instance.
What’s not included
These features are not part of Bonfire Social 1.0:
* Content labeling (needs co-design and interoperability work)
* Emoji reactions (needs better federation)
* Groups and topics (coming in Bonfire Community flavour)
* Federated coordination tools (coming in Bonfire Coordination flavour)
* Many other feature ideas (add your own!)
Getting started
* Install Bonfire Social or try our demo instance
* Report bugs: mention @bonfire@bonfire.cafe or open an issue
* Want to collaborate on a custom flavour?
What’s next?
The release of Bonfire Social 1.0 will mark both an ending and a beginning. After building a foundation for federated community infrastructure — no more one-size-fits-all platforms, we’ll focus on:
* Improvements based on community feedback
* Co-designing other extensions and flavours with communities (e.g. Open Science Network)
* Ensuring sustainability for maintainers and contributors
* Expanding our moderation tools in collaboration with Erin Kissane, Jaz, and the IFTAS moderator community
Your feedback, ideas, and use cases will shape what comes next. Let’s build it — together.
The contact form on my website is basically only ever filled out by robots, so I added a checkbox that says, "I am a robot. Only check this box if you are a robot." https://stevendbrewer.com/contact-me/
Robots appear to find it irresistible.
From August thousands more young people will get a free school meal through our new pilot programme. 🙌
Scottish Greens have always championed universal free school meals, helping children stay healthy and get a good education. This is another important step along that path.
Democrats should not be kissing up to Musk:
"Liam Kerr, co-founder of the group behind the centrist Democrats’ WelcomeFest told Politico that “of course” Democrats should welcome Musk back into the party. Rep. Ritchie Torres said that he’s a “believer in redemption”"
Democrats are quicker to embrace a white supremacist who just months ago they said was orchestrating a coup against our government than that Puerto ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/06/06/democrats-should-not-be-kissing.html
Salut masto,
Pour la kermesse des parents de vendredi prochain on cherche un moyen de paiement par carte bleue (moi, je préfère les espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes, mais bon...).
Est-ce que tu connaîtrais une application pour Android ou un autre moyen simple, si possible respectueux de la vie privée, standards ouverts et en code libre ?
(Oui, je sais que je rêve mais sait-on jamais)
La re-publication(?) fait rêver plus loin et permet la vente de gâteaux pour les balades à vélos des bambins!
This took longer than expected. Pretty cool that it works.
Post featured in video: https://tapbots.social/@mark/114617305665385240
that reminded me of this meme which I'll put here for easy future access
@cczona @jenniferplusplus i think the thing that killed me is how he blow off the "security and operational mistakes" part by just... "Review it ofc".
Totally missing the points the skeptics make, which is that we have no evidence we can efficiently and effectively review it. That review would lead to good outcomes
And we have a growing body of evidence that review doesn't work for this...
But that one is. Never. Addressed.
@Di4na @jenniferplusplus and there is already evidence emerging that engineers who depend on LLMs to write their code for them are eroding their skills. I would analogize it to early stage dementia. The person can't see how their judgement is gradually developing fissures that compromise their ability to function. Eventually it will become too clear to deny anymore. But right now they are increasingly impaired while no less confident in the comprehensiveness of their skills. It's the period when they present a big risk to self and others, because of the growing gap between reality and perception of competence. This person is letting LLMs draft most of their code, and fails to see that not continuing to hone their own skills as an active coder has personal consequences; and that doing so en masse poses societal consequences. What happens in a generation when there are virtually no engineers left who can review a LLM's outputs competently?
I don't think that enough people are talking about the impact that the impending AI revolution will have on the concept of personal trust in our society.
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Oh hey cool, an op-ed I wrote is now published!
TLDR: we need *fewer* satellites, each with *longer* operational lifetimes. Engineers: that's your challenge.
There’s a discussion happening about if we should get rid of spec explainers & I just want folks to know that this is a real sentence that exists in the HTML spec
“A close watcher closeWatcher is active if closeWatcher's window's close watcher manager contains any list which contains closeWatcher.”
After reading 20 times and rewording in my notebook, I understand what this means but like, maybe we don’t need to do away with explainers just yet.
There’s a discussion happening about if we should get rid of spec explainers & I just want folks to know that this is a real sentence that exists in the HTML spec
“A close watcher closeWatcher is active if closeWatcher's window's close watcher manager contains any list which contains closeWatcher.”
@Codeberg There’s a lot of accounts that seem to be automated, just randomly opening up issues and barfing LLM spam that’s structured to look like hostile criticism.
https://codeberg.org/essayhealth36?tab=activity
This is one of the accounts. If you look at the Activity tab, it’s basically opening up a detailed complaint every single minute.
@Codeberg Rough estimates so far is that this started happening about an hour ago, judging by the Activity logs of some of the bots: https://codeberg.org/GradeSort?page=6&sort=recentupdate&q=&tab=activity&date=
This is so bad.
i think i need to stop using vscode
does anyone have a good text editor recommendation that doesn't try to push AI on you (not vim / emacs, i already know about those)
i think i need to stop using vscode
does anyone have a good text editor recommendation that doesn't try to push AI on you (not vim / emacs, i already know about those)
Right
The 6️⃣0️⃣ stations I investigated during my #CrossChannelRail project have now all been mapped out and categorized
Interactive map 👇
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crosschannelrail-corridors-stations_1231642#6/48.269/4.296
