iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Gregory @grishka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

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When it comes to modern software, where is the line between a backdoor and automatic updates?

The New Oil @thenewoil.org · 04/10/2026

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Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss #SocialMedia #Surveillance Lawsuit www.eff.org/press/releases/victory-… #privacy #politics

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#3goodThings the decentralization movement is alive and moving. ❤️ you all the corruption of big tech and two-party governance is broadly recognized interdependence is scientifically validated as a core element of happiness and longevity

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

yesterday, as i was spacing out while my son droned on about pokemon (hey i'm doing my best) i realized that programming languages are like pokemon, the way he was comparing strengths and weaknesses and the stories of where they come from… what's your pokemon?

Glyph @glyph.im · 28/09/2026

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New Blog: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like? Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed? blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-pr…

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Deciphering Glyph :: What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I think since Mac Paint turned out not to be much at all like really painting, I have expected some near-future software release to start to simulate painting. But Krita, and every other paint software seems to really start and end with flat raster image formats. I think 3D fluid simulation […]

p2panda @p2panda.autonomous.zone.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

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We'll be at #SplinterCon in Stockholm, 3-5 December 2026. It's a community gathering and conference around network censorship, shutdowns, isolation and fragmentation. splintercon.net

3-5 December 2026

SplinterCon Nordic

The Next Frontier: Fragmentation in the Age of AI

a project by eQualitie

Xamanismo Coletivo @eliasulrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

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“From peer-to-peer to peer-for-peer. #P2P asks how peers can coordinate and produce together. #P4P asks how communities can produce and provide for one another. This is not a small linguistic variation. It signals a passage from #collaboration to #mutualprovisioning; from digital commons to […]

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Any of you awesome fedizens learning anything good, or just thinking anything about #decentralization, #p2p, and #p4p protocols this week? I want to hear what is alive for you. It does not need to be profound nor novel.

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

a seatbelt saves your life also breaks your ribs let's just drive slower or ride a train

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

do you have any kind of AI-detection in your browser? I keep getting links to blog posts and it would help to get an up-front sloppiness rating.

Danny O'B @danny.mastodon.spesh.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

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What I like about @seldo’s plan to remunerate open source devs is — apart from it hasn’t been tried and might actually work — it acknowledges that companies actually struggle to pay for FLOSS even when they would be fine doing so […]

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

everyone realizes that monday is bad. and yet, mondays keep happening. society is fucked.

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 12/09/2026

i think i need to rip open all my devices (including apple, after this week’s announcement of “live replay”) and physically remove the mics. this is some incredibly disturbing shit

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Tom Casavant @tom.tomkahe.com · 11/09/2026

it's weird that we don't talk about how so many of the world's mathematicians just use a Mastodon instance dedicated to math, and anytime a mathematician is quoted in a news article it's always a screenshot of a mastodon thread

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I am looking for a song about the new moon. my daughter thinks the new moon is not fun and so nobody sings about it. Maybe she is right. But do you know of a song? Write me one?

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Mauve 👁💜 @mauve.moe · 10/09/2026

What are folks using instead of Digital Ocean? I only really need a stable IP since I'm moving more stuff on prem. Preferably stuff with data centers in Canada?

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

if corporate identity is more protected than private identity, individuals need to get together and share #collectiveIdentity.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data […]

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Bruce Elrick 🇨🇦 @virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

In which Adam Savage gushes over puppeteer Laura Mathews' human-scale articulated bird wings with amazing structural fidelity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7MLrxor1A

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@RealGene/117230037007… what i need is video tutorials on how to open devices and cars and physically disable wifi and cellular antennae

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

how Autistic people can save Humanity because everything must make sense to us, we are a filter for unquestioned, agentic garbage. ("agentic" is Stanley Milgram's term, and everyone on the #Fediverse should be using it; he was hard-core antifascist) and while there is a lot of obvious value in […]

Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I believe the "data problem" is a techbro slop problem, ie PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair) An AI cooperative could own a set of entirely their own data (orders of magnitude smaller than "frontier labs") and train models on a small grid, and have something targeted, and […]

'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo.anticapitalist.party.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

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please boost. solarpunk.au been running this 45 TB disk array for some time now. the intention behind it was to provide services to the community. i was thinking, what sort of services do you want to see or use? some ideas: - IRC - gemini/gopher, there are some forum softwares - […]

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DWeb @dweb.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

💡 Get to know some of the incredible projects that got love and excitement at DWeb Camp! ✨ During our latest virtual meetup, we fought camp FOMO and embraced JOMO, the Joy Of Missing Out: you can discover what happened in the following recording! 🌻 […] [Original post on social.coop]

Screenshot of Matthew Hodgson from Matrix while presenting.

Screenshot of Christopher Rose while presenting

Arushi presenting the first slide of her keynote: ”Habitat: building towards a world with data agency”

Daniel Sahavit presenting ”Paris Data”, to explore data about the city of Paris.

juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

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What is the prettiest place you have ever visited? Not gorgeous, not breathtaking, not spectacular. Just pretty.

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I am sometimes in women-only meetings at work, and whenever that happens all of us in the room note it, and have a little check on if our area is too gender biased or if this is just a coincidence. Men-folk, do you do the same? If you're ina men-only meeting, does anyone reflect on it and check […]

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I knit clothes for my child like they are chainmail. As if the love I put in every stitch will be an armor against the meanness of the world. They take longer to make the bigger they grow, because protecting your child from everything is harder every day they live. I was knitting a sweater for […]

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

wrt #1Password I've been using #KeePass for many years. what's the deal with people wanting centralization in your password manager? I don't know, is it a pleasure to use? I used 1Pw in 2017 briefly; was not impressed.

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

#AMLD is a compromise on total rejection of AI in software development, for those capable of coding without. the fundamental principle is that the AI may not do anything to the code that is not written in a work-in-progress document. (WIP.adoc in my case because I like asciidoc) the human must […]

Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

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I hate the fact so many Liberals are loving this age verification bullshit. Then again, my country loves surveillance. Remember, if they say “protecting children” and aren’t also in favor of things like free school breakfasts and lunches then they proved that they don’t actually care about […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

🎻 “A Violonchelista de Fene” — By SFHIR in Fene, Spain 🇪🇸 Clever Art (12 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/08/30/clev…

A Violonchelista de Fene by SFHIR in Fene, Spain, showing a woman playing a giant cello across an apartment block, with the stairwell forming the instrument’s neck

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p2panda @p2panda.autonomous.zone.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Another drop-in community hour coming up! Tuesday 01.09.26 15:00 - 16:00 CEST (UTC+2) Come and meet us to chat about p2panda and broader peer-to-peer / local-first topics you have on your mind. meet.jit.si/p2panda-community-call

A scene from the anime "Shirokuma Cafe". Panda bear looks excited, probably because it is about to get some fresh bamboo. Pengisan (a penguin) is in the background, looking less excited, slightly embarrassed by Panda's reaction

wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 25/08/2026

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Just came across @sebbiebikes who's biking from Amsterdam to Japan and documenting the trip on @loops

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

RE: disabled.social/@vlrny/117135452764… whether or not you are okay today, what would being okay look like for you in your life?

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Do you use a non-hierarchical mind mapping software?

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I really want to love #SimpleX but their UX needs work

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 16/08/2026

You can also tell them that Bluesky will likely fold in about a year or two. At that point they will have a few options. - Move to the next VC-backed tech startup. This will definitely turn out differently this time! - Pick a PDF *and* an AppView *and* an app (if there are any still running) - […]

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Travis F W @travisfw.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

#noAI is not really a sustainable response to #AI despite the good arguments. Resisting the common trend simply is not an option for a lot of people, and for a lot of the remainder, requires too much energy. (Familiar?) I am a pragmatic person, and I am wondering, given "open weight" models […]

Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 16/08/2026

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RE: mastodon.social/@dansup/11710547361… I am, this present week, participating in an un-conference seeded by the idea of rethinking our concepts of “the economy” and how we might actually implement sustainable systems. One of the needs is to be transparent about what revenue is […]

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