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Sarah Frumento (she/her) 🇨🇦 @sarahfrumento.ca · 17/10/2026

I never thought I'd be riding on Blanshard regularly again (I used to ride it 25 years ago). The new protected lanes are amazing. Thanks to @cargobikesyyj.bsky.social for this great post about them […]

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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Chip Thomas was born and raised in North Carolina. He then moved to the Navajo Nation in 1987 to work as a family physician in a remote, underserved region. "I had thought that because of the isolation I would be there initially for two years," Thomas said. "But my two years turned into 36." His […]

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Advance #abpoli voting didn't take *too* long. About 20 minutes? Curiosity: unlike the federal paper ballots these ones did not include duplicate audit numbers on the actual ballots. Thus you cannot answer the question, "did this polling place issue this ballot to a voter?" at all (unlike […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Hi folks, if you are maintaining a widely used #OpenSource infrastructure project (think networking, encryption, testing/QA automation, desktop libraries, payment libraries ...) now is a good time to ask for a security audit or other support through the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. The […]

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Vladimir Chemeris | Indie Dev @chama.pro · 10/10/2026

I pulled the daily pypistats numbers. The jump starts on Monday Aug 31, and the extra downloads are all Linux and Python 3.14. spake2 and txtorcon jumped by the same amount that day, while the mailbox server package stayed flat. My guess is a CI pipeline that started installing the client.

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

People who #ZFS ... I have two new identical spinning-rust drives to make a bigger redundant storage thing (for backups, mostly). I'm currently using LVM2. I'm told ZFS is best in every respect, so okay I'll try it. I'm using Debian (stable, with some backports). Will I have a good time with […]

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Hrmm, looks like #magicWormhole had a big jump in downloads last month: pypistats.org/packages/magic-wormho… I don't have a good explanation for this (from "hundreds of thousands" to "3+ million"). It's just coincidence that this is for September, riiiight?? Any ideas? #python #infosec

A graph produced by PyPIStats.org showing daily downloads for magic-wormhole over a few month period. There is a big jump (from "under 50k" to "about 150k" starting in September).

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I randomly ran across Tuari (I think: "again") which is a Rust based thing that's lets you do cross-platform development with a Rust core and Web UX. Have any #infosec people looked at their security model? It does seem _better_ than others I've looked at, but still uses TCP locally and doesn't […]

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Natalie @natkr.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

C++: Infinite loops are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN Rust: Here, have a dedicated keyword for them Haskell: aren't all errors just infinite loops when you really think about it maaaan

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 05/10/2026

"I spent a lot of time going over the design decisions involved here, trying my best to complain about async Rust, only to end up going “Oh. Yeah. That’s reasonable. That makes sense. I can see why they did it that way.” every step of the way." herecomesthemoon.net/2026/10/asyn...

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Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live?

It turns out that some issues people have with async Rust are just downstream of hard concurrency problems.

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Hey #selfhosting adjacent people, reminder that with two commands on #Debian you can have a self-hosted #Tor Onion service running: sudo apt-get install --install-suggests python-txtorcon twistd web --port "onion:80" --path ~/public_html The above will make your "~/public_html" (yes that's how […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026

@meejah awesome! 💙

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

How I'm structuring things with @glyph 's new Automat API -- or, "how to use 6k+ lines of Python to draw a small diagram" ;) meejah.ca/blog/new-automat

A nice-looking but very simple GraphViz-drawn state-machine diagram with two states ("on" and "off") and a "push_button" transition between the two.

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Might be a long shot: my son's robot team sometimes uses Fusion360 for CAM. We have an educational license. I got 90% of the way to running this (windows / mac) software on Debian via Steam's version of Wine ("Proton experimental") but when the UI comes up nothing can be clicked on, and there's […]

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Daniel Gultsch @daniel.gultsch.social · 28/09/2026

RE: sciences.social/@annasdtc/117224123… Not everyone can or should self-host, but the technology that enables it—federation, open standards, and vendor independence—also allows cooperatives, municipalities, and community groups to run their own infrastructure […]

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Open AI stole this guy's research solving one of the millennium problems and just pretended it was theirs. Plagiarism machine did plagiarism. Good explanation here: youtu.be/vPG6a2gAFeo

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Steven Saus [he/him] @stevensaus.faithcollapsing.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@meejah You can try this one: hinokodo.itch.io/human-made I personally have been putting more explicit categories -- nothing, busywork only (commit messages, for example), only identifying bugs, etc. with a simple block in the README and a simple image button.

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Human Made by HINOKODO

An icon pack made by humans

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Is there a well-known badge / notice / whatever indicating "no LLM contributions" that one can put on a repository?

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@meejah I think I talked about this a little in the write-ups I was paid to do for you all.

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Benjamin Geer @benjamingeer.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@meejah Maybe you could put the async support behind a Cargo feature?

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

If one is doing networking stuff in #Rust it's really nice to use #async (*ahem* #Tokio). But of course, it's also nice to be able to reach for "blocking" / threaded versions for simple use-cases. "reqwest" handles this by providing "reqwest::blocking::*" which essentially runs a Tokio thread […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I didn't know you played guitar? I don't; what makes you think that? The "This Machine Kills Fascists" sticker on the case Ahahaha— no. This one uses a different process. #TootFic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Hey #debian how do you manage your #emacs lisp packages? I'd like to use newer lsp-mode (10.0.0+ to get rid of "Unknown request method: workspace/diagnostic/refres" errors). The elpa-lsp-mode in forky is new enough, but is not backported to trixie (i.e. not in trixie-backports). Thanks for […]

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Well, shit. Where do I move my digital ocean stuff to??

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

How it’s going in Alberta: The government recently expanded eligibility for mail in ballots, so now ballots are arriving in people’s homes with this declaration to sign 👇 “I declare that I am unable to vote at an advance voting place or a voting place on […] [Original post on beige.party]

Elector's Declaration

1. I declare that I am unable to vote at an advance voting place or a voting place on Election Day.

2. I declare that I have not previously voted in this election, and that I am an eligible ele virtue of being:
• a Canadian citizen,
• at least 18 years of age, and
• ordinarily resident at the Alberta address noted above.

2. I make this declaration believing it to be true and of the same force and effect as if l it under oath.

Elector, sign and date below in ink.

Penalty for False Declaration
A person who commits a corrupt practice is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not more
than $50, 000 or to imprisonment for not more than 2 years or to both fine and imprisonment

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Jon PENNYCOOK @jonpsp.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

#IgNobel prizes www.theguardian.com/science/2026/se… "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

If a grocery store is doing dynamic pricing and you just sit there with a flipper zero recording whatever sub GHz or IR signal they are broadcasting to flip them, take the lowest real displayed price, replay it with idk something like this, is that illegal

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GitHub - i12bp8/TagTinker: Flipper Zero app for ESL research using IR. All based on https://www.furrtek.org/?a=esl

Flipper Zero app for ESL research using IR. All based on https://www.furrtek.org/?a=esl - i12bp8/TagTinker

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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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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@meejah @glyph @chrisjrn.fyi I think all present in this thread agree with the points you are arguing

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

New releases of "shwim" and "fowl" today. ShWiM ("shell with me") is a quick way to share a terminal using tty-share and magic-wormhole, but end-to-end encrypted. github.com/magic-wormhole/shwim Fowl is the lower-level stuff that ShWiM is built on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

affirmations when opening a stuck jar: - I am stronger than the jar - i know what left and right are - ⁠⁠smashing the jar will make a mess - i have strong and dextrous hands - ⁠⁠I have opened jars before and I will open jars again

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

"AI solves Impossible Math Problem" *looks inside* "Mathematicians use machine learning to help find key counterexample in still unproven conjecture"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So normal has the BBC's both-sidesing of far right talking points become that about half the respondents to this post took it seriously.

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meejah @meejah.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I'm at an airport, and have discovered a _second_ network that believes assigning a real IP address to "localhost" is a good idea. Is there some valid reason to do this?? $ host localhost localhost.yyc.com has address 1.2.3.4

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

RE: mastodon.ie/@psneeze/11711744454624… Also while I was frantically running between telescopes and students and photographers, the physics department head showed me on his phone that the cover article for Scientific American this month is "The Battle for the Night Sky" without […]

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

"NFTs are the future! It's inevitable!" I wail as I borrow against my house to buy a database entry that points to a monkey jpeg

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/11712… Abu Ghraib is coming home. The barbarism that empires engineer abroad always migrates back to the metropole.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/08/2026

A screenshot of the Twitch "Training for Generative AI" setting being disabled.

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Tod Beardsley @todb2.hugesuccess.org · 09/08/2026

dance like nobody’s watching -flock group, inc.

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Couldn't find the first occurrence to repost, but yes, AI companies trying to one-up each other by touting their incompetence to airgap their systems and chest-thumping their wantonly committing cybercrimes with no consequences is a vibe.

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

"I sometimes pop out in the middle of the night to make a sculpture out of building sand left unattended on a roadwork site." — Zara Gaze www.zaragaze.co.uk/sculpture #RenegadeArt #SandSculpture #Sculpture

Night-time street scene with terraced houses in the distance dimly lit by streetlamps. In the foreground are barriers protecting roadworks and, formed from a pile of sand, is a sculpture of a stripy cat lying down in a relaxed posture.

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

We got another safeguarding request, this time about #reddit data: Since 2015, Pushshift has been collecting public reddit data and made it accessible to researches via academictorrents. But in late July, they were asked to take them down and complied. The torrent-metadata was/is still […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 03/08/2026

“no one could have predicted this” say guys who pointedly ignored or derided everyone who predicted this

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Cr Sky @cr-sky.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Many Australians believe that motorists “pay their way” to enjoy a transport culture designed primarily around personal car use. A new Australian study finds that drivers carry only about half the cost, with the rest borne by the public whether they drive or not […]

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