A tiny Bonfire feature that we’ve grown quite fond of 🌱

Instance admins can define their own set of default avatars, which are randomly assigned to people who haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet.

It sounds like a very small thing and technically, it is.

But after experimenting with it on the Jacobin community, we noticed how much these little details can contribute to giving an instance its own visual identity and fostering a sense of belonging to a shared digital place.

Not every feature that shapes a community needs to be big. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of tiny avatars 😊

Read more about our work with Jacobin in our case study: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

@bunnyhero mastodon does this all the time they're really big on completely modifying post formatting on the backend without announcing it too

Phone Bad Book Good - Surface Level

#phone_bad_book_good #unix_surrealism #mobilek #twitter #x

@dada
Va manquer le pain en fait

"File upload not allowed with quotes"

why not??? #mastodon

When the team at Microsoft decided to call their text editor Visual Studio which bit of it did they suppose was especially ‘visual’?

Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade

Biology is coming to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, even as reliable biomarkers remain rare.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/psychiatrys-diagnostic-bible-is-finally-getting-a-biological-upgrade/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

i wish the connections i make from doing the work were considered valid https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/113680457433333172

@informapirata @informatica questi cani fanno un dump di tutto il corpus di internet per i loro LLM, senza conseguenze, ma se provi a fare un client dei contenuti, senza alcuna appropriazione, scatenano i legali. @DataKnightmare lo diceva...

Most folks don’t quite have a handle on how “luminance” was derived, nor how it fits into the much larger picture, no pun intended.

Let’s do a bit of a dive into what “luminance” is, how we can experience first hand, and how it relates to the larger context.

So just what *is* luminance?

never is now! huge congrats @wffl!
https://blog.ihatereality.space/0C-never-type/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jM4cnEVrLc

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/21/there-is-no-best-interface/

I would rather have 1 presentable, well designed interface than 7 half-assed ones, even if the one does not fully follow my vision.

https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/

Use claude, hack all your devices.

"this is incredible for interoperability and fixing things that don’t work how we want them to. Hardware is almost universally “open” for tinkering at this point with just a couple hours of mostly hands-off machine-driven labor each, and I look forward to a near future where I can add features to my webcam firmware as easily as I can to software that runs on my Linux machine itself.”

Next time you're bored; this might be a good inspiration for some fun hacking your own hardware. Kind of amazing that standard safaguards aren't doing more here. https://getmona.app/rich_text/764588808662

This is both brilliant and absolutely cursed: https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database

This is a fun clock: the hours, minutes and seconds marks are on circles of increasing radius in the hyperbolic plane, and there's only one hand. You can find the different markings by moving around the plane.

https://jpivarski.github.io/hyperbolic-map/clock.html

gotta say, all this vindication is delicious to me

If up the stairs you wish to be, then you must solve my riddles three.

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@volkskrant/117161830201789095

Soms ben je murwgebeukt vanwege de volslagen machteloze kutsituatie in gaza, en komt het ridicule villaingedrag niet meer binnen.
En dan vinden ze een nieuwe invalshoek.

@Norore@social.zdx.fr Alors toi et le « je fais passer les autres avant moi y compris sur des trucs avec un taux de probabilité de ε », va falloir bosser ça un peu hein 😅