IN LOVING MEMORY OF
NORA BRICIS 1912-2005
KEN BRICIS 1922-2004
SADLY MISSED BY ALL THE FAMILY
In Loving Memory Of
Beryl Wright
21.08.1939-30.03.2020
You Will Always Be In My Heart
I Know We Will Meet Again
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War ja lange nicht mehr auf Mas'odon aktiv, das ändert sich jetzt. Inzwischen kann man Drükos machen (Posts zitieren), wie ich sehe: sehr erfreulich. ☺️
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Week in Fediverse 2026-03-06
Servers
- Hollo v0.7.5
- Lemmy v0.19.16
- Ktistec v3.3.2
- Stegodon v1.8.1
- GoToSocial v0.21.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v8.0.0
- gathio v1.6.2
- Misskey v2026.3.0
- Castopod v1.15.5
- flohmarkt v0.16.1
- NodeBB v4.9.1
- PieFed v1.6.9
- Lemmy Development Update February 2026
- FediProfile: A linktree for the fediverse - ActivityPub enabled profiles
Clients
- Sengi v1.9.0
- Summit v1.79.1
- Blorp v1.10.8
Tools and Plugins
- Poduptime v6.3.0
- share.joinmastodon.org: Share widget for Mastodon
Protocol
- FEP-82f6: Actor statuses (Final comments)
Articles
- Gotosocial Reverse Proxy With Wireguard
- FR#156 – Share Where?
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019ca0a0-4fce-c180-89e4-071244c530a4
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A note to #FOSS funders
I’ve been working at the heart of this space for more than 30 years, funded and unfunded. In that time I’ve seen hundreds of alternative tech projects start with energy and good intentions. Most of them wither on the vine, a very small number flower.
After watching this cycle repeat for decades, one thing has become clear: the projects that survive and grow almost always follow a simple pattern. I call this the #4opens. Other people describe similar ideas as open source development, open governance, or commons-based development. The label doesn’t matter – the practice does.
If you want to know which projects will flower and which will wither, look at the ground, not the words. The #4opens ask four very simple questions:
- Open data – can people access and reuse the information?
- Open source – can people read, modify, and share the code?
- Open process – can people see and participate in how decisions are made?
- Open standards – can different systems interoperate and grow a wider ecosystem?
Projects that are open in all four of these ways tend to build living ecosystems. Projects that are only partially open tend to stall or collapse. The two repeating problems, over the years two patterns constantly undermine good projects.
#geekproblem – A teenage mix of arrogance and ignorance that is surprisingly universal in tech culture. Developers assume technical elegance (and complexity) will automatically solve social problems. They underestimate governance, community, and messy human reality.
#dotcons – The opposite pressure: corporate platforms pushing business models that prioritise extraction and growth over human need. They happily wrap themselves in the language of “open” while building fundamentally closed systems.
Both pressures distort funding decisions. Both lead to projects that sound open but aren’t. Money is a dangerous subject, yes, funding matters, but money inside infrastructure projects to often distorts them quickly. For #openweb work, a useful rule of thumb is: Keep the core simple. Focus funding on maintaining the #4opens infrastructure. Let many different organisations, businesses, and NGOs build external services and applications on top.
This keeps the core commons stable while allowing diversity and experimentation around it. It’s the #KISS principle applied to digital commons. When funding pushes too many external agendas into the core, projects become heavy, political, and fragile.
Some uncomfortable truths, over the last decade we’ve been told several stories about security and scale that simply don’t hold up. There is no security in CLOSED systems, security emerges from open scrutiny and shared responsibility:
- There is no security in radical individualism, security emerges from community.
- There is no security in “trustless” systems, real resilience grows from social trust.
These ideas have been obscured by hype cycles and by the influence of #dotcons and their shadow allies, the #encryptionists who push purely technical “trustless” thinking. Both camps wrap themselves in the language of openness, but their systems remain structurally closed. Words are wind, look at the ground: #4opens.
The unspoken scaling problem, there is also an unspoken #geekproblem around how we think about scaling. When many developers talk about #p2p, they imagine data-to-data scaling, systems optimised to move information as efficiently as possible. From that perspective, human friction looks like a problem.
But if you see #p2p as human-to-human, the picture changes. Human scaling limits – smaller communities, slower processes, local trust networks – are not bugs, they are virtues, creating resilience and accountability. The data-first model is the one favoured by the #dotcons.
The human-first model is the one the #openweb actually needs. Funders should be aware of which philosophy a project is building around.
A simple test If you want a quick filter when looking at proposals, ask:
- Does this project genuinely follow the #4opens?
- Does it build community and governance, not just code?
- Is it resilient without permanent central funding?
- Does it strengthen the commons, rather than a future platform?
Projects that pass these tests are the ones most likely to flower, everything else tends to wither. Food for thought.
Gode folk i Fediverset,
Vi har ladet os fortælle, at der findes et sted på det sociale web, hvor mennesker bestemmer mere end algoritmer. Det lyder som alletiders sted at plante et flag for kunsten og for den store, fælles danske kunstsamling 🚩
Vi er lige landet og føler os nye i trafikken. Til gengæld er vi meget motiverede til at lære nyt og klar til at tale kunst ved mindste anledning 😀
Så langt så godt. Planen er at fortælle historier fra museet (både KBH og Thy) og samlingen. Alle forslag, kommentarer, og undrende spørgsmål er yderst velkomne. Tak fordi du læser dette, og vi glæder os til at møde dig. Her føles allerede rart 🤗
ahhhh, that is what the response to LLMs reminds me of: COVID! It's the same shrugs shoulders "COVID is endemic, we should get used to it" response.
More on Proton:
I find it very funny how Proton gets reamed by people when they reveal exactly what they are forced to reveal by a Swiss court (and nothing more). The same people claim Tutanota is better and, like...no. They will *also* comply with German court orders (and Swiss courts tend to overall be more skeptical, especially of requests originating overseas like this one).
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RT @HedgieMarkets
🦔 OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that exploded to 200,000 GitHub stars in weeks, has become a security nightmare. In five weeks it accumulated 9 disclosed vulnerabilities, over 2,200 malicious add-ons in its marketplace, and 40,000 internet-exposed instances. Researchers found that 93% of those instances had authentication bypassed, and the project triggered 8 of 10 vulnerability classes that security experts warned about for AI agents.
The attack chain works like this: malicious add-ons in the marketplace instruct the AI agent to present fake setup dialogs to users, tricking them into entering passwords. The agent becomes the social engineering tool. One campaign distributed macOS malware by having the agent itself ask users for their credentials. Users trust their AI assistant, so they comply.
My Take
I believe this is what happens when something goes viral before anyone thinks through what they're actually deploying. Developers gave OpenClaw shell access to their computers, connected it to their email and Slack, handed it cloud API keys, and then installed add-ons from a community marketplace that had basically no vetting. Over 40% of the add-ons that got audited had serious security issues. The project went from weekend hack to 200,000 users before anyone built the guardrails.
The attack method here is new. The malware doesn't trick the human directly anymore, it tricks the AI agent into tricking the human. When your assistant asks you for a password to finish an installation, you probably enter it because you trust it. To anyone investigating later, it looks like you voluntarily installed the software. The agent's role is invisible. I've been writing about AI tools being deployed faster than security can keep up, and this is that problem at scale. If anyone at your company has been running OpenClaw, I'd treat it as compromised until proven otherwise.
Hedgie🤗
Send SIGHUG, not SIGKILL.
Hier kommen die #Job, #Funding und Eventschätze aus dieser Woche:
Am Samstag, dem 28. März findet der Tag des offenen Hackspaces wieder statt - bestimmt auch in eurer Nähe:
https://events.ccc.de/2026/02/28/tag-des-offenen-hackspace-2026/
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Die @sovtechfund Agency verstetigt ihr Fellowship-Programm: Ab jetzt werden nicht nur Open Source Maintainer:innen gefördert, sondern auch Community Manager:innen und Tech-Writer:innen. Mehr Infos gibts in ihrem Blog:
https://www.sovereign.tech/de/neuigkeiten/fellowship-2026-jetzt-bewerben
Direkt zur Bewerbung (die noch bis zum 06. April möglich ist) geht es hier:
https://www.sovereign.tech/de/programme/fellowship
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Antscan: Die weltweit größte digitale Datenbank mit 3D-Daten von #Insekten
Die Web-Plattform „Antscan“ ist das Ergebnis einer internationalen und interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit, initiiert von #KITKarlsruhe und Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Das Projekt verbindet innovative 3D-Bildgebung, optimierte Datenverarbeitung und #KI. Für Forschende, Lehrende und die interessierte Öffentlichkeit ist die Plattform frei zugänglich: https://www.antscan.info/
@zzt @arichtman
oh fuck no, what the fuck
I spent hundreds of hours researching cases like this and let me say it now for everyone in the future, snitching doesn’t protect you. This woman will spend potentially years in prison all because she couldn’t shut the fuck up.
https://bird.makeup/users/vitalistint/statuses/2029325129272946846
Hellacious California!
Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State
EBook Edition
256 pages
Published in 2020
by Heyday
In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors…finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]” than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California’s settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments.
Hellacious California tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State: gambling, gun duels, knife fights, gracious dining and gluttony, prostitution, fandangos, cigars, con artistry, and the demon drink. Historian Gary Noy unearths myriad primary sources, many of which have never before been published, to spin his true tall tales that are by turns humorous and horrifying. Whether detailing the exploits of an inebriated stallion, gambling parlors as a reinforcement and subversion of racial norms, armed skirmishes over eggs, or the ins and outs of the “Spirit Lover” scam, Noy expertly situates these stories in the context of a live-for-the-moment society characterized by audacity, bigotry, and risk.
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
Edition
240 pages
Published in 2025
by The University of North Carolina Press
A beautiful examination of nature and human connection
Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the possibility that enslaved people wielded mycological poisons against their enslavers.
Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history, and every page sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal, ecological, ancestral, and communal. Join her in pursuit of beautiful, perplexing, delicious, and deadly mushrooms as she explores this understudied kingdom’s awe-inspiring diversity and discovers how fungi have been used by people, especially those on the margins, for survival, pleasure, revelation, and revolution.
Forty countries met in The Hague under The Hague Group to coordinate measures against Israel’s expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank, which diplomats warn amount to de facto annexation.
The summit, co-chaired by South Africa and Colombia, focused on enforcing international law and included discussions on accountability for international crimes, banning settlement goods, restricting companies operating in settlements, and halting arms transfers to Israel.
The meeting follows Israel’s approval of the E1 settlement project and recent cabinet measures extending Israeli authority over parts of the West Bank, further weakening Palestinian self-rule.
Senator Kevin Cramer says the U.S. has a “biblical responsibility to Israel.”
That’s the logic behind the U.S. war on Iran.
