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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 01/10/2026

Does anyone here have a favorite in-class exercise for helping students consider how algorithms work? Ideally this is completely non-computational—I just want them to try to think procedurally about how they would need to transform data—ideally historical/texty data—step by step

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

@mattblaze Total solar eclipses are like nothing else. I've seen two, in Oregon in a fairground in 2017 (we slept there in our rental car the night before) and Vermont in 2024 in a Walmart parking lot that we stumbled into, with many other eclipse watchers […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A total solar eclipse, showing bright spots on the rim in the lower left and prominences near the bottom of the disk and at 4 o'clock.

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Mieke Roth @mieke.masto.miekeroth.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Schaduw op een katoenen klamboe

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

And my chums from the web platform team at Microsoft join Brave and Opera in supporting @Vivaldi's DMA 6(7) request for Google to open WebAPK minting, so all Android browsers can install Progressive Web Apps as fully-fledged apps. issuetracker.google.com/issues/5430…

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Jörgi (chaos.social) @joergi.eu · 11/08/2026

RE: berlin.social/@berlinfediday/117076… I was really unhappy, that I couldn't join the first 2 @berlinfediday@berlin.socia, but i'm really happy to be part of this one. I will bring some stickers with me. Maybe I will have some new motives until then...

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Rina 「積ん読」 Volpina 🏳️‍⚧️🦊 @rinavolpina.com · 11/08/2026

I will not buy new books before finishing the ones I have. I will not buy new books before finishing the ones I have. I will not buy new books before finishing the ones I have.

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 11/08/2026

Another step closer to release! The official website is now live at littlefedi.org with documentation and project details. Take a look and let me know what you think! #littleFedi #Fediverse

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littleFedi

A small ActivityPub server written in Go. One binary, no runtime, no external services.

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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Today's show - New Strings Or K Hole? Why start the week right when you can start it wrong... Prog and Jazz Fusion is the order of the day with Hugh Hopper, King Crimson and Weather Report amongst others. Enjoy :) Vula Viel – Fire Matching Mole – Part Of The Dance Hugh Hopper – Miniluv Hugh […]

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Harald Klinke @hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

The Rijksmuseum has moved from “an API” toward a machine-readable knowledge infrastructure: Objects, people, places and concepts receive persistent URIs, not just web addresses, but machine-readable identities that can be linked across systems. The shift is from “search a museum database” to an […]

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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Hey, Free and Open Source Software developers! Do you want $5000 for making a library in your favourite programming language? @Interledger is offering grants of up to $5000 for implementations of RFC 9421, "HTTP Message Signatures". interledger.org/grant/open-payments… RFC 9421 is […]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Do good things and talk about them. And if good things are done to you, for you, around you, also talk about then. Because knowing may inspire others. Because folks feel lonely and caught in endless doom. Because we sometimes need a push to do something: it's easier if we know there is someone […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

I just recalled the interesting tidbit that the idea of writing "(he/him)" and "(she/her)" was invented many thousands of years ago by the Sumerians, who often used written symbols you weren't meant to pronounce out loud to help you visually parse the structure of cuneiform, and this included […]

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Rosanna Sibora @rosannasibora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”. An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

"You will need to create accounts with AWS (this uses s3 for image hosting), Google (for authentication, possibly optional if you don't want to support login via Google), Algolia (for search), Segment (optionally, for analytics), Postmark (email), and Sendgrid (email)." […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

A sibling of "dang, lotta programmers didn't actually like programming, just the paycheck, huh?" seems to be: Security practitioners who are /disturbingly/ willing to hook up all of their personal computing devices directly to somebody else's cloud-hosted "do nondeterministic shit to the local […]

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Definitely not wanting to live in Yegge’s future. Or at least to not have anything to do with software.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

At the same time, we have to try to improve our work and our efforts as we go along, attempting to absorb constructive criticism as the help it can be. 5/

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/11704465… One thing we are not talking enough about is removing stuff: removing features noone is using, removing abstractions that haven't worked out, removing dependencies that have outlasted their usefulness. The risks are ever-growing systems […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

We also have to remind ourselves to treat our colleagues and allies and coalition partners as kindly and warmly as we possibly can. We must summon all our capacity for friendliness and goodwill and use it to bolster one another. 6/

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

I’m old enough to remember when we as a community of professional developers came together to tell McKinsey to fuck off b/c developer productivity is not measurable with simplistic metrics. So excuse me if I call bullshit TODAY when one tries to make arguments based on measuring something that […]

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

So the "SaaS is dead" marketing is part of this.. If vendors abandon the idea that they need to maintain a core product in order to enjoy efficiencies through scaling, you end up with bespoke implementations that have all the predatory characteristics of SaaS but without any of the […]

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

From a reply on bsky: "FDE looks like flattening from the outside, it's procurement capture from the inside. Palantir's playbook, now OpenAI's. the vendor's eng does discovery in your stack, the model gets tuned to your data, switching becomes a board conversation. PM absence is the feature."

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Hating on management is popular with devs, but if you think about technology being developed purely in the context of customer engagement, separated entirely from company process, you lose a lot of the opportunities for employees to see and therefore resist what's being built.. Product […]

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Forgive the tinfoil hat vibe but I think the vision here is to completely separate the deployment of technology from human intention.. To obfuscate systems from engineer understanding via generated code and to separate their behaviour from organisational understanding by removing managers from […]

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/08/2026

The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProje…! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Screenshot of a very simple web page from the first link in the post, titled "World Wide Web", with no images, just black text on white background, and blue, underlined links.

Below the title is a brief description of the World Wide Web project and a few links, that are blue and underlined.

Full transcript of the web page text:

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.

Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November's W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions .

What's out there?
Pointers to the world's online information, subjects , W3 servers, etc.

Help
on the browser you are using

Software Products
A list of W3 project components and their current state. (e.g. Line Mode ,X11 Viola , NeXTStep , Servers , Tools , Mail robot , Library )

Technical
Details of protocols, formats, program internals etc

Bibliography
Paper documentation on W3 and references.

People
A list of some people involved in the project.

History
A summary of the history of the project.

How can I help ?
If you would like to support the web..

Getting code
Getting the code by anonymous FTP , etc.

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@ecosurrealism Is this real? Or satire? It's hard to tell these days.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The big announcement here is that we've been approved for an @nlnet grant to cover the next 12 months of work on the task force. As such, I'm needing to write up an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) plan for NLNet to ensure we can secure the funding for each work item. If you'd like to provide […]

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Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: @rairii.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

Install with an AI agent (recommended)

The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt:

(link to install-prompt.md)

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Merlin's Wisdom Project @merlinwisdom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Unrelated: responsible project management is the art of calmly preparing for things that aren't happening right now. A manic dash to survive something that's already happening (and which you probably should have anticipated) is not generally regarded as a skillful application of the art.

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Chris Martin @chris--martin.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

That's why big companies can't innovate, there's nowhere for their people to hide

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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

That's a really important colleciton of essays for #wikidata and #glam / reasearch: books.fupress.com/catalogue/wikidat…

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Jude @sisterratched.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

15km hike through the magnificent Carnarvon Gorge. Wow...

This is called The Moss Garden. A shady, moist, ferny little gully deep within the gorge, a little waterfall and some palm trees.

The steps up to a limestone amphitheatre. Massive rockface, palms, some ladders, and a bit of blue sky just visible.

The Art Gallery: Aboriginal rock art on a huge stone wall of the gorge, dappled sunlight.

Looking up at a limestone wall on one side of the gorge, early morning sunlight, some trees below.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 31/07/2026

RE: aus.social/@perkinsy/11700631437110… “IN THE REAL WORLD, INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IS RARELY THE STRONGEST PREDICTOR OF GROUP OUTCOMES. IN FACT, THE STRONGEST PREDICTORS OF DEVELOPERS' SELF-REPORTED PRODUCTIVITY TEND TO BE SOCIAL” (emphasis mine)

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Pedro J. Hdez @ecosdelfuturo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

"One macroeconomic research firm, MacroStrategy Partnership, has estimated that the A.I. bubble is 17 times as large as the dot-com bubble and four times as large as the 2008 housing bubble."

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Kilian Evang @texttheater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

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Tweet by @juanbuis: i can't believe someone solved recipe design decades ago and everyone just decided to ignore it

Image shows a tree diagram where each node is a step and its children are the steps producing the stages required for this step, up to the leaves which are the ingredients. It is formatted as a table where the leaves are in the leftmost column and nodes span the rows that contain their children. The top two rows seem to have a special function, the span all columns and contain preparatory steps.

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

# Private groups Lately, I've been seeing various people claiming that fediverse doesn't have private groups. They often point to some task force at w3c that is supposedly working to fill the gap. However, fediverse has had private groups for a very long time: - Hubzilla channels. This […]

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 31/07/2026

> Accelerate your agents with convention over configuration. ****** scales from PROMPT to IPO. Token efficient code that's easy for agents to write and beautiful for humans to review. Oh god, yet another shitty vibe coding tool…. WAIT, this is the Ruby on #Rails website‽ Even better that we […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

@osm_tech happy sysadmin appreciation day, thanks for all the work and effort to make sure we all can map!

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