This week: Reuter Regis (Rjort).

"To this day, Ruby is the language with the most beautiful syntax and readability for me."

A considered opinion from someone who has seen the alternatives. Ruby still wins.

What's your Why I Ruby? We'd love to share it:
https://forms.gle/4pk69eYmTnEDXFXi7

I'm back on my bullshit (linux desktop)

• because of "reproducibility".

• the arch linux maintainer whose website is literally named named "vulns" needs you to modify everyone else's build process

• so he can reproduce the build

• he can't do it without your help

@lowqualityfacts I wonder if the year that the scientists meant was actually 2.064 x 10^3!?! 😂

@cwebber

well DNS is decentralized. It's just not peer-to-peer. There is an important difference there.

DNS is split across countless organisations each responsible for different parts of it. It is sharded and thereby decentralized by definition. It however is also hierarchical and thereby authoritarian by definition too.

What many people (and you probably too I assume) mean when they're talking about decentralized is being the opposite of authoritarian I.E. Libertarian...

@jellyfriend going full Donald Duck for forg

Ukraine prepares to ease residency rules for foreign fighters
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-prepares-to-ease-residency-rules-for-foreign-fighters/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Latest News @latest-news-KyivIndependent

A quick recap of @atproto.nyc@bsky.brid.gy community day! Shoutout to @marisa.blacksky.team@bsky.brid.gy and @jdot.blacksky.team@bsky.brid.gy for giving an amazing talk and engaging workshop!

#OtD 28 Aug 1955 Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, was kidnapped and murdered after Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, accused him of propositioning her. Despite overwhelming evidence of their guilt, Till's killers were acquitted by an all-white jury https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9983/emmett-till-murdered

Attended an "AI training" today where someone rapidly fed prompts into Claude to show how it can help with policy work like reviewing and summarizing lengthy documents and shit. At the end, during Q&A, I asked what the presenters thought about the fact that the people on the other side are also going to be using AI to streamline their processes so now we just have AI talking to itself.

One acknowledged that's probably happening and it's an issue. The other went on some tangential explanation about how AI is here and we have to learn to use it properly and how it helps her college student kid study and blah blah blah. Seems I hit a nerve. My work here is done

• one of the top arch linux distro maintainers
• successfully got linux to add support for:
  • module validation against checksum files
  • and not cryptographic signatures,
  • which are quite literally a checksum that is then encrypted with a private key,
  • and for all intents and purposes completely indistinguishable in every way
  • except anyone can modify the checksum

You have probably heard about the US regime's crackdown on the Italian IT collective Autistici/Inventati. Someone wrote down what it means and what can be done about it: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/ (thanks to @geertlovink and @liaizon for the link).

I first met A/I people in Florence when I attended the first European Social Forum in 2002. They provided a room full of computers with Internet access so that the grassroots press could report on the event. Great, friendly people.

Now the supposedly independent ICANN has destroyed the domain autistici.org and might do the same with https://inventati.org soon. A/I will lose their bank accounts etc. The same could happen to all of us who are not fascists. This is the time for solidarity.

#AutisticiInventati #SaveFreeSpeech #SaveIndependentMedia #SaveIndyHosting #indyHosting #solidarityIsBeautiful

i mean i knew this sort of thing would happen when:

• a month after failing to backdoor gnu automake,
  • because there is no possible way you can ever neg a dyed in the wool build engineer into accepting a change to their build.
  • they will get fired before they let you fuck that up.
  • and real ones can tell. gnu automake is That Bitch

in the last 5ish years i've seen a pivot from "Terrorism is the reason we need people with automatic rifles at airports and cameras everywhere spying on you" to "Terrorism is a word that means doing anything for political reasons other than voting. in a democracy, you vote. politics is voting. everything else, like protesting or direct action or even publishing the wrong thing, is Terrorism. you must only vote, that is all that is allowed"

@TheBreadmonkey that's what women hope

@cwebber @cararemixed Letsencrypt/EFF certainly have improved things, but I still fundamentally hate our web certificate system. It's so much nicer when using things like tor and yggdrasil, where encryption/identification is built into the protocol.

Raise your hand if you emigrated at a young age and had to severe most of your emotional ties to your home country to quiet the pain of leaving.

Me? I still tear up when listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3645Er9gJlA&feature=youtu.be

Nice blog post (in German) from Wikimedia Deutschland on their positive experience with a worker's council (which is legally distinct from a union in Germany, but somewhat overlapping) in the context of the ongoing unionization effort at Wikimedia Foundation in the US and UK.

https://blog.wikimedia.de/2026/08/27/gewerkschaften-und-betriebsraete-wikimedia/

Found a new worker co-op game dev studio 🥳 ...but they use AI 😕 ...but not for "creative" work 🤔 ...just for coding 😠 ...and a real human checks it out 😩 ...{sigh}

@heyheymomo Im in, will buy 12 of them and were no other cloth.