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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 23/08/2026

RE: techhub.social/@cjmoorehead/1171393… This is a great idea. The UK and the EU should also have their own alternative app stores to compete with Google and Apple. I doubt Big Tech would pull half the moves they’re pulling against commercial and OSS app stores like @fdroidorg […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 23/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@TheDonRaab/1171400… My first contribution to Eclipse Collections was recently merged by @TheDonRaab and maintainers. I wouldn't had done it without all of the guidance and encouragement from Donald Raab. Hopefully this will be the first contribution of […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 09/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117055875… Nothing like leveraged investments in tech that is deemed too risky to be used in your own important Open Source tech projects. 🍿 I wonder who is going to be the Lehman Brothers of the AI Bubble. Oracle, Meta, Musk Inc. future […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 12/07/2026

I have an interesting issue with @apps and my REDMAGIC Astra tablet. Basically clicking a link in Fedilab won't open it in the Browser (or do anything really). I can long press and "share" the link to open it but it is quite inconvenient. Any ideas? (Fedilab 3.42.1, tested with both PlayStore […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 06/07/2026

Achievement of the day: I now have zero contacts in Google Contacts (both in my personal and company accounts). I'm using @davx5app with a self-hosted CardDAV server (a simple Go implementation of my own, maybe I'll open source it in the future) and Thundermail as a backup. I've also moved to […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 03/07/2026

Yes, and so should the British people... and everybody else. Join FOSS and decentralised social media. Take control back: youtu.be/va9cFNue7GU #LeaveTwitter #UK

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 30/06/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@thunderbird/116811… I've got Early Bird access to Thunderbird Pro. I've already switched one of my domains to it and will report back, but so far I really can't complain. Yes, it is... raw... but the most important aspects for me (deliverability to the […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 14/06/2026

RE: accioly.social/@anthony/11642554229… Just a follow-up to this. I bought Brave Origin and have been using it across Android, macOS, and Fedora. It's a brilliant, fast, and compatible browser. IMlO Brave Shields in "aggressive" mode is one of the best uBlock Origin alternatives […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 05/06/2026

Shared by @JamesGosling on LinkedIn: youtu.be/sYA-z0Y8WRQ The TL;DW is: if you're sitting on mostly passive funds and ETFs, even the "global" ones that are 60%+ US stocks and ~30%+ Big Tech, it may be time to start rebalancing your portfolio before SpaceX shareholders pump and dump this […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 09/05/2026

I used to be a contractor for a blockchain company back in 2022 and 2023. They declared bankruptcy, phoenixed in another country, and never paid my last two invoices. Now, the number of crypto scammers on LinkedIn posing as "recruiters" trying to get people to complete "take-home assignments" […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 20/04/2026

Writing my first quantum computing experiments (simulated only for now, using IBM Qiskit). It’s great to be collaborating again with my former undergraduate research advisor and his students... Almost 20 years after graduation. Some light academic work makes me very happy. One day I’ll still go […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 19/04/2026

So, I had a play with GitHub stacked PRs to see what all the fuss is about. Forgive my ignorance, but won’t having all these layers of branches result in a giant mess with too much dependent work in progress? I would much prefer folks (and their agents) to build independently using fakes after […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 18/04/2026

Not-so-controversial opinion: paying $60 for a good FOSS browser (regardless of how you feel about the company, its people and the built-in "features" in their main product) is something to be encouraged. I’ll be doing it myself once Brave Origin is stable […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 04/04/2026

RE: accioly.social/@anthony/11634342337… Bumping this again, any PGP wizards around? Cough, cough @wiktor ? :)

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 04/04/2026

When a client extends a contract, I’m never sure whether I should extend my current PGP key and subkeys, extend only the primary key and create a new set of subkeys, or create a completely new key and “rotate” by signing the new key with the old one and vice versa. Is taking the “lazy route” […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 02/04/2026

My self-hosted Forgejo instance has better uptime than GitHub, even including the time my cat knocked the ethernet cable out of my server while I was away... My current flow: say I want to contribute to github.com/xxx/yyy, I: 1. Fork it to github.com/aaccioly-open-source/yyy 2. Two-way mirror […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 30/03/2026

1/3 - 🎤 The Aspiring Speakers March Lightning Talks are happening tomorrow, and the lineup is 🔥 Aspiring Speakers is back with another lunchtime session where members of the tech community take the mic and work on improving their public speaking skills in a safe, welcoming space. Register here […]

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Terence Eden’s Blog @shkspr.mobi · 14/03/2026

## How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers? shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/how-can-go… When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]

A tiny lego Storm Trooper eats a chocolate coin.

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

You just provisioned a fresh Linux server. Within minutes, the SSH brute-force bots will arrive. There are too many ways to build a firewall in Linux. I wrote a practical guide to the four major tools: iptables, nftables, firewalld, and ufw, including their mental models and deployable configs […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 14/03/2026

Friday the 13th followed by Pi Day on Caturday. What a combo! Happy days. I hope you enjoy your weekend! #PiDay #Caturday

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/03/2026

If you've recently joined the fediverse, and are maybe on a smaller server, things might feel a bit isolated. Fediverse does require a bit more effort compared to traditional social media. This is where the community has really stepped in and created some great tools, like these bots that share […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 08/03/2026

Quick question: I haven’t been much active on Mastodon and similar Fediverse "Twitter like" social media clients for a while. Lately, I’ve noticed many folks commenting or replying to public posts with “Public” visibility instead of “Quiet Public” (previously “Unlisted”). Has the etiquette […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 08/03/2026

Achievement of the day: I just finished migrating my passkeys and 2FA secrets away from Google and Microsoft. I also removed Google Authenticator from all my devices. Microsoft Authenticator is now down to a single device with a couple of entries from clients that won't provide alternatives. I […]

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

🔊 Calling all Primary School teachers!🎢 Tues 11th Mar @11am GMT: Join me & @glasgowscience.bsky.social online where we'll be answering your questions live! Just getting my bank of pictures ready in anticipation of what the kids will ask 🤗🔭 🍿: curiousabout.glasgowsciencecentre.org/live-session...

Percy the Rover on the dusty red Martian landscape

The glittering whirling pool of stars that is the Andromeda galaxy

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 07/03/2026

Great video by Lawrence (someone should convince him to join the Fediverse, or at least bridge his stuff from Bluesky). I discovered a few new FOSS tools that I definitely want to play with. Also some nice configuration hints that I’d never thought about, e.g. routing Open WebUI web search […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 01/03/2026

(1/3) The virtue signalling around AI adoption and the need to tell the world "I’m doing it, so I’m still employable, right?' is beyond sad. IMO, a visible symptom of the fall of the post-WWII, US-led Western empire. I opened LinkedIn today and saw someone saying that he is "dumping" his tech […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 24/02/2026

Putting a FOSS project that you have poured your heart and soul into into maintenance mode can be a very ambivalent experience. On one hand, you feel relieved, energised, and free to start something new! You tell yourself that it is done, that you are done. But deep inside, you know that […]

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

This is from the JSON-LD spec. ActivityPub / ActivityStream are based on JSON-LD. I think it was a very bad idea for JSON-LD to define "number" this way! It makes it so numbers with fractional values are inexact & lossy. This include values that are […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

$number In the JSON serialization, a number is similar to that used in most programming languages, except that the octal and hexadecimal formats are not used and that leading zeros are not allowed. In the internal representation, a number is equivalent to either a long or double, depending on if the number has a non-zero fractional part (see [WEBIDL]).$

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 22/02/2026

Great video by @vkc. I also don't like the idea of giving Google ransom money for destroying the Android ecosystem, but with September arriving and the uncertainty around how stores like Obtainium, F-Droid, and Accrescent will work (if at all) in Google's walled garden, other than […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 13/12/2025

RE: mastodon.social/@TheDonRaab/1157137… If you haven't done so, go grab your copy. The book goes beyond Eclipse Collections, offering great ideas on how to categorise functions and documentation, how to build fluent, intuitive, testable, and easy-to-evolve APIs in the open […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 09/12/2025

🎶 It's the last Aspiring Speakers Lightning Talk of the year! 🎶 Join the Aspiring Speakers Community online on 16 December at 12:00 pm GMT in our first Aspiring Speakers Ignite talks It's free and open for all. See you there! luma.com/egw6pht0 #PublicSpeaking #AspiringSpeakers […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 05/12/2025

RIP MinIO. This is a bit sad. MinIO has served me well for quite a while. I'm very grateful to the maintainers, and fingers crossed that forks and alternatives will emerge: github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742… Just a reminder not to take any software […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 08/11/2025

This is a brilliant udda. As someone who used to spend a lot of time with ROI-obsessed bean counters controlling, well, every budget on 🌎, hear me out: Make the magic conversion metrics plummet and you kill the main incentive driving companies not only to slurp up everyone’s data, but also to […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 25/10/2025

1/2 - Here’s my FOSS tool recommendation of the day: github.com/schollz/croc Croc is my CLI file transfer tool of choice for many reasons: 1. Simple and intuitive enough to pass the "Anthony didn’t use it in 3 months and can still get it working first time" test. 2. Fully end-to-end […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 19/10/2025

How it feels to spend a Sunday playing racing games with frens using an FPGA emulator that you’ve forked and tweaked yourself. youtu.be/QliDNIc6Stw Top Gear is pure perfection. #Music #GamingSoundTracks #Nostalgia #Gaming #Emulation #FPGA #Retrogaming #TopGear #TheGame […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

FYI, the best place to check and see what that cool fireball you saw in the sky was, is this website: fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo… You can even report your sightings! This helps scientists to find meteorites, though I think a lot of the sightings now are […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 08/10/2025

Captain Janeway over here is still a better debugging tool than all the top-notch AI models combined (even when armed with a gazillion MCP tools and augmented with every kind of documentation imaginable). Plus, it’s a far better user experience overall. If […] [Original post on accioly.social]

Captain Janeway, boldly rubberducking where no dev has debugged before

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 27/09/2025

Oxford is such a nice place. The wifey (@sigrid) and I are having a great time. I wish the weather were a bit better for some punting, but there’s still plenty to enjoy with the Uni buildings and museums. Histotical & University cities >>>> "Alpha" cities […] [Original post on accioly.social]

My wife Sigrid at St. Mary's Church gates in Oxford

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 25/09/2025

Some good news for a change. I’ll hold off on celebrating until the studies are further peer-reviewed and reproduced, but for anyone with family or friends affected by this terrible hereditary disease, this is brilliant news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevz13x… #GM #Science […]

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 23/09/2025

Hey Fedi People. If anyone else is a DevOpsDays London 2025, give me a shout. #DevOps #TechConference #London

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @thunderbird.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

There's a lot going on in Firefox and Thunderbird land this week! First, we're taking part in Mozilla Support's Ask-A Fox event this week! (community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/…) Check out how you can get involved and help fellow Thunderbird users on desktop and Android! Second […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Night time. Three figures walk up a set of stairs. They are in fact Penrose stairs, an impossible object which one can walk up endlessly.
Low on the side of the stairs is a window. Another figure leans out and shouts up at the walkers:
“Guys! I'm sure it's not easy being trapped in an endless paradox representing the limited nature of human perception, but some of us are trying to sleep down here!”

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Anthony Accioly @anthony.accioly.social · 20/09/2025

Long shot, but I know there are quite a few Java folks around here. Anyone familiar with JOL, JEP 519 (compact object headers), and JVM internals who can give @TheDonRaab a hand, shed some light, and confirm whether JOL is misreporting the object footprint here (and why)? #java #java25 #jol #jep519

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