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Anuj Ahooja
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Since we're among close friends, a confession: when I was in college, I experienced some hateful engineers in the Linux community, and it kept me away from open source in my prime programming years.
Sometimes the difference between an annoyance and a valued contributor is kindness and mentorship.
@TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote Ben, thank you for your service. 👀
@baratunde, host of the How To Citizen podcast, explains what makes our new app Roundabout different from Big Tech social media.
“The product is explicitly made to foster and coordinate and support offline relationships. It's really about finding your neighbors and doing stuff together instead of performing for followers you'll never meet. And it's pretty important that the business model is non-extractive.”
Zero grip, maximum fun: A practical guide to getting into amateur ice racing
Where we're racing, we don't need roads.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02/zero-grip-maximum-fun-a-practical-guide-to-getting-into-amateur-ice-racing/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica this is just winter driving
It might be not possible to create a generic #ActivityPub server, but nevertheless this is an interesting thought experiment that helps simplify the protocol and figure out the best way to extend it.
I've been thinking about generic servers for quite some time (because this complements my work on nomadic clients), here are my notes:
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/fc48/fep-fc48.md
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/eyeinthesky/statuses/116095929503245071
Why did #ActivityPub create special behaviors such as Like, Announce and Block (and the Undo variants) instead of using Add to or Remove from the associated Collection objects? I have a similar question for outbox and inbox POST, which is an implicit Add to those collections. 
When adding support for extended collections, is an new collection-specific Activity preferred over Add/Remove? FWIW, I see Mastodon uses Add/Remove for pinned and featured posts.
Michael Dexter
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anyone using RustDesk selfhosted in production? How's your experience been?
Hi all! I’m overdue for another Bridgy Fed status update. Bottom line up front: we’re now bridging video on Bluesky! Out from Bluesky works now, in will work as soon as they finish their user rollout, hopefully within days.
Also, Bridgy Fed can now ask people to bridge their accounts! This is the infamous “discoverable opt in,” and it’s finally launched. If you want to follow someone, but they’re not bridged, send their handle to Bridgy Fed in a DM or chat message, and it will message them to say you’re asking. (Only once; it won’t send another message if someone else asks.)
We send a couple other DMs now too, a welcome when you bridge your account, and an FYI when you reply to someone but they won’t see it because you’re not bridged .
It’s been a busy couple months. I was all set to post this weeks ago, after I put the finishing touches on DMs, but then Brazil happened. 3M new users and 10-20x usage increase in just a few days!
Amazingly, even though Bluesky team hosts all the difficult-to-scale parts themselves, not in the cloud, they’d still planned for this kind of surprise and handled it ok. Bridgy Fed though, not so much. It stayed up and serving, but Bluesky => fediverse got slower and slower. Tough timing, too, I was busy with other things and couldn’t find much time to work on it, so after a week it was almost 3 days (!) behind.
Fortunately, I finally managed to speed it up – props to Ilya‘s libipld library, among other things! – and after it worked through the backlog, we were back in business.
Anyway. Since last time: video, DMs, usage spike, and other features and bug fixes too:
- Improved Pleroma and Flipboard compatibility.
- Improved style of web => Bluesky bridged posts, also now try harder to include an image.
- Drastically improved monitoring and alerting.
- Stricter authorization for AP
Undos. - …and lots more bug fixes.
As usual, feel free to ping me with feedback, questions, and bug reports. You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what I’m currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!
@pallenberg Da fehlt noch der Händler Support, bevor man das auch wirklich nutzen kann. Wenn ich etwas für Freunde bezahlen muss, kann ich auch Geld per IBAN schicken.
👇 Happening tonight.
Palestine is in HELL.
I have just finalized my next report.
As before every presentation, the same pro-Israel minions flood the space with disinformation; and there are always some who fall for it.
See you tonight on Zeteo, and very soon in Geneva.
If you will walk the streets of #Israel right now, everything will seem normal.
If you will ask the locals, they will tell you that all the country is in fear of another war with #Iran in the next few days.
The orange clown is sending tons of war machines to the Middle East.
For what purpose? No one really knows.
Don't you hate it when your computer's Björked
@TheBreadmonkey It's her real name and she's from Iceland.
@pallenberg So lange es nur mit Telefonnummer geht und nicht mit E-Mail (ING), keine Alternative.
joene 🏴🍉
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The first posters have arrived. This is the simple, save the date kind of poster. Ask in your local -squatting- community for the poster.
@tante This was an excellent read, and very much mirrors my thoughts.
Also, I had not heard of Aftermath before!
@tehstu absolutely stellar publication
@pallenberg
und zwar mit Wonne und oft!
joene 🏴🍉
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Luddites Anon, with Fred Wordie
Luddites Anon is a workshop where we will come together to collectively share and reflect on how digital technologies impact our lives every day. Through the use of various discursive and written exercises we will form new critiques rooted in our lived experiences. Then we will play around with older writing tech as we create alternative imaginaries focused on less digitally optimised ways of being in the world.
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🚨 Version 1.7 is now available!
Added Ecstatic Dance, Late Night and Melancholy playlists as well as substantial improvements to the playlist generator for more complex and refined playlists 🎵🥰
