Who are your favorite queer people that have had impacts on computers/tech throughout history to modern day? programmers, activists, engineers, researchers, etc.

"Flock cameras are just one part of a vast ecosystem," @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver warned his audience last night. "Check out resources like the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, which catalogs each of the technologies used in your area." www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

Friends, @pixeline.be has created the latest best way to show off how versatile Atmosphere accounts are. See your whole repo in a grand perspective view. ITS AWESOME. pixeline.be/pds-grandper...

pixeline.be

got a new thermal receipt printer? don't know what to do with it? try printing a live feed of the atproto firehose! you certainly won't regret printing a live feed of the atproto firehose

Happy Friday! I've been building towards an "Atmosphere OS", where my atproto account is the identity layer on a real phone. I wrote a little bit about it here:

On an Atmosphere OS

What if an Atmosphere account could handle email, groupware, and device-level identity without putting Google or Apple at the center?

scott.leaflet.pub

my c64 Ultimate came in today and I'm about to make so much c64 slop

finally, the Democratic party has a plan.

it's called ICANN not ICANNT! (just contributed $20)

Scan@scanash.com · last wk.

If you would like to help us become ICANN accredited (basically impossible), you can donate anything you can opencollective.com/padding/proj...

roads.cee.wtf draw a line and see what US road most matches your line

lol I'm curious how many cancellations they've gotten in the last month

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. (1/2)

Linus Torvalds is putting his foot down, and being reasonable! lore.kernel.org/linux-media/...

who else pulling up??

ATProto Boston@atproto.boston · 3w ago

SURPRISE EVENT. Boston is back for round 2 in July with a full on hosted Meetup. Talks, pizza, DJ, mingling. The whole deal. RSVP and let us know if you'd like to present!

i shouldn't be nerding out over this but man standard.site is so fucking cool.

David@david.yapfest.club · 2mo ago

At some point I would like to create a GUI option for people who hate fun (jk so it’s easier to preserve author intent for formatting), but I wanted to share what I had so far. I’d love it if people checked it out and provided feedback! github.com/koalabuttz/s...

I don't understand why machine translated content needs to be disabled? If something is low quality and machine translated, it will have bad reviews and be trashed. If it is machine translated and high quality, then it will be reviewed well and praised.

Romhack.ing@romhack.ing · 2mo ago

After hearing feedback, we disabled downloads for machine translated content. Downloads are available upon request for those wanting to use these patches as bases for a fully human-done script. This was the primary motivator of serving this content, and it is not our intent to go into AI discourse

Anyway, Wendy Carlos is still alive and that's wonderful 💜

I cancelled my Claude subscription today, citing unstable availability of Fable and excessive false positive cyber use restrictions. I like Fable, but I'm putting my money where my mouth is!

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.

tfw u make ur first pckt blog post

PDS Operator it's a self hosted dashboard for your PDS. watches labelers and dms you when an account gets flagged. accounts, takedowns, pwd resets, invites, relay status, passkey sign-in, audit log, setup wizard with a qr code. deploy in minutes. tangled.org/brookie.blog...

So after 14 months(?) of work and a lot of frustration barely knowing what i was doing i think i made someting special (!) presenting: a Wine fork for Ableton Live 12 on Linux stable pixel perfect vst support 1st class gnome citizen device hotwire support low latency audio tell ur friends 🥹🥹

tfw you have 4 tabs doing dynamic workflows at the same time and you accidentally exit the terminal

Angry-cat Angry-cat-zoom

Alt: camera zooming into a chubby cat sitting at a laptop giving the craziest angry side eye. the image gets more distorted as it zooms closer

static.klipy.com

Boston atproto meetup this coming Thursday at the Emerson UnCommon Corner! Come hang and talk atproto with cool people!

July Meetup @ UnCommon Corner

Monthly atproto meetup! Come join us at the Emerson UnCommon Corner, right next to the Boylston MBTA station at Boylston and Tremont St.

atmo.rsvp

opus: now is a good stopping point - this is a high-leverage commit for you to review me, absolutely fucking clueless, has been eating chocolate dipped pretzels for the last half hour: LGTM 👍

I love safeguards

this post is a reminder that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) is the enemy, not digital-only content we can scrape and back up CDNs and decryption keys! we can fight the restrictions imposed upon us, and this is by no means a battle we are losing. not giving up to doomerism that easily bucko

I'm not a physical media worshipper but given how horrific closed digital platforms are, this is pretty undeniably anti-consumer.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · last mo.

Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

it's cool that sonnet 5 released, but I wish I had a reason to use it - it just doesn't make sense for security work 😔

@middleearth.quest there goes my hopes and dreams

got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...