Russian bulletproof hosting provider BearHost, aka Voodoo Servers, has exit-scammed and cited "political reasons"

https://www.resecurity.com/es/blog/article/qilin-ransomware-and-the-ghost-bulletproof-hosting-conglomerate

🔒 Debian TC Overrules systemd Maintainers on /var/lock Permissions / @linuxiac

｢ The controversy started after a recent systemd update (version 258) made /var/lock writable only by the root user, breaking compatibility with some existing Debian software that still relies on it for system-wide locks ｣

https://linuxiac.com/debian-tc-overrules-systemd-maintainers-on-var-lock-permissions/

#debian #systemd #opensource

Latest audio recorders looking even nicer - hope to have listed on Tindie next week - sold with the black case and a lanyard.

Them: “We should make open source sustainable”
Me: “Can I get paid for my work?”
Them: “Not like that!”

Looking for alternatives to Israel owned or produced brands, probably your local cooperative or other worker-owned Social and Solidarity Economy has many options.

The catalan coop media Jornal.cat compiled an extensive list, and we're happy to see CommonsCloud.coop (in its catalan name: SomNúvol) in it. Besides the free software community, and various platform cooperatives like @sommobilitat @ecotxe and many locally relevant organisations.

https://www.jornal.cat/noticia/39316/alternatives-marques-sionistes

#BDS #SSE

@pluralistic There's the next book jacket photo.

@kenobit @rico il fatto è che affinché queste alternative trovino diffusione client/registrazioni ecc devono essere facili per l’utente medio (scaricati questa app, iscriviti, click click click e sei apposto, vai di foto di gattini…) . A me piace smanettare, ma ai più assolutamente no. Niente plugin, niente tremila addon e opzioni varie ecc. E un client solo, stessa icona e nome, multipiattaforma , se possibile . Se no le persone scappano…. Secondo me….

@OliviaVespera not yet! We'll make one for our upcoming blog post. :)

@ErikUden

He's pledging allegiance to the fedi

@beka_valentine Not disagreeing, but I wonder if the whole makerspace movement is kinda a counter example to your point? Maybe there is less energy going into writing code, but that same creative energy is going into a lot of different areas now ... 3d modeling, 3d printing, arduino and embedded coding, maybe python instead of basic in some cases, music is still a thing. In any case the world is definitely changing. Technology is changing. Complexity is increasing and folding in on itself.

When I was in 10th or 11th grade my dad got us a used commodore vic-20. I spent countless afternoons after school writing little programs on that thing, only to see my little brother come in and delete them all (like tearing down my lego creations.) Later we got an Apple II with a floppy drive! My high school didn't have much for teaching anything with computers, what we did have was tacked on to the end of a math class when I was a senior.

Now a lot of USA schools have a first robotics team which (I think) scratches a lot of the same itches you are talking about ... but the teams get huge so each kid can get really specialized which isn't such a great thing. But they are seeing how group projects come together, they are at least exposed to the challenges their team mates are working on.

My youngest just graduated college last year and both my kids had way way more opportunities to explore interesting side ventures in school than I ever did.

These days a 4th grader can install python on their phone ... so what's stopping a motivated kid today to learn about coding just like what was stopping a motivated kid from learning coding 45 years ago?

(I didn't see my first computer up close until I was probably 8th grade ... but it blew me away with it's coolness and ability to remember my name after it asked me to type it in!)

@davidgerard @cstross It’s missing some hex.

Das "Problem im Stadtbild" sind die ganzen scheiß Autos überall

@anewsocial What about the other way around?

Who Will Blink First: Trump or Xi?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/business/dealbook/trump-china-trade-negotiations.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business Day @business-day-newyorktimes

@jpoesen I’ve nothing specific to offer but recommend following CSS folks on your favorite socials.

Some are prolific at their craft and share a lot of vanilla CSS resources, tutorials and courses.

First that come to mind are the folks over at @piccalilli. @frontenddogma also share interesting things as does @bell.bz.

Hit me up if you find something. I’m in the same boat: I want to learn modern CSS to do the basic stuff that I do with Tailwind now.

@cstross @HighlandLawyer @carturo222 @po8crg @coldclimate i suspect that some of those that think they don't, don't have the trick of hearing it

Well, after an initial failure, my #NLNet grant application for #GoActivityPub has been accepted under the NGI0 Commons Fund. 💪

This means that for the next months my main focus will be fully on making #ActivityPub in the #Go programming language easier for other developers.

If you're one of them, reach out, I want to know what you struggle with and how I can help with that.

https://nlnet.nl/thema/NGI0CommonsFund.html#:~:text=GoActivityPub%20%E2%80%94%20Help%20people%20develop%20Fediverse%20software%20in%20Go

@halcy Todays summary for (halcy), October 16, 2025, 8:00:
* Call an ambulance for medical assistance.
* But he did not broach it, preferring to mature it carefully.
* You can't be an internationalist without wanting to rebuild this country.

displaying #Sharkey reactions in #Fedicat (again?) interaction is limited but they look nice

Le Club COOL (Communs Ouverts et Outils Libres) est de retour en ce mois d'octobre, et ça sera le mercredi 22 octobre à midi (heure française).
Prends ton sandwich et viens nous voir en présentiel au @RoseLab à Toulouse, ou en visio (lien à suivre le jour J) pour causer du gros sujet du moment : la fin de Windows 10

Discussion ouverte avec qui veut, pas besoin d'un profil technique, toutes les questions sont bienvenues

#logicielslibres #EndOf10 #adieuwindows #adieu_windows #windows #toulouse