soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Admin email
social@octade.net

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[?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
@techwire@social.gamefan.net

Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail

Startup wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is

theregister.com/systems/2026/0

[The Register]

    Guy boosted

    [?]heise online English » 🤖 🌐
    @heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de

    Switzerland launches open-source workplace for 3,000 employees

    The Swiss Federal Chancellery is launching a program for sovereign workplace software. Around 3,000 employees are expected to use it.

    heise.de/en/news/Switzerland-l

    https://www.heise.de/en/news/Switzerland-launches-open-source-workplace-for-3-000-employees-11445672.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

    [?]Hacker News » 🤖 🌐
    @h4ckernews@mastodon.social

    LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

    manualdousuario.net/en/libreof

    Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

      Iron Bug boosted

      [?]Ami » 🌐
      @ami@mastodon.world

      Not your - Not your

      If they control the software they control everything, the cameras, wifi, bt, microphones, even the data on the device.

      This covers everything from your car audio system to your bulbs.

      Think about all the you have and everything your are connected to, they own those too.

      If it's "smart", it's probably and the security on it is probably not that good.

        [?]Ramin Honary » 🌐
        @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org

        The challenge of writing portable Scheme code is that every implementation has myriad little idiosyncrasies. Today I discovered the #MITScheme tries to read #Emacs -style file header comments (for example ;; -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-) and this can cause the reader to crash for some reason. I am not sure if it is a bug or a feature, but it did throw me off for a whole day while I tried to figure out why MIT Scheme wouldn’t compile a library file.

        I also happen to be hung-up on a bug in #Guile 3.0.11. It seems to me like the optimizer is emitting bad code, because I get a SEGFAULT on an expression that #Gauche has no trouble executing. I am still working on a bug report, and trying to figure out a work-around.

        #tech #software #Scheme #Schemacs #SchemeLang #R7RS #Lisp #GuileScheme #GaucheScheme

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          [?]Evan Prodromou » 🌐
          @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

          Static ActivityPub Publishing

          One of the requests I (Evan) have heard often over the years about ActivityPub is to make publishing on the Fediverse as easy as publishing with RSS. To make an RSS feed for a person or a site, a publish provides, dynamically or even statically, a single file, with a simple format, and makes it available over the Web. Other people's feed reader software can download the feed and show the user either the full content of the site, or enough of a summary to get the user to click a link and read […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

          One of the requests I (Evan) have heard often over the years about ActivityPub is to make publishing on the Fediverse as easy as publishing with RSS. To make an RSS feed for a person or a site, a publish provides, dynamically or even statically, a single file, with a simple format, and makes it available over the Web. Other people’s feed reader software can download the feed and show the user either the full content of the site, or enough of a summary to get the user to click a link and read in your browser.

          So… why can’t ActivityPub be like that? Make a feed, and let others read it if they want to?

          The good news is, it can. ActivityPub defines an entire read-only structure for actors, content, and activities. Pushing content to other servers is entirely optional — you can just tell other servers that you don’t accept remote messages, and they won’t push them. The read-only interface to ActivityPub is rich and extensible — it covers content like text, images, video and audio, but also activities like liking, sharing, and replying. It’s not quite as simple as RSS — it requires a lot more, smaller files — but it’s pretty straightforward.

          The bad news is that most widely-used ActivityPub software doesn’t recognize read-only ActivityPub feeds. Most ActivityPub servers expect to send messages to every actor, and to receive messages in reply. They don’t have internal facilities to check ActivityPub feeds regularly for new content and activities.

          This isn’t just a technical issue; it’s also an adoption issue. If implementing ActivityPub requires all the infrastructure of our message-passing services — queues, signatures, filtering, fanout — it inhibits software developers and publishers from experimenting with the protocol. Implementing RSS can take a day or maybe a week of developer work. Implementing ActivityPub’s federation protocol can take months. Which one is going to be done in a hackday or a medium T-shirt-size sprint task, and which one is going on the back-back-back-backlog?

          To make it easier to understand and support this proper subset of ActivityPub, I published FEP-b06c: ActivityPoll last summer. (“Poll” is in contrast to “publish” — emphasizing the read-only structure.) It’s a profile of ActivityPub, identifying parts of the ActivityPub spec that will work, or not, with a static, read-only ActivityPub publisher. It also includes new terms to easily identify a read-only ActivityPub actor, as well as a way to declare how often a feed is updated (very useful for limiting the load on both the reader and the server sides).

          In order to test the profile, and identify shortfalls, I implemented a plugin for the static site generator (SSG) software, Jekyll. Using a static site generator keeps this process honest — there’s no temptation to add just a teensy bit of dynamic content generation; it has to be entirely static. If we can show interoperability with actors implemented with an SSG, we’ve shown that static ActivityPub publishing is truly possible.

          The plugin is called jekyll-activitypub-static (there’s already a jekyll-activity-pub plugin, which uses off-site dynamic endpoints to implement the federation protocol, so this one emphasizes that it’s static). It’s in the rubygems.org repository, so you can just add the gem name to your Gemfile for your Jekyll site, and it should install correctly. The configuration is pretty straightforward, and has pretty reasonable fallbacks, but you can tweak it to get more specific features.

          I’ve got an example actor on GitHub Pages at @evanp . You can search for it in Mastodon, and view the profile, but you can’t follow it directly. Other front ends can view it more directly — please tell me if yours can!

          If you’ve got a Jekyll site, please try out jekyll-activitypub-static and let me know what you think. Fair warning — the Webfinger support depends on having your site deployed at the root of the domain. There are probably some ways to work around that — let me know if you find one! If you have changes or enhancements you think can be made to the plugin, let me know.

          And if you’ve got a full-featured implementation of the ActivityPub federation protocol, please consider implementing a polling structure for static actors. FEP-b06c covers most of the caveats, but please feel free to leave a comment if you find another gotcha. I’ll be right in there with you — I’m going to implement it in onepage.pub and activitypub.bot.

          Thanks to everyone who has commented on FEP-b06c, and to people who’ve tried and contributed to jekyll-activitypub-static. I look forward to more implementations!

          [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
          @collective_truth@mastodon.social

          for free in browser
          (voice / video internet / )

          meet.osna.social/
          meet.nadeko.net/

          (#Jitsi = Just browser / open source )

          1/ Type a name
          2/ Accept microphone usage in browser
          3/ Chat !

          (instant, no google account, no registration, no app needed, any platform, any browser)

          Instant of servers at the top !!

            [?]Ramin Honary » 🌐
            @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org

            @jhlagado was saying most software engineers can point to a computer game they played as a child that inspired them to learn everything about computer programming, he asked us (me and @screwlisp and @alexshendi ) what game that might be for us.

            For me it was Scarab of Ra, an early Macintosh game from 1987. Nowadays it would be classified as a 2.5D first-person turn-based rogue-like with an ancient Egyptian theme… (Are all rogue-likes turn-based?) Anyway, you explore a procedurally-generated maze, collect items you need to proceed to the next level, and fight monsters that appear at random times (lions, mummies, etc.) You get hungry and need to find food, your lamp can break and your vision can be obscured by darkness. You are in a pyramid so each next level grows the maze. You can sometimes find a map in each level which presents an overhead view of the maze, but you must otherwise navigate maze as you see it rendered in a first-person view.

            I tried to recreate this game in Microsoft QuickBasic for the Macintosh. I remember poring over the manual (this book here), and how excited it made me whenever I discovered a function or feature I could use in my program. To this day, when I start learning a new programming language or framework, I like to look through the API reference and try to guess, just from the name of the functions, what I can do with it, just like I did when I was a kid with this QuickBasic manual.

            Nowadays, after decades of professional software engineering experience, I could probably recreate this game in Microsoft QuickBasic without difficulty. But at the time I came to believe that QuickBasic was too limited and sought advice from others on how I could write my game. Some of my fellow computer nerds at school pointed me in the direction of C++. I tried first with Semantic C++ (my parents actually bought me a copy as a Christmas gift) and then a few years later, with Metrowerks C++ which came free on CD-ROM with the purchase of a software catalog. So C++ was the second programming language I learned. I skipped over C, only learning it later on.

            It was hard, because living in a small town in the middle of nowhere, USA, there were no adults I knew who I could ask for help. I remember giving up and coming back to it several times. In retrospect, I should have sought out computer enthusiast groups at the university or the local library, but that never occurred to me or my parents. Eventually I started learning from the Internet as well, once we actually had access to the Internet. So I was completely self-taught, until I went to college myself and got some formal training in software engineering.

            (CC @mdhughes ) https://archive.org/details/ScarabOfRaMacintosh

            #tech #software #retrocomputing #ClassicGames #RogueLike #Macintosh #AppleComputers

              [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
              @collective_truth@mastodon.social

              @renardboy For example = 100% great

              but

              Bringing people more socially up themselves = near-0

              Mastodon as ' a bit better crowd than twitter who moved from there') is limited.

              It's about people / principles UP!

              Even forums (#phpBB) or ~20 years again did better if people were driving / motivating it.

              Maybe and (#banks) go together well so people settled for diving banks pockets and power deeper and deeper.

                Age Verification boosted

                [?]MadeInDex 📰🌎 » 🌐
                @madeindex@mastodon.social

                My take from this @cybernews article about an Android toolkit to trick KYC verification significantly differs from theirs!

                Them: "...the existence of such tools puts users and organizations at imminent risk."

                "Not a tool for the masses"

                Me: "Where can I find this amazing tool?"

                "A tool the masses everywhere need access to ASAP"

                cybernews.com/security/android

                  [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                  @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                  'Eigentlich war es ja eine Idee der Ampel-Regierung, der deutschen die Suche nach Gesichtern im Internet zu erlauben sowie einzusetzen, die so viele Daten wie möglich zusammenführt und auswertet.

                  Beides sind Überwachungstechnologien, die auf sogenannter Künstlicher Intelligenz basieren. Auf Bundesebene gibt es derartiges noch nicht, die Ampel hatte es nicht mehr durchgekriegt. Zugleich haben inzwischen zahlreiche Bundesländer ihren Polizeien und die genehmigt.

                  Nun zieht die inzwischen schwarz-rot geführte Bundesregierung nach: Sie will der Bundespolizei und dem Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) beide Instrumente in die Hand geben. Das zugehörige Gesetzespaket hat sie Ende April im Kabinett verabschiedet.
                  Daten, die nötig sind, um die Überwachungstools zu füttern, sollen ....'

                  @ckoever @yoshiXYZ und @markusreuter klären die wichtigsten Fragen rund um das in diesem

                  netzpolitik.org/2026/faq-das-u

                  ArcaneChat boosted

                  [?]adb » 🌐
                  @adbenitez@mastodon.de

                  @snap here, have another flyer to help you in your quest 👏👏👏

                  EDIT: fix typo in flyer

                    [?]David August ❌👑 » 🌐
                    @davidaugust@mastodon.online

                    Months ago, I installed Microsoft Teams on my computer because a specific project used it. It is the only Microsoft Software I have on there (a Mac and I use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office).

                    As that project winds down, is there _any_ reason not to find and remove all Microsoft stuff from my machine? It’s updater alone weirdly wants to update itself every week it seems.

                    Also, what’s the best way to do so?

                      ⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ 🍥🍉⚪🌹 boosted

                      [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                      @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                      Advanced software definitions (for "Modern and Up To Date Software Developers, Not You Old Fashioned People"):

                      Continuous Integration (CI) - the practice of deploying untested code to production, and fixing it after customers complain

                        𝚛𝚊𝚝 boosted

                        [?]ICM » 🌐
                        @icm@mastodon.sdf.org

                        Enough time has passed that you may now (and please do so):

                        COPY THAT FLOPPY!

                        icm.museum

                          Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring boosted

                          [?]Ashwin Dixit » 🌐
                          @ashwin@defcon.social

                          Hello, fellow hackers,

                          I am a and have lost access to computing resources for the time being.

                          I have this code repository, almost ready. It forms the basis of a True Democracy. Basically, voters get to collectively make up the government’s budget. Government departments have to work within the budgets set by the people.

                          Could someone please clone, tweak, and deploy it to a public website?

                          This is a topical solution that will fix many issues we face today.

                          gitlab.com/purrperl/peoples-co

                          Thank you so much!



                            Flipboard Tech Desk boosted

                            [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                            @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                            What actually happens when you let apps track your activity?

                            What kind of data is being collected by our devices, and how is it being used? Should we "Ask app not to track"?

                            engadget.com/2236798/what-happ

                            [Engadget]

                              [?]plzupgrademe [He/Him] » 🌐
                              @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca

                              As a sighted person I use software tools to visualize the space used on my disk into space-filling maps where I can quickly see where I’m using disk-space. It solves the problem of having folders of a lot of tiny files taking up space, or huge files you didn’t know existed in some directory you forgot.

                              I would like to learn how people with vision impairments handle this task. It would be great then to extend existing tooling to serve people with vision impairments as effectively as sighted people benefit from the tool.

                              #software #accessibility

                              a screenshot of a macos application called grandperspective which visualizes the contents of your disk or folders as a space filling map. The disk is a rectangle, and within that rectangle are squares organized into groups according to their folders, so there are squares within squares within squares, each file is represented by a square so that the size of the square is proportional to the amount of space the file takes on the disk. As a result a sighted person can instantly see the hierarchy of where large files are taking up space, or which folders contain lots of files which together are significant and could be removed and save the computer operator space.

                              Alt...a screenshot of a macos application called grandperspective which visualizes the contents of your disk or folders as a space filling map. The disk is a rectangle, and within that rectangle are squares organized into groups according to their folders, so there are squares within squares within squares, each file is represented by a square so that the size of the square is proportional to the amount of space the file takes on the disk. As a result a sighted person can instantly see the hierarchy of where large files are taking up space, or which folders contain lots of files which together are significant and could be removed and save the computer operator space.

                                Draken BlackKnight boosted

                                [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 $48,000 flyin…

                                The drone that destroyed a Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber at Russia's Engels-2 air base last month turns out to be the MICH 2000.

                                tomshardware.com/tech-industry

                                [Tom's Hardware]

                                  muddle 🥣 boosted

                                  [?]Tuta » 🌐
                                  @Tutanota@mastodon.social

                                  🎉Big Win Against Big Tech🎉

                                  Apple's lawsuit against the EU failed. Apple is still regulated under the DMA and must enable interoperability.

                                  This is great news for and . ❤️

                                  DMA & EU stars VS Apple logo

                                  Alt...DMA & EU stars VS Apple logo

                                    Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов boosted

                                    [?]amen zwa, esq. » 🌐
                                    @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz

                                    Most development efforts today rise to the level of mere craft, not art and certainly not . Sure, a small minority of projects do employ automated verification tools mechanically to fulfil the mathematical proof obligations. But even in such best practice processes, the human element is completely missing from the chain.

                                    If civil engineering were to employ the "software best practice" to a massive infrastructure project, say to build a bridge that spans a gorge, a gaggle of unlicensed practitioners—who neither studied civil engineering nor ever visited the construction site—would download a few cool-looking, open-source bridge designs from the web, 3D print those bridges across the divide, have their friends and families drive over them, reject the ones that collapsed and killed people, select the one that was left standing, then post hoc apply automated structural analysis tools to that design.

                                    If "software engineering" is the goal, the first step that practitioners must take is to accept the mathematical proof obligations throughout the process, from requirements and feasibility studies, through specification and design iterations, to implementation and verification tasks. Thereafter, the software industry could proceed to talk about replacing those meaningless self-certifications with licensure under the law.

                                    Of course, only life-critical applications demand ab initio mathematical formal methods, and licensing requirements apply only to the chief engineer and a handful of subordinate engineers who legally guarantee the quality of the work of the entire team. This is the same in other licensed fields, such as medicine, law, and engineering.

                                      [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                      @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                      : anonymously using voice masks oinline?

                                      So + / that anonymise but don't make it too mechanical and it enough so predators can't collect real voices? (Can still be pleasurable to listen).

                                      What do you think?

                                      For example = + to talk (as a priority instead of text only) for those that want.

                                      1/ Do you know of this ?

                                      2/ Is it a good method to speak faster and more openly with a bit of voice protection?

                                        [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                        @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                        @elsua54 @sturmsucht

                                        2/ We are still waiting on a '#system' to solve humanity...
                                        We waiting for a
                                        We waiting for a etc

                                        of which work -only- humans can do with humans!

                                        No machine does the people work to develop people (it's not just about Mastodon developing software).

                                        We have to learn what is and give it to others measurably better.

                                        Mini-Conclusion

                                        Even the and for are not working on people - just !

                                        Amazing right?

                                          [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                          @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                          and NEED DRIVERS (#PEOPLE / !)

                                          SOCIAL MEDIA AS COLD SOFTWARE WITHOUT THE PEOPLE WORK,
                                          ISN'T SOCIAL BUT 1-WAY.

                                          is not pioneering social more than 1-WAY media storage upload / space.

                                          Am I right?

                                            [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                            @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                            @SecondJon @frayoshi @freemo Respect:

                                            1/ was personal & discussed to the end.

                                            2/ BUT .... HE DIDN'T IMPLEMENT A CORE PART OF HIS OWN INSTANCE TO DEEPEN THE METHOD:

                                            Questioning
                                            Others to
                                            Teach
                                            Ourselves

                                            SAME ON "#MASTODON SOCIAL"
                                            (IT'S 1-WAY POSTING / 0-REPLIES MOSTLY)

                                            and NEED DRIVERS ! PEOPLE ! !

                                            SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT JUST COLD / .

                                            NEEDS more than media storage / space.

                                            = good idea to try elsewhere

                                              JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                                              [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                              @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                              State of play: SSD pricing one year into the AI component crisis — 220% price increases are crippling the DIY market

                                              We look at the state of SSD pricing one year into the AI apocalypse.

                                              tomshardware.com/pc-components

                                              [Tom's Hardware]

                                                DeManiak 🇿🇦 🐧-The Stinkening boosted

                                                [?]Jon Snow » 🌐
                                                @jonsnow@mastodon.online

                                                Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces

                                                windowslatest.com/2026/07/29/w

                                                  JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                                                  [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                                  Is open source the answer to rogue AI agents? Nvidia's new alliance says yes

                                                  As AI cybersecurity incidents ramp up, companies are racing to find a fix.

                                                  zdnet.com/article/is-open-sour

                                                  [ZDNet]

                                                    [?]Ramin Honary » 🌐
                                                    @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org

                                                    Apropos of nothing: Big thanks to Shiro Kawai for creating Gauche Scheme, which so far has been one of the best Scheme implementations I have used. It has worked well on every computer I have tried it on so far ({Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS} x {x86_64, i386, aarch64}). It is stable, very fast, and supports a large number of the more recent SRFIs (Scheme language extensions), it has very good compatibility with the R7RS language standard, and the Gauche REPL gosh is pretty easy to use as well.

                                                    I always run the REPL in R7RS mode, so gosh -r7 -I. -i . Scheme people, give it a try sometime if you haven’t already!

                                                    https://practical-scheme.net/gauche/

                                                    #tech #software #Scheme #R7RS #Lisp #SchemeLang #FunctionalProgramming #Gauche

                                                      [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                                      @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                                      Underlying "social" needs to provide to the masses.

                                                      currently doesn't that and is therefore limited to mainly (good things come but same-same persists).

                                                      Mastodon could help us come together from afar (as we already) towards incrementing & principles people.

                                                      Re-designing social itself as and .

                                                      Not only 1-way posts or regurgitation.

                                                      / Re-learning a new type of social !

                                                      Are you ready ? Yes / Not sure

                                                        JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                                                        [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                                        @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                                        Apple Sued by Customers Who Lost Combined $1.8 Million Through Fake Bitcoin Wallet in App Store

                                                        Apple is facing a new lawsuit from three customers who allegedly lost a combined $1.8 million after falling victim to a fake Bitcoin wallet app in the App Store, according to a complaint filed in California federal cour…

                                                        macrumors.com/2026/07/25/apple

                                                        [MacRumors]

                                                          [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                                          @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                                          @elsua54 I think it's natural yes and it could be what people would eventually see as lacking in their social software efforts and turn it / direct it into strength somehow through others.

                                                          i.e. Eventually seeing MAX POWER level in is not enough on it's own and needs to move to the COMMUNITY BUILDING levels between people to move on and max that power out !

                                                            [?]amen zwa, esq. » 🌐
                                                            @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz

                                                            Modern computing began when models of computability were invented in the mid 1930s, by mathematicians, like Turing, Church, Kleene, et al. Within a decade, first commercial computers, designed by engineers from top academic institutions, were being sold. Within two decades, high-level programming languages FORTRAN, LISP, COBOL, and ALGOL emerged, also created by academics.

                                                            Today, though, the majority of software systems are now being cobbled together by those who know nothing of, and care even less of, the foundational of computing—using , but of course. Somewhere along the way, modern practices diverged from traditional practice.

                                                            That bifurcation point was when the once-united "computing team" splintered into architect (EE), algorithmist (CS), programmer (CS), coder (IT), operator (IT), etc. It was also at this point in time when the first commercial computers and early high-level languages emerged.

                                                              [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                                              @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                                              @elsua54
                                                              What am I looking for + want to help create?

                                                              - for them to use us more directly.
                                                              - to use their own software - not just the loop - but towards the art of / loop.

                                                              "Developing people not just developing computers mostly" would be my tagline / short version.
                                                              Whatever meaning to each to try get AND give ourselves to each other.

                                                              , , can actually huddle us together. These circles are literally the revolution + better .

                                                                [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                                                @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                                                @elsua54 Agree on that.

                                                                We HAVE people "already there" who "made it" as far as dev but not dev , , a , as a human from .

                                                                Somehow people-loving communication is still Tetris piece missing from all the admin below that I semi-respect!

                                                                [#Mastodon], @Gargron

                                                                [#Loops], @dansup

                                                                [#GNU] @rms

                                                                [#SmallTech] @aral

                                                                = @markhburton

                                                                [instant chat=3-clicks]

                                                                (will update as I talk to all)

                                                                  [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                                                  @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                                                  @argv_minus_one
                                                                  for the way at the start...

                                                                  Meet realtime audio chat after checking people's'profile more deeply and their direction.

                                                                  Finding the of while accepting some in / to do more / your likes / talents to and increment .

                                                                  Going for the win in "slowly but surely".

                                                                  Perhaps not all-in but half-in (?) for those with time to .

                                                                  + WebRTC
                                                                  =
                                                                  AND

                                                                    Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов boosted

                                                                    [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                                                    @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                                                    @vnikolov thanks! I might say free-as-in-libre software to avoid the discussion of 'open source' as such. I just boosted this to mean I would welcome additional questions and comments for @bandali viz our live discussion coming up in 17 hours anticipated here: gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/11695 sharpsign sorta .

                                                                      [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                                                      @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                                                      @argv_minus_one

                                                                      So yu can COUNT REPLIES and see depth of comments daily.

                                                                      (i.e.) Nobody is actually working on social itself...

                                                                      As if just having and is enough and everyone is super-ready at communicating to solve the social world and bd logic of everyone currently being afraid of everyone online or insulting them when they are tired after a few normally taxing replies to read! NOooo...

                                                                      We need better people, not just better tech!

                                                                        [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                                                        @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                                                        @argv_minus_one

                                                                        - for Mastodon and other developers they think and is the end all / be all to being better at social. NO

                                                                        SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT WILL NEVER HAPPEN WITHOUT OTHER HUMANS IMPROVING OTHER HUMANS.

                                                                        - Handholding / Step-by-steps daily
                                                                        - Co-operation / Trust incremented
                                                                        - Audio calls - Go to !
                                                                        - More responsive together
                                                                        - Use the mass now you have the social software online almost perfect.

                                                                        = (STOP developing software, START developing people ! )

                                                                        Thoughts?

                                                                          Flipboard Tech Desk boosted

                                                                          [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                                                          @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                                                          The top AI fear for 6,000 tech pros isn't losing their jobs - it's more work for the same pay

                                                                          Most tech professionals wouldn't recommend their own role to someone entering the industry today.

                                                                          zdnet.com/article/top-ai-fear-

                                                                          [ZDNet]

                                                                            Justin Fitzsimmons boosted

                                                                            [?]plzupgrademe [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                            @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca

                                                                            It is one thing to convince your friends to use XMPP, it is another to have them easily be able to sign up their friends too.

                                                                            https://txw.ca/mod-signup-keyword/

                                                                            This is a mod for ejabberd which allows in-band registration with a fixed pre-shared key. It replaces the standard mod_register.

                                                                            So your friends can pass this PSK to their trusted friends, and they can sign up for an account, and pass it to their trusted friends.

                                                                            An XMPP Client needs to surface a UI element for the PSK to be entered, and returned to the ejabberd server. I’ve tested it with my hobby client, Mach.

                                                                            #XMPP #ejabberd #erlang #opensource #software #jabber

                                                                            Mach In-Band Registration with PSK Entry

                                                                            Alt...Mach In-Band Registration with PSK Entry

                                                                              Flipboard Tech Desk boosted

                                                                              [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                                                              @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                                                              OnePlus officially gives up on the US and Europe

                                                                              The OnePlus 15 was the company’s final US flagship. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge OnePlus has confirmed what industry observers have long expected: it's quitting the US and European markets, and will no longer la…

                                                                              theverge.com/tech/966404/onepl

                                                                              [The Verge]

                                                                                [?]Emeritus Prof. Christopher May » 🌐
                                                                                @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

                                                                                Today Microsoft finally disabled my old version of Word making it read-only because I refuse to spend money on a new MacBookAir, now that my old one will no longer update its MacOS.

                                                                                Anyone out there have any recommendations for a (preferably free) simple word processor that would allow me to produce new documents that are readable (happy if that means I have to concert them to PDFs for distribution) & to edit old Word files (less need).

                                                                                thanks in advance

                                                                                  JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                                                                                  [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                  @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                                                                  New York enacts one-year data center ban on projects larger than 50 megawatts — first US state to impleme…

                                                                                  New York is the first to pass a statewide data center moratorium, which pauses all projects greater than 50 MW for one year. The governor's office said that it will create a GEIS to hold developments to "consistent stan…

                                                                                  tomshardware.com/tech-industry

                                                                                  [Tom's Hardware]

                                                                                    [?]Tech is not enough: Too Cold / UnCaring » 🌐
                                                                                    @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                                                                    @timbray @elsua54 Actually it's your kinds of comments that have a similar ring to it:

                                                                                    "If you don't like the software get out."

                                                                                    Not exactly what you said at all but it's not as positive or helpful, do you see?...

                                                                                    It was totally missing from something of a collective positive effort.

                                                                                    It's decent - But not the end of or I hope.

                                                                                    Too many 'working' with and NEVER .

                                                                                    Agree / disagree / mix of both ?

                                                                                    Do you do anything worthy to what I mean?

                                                                                      [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                                                                      @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                                                                      This week at 8UTC Sunday (40 minutes..) we have another titan, @yantar92 of !

                                                                                      : toobnix.org/w/2Z7id1MZQ6C2GTo4

                                                                                      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgmode orgmode.org/ is comparably famous to last week's Mastodon 's @bagder ( toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3V ).

                                                                                      The first thing anyone sees on is its README.org support for Ihor's orgmode. The community's Ihor's .

                                                                                      + @me 1 year org user!

                                                                                      boost for visib

                                                                                      Red Lispy Gopher Show banner The gopher, lisp alien and another character lean on a "lispy gopher show" sign. The banner says anonradio.net but you should go to the toobnix.org peertube in this case.

                                                                                      Alt...Red Lispy Gopher Show banner The gopher, lisp alien and another character lean on a "lispy gopher show" sign. The banner says anonradio.net but you should go to the toobnix.org peertube in this case.

                                                                                        JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                                                                                        [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                        @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                                                                        SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere — new environmental concerns emerge over burning 2,700-pound orbital data centers, FCC seeks to…

                                                                                        SpaceX retired 260 Starlink satellites in six months, with hundreds more to follow, as debate grows over the atmospheric impact of satellite burn-ups.

                                                                                        tomshardware.com/tech-industry

                                                                                        [Tom's Hardware]

                                                                                          𝚛𝚊𝚝 boosted

                                                                                          [?]ICM » 🌐
                                                                                          @icm@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                                          We’re working to preserve and reanimate historic computing software and documentation. We just took on the archive of two former PNW clubs and would like support for our efforts. icm.museum

                                                                                            [?]Daniel J. Bernstein » 🌐
                                                                                            @djb@mastodon.cr.yp.to

                                                                                            New blog post "Understanding lattice risks: Many differences between marketing and reality." blog.cr.yp.to/20260630-risk.ht

                                                                                              Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                                                                              [?]WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business [Unofficial] » 🌐
                                                                                              @wired.com@web.brid.gy

                                                                                              Bitdefender VPN Review: Fast and Affordable Privacy

                                                                                              Bitdefender VPN has an excellent starting price, even if it lacks the advanced features that privacy nerds may want.

                                                                                              Bitdefender VPN Review: Fast and Affordable Privacy

                                                                                              Alt...Bitdefender VPN Review: Fast and Affordable Privacy

                                                                                              [?]Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he) » 🌐
                                                                                              @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                                              Did I ever mention how annoying and *disrespectful* it is when I close the program's (last or only) window, and instead of exiting it minimizes to tray, and keeps using up memory? If I wanted to minimize the program, I would have fricking minimized it!

                                                                                                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                                                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                                                I explain my path through metaphors of ontological grammar with examples.

                                                                                                👉 open.substack.com/pub/brywilli

                                                                                                  CurtAdams boosted

                                                                                                  [?]C. » 🌐
                                                                                                  @cazabon@mindly.social

                                                                                                  LLM (noun): a machine used by software teams to turn piles of cash into technical debt

                                                                                                    JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                                                                                                    [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                    @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                                                                                    Bose thinks it can be a media company for some reason

                                                                                                    The history books are littered with the corpses of corporate record labels started by companies that had no business being in the music industry. Bose thinks it can be the exception to the rule. It thinks it can be Red …

                                                                                                    theverge.com/entertainment/953

                                                                                                    [The Verge]

                                                                                                      [?]Goemon Ishikawa » 🌐
                                                                                                      @GoemonIshikawa@tweesecake.social

                                                                                                      Hello all, I am looking around for a person known as agorka. He was the maker of a little tool called Orangator old non realtime softsynth from the 90s, as I wanted to talk with him to see if he wants to share the code.

                                                                                                        soapdog boosted

                                                                                                        [?]LonM [i'll most likely respond to he/them/dr but whatever is fine] » 🌐
                                                                                                        @LonM@social.vivaldi.net

                                                                                                        As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies just to pay your own taxes, I suggest you sign this UK e-petition:

                                                                                                        petition.parliament.uk/petitio

                                                                                                          LibreOffice boosted

                                                                                                          [?]steve mookie kong » 🌐
                                                                                                          @mookie@weredreaming.com

                                                                                                          Lately I have been moving my workflows away from Microsoft Office and onto LibreOffice. For a while, I couldn't figure out how to manage images in a Writer document like I did in Word, but finally figured it out.

                                                                                                          I did a quick write up of what I experienced and how I was able to setup Writer to work like Word -- and keep my workflow the same. It was an easy change.

                                                                                                          https://ultramookie.com/2026/06/libreoffice-writer-images/

                                                                                                          cc: @libreoffice@fosstodon.org


                                                                                                            ArcaneChat boosted

                                                                                                            [?]ArcaneChat » 🌐
                                                                                                            @arcanechat@fosstodon.org

                                                                                                            The fact that had to take down for users outside of the US by order of the US government shows how critical it is today to rely on US services

                                                                                                            Imagine they'd do the same with , you will not be able to talk to your and friends anymore

                                                                                                            This should be a wake-up call for everyone to rely on your own server infrastructure, running with

                                                                                                              [?]JamesBont » 🌐
                                                                                                              @JamesBont@mastodon.social

                                                                                                              RE: muenchen.social/@romankofler/1

                                                                                                              Sorry, ich kann nicht anders:

                                                                                                              an deutschen

                                                                                                              zu verwenden, großartige Idee und wurde auch Zeit.

                                                                                                              Aber dann OnlyOffice zu installieren ...

                                                                                                              de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffi

                                                                                                              ... dies tut dann schon wieder AUA .

                                                                                                              Zumal wir hier aus 🇩🇪 OpenOffice haben, was es auch für Windows, Mac und sogar Android gibt und damit dann gleich jeder Schüler bedient wäre.

                                                                                                              openoffice.de/openoffice_downl

                                                                                                              Warum nur Deutschland, tust Du mir dies immer wieder und wieder an ??? 🤔 🙄

                                                                                                                JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                                                                                                                [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                @techwire@social.gamefan.net

                                                                                                                Several police officers arrested for using controversial Flock AI license plate reader system to stalk romantic partners, says report — investig…

                                                                                                                Tens of officers have been fired, and some even arrested, for abuse of the Flock license plate reader system used by police departments throughout the US, according to a new report.

                                                                                                                tomshardware.com/software/secu

                                                                                                                [Tom's Hardware]

                                                                                                                  hairylarry boosted

                                                                                                                  [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                                                                                                  weekly every 0UTC Wednesday (Tuesday night in the Americas) since 2022.

                                                                                                                  toobnix.org/w/tFN3aeiUunJrU99y

                                                                                                                  toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?a

                                                                                                                  by @kentpitman

                                                                                                                  I want to tie the climatecrisis to an Alexandrian view of the crisis of, I guess, the hugely popular failure of modern industrial architecture.

                                                                                                                  The meteoric (good) impact Kents notes on my lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/nicc and useage.

                                                                                                                  A WIP picture of the evolution of my NicCLIM part-way through trying out some of Kent's notes about it and lisp community expectations about what the presentations and gestures would mean. Believe me, this is already a drastic improvement.

                                                                                                                  Alt...A WIP picture of the evolution of my NicCLIM part-way through trying out some of Kent's notes about it and lisp community expectations about what the presentations and gestures would mean. Believe me, this is already a drastic improvement.

                                                                                                                  Lispy Gopher climate unix_surrealism banner. Thinking of Maude you forget everything else

                                                                                                                  Alt...Lispy Gopher climate unix_surrealism banner. Thinking of Maude you forget everything else

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                                                                                                                    [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                    Tuba : a Fediverse client for Linux and Windows.

                                                                                                                    https://tuba.geopjr.dev/


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                                                                                                                      [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                      If you are using P2P file sharing software (besides bittorrent) please post links to the software with your opinion.

                                                                                                                      @infostorm@a.gup.pe @p2p@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe @networks@a.gup.pe

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                                                                                                                        [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                        Illuminant - A NNTP-based Fediverse Server

                                                                                                                        This is cool.

                                                                                                                        It is a Fediverse server you can use with a newsreader client like Thunderbird.

                                                                                                                        Demo: https://illuminant.asjo.org/
                                                                                                                        Profile: https://illuminant.asjo.org/user/asjo
                                                                                                                        Source: https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/

                                                                                                                        @infostorm@a.gup.pe @usenet@a.gup.pe @usenet@lemmy.ml

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