RE: https://mastodon.social/@hbons/117099208164126991

The two ended floppy disk, the oven mitt penguin feet, the weird disappearing-row keyboard, computer that’s half bookshelf, the drive slots for media that don’t exist, there’s so much to love here. But using shitty GenAI slop to celebrate “a community that never stops learning” is a little on the nose.

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.

Rétrospective de la démocratie selon la Macronie et l'écoute du peuple et le résultat induit, qui s'est vu ce 17 octobre.

Vidéo issue de l'Instagram de Clément Viktorovitch.

#polfr #17octobre2026

@gamingonlinux Kind of surprised you go through the website rather than something like Whalebird or Tuba

i am fairly fearless and confident for better and worse. sometimes people ask me for tips on being confident and less shy (eg: in performing) and the main secret is perspective + existential crisis + ego death + feelings of nothingness. look at the vast expanse of the universe and feel small. your nervousness shakes into barely a whisper in the gravitas of the cosmos. you are nothing. there is a loosely held deceit separating you from your surroundings. you are part of the quantum pie mixture of reality. the fabric of space has no concept of you or me, only mush, we are mush together, we are nothing together. your feelings of shame are the results of maladaptive chemicals and electrons firing pulsing and putting you off doing what you want to be doing. societal expectations are wrong, we all know that. they whimper against the magnitude of core truth, the untruth of everything. relativity is rejected for being inconvenient, but it can also be a tool to see old things with new lights w—

@benjo yes that's it. thanks.

'Fine, I'll do it': Kelowna elects candidate who went viral for self-deprecating signs
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/brady-rogers-satire-kelowna-campaign-win-9.7387848?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into British Columbia @british-columbia-cbcnews

"Okay but what if AI did your laundry???"

(The only way a tech bro could seduce me.)

@FediTips

My instance (mastodon.online) is on 5.0. I haven't seen any useful new feature yet: just jumbled locations for commonly used tools. I'll keep poking around, and reread the dev notes, but so far... meh. 🤷‍♂️

Just my personal opinion: I do appreciate that folks are working hard to improve Mastodon!

Is this the same thing as the “Reddit hug of death”?