We're excited to share the results from Mastodon's first #DiscoveryWeek! In case you missed it, earlier this year our Head of Design @imanijoy arranged a week of workshops and surveys to get to know you, learn about your needs and wants, and discover how you're using (and want to use) Mastodon […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@concretedog/117043609470432664 Consistently a great read, and made by a great human! 🚀

Wir wollen mit Dir das Internet retten! Nach einem heissen Aufbauhalbjahr sucht #SaveSocial einen TEAMPLAYER für die digitale Rebellion: eine*n Kommunikations- & Community-Expert*in. Alles weitere findest Du in unserer Stellenausschreibung […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@limebar/117027370556131798 Do. Not. Miss. #NHAMFest26 I 💝 the music and creatives community here on #fedi!

This year's #Matrix Workation is coming! An opportunity to work somewhere different, and also to hang out with like-minded folk from the Matrix ecosystem. Also, there's an overlap with #hackmas26 if you happen to have a ticket for that as well. Krems, Austria 🇦🇹 Aug. 22 - Sept. 13, 2026 (you […]

e563 with Michael, Michael and Andy - @GamesAtWork game, and a cornucopia of games: #Haex, #PathbindQuest, a physical #cockpit for #HalcyonDawn, Chris Pirillo’s #UFOgame from his #Arcade and a whole lot more! http://gamesatwork.biz/2026/08/03/e563-space-nerds-in-space/

RE: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/117013064413297085 Look how cool these shirts are! See you in Malmö? 😉

I put links to the two zines I made for #EMFCamp on my Kofi page, free downloads / CC usage. https://ko-fi.com/post/Zines-for-EMF-D5G0240L9B

Has anyone made a playlist of music made on #MNT hardware? If you know of any tracks specifically made on the Reform or Pocket Reform can you please share them with me?

alright, I know I said last week that Doomsday might be a superhero mess too far (and it still could be), but I saw Brand New Day and really enjoyed it. Yes it was somewhat continuity heavy / probably helped that I had a ton of context, but it was also a pretty good fun movie in general. YMMV […]

Hey everyone please sponsor @manyfold so that I can buy this extremely important LEGO set which is absolutely critical path for project completion no really honest it's true https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/the-x-files-21369 #SpendingPriorities

This seems very good. https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-for-communities/

Announcing Bonfire for communities: groups and tools to organise together

Groups and topics, community rules and decision-making, events, organisation profiles, federated comments, custom themes: built with the communities who needed them, ready to use as-is, or to shape into a flavour of your community's own.

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What do / have people done in relation to email account history etc for deceased persons? Has anyone yet built an OSS tool to download the Gmail archive for future use / archive searches? Both keen to close out a Google account, and loathe to do so as it is the key to so many things I might […]

I have two micro:bits (v1), a calliope mini (v1), and a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ to donate to any project that could make good use of these. Let me know!

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116940067151749214 This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise. https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org

James Smith 💾@floppy.org.uk · 3w ago

I am ashamed of the fact that I’m stuck on #Rails because of the sunk costs of what I’ve already built, as are *so many* other project like Mastodon. We cannot “just move”, the cost is enormous. The Rails core team seem utterly compromised and under his spell. Nobody will speak out. We need a […]

I put links to the two zines I made for #EMFCamp on my Kofi page, free downloads / CC usage. https://ko-fi.com/post/Zines-for-EMF-D5G0240L9B

e562 - Field Notes with Andy and Michael M - #EMFCamp recap, whole lot of #LEGO love, the #GameOfLife, a #Playdate #miniMMO, #AR assisted #murals with #sketchar.io and a whole lot more! http://gamesatwork.biz/2026/07/27/e562-field-notes/

So I learned of a remake of Cholo (BBC Micro game from the 1980s) via @felimwhiteley on @latenightlinux - assuming you grab the 2000s remake Windows app from archive.org, you drop in the files from ovine.net and then tinker around with Wine to stop it from running in a tiny corner of the screen […]

We had a nice @hackwimbledon meetup today, and helped a younger tech enthusiast to get Linux Mint installed on an older laptop - he was very excited!

Oh, Jack Dorsey has a new app thing? Well he can do what he likes - I have no interest in ever going anywhere near him or anything he created, again.

RE: https://social.coop/@Laura/116977029309929780 Thanks for the Society for Hopeful Technologists shout out, @Laura - fantastic to see you at EMF!

Laura James@laura.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

brief notes on #EMFCamp https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/07/electromagnetic-field-2026.html huge thanks to everyone who made it happen, especially orga

RE: https://autistics.life/@SecondUniverse/116977023116450299 This is not true - and not OK. I shall continue to refer to ethics as frequently as possible.

Incredibly frustrated. Ireland wants someone (from a list of specific professionals) to witness some signatures and photographs as being me. The professionals - bank managers! From two different banks! - are telling me they are “not allowed” to sign, by their employers. 🤬

Have you thought about your digital legacy? at #EMFCamp 2026 Recently I had the pleasure of talking at EMF Camp about machine readable wishes. The slides are shared from google docs https://cubicgarden.com/2026/07/21/have-you-thought-about-your-digital-legacy-at-emf-camp-2026/

Have you thought about your digital legacy? at EMF Camp 2026

Recently I had the pleasure of talking at EMF Camp about machine readable wishes. The slides are linked here. The proposal originally was a workshop but converted to a 20min talk in the main stage of EMF Camp at 10am. > Death is inevitable, yet our digital infrastructure remains woefully unprepared for it. While traditional “Letters of Wishes” provide a static roadmap for executors, they lack the agency to interact with our complex, data-driven lives. This workshop introduces the concept of the Machine-Readable Letter of Wishes: a framework for post-mortem autonomy. By applying a “If This, Then That” (IFTTT) logic to digital legacies, we will explore how to automate final wishes across various services, ensuring data is handled with human dignity and precision. The main reason for the workshop proposal is to hear the views of other people, which was great because in a separate tent in the sunshine; we had a 2 hour conversation about the machine readable wishes.

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Back home after #EMFCamp with the inevitable mixture of awe and wonder and happy community feelings, and a huge sense of loss and disconnection. More decompression needed!

this is depressing. Original title "The Linux kernel is falling apart" (yes, dear reader, I did indeed click). A small link offered me "clickbait shield". It rewrote the title. ("AI" feature, of course. daily.dev so I shouldn't be surprised?) Everything about […] [Original post on macaw.social]

I find myself debating the complexity of Avengers: Doomsday and wondering whether I can be bothered. I guess I'll see whether Spider-Man: Brand New Day disappoints me, first.

Day 2 of the (intentionally) slow trip back from #EMFCamp. Yesterday was family visits. Today some exploration of eg Shrewsbury and environs, and then a stopover near Bicester. Tomorrow is home, unload, return vehicle.

#EMFCamp memories and moments - someone attached three seashells inside one of the toilet cubicles at the north end of the site. 😂

Headed away from Eastnor and #EMFCamp 2026 - some family time for a couple of days before getting back to normal life later in the week. Lovely time. I did not post much or read much online because of the IRLs. I saw some folks, and I missed many others I know […] [Original post on macaw.social]