"Mass surveillance shifts the guillotine equilibrium in favor of being greedier, by making it cheaper to identify and neutralize incipient guillotine-builders, which means that you can raise the greediness floor without seeing a concomitant rise in your guard labor bill."
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Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds (1894), a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future: publicdomainreview.org/essay/c…
During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperia…
Am I the only one who finds a.gup.pe confusing? I'm interested in two groups but it seems there is no way to see old postings from those groups, no way to get an idea what those groups are actually about.
and 2 more wrinkles i saw the other day: the data center boom is what is keeping the commercial property market afloat. so the ai bubble is going to take down the property market, and most retail investment products are now deeply linked to ai. anyone with savings is going to get hit
Wow, I never considered the commercial real estate connection! It's going to be a huge mess with a ripple effect far beyond just the tech sector.
What really infuriates me is all the (wasted) billions invested into #AI in the US could've gone into addressing real problems: such as converting former commercial buildings in downtown corridors into affordable housing.
yeah, when i saw that i also had a "oh that makes sense ... fuck." moment. i don't think anyone is going to be insulated from this one. it'll be interesting to see if it takes out any of the tech big-5
@mensrea The red county in a red Midwest US state in which I live was poised to get a $1 B data center. The proposal carefully never mentioned what it was for. When they had a town hall, public opinion was overwhelmingly negative with people mostly worried about our water (because we all assumed it was for GenAI).
I've said elsewhere that "AI" generally is just a category, like "power tools" is a category.
With the arrival of LLMs, Tech Bros said "Power tools for everybody!" and then they hyper specialized in making only drills.
Everybody who found it's hard to cut, shape or otherwise manipulate their material with *just* a drill is now having to wonder whether it was worth billions of dollars for all those drills.
Maybe part of the issue lies in the term AI. People in general react to "AI" as if it were the hyper intelligence we've all read about and seen in movies. It's an LLM. A large language model. A neural net stringing words together. Useful for some things. Not for others. Like it or not, names influence what people think. Too late to fix it I guess.
Disagree. Lots of companies have largely paid lip-service to this fad. They have either deployed a shallow integration, such as a chatbot and called it "AI" or rebadged some non-generative technique that they were already doing.
IMO very few comapnies are doing any serious work with LLMs b/c they just aren't that useful for most of the data processing that companies and customers actually want to do.
What I'm more concerned about is the overvaluation of the stock market b/c of correlation between a few companies like Nvidia and the wider tech sector.
I do think a price correction is going to happen, perhaps relatively soon, but as always: "The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent"
@kittylyst I'm most concerned about the impact on the real-estate market. A lot of pension funds mix different risk profiles and so will have some tech stocks as high-risk, high-return things, but they'll also have a load of real-estate funds as low-risk, stable-return things. Unfortunately, a lot of the AI spending has been on datacenter leases, which are being used by the owners to underwrite other investments, so a lot of the low-risk things will also drop sharply in value. That's likely to have a big impact beyond the stock market.
@kittylyst I did the maths about a week ago. If the tech bubble drops in value (proprtionately) as much as as it did when the .com bubble crashed, the US stock markets will lose about as much of their total value as the NYSE did on the first two days of the Wall Street Crash. The secondary effects from margin calls are likely to have a similar effect.
my previous employer is really hyping up their AI adoption.
I’m not a particularly vengeful person, but I would love it if they stayed true to form and held on to their AI strategy long after everyone else has realised it is a massive folly.
@hj Hehe, I'm jealous of what this author did: go into full blood representation without hesitation. Here, I decided to make the blood on the armour of the young knight almost not visible, to avoid shocking the audience with problem at sight of blood and keep the strip for all audience. That was a thin line to walk on 😆
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@seabass Yes! All the fields are totally translatable in the SVG layer for text peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min… (that was a pain to do with text effects ). It's not really a large field, language like "Occitan Lengadocian", or "Bahasa Indonesia" will problably find that challenging 😅
Girl Genius is absolutely and stunningly brilliant and a wonderful read. But I have to warn you, having done it myself, that if you start at the beginning at the very frame number one, you will enjoy yourself greatly, but you will lose about two and a half months of your life. And the time jumps are a little.....frustrating... Yeah, that.
@jntesteves Yes, it is! The fixed version is on the website peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantas… , when I posted it here, I forgot this minor rendering issue. Thank you for noticing it!
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
Reminds me of a film called Last Action Hero. Near the end, Arnold's character was bleeding a lot. Once he was able to return to his fantasy movie world, the loss of blood turned to a flesh wound and a minor scratch.
@phlash There's a webcomic called Order of the Stick about D&D characters that regularly talk about XP, going up levels, etc. The best of course was when the party needed a big diamond for something, so the thief character crawled out of the page, went to her own bio webpage on the same site, and 'stole' a diamond from her bio pic. After that her bio pic didn't have a diamond anymore.
As for video games, Metal Gear Solid did stuff like this, such as when one character you are fighting can easily block all your moves because he can 'read your thoughts'. The trick is to plug your controller in the other slot, then he finds that he can no longer read your mind. 😆
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The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.
@modem56kb 32-bit Linux made a tiny fraction of a single percent of our downloads. We have very limited resources but in the long run, couldn't dedicate our resources to building for 32-bit Linux. We hope you understand.
@muzicofiel In any module (Writer, Calc, ...) go to menu View -> User Interface... You can also customise toolbars using menu Tools -> Customize, tab Toolbars. See also help.libreoffice.org/25.8/en-U…
I've always just downloaded the latest version from the website. On Ubuntu, you have to wait for it to make it onto the repositories and it can take a while (months, even).
Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.
To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.
Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.
## LibreWolf bsys6 Release v142.0-1
- Upstream release, see the [Firefox 142.0 Release Notes](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.0/releasenotes/)
(Built on GitLab by pipeline [1993020832](https://gitlab.
Things that are still in "progressive rollout" state don't get enabled in LibreWolf anyway, but as soon as they veer towards a full rollout, we disable them)
What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted.
It's absolutely not shoddy, because it was never meant to protect children in the first place. So many experts have pointed this out. This is a willful censorship law, it should go completely.
@Heidentweet from my own perspective, there was just an inability of anyone to hear that there were going to be problems. Now the same voices are saying the problems are about implementation, or platforms over-reaching
Emailed my MP about it last night. I pointed out the problems, about how to bypass, about the unregulated part of the web (The dark web) and how there are many support groups for children that they will no longer be allowed to access and how ridiculous it is in using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I'll pass it on if I get any response when he's back from holiday.
Inability or unwillingness? What would it profit a Parliamentarian who had invested substantial political capital in the project to look behind the label on the tin and discover a can of worms? There was no shortage of people pointing out the design defects in the Bill.
And when it all goes horribly wrong, blame the platforms, blame the regulator; then claim that this was only ever a trial run and we always knew we would need OSA v2.
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@Heidentweet @jim And, of course, blame the previous government even though the Bill had full cross-Parliamentary support: the only complaint from Labour was that it didn’t go far enough. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/… (£)
From Friday 25 July 2025 UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to porn sites such as Pornhub.
Age verification goes way beyond porn, impacting everything from Reddit to Spotify to Xbox.
❌ Content is being age gated when it shouldn’t, including subreddits for sexual health like r/STD, for health like r/stopsmoking, or news like r/israelexposed and an X post featuring a speech about grooming gangs by Katie Lam MP.
The UK Online Safety Act imposes heavy burdens on small sites, including risk assessments for a broad range of content, the threat of fines or the cost of checking the age of every user.
❌ Many small sites are shutting down or blocking UK users entirely.
✅ Change the categorisation of sites, so small sites and instances are exempt.
What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted.
So UK 16 & 17 year olds are to get the vote, but are now blocked from informing themselves about issues that may concern them, even posts by MPs? And they can give consent, but not read about sexual health?
I work as a dev consultant and all my clients/work recently involves me being a sort of "digital janitor" cleaning up vibe coders/AI's mess. Number #1 clean up? security exploits. AI simply can't do it.
Just look at what happened with the Tea app. I wouldn't trust ANY of these verification providers as far as I could throw them.
The BEST thing the user can do right now is use VPN's. Mullvad, Proton, Self Host Wireguard, whatever. DO NOT GIVE ANY OF THESE PLACES YOUR ID.
@Intellectual_Resistance The idea of a VPN ban was suggested by Heidi Alexander MP, but downplayed by the Secretary of State, Peter Kyle MP. While a ban isn’t government policy atm, they’ve just threatened platforms with fines for promoting VPNs to UK under 18s. It’s a moving situation and this latest announcement does little to dampen rumours of a ban.
The UK government has warned that online platforms which "deliberately target UK children and promote use" could now "face enforcement action, including
I don’t even think a private company SHOULD be allowed to run an age-verification service!
Critical matters private personal information should be exclusively handled by the state, with independent security audits mandatory.
You hand that data over to the private sector once, it’s going to be hacked or sold and that’s it, and you can’t vote the fuckers out who fucked it up.
@david_colquhoun It just doesn't work. If a site asks you to provide ID to prove your age, anyone (even a child) can submit a fake one. But plenty of less tech-savvy users will simply provide their passport etc., which malicious sites can exploit (and legitimate sites might leak). If anything, the only people this helps are criminals.
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@david_colquhoun Again, this won't protect children in the first place because it's trivial to circumvent. It will, however, give criminals a new opportunity to trick people into giving them sensitive information. I've already seen malicious replies on Mastodon telling people they need to verify their accounts.
Please: if you see one of these, don't take it at face value. Be similarly cautious if something like it pops up anywhere else.
@david_colquhoun What you're arguing in favour of is essentially digital homeopathy. Encouraging parents to trust a system that doesn't work - which some will do instead of supervising or educating their children - is worse than doing nothing.
@DamonWakes @david_colquhoun what @openrightsgroup is arguing is that the scope of AV needs to be really narrow eg pornography and not wide eg news and also privacy preserving not a free for all for data gathering.
@DamonWakes @david_colquhoun that is a pragmatic position but we all need to recognise that AV is a very limited policy, like banning soft drugs, its about what u18s want to do not about tech of laws
@david_colquhoun Far-right conspiracy? You really have got it arse about face haven't you? It's about SURVEILLANCE. Porn is just an 'Oh won't somebody think of the children' tag line, that The DM and it's brethren scream about, all the while showing a 'hot' woman in a skimpy garment, or sharing the details of a gay footballer's antics in a hotel room.
The far-right would like ALL internet traffic monitored and controlled. CCTV in the streets with facial recognition, allowing someone in a uniform with highly polished boots to march up to you and say 'Papers please!'
The porn has always been there - always will be.
We need parents to educate their children and take a bit of responsibility.
We need MSM to stop objectifying women and promoting people like Tate or programmes like Love Island.
We need people like you to wake up before you sleepwalk into a remake of 30's Germany.
@david_colquhoun The legislation is terrible as it includes no regulation of the providers of age verification. Expect a whole range of data leaks. Then you also have nefarious types tricking people into giving up personal info. Non adult LGBTQ material is also being put behind age verification, so young LGBTQ people are being denied information.
@david_colquhoun And it’s mainly performative legislation that will have little effect, there will always be a way around it, whether VPNs or dark nets.
this fully colorized comic was made possible by the loving help of either tax form fill-in procrastinating or the filthy dishes in the kitchen sink that need to soak in another 2.5 days.
The phrase "feather pen" caught my eye. An English speaker would probably just say "quill'. This led me into a tangle of French/English translations. Online dictionaries (the zombie corpses of living languages) tell me that the English 'pen' is equivalent to 'stylo' in French. I'm also informed by online dictionaries that English 'feather' is equivalent to 'plume' in French, as is the English 'quill'. The dictionaries also tell me that 'la plume' means 'the feather' in English.
@cliffp Haha, right, "pen feather" is my literal French native brain translation for the "Stylo Plume" 🤣 Thanks for pointing it, I'll fix it on the transcript of the source for the main website but might leave it this way on Fediverse to avoid poping in everyone's notification with the edit. At least, an ultimate proof that I don't use AI translator and I'm still authoring this manually. 😺 Worst is that I knew the word "quill", now you mention it, but couldn't remember the word.
@ricen85404 You can already add all the colors to the spectrum if you play the color picker, because she has neutral grey eyes and in consequences they are just reflecting the color of the ambient, main source light or the color balance of the panel...
@artodon Yes, it was done in Krita. You can check the *.kra source file with layers on the final page here if you are curious about the process peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantas…
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?!
Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down!
Really enjoying your comics. I have davidrevoy.com/feed/rss/catego… in my rss reader, but it doesn't seem to give me the latest posts (the latest I see on it is from December 2024). Could you have a look 🙂 I'd be happy to provide more info from my end if you need it. The main feed seems to be working fine.
@lucas Hey, thank you for your words and for reporting the issue! I downloaded the XML and I see: it looks like the RSS reader for category is stuck or something. I'll try to put the hand into it today.
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LLM is replacing therapists, advisors, lawyers, and even doctors in some cases, according to news articles. But guess what? None of the usual protections apply. If your private chat can be subpoenaed, there is no NDA. There is no legal or ethical obligation. Governments love this. Some human professionals will not hand over your data and will protect you, but how are you supposed to get protection from greedy AI companies ? This is another danger. So be careful what you share with these chatbots
"Según artículos periodísticos, la maestría en derecho (LLM) está reemplazando a terapeutas, asesores, abogados e incluso médicos en algunos casos. Pero, ¿sabes qué? No se aplican las protecciones habituales. Si tu chat privado puede ser citado, no hay acuerdo de confidencialidad. No hay obligación legal ni ética. A los gobiernos les encanta esto. Algunos profesionales humanos no cederán tus datos y te protegerán, pero ¿cómo se supone que vas a protegerte de las codiciosas empresas de IA? Este es otro peligro. Así que ten cuidado con lo que compartes con estos chatbots."
AI seems to be intended to grow a two-tier society.
The 1% get real doctors, lawyers, therapists, teachers and other expertise.
The 99% get AI bots, with a built-in 20% error rate, as doctors, lawyers, therapists, teachers instead.
The fossil fuel industry's obsession with investing in AI, when seen in the context of defunding public education, higher education, libraries, literacy & numeracy programs, research institutions, newspapers, & broadband can only be ...
It looks like we are under attack, that caused SSH connections to fail. We have deployed mitigations and the situation calmed down. Please let us know if the issue occurs again.
is it a coincidence, that every time Trump visits Europe there are attacks on Codeberg? Last February the same thing happened during the "Security council" in Munich. I initially considered coincidence last February attacks but the same thing happening again is more of a pattern than a random incident.
📣 Is "disable" the same as "uninstall"? We do not believe it. Google does.
Under the DMA, the FSFE with a coalition of civil-society organisations prompts the @EUCommission to open proceedings to investigate Alphabet's (#Google) regarding the uninstallation of pre-installed apps in Android.
Uninstalling is completely removing the app, not just disabling it! This is key for #DeviceNeutrality!
I understand this shouldn't be the way to deal with this but here's a great guide for anyone looking to permanently remove apps that only allow disabling. You can also use an app like MalwareBytes to view system apps and get their names for removal.
Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.
another issue with not being able to uninstall is that code stays there, with all its security flaws, indefinitely. It only gets patched/updates if it's enabled.
For the non-technical folks that means it might be able to allow someone who's gotten a toe hold on the device to then use that code to escalate privileges.
Even worse are apps that you uninstall, but instead of getting removed, they just revert to some old version. Like, why? If I want it uninstalled, REMOVE IT, not just replace with some older version. Google's apps are especially prone to doing this nonsense.
I hear Pepper & Carrot will ending soon. So, I want to draw them before the story end (or just merged). Thanks to David for the tutorials and don't ever get bored provide us with more tutorials
Thank you so much And don't worry for Pepper&Carrot. True, I wrote an article long ago titled "The end of Pepper&Carrot" with all details about it but it was a mistake that I posted in one moment I felt bad (I should have probably not hit the "post" button that day). My new ambition: continuing to work on the production of new episodes (in background) while posting short 4 panels comic strip from time to time.
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
@purple @golemwire@librem.one @jbiserkov @xale @sop it's clever because gif is an extremely inefficient format by today's standard, mp4 files are much smaller for the same content.
@sodiboo (in case you didn't get it, the reference is some VC guy living in Denmark posting about how those "europeans" are impermeable to the hype machine that brings us this kind of life-changing innovation)
Honestly? Yeah. I'll admit; I have this feature enabled in my code editor. It's basically like this. For natural language documents, it's sufficiently annoying that I have to turn it off for markdown files, but even in code, it's very hit or miss. I think i'm going to just turn it off entirely, after seeing this, because genuinely, i agree. The completions in this video are not even really an exaggeration; it's genuinely that hyperactive and changes its mind constantly. It is fucking annoying.
As much as it "maybe does help" or there is a placebo effect, at least in my case, I know i don't need it. Some environments force me to disable it; I do comply with those rules; and I can still code fine. I'm not a "vibe coder"; I'm not reliant on it. It's just been by go-to to have this specific tool for years, and it was never quite so obviously useless that I've urgently wanted to disable it. But this video did make me realize, that yes, it is annoying. Yeah, i'm probably not benefiting from it.
there's also the possibility that all these recomendations you're reading is tripping you up and subconsciously change something you were about to write to something worse. it's insidious. that and your brain can read pretty fast, and having long bad suggestions that you can't help but read every time you type a character is exhausting.
That's a great shitpost, that callout on pausing the video paired with an AMD bashing while I drive an all out AMD system. It cut me deep for a second ngl. Was in stitches the whole way.
it's definitely possible to setup an LLM to do that, though it's unlikely most of the completions will be nearly as funny as the ones from sofia, it might help to take a small model (so completions are more random) and to have a pre-prompt (hidden) like "the following text is a bit all over the place/random, it also contains random references to various products and brands, feeling like a weird ad", and see what you get.
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I paused on every single message because it's golden. That's what we get when we let corporations spoon-feed us whatever shit they want.
Out of curiosity I've loaded an open source LLM I have around, to see how it autocompletes from "fuck" onward, and even without "fuck" it's negative every single time.
What is crazy to me is that people is letting their data be constantly sent over the internet to who knows where, all to get a useless prediction.
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@starsider yeah, I obviously didn't use an actual LLM in the making of this post. I tried a little! The results were, uh, let's call them uninspired, and also not representative of my experience dealing with this feature in code editors
Someone else this morning had a lovely turn of phrase (third paragraph) around the same experience you might enjoy, if I can offer a bit of secondhand brilliance in solidarity. hachyderm.io/@uberduck/1149061…
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This update has a LOT of changes and fixes in it! I think I got in everything everyone who gave me feedback asked for (check the README file "Changelog" section for details). Lots of attention paid to making buttons, tabs, and drop-down appearance consistent, and lots of new CSS variables for customization plus a new option for customizing Bookface (more on that in a moment).
Bookface 1.8 has been tested with both the current stable 2024.12 and 2025.7 Release Candidate versions.
The most obvious change you'll probably notice is that the responses below posts and comments now look completely different:
And below an Event Post:
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This update has a LOT of changes and fixes in it! I think I got in everything everyone who gave me feedback asked for (check the README file "Changelog" section for details). Lots of attention paid to making buttons, tabs, and drop-down appearance consistent, and lots of new CSS variables for customization plus a new option for customizing Bookface (more on that in a moment).
Bookface 1.8 has been tested with both the current stable 2024.12 and 2025.7 Release Candidate versions.
The most obvious change you'll probably notice is that the responses below posts and comments now look completely different:
And below an Event Post:
If multiple people engaged with the post in a certain way you no longer have to click the count to see the list, it's a popover that appears on hover (active on touch devices). This is a lot cleaner and more consistent with how these are displayed on other social media platforms.
You'll also notice that the Main Menu missing icons are in place. This is a change that's coming in the next Friendica release anyway, but Bookface lets you have it right now:
Someone specifically asked whether the main navigation buttons could have labels on them:
I didn't turn it on by default, but nav button labels are now coded into Bookface and if you're using CSS variable customization they're easy to turn on:
:root {
--show-navbar-labels: block;
}
The label text is also customizable. Until now the only way to implement such customizations was either for a server admin to manually put them into the header or footer sitewide or for individual users to put them in a user content stylesheet just for your web browser. That's why I'm also releasing a new Friendica addon called "Bookface Custom" that, if your server admin installs it, allows you to customized every one of the Bookface CSS variables to your heart's content.
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Oh, and it's a little thing, but if you did bother to go the trouble of self-verifying your account I restyled the "verified checkmark" in the profile aside 😉:
Good work! I updated Bookface for Friendica.World.
One remark, when trying to write this comment, I tried clicking the 'comment' icon, moving the mouse from below. The new popup for the list of people that liked the post, blocked the comment button. I don't know if there's a solution for this..
Yes, I was concerned about that but couldn't come up with a decent solution to prevent it. I thought about using negative margins and padding to swap the positions of the Action Buttons and Responses, but making that work across all screen sizes and for both regular posts and event posts is tricky. The popup list would still be triggered by a mouseover but at least it wouldn't cover the Action Button. I'll keep playing with it and see if I can get it to work consistently. I can always revert it to the way it was in a future release if this turns out to be too much of a usability issue.
Main branch updated to 1.8.1 to fix "Notices" navbar label not using CSS variable. Not an issue for anyone who isn't using Navbar Labels, which are not enabled by default.
If you don't want to wait for the next release the Main branch should always be the most current as people point out things to me and I fix them on GitLab (which should automatically get mirrored to the GitHub repo).
I agree that it does take up a lot of space, because I made the icons larger and added more white space for a cleaner, more modern look. Everything in Frio is too tiny and compact and cluttered. It doesn't help that Friendica just has a LOT of controls. Too many IMO. It's kind of overwhelming to new users.
For smaller displays when you get below 768 pixels wide it engages the mobile interface. There's some overlap between desktop and tablet landscape making it impossible to discern which it is, and for most tablets in portrait I chose to display a compact version of the desktop bars to keep the position of controls consistent if you change tablet orientation.
It is technically possible to merge the two bars into one (actually make them 50% screen width and positioned seamlessly side-by-side) for really wide screens, but there's just too much stuff there to do that for a smaller screen. And the sub-section words in the second toolbar can be really short in some languages or really long in others.
You could try zooming in until the mobile interface kicks in. Though
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I agree that it does take up a lot of space, because I made the icons larger and added more white space for a cleaner, more modern look. Everything in Frio is too tiny and compact and cluttered. It doesn't help that Friendica just has a LOT of controls. Too many IMO. It's kind of overwhelming to new users.
For smaller displays when you get below 768 pixels wide it engages the mobile interface. There's some overlap between desktop and tablet landscape making it impossible to discern which it is, and for most tablets in portrait I chose to display a compact version of the desktop bars to keep the position of controls consistent if you change tablet orientation.
It is technically possible to merge the two bars into one (actually make them 50% screen width and positioned seamlessly side-by-side) for really wide screens, but there's just too much stuff there to do that for a smaller screen. And the sub-section words in the second toolbar can be really short in some languages or really long in others.
You could try zooming in until the mobile interface kicks in. Though it doesn't really save that much space as there are still two toolbars, they just aren't both at the top.
Have you learned something exciting about #Emacs or used it for something interesting? Share your knowledge at #EmacsConf 2025! Submit your proposal by Friday, September 19, 2025: u.fsf.org/486
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath… and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY its
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General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath… and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
@saxnot yes, with hindsight it was a mistake not to grab putty.org at the earliest opportunity, before some other opportunist did. But then PuTTY never *aimed* to become widely known. Its fame grew gradually by word of mouth, so it was never quite clear when it would be a good idea to get the most obvious domain – until it was too late.
The chiark URL is of a type that was very common in the 90s, especially for software published by someone who didn't yet know whether it would have more than a dozen users – which was exactly the situation when I started!
@Sobex @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social I'd like nothing better, but I think I'd have to _start_ with a lawyer, just to get any idea at all of where to begin. I did try contacting one once, but they never replied to my query.
For example, I have no idea whether it _is_ the right strategy to start by registering the trademark, or how to do that, or even which country to do it in. (I'm guessing the USA, because it's .org and not .org.[country] – but _I'm_ not in the USA, so can I register a trademark there at all?)
I wonder if that's where all the free software ecosystem already has actors with a presence in the US and lawyers who might help. (What is the FSF job if not that one ?)
@Sobex You absolutely can. There are online services that will facilitate this for you, though the process takes a long time (up to a year). I’ve used tramatm.com in the past.
@Gargron @Sobex One potential obstacle I can see right away is that "putty" is something of a generic term which might make it untrademarkable. Also, "Silly Putty" is a registered trademark (owned by Crayola) and you very well might run into a roadblock there.
You might have to modify the name of the project to something that a Trademark office might consider unique enough to trademark.
But yeah as Gargron as noted, there are services available to help with this process.
I think you should absolutely lawyer up and file a WIPO Domain Name Dispute Resolution complaint. wipo.int/amc/en/domains/
"When your brand is misused to deceive consumers online (also known as “cybersquatting”), WIPO – the global leader in domain name dispute resolution – can help you reclaim the infringing domain name using an online enforcement tool called the UDRP or a national “ccTLD” variant."
Typically if brand name is registered after domain, there is no chance getting a domain other than buying it from owner. Unless you can prove your unregistered trade mark is well known and that current domain owner is referencing to your brand and not some similar.
In short, always register domain and then registered trade mark/name afterwards before getting your brand public
@gytisrepecka @farbenstau in this case it does seem pretty clear that the current domain owner is referring to the same PuTTY I am, and isn't talking about some unrelated thing with the same name!
@saxnot Have you thought about hosting it on Github, with the executables as releases? This is where I'm tending to go these days for trusted downloads.
even before Github was owned by MS, I didn't like the look of it.
Partly because it's not itself free software: unlike Gitlab, if you want to export your project with all its metadata like the bug database, you can't make a compatible instance to move it to. If you can see the vendor lock-in coming _before_ you're already committed, avoid it.
And partly _because_ it was trying so hard to make itself the One True Place. There shouldn't _be_ a One True Place. As soon as there is, someone can buy it out and monetise / enshittify / generally do bad things with it.
I'd rather contribute to the Internet being distributed, than contribute to it being centralised. That's why I'm on Mastodon and was never on the birdsite, and it's why I don't use Github (except for sending patches to projects that are already hosted there).
@alexanderdyas @saxnot GitHub is headed in the direction of untrustworthy. And they're ultimately owned by the same party that owns the deceptive putty.org... 🤦
The internet in particular, and the worldwide adoption of new technology in general, are well broken at this point. Yours is a perfect example of this.
Perhaps we need a TLD where you don't even have to apply for a name: you become automatically associated with an address by implication, and become free to use it as needed.
There are a huge number of imitators (mostly malicious) of popular piracy site "fitgirl", and likewise everything you get from there has the right URL plastered over it in all possible places.
Clearly you should agree with her that she'll mention the PuTTY URL and you'll tell people where to yarr games. 😀
This makes it blatantly obvious that the software distribution model for Windows is fundamentally broken. In what world is it acceptable that the user is expected to access arbitrary websites, shady URL or not. Navigate through a sea of different download buttons and links, where the majority of them will give you spyware. Then run an installer where you have to make sure to deselect another set of spyware. And this is supposed to be the most used OS in the world.
Regarding the search engine rankings: The possible reason for putty.org ranking higher than the official URL, is likely (at least in part) due to people tending to prefer to click on domains that directly match the name of a software project rather than on a weird subdomain/directory host. Search engines might also intentionally derank websites hosted on a long chain of subdomains for being "spammy". Of course, that issue wasn't really a concern in the 90's, so not a fault of you.
@saxnot i mean, since putty *is* more than 1 tool (telnet, ssh, key conversion i think? havent used it in a while), wouldn't putty.tools work? it's not taken as of writing this
@nixCraft I wish I did. It was an internal corporate email at my work warning specifically about putty and winscp fakers. They said like you did, the top SEO fake results. Except they said it was specifically malware, not advert junk
This seems like a self inflicted issue. And it seriously points to the project and it's leaders in poor decision making. Especially after what, 26 years?
Not sure why you are even bothering with this at this point as it appears you will ignore all the sound advice of the community.
@neil @Jetengineweasel @Sobex I do worry a bit about "chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath…" vs putty.org - the first one will look far shadier to many eyes than putty.org. And this might lead to unwise choices. Maybe try to also get a somewhat official/"sound" looking domain name?
That's just some of the results from the 2 StackExchange sites that I checked. There are several other StackExchanges which are ripe candidates for people hyperlinking (or mentioning) putty.org and StackExchange does tend to carry weight with search engines.
@helioloureiroBR with all due respect, I never understood why don’t you just register something like puttyterminal.net and go with it, it would quickly surpass the bogus website on search engines
If a tutorial tells a user to download Putty and they google it, they will for sure think the official URL is a scam.
Is there some way to contest their ownership of the .org domain itself, with the registry? It sounds like they aren't an "org" in the way that registration would require.
@bigbird @mattwelke what do you mean by "a Project powered by Microsoft" here? I dug around and couldn't spot any business affiliation between BitVise and Microsoft, so I'm guessing I missed something? asking 'cos if they're an MVP or Partner then their behaviour here is strongly incompatible with those programs and action would likely be taken.
The website has a bunch of disclaimers that they're not affiliated with the PuTTY project. Could they have taken the website down for maintenance and added those disclaimers just now, in response to this toot?
@bigbird @mattwelke I think you might be confusing Microsoft Tunnel (the Intune VPN gateway solution) with Tunnelier? I can't see any reference to Microsoft ever having any ownership or involvement in BitVise's products.
I'm baffled to see that they have a link at the bottom of their page to an email exchange with someone asking questions about the situation, because it makes it even clearer that the website owner is in the wrong
thank you for PuTTY! I thankfully do not have to run it currently, as I do not *have* to work on any windows machine (and see no reason to run it elsewhere)
putty is well known and reputated enough to not have a website in times new roman under a random home pub website server. That was pretty easy target to scam users. Economical profit with ads is the less of the damage they can do to your project. You are lucky if they are not distributing trojanized copies already. Their website is #1 result in all search engines
For security reasons, PuTTY has replaced the previously provided SSH Secure Shell for Windows as the supported method of remote access. PuTTY is a free… (READ MORE)
Something similar happened when a predator falsely registered Linux as a service mark, was sued and had to give it back. Resulted in formation of the Linux Foundation. Misleading use of your established service mark, registered or not, is an IP infringement.
If Putty isn't a profit centre for you, I suggest you contact Clifford Chance to give them an opportunity to sharpen the teeth of a young lawyer doing pro bono work, for which they have a useful budget. They did some pro bono work for my community initiative service mark (LETSystem Trust) a while back.
to be fair, this reads like an Onion article. How long has PuTTY been around, and been awesome, for it not to have its own actual domain for a few bucks per year?
putty-term.org? putty.org.uk? Just anything other than someone's tilde account on an obscure subdomain!
> Many search engines list putty.org above chiark.
hooray! (And I say that as a long-time fan.) I haven’t used PuTTY for many years (I’ve been on Linux and Mac laptops) but it was an absolute blessing when I did use it.
3,795 likes, 71 comments - wankernomics on July 3, 2025: "As children, we all have dreams of what we want to be when we grow up. For Charles it was consulting to large corporations about ways to achieve efficiencies by cutting costs.
On this day 35 years ago, TGV unit 325 set the land speed record at 515.3 km/h on the LGV Atlantique.
This beat the previous record set by the same train on the 5th December 1989 of 482 km/h
Both these records managed to surpass the record set by an experimental ICE prototype in West Germany in 1988, which was 406.9 km/h on the Hannover-Würzburg line, thus establishing French engineering as superior to the German, at least on speed.
This record stayed current until 2007, when SNCF topped this with a TGV POS setting the new record at 568 and then 574,8 km/h.
TGV 325 is now decommissioned, and is kept at the Cité du Train in Mulhouse.
You’re not wrong. Decided once a few years back to do Amtrak over driving for a trip and it took 4x longer than driving, and the train broke down at one point.
Even when it was going there were times where I could have got out and sprinted on foot faster.
@moof Similarly in Australia. Our fastest long-distance trains, the Sydney-Melbourne and -Brisbane ones are based on the British Rail HST, though run slower than you’d drive the journey due to poor track conditions. High-speed rail has been brought up before every election of the past 40 years, and has by now become a running joke, something like the monorails of the Jetsonian future.
Meanwhile, to our north, Indonesia has a shiny new (Chinese) HSR.
@acb @moof I've ridden the Sydney-Melbourne sleeper twice. The first time was great: the second was a month after the track got washed out and they decanted us onto buses at 3am to finish the journey. Utterly ridiculous governmental incompetence: if the road had been washed out instead it'd have been fixed stat.
@moof The last two times I tried to catch it, I was informed on the day of departure that the whole train was replaced with buses (with seats only)., due to a shortage of rolling stock or similar. An utter clownshow.
I know of people who successfully have caught it, so maybe I was just spectacularly unlucky.
@acb @moof I first caught it in 2007. Second time would have been 2010. Sleeper trains, when they work right, are a good alternative to a night in a hotel and airport frustration: when they go wrong, they're spectacularly terrible.
@moof They need to be run well, within a system that sees value in them and doesn’t regard them as a frippery that’s first to be jettisoned in case of inconvenience.
The Austrian night trains are excellent (I caught several of them a few months ago, would recommend), and the Swedish ones do a good job. The Australian ones have good, if aging, facilities, but seem to get 0 support from the people who run the system, who appear to regard the whole thing as a joke.
@acb @moof 100%. When a bridge on I-95 collapsed due to a fire, the estimate was *months* to repair. Instead, it took less than a week to get traffic flowing (basically Warp 10 in American Infrastructure Repair Time).
When we get a bad thunderstorm, every train line suffers delays over an hour, if not outright cancelation of entire lines, because the power infrastructure is Not Great.
hey now. Amtrak does amazing things with an incredibly dedicated crew on old as hell rolling stock, and more than any other system Ive used they will work their asses off to take care of you, and take care of their very old basically unfunded trains.
One thing that I find quirky about the US is that they love to put a bigger number on something than everybody else did, and at the same time they're a large, mostly empty country where trains have the room to go really fast, and yet they've completely ignored the unofficial worldwide race to have the fastest train in commercial service.
@quinn @Nicovel0 "Routing everything through [insert capital city here]" was a Thing in the mid-19th century; see also London. Germany *mostly* escaped because it unified relatively late but that's the best thing I can say about DB.
@Nicovel0 sncf is pretty great. No system is perfect, but as someone who takes a lot of trains, im pretty happy with sncf. Now, having to route everything through Paris is stupid and terrible, but also extremely French.
Yep, noticed! Building out high speed rail requires government backing, and there are powerful opposing interests in the USA—notably landowners/real estate industry—and no powerful proponents.
Could the US interstate highway system be built today? (I suspect not, for the exact same reason.)
There's also "the second mover advantage", aka why everyone else got better colour TV and cellphones than the USA (who got them first but worse).
I feel that China might have a forward-looking plan, perhaps for the next 100 years, whereas America currently seems to be looking back to the old days.
@moof we know, unfortunately our rail system is privately owned and Amtrak has to rent access from commercial freight lines, so yet another public/private partnership death spiral.
@moof there is one good section of rail in the US and it’s the DC to Boston corridor. It’s not great but can’t be replaced with bus or flight traffic, since there’s no other way to move as many people as it does.
@mrzarquon @moof I know: I've caught the Acela between Boston and NYC several times. Nice trains, but the track is a bitter joke by European high speed rail standards—not even up to British spec (lack of grade separation, i.e. there are level crossings, IIRC).
@Nicovel0 @quinn Look at a heat map of railway funding in the UK and your eyes will fall out. London gets about 70% of the entire national transport infrastructure budget.
(I now have an over-60 railcard, which helps considerably: it's still not cheap but it's now price competitive with flying, and far less annoying.)
UK's real problem is we sold all our railways to … foreign national rail operators! Who run them as a profit-taking business at our expense, to subsidize their domestic routes.
@marcink @Nicovel0 @quinn You've never tried to travel within the UK by rail, I take it? Exactly the same! Although CrossRail and the newer underground routes help.
@Nicovel0 @quinn And for extra silliness, train stations in Paris are terminal stations so in many cases you have to push your way to another part of the city to make the connection. Because obviously why would anyone ever go elsewhere after coming to Paris. Still, even with that sncf is a lot of value and a significant contributor to the quality of life here.
@seachaint Yes: and you'll note that Musk later confessed that he was only boosting hyperloop as a spoiler against the California high speed rail project, which he thought might eat into Tesla's sales. (Why he thought that, I have no idea:the use case for a city-to-city high speed rail network doesn't have much overlap with "I need a car to commute to work and do the grocery shopping; I occasionally drive long distances.")
@seachaint Because Los Angeles was investing massively in improving its transit at the same time (it’s now very good and effective by US standards). The Bay Area already had pretty decent transit by American standards. Really good train service in between the two could actually get people to give up their cars.
On April 9, Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced that Swisspod, a company focused on pioneering high-speed, emission-free Hyperloop transportation, will be expanding its footprint in Colorado.
High speed rail would be great between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It has the benefit of being mostly empty land, so less need for costly and lengthy battles over right of way.
@marcink @Nicovel0 @quinn IIRC London's CrossRail project cost significantly more in real terms than the Channel Tunnel and HS1 line. Some tens of billions.
@Nicovel0 @quinn In Paris it probably couldn’t be faster than existing connections through RER and/or the metro without doing a rework of the city comparable to what would be required to just let trains push through.
Regular service passenger rail had a higher typical speed here in the US back when it was steam-powered. We’re even building a new steam locomotive with plans to use it to set a new speed record.
I live in a city that is heavily served by Amtrak, and here's a few thoughts: 1. Cost me $70 round trip to go to a city 2 hours away. Yikes. 2. Regional Rail is in financial straights and their answer is to close all the lines they rent from Amtrak (around 1/2 of them). Amtrak raised the rents because SURPRISE financial straights. 3. This is going to put a) way note cars on over-capacity highways and b) a lot of people out of work.
!Friendica Support Hello, I am having trouble searching for profiles and groups. Sometimes I get a hit, but other times I don't for the same search. Also, I start to think the search scope might be affected by where I am in the app, i.e. the Network tab or Home or one of the others. Can anyone explain this and is there a guide to performing the best search for profiles and groups, both Local and the whole network.
@Dennis Melhede They're probably from some servers that your server is not aware of, maybe? I'm sometimes copying the direct link to the said group or profile and paste it in the search bar, and repeating the process until it is found. It can take a while if you're the 1st person on your server to find them.
Also, make sure the other server is not blocking your server, and try contacting your server admin as well.
@Dennis Melhede I see. Sadly, I do not have any experience in server administration myself. Maybe subscribe to some relays? I've seen this option floated around sometimes.
Otherwise, as I said, I think it just takes some time for the servers to be aware and the accounts to be found.
How are you trying to search? Using their handle or the direct link to their profile?
@Dennis Melhede try this as well. And try for multiple times too if at first is not found. Also, for groups you can search with ! instead of a @ as well.
Très chouette retour d’expérience de @AudeCaussarieu sur Mastodon.
Je me suis quand même senti vachement visé avec le coup des hommes blancs qui installent Linux et font du gravel le week-end. Elle a pas dit "barbus" mais elle l’a pensé très fort.
Je tiens à préciser : le gravel, c’est pas que le week-end ! Et pas que Linux. Les BSDs, c’est bien aussi !
Très chouette retour d’expérience de @AudeCaussarieu sur Mastodon.
Je me suis quand même senti vachement visé avec le coup des hommes blancs qui installent Linux et font du gravel le week-end. Elle a pas dit "barbus" mais elle l’a pensé très fort.
Je tiens à préciser : le gravel, c’est pas que le week-end ! Et pas que Linux. Les BSDs, c’est bien aussi !
Je suis depuis 2022 sur Mastodon, et j'y suis plutôt pas mal. Je voulais réfléchir sur mon usage de Mastodon car j'ai plusieurs copaines qui ont entendu parler de Mastodon mais qui n'ont pas franchi le pas et qui voulaient en savoir un peu plus. Alors, pourquoi Mastodon ? Pour répondre à cette question, j'ai eu besoin de revenir un peu sur mon histoire sur les internets. Comme ce billet devenait vraiment trop long, je l'ai coupé pour mettre la partie historique de mon usage nombriliste d'internet sur un autre article de blog.
Le lien vers le-dit-article quand il sera publié-il-ne-faut-pas-que-joublie
J'étais bien sur Twitter, bon, yavait bien quelques trucs pénibles comme le harcèlement de fachos, ou le starisme de certaines micro-célébrités du twitterESR. Et puis j'y passais surement un peu trop de temps. Je me rappelle que certaines personnes partaient déjà de Mastodon, mais ça me paraissait un truc de geek
La migration de 2022
En 2022, Musk rachète Twitter et commence à en faire n'importe quoi. Je me rappelle que ça m'avait fâchée, mais je ne sais plus exactement ce qui a été le déclencheur. Je me rappelle aussi que plein de personnes migraient vers Mastodon et donnaient plein de conseils. Ça donnait l'impression que c'était compliqué, un truc de spécialiste. Je me rappelle que le fait de devoir choisir une instance / un serveur était vraiment un point de blocage pour moi. J'ai une tendance à avoir besoin de tout comparer, de tout bien réfléchir quand je dois choisir parmi plusieurs options. Et puis un jour j'ai fait un petit comparatif des instances, et j'ai choisi chapril. Je trouvais le nom marrant, et puis il y avait des personnes que je connaissais qui avaient choisi cette instance. J'ai créé mon premier compte Mastodon. D'ailleurs, j'ai depuis rédigé un article de blog pour présenter différentes instances, et surtout désacraliser ce choix !
Au début, comme tout le monde l'a dit, c'était calme. Comme il n'y a pas d'algorithme qui te propose du contenu, tu ne vois rien si tu ne suis pas des gens. J'ai donc suivi des gens.
J'ai commencé par rechercher les gens que je connaissais de Twitter, à la mano. Maintenant il y a un outil pour faire ça (HelloQuitX je crois).
Puis j'ai suivi les gens qui répondaient des trucs marrants aux gens que je suivais déjà.
Et déjà, c'était moins calme 😆. Je suis tombée dans une petite communauté avec un peu le même esprit que sur Twitter, mais en plus bienveillant.
J'ai commencé à pouetter comme on dit sur Mastodon :
Des trucs de la vie de tous les jours en mode micro-blogging, et de nombreuses râleries sur les #JeanMichelBoomer
Des photos de mon chat (#CatsOfMastodon) ou de mon chien (#DogsOfMastodon) ou de mon jardin (#FleurisTonFil). Sur Mastodon, la règle c'est de mettre un ALT, c'est-à-dire une description de la photo pour que les personnes qui voient mal ou pas puissent avoir accès au média avec leur lecteur.
Quelques trucs de travail en mode vulgarisation, un peu de #BiblioDidactique, un peu d'écologie. Souvent, ça n'intéresse pas grand monde, mais parfois ça suscite des échanges intéressants 🙂.
Des réponses aux pouets des copaines, pour montrer qu'on les lit, qu'on comprend leurs peines et leurs joies, pour répondre à des questions quand on a une réponse, et évidemment... pour blaguer un peu 😎. L'humour est vraiment l'une des choses qui me plait sur ces réseaux sociaux.
Et évidemment des partages des pouets chouettes parce que sur Mastodon, l'algorithme c'est toi. Repartager les pouets permet aux gens qui te suivent de découvrir ce contenu.
Et j'ai commencé aussi à être un peu suivie.
Façonner ma TL
Il y avait beaucoup beaucoup de geeks qui installent des distributions linux et qui font du gravel le week-end dans mon fil.
Comme depuis Twitter je me suis un peu beaucoup sensibilisée aux questions féministes, j'ai décidé d'orienter ma TL (oui, je dis encore TL pour TweetList comme sur twitter... 😬). Voici quelques unes des pratiques qui m'ont aidé à avoir un fil qui me plait pas mal.
Une règle pour “suivre” les gens
Sur Mastodon, c'est classique d'appliquer la règle du “Follow-back” : si tu me suis, alors je te suis. Beaucoup de personnes appliquent cette règle à condition que ton compte ne soit pas vide, que tu aies une bio et un message d'introduction avec le mot-clé #IntroductionFR qu'il est d'usage d'épingler à son profil (le message, pas le mot clé !).
Pour ma part, j'ai décidé de suivre une règle un peu différente pour choisir les comptes auxquels je m'abonne.
J'applique la règle Follow-back pour les femmes ou les personnes queer ou racisées,
et je ne l'applique pas, ou très rarement, avec les hommes blancs cis. Je vais attendre qu'on interagisse un peu.
Le blocage facile
J'ai aussi pris l'habitude de bloquer très facilement les personnes que je trouve trop désagréables avec des copaines ou avec moi. Le profil type que je bloque, c'est le militant insoumis ou anti-spécistes agressif et condescendant.
Lutter contre le contenu qui ne me plait pas
Quand je vois un contenu qui ne me plait pas, je me demande comment il est arrivé sur mon fil. Trois options :
C'est quelqu'un que je suis. Je mets alors une petite note sur le profil (on a cette option sur mastodon) qui dit : “pénible”. Si quand j'ouvre le profil de la personne, j'ai déjà mis la petite note, alors j'arrête de lea suivre.
C'est un partage de quelqu'un que je suis. Dans ce cas je clique sur le profil de la personne, et je clique sur : Masquer les partages de ...
C'est un hashtag auquel je suis abonnée. Alors je réfléchis... Est-ce que je veux me désabonner de ce hashtag ? Mon cas de conscience actuel est le hastag #Vegan. Plein de recettes chouettes, pleins de militants pénibles.
Afficher du contenu qui me plait
Et pour avoir du contenu qui me plait, je suis certains hashtags : #BiblioDidactique (je crois qu'actuellement j'en suis la seule utilisatrice), #feminisme, #LesEcologistes, #jardinierdudimanche, #bordeaux, #HorsesOfMastodon. En vrai, je n'utilise pas plus que ça l'option de suivre des hashtag car je vais plus sur mastodon pour les interactions entre humain·es que pour suivre des sujets...
Mon usage de Mastodon aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui, je passe environ une heure et demi sur Mastodon par jour. Je le sais car j'ai mis un bloqueur de temps pour l'application Tusky avec laquelle je vais sur Mastodon sur mon téléphone à 1h30. Je l'atteins environ une ou deux fois par semaine, mais je vais aussi sur Mastodon par mon ordinateur.
Un compte « officiel » et un compte anonyme
En 2024, j'ai changé d'instance, c'est-à-dire de serveur. J'avais envie de me créer un compte un peu plus pro, pour parler à visage découvert, et un compte plus confidentiel, anonyme, pour partager avec un plus petit réseau de trucs plus perso. Pour le compte pro, je suis allée sur l'instance sciences.re car c'est une instance qui regroupe pas mal de scientifiques, et c'est souvent de là où je parle. En vrai, les instances c'est pas si important. J'en ai parlé un peu plus dans un billet un peu plus technique. Ce qu'il faut retenir, c'est que si tu ne veux pas te prendre la tête, tu peux aller sur piaille.fr.
On ne va pas trop se mentir, quand j'ouvre Mastodon, le premier truc que je regarde, ce sont mes notifications.
Ce que je préfère, ce sont les mentions. Ça veut dire que quelqu'un m'a parlé, et que je vais pouvoir répondre. 9 fois sur 10, c'est chouette. Parfois c'est un·e relou·e, mais c'est rare. Donc si tu viens sur Mastodon, viens papoter, ça me fera super plaisir.
Ensuite, ce sont les partages. Je me dis : « Chouette, ce que j'ai dit t'a paru suffisamment intéressant pour le repartager ! »
Et enfin, les likes / favoris. C'est bien parce qu'on se dit : « Tiens quelqu'un·e m'a lue et me le fait savoir, merci copaine ». On a moins l'impression de parler dans le vide.
J'interagis aussi évidemment en répondant aux messages des copaines qui racontent leur quotidien et qui posent des questions. Et en racontant moi aussi un peu ma vie (ce qui m'amuse ou qui m'énerve)...
Poser des questions
Un truc que j'adore sur Mastodon, c'est de raconter une situation qui m'est arrivée, et de demander aux autres comment iels auraient réagi. Je suis toujours surprise de réparties auxquelles je n'aurais pas pensés. Et puis, c'est marrant de voir comment aurait réagi un homme blanc et ça me décomplexe un peu.
Et je pose aussi des questions sur un peu tout et n'importe quoi #MastoHelp, et j'ai toujours des réponses intéressantes.
Qu'est-ce qu'il faut penser de cette nouvelle application de messagerie bretonne treebal qui se dit écolo ?
Vous avez des recos de livres sur l'histoire des sciences pour un ado de 14 ans ?
Un peu de distraction de gauchiste
J'ouvre mastodon le matin sur mon téléphone pour me réveiller doucement. Je vois en général surtout des messages de la nuit, donc de ce qui s'est passé aux USA et au Canada, et puis des copaines qui ont mal dormi 😬. Je regarde aussi quasi-systématiquement le soir en me couchant.
Je suis abonnée à quelques journaux comme Mediapart ou LeMonde, ça me fait ma petite revue de presse de gauche. C'est le truc que j'ai oublié de dire depuis le début, alors que c'est l'une des plus grandes qualités de Mastodon : c'est un réseau social de gauchistes 🤩 !
Des recos
Sur mastodon, je me cultive en lisant quelques articles de blogs ou de presse partagés par les personnes que je suis. Et un truc chouette, c'est qu'il y a beaucoup de recommandations ! J'aime beaucoup le Hashtag #VendrediLecture par exemple.
Donc quand je tombe sur une reco qui me parle, je bookmarque. Mettre un signet sur un message (un pouet ou un toot selon les instances) permet de le retrouver facilement plus tard. De temps en temps je parcours mes signets et je mets à jour ma liste de livres à lire et de films et de séries à regarder, et de podcasts à écouter.
Partager mon travail
J'essaie de faire des fils / threads une fois par semaine pour parler un peu de mon travail : les sciences de l'éducation et la formation au sens large. Ça fait un peu partie de mon plan de com' global pour ma petite auto-entreprise, et je publie en général un contenu un peu similaire sur Linkedin et sur Mastodon. Maintenant, comme je le disais dans l'article sur comment quitter Facebook, j'essaie que les infos un peu intéressantes soient aussi dans un article de blog. Parfois, c'est plus spontané, je lis un article, et je partage en utilisant le hashtag #BiblioDidactique. Ou bien je partage juste mon quotidien au travail.
Militer un peu
Je partage aussi autour de mes lectures, ou de ce que j'écris sur les sujets de société qui me tiennent à cœur : le féminisme, l'écologie, la cuisine végétarienne, le numérique hors gafam...
Petite liste de mes plaisirs sur Mastodon
Ça va faire 3 ans que je suis sur Mastodon, et globalement, c'est une plateforme dont je suis très contente. Je voulais faire une petite liste à la Prévert des petits plaisirs de Mastodon :
Pas de publicité. C'est con à dire mais c'est vraiment trop bien. Je vis à la campagne, je surfe sur Mozilla avec un bloqueur de pub, et je traine sur Mastodon. J'ai perdu l'habitude d'être agressée par de la pub non sollicitée partout et ... pffff... c'est BIEN.
Des copaines. Sur mastodon on peut vraiment se faire des copaines, voir même des amies. On se soutient, on s'écoute, on se rend des services. C'est ... bien 🥰.
De la bienveillance et de l'humilité. Alors oui, ya du mansplaining et de la pureté militante : ça reste un réseau social avec beaucoup d'informaticiens ou de cyclistes hommes blancs ou de vegan hommes blancs, mais globalement, il y en a beaucoup qui sont éduqués sur ces questions. J'ai souvent lu : « est-ce que tu écris pour avoir du soutien ou tu souhaites avoir aussi des conseils ? ». Ou bien « Tu en sais probablement déjà beaucoup sur le sujet, mais ... ».
De la poésie et un peu de beauté. Ce n'est pas du tout ce que je venais chercher, mais #FleurisTonFil, #SilentSunday, #Caturday sont des hashtags qui font du bien à ton fil. J'ai par contre masqué #Mastobaba 😬.
De l'humour et de la rigolade. On cite évidemment la grande Scu , mais j'aime surtout les échanges de pouet où on enchaîne sur des mauvaises définitions d'un mot, ou bien le hashtag #Ironeme où l'on détourne des expressions toutes faites.
Une fenêtre d'overton enfin tirée à gauche. Ya plein de gens très engagés sur Mastodon. J'ai l'impression que les gens passent leur vie en manif (ou à faire du vélo), à lire des livres féministes trop intéressant et à cuisiner vegan. Parfois c'est un peu pénible car certains sont assez Yakafokon ou pureté militante, mais au quotidien, ça fait quand même du bien. Ça change de Linkedin on va dire.
Il n'y a pas une infinité de messages à lire, au moins sur mon fil principal. Alors je mets cet argument à la fin car c'était surtout vrai à mes débuts sur mastodon. Au début, comme tu ne suis qu'un petit nombre de personnes, bah il n'y a qu'un petit nombre de messages à lire. En 20 minutes, pouf, j'avais tout vu. C'est beaucoup moins addictif que les réseaux sociaux à algorithmes et j'aimais beaucoup ça. Sur mon compte, pro, ça n'est plus du tout le cas. C'est aussi pour ça que je me suis recréé un petit compte anonyme pour n'y suivre pas grand monde, et retrouver ce côté fini.
On entend souvent dire, sur les réseaux sociaux, qu’il est facile de mettre une alternative à une image pour qu’elle soit accessible. Pourtant, il y a de nombreux types d’images différents et la façon de les rendre accessibles peut varier.
@gismork Oui ce post est chouette, ça correspond à ce que je ressens (bien que mâle blanc cis geek) ; merci d'avoir pris le temps de le décrire tout bien !
: je te rassures, c’est "normal" de ne pas connaitre si on n’est pas dans l’informatique 😉 (d’où ma blague parce que c’est vraiment ultra-niche. Mais j’aurais pu faire pire et parler de Plan9 )
Tu nous aides pas là, si on essaye justement d'élargir et d'accueillir des gens différents, mieux vaut ne pas se complaire dans les refs geeks ? C'est un peu comme continuer des blagues sexistes en disant 'oui mais je rigole', les concernées ne vont pas se sentir à l'aise. Je me trompe ? @AudeCaussarieu
100 idées préconçues sur Mastodon:
1. Il faut être programmeur pour utiliser Mastodon.
FAUX. Il suffit de recompiler un client existant. Un simple git pull, ./configure, make, make install suffisent.
2.
du coup je suis allée voir le blog de @AudeCaussarieu et j'ai lu l'article sur Facebook (j'ai pas insta). Je suis un peu sur les mêmes interrogations, parce que marre d'avoir des micro agressions sur FB (genre hier, sous un post que j'avais fait en soutien à Harmonie Lecerf qui datait de plusieurs jours : "Mince, les groupies de Robespierrette ont encore perdu" : mais pourquoi ??). Bref, j'ai créé un compte Friendica, qui a l'avantage de faire le lien avec le compte masto. Et vous ?
(j'avais pas d'activité sur Facebook depuis que je suis plus présidente de l'asso)
Mais si tu me racontes friendica et que ça a l'air chouette, peut être !! (surtout si t'arrives à faire venir d'autres zécolos pas trop pénibles 😆 ou plutôt une team de féministes ! Moi mes copines FB sont toutes des féministes )
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Ça fait peur ! Moi qui débarque sur mastodon je cherche en effet des comptes à suivre. Eh bien ce ne sera pas celui là.. Comment on devient intolérant en plaidant la tolérance.
@syd95 : moi j’y vois de la discrimination positive.
Les hommes blancs geeks cisgenre étant surreprésentés un peu partout et surtout sur une plateforme technique, il est logique de tenter de faire ressortir d’autres voix même si, au début, il faut faire cela artificiellement.
@syd95 Elle ne dit pas qu'elle ne suit pas les hommes blancs cis. Elle attend juste de savoir si ce qu'ils disent l'intéressent, alors qu'elle part d'un a priori que les comptes de femmes, queer, etc. l'intéresseront. Je ne vois pas ce qui peut faire peur dans cette démarche.
"The Lady's Gift, het eerste deel in de driedelige fantasyreeks "The Chosen Saga" geschreven door de Bruggeling Jarl Versavel. En dit ter voorbereiding van het eventueel aanschaffen van het derde deel dat verkrijgbaar zal zijn op de 9000con SF-Conventie Gent. Niet bijzonder origineel, maar wel verslavend en zeer vlot geschreven. #boeksky #fantasy
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
@AAMfP For single illustration, I always found the CC By Sa unclear for one thing: some argue that if you use it for a cover on a copyrighted book project , you can reuse a CC By Sa illustration, because a book is a "composed media" and the text can have another license than the cover. Same for video creation.
Here I consider the content (book/video) as a full entity, not a "composed media". CC By Sa artworks on cover for a book? CC By Sa viral should spread to the book.
I can't see the original comment. But based on the context, I'm so sorry, it's so infuriating and heart breaking. A good reminder to keep critical thinking from turning into pure cynicism. @bajax
We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta.
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A tip of the hat for your generosity and talent. A big grin.
I was recently impressed and moved by David Revoy's Darwin on another post, and today I discover he has released it and many more into the Creative Commons.
wow, these are fantastic (literally 😁)! Makes me wish there was more to them somehow; like an own fairy/elves webcomic. Or at least more appearances in the Mini Fantasy Theater, if that ever continues.
Petr Valach von der tschechischen LibreOffice-Gemeinschaft berichtet uns über das Feedback vom LibreOffice-Stand auf dieser Veranstaltung… Das InstallFest ist eine etablierte, aber relativ kleine Open-Source-Konferenz, die jährlich in der Tschechisch…
@leachimus Leider nicht, weil es zuwenige Freiwillige gibt, die bei der Dokumentation mithelfen. Aber trotzdem frohe Ostern! --- wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE…
A Bug Squashing Party is being organised near Leuven, Belgium, on 26th and 27th April, to fix as many bugs as possible to help prepare for the release of the next stable version of Debian (Debian 13 - Trixie) wiki.debian.org/BSP/2025/04/be… #debian #trixie #bsp
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On the value of legible source code for websites, especially personal ones:
“Today's heavily optimized websites have largely killed the "view source" learning experience. The code is minified, bundled, and often incomprehensible to beginners trying to understand how things work. I got the ick from my own small optimisation. My personal website is small and it isn't an urgent service. It's hardly ever visited from a mobile phone. Maybe I shouldn't be using the little time I have to focus on that side of front-end development in this instance? But deep down, all I want for my personal website is to give back to the web. I want anyone, regardless of skill level, to inspect elements, understand the structure, and learn from readable code. And I am fully aware my code isn’t perfect. It’s old and there’s a lot of room for improvement.”
ooh! did you know that the most recent version of ruby on rails purposefully doesn't minify your client-side code now?
part of the reason is because http/2 and automatic compression make it less needed overall, but a huge part was also compassion for the curious, and i really hope more of the web becomes a place where that's common again!
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We are now bidding on auction item number five! Not only does the GNU party by Etienne Suvasa (1993) decorate the cover of Introduction to the Command Line, it is also a fun reminder that computing in freedom is worthy of celebration. Find out a bit more about this lively artwork and bid via #Galène: u.fsf.org/46b #auction #FSF40 #memorabilia
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