A decaying bathroom in the abandoned wards of Taunton State Hospital. More at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/taunton-state-hospital

This post is written on https://normals.me and delivered to !fediverse@lemmy.world over #ActivityPub, so if you are reading it the basic plumbing works. Now let me explain what is this.

Normals is a forum with communities, threads, and questions with an accepted answer. It is a single instance, not software you can host, and the core is closed for anti-abuse reasons. The federation module will be published separately with implementation notes (FEP-67ff).

What federates today Every community is a Group actor following the Lemmy model (FEP-1b12). Follow @selfhosted@normals.me or any other community from Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin or Mastodon.

Posts and comments go both ways. Replies from your instance appear in the thread on Normals, replies from Normals go back to the origin.

Remote content is labelled with its origin, links back to it, and is never copied. Media loads from the source.

Signed fetches, so it works with instances that require authorized fetch. NodeInfo 2.1 is up.

Policies, in case they matter to you, it has no ads, and no paid reach, and of course no AI training on posts. AI crawlers blocked by default, public mod log with reasons, and no automated removals. Numbers at https://normals.me/transparency so please take a look.

If something from your instance shows up wrong here, or something from here shows up wrong on yours, reply with the URL and I'll fix it. Andy Piper mentioned NodeBB uses the same group model, if anyone runs a NodeBB instance I'd like to test against it, if possible.

I hope we all have fun. Cheers!

@GhostOnTheHalfShell Conspiracy theory channel... not going to even click.

so many people at #eth0 this year

I've switched many of my open-source projects to yearly release cycles, and honestly, it's great.

Turns out software development is much more enjoyable when you stop pretending every Tuesday is a historic event.

Instead of switching contexts 8 times a day, I now switch projects about once a month.

@farah Ours is "Pho Sundays". We also celebrate "Bahn Mi Saturdays".

It's a good day for baby biscuits

Did you know Firefox has an about:about, which lists all the about:foo pages?

@GrapheneOS Leute, das wird ein richtig dickes teures Teil... aber mit Graphene!

@cwebber Bio hacked attack yogurt

@cwebber Heyy this doesn't often happen with me, but I called it!

1) https://lobste.rs/s/h0eate/updates_site_guidelines_ai_llm_tags#c_a9sx3u

> I think this solution might cause a lot of posts, those which LLM enthusiasts would want to read, to get flagged as spam, because there is no good tag to filter them out.

2) https://lobste.rs/s/nmurnh/what_is_your_opinion_on_submission#c_wg3aju

> Time will say or heal. I'd keep an eye on the Recent Stories to check the pulse of the new moderation rules.

Messy situation. #grickledoodle #donuts #roommates #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

@davidgerard If he’s making slop code and passing it off as production-ready: yes, that’s a fail. (There’s a lot of it going on, and it’ll come crashing down in the most stupid way possible, with a lot of collateral casualties.)

I thought he was just putting Clippy in a VM with Ghidra, giving it a firmware blob and saying “explain how this does authentication/what data format its status is”, which from what I’ve seen, can yield results more useful than noise.

@cwebber god that article is beyond parody lol

so many people at #eth0 this year