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Today I had coffee with an aerospace engineering postdoc who happened to be in Regina briefly. He works on technology for refueling and fixing satellites in orbit, which is EXACTLY the kind of engineering we need! Don't chuck that 3 or 5 year old satellite into the atmosphere, FIX it and make it keep working longer!
Really delightful chat, and the best part is this connection actually happened because of the cow-culation April Fool's day paper I helped write: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324
There is no digital sovereignty without ODF
Any other choice is a choice of dependence on a single vendor
Digital sovereignty begins with the document format. Everything else – server location, hosting jurisdiction, procurement clauses – is downstream of this single decision. If the format is standard and open, the user controls the document. If the format is proprietary the vendor controls it, even when the file sits on the user’s own hard drive.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/15/no-digital-sovereignty-without-odf/
@libreoffice Over the last 24 hours, 95,000 traders were liquidated, with total liquidations reaching $330 million.
Do you know why? They ignored the basic steps which I am going to take you through, DM in my bio
#cryptocurrency #investment #profit #riskmanagement
@raphaelmorgan i spent 10 years with it and it keeps hurting me and like with python i realize it's not going to get better
@raphaelmorgan you have to understand it wasn't always like this
Umm what happened to Bitwarden??
From what I heard, the founder/ceo stepped down... and almost immediately they removed some of the promises from their marketing.
Stuff like 'Always Free' and 'Inclusion' being the two being most talked about.
Enshitification incoming... service about to cost a lot more for a lot less.
@siracusa Ahhh snark. From the person who claimed I drew my conclusions form one blog post. Awesome.
Yes. Claiming an inherent, systemic problem in a software feature from your personal experience and anecdotes which we can't invesigate is insufficient. Especially when you openly admit you don't know the reasons.
While we're here, please accept my claims of Hyperspace being broken as accurate.
@jimmyjamesuk Note that I wrote “the” snark, etc., not “your” snark.
@hipsterelectron I'm taking this as the sign I needed to give up on learning Rust 😂 also yeah holy fuck, imagine talking to the LLM so much you now see humans as LLMs and only know how to talk to us as if we were LLMs 🙃 every time I feel lonely, I'll remind myself I at least don't do that!
@raphaelmorgan i spent 10 years with it and it keeps hurting me and like with python i realize it's not going to get better
We just released Bonfire Social 1.0.3 🔥
Blog post with all the details: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
It comes with dozens of bug fixes and UX improvements, plus:
- Federated comments embeddable on any web page.
- Deep Ghost integration: SSO, membership tier sync, and automatic article import.
- New dashboard widgets: spotlight, polls closing soon, top discussions.
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#CalmEmpowerment: a new design pattern that starts with a few sensible defaults, offers a middle layer of common adjustments, and reveals the full options only when you need them. Boundaries and post permissions got this treatment first, more to follow...
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Modular community rules: a first step in bringing research and co-design with students and researchers at @hci@micro.blogs.princeton.edu into Bonfire, so governance becomes something communities can better define and share, and that others can fork and adapt.
Today in Labor History May 15, 1969: Police fought students in the Battle for People's Park at the University of California Berkeley, California. The battle was over a small strip of land that the students had claimed as community commons. Governor Ronald Reagan sent in National Guards to reclaim the Park. Police gunfire killed a bystander, James Rector, and wounded 60 others, including Alan Blanchard, who was blinded for life. Street fighting continued for 17 days. Another 150 demonstrators would be shot and wounded. The battle for the park has continued ever since, with the university continuing to claim ownership and threatening to turn the park into everything from units of student housing to a parking lot. The defenders of the park have done numerous direct actions over the past 55 years to defend the park, provide mutual aid, provide free food and clothes to unhoused folks, and offer community classes. In 1992, cops shot and killed Park Defender Rosebud Denovo, after she broke into the basement of the residence of UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien. As recently as 2024, the cops have attacked, beaten, and/or arrested park defenders. Also in that year, the California Supreme Court sided with the University and its plans to build student housing on the park. In 2025, the university announced that the new housing would be named after Disability Rights activist Judy Heumann.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #PeoplesPark #berkeley #students #protest #activism #homelessness #reagan #PoliceBrutality #police #acab #studentprotest #university #UCBerkeley #judyjeumann
@farah@beige.party removed the 'always free' from their marketing, as well as their statements of inclusion (e.g the usual "Anti-DEI" bullshit)
@alexia Ugh…
@jsbarretto chumsky is what i've been using 😁 its fun (until rustc complains but thats my fault)
there's still some utilities (especially regarding (almost) utf8 encoded u8 data) that i might do pull-requests for (when i have time)
@zeichenreihe I'm glad you're finding it useful! I'd be interested in PRs. If there's a hole in the API, also feel welcome to open an issue and we can have a conversation about it!
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@catsalad condescending implies conascending?
@quixoticgeek Something like M-O from Wall-E
ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208
#HackerNews #ABCNews #FiveThirtyEight #articles #offline #news #media #journalism
Catch Flakes On Main - Alex Kladov:
https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/14/catch-flakes-on-main.html
This will be fun!
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-this-will-be-fun
YouTube: https://youtu.be/iLR_0Y4kJ1U
@Techaltar Okay, time to ditch Netflix.