Rec’s for a server Linux (I prefer Debian based but Alpine maybe?) that’s lightweight but supports ZFS creation in installer? Kinda want it turnkey from gui but I don’t want/need Proxmox or TrueNAS for this. Intel proc.
It’s just gonna host one web app on a port, another server is providing reverse proxy + SSL termination. I don’t want to run LXC or Docker for that.
Evergreen post about #consent and the #Fediverse written two years ago.:
"Design for and ask for informed enthusiastic consent.
Then we won't have to keep having these little chats."
- me
Consent and the Fediverse part deux: The Opt-out two-shuffle
“PIRATING” IS A CAPITALIST FRAME
don’t be a cop.
If buying isn't ownership then p̶i̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ SHARING isn't stealing
If buying doesn't create ownership, then p̶i̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ SHARING doesn't destroy it.
SHARING is anticapitalist and antifa because sharing is caring.
The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Foundation has now fired a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike. To stand in solidarity with them, sign the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
For more, read on!
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More than 200k users said NO!
More than 70 organisations signed a letter saying NO!
#FDroid wrote posts on why NOT!
We've talked with you and your representatives, around the world.
We've made the #KeepAndroidOpen website to explain it.
If you read the #Android tech news, you saw it.
If you use a search engine, you found it.
If you've asked their own #Gemini, you got the summary.
But who didn't see, hear or read anything from above? Yes, #Google
For your saftety? https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html
Mastodon has automatic age verification built in, no scanning your face
✅ if you join here you're old
✅ you've seen too much shit
✅ you're tired of said shit
6 months to go from “wouldn’t it be cool if…” to a real blinky, sound makey thing. The whole process was so infuriatingly inspiring I even got a talk accepted about its creation before I knew if the goddamn thing would even work.
Anyway, I made it for you. I hope you like it.
The @defcon 10 year anniversary of Whose Slide Is It Anyway happens in 37 days.
I haven’t seen much coverage yet of the fresh round of layoffs at Bandcamp?
From the linked Bluesky post:
> my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.
https://bsky.app/profile/grmnygrmny.bsky.social/post/3mpgvo7l2v22t
UUUuuuuuuuuh
https://bsky.app/profile/grmnygrmny.bsky.social/post/3mpgvo7l2v22t
my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.
Just a reminder: We do not accept AI music submissions (e.g. Suno, etc) as SomaFM is a human-centered radio network. We especially hate AI agents repeatedly submitting AI music to us. If you're a developer, don't do this.
So Fediverse, last week I was laid off by my employer, Elastic, as part of a wider reorg that made my position redundant. 7% of the global workforce was impacted, so I'm not alone in this 😢
I would appreciate boosts as I'm now looking for my next job. Preferably in community open source, but with the crazy market, a mortage and a baby I appreciate any lead.
I'm a backend engineer with strong #cloudinfrastructure , #devops and #observability skills. I spent the last 5 years working with Golang, but have previous experience with Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript (that shows how old I am I guess).
I'm searching remotely from Italy.
Thank you!
"Vinton Cerf will step down from his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist next week, marking the conclusion of one of the most influential careers in technology history." by @timfernholz via @Techcrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring
Racism was a founding principle of the US, and it will be the hill we immolate ourselves on.
the great american state fyre festival
#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.
My recent underwear post has a boost for each hashtag on it, and fuck this bot using my AlicePics tag as a username to boost all my nudes.
People can already follow hashtags, we don't need an *opt-out* bot-swarm to make things more "discoverable".
I don't need *every* server to see my nudes. Just the ones who have my actual, human¹ followers on them.
Edit: the owner of tags.pub suggested we also block the rest of his domains: groups.pub, activitypub.bot, and onepage.pub 🤷🏼♀️
¹ and furry
This is a masterful demonstration of the unsecurable nature of LLMs, and how prompt injection by dedicated humans who know how to write will always win.
Reviewers noted that while Vim for Gameboy featured one of the deepest command systems on the platform, its soundtrack consisted primarily prolonged silence punctuated with occasional terrifying beeps.