@kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

Wafrn id… wait i have deja vu

Mid September it got merged to #FreeBSD ports tree!

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pack

A new build of littleFedi (2026.10.13) is out!

We've made several changes based on reports from our friends on this instance, feedback from those who have started self-hosting, and code reviews by the Little Computer People.

Here's a non-exhaustive changelog:

• Alt text changed while editing a post from a Mastodon client (Mastodon web,
  Phanpy, Elk, Ivory, Tusky and others) was silently dropped. It is now saved
  and sent to other servers with the edit.
• Alt text of images already attached to a post can now be edited from the web
  composer.
• When a remote author adds or changes alt text by editing a post, the change
  now shows up here too. Before, the post kept its old description, and stayed
  hidden for anyone filtering out media without alt text.
• PUT /api/v1/media/:id can now clear a description, and refuses media that
  is already attached to a post, as Mastodon does. Use the status edit instead.
• Alt text is limited to 1500 characters on the server too, not only in the
  browser. Longer remote descriptions are cut at the same length. The limit is
  reported as description_limit in /api/v2/instance.
• Media without alt text now report description as null in the API, so
  clients no longer show an empty ALT badge.
• New Favourites page in the web interface, in the main menu, listing the
  posts you liked, most recent first.
• Paging through /api/v1/favourites skipped or repeated posts after the
  first page. It now continues from the last post shown, like bookmarks.
• When the timeline tabs or the top menu do not fit on one line, they now
  show only their icons. Before, some themes cut the last items off or split
  them over two rows.
• Keep the canonical instance actor URL public in secure and allowlist modes,
  fixing a key-fetch deadlock with other authorized-fetch servers.
• With split domains, /api/v1/instance now reports the handle domain as uri,
  and actors carry a webfinger property with their canonical handle.
• Hashtags can now be followed from the search in Settings > Followed hashtags,
  even before any post uses them. Hashtag pages with non-ASCII names, such as
  #caffè, now open and follow correctly.
• New [web] redirect_guests_to_about sends signed-out visitors from / to
  /about, and [web] public_blog_directory = false puts /blogs and its
  sitemap index behind the login.
• public_local_timeline = false now also hides the links to the local
  timeline and asks for login on /public/local and when scrolling, not only
  on /.
• Signed-out visitors could load the federated and bubble timelines through
  the scrolling endpoint. They now get the login page.
• Moved profiles now show the destination and replace Follow with a link to
  the new account. Old posts remain accessible, and cached account data is
  refreshed as soon as the move is saved.
• Move notifications now show and link to the destination, while the account
  name still opens the original profile. Moves by different users stay in
  separate notification rows when grouping is enabled.
• Cached timelines now pick up new posts when blog publishing is enabled,
  without waiting for the page cache to expire. Incoming boosts also update
  open timelines through streaming.
• Profile bios can now contain up to 5,000 characters in the web editor,
  up from 500.
• The notifications page now has a Mark all as read button.
  Clear all still deletes them.
• Follows imported from CSV are now saved before the upload is confirmed and
  resume after a restart. Settings and the API show progress, existing follows
  and failed lookups. Follow requests and their outgoing deliveries are saved
  together, and only one import can run per account. This uses the existing
  database schema.
• CSV files over migration.max_follows_import are now rejected instead of
  being silently truncated. Set the limit to 0 to import the whole file.
• CSV imports now leave an internal notification when they finish or stop
  after a terminal error, with a summary and a link to that import. Retries
  do not duplicate the notice; no email or push is sent.
• Multiple Mastodon API Fixes
• Replies in the web interface now keep the original post's content warning,
  both in the timeline and on the thread page.
• Media can be added to a post by dragging files onto the composer or by
  pasting an image, as well as with the file picker. Files dropped elsewhere
  on the page go to the main composer instead of replacing the page.

Enjoy!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

Today is going to be a very important day.

I have a meeting that means a great deal to me, and its outcome will shape something very close to my heart.
It will mean a lot of work for me, but hopefully just as much satisfaction.

Things are looking very promising so far.

Fingers crossed! 🤞

#Life #DoThingsYouLove

Here the IMF is finally saying the things about an AI bubble that people in my Fedi TL were saying 2 years ago. I could mock them for being late to the Market Analysis party they’re supposed to be hosting — and I do, I do mock them — but also I’m happy to see that this conversation has broken through to IMF circles.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/13/ai-share-crash-risk-global-imf-debt-corrowing-cyber-attacks

Periodic reminder that you’re allowed to curate your #Fedi access to only see things that feel nourishing to your soul. You’re allowed to get your news info and hot takes from other places than here. Sharing #doom is normalized on pretty much every other social media so it may feel like you just have to let it hit you here, but you can take steps.

Filters generally work well. My doom filter is called The Horrors and has a looooong list of words. Just added “yandex” and “death cult”.

We do have bugs but our bugs were hand-crafted by humans.

A photo from our trip to Tuscany earlier this year that I have not posted so far because I don't consider it very good.

📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

In a discussion on LinkedIn somebody opined that PF is "an evolved fork" of IPF.

My as-polite-as-possible correction to that was,

"$poster, It's not a fork.

Rather, an independent implementation that was initially tweaked so OpenBSD kept a mostly compatible configuration syntax.

ipf was removed https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99118909527873&w=2 and the initial PF import happened later https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99341215821296&w=2 (with lots of commits following)."

#pf #packetfilter #networking #openbsd #freebsd

The paradox of local events:

On one hand, local organisms spend precious time keeping up on social media.

On the other hand, individuals scroll for hours although it feels like a waste of time.

What if we could meetup without being manipulated by algorithms? By changing the system, we could free up a lot of time for more interesting activities.

Mobilizon wants to help making this change happen.

To move forward, we need regular donations.

Support us: https://mobilizon.org/support_en

Your Fairy Blahaj sends you strength today.

#strength #courage #blahaj #trans #shark

Le paradoxe des événements locaux:

D'un côté, une injonction pour les associations à publier sans cesse sur les réseaux.

De l'autre, des individus qui perdent leur temps à scroller.

Et si nous pouvions nous retrouver sans être manipulé par des algorithmes? En changeant de système, nous libérerons un temps précieux pour des activités épanouissantes.

Mobilizon veut contribuer à ce changement.

Pour avancer, le projet a besoin de dons réguliers.

Participez : https://mobilizon.org/support_fr

@andyc @chrism @justine Exactly. That's precisely why I pushed to release the software, and under the most permissive license possible.

Right now, I'm a SPOF. But the Little Computer People could step forward at that point. Or at least one of them.

But that's not important: the code is free, MIT-licensed, and it's there. If I were to open a physical BSD Cafe and disappear from the IT world (or disappear from the world altogether, although I have no plans to do that for at least another 100 years), the code would still be there, available to everyone.

I know at least two people who would pick it up immediately, and I already know there are a few forks out there for studying the code and adapting it to specific situations.

The moment the code became public, I relaxed.

@Alemanita@mastodon.social

Si, pero no puedo hacerlo de otra forma porque todos los otros softwares del fedi lo hacen asi

@andirko@meetiko.org

Oh shit

Apple event today. I'm genuinely curious if and how often they're going to say the term "superintelligence"...

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/in-the-loop/2026/10/welcome-home/

@Alemanita@mastodon.social

Si permites anonimato trucar encuestas es viable

Es mas molesto que a diferencia de un objeto like, aqui fueran por un dm, en vez de “voto en encuesta”

@Alemanita@mastodon.social

A nivel del protocolo.

Cuando votes en una encuesta fuera de tu server, lo que va a pasar es que internamente mandas un mensaje privado con el texto de la opción

Es cursed a demasiados niveles.

@fullywoolly I was eating a carrot. Maybe it counts, too 😆