gotosocial - Link to source

Weird tech mystery of the day.

I am running a Bookwyrm instance, which receives a post request to /inbox about twice a minute, from mastodon.sdf.org. The user it is posted as no longer exists, and every time this happens, SDF returns a 404, which is then logged here. Any idea what is going on? The two IP addresses the requests come from belong to mastodon.sdf.org, so I am assuming they are not forged.


Mastodon @ SDF

"I appreciate SDF but it's a general-purpose server and the name doesn't make it obvious that it's about art." - Eugen Rochko
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.sdf.org

reshared this

mastodon - Link to source
„Blue Monday“ Tag der Einsamkeit – Besonders betroffen sind Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommen. Zusammenhalt wächst dort, wo Angebote ohne Schwellen erreichbar sind.
religion.orf.at/stories/322848…

Caritas: „Blue Monday“: Mehr als 600.000 Menschen einsam

Einsamkeit trifft Menschen, unabhängig von Alter, sozialem Hintergrund und Einkommen: Der „Blue Monday“, der dritte Montag im Jänner, gilt als traurigster Tag des Jahres.
ORF.at

mastodon - Link to source
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 20. Jänner, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

mastodon - Link to source

Sharing passwords can be risky - but it doesn’t have to be 🔐

Learn the safest ways to share passwords securely and protect your sensitive information here 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-share-passwo… #PasswordProtection

#OnlineSafety #Encrypted

Password sharing info graphic

How to safely share a password | Tuta

It’s important to know how to send a password securely because sharing it via any platform is not safe which can have dire effects on your online safety.
Tuta
#encrypted #onlinesafety #passwordprotection

mastodon - Link to source

Head up, #maker #3DPrinter fans. The just-announced BambuLab lockdown on our printers is on it way - but you can still enroll your printer (with the usual caveats) to run rootable firmware.

Read BambuLab's post here: blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…

Buuuuuuut,

You can still go through the opt-out procedure (or just not upgrade your printer)

bambulab.com/en-us/third-party…

Or, y'know, you could get the keys... hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-… ;)

And I'd recommend X1 Plus firmware :) github.com/X1Plus/X1Plus

#OwnIt #RightToRepair


Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control System

Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future release
Bambu Kidd (Bambu Lab Blog)
#righttorepair #3dprinter #maker #ownit

mastodon - Link to source

From Canada, I hope folks are taking some time this Martin Luther King Jr. Day to reflect on the hope he had for America.

Here’s his lecture from the 1967 Massey Lecture in Canada - Conscience for Change - 1967 Massey

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30…

The Massey Lecture is a real institution here. So many great intellectuals have presented challenging views about challenges to modern civilization.


MLK: Conscience for Change - 1967 Massey Lectures

Conscience for Change features five lectures that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and December 1967 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ...
YouTube

mastodon - Link to source
Welcome 9cel as #curl commit author 1332: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1605…

docs: document the behavior of -- in the curl command line by 9cel · Pull Request #16053 · curl/curl

Prompted by a question asked in #curl on libera. This behavior seems to have been present since the very beginning of curl and is explained in a code comment, so I'm assuming it's deliberat...
GitHub
#curl
in reply to Moe Lassus

mastodon - Link to source

Rasta

Good Morning.
You know it's going to be there, and make everyone angry and tense. Only sensible thing to do, is FLOOD SOCIAL MEDIA with #DistractingStuff #Otters
We don't have SEA OTTERS, and often seals swim by when I'm having morning coffee.
But, #RiverOtters come out in the harbour on low tides regularly. Pretty sure that's an otter head
#otters #distractingstuff #riverotters

mastodon - Link to source

So I had a break from Fanfiction for all of 3 weeks. I got sucked into ...
The Accidental Animagus
White_Squirrel
Harry escapes the Dursleys with a unique bout of accidental magic and eventually winds up at the Grangers' house. Now, he has what he always wanted: a loving family—and he'll need their help to take on the magical world and vanquish the dark lord who has pursued him from birth.

archiveofourown.org/works/1407…
cc @FreakyFwoof

The Accidental Animagus - Chapter 1 - White_Squirrel - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
@Andre Louis

glitchsoc - Link to source
I've been watching the ways in which search engines have integrated large language models into their results, and the results are just as bad as you would expect. #misinformation #disinformation #homophobia #transphobia
jessk.org/blog/ai-and-disinfor…

Disinformation in the era of generative AI

In the past two years, large language models have replaced traditional information search and delivery systems in increasingly jarring ways.
Jessica Kant
#disinformation #misinformation #transphobia #homophobia

mastodon - Link to source

At this year's #FOSDEM my team at #wolfSSL got no booth space so my large volume #curl sticker distribution (LVCSD) has to be done using other means.

The LVCSD will most likely happen in the cafeteria area, but feel free to ping me if you can't get your fix as planned.

I will bring thousands of curl stickers and hundreds of coasters. There will be a few mugs and maybe some tshirts.

Buying myself friends, like a boss.

lots of curl stickers of different kinds and flavors
#fosdem #curl #wolfssl
This entry was edited (10 months ago)

mastodon - Link to source

On this day four years ago, I handed over svn.haxx.se to the #Subversion project and my two decades of hosting a mailing list archive for the project was over:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/20…


bye bye svn.haxx.se

It isn't actually going away. It's just been thrown over the fence to the Apache project and Subversion itself to host and maintain going forward. Mail archive When the Subversion project started in the early year 2000, I was there.
daniel.haxx.se
#subversion

mastodon - Link to source
LibreOffice is the privacy-oriented office suite and doesn't include AI out-of-the-box. No way. But some people find AI tools useful, so a community member has made a (fully optional!) extension to add these features if you want them: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Screenshot of localwriter, showing a dialog box offering to make a selection of text more friendly

localwriter: An optional LibreOffice Writer extension for local generative AI - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice is a privacy-oriented office suite that runs on your own computer and doesn’t include AI features out-of-the-box.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

LibreOffice reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
Lidem už fakt hrabe.
Kočí myl koně v myčce. Poláka nyní vyšetřuje policie pro týrání zvířat
denik.cz/staty-eu/koci-my-kone…

Kočí myl koně v myčce. Poláka nyní vyšetřuje policie pro týrání zvířat

Polsko pobouřil případ z okresního městečka Maków Mazowiecki, kde dva lidé zavedli koně do automobilové myčky. Vyděšené zvíře se odtud pokoušelo utéci, ale přesto muselo podstoupit očistu vroucí vodou, stříkající pod vysokým tlakem.
ČTK (Deník.cz)

mastodon - Link to source
A main technical and economic difference to #matrix servers/clients:
The family of #deltachat apps uses #chatmail servers as ephemeral message transports that know nothing and forget everything: Servers don't store group metadata or cryptographic identities and delete messages after download by default. In effect, a 30EUR/month #chatmail server with 10K's of active users hums along with 2% IO and CPU pressure, 1GB RAM and negligible disk usage. No Pro-version or Kubernetes needed to scale ;)
#matrix #deltachat #chatmail
This entry was edited (10 months ago)

mastodon - Link to source
Just finished the latest book by Richard Powers called "The Playground". Wow, if you are into #ai #philosophy and good fiction, you may want to read this as well... Those of you who read his earlier "The Overstory" may guess what you would be signing up for. His writing and snorytelling is absolutely amazing! #literature audible.com/pd/B0D3WKKT9B?sour…

Playground

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
Audible
#AI #philosophy #literature

mastodon - Link to source

This is probably already known by most fans of Star Trek and Doctor Who but I just learned that David McIntee passed away last month. I remember him at one of the Gallifrey conventions and he was quite enjoyable. I so far haven't read any of his books but I definitely plan to do so.

David A. McIntee has passed away.
trekbbs.com/threads/david-a-mc…

#DoctorWho

David A. McIntee has passed away.

Some sad news to pass on; my colleague and fellow tie-in writer David A. McIntee passed away this weekend. It's my understanding he went into hospital for end-of-life care last week, but I don't...
The Trek BBS
#doctorwho

flipboard - Link to source

Anti-poverty group says billionaires' wealth soared in 2024 as the elites prepare for another Davos
https://apnews.com/article/davos-2025-trump-wef-elon-musk-billionaires-ee121c56f6828021cb864de927383c7b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress


Billionaires' wealth soared in 2024, anti-poverty group says as the elites prepare for another Davos

Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least five trillionaires within a decade, even as the number of people in poverty has barely budged since 1990.
JAMEY KEATEN (AP News)
@International News

glitchsoc - Link to source

Tomorrow will be a dark day for many.

For disabled, marginalized, LGBTQ+ folks & women. For anyone who still cares about others

The disability community saw this coming. It’s important we listen & understand that labelling people as expendable for 5 years leads nowhere good

Since November we’ve watched hate win over and over again.

We’ve witnessed the emboldening of those who think they’re superior to others.

We’ve seen an increase in misogyny, bigotry, ableism, racism & discrimination.

Disabled people begged the Left to pay attention. We begged you to keep masking, to push for clean air, to demand accountability from government.

We implored you to realize that our lives are not less important than your ability to go out for brunch.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people on both sides of the aisle decided that mitigating COVID was “too hard.”

They accepted repeat infections as inevitable so they wouldn’t have to adapt their lives in any way.

They threw away people like me.

We let hate win. And now we’re going to see the consequences of that decision.

Disabled people weren’t surprised in November, we’ve been living in what feels like an alternate reality for years.

But I suspect others are about to feel our pain.

If you’re feeling scared or angry right now, know that you’re not alone. There’s a community standing with you.

I don’t know exactly what comes next, but I do know we have to keep up the fight.

disabledginger.com/p/how-did-w…

#disability #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #uspol #ableism #eugenics #trump #pandemic #longcovid


How Did We Get Here and What Comes Next?

Disabled people have been warning others for nearly 5 years that eugenicist Covid policies would lead to a rise of fascist, racist, bigoted, misogynistic hatred. It's here now. So what’s next?
Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
#Trump #uspol #Disability #LongCovid #pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #ableism #COVIDisAirborne #eugenics
⇧