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The New Age of Reading
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/26/james-daunt-profile?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Seth of the Fediverse ⁂
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Recently my enter key is acting up on my Windows PC. Not sure if it's software or hardware.
So strange
Shane Celis
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@shanecelis I’ve been vibe coping
FSF settles the Office Suite debacle, good news on age verification - Linux Weekly News
stand a little out of my sun 🍉
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Sunday, Oct 25 2026, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)
IT'S #MONSTERDON
we will be watching:
The Haunted Palace (1963)
"A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765."
its streaming free on tubi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIxey5Y0inY
please watch and live post it
with us!
The Haunted Palace - Vincent Price (1963) - Official Trailer
YouTube
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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first steps made, help improving NetBSD support on RK3588-powered MNT laptops wanted: https://community.mnt.re/t/status-of-netbsd-on-the-rk3588-pocket-reform/4699
Ross Mounce
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#OpenAccess applies to more than just articles. This #OAweek, as we think about the cost of knowledge, it's important to think about the infrastructure that makes open possible, and how we keep it alive.
READ MORE ⤵️
https://blog.datadryad.org/2026/10/20/the-cost-of-knowledge-and-what-it-means-for-open-data-at-dryad/
A group of Texans believe they’ve discovered evidence that the state’s environmental regulatory agency has continued to issue permits to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott’s call for it to stop.
@josephcox Show of hands here. Does anyone believe Greg Abbott’s “call” was anything more than public noise?
stand a little out of my sun 🍉
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Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another telephone.
Sparrows! Investigating the balcony for who knows what. #BirdCallOut
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Hello, please immediately run the following commands on your #NetBSD installations:
# certctl untrust /usr/share/certs/mozilla/all/emSign_Root_CA_-_C1.pem
# certctl untrust /usr/share/certs/mozilla/all/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_C3.pem
Context: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/0R3XLJL6FuE/m/0XofdebrAAAJ
More Office Suite drama, Chrome downloads AI model without consent, Plasma 6.7 things - Linux News
Switzerland ditches Windows, Omarchy now raised $18.5M - Linux & Open Source News Weekly
Trouble for OpenSource Office Suites, Wayland fixes 2 major features & other Linux Weekly News
This hurts, because, it's true: "Silicon Valley will spend millions developing a glove that translates sign language into speech (badly), but they won't spend ten minutes adding Alt-Text to their images. They will build a headset that describes the room to me (poorly), but they won't use semantic HTML headings so I can actually navigate a webpage."
@stephaniewalter wait_its_all_divs_always_has_been_pew.png
Did I just write almost 5000 words about why generative "AI" should be resisted, going through every single one of my reasons?
Yes. Because I need this article to exist so I can point people to it.
Enjoy and share widely.
https://estherweidauer.com/articles/why-resist-generative-ai.html
@aesthr Just got to "AI is here to stay." "So is heroin," and sat there for a bit staring at the perfection.
All right, reading on...
@aparrish
I feel you'd only be expanding slightly from "wholesome" if they were cooking your breakfast while you in pyjamas, gown and slippers read a current affairs magazine.
@skua that implies i'm running some kind of commune. hmm. i'll consider it
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TIL the fediverse basically DDOS's sites when you share a link.
I shared a link from NPR Tiny Desk but there was no image preview or video embed. After investigating this I learned that when you do that, each instance picks up the link and individually retrieves the link preview nearly simultaneously. For gargantuan sites like YT or Reddit, this is a trivial amount of traffic and not a problem, but for smaller sites like NPR this results in a sort of botnet DDOS attack on the site’s servers. More here. Another example here . For that reason, NPR has blocked Fediverse servers like Mastodon.
I have experienced this on my personal server as well (DDOS), but at the time didn’t know why, exactly.
This isn’t the end of the world, but certainly is not great and hurts engagement with the content. Is there a solution for this? Perhaps using some sort of webtorrent service like PeerTube where they just fetch the information from another fediverse server instead of the source server? Maybe fetching embeds client-side? At least that would stagger the requests.
