Mastodon admins - I've popped a couple of feature requests in for mail domain and IP geolocation checking for account moderation. Both would need to be opt-in as third party services would be needed, but they'd make signup moderation a lot easier! Add a +1 or a comment if they sound useful (or […]

RE: https://hoosier.social/@brian/117288002044677046 This is genius, just done it on this server. Should cut down the current admin from this latest stupid spamwave.

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#MastoAdmin - our instance is struggling with the Automated protocol deliverability probe" spam situation just like everyone else. I started experimenting with the Moderation -> Username rules page. I added bp0, bp1, bp2, etc with “Contains” as the method of […] [Original post on hoosier.social]

#MastodonMeUkMeta Search hasn't been working recently, but now with help from @beasts we've worked out why and fixed it. It's reindexing now, so it should be better in a few hours. Apologies for the inconvenience!

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With the Rails 8.2 release imminent, real work is about to ramp up on @mosscap, the fork we've been laying the groundwork for. If you want to help reduce the impact of the "weird guys" on Rails, Ruby and OSS in general, we need your help! This is ESPECIALLY true if you're a member of a […]

I miss the Nicole the Fediverse Chick, at least she wanted to connect, these days the robots just want to automatically probe your protocol delivery. #ModLife

🎉 Manyfold v0.150.0 is out, with a load of security fixes; if you're running a public server, you'll want to update! There's also support for the modern Prusa printer API. 🗞️ Full release notes: https://manyfold.app/news/2026/09/22/release-v0-150-0.html 🌍️️️️️️ Join a public server […]

Fedipub v0.10.0 is out, with support for RFC9421 message signatures, so now your Rails ActivityPubapps can be more secure - and no code changes required! https://fedipub.dev/2026/09/22/rfc-9421-in-fedipub/

the cruffatin liveth

Think I'm going to institute a new policy on the Manyfold codebase - anyone (or more likely any*thing*) explicitly asking for a CVE ID to be issued on a security report is going to get banned from the repo.

I'll automate your protocol deliverability probe right into the fucking sea, my son

Woken up last night at 3am by *something* making a hideous noise outside my window, like a lion throwing up or something. Absolutely no sign of anything though. Only evidence is the fact that I'm *shattered* this morning and can hardly see straight.

Oh, YES. Been meaning to do this for years, and finally found which old box the disks were in.

Got my new shirt ready for all the AI meet-ups that I don’t go to.

Excellent point here - LLMs are not becoming more intelligent than us by actually improving, they're just doing it by making us stupider 😆 https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.html

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I'm interested in parallels; has any industry ever marketed itself before by causing a scare and saying "won't someone please stop us"?

Appropriately, I am both Justified *and* Ancient #6music #TShirtDay

Debugging HTTP signatures was the most hateful part of my initial ActivityPub work, and now I've thrown myself in it again with RFC9421. Why did I start this?

@aintnorulesays do not be on fire.

Dunno why @evan is so obsessed with fediverse apps implementing RFC2941, who needs telnet authentication these days? https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2941.html

"approximately spherical chicken with unit vector legs" There's still some good stuff to be found on Stack Exchange... https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/875982/would-a-bird-get-fried-if-it-stood-on-a-microwave-frequency-power-line

I was inspired by whatever the latest round of AI bullshit is to add a new shirt to #HTTPShirts... https://sellshirts.com/product/23563

I can’t help but be gratified at all the pushback DHH and his fash buddies are getting over Omarchy. I don’t know if it goes beyond the Fediverse (and don’t really care) but I’m glad that other people are joining the fight, even if the Rails team still don’t give a shit.

Decided to make a dedicated page for this. https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/

STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

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Crap, the tilt limiter cam on my ancient Aeron chair has broken, and I've not been able to find an existing design for a printable replacement. Might have to finally learn @freecad, although it'll be difficult in my very *very* reclined position.

TIL that the UK PSTN is being fully turned off in January! I assume BT are going to make a killing selling off all the copper. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-transition-from-analogue-to-digital-landlines

UK transition from analogue to digital landlines

What the retirement of analogue phone lines, also known as the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), means for you.

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But will I be able to follow `draft-cavage-http-signatures-12` if I haven't seen the previous 11 movies?

"If I'd had more time I'd have written less code" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

Someone taking your non-AI-using open source project and (a) vibecoding a load of additions to it in their own fork while also (b) vibecoding a "clean" equivalent is *incredibly fucking depressing*.

@evan RFC9421 update for you - I'm working on it in @fedipub at https://gitlab.com/fedipub/fedipub/-/merge_requests/125. If you want to update the support matrix, add Fedipub and change Manyfold to "via Fedipub" or something. Hopeing to get it done this week.

Draft: Implement proper RFC9421 signatures, with draft-cavage-12 double-knocking fallback (!125) · Merge requests · Fedipub / Fedipub · GitLab

This MR implements proper RFC9421 signatures for all outgoing requests, and verification for incoming requests. See https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-http-signature/RFC9421 and

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