The #EU is putting some money where their mouth is.
€1.48 million for pilot projects involving young people from different countries and backgrounds to development new European #SocialMedia platforms, focusing on user safety, mental health, privacy and ease of use. Building on #Fediverse or #ATProtocol

Deadline: 6 October.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/presentation-materials-call-proposals-youth-driven-social-media-design

#Mastodon #EuropeanUnion #Youth

Last week, Jim Huang Chen wrapped up his internship with the FreeBSD Foundation!

We’re grateful for Jim’s contributions and the curiosity and persistence he brought to his work throughout the summer.

Read our intern spotlight to learn more about Jim’s projects, his experience with the FreeBSD community, and his advice for students interested in contributing to open source:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-intern-jim-huang-chen-on-raspberry-pi-support-and-open-source/

#OpenSource #RaspberryPi #SoftwareEngineering #Internship

This morning, 6:46 a.m.

#photography

Grateful for #TomGauld, an erudite cartoonist (and for the IRL scientist who share this with me) #NewScientist #Grammar #humor

@mimimaton @Looping @gaelle

@caseyliss Nice, thank you! ☺️

whereas Hackers portrays Ken Williams as the main toxic force at work, who's ego and greed and lust for power began considerably before VCs entered the picture, and who's general personality was kind of predatory and gross even aside from the money

Oh ben voyez donc : Après avoir prétendu que leurs IAs avaient attaqué d'autres IAs, les sociétés d'IAs disent qu'il faut absolument investir dans la cyberdéfense... grâce à leur IAs.
QUEL HASARD, VRAIMENT.
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/08/27/cyberattaques-amplifiees-par-l-ia-openai-anthropic-google-et-plus-de-100-entreprises-jugent-necessaire-une-reponse-mondiale_6758503_4408996.html

Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?

I share this information for no reason at all.

Once again, I find myself begging FOSS folks to recognize that open source is, by construction, a political movement. The onus is thus on us to make sure that our politics are in keeping with our actual values.

We cannot, especially during a global resurgence of fascism, act like it's possible to be apolitical.

Federico's latest software project is a power user command line tool for Apple Notes called NotesCTL and it's available as a preview beta for Club MacStories+ and Premier members. It's wild what you can do with this tool.

Learn more and sign up for the Club on MacStories here: https://www.macstories.net/news/notesctl-a-club-macstories-preview-of-federicos-advanced-apple-notes-cli-tool/

note to self: don't mix up "errata" and "erotica" in client meetings

Sad that the successor project to Vim — a project which loudly encouraged its users to donate to a charity to help AIDS victims in Uganda — has become an advocate for white supremacy and ethnic cleansing. Just including the DHH endorsement could have been a mistake, but this seems quite explicit https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/501

Lake Dontario

I'm trying to LLM-proof an Operating Systems coursework task where students have to complete small modifications to a teaching operating system written in C++. They run it on QEMU on a shared server.

Anyone have recipes that might transfer? Or is this a hopeless task?

I am hoping the QEMU + shared server setup embeds an opportunity, i.e. to have the students answer questions that an LLM could not (for lack of access to the server). But I don't have clear ideas for how to harness that yet.

Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Attempt to Impose Unlawful Conditions on Title X Family Planning Funds https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-files-lawsuit-challenging-trump-administration%E2%80%99s-1

M6 Mac mini: Three things Apple didn’t highlight in the announcement https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/27/m6-mac-mini-three-things-apple-didnt-highlight-in-the-announcement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Note that an eavesdropper C knows G, alpha, alphaa and alphab, and his task is to use this information to reconstruct alphaab. This problem is commonly referred to as the Diffie-Hellman problem.

[narrator voice] "the humble discrete log problem would soon become an exponentially big diffie-hellman problem for the security state..."

altho.. i did not realize until yesterday, this was also part of her legacy:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/japans-most-famous-avant-garde-artist-banned-us-from-her-studio/

https://artreview.com/old-racist-comments-by-yayoi-kusama-resurface-on-exhibition-eve/