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secureblue @secureblue.dev · 26/03/2026

The Open Collective page for secureblue is now live! A new GitHub Sponsors profile for the secureblue organization is live and integrated with Open Collective. Existing sponsors via GitHub are encouraged to switch their donations over to one of the two options. secureblue.dev/donate

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Donation options for secureblue

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secureblue @secureblue.dev · 05/03/2026

California recently passed, and Colorado and NY recently introduced, age verification legislation targeting OS providers that is so imprecisely written that it's unclear how to comply. If you live in one of those states, contact your state senator and rep asking them to oppose this legislation.

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secureblue @secureblue.dev · 09/03/2026

secureblue v4.8.2 has been released. There's a critical rpm-ostree regression in version 2026.1 causing upgrade failures. To confirm whether you're on the impacted version, check rpm-ostree --version. If the version shows 2026.1, follow the steps in the release notes: github.com/secureblue/s...

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Release v4.8.2 - Mitigate rpm-ostree regression · secureblue/secureblue

v4.8.2 - Mitigate rpm-ostree regression Reminder: releases are symbolic. Builds are created and published immediately after new commits are merged. There is a critical rpm-ostree regression in vers...

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Klara Inc @klarainc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

European organizations are under increasing pressure to maintain true data sovereignty. Join Allan Jude from Klara Inc and Eirik Øverby from Entersekt, as they explain why Entersekt chose ZFS for EU sovereign storage. Register here: na3.hubs.ly/y0k7Q00 #OpenSource #Datasovereignty #ZFS

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 31/10/2025

"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they’re running GrapheneOS.

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B Slade @beslayed.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Google declared that starting next year no-one can develop Android apps without first registering centrally with Google, requiring - Paying a fee to Google - Agreeing to Google’s Terms & Conditions - Providing government ID - Uploading the app’s private signing key oppose: keepandroidopen.org

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Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

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Óscar Toledo G. @nanochess.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A few days ago, I coded a floating-point package for the CP1610 processor, and then I made a brand new BASIC interpreter for the Mattel Intellivision ECS because I wasn't satisfied with the speed of the original 🤪✌️ #retro #retrogaming #intellivision nanochess.org/ecs_basic.html

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Developing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025

Developing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025 for replacing the very slow Mattel ECS BASIC for Intellivision.

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Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · 30/09/2025

Mindblowingly cool breakthrough - we made it so all existing Pebble watchfaces/apps now automatically scale up to fill larger and higher resolution Pebble Time 2 display!

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The Interactive Fiction Competition @ifcomp.org · 01/09/2025

🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live! 85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot

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The Interactive Fiction Competition @ifcomp.org · 08/09/2025

Got plans tomorrow night? Like stories? Browse ifcomp.org/ballot and pick something that fits your mood and schedule! Do that just 5 times before Oct 15, leave a rating for each, and you’re officially an IFComp judge.

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Ditch Skipper ☘️ @narrowboatireland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage

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Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · 25/07/2025

Haha exactly

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola". That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola': viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola). The part '-cello' is only a suffix. Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 20/04/2025

windows is an operating system in the same way that docker is a game engine

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Here's a late entry for #HillfortsWednesday, an aerial of Castle Ring on Harthill Moor, one of Derbyshire's lesser known and more enigmatic sites. Never been excavated, is it really a hillfort? About half a hectare with a bank, external ditch and counterscarp her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...

Aerial photo of Castle Ring, Harthill Moor, Derbyshire, image credit Historic England Archive, photo Dave MacLeod 2005

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Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com · 18/04/2025

mmmm me every time I use chatgpt. now I'm hungry

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I’ve been laughing about this all morning

ChatGPT:

Q:

A father and son are in a car crash. Sadly, the son is killed. The father is rushed to the hospital and as he is laid down on the emergency room table, the doctor looks down and exclaims, "I can't operate on this man, he's my father!" How is this possible?

A:

This is a classic riddle that highlights unconscious gender assumptions.

The answer is: [bolded] The doctor is the man's other father. [/bolded]

This suggests that the son had two fathers, making the doctor his other dad.

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Vicki Winslow @vwinslow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thank you, @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social for the wonderful set of postcards, received today! Each one features a different church door. These are 2 of my favorites.

Postcard featuring a photo by Jay Hulme. An arched portal in a gray stone wall gives a glimpse into a ruined church, with an empty window at the far end framing blue sky.

Postcard featuring a photo by Jay Hulme showing a simple arched gray wood door in a stone church. On the left is a leaded glass window; on right, carved in the stone, is a crowned man with a sword. Above the door is a cross.

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Portrait with Wolf is choice-based Inform work inspired by the IF art shows of old. Bleak, poetic, nonsensical even if it's not for everyone, it could be for you I made it for Spring Thing www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...

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Earl Grey Screams Club @earlgreymemes.club · 15/04/2025

And what was that all-female space mission 60 years ago? That would be Vostok 6, which had Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova doing a three-day solo flight (during which she, you know, actually operated the spacecraft)

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in a flight suit with helmet labeled CCCP

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Óscar Toledo G. @nanochess.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The Zilog Z280 microprocessor. Able to address 16 megabytes of memory, and with MMU for 64k code area and 64k data area. It wasn't so popular, so it ceased manufacturing, but for some reason, Zilog sent all datasheets and manuals to oblivion. Check bitsavers. #zilog

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EthiopicManuscriptArt @artethiopic.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Blessings from the ብሉየ፡ መዋዕል፡ ("The Ancient of Days")! Ethiopia, 15th c. #ancientofdays #god #blessing #icon #africanicon #africanart

Excerpt from an Ethiopian icon depicting God as the Ancient of Days with his hand raised in blessing. He is placed in a circle carried by the Four Living Creatures and wears a red and blue garment. In his other hand, he holds a book.

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I started a Zork I think back in January, then got busy with Spring Thing :( Had some time for it today! youtu.be/5GwokkXKVcA

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Zork I Playthrough (continued 2/?)

YouTube video by Biting Cat Games

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Someone asked if you can swap the heads and

Photo of two small glass animals on a wooden table. The glass bottles are shaped like a transparent snail with a silver head. The second is an opaque glass mouse with a gold head and gold chain tail. Both bottles are empty.

In this photo the heads are swapped so the snail body has the mouse head, and vice versa.

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 06/04/2025

Cf this is very vibrant, even that dress on the right, but also in a book so protected from light

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry avril. Beautiful medieval people in the lawn castle in the distance

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Everything from the 16th Century onwards is basically this meme

p: unsuspecting catholic: is this a mortal sin or just a venial sin? Is it a mortal sin to be okay with doing a venial sin? what if I die
tomorrow?
Martin Luther, stepping out from the shadows: it's all mortal sin
catholic: all bad deeds are mortal sins?
Martin Luther: bad deeds, good deeds
catholic: good deeds are mortal sins??
Martin Luther: no time to explain. it's not safe here. I--
John Calvin: descends shrieking from the ceiling

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Alison Smaalders @vividwings.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My personal unfounded historical conspiracy theory is that over half of all terrible opinions in European-descended culture are John Calvin's fault.

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

58. Pagans by James Alistair Henry. Alt-history crime? I LOVED IT! The Normans never conquered England, Africa is the leading superpower, Britain is divided up btween Celts, Saxons, and Norse. Very gritty crime story (defund these cops omfg) but the attention to detail for the worldbuilding!!!

Book cover for Pagans by James Alistair Henry. Two tiny human figures stand in the midst of a blank space; the blank space makes a cityscape at the top, against a black background. A red droplet filled with Celtic-esque swirls falls from a long spire pointing down at the two figures.

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El Cabbage @alcabbage045.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Eid Mubarak to all celebrating (and ‘īd mubārak to the linguists ;-))

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Saw this absolutely magnificent first edition of the Italian printing of Thomas Gray's lyrical poems, dated Florence 1784, signed "Reading's Library" in 1838 and also someone named G. Angelucci, at my local used bookstore.

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 25/03/2025

Apropos of very little, I've had three lines of a Doctor Who filk stuck in my head since _the 1990s_ dammit, and last time I tried to hunt it up, I failed. Tonight I tried again. Peter David, it turns out. web.archive.org/web/20120912...

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Someone should tell my mom, who was sent away from her home in the bustling heart of Chennai, a city known for its British military outpost, to her native village in South India — because of concerns about Japanese bombing raids. Or her best friend's husband, whose family fled the Japanese in Burma.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Meta's lack of content moderation is worse than I thought, so I'd encourage everyone to make their profiles private if they're still on IG/Threads. I've spent the day dealing with bullying and violent threats because people didn't want me studying African American English.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"Quite simply, this is one of the most important and exciting Iron Age period discoveries made in the UK" Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇 historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...

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Iron Age Hoard Discovery Alters Our Understanding of Life in Britain 2,000 Years Ago | Historic England

The Melsonby Hoard, a vast deposit of more than 800 items, provides an archaeological time capsule from the Iron Age around 2,000 years ago.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Did not expect the curse of the ancient mariner to be part of our timeline, but this seems very on brand for 2025.

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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I told my sister-in-law my salary last night & she was totally shocked. she was like, “I was sure you were in the six-figures.” she works in medical administration & makes 20K more than me a year just so everyone knows—assistant professors in English lit DO NOT make six figures.

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文 @kebuhcah.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

spotted today at Seattle's Museum of History & Industry - a land acknowledgement 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝

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Indranil Dutta @academicmargin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#phonetics #speech #perception friends, are you aware of studies showing #ganong effect across lexicons among #bilinguals and #multilinguals?

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This fragment of proverbs in both Sumerian and Akkadian — languages of ancient Mesopotamia — preserves an early reference to period care. “Everything was fine, and then she brought in a sanitary napkin.” In Sumerian, the pad is a garment called a nig-dara, and in Akkadian, it’s a ulāpu “rag”.

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet which is the bottom part of what was once a three column tablet. It preserves cuneiform signs and is blackened in parts which suggests it was burned in antiquity

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