fellmoon 🏴 @fellmoon@bsd.network

Does anyone have alternatives to #Shopify that you consider ethical?

Does anyone know of a (preferably) Europe-based hosting company offering Linux VPS similar to @OpenBSDAms, i.e. some of the profits get donated to a distribution/FOSS in general?

Exciting: The Ghost team has just released the beta version of its ActivityPub support for people using their hosted service

https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/

Payachatas - Parque Nacional Sajama by Fractal77

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxhD38hcWW00

#bolivia #sajama #volcano #sunset #clouds #lights #sudamerica #southamerica #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

#Signal is a long way from perfect, but it has one key benefit: It is very easy for people to adopt. Download the app, follow a linear flow, start talking to existing contacts. In particular:

• It reuses an existing identifier (COI also does this, though doesn’t have a discovery protocol so you can’t tell which users will support the upgraded mode without trying to message them).
• The security of your communication does not depend on the instance you pick (you can’t pick an instance and you can’t choose to run one, which I consider a weakness, but most alternatives at least leak metadata to the person who runs your server and to the servers that you communicate with).
• It doesn’t ever fall back to an insecure mode. This eliminates downgrade attacks. OMEMO over XMPP and COI will both fall back to unencrypted modes and rely on UI patterns for users to detect this (remember how well the SSL padlock worked for this?)
• It reliably syncs keys across devices, so phone, tablet, and desktop clients can all see your messages and you can transparently move between them.
• Encrypted multi-party video chats just work. Now that chat links works you can just stick them in a calendar invitation and switch to using Signal for meetings instead of proprietary systems.

There’s a longer list of things that I would like them to fix, but that’s the set of things I need a chat program to support to be something I’d recommend to non-geeks. Being able to host your own server is nice. Needing to host your own server for security is a deal breaker.

LLM crawlers are aggressively destroying important community infrastructures but sadly there is not an easy fix. Still: Blocking those crawlers should be high on your list of todos

(EDIT: You do not need to link me to nepenthes, etc. I am aware of those as is sourcehut)

(Original title: LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut)

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/

@sortius @hacks4pancakes There's a popular meme that goes, "If you see someone stealing food, no you didn't".

Fuck that.

If I see someone shoplifting any essential goods such as food, but also baby items, sanitary pads, etc., I run distraction by scanning for the nearest empty shelf and asking a shop assistant if they have any of that product "out back".

No need to collaborate with the thief, it's 100% deniable.

Schon paradox, dass marktradikale extrem Rechte oft auf die „gute alte Zeit“ verweisen, als ein Einkommen noch ein gutes Leben für die ganze Familie ermöglichte - und dabei komplett ausblenden, dass die Sitzensteuersätze in den 60er Jahren in vielen Ländern viel höher waren.

I have noticed the first buds forming on trees (#GreaterBoston). The world may be a dark place, but spring is in my heart. Like every year, I am grateful to have lived to see the flowers bloom again. (Knock on wood!)

Könnte ein bissl #followerpower (bzw. Ezzes) gebrauchen:
Ich hab eibe uralte Gitarre und eine uralte Mandoline(?) geerbt, die vermutlich Zuwendung brauchen, um wieder gespielt werden zu können.
Wo oder Wer in #Wien könnte damit etwas anfangen, hätte Freude damit? Kennt ihr Geschäfte, Leute?
(Mir gehts hauptsächlich darum, dass sie ein gutes Platzerl finden und nicht weggeschmissen werden)
#Musikinstrumente #Gitarre

Without the ever-escalating violence of amoral mercenaries, it would be impossible to preserve the disparities in wealth and power that make it possible for men like Elon Musk to buy up elections while millions go hungry.

Abolish billionaires. Abolish the police.

https://cwc.im/cops

#AntiFascism #Antifa #Disobey

EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025

The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals for EuroBSDCon 2025 is now open.

Enter your submission at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

Please also visit the main website https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for information about the conference.

See you in Zagreb!

#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon

I'm finally unveiling the #ActivityPub project that has been consuming my weekends: Encyclia, an #ORCID bridge that will make ORCID records followable and interactable on the fediverse. 🙂

It's early-stage and the ORCID following function is not publicly available yet. We're seeking community feedback on functionality and safety aspects. Read more at https://encyclia.pub or follow @encyclia for news!

#fediverse #fedidev #scicomm #wisskomm #academicchatter

Sagt mal, wie wäre es, sich alle ironisch angewöhnten rechten Scheißbegriffe bewusst wieder abzugewöhnen, um die Normalisierung von Gewalt nicht performativ zu begünstigen.

Heute abgewöhnen: »Deal«, wenn es um Politik, um Menschenrechte geht.

Danke.

#Thread #SpracheSchafftRealität