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Well it seems I will be presenting @badgefed at #fosdem on the #socialwebfosdem track!

This was a long-shot and honestly it will make my logistics very difficult, the week before I will be travelling with my family to Mexico. So probably, will take the kiddo to the junior track!

20 mins of presentation but honestly I am looking forward to the networking. See you at #fosdem26 from the #PNW!

And make sure to attend and say hi if you are there, I will be giving you badges!

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FOSDEM 2026 - Decentralised Badges with BadgeFed: Implementing ActivityPub-based Credentials for Non Profits

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#fosdem #pnw #socialwebfosdem #fosdem26 @The BadgeFed Project

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Me hace gracia ver que por ejemplo Sumar han estado sosteniendo el gobierno estos años y ahora así de repente es lo peor, no tienen objetivos, etc ... pero descartan salir del gobierno

No obstante si el gobierno es una mierda ¿porque han aguantado tanto y siguen aguantando como socios?

Estoy empezando a pensar que lo mismo regreso a no votar como hice algunos años.

Luego esto se me pasa pero ... es que Sumar desde luego ilusionan poco. Básicamente los descarté cuando el veto a Irene Montero.

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I was chatting with a Black friend of Jamaican heritage. She was appalled that a Nigerian she'd met knew next to nothing about slavery.

It's Black history! she said.

It's *your* history, I explained.

For Africans that sad story ended when the ships left the shore. Our schools teach us about the impact of that devastation, not what happened on the other coast.

Black history is not one thing. It's not MLK.

It's also Songhai and Benin. Which they don't teach here

#BlackMastodon

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David Njoku

I'm not saying that the story of slavery is not important. Personally I've done my best to learn about it; mostly because I now live in a country shaped by it.

But there is so much human history. I have sympathy for people who have learned one bit of it, but not the other.

(Was thinking about this because I saw an exchange where someone was being upbraided for not knowing about American racism - even though they weren't American or Black.)

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All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply at isc.recruitee.com/o/stork-qa


Internet Systems Corporation - QA Engineer for Stork

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I've just pushed Tor integration in Libervia (first step of the NLnet metadata reduction and serverless grant).

nlnet.nl/project/ServerlessXMP…

This has been done thanks to the work of @meejah on `txtorcon` and of course of @torproject and the support of @nlnet and @NGIZero .

A thought for Lunar who is mentioned in the documentation of txtorcon (for doing the Debian package) and who passed away last year.

#tor #XMPP #Libervia #txtorcon #nlnet #ngi

Screenshot of the Libervia CLI frontend, showing the status of the Tor daemon, and the Tor circuit used to connect to the XMPP server. The first part says: Tor Daemon General data on Tor daemon. mode enabled_no_webrtc (Tor is enabled for all connections, WebRTC is disabled to avoid leaking IPs) version 0.4.8.21 uptime 1 hour, 58 minutes bytes read 1.38 Mio bytes written 1.23 Mio Then we can see the 3 relays used, their id, name, ip, country, relay flags, and a link to the corresponding https://metrics.torproject.org detail page.

NLnet; Serverless and Metadata Reduction for XMPP

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#xmpp #libervia #nlnet #Tor #ngi #txtorcon @The Tor Project @NGI Zero open source funding @meejah @NLnet

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🚫not asking for advice🚫
🚫no mens comments🚫

I'm going to try and stop watching short-form content online.

I gave up watching tiktok a number of months ago, and now it's time for Reels and YouTube Shorts to go as well.

I have a theory that they trigger the same areas of the brain that gambling lights up.. and it's not so much about the watching, but about swiping to see if you ✨win✨ by finding something fun. I noticed that I'd be watching something I was enjoying and just swipe anyways to see if the next clip was ✨better✨, which feels like classic gambling behaviours.

#addiction #gambling #tiktok #YouTube #tech #technology #SocialMedia

#technology #youtube #socialmedia #tech #tiktok #addiction #gambling
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Ugh! Well, figured out after many hours of learning and troubleshooting that I have yet another piece of equipment that doesn't do what I want even though it theoretically should! The whole point of me getting a USB Mixer was so that I could choose what analog inputs do and don't get routed over USB to the machine it's connected to. An Audio Interface such as my Evo will route everything or nothing, so that wasn't the ticket. turns out, though, that USB analog mixers do not do this, either and that is what this one is. What I apparently want is either a digital mixer or hybrid mixer with a routing matrix. So, guess I'll be taking a trip to Guitar Center with these two things when I get back from TN and see if I can sell them.

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Modular thingies are cool when they work right.

I just configured a new Ubiquiti wireless access point... well, actually an old one that was taken out of service last year when I wasn't home to fix broken things. It was easier to replace it than to walk someone through getting this one working again because of how it was mounted and such.

Anyway, adopted it to the controller, and devices automatically roamed to it. Then when I upgraded the firmware, those devices roamed back to where they were, then back again when it came back online. Nothing actually dropped for long enough to cause a noticeable problem.

Now I need to actually install this AP where it's meant to go, re-replacing the one it originally replaced. LOL!

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My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services

December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host

I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...

It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨

#selfhosting

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today I discovered that a whole stack of my personal files, including multiple books I had written and performances recorded, were no longer on my hard drive, because Windows had deleted them "to free up space" and only kept the copies on their onedrive server. That's not a backup. That's deleting my work without asking me. I'm switching to Linux.

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RE: crab.garden/@brainblasted/1157…

Unfortunately could not play Skyrim VR or No Man's Sky VR at all :(

Chris 🌱

2025-12-14 03:18:14

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Really impressed with my Bazzite VR experience today. Was able to play a few hours of Half Life: Alyx and Boneworks today :D The main issue I ran into (with both) is that Steam Link will cut out when you first launch the game when trying to pre-compile shaders. Sometimes this leads to Steam VR bugging out and requiring a reboot in order to reconnect. After the first launch the experience was completely seamless.

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RAM prices spiking

SSD prices going up

My reaction when HDDs aren't even safe

tweaktown.com/news/109352/oh-g…

Oh great: HDD prices surge to highest point in 2 years with demand from China and the US

HDD prices are now rising, with the highest-ever price increase over the last 2 years... joining the RAM and SSD crisis, as we step into 2026.
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Just a quick note for everyone who upgrades to Mona 7 on the mac. Once you install the Mona app from the mac appstore, you will find in your applications folder a mona app and a mona 2 app. the mona 2 app is the new Mona 7 app so once you have run the mona 2 app your settings will be synced from the older Mona app. Once you have purchased the Mona ultra upgrade the old Mona app can be removed from the mac and your dock and then you can rename Mona 2 to Mona and add it back to the dock and your good to go. Just wanted to pass this tip on to mac user’s.

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Had to run an errand today that involved navigating what I consider to be one of the worst intersections in the city - it's between two shopping areas and just slow and clogged and everyone is always grumpy.

Two people were standing OUT IN THE RAIN, making giant bubbles that would float into the intersection and interact with everyone. It was total magic.

Person standing on a corner in a busy retail development, holding up two sticks with rope between them, that have been dipped in bubble soap and create these massive floaty, rolly bubbles set free into the roadway, shiny iridescent blobs of joy.

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This is one of my many favorite artists. I wanna' be her when I grow up! #womenmusician #americana
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Brandi Carlile: Tiny Desk Concert

Ann Powers | December 3, 2025Brandi Carlile has a way of making any performance feel like a tête-à-tête, a deep emotional exchange between friends that just ...
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Ok fun fact that I found out a few weeks ago. All the way back in like 2007/8 when Logic Pro 8 was released, Apple included one of Brandi's songs (Late Morning Lullaby) as a project to demo what the software was capable of. They've been doing this for years, but I actually thought she was a relatively new artist and didn't know she'd been releasing stuff all the way back then. Also love Tiny Desk, great series with a really diverse range of artists.
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