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This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD:
https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

Linux Magazine talked to us about how and why we build Bonfire.

What we want next is "not a bigger Bonfire, but a network of cooperatives covering the whole supply chain of a community's digital space", who "do it together" rather than leave you to "do it yourself".

Because "federation, we don't see it as just a technical thing. We see it as a social, economic, and political tool as well."

Link: Supporting the Social Web: How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms

Also happy to spread the love for @coopcloud@social.coop, @coquest@social.coop, @SocialCoop@social.coop and more, check out the links at the end of the article! Thanks to @horncologne@fosstodon.org for a lovely conversation, and @linuxmagazine@fosstodon.org for publishing it, in a piece that also features the great @cwebber@social.coop and @tsyesika@mastodon.nu from @spritely@social.coop.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #opensource #freesoftware #OpenCooperativeEcosystem #OpenScienceNetwork

The latest edition of Boxed News reports on the $6,000 bar-mat computer Microsoft is selling … then spends the rest of the piece repeatedly pitching you on the lowest-end computers we could find.

Thin clients? Chromeboxes? Yeah, we got that.

https://boxed.news/2026/10/09/nvidia-surface-rtx-spark-dev-box

Many years ago I used to work on a Cobol-based application that ran over an 80x25 green screen terminal. People running 30 or 40 users on a 486 PC running SCO Unix hooked up to a multi-port serial card.

We'd never have tolerated the amount of waiting between actions or screens that is now considered absolutely normal on web-based cloud-hosted applications.

Weird how things change.

🥸 iPhone users are flooding social media with complaints — Apple’s latest iOS move is adding persistent ‘ads’ that can’t be dismissed to users’ devices

｢ iOS users are seeing ‘ads’ for other Apple products on their iPhones
The banners promote services like iCloud+, Apple Music and AppleCare+
The messages often can’t be dismissed and stick around for weeks ｣

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/i-wish-apple-would-just-stop-that-crap-apple-has-added-persistent-ads-to-ios-and-its-driving-users-crazy

#apple #ios #privacy

There's no such thing as a rogue AI

It's literally just Sam Altman doing lies again

I am begging you, well mostly the journalists, to think just a little harder about it when he says to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain