The new @pixelfed app is fast.
And pretty. Patrons and Kickstarter backers will gain early access later this month!
The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones
The Army says its laser system can track and destroy hostile drones.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/the-army-just-used-a-20-kilowatt-laser-to-take-out-three-drones/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@ppk Now this is a song I haven't heard in a long, long time.
I am moving, and every time I put a bag into the bag of bags I have intrusive thoughts about set theory. Does the bag of bags include itself?
@vaurora A ⊆ B
What if I were to tell you that Trump could knock any (or all) of over 20 million¹ European web sites off the Web tomorrow by picking up the phone to one US organisation: Let’s Encrypt.
We desperately need an independent, not-for-profit ACME provider in the EU paid for by our taxes.
¹ This is just based on one firm’s analytics (https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/LetsEncrypt/EUROPE). Others put LE use at 50-60% of all web sites.
@aral
I'd like to add free ACME based S/MIME certificates to the wishlist.
There _is_ even an existing EU solution for that already, at the Barcelona Polytechnic Uni. But they lack funds and their root certificate isn't integrated in typical OSses or Email clients.
This is such low hanging fruit, @EUCommission that it's unthinkable how this hasn't been done years ago already.
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Your potential is enormous, but so is the amount of paperwork involved in accessing it. Remain calm. #gooderliving
Current status: 🤌
Cycling in central Amsterdam I got overtaken by a fucking huge dodge ram. 50m later it stopped at a red light. As I passed on the fiets pad I may have yelled "wanker" through the open window.
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Technical documentation can be correct and still fail its users.
The usual suspects: unclear ownership, outdated pages, too much context in the wrong place, and no obvious answer to “what do I do next?”
We put together a practical guide on writing and maintaining docs people can actually use:
https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/technical-documentation-best-practices/
@chadmccullough @redox hard pass. this is in response to a direct question about nazis on the project: https://floss.social/@redox/116302479669860470
RE: https://floss.social/@soller/117201556834182049
@davidgerard @chadmccullough @redox There's a followup to that thread:
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Professionals and amateurs join forces to photograph Czechia’s entire #flora in 10,000 pics https://english.radio.cz/professionals-and-amateurs-join-forces-photograph-czechias-entire-flora-10000-8896274
"The atlas is expected to include around 3,300 #plants, covering all species native to #Czechia as well as most introduced species... about 3 photos of each... 30 #botanists and 190 #photographers are currently contributing... German and Hungarian botanists are helping to fill gaps, particularly where a species that is extremely rare in Czechia may be easier to find elsewhere."
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Vi ricordiamo che stiamo mantenendo un documento di domande frequenti (FAQ) sugli aspetti tecnici che potrebbero coinvolgere i nostri utenti, lo trovate qui:
https://keepitfree.ai/it/technical-updates/domande-frequenti-agosto-2026/
Prima di contattarci con richieste di supporto, controllate che la vostra domanda non sia già stata risposta su quella pagina!
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Today's #TheMuppetShow GIF of the Day is...
A follow up to the Amazon destroying books for AI story, why a bunch of names keep appearing in AI-generated papers, and ICE's latest spending spree.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-we-spoke-to-an-amazon-worker-destroying-books-for-ai/
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EU copyright reform seeks both stronger rightholder remuneration and control, and more AI training data. Consultation responses show goals collide in this analysis from @paulk, which finds that only a small group proposes a path that could achieve both.
https://openfuture.eu/blog/squaring-the-copyright-and-ai-circle/
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If Pixelfed added text-only post creation, we would become Threads or Mastodon, which was never the goal.
Many other platforms serve this functionality much better, and if we did support this, it would limit our focus on photo sharing, which has always been our main objective.
Pixelfed is for photos and video. Period.
A rather deep dive into how some of the newer CSS can make this age old pattern even better.
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No-one knows how or why some raindrops become sentient.
All we know is that they do.
What we read today was shaped by economic forces that transformed publishing decades ago. 📚
In BIG FICTION on the Future Knowledge #podcast, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin explains how consolidation, new distribution systems & chain bookstores created the conditions for a new publishing model, in conversation with humanities scholar Ted Underwood.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big-fiction
Azodicarbonamide is a chemical used to make bread dough more elastic is also, incidentally, found in yoga mats.
It is not healthy. And in Europe it is not allowed.
Still, no burger crisis. No sudden change in taste. Just the same sandwiches, quietly made without it.
And a regulation quietly doing its job in the background while you ordered your dinner.
— Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008: Food additives. EU ban on azodicarbonamide. In force since 20 January 2009
@EUCommission "Because it's also in your yoga mat" is not a valid reason to ban Azodicarbonamide from food. Telling people the real reasons serves everyone; bulshit equivalencies based on naturalistic fallacies & supported by AI slop serve no one.
