I still haven't solved my problem with @Libreoffice. Each time I try to open a document, there is a delay with a "waiting for printer" message appearing, which I have to cancel before the document will open. Looking online, it turns out it's been an issue for at least a couple of years. Something possible with printer or Windows settings? Can anyone walk me through a fix? (Pretty please)
And yes, I updated LibreOffice.
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Another curious #ActivityPub / #MastodonAPI issue.

A Mastodon server is sending me a DELETE message.

The delete is because a user has been deleted.

My server tries to validate the HTTP Signature.

My server looks up the deleted user's main-key.

The user has been deleted so the public key 404s.

My server never acknowledges the delete, so the other server keeps sending me the same request.

So… How do I validate the signature of a deleted user?

As I'm sipping my coffee here I notice a weird link at the bottom of Immich's site: "Cursed Knowledge"

This is incredible. It's like Hall of Fame bugs they encountered. More projects should do this.

immich.app/cursed-knowledge

Immich 2.0.0 is out which is now considered "Stable". I've been running it for 6 months and it's so good I paid for the fake license to support them at $100

They said in their release notes that this license key program has been wildly successful but I wish they were transparent about exactly how well this funding model is working. I'd like to see some real numbers.

immich.app

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In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/

This is standing ovation stuff by @sundress. Not a single word wasted, and so many quotable bits.

A threat model for #accessibility on the web: alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-th…

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Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your in-development software up to the real Fediverse.

I built this because I wanted ways to test in-progress fedi software for compatibility without actually making it live and breaking things.

asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/10…

Your Review: Project Xanadu - The Internet That Might Have Been
"...The original idea was to make a file for writers and scientists, much like the personal side of Bush's Memex, that would do the things such people need with the richness they would want. But there are so many possible specific functions that the mind reels. These uses and considerations become so complex that the only answer is a simple and generalized building-block structure, user-oriented and wholly general-purpose...."
astralcodexten.com/p/your-revi…

Release 25.10 is here!
The Eloquence IBMTTS Community Dictionaries just hit a new milestone with nearly 1,500 new and updated entries, and a major overhaul which resulted in the removal of 94 duplicates.
Entry stats:
• Abbreviations: 84.
• Special words/main: 1215.
• Roots: 62011.
Check it out: github.com/eigencrow/IBMTTSDic…

I know some folx are surprised to see David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) publicly sharing statements that mirror the rhetoric of white nationalism. I am not. The writing has been on the wall for years.

This is what Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo laid out so clearly: the myth of white male supremacy ensures that unremarkable white men can position themselves as thought leaders, innovators, or even DEI champions, while...

RE: infosec.exchange/@cheri_allian…

Morello is a modified quad-core Neoverse N1 with CHERI support. The UK Government funded a lot of the development and there are a few tens of them left over that don't yet have homes.

They look like real computers (ATX case, HDMI out). The under my desk runs CheriBSD (FreeBSD fork), KDE with its Wayland compositor and a bunch of userspace apps, with everything including the GPU drivers memory safe. It can also run AArch64 binaries, but that's less fun.

If you're doing interesting research that would benefit from CHERI or if you are looking to evaluate building products on CHERI systems, reach out to the CHERI Alliance.

CHERI RISC-V (the 'Y' base) is near to standardisation, so there should be RISC-V CHERI application cores available fairly soon, but the Neoverse N1 is a fairly advanced microarchitecture (designed for server chips) and it will probably take a while for RISC-V chips to equal it in performance. It was a fairly rushed conversion to CHERI, so has a few significant performance artefacts that won't be there in a production chip, but this is still probably the best opportunity to get a desktop CHERI system for at least the next year or two.

#CHERI #Morello

Interoperability doesn't happen by accident. Matrix is an open standard, but it's also capable of talking to other platforms.

Embark on an adventure with @halfy as he walks us through how bridges happened, at the Matrix Conference.

🎟️ Grab your tickets before we run out!
🗓️ October 15 to 18
🗺️ Kaleidoscoop, Strasbourg, France

conference.matrix.org/register

#LambdaMOO
(...guess it'll wait until *after* I announce that I discover some outstandingly stupid mistake, so... time to get this out of the way: )

I have now dropped LambdaMOO 1.9.0alpha

Should I make it to an actual ready-for-prime-time release, this will be the first since 1.8.1, roughly 25 years ago.

I'm looking for anyone *already* running a MOO instance of some sort (*) who needs a path forward (I figure for each of the 3 or 4 I know about there should be others I don't, which should add up to at least several)
to kick tires and try it on on your own platform
and maybe others that I can't do myself.

(*) and perhaps other folks who build unix software for fun, who are bored today

Details here:
wrog.net/moo/1.9.0

“A threat model for accessibility on the web”
alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-th…

A deep, well-researched & cited piece from @sundress detailing systemic failures down the web stack (standards bodies, browsers vendors, etc) which marginalize #accessibility and its voices — but with proposed solutions.

#a11y

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You pay, they profit, they leave a mess, you pay again. Repeat as necessary www.theenergymix.com/any-new-oil-... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

Any New Oil Pipeline Will Need...