One of the greatest dangers posed by the recent censorship of A/I is that it could be just a test case for the US government to determine how easily it can isolate and silence privacy-oriented infrastructure beyond its borders. Anyone who works on or cares about digital infrastructure, privacy […]

# This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance. It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card. **It consumes just under 1W.** Its database […] [Original post on rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it]

the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

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"Now that infrastructure itself is being treated as evidence of terrorism, and solidarity is turning into “material support.” This isn't only an attack on A/I. It's a warning to anyone building servers, encrypted communications, independent publishing platforms and other infrastructure that […]

if everyone is responsible, then no one is if everybody is sick, then nobody is if everything is a crisis, then nothing is

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

people complain about aliexpress a lot, but i needed exactly four keycaps for the keyboard i'm using, and i ordered some, and within _less than a hour_ from me making the order the seller shipped it it's midnight in china right now

here's a question for fedi because statistically one of you has an idea (boosts welcome) increasingly often, my phone (fairphone 5) has been completely dropping all cellular signal, showing "No service - no SIM". when it gets like this, airplane mode won't fix it and Settings > Network and […]

you guys do realize that all these hallmarks of "AI" browsers/scrapers are also the same things that accessibility tools do, right? because both interact with a webpage as a big pile of text, not as a bunch of 2d images you can click on. but it's fine. we should be feeding deliberately fake […]

Well ouch.

Once every few weeks I get a personal email from someone asking questions about one of my #FOSS projects, and I love it! They are not asking for support or new releases or bugfixes, they ask about the code itself. Why it was written that way, or how it works. Real humans being curious, showing […]

Remember the CEO who fired all those people on Zoom? He got fired. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/lpwLLC3sAv

please make our dreams come true! we’re looking for a Graphic Design Associate. if you have strong opinions about fonts, questionable amounts of time spent nudging things 2px to the left, and a portfolio to prove it, we need to talk. apply, apply, apply?!: https://fossunited.org/jobs/9ioml02k5o

Coming soon to a feature phone near you! #Convo #KaiOS #NLnet

**📢 #GazaVerified archive changes** The number of campaigns in the initiative has grown over time, and donors have in some cases been stretched thin across multiple campaigns. This means that, unfortunately, there are many campaigns that are currently receiving $0/week. The situation has […]

A well-designed "share this image on the Fediverse" button would automatically fill its alt-text for you as well 💡 (A well-designed website would already have alt-text on all its images, so this enhancement could easily be automated)

Reposted now with an actually anonymous form Hi my friend needs an absurd amount of responses to this for an assignment so I'd appreciate if y'all filled it There's also a cryptpad version if that is preferred […]

So often I hear "I can't believe this is happening here. This isn't what the US is like" and it bugs me so much. I understand the sentiment, but it absolutely is what the US is like and saying that just denies reality. If you want to express a sentiment, say "This isn't how the US should be" […]

They claim to be making intelligence but they can't even make a secure sandbox environment lol

Yikes, it's today already! 😬

Any suggestions for a game that can be projected onto a screen and influenced by random people walking by texting commands (eg. through an #XMPP bot)?

Gravy!

What is the appropriate number of slides for a 45-minute talk? Please round to the nearest 1000 slides.

Can someone gift me this? It was co-invented by Claude (the real one, not the artifice) https://la-machine.fr/

A stopped clock can be right 12 times a day, if you don't paint number on your clock

#Conversations_im is now available for free on Google Play until August 18th. Whenever there is a conference with a strong #XMPP presence, I like to make the app available for free to make it easier for attendees to install the app and give XMPP a shot. I'm attending #FOSSY and #FrOSCon this […]

my husband started going on a rant about how people misunderstand what the International Criminal Court does and doesn't do; he said something like "for example, if I went and did a terrorism here in the Netherlands, I wouldn't end up in the Hague, I'd end up in..." and he realized his mistake […]

Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥 We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️ It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks […] [Original post on indieweb.social]