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bug-bounty and hackerone, exposing silly, asking me, rate limiting, features, DNS and curl, #ifdefs
Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
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Hey @Bri, when I attempt to pull up the timeline of scheduled posts in #FastSM, I get this as an error.
Error in jdking92's Scheduled Posts: mastodon_status_to_universal() got an unexpected keyword argument 'scheduled_at'
Any idea what might be causing this? Also, would you consider adding a keystroke for the invisible interface to update profiles? Maybe win+shift+alt+p? Either that or control+win+shift+u could work.
I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".
Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.
Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-f….). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.
It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.
If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.
ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.
I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.
#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers
Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters
For a high-level introduction to data federation, as well as a comparison to other federated social protocols, check out the Bluesky blog.docs.bsky.app
never tried it, but I think it could be doable in pam.d config. If you put there something like:
auth required pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth required pam_fprintd.so
But it's something you'd have to investigate. As I said I never tried it myself. I use password for the first login and then fingerprints for unlocking the lockscreen.
For push notifications, we recommend #SunUp. The #Holos beta-14 version fixes an issue we had with the #UnifiedPush library. Remember to re-register if you're not receiving push notifications.
SunUp: unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…
Sunup - Android
We created Sunup as a quick and easy way to use UnifiedPush that doesn’t require signing up for an account. This quickstart guide will walk you through the steps to get it up and running on your Android device.UnifiedPush
Wow, my work was cited in a Chinese Marxist journal by Liu Yang (刘洋), a PhD candidate at Fudan/Frankfurt. His article uses my 'Copyfarleft' concept as a key part of his argument for "knowledge socialism."
"#ICE does not move like the gestapo, they move like slave patrols."
This is home grown terrorism..
Source: instagram.com/reel/DTb2VBJkUim…
I can't unsee this now. I can't unsee slaver behavior in #ICE tactics. It makes way more sense, the Gestapo were copying *them*.
#America #Slavery #History #ICE #HistoricalContext
Ashley B on Instagram: "People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that’s our history. Local
414K likes, 6,840 comments - ashleytheebarroness on January 12, 2026: "People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else.Instagram
A new native macOS client, a funded roadmap for Draupnir, and a Matrix meetup planned in Tokyo – that and lots more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2026/01/16/thi…
This Week in Matrix 2026-01-16
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Rote Hilfe: Kontenkündigung war rechtswidrig
Im Kampf um ihre Existenz hat die Rote Hilfe einen wichtigen Erfolg erzielt. Sanktionen eines »x-beliebigen Drittstaats« könnten kein Grund für eine Kontenkündigung sein, entschied das Göttinger Landgericht.nd-aktuell.de
Do you use D&D Beyond for your sessions and you hate how clunky and slow you would be with it with a screen reader? I've got something for you! I've started work on a browser extension called Enhance Ability (pun absolutely intended!) It does a lot to make the site more intuitive and bring your speed on par with a sited user who can just glance at information. Read the readme below here for a preliminary feature list. I've sent it for review on the firefox and chrome add-on stores, and I'll publish links whenever they're available. I'm happy to discuss or answer any questions here! If you like to sideload it or look at the code, or read for more information, visit on github! github.com/the-byte-bender/enh…
Or the releases for packages: github.com/the-byte-bender/enh…
GitHub - the-byte-bender/enhance-ability: A browser extension that improves screen reader accessibility on D&D Beyond.
A browser extension that improves screen reader accessibility on D&D Beyond. - the-byte-bender/enhance-abilityGitHub
Hello! I hope you're all doing well. Does anyone have any experience with either the JetKVM or the GL.Inet Comet units? If so, are they accessible for screen readers? I'm going to have to buy a KVM soon and am curious which one I should buy.
Please boost if you would. Thanks!
fellas, if your savior:
* can turn water into wine
* can make bread
* is risen
that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms
"The MetaVerse is the future and if you don't adopt it you're gonna be left behind"
mashable.com/article/meta-hori…
Remember Meta's creepy Horizon virtual office? It's being discontinued.
Wait, no more virtual sitting in a virtual chair, chatting with virtual people with a VR headset on, for hours? Bummer.Stan Schroeder (Mashable)
Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00
Sent dispute to bank/visa.
Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute.
Now, they've breached the state consumer protection act.
They're under threat of litigation if they don't return the money, which, is no idle threat.
Why would I go to these lengths over $44.00?
Because I'm SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of living in a #corporate dystopia and will drag the money out of them NO MATTER WHAT!!! Have fun paying your attorney's thousands of dollars over a $44.00 dispute because your corporate policy is to screw over your own clients to enrich your shareholders.
Good morning 😘
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For #RSS on #Android I just switched from Readrops to #CapyReader. It both is able to sync with #FreshRSS server, but Capy's UI better suits my needs.
Readrops looks fine, but it feels kind of wrong when using it. Especially in article listings. It seems like they use wrong UI components for the task.
Capy's UI feels less cluttered, more text focused. I better orient in the article titles. So far good work @_jocmp 👍️
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