Haven't been paying too much attention to the WordPress stuff ever since WP Engine got the injunction on Matt to stop his crusade. Of course, Matt has been salty and is now claiming the lawsuits will kill WordPress.

Remember, WordPress is Matt and Matt is WordPress, but it doesn't have to be this way. Perhaps he should step down and give WordPress (and WordPress.org) to the WordPress Foundation like Mastodon recently did and let the community maintain it.

As I say before, Matt Mullenweg needs to go away, he is the one that is killing WordPress

searchenginejournal.com/mullen…

#wordpress

Mullenweg Says Lawsuits Could End WordPress

WordPress co-founder says lawsuits may last for years and end with the closure of WordPress

^{Roger Montti (Search Engine Journal)}

While we're hanging out and I'm here to chat about whatever you want... check out this fun conversation @pluralistic and I had about software right to repair, and a variety of other related things. I had a ball, thanks Cory!

videos.trom.tf/w/q1AAL629GYMFt…

Fedi link for more formal promotion:

social.sfconservancy.org/objec…

And our number is now $19,198...

Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)

SFC Executive Directory @karen recently sat down with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic to talk about software right to repair, the utility and history of DMCA exemptions, and all kinds of things related ...

^{social.sfconservancy.org}

so we had a head of police who accidentally triggered a rocket launcher in his office, very narrowly avoiding blowing up the entire building, and now this.

bark.lgbt/@rail_/1138339017468…

rail [see pinned posts]

2025-01-15 18:58:14

Yes, it actually happened

Context: politico.eu/article/poland-gen…

Polish general fired after missing anti-tank mines were found in IKEA

The mishap only came to light when the military was called to ask when they would collect their mines from an IKEA warehouse.

^{Ketrin Jochecová (POLITICO)}

Yes, it actually happened

Context: politico.eu/article/poland-gen…

Recently I had the incredibly good fortune to read a prerelease copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster by @charliejane.

This book hits hard, and is full of flawed but loveable characters working to navigate relationships, grief, and a world (our world) that makes just existing as who you are incredibly difficult. I can't imagine a better book for the times we find ourselves in.

There's magic, community, love and danger here. No book in recent memory has pulled me in and not let go like this one. It'll be out in August. I already put in my preorder and can't wait because I want to dive back in to spend more time with these characters!

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…

greenapplebooks.com/list/signe…

Book details - Macmillan Publishers

In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. A young witch teaches he...

^Macmillan

❝ I needed to work out what was going on, and how a person I had as a friend had this other part to his life that was for me new and rotten information, and also there was the rest of my life to deal with, which is not insignificant. ❞
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/01/15…

so, am aware of the awfulness about Neil Gaiman and think this post by John @scalzi is a great example of how friends, who didn’t know, need to process the grief of losing a friend because of their revealed awfulness… 🧵

Taking Leave

If you want to know when I pretty much drew a line though my friendship with Neil Gaiman, it was when Neil acknowledged that he made moves on his early-20s nanny on her first day of employment. Thi…

^Whatever

Cool project: "Nepenthes" is a tarpit to catch (AI) web crawlers.

"It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse."

zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

“Should accordions auto-close sections?”
ashleemboyer.com/blog/should-a…

An ‘accordion’, by definition, forces a collapse. If you don’t want auto-collapse then build a disclosure widget.

That said, to answer the post question, It Depends™.

I see another post about naming things in my future.

Should accordions auto-close sections? | Ashlee M Boyer

Only if you want them to be harder to use.

^{ashleemboyer.com}

reform

#unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild #comic #reform #mnt

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Tammy Duckworth rips out Pete Hegseth’s eyes and pisses in his dead skull youtube.com/watch?v=-FTuT8CGxK…

WATCH: 'You're not qualified,' Duckworth tells Hegseth in confirmation questioning

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth during his Tuesday confirmation hearing that she did not believe he was quali...

^YouTube

Made this disco track in Ableton last night. I wanted to try making something exclusively using samples, but also edit them to make them unique to me. I think it turned out sounding great, and Ableton made chopping and resequencing parts extremely easy and fun. Sorry no alt text for this one, for some reason I'm not able to enter it on the web, so I'll put it here.

A disco track in F Major with punchy drums and heavily processed samples.

Dnes jsem zjistil spoustu veci.

🤷 Udelat kolecko ze ctverecku je v realu tezsi nez v Blenderu.
🚗 V Pribrami opravdu nemaji radi chodce. Jako fakt.
☕ A taky tam maj blby kafe. Hipsterske jidlo vyborne (mozna jsme meli hlad).

Vylet za zazitkovym kovanim doporucujeme vsema deseti.

#vylet #prace #zazitky #pribram

thank you Jonah, for bringing to our attention the latest from @protonprivacy CEO, Andy Yen.
mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/…

was already worried about the company going with a cryptobro as CEO, but this very public Cheetohlini bootlicking seals their fate.

no tech CEO should sing the praises of a rapist propped up by fascists with a 900+ manual on how to turn USA into a criminal cartel hellbent in consolidating fascism worldwide.

i need an EU company not ran by fascists. where to Toto?

I'm disappointed to see @protonprivacy co-founder and CEO Andy Yen shortsightedly praising the incoming US administration for “standing up for the little guys”.

That said, I am glad that Proton AG's primary shareholder is now a Swiss non-profit foundation, which means the Swiss Confederation and Geneva can intervene if the foundation improperly moves away from its statutory purpose.

mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/…

Jonah Aragon (@jonah@neat.computer)

Attached: 1 image Hugely disappointing to see Andy Yen (Proton CEO) tout the Republican Party as the ones “standing up for the little guys” 🤢

^Mastodon

Amazed to learn that Jethro Tull has a new album. Wow.

jethrotull.com/jethro-tull-ann…

claudio.uk/posts/epub-to-audio…

Gosh I wish we could use a modern text-to-voice model like this for the screen reader in #GNOME

🔗One of the most important things to understand about accessibility is how people use the web.

The HMRC accessibility team built these interactive personas that show what completing tasks is like on inaccessible services personas-prototype.herokuapp.c…

Upcoming events:

We'll give two talks at #FOSSDEM about #chatmail and #deltachat in the modern email devroom, on Saturday late afternoon: fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track…

The friday before, we'll probably also appear and talk about about #webxdc at the #Matrix barcamp.

Sunday morning, our friends from @n0iroh namely @flub, will give a talk about the P2P-iroh network architecture fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

Otherwise, you'll find us mostly around #OFFDEM for chatting and more ad-hoc sessions.

FOSDEM 2025 - Building Peer-to-Peer QUIC

^fosdem.org

Evening sun at Lissadell

#MeerMittwoch #Sunset #Atlantic #Sligo #Ireland

Kokoro-82M is very likely the best free TTS model at the moment, it's incredibly fast as well. Here's a demo.

Now, it's even easier to generate audio books with it, thanks to Audiblez.

hexgrad/Kokoro-82M · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

^{huggingface.co}