Thanks @_elena! Wonderful insights and thanks for investing your energies into this research.

Another take away for me pertains how the Fediverse is 'complicated' to get into and stick around. Seeing how many political and institutional actors moved to #WSocial overly quick tells me that it isn't healthy either, to not know what's happening behind the scenes. Apparently, these actors haven't learned a thing, neither about the past, nor about network infrastructures. At least with the bit of friction you have with the fediverse, you have a didactic moment of realising that servers are somebody else's computer.

@shibacomputer glad we're not doubling down on social media age limits everywhere

One Million passports leak online.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/one-million-passports-leaked-online.html

@jargoggles @mullvadnet @astro @lostgen also if we pay for your service we now know what that ends up funding. good reason to cancel.

@krono @gptreb yeah it’s using a chain of gsub rules, using intermediately inserted glyphs to store calculation steps. Also because the checksum formula uses a mod 10 it’s sufficient to only calculate the least significant digit in each step. You can use crowbar (https://www.corvelsoftware.co.uk/crowbar/) by @simoncozens to see what’s actually going on.

@ben
Watching the Guardian torch it's brand in the UK with 'young' people (anyone under 50 at this point) over Corbyn was quite something.

@dogfox @tante

Software engineering doesn't really exist as a discipline. It should, but it doesn't.

@fasterandworse a lot of people who would have used it also just ditched firefox entirely because of this

@fasterandworse good grief. it's not like they advertise its presence... people don't even know they can turn the sound off on their phone keyboards

Requested a MakerTube account/channel. Planning to migrate some of my YouTube stuff over.

we found a true Y2K gem in a bag today

@laser maybe can ask your landlord if you can have your place free for the exposure huh

fuck dell forever.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/year-of-the-linux-laptop-omarchy-on-xps/

@scottjenson @Gargron nothing is stopping anyone interested in anything from starting a mastodon server or joining one. if other people don’t want to read them, or respond negatively, then that’s the response. there’s no gatekeeping.

(no)

@0x4d6165 there is a case to be made for writing a first draft in ed (seriously!) I accidentally figured this out while using ed in part of a project of mine as an experiment.

Ed's insert mode is actually pretty ideal for getting into a flow state. You commit things one line at a time. The line can be as long as you want. (I think) you can use emacs/vi key bindings with rlwrap to edit the line. But once you hit enter, the line is in, and you're onto the next thought.

“A Moon For Three” is a mechanical music box tune I composed for my friends’ newborn.

fuck off ai music

"welcome to the fuck off ai music movement
in this movement we believe that ai music should fuck off.
you are welcome to join if you’d like"

https://fuckoffaimusic.com

via la_mettrie on pmc IRC chan

@minad this is both awesome and cursed