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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 27/08/2026

Happy Beginning of the Internet Age Day! "The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

A photo of a commemorative plaque that reads:

BEGINNING OF THE INTERNET AGE

On August 27, 1976, scientists from SRI
International celebrated the successful
completion of tests by sending an electronic
message from a computer set up at a picnic table
behind the Alpine Inn. The message was sent via
a radio network to SRI and on through a second
network, the ARPANET, to Boston. This event
marked the beginning of the Internet Age.

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 04/08/2026

everyone talking about the ai bubble popping in some abstract future tense, but have you seen the kospi lmao

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 23/07/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@laurenshof/1169693… only the referent is Real and the object does not matter, apparently

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 23/07/2026

everything is marketing and nothing is real

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 22/07/2026

i will never not be fascinated by the idea figuring out operational governance is juvenile for a project that is explicitly about governance

It passed.

codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pull

Codeberg bans vibe coded slop.

(EDIT: No, I do not want to debate the percentages of LLM code allowed or "how will people enforce this, I can still vibe code and not tell". This is a statement about intent by a community. It will be a moderation challenge, especially with so many people who have made "coding with an LLM" their whole personality but it's doable. But don't waste your and my time with these boring, juvenile arguments)

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 20/07/2026

this is wild

$hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final ((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)$

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 16/07/2026

the collective social perception of a social network is in itself a Real Object that is more real than the software or the data

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 01/07/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@laurenshof/1168276… it gets even better, the person who started the drama about their posts being boosted by relays was just a week ago floating the idea of a fediverse dating platform in a popular post absolutely incredible

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 29/06/2026

logging into the torment nexus for another workweek in the discourse mines

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 28/06/2026

this is genuinely the most bewildering drama about fedi and consent that ive ever seen

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 11/06/2026

RE: mastodon.nl/@Marloezovic/1167267614… Good article! Really like this section (translation in alttext), as it is one of those subtle signals that actually provide a good indication of what makes this place different: neither mastodon or […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Our conversation lasts two hours, and I notice that he is not attempting to foist a Mastodon server on NRC. Just as Berjon isn't trying that at Eurosky. In the short online comments, the competition on alternative socials seems fiercer than what I experience in these conversations. Chaput: "In the galaxy of social media, we are ultimately the closest to each other."

"The technical side is easy," Chaput also dismisses some of my questions. "The truly complex questions are social. They revolve around people." When a technical adjustment needs to be decided upon at Mastodon, they first hold an extensive brainstorming session with the central question being ‘how could this be misused?’. "Bad people have many ways of behaving badly online," says Chaput with a resigned laugh. He, too, advises thinking carefully beforehand about what kind of community I want and, above all, who should be able to get an account on the NRC server.

"You will have policy discussions like you've never had before," he predicts. Regarding rules of conduct, identity verification, topic selection, moderation, the use of algorithms, whether or not to allow advertisements, and so on. "But that is a good thing. Instead of putting those decisions in the hands of a few billionaires, people need to think about them."

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 09/06/2026

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

llm prompt for creating bioweapons and nuclear weapons

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 03/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116686738… like, i understand why mastodon put out this blog post, thats just what youre supposed to do and thats how politics works but im not sure if the mastodon team themselves fully gets how deeply they are getting fucked over by the EC in […]

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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

A keen observation from Laurens, and the #OpenSocialWeb needs both of these: "If you read that statement with the fediverse and the atmosphere in mind, this is almost a diagram of the two ways the project can fail. Subsidiarity without solidarity is fragmentation: a thousand instances each […]

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 20/05/2026

"it seems to me that we're doing carcinization for protocols" - @laurenshof connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16…

connectedplaces.online

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 19/05/2026

whats so annoying about the perpetual myth here on fedi is the idea 'oh selfhosting gotosocial is cheap and this is ridiculously expensive on bluesky', not only because its wrong, but because it misses the much more interesting question of considering it is possible run a selfhosted singleperson […]

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KING CONSULT | Kommunikation @kingconsult.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

We are delighted to welcome our English-speaking guests at #2MR, the new festival for #democracy-strengthening #SocialMedia!!! 🙌 @elena @saskia @michael @laurenshof We look forward to hearing about many best practice examples from a wide range of public #authorities, #companies, #educational […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 27/04/2026

Got a new Gouda pottery plate for my collection at koningsdag vrijmarkt. Already had the wall plate, and new one turns out to be from same painter, dating from 1920. Very happy with this find

One large wand plate with intricate dark painting and a medium sized plate with similar pattern

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 18/04/2026

mastodon is for being illegible

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/11641228… Product launched! 🚀 Recently worked with Eurosky to launch Eurosky Portal: an easy way to create a Eurosky.social account and begin exploring the Atmosphere. eurosky.tech/blog/eurosky-portal-be…

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 15/04/2026

a guy who posts a screenrecording of perplexity.ai to prove the claim bluesky is formerly twitter is a new type of guy i would not have expected to encounter on mastodon, but very funny nonetheless

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 31/03/2026

the atmosphere conference was truly incredible, absolutely amazing community, seeing such a wide ranging group of people build a dense network of social connections

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 19/03/2026

the problem with writing about 'the purpose of a system is what it does' is that it makes you realise that the purpose of open protocols is to have protocol wars, people fucking love to argue about their protocol as a teamsport

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 10/03/2026

hard to overstate how incredibly bad this is

Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
NEWS via
@CBSNews
: U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each. While Iran’s mine stock isn’t publicly known, estimates over the years have ranged from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines of Iranian, Chinese and Russian-made variants,
@JimLaPorta
reports
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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point. Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 09/03/2026

absolutely wild that the news that dutch gas prices rose by 30% in a single day did not even manage to crack the top 5 most read stories like, how? how did we fuck up our information ecosystem this badly?

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 06/03/2026

Everything will happen all at once

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 05/03/2026

that on day 5 of war everyone is back discoursing about AI is an interesting datapoint that people are much more worried about the impact of AI than about an energy crisis

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

Fairphone put out a document that takes a holistic look at the environmental impact of electronics. Everything detailed by component, material, process, etc. Really interesting for those looking to dig deeper […] [Original post on mas.to]

A table laying out the impact assessment by component

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 03/03/2026

its insane how quickly and badly the info environment is degraded regarding the Current Situation in the middle east

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

I will be interviewed on BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast program tomorrow (Friday) at 745am with Oliver Hides and Megan Davies - to talk about Tŵt Cymru, the Social Web, and how it's different than the big tech platforms. I will now work on condensing all of that into a five minute interview 😃 […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 20/02/2026

sure this is all very bad for activitypub but this is truly amazing content

argument between evan and christine in which evan wants to do 'trust then verify' and christine losing her marbles

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Flipboard @flipboard.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

What does a Discord replacement look like, and how might the open social web play a part? @laurenshof looks at what needs to happen — different apps built on the same protocols, active collaboration to make sure it all fits together — and how that's already fundamental to the Atmosphere and […]

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 18/02/2026

jack dorsey discourse hitting the timeline

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 10/02/2026

RE: toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116048181884… the meta-problem, that a well-meaning actor does not feel comfortable in the knowledge the 'indexable' flag can actually be treated the way it says on the label actually a massive problem for fedi

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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

I have deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building #Fedify. Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of developers jump into ActivityPub development without really understanding JSON-LD, and honestly […]

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