My list of package manager related academic papers is now up to 209!
nesbitt.io/2025/11/13/package-…
A collection of academic research papers on package management systems, dependency resolution, supply chain security, and software ecosystems.Andrew Nesbitt
"A dildo rolled across the pavement like a wounded soldier while tear gas fogged the street. Someone picked one up and held it aloft like a freedom torch while coughing their lungs out." A must read.
closertotheedge.net/p/the-dild…
The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.Closer to the Edge (CLOSER TO THE EDGE)
Improving #curl -J
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/27…
We introduced curl's -J option, also known as --remote-header-name back in February 2010. A decent amount of years ago.daniel.haxx.se
hello. in my mastodon & sharkey instances, i can extend the range of hashtagged posts available from other servers by also following several @relay.fedi.buzz tags, eg
@tag-aur@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-arch@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-archlinux@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-distrobox@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-firefoxnightly@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-friendicahelp@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-gnucash@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-kmymoney@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-lesbian@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-linuxwomen@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-montypython@relay.fedi.buzz am i doing something wrong? is there a way to make them work pls? 🤔🤷♀️
relay.fedi.buzz works with Friendica as well. Since this is a relay server, the admin has to follow these accounts from the command line: bin/console relay add .....
@Michael 🇺🇦 oh wow, that's great news, thx. 🤗 [albeit also somewhat inconvenient in that any time i wish to add any new relay.fedi.buzz accounts i have to involve my instance-admin, rather than simply do it myself like in my sharkey & masto accounts]
i have three remaining #friendica accounts, so here's a question to each of
- @Melissa BearTrix #farcebookspace
- @Raroun #opensocialspace
- @Tuxi ⁂ #anonsysnet
pls would you each be kind enough to apply Michael's advice, which if i understand correctly, means:
bin/console relay add tag-aur@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-arch@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-archlinux@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-distrobox@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-firefoxnightly@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-friendicahelp@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-gnucash@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-kmymoney@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-lesbian@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-linuxwomen@relay.fedi.buzz
bin/console relay add tag-montypython@relay.fedi.buzz
am I able to do this, as I have a manged hosted instance {farcebook.space} ?
Hugz & xXx
@Melissa BearTrix ah, right, well i dunno, but maybe not. if not, that would turn out to be a real bummer, especially if the other two admins are willing & able to do it. it would be an important consideration for me in my endless agonising about which instance to use as my most comfy "daily" one.
btw, assuming you don't have access, it would be a perfect, albeit unhappy, illustration of my earlier concern:
somewhat inconvenient in that any time i wish to add any new relay.fedi.buzz accounts i have to involve my instance-admin, rather than simply do it myself like in my sharkey & masto accounts
🤔🤷♀️
This guy was great. RIP.
Sly Dunbar, legendary reggae drummer who anchored tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan, dies at 73
For FOSDEM first-timers, it's good to wear the shoes that work best for a lot of standing and walking and can handle rain and some puddles (depending on the weather). These might not be the best looking shoes you have (or they might be) it just needs to be something that once you put on you won't have to think about until you take them off, which will probably be hours and hours later. I am bringing two pairs with very different weights and support styles to switch between.
Tonight...it almost didn't happen, but the Digital Domain with @nick and Bob is also known as the 'Bring on the Snow' show! How was Snowpocalypse 2026 for you?
Also, predicting the grammies and listener submissions that fall into the category of WTF?
7 PM EST tonight!
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So. EV is on the horizon. Looking at EV chargers... Immediately, it is surprising to me how many CURSED things the manufacturers suggest doing.
Take this - Running EV Ultra cable (3 x 6mm + a 4 twisted pair data cable inside one armoured jacket)? Use a pair for your CT connection and two pairs for Fast Ethernet!
Ok so I made this remix in Ableton over the weekend. Felt really good to just work on music for the fun of it again after taking a break for quite a while. Love this track by Charley and wanted to see what I could do with it. Link to original on Youtube: youtu.be/PSPiBLN9sv8?si=BpL_Ce…
Hope you like, I put some more info about the track in alt text, let me know how I can improve this because I'm honestly not sure how to describe audio very well.
Stream or download “Timebomb” by Charley: https://charley.lnk.to/TimebombIDFollow Charley: https://Charley.lnk.to/FollowIDDirector: Alexander LeewayStarring:...YouTube
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Canadian business idea. And it will be hard:
Email hosting in Canada.
- Obstacles: cost and know how
- People that don't want to pay for email.
- The internet monopolies that have worked hard on killing email (US based), and dump the market.
- Spammers that exist to ruin everything.
- Unfair competition from the Government: subsidizing foreign cartels instead of domestic solutions.
@driusan Big tech has made it awful.
And 100% of the people I have seen complaining about email bankrupcy are using Gmail. So.....
(G stands for Garbage)
RE: mastodon.social/@macrumors/115…
Nope, and I'm not interested in Apple's first gen AirTag either.
Not Interested in Apple's New AirTag? Snag the First Gen AirTag 4-Pack for Just $69.99 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/26/airtag-4-pack-for-just-69-99/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodonMacRumors.com (Mastodon)
Your reminder that if you didn't always know you were trans, that's okay! If you want to take HRT and get gender-affirming surgery-okay! You don't? That's perfectly okay too. Want to start HRT, then stop, then start again down the track? Also fine! Want to try out different names and pronouns? Do it! Clothes style changes with time, or doesn't fit gender norms? Experimentation is awesome! There is no one right way to be trans. This is *your* journey🏳️⚧️
Hello friends. I need work. A. to survive and fight, B. to make space for more art in the face of our dystopian present. I'd be amped if that work came in the form of music, sound design, sonic art and activism.
My wheelhouse is dark and dirty electronic for my personal work but I am an ex-pro who can remix damn near anything and can bend sound design to sonically fit cool projects. I have references. Some friends here on the feed might like to chime in to help my case?
I am available for donate what you can commissions for game assets, remixes, loops and beats, soundtracks, media tech support?. Keen to hear your ideas.
OR
Would you care to check out some dark dance, industrial, synthpop, powernoise, horror and dystopian soundtracks? This is a great time to donate anything at all, if you can, for my always free to download open catalogue [did you see my recent covers album release?] which thanks to your help is growing and hopefully much more this year.
OR
If you are in a decent place and might like to just send a few bones my way. This helps plan my year to not just be more productive and active with my own music outputs but also able to do collaborations, remixes for others, and my general backstage artist support and activism for the bard class.
more about my 2026 campaign is at
ko-fi.com/post/New-album-relea…
control.org/#solidarity
Whatever platform you can tolerate using, I'll add to the kofi progress bar. I know there are many pressing and apex issues pushing us all for time and resource, so I really appreciate anyone that wants to help us go down with a good angry cathartic stomp. I am lucky to have a secure home but as I've shared in the past, I cannot work in public spaces so I subsistence farm and universe willing, make noise with my friends.
I hope to see you at this years web concerts and in the feed.
Stomp in solidarity.
#getFediHired #commissionsOpen #commissions #solidarity #boostsWelcome #fediMusic #fediArt #gameDesign #faircamp #music #samples #ccmusic
industrial powernoise synth ebm techno dance horror dystopia media and artcontrol.org
Since my last project came to an untimely end, I find myself with more capacity and less work than expected.
So if you need a seasoned Ruby freelancer for *your* project [^1], or know someone who does, we should talk: alexandergraefe.de
Boosts welcome!
[^1]: ideally remote
Freelance Ruby developer with 25 years of experiencealexandergraefe.de
Hey, Fedi. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)
I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.
If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n
The Beaverton does good work, sometimes.
thebeaverton.com/2026/01/fbi-d…
WASHINGTON – Following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, FBI director Kash Patel has advised American citizens participating in anti-ICE demonstrations to leave their firearms at home, while reiterating how guns are still welcome and…Evan Klim (The Beaverton)
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you (checks notes) 11 updated and 2 added apps:
* Florid: an F-Droid Client "on UX steriods" 🛡️
* xrooster: an app for Dutch students whose schools use myx for their schedules 🛡️
RB Status: 811 apps (62.3%)
and 5 #Magisk modules updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Meshtastic has some serious design problems though, the entire network stops working once you get to about 25-30% usage of the airtime and that happens quickly because their implementation is too chatty.
Meshcore is better, but has similar problems. There are capacity issues in the Seattle area right now and they're discussing strategies to resolve it.
> at 20-25% you have a 50% chance of collision
This technology is neat but it's pretty useless if only a couple hundred people can use it "sometimes" in a major metro area.
It's basically like everyone is sharing an Ethernet hub. We're all in the same collision domain.
the only way to fix this is with new hardware where the radios can operate on multiple frequencies simultaneously. It just doesn't exist yet so nobody's built it to work that way.
and then there's the problem of tropospheric ducting that increases the range massively for a period of time and that causes you to get a ton of new collisions from far far away
Anthropic today introduced a new extension to MCP for its Claude AI that brings apps to the platform similar to what OpenAI did previously.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
(paywalled archive.is/Tyb6J)
And I'm sure they will still shutdown video games studios that have product that don't fit the moral code.
For years, the payments industry was aggressive about cutting off access to websites accused of containing child sexual abuse material. Elon Musk changed that.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Rant:
I take dance classes a few times a week. I always wear a KF94 mask. I know it isn’t perfect, but those are the ones that fit my face best and, at least from my experience so far, they seem to sufficiently protect me against germs from people who are pre- or a-symptomatic. However: I have the rule that if somebody tells me that they are sick, I leave. Today was such a day. I arrived, talked to someone, and a few minutes into the conversation they volunteered that they are sick, so I got dressed and left again.
I know there’s worse things in the world, but I’m still annoyed. Especially because of the attitude that I get when I explain this. People tell me that I don’t have to apologise for my behaviour. I mean… I wasn’t planning to. So I just say nothing and leave, but it feels really shitty.
I know that people also censor any photos and videos taken at events. As in: if I’m in it, they don’t upload them, because I don’t look “gezellig” enough. I don’t mind that pics and vids of me aren’t shared publicly, but the reason pisses me off.
ouch.
the world is not going to be kind to the Hugo Bosses of this decade, is it?
Good.
1.25" hard enamel pins. Comes individually packaged with butterfly clasps.collabs.shop
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