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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The mobile app stores demand we believe that they *must* be trusted exclusively to protect us, to the exclusion of a powerful open web:
The only thing they're protecting is profits:
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monsieuricon@social.kernel.org ("K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁") wrote:
We had a fruitful discussion about mail hosting options on the users list, so I documented it here:
https://korg.docs.kernel.org/email-hosting.html
Might be useful to others.
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laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com ("Laura Kalbag") wrote:
My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.
https://accessibilityforeveryone.site
The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I find thinking of Trump and his ilk as "neo-royalists" helpful in coming to some understanding of the psycho-social dynamics at work now.
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gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz ("Gwen Fisher") wrote:
Twelve years. I started this project twelve years ago, and today I hold the result in my hand. It’s a book that combines bead weaving with math called, “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch.” With help from mathematician and artist Roger Antonsen, graphic designer Zelda Lin, a handful of talented proof readers, and the good people from World Scientific Publishing Company, my dream of combining my loves of math, art, and teaching into a book is finally a reality.
This book is the first of its kind, a recipe book of algorithms that can be used and combined to generate colorful patterns in peyote stitch beadwork in any size and shape you desire. These algorithms could also be applied to other pixelated art forms like tile laying, embroidery, crochet, and quilts. We included projects like bracelets, pill pouches, pendants, beaded beads, and key chains. We also included a bunch of different grids that you can photocopy and color with markers.
Of course I’m biased, but I think it’s a really beautiful book. We included multiple colorful images on almost every page, 172 pages in all. It was a huge layout challenge, but Zelda nailed it. My original goal was to write 128 pages on how to use algorithms to make beaded jewelry, but the more we explored the space, the more we found. Not just millions of algorithms, the space of possibilities is infinite. So of course, we couldn’t include them all. But we used math and Roger’s custom software that he wrote for this project to help us find dozens of the easiest algorithms and more than a hundred more in increasing levels of complexity. We included all of our favorites. 1/2
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villapirorum@indieweb.social ("Antoine") wrote:
Have a look at how my home-made rss-reader sees your website by appending your url to villepreux.net/lab/metadata/?url=xxxxxxxxx
Example with the excellent David Bushell @db website: https://villepreux.net/lab/metadata/?url=dbushell.com
The rss-reader in question: https://villepreux.net/web-feed
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mhoye wrote:
Information for future conference organizers considering a US location.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
If there's been a recurring theme to my career, it's been right-wing dickwombles declaring my career to be in a shambles because I "virtue signal" or am a "social justice warrior" or, currently, am "woke." When it became clear my career wasn't in a shambles, the line became I'm being propped up by my publisher, who would buy boatloads of my books to game the bestseller lists. They've mostly at this point given up trying to pretend I don't sell books, they just hate them, so, progress, I guess.
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samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:
Where in the world is she going to put 18 commentators (who are not actual reporters)?
“CBS's Bari Weiss adds 18 commentators, to lean on streaming-oriented strategy in newsroom revamp”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Nostalgia is not a policy."
it may work for elections, but it is deadly for peace, prosperity, and progress.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“I argue the Middle Powers must act together, because if we are not at the table then we are on the menu.”
- PM Carney of Canada
https://www.rev.com/transcripts/carney-at-davos [video & audio]
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses [official text]
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320x200@post.lurk.org ("ultrageranium") wrote:
Nothing in Commons: the end of digital collective ownership?
I'm sharing a new text where I try to summarize some older thoughts that have been slowly fermenting in the past years regarding the dead-end in which the digital commons have landed. I discuss the discomfort of their growing ambivalence, and the incredible difficulty, but urgency to move forward beyond this concept and rethink collective objectives in relation to digital tools and practices.
It is the follow-up of a copyleft/copyright/copywhat licensing workshop I gave at https://spookstad.boo. Amsterdam Alternative asked me to contribute an essay on the digital commons based on some of the topics discussed in the workshop for their web docu on collective ownership.
The text is also available in Dutch, thanks to a translation by Menno Grootveld from Starfish Books.
Illustration: @l03s
https://www.collectiefeigendom.nl/en/ownership/digital-collective-ownership
#commons #digitalcommons #freesoftware #opensource #creativecommons #licenses #freeculture #collective
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thibaultamartin@mamot.fr ("Thib") wrote:
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420
If you consider going to the US, whatever the reason, don’t, for your own safety.
If you consider organizing an event to the US for an international community, you’re putting people’s lives at risk.
If you want an English-speaking environment for an international event, pick Canada or the UK. Heck, even in Scandinavian countries everyone speaks English.
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
“SoCiAL MeDiA iS ToXiC!!!”
No, you’re just allergic to accountability. Try focusing on the message instead of deflecting with the medium.
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
I can’t believe anyone would have to say this right now, but here we are:
Nazis are terrible. Their ideology, their paraphernalia, and their behavior—all terrible. There is no nuance to this. There is no intellectual reasoning that leads to any valid conclusion to the contrary.
Speak out against Nazis clearly and loudly. Or don’t! But don’t try to crack the door open on tolerating any aspect of that stuff and expect it to go well for you.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I wish the "Listen to Page" feature worked on PDFs 😭
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macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:
@adam “He's free to think I'm a nazi apologist, or sympathizer, or whatever else he thinks I am (and since I'm Italian, you should also assume I'm a Fascist while you're there). I’m not gonna lose sleep over that.” 🤔 That’s a long way for Manu to go to avoid saying, “I’m not a Nazi apologist or sympathizer, and I’m not a fascist either.”
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The social/open/small/indie web needs more progressive spaces. More progressive voices. More progressive manifestos and progressive values.
Write a manifesto in 2026! I want to read it and share it. I want to learn what your ideal web looks like if it weren't overrun with pacifist and centrist ding dongs.
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
The point continues to woosh right over Manu’s head. Everyone else wants to talk about how Nazi shit is terrible, but three blog posts later he *still* wants to try to make an intellectual argument about language and reasoning.
Zoom the fuck out, dude. How hard is it to just call Nazi shit terrible? Why are you continuing to find a way to use technicalities to defend the abhorrent point you originally made?
These people just can’t help themselves.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Creative folks: When I say "Fuck ICE" I know that there are some people who will write me off. Let's say half of the US population writes me off right there. That means I am left with 160 million potential customers. If I somehow pissed half of THEM off, I would have 80 million potential customers. And if I pissed half of them off, 40 million would be left! The population of California!
You're probably gonna be fine speaking your mind, is what I'm saying.
Also: Fuck ICE. Straight to Hell.
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jdp23@neuromatch.social ("Jon") wrote:
Hey @fediforum when I clicked on the link you just sent me in the email you just sent about your un-workshop on "Growing the Open Social Web" my email client warned me that it was a tracking link.
As I said last year,
"The "Open Social Web" is a term surveillance capitalism companies and their friends have been using since at least 2008 either as a synonym for "the Fediverse" or "the fediverses". FediForum used to be about "the Fediverse", and I'm not quite sure when they changed their focus."
Thanks for providing such a great example of the surveillance capitalism-friendly nature of so many supporters of the "Open Social Web"!
By contrast, a long-standing #fediverse value is the critique of openness. I don't know how many of you were here in 2020, but that's when the outstanding Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss was published, and it's got an excellent section on that. Please read it!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
FYI this is a scam I feel writing that. I know y'all know. But jic.
Reported
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I think it's the feeling of being courted. Centrists love knowing that democrats rack their brains trying to figure out the correct level of compromise; the exact number of dead bodies it'll take to garner their favor.
Remember, Atlanta progressives put Biden in the White House. Centrists brought Trump back.
/rant
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The open/indie/social web is, unfortunately, rife with centrists—people whose only sense of obligation is to their personal comfort. Who equate intelligence with apathy. Who, if ever faced with a teaspoon of oppression, would fold like origami. You'll never fully know what a centrist believes, not because they hide it, but because they're husks. They don't believe in anything. They hear about state sponsored murder and violence and they reach for the mute button. Truly the worst of them.
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jcrabapple@dmv.community wrote:
2025 mood continuing in 2026.
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igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:
We’ll be out in force at @fosdem '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! #FOSDEM2026 https://www.igalia.com/2026/01/26/Igalia-at-FOSDEM-26.html
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
HELL YES PHILIP GLASS
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mntmn ("Lucie / minute") wrote:
this is very good, xfce getting a new wayland compositor written in rust (based on smithay) https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost%5F15.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I am honestly baffled by the fact that anyone publishes Thomas Chatterton Williams, who seems to have made being a pretentious twit into a lucrative career.
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meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:
The American Southwest’s Iconic Joshua Trees Are Blooming Early—and Scientists Want Your Help to Figure Out Why