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I don't even want to know how much data I'm tethering. I really should just find a nearby cafe 😂

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My building's power has been out for the past 3 hours. Luckily @katiewilde.com is about to go to a horse event and had the camping battery fully charged! This is how we get by out in the the desolate wilderness of Vancouver's West End 😂

A camping battery displaying 87% power plugged into a laptop with emacs running

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cc @bmann.ca seems like something you'd have opinions on

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 07/09/2026

Zoom has failed me for the final time. I've been having success with Proton Meet but also starting to give them political side eye. Discord has E2EE video calls now which is pretty great but let's say that I wanted another option: what are y'all using?

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🌈 I've now been out of the closet for ✨20 years✨ (Caveat: it's not really possible to pin down an exact date and you could argue that I was out long before, but the day that I decided to actually live life fully authentically was 20 years ago on Labour Day)

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 06/09/2026

Huh, I wasn't expecting Bring It On (2000 cheerleading film) to have aged as well as it has! Not "perfect" but feels way more progressive than other films from that era (which mostly have a lot of regressive dialogue and themes 2026 standards)

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 04/09/2026

FWIW my current bet is to wait. I'm seeing enough local LLM announcements starting to float around that dedicated hardware now will always still be useful, but I think the calculus will be very different in 6-12 months

Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 03/09/2026

I must either be good job of hiding my personal info & ad algorithms are making random guesses, or I'm doing a really bad job & they know something about me that I don't. Last month every site thought I wanted a Ford F-150. This month it thinks I'm in the market for a dirndl (maybe Octoberfest? 🍻)

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 03/09/2026

Good to know! But also, maybe to clarify my earlier comment on spam: I meant having your outbound emails flagged because they're not from a provider with strong reputation (like Gmail — not saying that I like that this is the situation but it is where the ecosystem has landed)

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 03/09/2026

Interesting! Any problems with spam / sender reputation at all? That's been the main things that's had me avoid the self hosted path (bad experiences in the past with systems that claimed to have solutions but caused enough trouble to make me switch). Would love it if they have that figured out!

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Totally, and these are the kinds of things that I like in Proton. E2EE, peer signatures, independent 3rd party audits, etc. You have to trust someone at some level but they do a decent job of minimizing that surface (too bad about their political alignment)

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

They're financially supporting some unsavory characters at the Ladybird browser. There's a few of these articles floating around recently, but I think this one summarizes the context reasonably well (linked to the main Ladybird section) brennan.day/normalized-f...

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Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...

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Thanks! Sadly not E2EE though. > We don’t offer end-to-end encryption in our own apps, as we don’t believe it provides a meaningful increase in security for most users, while the trade-offs are significant. They're not wrong, but it's nuanced and I do care about increasing E2EE email adoption

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Automerge @automerge.org · 02/09/2026

Okay well apparently I'm on the switching services treadmill as I discover who's still supporting bad actors 😫 Nerds of Bluesky: if I want to get off of Proton but still have E2EE email from a non-USA company, what are my options?

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🗞️ The August 2026 edition of This Month in Automerge is out! Check out what's new in the core libraries the last days of summer, and a few projects from the community that caught our eye 👀 automerge.org/blog/2026-au...

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This Month in Automerge: August '26

Automerge 3.4.1, sturdier sync servers, a new access control guide, and news from around the ecosystem.

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

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Introducing Patchwork-26

YouTube video by Ink & Switch

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Very cool — I had no idea that there's all this Wayland compatibility stuff happening for macOS! I remember XQuartz back in the day, but this legitimately looks better

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Choosing Niri over Gnome is definitely about control over maturity. I've had no issues with screen recording, but I fully expect to eventually need workarounds or custom code for something

I've used a few tiling wms in the past, but directly before I was on Hyprland. Learning curve moving to Niri: easy / roughly 30 minutes? It certainly has different tradeoffs, not as extensive an ecosystem, &c, but surprised at how close I was able to get to my Hyprland workflow (arguably better TBH)

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Before someone suggests it: I have tried Niri with Noctalia and DankShell, but didn't get enough out of them and they kind of fought my Nix-forward setup, so I'm just rolling my own waybar and whatnot

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GitHub - niri-wm/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

Finally switched my wm to Niri (in part due to looking at which parts of the ecosystem were so far staying away from DHH's crusade to reshape the community). Niri is REALLY good, especially for what is AFAICT a passion project! Deserves attention and grassroots sponsorship. github.com/niri-wm/niri

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A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to niri-wm/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 26/08/2026

I guess we've made it to disk 3

A bright red sun in the sky and reflection on the ocean as seen from Vancouver

A screenshot of Final Fantasy VII with a red meteor hanging in the sky

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 24/08/2026

OF COURSE ThePrimeagen is involved in this shit of course. crybaby white male victim of woke 2 number one is on the line-up for DHH's crusade of fucking course. "mask off" is good though, makes it easier to warn about.

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 23/08/2026

I also can't believe we still need to have this conversation. I've been hearing variants of this as long as I've been out. This isn't rocket science — we need to build webs of solidarity if we're going to get out of the mess we're in.

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 23/08/2026

Even as a fan of @verilybitchie.bsky.social 's work, I was pleasantly surprised at how well presented the material is in this video essay 🔥 Also that it starts with bi media rep and ends with [SPOILER] how we should tear down our oppressive societal frame & build solidarity using shared values ✊🤝

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 22/08/2026

Last I checked, *I* was the Brooklyn of Vancouver

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Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf · 21/08/2026

Amazing good for them :) I'm familiar with their paper from earlier this year