@davidgerard are you running some kind of proof-of-work javascript like i'm seeing everyone do these days? i've been really curious if that actually impacts bot traffic at all but don't have access to anything popular enough to have a firsthand account

🤔 no longer funded are #Shipyard who...

"...are the core maintainers of #IPFS, #libp2p, and other foundational open-source #web3
primitives."

Seems like a big deal. They're shutting down their work on a lot of this #p2p infrastructure. #FOSS

https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/

@paulehoffman must be!

He thought he'd invade Canada
He thought that he was tough

You’ll never believe what happened next!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7jlFZhprU4

#canada

Chair of the CA Senate Committee on Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection @senatorcabaldon.bsky.social speaks in June on A.B. 1709, the proposed social media ban for youth under 16 that threatens the privacy and First Amendment rights of all Californians.

@stefan ¡viva Canadá! 🇨🇦🇲🇽

Emacs 31.1 is out! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-08/msg00760.html

Nice write-up: https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-31-around-the-corner (yes, it's for 31 but still good.)

#emacs #emacs31

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
-Bertrand Russell
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/02/28/fools-muzzle/

@stux I'm surprised there's even a box. We call that shit "vaporware" in IT.

“That’ll be 10 billion please”

I support I should feel sorry, but as someone who has repeatedly warned #nonprofits (& media outlets) that I've worked about their over-rerliance on #bigtech platforms, I find it hard to really be so sympathetic.

Also - how can it be that I, an individual, have a most robust data backup and self-hosting system than so many entire non-profit organizations?

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

@irina @gutenberg_org I mean, to be fair the Bible is definitely not safe for kids to read unsupervised

@xenophora just had to check what country you were in, if it had been the UK I was wondering if it was the same group I have this problem with 😂

US may agree to let Apple use Chinese memory, the folding iPhone has already launched in your head, and the 20th anniversary iPhone will be like a rounder, thinner iPhone Air. And much more...
https://thecorenews.substack.com/p/the-core-apple-tldr-august-24?r=5l3lg&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=news

@christianselig

Don't Care how thin it is. Care whether it's repairable.

@pallenberg
Hast du dir mal die Konkurrenz angeschaut? Wie gut die funktionieren? Das meine ich jetzt ohne Kritik und Vorwurf. Ich finde das Konzept kommt viel zu kurz.
Wenn man mal nach Italien schaut gibt es dort wohl einen Produzenten der das optisch als Dachziegel verkauft.
Wenn jetzt Tesla sagt das sich das nicht lohnt, aber in Wahrheit sehr gut funktioniert dann ist das ja schon fast ein Marktmissbrauch...

With agentic AI’s rapid infiltration into science, researchers need to develop AI use policies and practices, writes Nicolas Schuck.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-intelligence/how-when-and-why-to-use-agentic-ai-in-our-neuroscience-labs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20260824-perspectives-ai-how-when-and-why-use-agentic-ai

@sebsauvage Rare support où je vais pas militer contre la pub pour le coup ;-)

The cookout thing this weekend was a pleasant surprise.

Some of the regulars from the cafe invited us, said it was a "potluck" with "some friends" at his "parent's place."

It was, in fact, a neighborhood/family/community picnic that has run annually for more than 70 years in a clearing on the farmland between his parent's and his grandparents, in front of the third or fourth oldest standing building in the county.

It was mostly neighbors from around that area, and friends of the parents and grandparents, with a couple of folks our age in the mix who had clearly been invited by the kids (all mid 30s, so not at all kids.)

It was a pot luck, ostensibly, and most people brought a prepared dish, but it was also a cookout and we made paella on a big open flame in what were apparently 125+ year old cast iron pans.

It was nice to be included in this decades old tradition. It was neat to meet some of the folks who have been a part of this community for most of the time the community has existed, and to be kind of informally recognized as part of the new guard.

I'm genuinely scared Mark Carney's speeches will be studied in rhetoric and political science classes but without the context of his actions as Prime Minister of Canada. We will fail to see them as tactical: distractions from what he's DOING.

#CanPol #politics #MarkCarney #LiberalPartyOfCanada #LPC