Thing is, Fediverse is not a product

@scottjenson @mekkaokereke I'd want an algorithm that's the opposite: show me posts that no one has boosted or liked. Lots of times I see good people trying to engage and being ignored. Maybe because of the non-universal visibility across the Fediverse, I dunno.

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.

UK petition: Review single sex spaces guidance requiring use on the basis of biological sex

Sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/780240

Graph: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/780240

Closing date: 18 March 2027

It opened today! It's a trans-supportive petition. :)

You can sign if you are:
- a UK resident, regardless of citizenship status;
- a UK citizen living anywhere in the world.

#UK #petition #TransRights #trans #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #transgender

@baconandcoconut Just don't try and eat the decorative gourd! Many of them are poisonous

I finally submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.96 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/35738

It appears as if GitHub's Continuous Integration checks have passed OK!

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Thanks to you, aleteoryx, Uilebheist, nowster, koru, daltux, pmjv and anyone else who may have contributed to this release whom I may have inadvertently overlooked!

Again, my apologies for the delay! Traveling without a laptop and then realizing I needed to rework MacPorts' Makefile.patch made this take a lot longer than I would customarily prefer as far as down streaming latency goes.

In unrelated news: Denver now has FOUR Wax Trax Records locations! Mile High DJ Supply's spot in Arvada has a turntable set up reminiscent of DJ Q*Bert's Octagon (facilitatin 4 skratch deejays jammin together with 8 turntables and 4 mixers feedin into one sound system). The Colorado Symphony's performance of compositions they commissioned by Joe Hisaishi was wonderful! Though, Hisaishi was apparently unable to travel to conduct. Here's hoping he will not have difficulties with future travel plans and will be conducting at the SF Symphony for "Hisaishi conducts Hisaishi" since I have a ticket to one of those three shows later this week.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

CC: @grunfink@comam.es

So we need people to just mass post links to bad websites, is what you’re saying.

Thanks for bringing this up. I think in general we need to work on optimisation of Activitypub and Threadiverse implementations of it.

Appel à témoins sur #Toulouse.

Le 18 octobre, des passantes et des passants ont été frappés, puis menottés et embarqués.

Leur tort ? Passer au marché Victor Hugo.

Leurs avocats cherchent des images pour obtenir justice.

Dans un état fasciste, les fascistes n'ont ni complexe, ni limite :

"Dérive autoritaire, suite : au tour de Gérard Larcher d’envisager une interdiction de LFI"

Pour la peine, LFI aura tout mon soutien à la prochaine présidentiel.
A bas les fachos !!!

https://www.liberation.fr/politique/derive-autoritaire-suite-au-tour-de-gerard-larcher-denvisager-une-interdiction-de-lfi-20261020_LAGIGMA7L5EYPJH7VLEPQDDNBQ/

#SiamoTuttiAntifascisti

@codecaffeine More on that later this week. Need to write it up, but it’s good news.

@djsundog what happened? I clearly missed a news story.

this game uses dollars but has a comma as the decimal separator

Eight intermediate TLS certificates from eMudhra with private key sizes of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised; browser makers and major apps have blocked them (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/the-internet-goes-on-high-alert-after-discovery-of-8-compromised-tls-certs/
http://www.techmeme.com/261020/p49#a261020p49

it costs $150 to buy what I believe is a license to serve barbecue sauce