We've reached the stage in the #ClimateEmergency where even CAMELS are dying from extreme heat. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlxvvw06pqo

"In the last two years, we have seen a more than 15% increase in camel deaths in our county due to extreme heat."

The study included nearly 6,000 pastoral households and showed that the mortality was concentrated in northern regions, with Sool reporting a "staggering mortality rate of nearly 73%".

Good Morning, #cats and significant others 🤞 🌄 🐾 🍗 ☕ 🌄 Moin Moin ☕ #fedicats #CatsOfMastodon 🐭 🐻 #straycats #TNR #AdoptDontShop ✨ 🐈

#Rogliano (CS): incontro-dibattito “Contro #Guerra, #Riarmo e #Militarizzazione Sociale. Il momento di resistere è adesso!”
Sabato 25 luglio 2026, ore 19
Villa comunale di Rogliano (Cosenza)
Contro Guerra, Riarmo e Militarizzazione Sociale. Il momento di resistere è adesso! E’ il tema dell’incontro-dibattito che si terrà sabato 25 luglio (ore 19) a Rogliano (Cosenza), grazie all’organizzazione dell’ANPI Sezione di Savuto Cosentino “Donato Bendicenti”. https://osservatorionomilscuola.com/2026/07/22/rogliano-incontro-dibattito-guerra-riarmo-militarizzazione-sociale-anpi-bendicenti-mazzeo/

@slims it is an EDM music festival.

@mekkaokereke
I get your point, but the thing is, there is a LOT of debate about racism in Argentina. We are well aware of our own history. What happens is that we are tired of the hate campaign that is trying to dehumanize us in order to take our natural resources.
I am shocked to see how many people will happily put a label on an entire nation just because of a TikTok trend said so

@sarahjamielewis I wonder if it might just be easier to hard fork before the whole slopware support thing started, and hen transplant any still relevant bugfixes (esp. security one).

Reading these numbers really makes me angry, because of how much they crippled web standards support on the basis that it would be too costly. 8-(

Una, di destra e in divisa: così la polizia diventa politica

L’offensiva contro il sindaco di Bologna dopo la morte di Abderrahim Fakir va oltre lo scontro politico: è il segnale di una deriva in cui apparati dello Stato, propaganda securitaria e criminalizzazione del dissenso si saldano, mentre una nuova generazione esprime una crescente sfiducia verso istituzioni percepite sempre più lontane e repressive

https://www.osservatoriorepressione.info/una-di-destra-e-in-divisa-cosi-la-polizia-diventa-politica/

like yes obviously all of those qualities should be table stakes for a portable cryptographic library but having official support from the processor vendor is completely unbeatable

ICE incidents kill four people in a week.

In one incident, ICE scares a tourist enough that he runs into traffic and is killed by a truck.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/man-killed-ice-florida-tourist-visa

@cwebber My preferred reply would have been "not now". I believe the social changes wilâ happen, but not rapidly.

@vickyrampin

@ThermiteBeGiants @abstractcode quite likely, I keep finding extra things to add to it.

It now supports sending and receiving break signals.

Der Autor Ulrich Kelber ist auch auf Mastodon aktiv: https://bonn.social/@ulrichkelber/116964310555834173

@CCC

#geheimdienst #dobrindt

@scottjenson @benpate @jdp23 @rakoo my primary preferred solution is to keep the ActivityPub network growing, preferably on software other than Mastodon, to dilute the influence of the toxic early Mastodon adopters as well as diluting Mastodon's outsize influence on fedi standards.

I am aware that this doesn't really deal with the problem of them scaring off the noobs.

@GeePawHill Yup. And then Lyme...and then Rocky Mountain for the spouse....

I truly do not understand why ticks have to exist. 😫

I low-key feel like a #HamRadio operator, when I'm using this #ActivityPub server and chatting with people who-knows-where. So cool.

There are nice things in this "timeline", so let's find opportunities to be grateful!

#snac2 #fediAdmin #mentalHealth

IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal https://electrek.co/2026/07/22/iea-global-power-demand-is-surging-and-renewables-are-passing-coal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I totally respect Codeberg's decision to disallow projects with mostly AI-generated code - we should all be doing things the way we want, especially in open source. I am very thankful to Codeberg for hosting us until now, and I want to avoid github like the plague, so I will most probably set up a forgejo instance for Catodon (and a couple of other projects) in the coming days. Hopefully, this should also give our repo better uptime.

@jpm on the Blue Mountains line I’d probably be ok but stay on the train all the way to Katoomba and you take your chances

Cacheable Requests for Remote Content

TLDR: proxyUrl requests are un-cacheable, this is a terrible Developer Experience.

When fetching remote Activities, Objects or Actors with the ActivityPub API we use a few endpoints. First, we might fetch activities directly from our Inbox endpoint, this loosely translates to a users Home feed.

But to represent these Activities in a meaningful way to users, we also need information about the Actor who posted the activity, so that we may display their Avatar, Display name and perhaps their Webfinger1.

We could fetch an Actor directly from a client, but not all ActivityPub servers are guaranteed to have CORS enabled. So to reliably fetch, we use the proxyUrl endpoint2.

… the client posts an x-www-form-urlencoded id parameter with the value being the id of the requested ActivityStreams object.

Unfortunately POST requests are opaque regarding the id3.

Typically, a Service Worker would use a fetch eventListener to intercept the request, and depending on cacheing strategy might first look up this id in the cache, or indexedDB, and if it isn’t found would then fetch and save response for later use.

So back to our Home feed, when scrolling through the activities you are likely to see a number of posts from the same people, whether because you only follow a few or because you follow some frequent posters.

Without cacheing, our app would need to fetch those Actors again and again, each time one of their posts shows up. Also, depending on your server configuration, could get your client rate-limited.

Beyond ActivityPub, not cacheing is wasteful, these continuous requests could not only make a low-powered device slow-down, heat up and drain a mobile battery, but depending on internet access where you live could also eat into your data plan.

1. Webfinger is an identifier & protocol for looking up information about users, which should look familiar: user@example.com ↩︎
2. https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/proxyUrl_endpoint ↩︎
3. Basically a URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#obj-id ↩︎

@vickyrampin I personally believe it's both and that Conway's Law flows in both directions; the kinds of infrastructure we have is informed by our social structures, but the kinds of social structures we can have is informed by our infrastructure

Which is indeed motivating for all of the history of my work