[...] Vimes's grin was as funny as the one that moves very fast towards drowning men. And has a fin on top.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity
https://time.com/article/2026/10/27/carbon-emissions-ultra-rich-oxfam-report/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Institutionally at least, anything goes - including the worst CSAM.

Perhaps this is an exceedingly poor way to describe it - I just meant that federation (like with ML, hexbear, lemmygrad, and any new instance) happens by default. Instances that host CSAM - like extremist far-right content - are quickly defederated from by the rest of the Threadiverse, but such requires effort on behalf of the instance admin. I thought, though perhaps I am wrong.

Anyway it could still be misleading even if correct, bc this is at the instance level, whereas someone still has to subscribe at the community level in order for content to begin coming in. So the potential for content - good, bad, or whatever - to spread is baked right into the ActivityPub Protocol from the start, by design. Just like what people keep saying about 4chan (though admittedly I never went there personally).

And people must have subscribed to hexbear and lemmygrad and ML communities on all of the major instances, therefore all of that content was already there for me to stumble upon as a new joiner myself, fresh from KBin where it had been severely curtailed. I - like all other new joiners - then bad a decision whether to flee this place permanently (which I almost did, and continue to revisit that thought every year or so as expectations keep not being met, making it all the harder to hold out much hope for the future) or to begin blocking people, one by one, and even making a (successful) petition to defederate discuss.online from hexbear.net.

All of which is a lot of effort, especially since it must continue to happen with each fresh new alt made to subvert bans. Each new joiner must then be subjected this again and again, like a hazing ritual that we who have been through such already now offer little to no help to new joiners to avoid. Except for your codeberg request that will help to change that - hooray!

Ultimately, it’s arguably fine for places like 4chan and nostr to exist (unless you take the position that the echo chamber then breeds toxic trolls that when they leave it, act to harm others, though keep in mind that in this analogy, the Threadiverse itself is 4chan and nostr, in that we allow anything and everything, especially on ML that we then host on all of our machines too - e.g. if ML were to ever go down, that content would continue to remain, foreve, just like happened with Lemm.ee), but what’s far less fine is to allow people to stumble upon it unawares, particularly when it is labeled oppositely from what it truly is. A place’s reputation should proceed it, not be entirely ignored and force each new joiner to discover it all over again on their own, as what happens with ML.

Today's reminder to Tech companies a #NoAI pledge is a really fast way to show people you are serious about being something different.

@intelligentblue @gamingonlinux Hoping to have this thing at a point where it's usable on my laptop soon, and then I'll talk more about it. (Hopefully) useful system component, D-Bus interface and everything. :)

@xahteiwi

RE: https://floss.social/@josch/117507580019985725

Consequences for the recent LLM vote seem to have arrived for Debian... automated slop reviews: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html

And we see here that at least one Debian developer, @josch, has been lost due to this change.

This is INCREDIBLY sad IMO. If you're an MNT Reform family computer user, @josch is basically a folk hero for making those machines *work*.

I am still feeling vindicated in my Vibe Bobsled blogpost, having seen both what's happening to the Linux Kernel and now to Debian, where we see the dismantling not only of individuals coding, but also communities, as everyone rides the icy chute down the hill https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

For now, I will no longer be uploading to the #Debian NEW queue.

And yes, I will now go outside and do something nice instead of trying to argue on mailing lists about #LLM use in #FOSS. Maybe do the same. The weather is great outside. :)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html

Don’t worry, Katie Miller. Dems will come for your criminal husband Stephen, too.

UPDATE: Carvell & Sons currently waiting on shipment of copper sheathing from Xantronix —Ewan

Brad Myers' Pick, Click, Flick is a historical reference of UX interaction, cataloging the evolution of UX over the decades. As a historical record of what has been built, the book is reasonably thorough.

While reading through it though, I found myself wanting more reflection from the author on why these changes occurred. (e.g. listing every scrollbar is helpful, but a deeper discussion of how they evolved, which ones succeeded, how mobile has turned scrolling on its head, all would have been fascinating) A raw catalog just begs so many "why?" questions. I was hoping Brad's historical perspective might impart more insight.

Ultimately, it is unfair to critique a book for what it never set out to be. Pick, Click, Flick is a historical index of what has gone before, and it succeeds at that goal. It's just whet my appetite for a follow up book that discusses what we've learned from that history (and what we've forgotten!) helping frame what we should be doing next.

@georgetakei What a sad day and a great loss. My deepest condolences. 🫂

@mattsheffield that an adult who has supposedly been to school can believe in things like cards is mind boggling to me. Human beings have some very strange urges when it comes to beliefs. :(

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Voisinkin tehdä uuden esittelyn, edellisestä onkin aikaa.

Olen keski-ikäinen nörtti pääkaupunkiseudulta. Kiinnostuksen kohteet ovat moninaiset vitsipostauksista peleihin ja politiikkaan ja talouteen. Luen myös paljon - koitan lukea erilaisia asioita, mutta tieteiskirjallisuus ja populaaritaloustiede on viime aikoina ollut kova juttu.

Töikseni teen tietoturvaa julkisella sektorilla.

Rajoitan seuraajia, olisi kiva, jos olisi kuva ja jotain omiakin postauksia, jos minua tahtoo seurata.

I could write a new introduction.

I'm a middle-aged nerd from Finland capital area. I'm interested in many things from joke posts to games, politics and economy. I read a lot - I try to read all kinds of stuff, but science fiction and popular economics has been a thing lately.

I work in IT security in the public sector.

I like to approve my followers. Having a picture and posts of your own are nice things to have when asking for a follow.

@RachelThornSub 🤷‍♂️ To misquote Steve Jobs: "They are holding it wrong."

@deadsuperhero median Walmart experience