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db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

suddenly winter

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The problem with relying on pithy observations like “history tends to repeats itself or rhymes” is that history is long and has many stanzas. It’s impossible to know in advance with any certainty whether tomorrow is going to rhyme with 2008, 1929, or the fall of the Roman Empire.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Open Source Power”

https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/?ref=werd.io

Always link to writing that cites Ursula Franklin

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Can I vent? All of the emotions from my now former tech career. : r/womenintech”

https://www.reddit.com/r/womenintech/comments/1oz2aoz/can%5Fi%5Fvent%5Fall%5Fof%5Fthe%5Femotions%5Ffrom%5Fmy%5Fnow%5Fformer/

The story here is, TBH, more the norm for women in tech than not.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hund@fosstodon.org ("Hund") wrote:

@mike Mint is one of my favourite alternatives when it comes to 'regular' operating systems that just works out of the box.

Mint is incredibly polished, both in terms of UI and UX. Cinnamon is one of the best DEs that I've seen. KDE is probably the only competitor here. Cinnamon is the only DE that I (as a tiling user) can stand.

It feels like they often get overlocked thanks to it's reputation as a 'beginner OS'. As a Gentoo user, I think they're one the more potent alternatives out there.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115569615176946969

I am passing the torch to @mellifluousbox, who will be the new Executive Director. Felix has been involved with #Mastodon since 2020 and has been instrumental in evolving the organization, raising funds, and growing the team to get us to where we are now. With @haubles and @renchap by his side, and the team we have assembled over the years, I have faith that the new leadership will do a stellar job.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

Mastodon wrote:

This important milestone also marks the beginning of a new era of community governance and collaborative decision-making for Mastodon. Now more than ever, we need to work together to build safe and resilient social spaces. We must build information networks that are resistant to billionaire control and surveillance. It will take all of us working together to do that.

So please consider joining our mission; we have a lot of work to do.

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

Mastodon wrote:

We’re also looking ahead to what comes next. In another blog post published today, we introduced Mastodon’s new leadership team. Our Executive Director is @mellifluousbox (formerly, CFO of Mastodon gGmbH), who has already represented Mastodon on international stages.

We also shared an organisational update, and a fundraising update, in that blog post.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-build-together/

Mastodon wrote:

Our Founder, @Gargron is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.

We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here. We’re thrilled he’s staying on in an advisory capacity.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon

Mastodon wrote:

Hey everyone, we have some pretty big news to share. You might remember that we announced a big restructuring for the Mastodon team earlier this year. Today marks an important milestone in this transition.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

The URL is so overpowered and so often under-utilised. This article does a great job of explaining how much power you really have.

https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I meet web developers who cannot accept that most smartphones in the world, and even in the US, are not iPhones. And that keeps them from understanding that the "i" in "iPhone" stands for "inequality":

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

…I'm fascinated by this failure mode. Technically, it seems logical to have Wikpedia as a search engine option. It's just a preset. Wikipedia is a valuable searchable resource. It's international, non-profit, as inoffensive as you can get. Why would you stop anyone from having such option?

And yet, having it as an option is self-destructive for a Web browser. If enabled, it seems to turn off the "Web" part, and makes it an encyclopedia browser instead. Not as useful as a Web browser!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

The numbers tell the story.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jer@hachyderm.io ("jan-erik") wrote:

"Unlocking On-Chain Intelligence: A Practical Framework for GenAI-Powered Smart Contracts"

I mean if those two groups could just grift off of each other and not bother anyone else, I'm all for it!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ScottLucas@journa.host ("Scott Lucas") wrote:

" #DonaldTrump bought at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds from late August to early October including new investments in sectors benefiting from his policies"

How is this not a disqualifying conflict of interest?

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/trump-buys-least-82-million-bonds-since-late-august-disclosures-show-2025-11-15/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

And so now here are the things that aren't getting investigated while Trump & Miller chase their racist fantasies. Child predators, terrorists and human traffickers can't believe their good fortune.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Harrington") wrote:

“Government doesn’t work”

That’s because you fuckin’ broke it, ya shitgibbon.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

We're lucky the fascists are incompetent but we can't keep relying on that forever

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/comey-justice-department-misconduct.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.108.mVSe.HYd4%5FhoUmbGk&smid=url-share

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

... did the people who now post "mozilla could have offered managed fediverse server hosting" or the likes forgot that, back then when it was announced that mozilla.social would be open to external users, a not-insignificant portion of "fediverse" users actively shat on mozilla, because "it hurts decentralization" and "mozilla just wants your data"?!?!

like, sure, criticize all you want, but maybe we could stop with this gold-medal-worthy olympic goal-post-moving?

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"There's... er..." My new assistant bookseller faltered.

Over by the window, an open book hovered. As I looked, a page turned.

I picked up my hag stone and peered through it.

"Just a ghost. That's a relief."

"What else..."

"Imps, devils, people with invisibility spells. The last are worst."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories #BookSellers

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
clarkesworld@mastodon.online ("Clarkesworld") wrote:

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
mwillsey@discuss.systems ("Max Willsey") wrote:

A bit late for this, but might as well:

**I am recruiting PhD students this year**

I am looking for students with strengths in some subset of compilers, databases, e-graphs, SMT solvers, theorem proving, and logic programming. You definitely don't have to have mastery of all those things (I don't!), but there's a lot of fun work to do in the intersection.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm trying to convert my mom to @Vivaldi browser, but it keeps failing. Latest episode:

"Vivaldi is useless. I can't book train tickets on Wikipedia!!"

*Somehow* my mom switched the default search engine to Wikipedia.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Once again, good riddance

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jswatz%5Ftx/post/DRKtKByEdIC

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

True story: I once spent an afternoon scrolling through someone's Facebook account to find out when he had acquired each of his cats because he had named successive releases of a software package he maintained after the damn things in the order in which they joined his family and I needed to know whether Pickles came before Chocolate or vice versa.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Happy to be! That said, I do give some thought to what I should be saying and when, and if what I am saying just acts to center myself in someone else's struggle, or otherwise is more performative than sincere. Not everyone agrees with my decisions and choices, and that's fine. At the end of the day, I am (and everyone is) allowed to decide when it's best to speak and how, and otherwise how best to offer support to causes one believes in.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@blackcatkai/post/DRKwhOykS%5FE

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Dhmspector ("Dave Spector") wrote:

As I said… a bunch of drama queens. Whiny, little, drama queens.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Two years later, it really feels like the #Threads interpolation was just one big A/B test to see what it would take for federated users to hop the fence and join #Meta

Every incremental "improvement" favors Meta.

#fediverse #Mosseri