Signal may exit Canada over Bill C-22 given the bill's metadata retention rules and the risks to encryption and user privacy. Signal’s Udbhav Tiwari joins the Law Bytes podcast to explain why the company says it cannot comply and what could come next.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/11/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-282-udbhav-tiwari-on-why-signal-may-exit-canada-over-bill-c-22s-encryption-and-metadata-retention-rules/

the veldt

@Ronnie here too. Wtf.

*deep sigh*

@FediTips Ah that makes sense. Hense the variability. TY

@wendynather fabulous!

Well, at least SOMEONE traveling through San Jose is reading this, and hopefully taking it to heart … @pluralistic

@lislegaard @defaultmediatransmitter @meljoann @polarity When I first encountered this issue, I spent hours trying all sorts of things until I read somewhere about tighter integration of iBus with GNOME. I then noticed in journalctl that iBus crashed when Bitwig was running. After that, I found some comments on Reddit, I think, from people experiencing similar problems with other X11 applications and learned that it is possible to isolate such applications from iBus using environment variables.

Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic's "Chokepoint Capitalism" explains why we're revulsed by the app store's advancement of ICE brutality and Elon's CSAM-a-thon: they were built to centralise in order to extract, and that power was inevitably turned against civil society.

Congress will investigate, but questions can't end at sweaty thumb execs stammering to explain why they designated Steven Miller's brownshirts a "protected class." We have to break open the app stores:

https://infrequently.org/2026/11/app-stores-pwas-and-corruption/

@WishGate @clacke 16 BILLION Scoville Heat Units!

“Resiniferatoxin (RTX) is a naturally occurring chemical found in resin spurge (Euphorbia resinifera), a cactus-like plant commonly found in Morocco, and in Euphorbia poissonii found in northern Nigeria.”

Madness. That means someone will make RTX Hot Sauce.

@wohali in C++ it's explicit directly to uint8_t but in C I had to go through int32_t first or it sets negative numbers to 0

Beloved New Zealand comedian Dai Henwood has died at age 48, six years after being diagnosed with bowel cancer. Here's RNZ with more.

https://flip.it/RKZfBo

#DaiHenwood #NewZealand #Comedy

“ZZT Built-ins Acid Test 0.1” by goosedaemon (2010)
[acidtest.zzt] - “Title screen”
View World: https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/gooseacidtest/?file=acidtest.zzt&board=0
Play Online: https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/gooseacidtest/ #bot

To sum up @pluralistic@mamot.fr 's essay of this day,

I can no longer delay sharing an observation I was saving for a book title and/or longread blog post :

"The Empire has No Wardrobe."

@RealGene @peterfr @pluralistic

Yes, and after 2 years your printer shuts down completely cuz „printer head failure - check service“. Checking service -> „You need new printer head“ -> „Mhmm, k, how much?“ -> „300 Dollars“ -> „That’s exactly the price of a new printer“ -> „Is that so… 😏“

🤦🏻

That’s when I decided that I am done with this sh%+*.

https://makertube.net/w/aw8fsiEurERLF7QgNeU4Fp

from October's C2 live at gravitons 3rd W3dn35day show. I did a lot more noisescape and soundtracky songs in this set which I think a few folks enjoyed, but this one is a thumper.

what do you know about suffering?

#industrial #ebm #powernoise #rhythmicnoise #dance #live #concert #electronic #video #music #fediArt