@GeofCox @ChrisMayLA6 the US political right is a terrorist organisation. Always has been.

@Akki

@ravensrod 🌽

If I say, without a little bit of leading the witness: "I think software should be finished, most of the time. I think a plan for the ending should be in mind from the start." That gets a lot of people's hackles up, as if I just said all machines should be perpetual motion. If we try to make the kind of software we're used to, then yes, completion is something we know is difficult to impossible in that world.

If your goals for software are a bit different:

1. Small (both in scope and implementation),
2. Aggressively interoperable with other programs,
3. At peace with being irrelevant someday,

... then it's totally possible to complete software. The ecosystem is never complete, but this piece can be, because it's not trying to itself be an ecosystem with decades of updates in its future.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@laboescapes/117177465409822519

Il festival propone anche dei #film e un concorso corti https://afrobrix.it/afrobrix-films-2026/

debugging debugging..

I disastri climatici non sono una cosa che succederà, sono una cosa che sta già succedendo:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/18/northern-iraq-villages-islamic-state-climate-crisis

We've all been there

https://news.sky.com/video/nap-out-of-hell-woman-wakes-up-to-find-a-live-bat-in-her-mouth-13578069

I wish I could mark packages more reliably as “we signed the Software Maintainer’s Pledge¹ and will treat this as infrastructure that must not be volatile”.² And then have platform tooling that blows up visibly when I break that promise (ideally down to some implicit interfaces, partially following Hyrum’s Law,³ maybe getting stricter automatically when there are more known users of my package).

¹ https://bzg.fr/en/notes/the-software-maintainers-pledge/
² https://www.draketo.de/software/volatile-infrastructure
³ https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

#FreeSoftware

Far left extremists:
- write to their council
- attend peaceful protests
- explain how tax actually works to friends and family
- reply to public consultations
- hand out fliers

Be careful out there. These people are dangerous and want you to have basic human rights.

You can’t buy happiness. Steal it - woof, woof

[I am in hospital, on a social media break. I am posting updates on my health & writing.]

Today I wrote my 1000th blog post. It is about the flattening of metadata ontologies in a repository context. This can, though, be of strategic value to radical publishing projects.

https://eve.gd/2026/08/28/repository-metadata-contain-ontological-ambiguities-that-fold-into-flat-hierarchies/

I then developed, as part of my need to get to grips with our KC Works import API, an automatic importer for these blog posts. The API works fantastically, mostly thanks to Ian Scott and his also-great documentation The PDF is also auto-generated.

https://works.hcommons.org/records/83n59-ana25

@informapirata
Non capisco Banca Etica... 🤔
@eticadigitale

Une bonne chose de faite !

Après 1 année scolaire complète sous PrimTux 8 avec mes élèves (et windows en dual boot au cas où), c'est decidé : ce sera désormais du 100% PrimTux. L'occasion de virer définitivement Windows et de passer à PrimTux 9 !

https://primtux.fr/

À titre perso, je ne dirais plus "PrimTux est une alternative à Windows" mais "PrimTux est un meilleur choix que Windows" (voire LE meilleur choix, tout simplement).

Bravo aux collègues investis dans ce projet 👏

@primtux @brigit_komit

@GerardThornley

I am delighted to have the rain, after the extreme heat of the summer.

Nepal's flood is a warning of the tragedies to come — climate change will ensure that there are more disasters like this and with increasing frequency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2026/08/29/jt-editorial-nepal-flood/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials

@OliviaVespera not for a while! But it will happen!