@jducoeur According to the FCC “stop” and “end” are to be handled identically (alongside “quit,” “revoke,” “opt out,” “cancel,” or “unsubscribe”) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/03/05/2024-04587/strengthening-the-ability-of-consumers-to-stop-robocalls

I’m conflicted by this idea that I just came up with, but it's a media delivery service like Netflix that is technically free, but there are ads so you can decide if you want to skip that specific ad by paying a fee (let's say $1 for every "skip").

xlr + 1/4th in combo jacks are a thing it's weird you never see tiny xlr 1/8th inch ones

These little guys are many more like ‘em are what we’re after. I gotta tweeze these partially-glued capacitors off the board, then desolder each one, clean up, bend the legs on the new capacitor to fit nicely on the board, solder the new capacitor in place. Check continuity. Repeat 14 times (not 19 as I thought, yey)

@weebdeluxe ✊

@courtcan 🤞

Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.

@feld So glad I never used head/tailscale... ever.

I just use properly set up WireGuard tunnels that just work.

it brought back bad memories of an old site that was actually stealing our content without any attribution and they never added two-way federation lol

but yea this sounds good, I wish you luck!

We banned a spammer from this instance recently, and I went to see what instance it was coming from (in case there was more)

coves.social/community-guidelines

Coves is built on the AT Protocol, which means it’s part of a larger decentralized network. Your account and identity exist on your Personal Data Server (PDS), not on our servers. These guidelines and our moderation only apply to the official Coves AppView at coves.social. Other instances of Coves or other AT Protocol services have their own policies and moderation. If you’re banned or have content removed from our AppView, your AT Protocol identity and data on your PDS are unaffected — you can still use other services on the network.

They do credit Photon and they have released the source code for their modified frontend: coves.social/legal

I also found this on their GitHub: github.com/BrettM86/tidepool

Tidepool is a read-only ActivityPub → atproto bridge for the threadiverse. It follows Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin communities (FEP-1b12 group federation), materializes their posts, comments, and profiles as social.coves.* records in a virtual PDS it operates itself, and serves them over com.atproto.sync.* so the Coves AppView indexes fediverse communities exactly as it indexes native ones. Votes stay bridge-side as aggregates behind one sanctioned XRPC.

I think it’s neat that someone is working on this, but I’m a bit concerned that it’s read only from the threadiverse:

• They would suffer from a problem similar to what we have, when someone sets up a Reddit repost bot. Users interacting with some content while not knowing that their replies aren’t reaching the original poster
• they get content without giving content back

Read-only is pretty messed up, honestly I’m not sure we should allow that, it’s kinda just stealing our content

If you have ever tried to find out what a W3C group has been working on lately, you know it often means piecing together information from several sources: publication lists, GitHub repositories, mailing lists, meeting minutes, and more.

That's why our Systems Team has introduced activity pages: one place to see what a group has been doing, month by month.

They would like to hear what you use the pages for, and what you would want them to show next. See more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/introducing-group-activity-pages/

@feld yeah, tailscale.com/security explicitly says they don't have a bounty program, but still expect certain behaviours from others. Sorry, but I'm definitely not going to jump through your arbitrary bullshit hoops if you, as a commercial entity who will gain economic benefit from my work, aren't even going to compensate me for the hoop jumping.

There’s an old story about a child picking up starfish that have washed up on the beach and putting them back in the ocean. A passerby points out this won’t matter, because there are thousands of them. The kid holds one up and says, “Well, it matters to this one.”

I grow tired of arguing with people on the internet who won’t save any starfish if we can’t save them all. Who willfully conflate “This won’t solve everything” with “This changes nothing.”

(This post is not actually about starfish.)

@moira If by "lumpy" you mean the bearings in the wheel are shot, then yeah, that's a decision.

If you're talking about various protrusions on the pedal flat (which looks like plastic to me), maybe you grind that shit down so the pedal is actually flat.. or at least flatter than it was?

Liberals aren’t left wing, this is like B-tier trolling.

Viva Lula! 🇧🇷