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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Nothing new, but I'm disappointed. Many years ago, Linux represented the alternative. The question was: "Why don't you just use Windows? It's easier." And the answer was, almost always: "To be free." The "bazaar" spirit of Linux and its distributions made us feel free. Personally, I've always […]

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@daniel @linuxdays ooh that's even better! Did you have to do anything special to the acrylic (eg. in terms of shape/design) to make the light through shine through well or does any transparent shape work?

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@daniel @linuxdays looks very cool! What's the Conversations lit-up thing made of btw? At IndiaFOSS, I had hacked together an XMPP bot that changes the colour of an RGB LED according to whatever colour (HTML name or hex code) you text at it. I wonder if something similar would work here (for […]

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Daniel Gultsch @daniel.gultsch.social · 03/10/2026

We've just finished setting up our XMPP stand at LinuxDays (@linuxdays) in Prague. If you are in the area make sure to visit us. We are here all day today and tomorrow (Sunday). We have stickers and buttons! #XMPP #Jabber #LinuxDays #LinuxDaysCZ

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The cycle of social democracy

A circular graphic showing a dying rose in the middle starting with “Too much money makes too powerful” leading to “But I'm not Marxist” leading to “Let's just tax the rich and limit their wealth” leading to “Oh, the rich prevent it with their money” circling back to “Too much money makes too powerful”

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

IndiaFOSS attendees, do you have any JioPhones or other KaiOS feature phones lying around unused? Bring them to the XMPP stall and let's see if we can make them fun again 😄 #IndiaFOSS #IndiaFOSS2026 #KaiOS #DumbPhones

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I loath every article, blog, post that frames what happened with #AutisticiInventati as 'they folded, they gave up, they were destroyed in a couple of days.' No matter how well-meaning, this framing strips A/I of their agency and completely ignores they enormous amount of labour and care that […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

And don't get me started with those that try to move the conversation to so called 'digital sovereignty' and 'rely on European companies, structures, whatever.' That's only moving who can flip the kill-switch; it's not removing the kill-switch itself.

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Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Talking to different mathematicians working with #ChatGPT in the last months, we noticed two things that were true for all of us: 1. it’s basically impossible to run out of tokens. Every time we approached the limits we got free/automatic usage resets and could keep going. 2. We all got access […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I took a picture of this sign in 2022 and it’s gotten a lot less funny ever since

Attention! Pay machine. Do not pay any person

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USLUCK - USLUCK.COM [Unofficial] @usluck.com.web.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Jesus doing a complete 180 degree U turn on the whole wine thing by SatoruGojo232

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

The "Terminator" scenario is just the military industrial complex trying to maximize their profits. The "AI apocalypse" is just capitalism with extra steps. Capitalism is already doing it. Capitalism is already the AI apocalypse, and it isn't theoretical. It's been documented for 200 years.

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

if i rig up a random number generator to a bomb, program it to generate a number between 1 and 20 every five minutes, set the bomb to go off if i roll a 20, begin the random number generator, then leave the room, i am liable for when the bomb goes off. the fact that a deeply stupid […]

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Just finishing up my upcoming presentation for IndiaFOSS 2026 #KaiOS #Convo #Design #IndiaFOSS #IndiaFOSS2026

Title slide for "KaiOS Design Notes", with a purple background. On the right is a bunch of screens of different KaiOS apps floating around. Lying down on the left, below the title, is a bright yellow "banana phone", i.e. a button phone that's slightly curved like a banana. Under the banana phone is my name: "Badri Sunderarajan".

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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreas… I once led an online banking team responsible roughly 3.5 million customers. Just three of those customers used WebTV to do their banking: WebTV was less than one ten-thousandth of one percent of their customer […]

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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 @liztai.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Yeah believe it or not, the Malaysian ability to switch multiple languages has been a subject of contention in the political circles. (I won't go deep into it here,). I notice that Malaysians don't just switch languages with ease but just slip into cultural contexts in a blink. For example, the […]

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Who signs certificates for onion links? :tor:

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Imagine if I could type all these random posts from my phone instead of having to be at the computer! Maybe I should make a #KaiOS app for the #Fediverse someday... :mastolaughing:

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Hey I'm using the same icon pack on the website as I recently started using on the app itself. What a coincidence! I say "coincidence" because I thought I'd only discovered the icon pack for the first time recently when I added it to the app. Turns out my past self had already discovered it a […]

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I've also raised a merge request to update the metadata on #BananaHackers (once and for all!) but don't worry, I've set up redirects in the meantime so even though the file name is 0.2.0 you will in fact be downloading 1.0.0 The update replaces the hardcoded version number in the download file […]

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

You can find all the latest screenshots here (or in the "screenshots" folder of the repo, but here is quicker) convo.fsci.in

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Convo | Messaging on KaiOS feature phones, powered by Jabber/XMPP

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@rohini sounds like me. Actually, I started getting annoyed before the diffusion model thing too, when websites would use stock photos! I used to use them initially, but stopped when I suddenly spotted what I thought was an article I'd edited but it turned out to be a completely different […]

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@rohini/11720726655… I see AI-generated images of food in food-delivery apps, lose my appetite, and close the app. That's a good thing.

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Daniel Gultsch @daniel.gultsch.social · 04/09/2026

I'm getting out the good streaming setup for today's 29th XMPP Summit. ☺️

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

babe, what’s wrong? you’ve barely recorded any footage on your toothbrush camera

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Governments rescued the financial system by issuing future money (quantitative easing). They cannot rescue the food system if it starts to collapse by issuing future food. No one in government seems to have grasped what this means. A horror beyond contemplation, which could happen at any moment.

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 03/09/2026

European Digital Rights initiative (@edri) stands in full solidarity with Autistici/Inventati (@cavallette) "This safe and secure communications infrastructure is a critical alternative to Big Tech platforms and used widely for anti-fascist organising and grassroots social movements, which are […]

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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

One of the greatest dangers posed by the recent censorship of A/I is that it could be just a test case for the US government to determine how easily it can isolate and silence privacy-oriented infrastructure beyond its borders. Anyone who works on or cares about digital infrastructure, privacy […]

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Stefano on littleFedi @stefano.rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

# This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance. It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card. **It consumes just under 1W.** Its database […] [Original post on rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it]

My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/08/2026

the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/cree…

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 27/08/2026

"Now that infrastructure itself is being treated as evidence of terrorism, and solidarity is turning into “material support.” This isn't only an attack on A/I. It's a warning to anyone building servers, encrypted communications, independent publishing platforms and other infrastructure that […]

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

if everyone is responsible, then no one is if everybody is sick, then nobody is if everything is a crisis, then nothing is

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

people complain about aliexpress a lot, but i needed exactly four keycaps for the keyboard i'm using, and i ordered some, and within _less than a hour_ from me making the order the seller shipped it it's midnight in china right now

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#!/usr/bin/env rm -f @lofty.fieldprogrammable.gay.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

here's a question for fedi because statistically one of you has an idea (boosts welcome) increasingly often, my phone (fairphone 5) has been completely dropping all cellular signal, showing "No service - no SIM". when it gets like this, airplane mode won't fix it and Settings > Network and […]

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

you guys do realize that all these hallmarks of "AI" browsers/scrapers are also the same things that accessibility tools do, right? because both interact with a webpage as a big pile of text, not as a bunch of 2d images you can click on. but it's fine. we should be feeding deliberately fake […]

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defnull @defnull.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Once every few weeks I get a personal email from someone asking questions about one of my #FOSS projects, and I love it! They are not asking for support or new releases or bugfixes, they ask about the code itself. Why it was written that way, or how it works. Real humans being curious, showing […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Remember the CEO who fired all those people on Zoom? He got fired. www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/lpwLL…

A screenshot of Vishal Garg the CEO of Better Homes. The news story says he fired 900 people on Zoom before Christmas and he just wants his job back

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Hippo 🍉 @badrihippo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@mntmn incidentally, I just noticed that @disroot is facing a DDoS attack too. Coincidence? status.disroot.org

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