Whenever you see what #ice is doing in front of cameras, you must imagine what they're doing where nobody can see them--like in the concentration camps the USA is building. It's easy to read those words and much harder to fathom what they mean; that this is happening in our day and age, in what […]

This week in #windows updates: * Secure update installation failure, requiring manual installation of the patches * Breaking authentication to Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 * Failed (forced) OneDrive sync that can randomly wipe your disk Remember those times when folks told […]

To our friends in #gaza: if you have received a message from @information1 with a notification of suspension **PLEASE** do not click on it and report the account. It’s a scammer pretending to be an account of the main instance’s staff, and the link in the post is likely to install malware on […]

Superstition is the act of acknowledging that anything bad that happens is your fault. It’s important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. #xkcd https://m.xkcd.com/3191/

Digital sovereignty isn’t an abstract concept to repeat for the purposes of political propaganda. Digital sovereignty is a real goal that must be achieved through concrete steps. You can’t talk of digital sovereignty and independence from the rogue US tech sector while you literally sell the […]

Cancel Machado’s Nobel Prize now. And give it to those who actually fought (and are still fighting) for peace in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan. And to those who actually hate fascists instead of cozying up to them. Someone who likes so much to lick the filthy ass of a convicted felon bent on […]

Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you what kind of scumbag you are. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/16/rightwing-leaders-endorse-viktor-orban-video-election

After 2.5 years a feature on top of my wishlist is finally coming to #ntfy 🎉 https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/303 ntfy will soon provide the ability to update and delete notifications. This solves many use-cases that so far forced me to piggyback on non-open solutions like Tasker […]

This is Sila receiving a nutritional supplement, just so she doesn’t suffer from malnutrition. As if this is all a child deserves. Sila has the right to live in a safe, warm home, not in a tent She has the right to healthy food, not survival rations She has […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If you use an alternative #tidal client, and playback suddenly broke today, don’t worry - you’re not the only one. Tidal today apparently pushed a change to their streaming backend that broke the MPEG-DASH specifications (namely, `AdaptiveSet@group` should only be a number, but they decided […]

My periodic reminder to blogs and news outlets that, if you have #rss or Atom feeds, you should remember to exclude those URLs from your frontend-based verifications. If you want to control traffic on machine-to-machine endpoints, use standard throttling and rate limiting - not CAPTCHAs nor […]

“ _Just one more lane bro_ “ folks try to solve the problem of congestion inflow into the city by _increasing_ the capacity of the motor roads into the city (while expansion of motor roads inside of the city can’t keep the same pace, and neither it should) […] [Original post on manganiello.eu]

The latest #YouGov poll shows to what extent the worst rightwing propaganda has created an artificial urban/rural divide that has convinced many that large (and mostly liberal) cities are unsafe places because of their diversity. Not only Americans have been […] [Original post on manganiello.eu]

Yes, there may be still uncertainty around the number of people killed so far, depending on the bias. But what’s sure is that the decrepit Iranian theocratic regime has been abducting people who peacefully protest on the streets and it’s executing them. Even a single one is one too many. A […]

#Taiwan is a sovereign State 🇹🇼 Its people have had their own government, economy and army independent from China since 1949. Almost everyone alive in Taiwan today has never lived under the rule of #china#taiwan Almost everyone alive in Taiwan today does not want to live under the rule of China. It […]

A quick communication to our wonderful friends in #gaza. A few of you may have experienced limitations/suspensions on your accounts, especially on the main instance. First of all, I want to reiterate that this isn’t anything personal against you or a sign that `@staff` is not sympathetic with […]

There’s a common thread behind terrorist States like Israel and Russia, and that’s their abhorrent habit of sadistically targeting civilians in retaliation for any offense (actual or faked) while calling for absolute unaccountability. Needless to say, you don’t negotiate with terrorist States […]

[Ukraine war] When you hit residential buildings in #Kyiv in the middle of the night, and you do so repeatedly, you are not a military power fighting a war against armed troops. You are a coward terrorist State trying to win land, power and influence upon […] [Original post on manganiello.eu]

A quick communication to our wonderful friends in #gaza. A few of you may have experienced limitations/suspensions on your accounts, especially on the main instance. First of all, I want to reiterate that this isn’t anything personal against you or a sign that `@staff` is not sympathetic with […]

Rock on #iran 🤘 May 7 Nation Army be the sound of your liberation and may you sprawl a lot of new metal bands, as we in the West have a bit run out of ideas of what to do with a distorted guitar.

The situation in Gaza is growing harsher by the day. Cold winds, heavy rain, and freezing nights turn life in the tents into a daily struggle for survival. Families try to keep their children warm with almost nothing, while the sound of rain mixes with fear […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#candycrush can bring #ice agents to your door. ICE has bought access to some surveillance tools developed by Penlink. If you read the description of that company on their website you’ll find an overdose of fluffy and probably AI-generated corporate jargon that doesn’t mean anything: > […]

> “ _If we don’t do it,#Russia or China will take over #Greenland. And we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbour._“ Right. Having Russia as a neighbour would be so unprecedented. Also, “ _hey I need to steal your lunchbox, otherwise that bully […] [Original post on manganiello.eu]

The wind is very strong now; it's tearing down our tents. As you can see, our tent is flying away because of the strong wind. 🙏🏻🥺 @fabio

Those who call for the end of #NATO amid US threats against #greenland#natoare wrong. NATO must still exist, and America, being a hostile power that resorts to military threats against its own allies, must no longer a part of it. Europe must speed up its process towards a federal political union […]

In a moment when democracy and self-determination are attacked from so many sides, and authoritarianism and imperialism are again on the rise, I would expect unity among all those who may disagree on many things, but still agree on some basic axioms of civilization: * That a democratic […]

In a moment when democracy and self-determination are attacked from so many sides, and authoritarianism and imperialism are again on the rise, I would expect unity among all those who may disagree on many things, but still agree on some basic axioms of civilization: * That a democratic […]

Is see Danish citizens online are now proposing to invade USA and MAAG. (Make America Actually Great) Under occupation they would ensure Americans got. Universal healthcare Fairer wages + lower income inequality Paid parental leave Bike-friendly cities Free […] [Original post on aus.social]

Developing a new Web browser is by now an endevour comparable to the Apollo missions - and probably even more complex. There are 1191 W3C specifications and recommendations out there right now (actually a bit less than the time when that article was written in 2020). That’s about ~110M words […]

StackOverflow’s fall is a sign of something more troubling. Sure, if your main metric is the round trip time it takes to solve a technical question then it may not look that bad. After all, instead of asking questions to human experts who may take days or weeks to answers, beginners can […]

Webmentions are an often forgotten #w3c recommendation (since 2017) that should probably be leveraged more often in the world of federated/decentralized Web services. Comments, reactions and rather and other forms of engagement, more than content itself, are what keep people often confined to […]

Yes, 2026 will be the year of #linux. But more because of #microsoft’s stubborn attempts at enshittification than for our merits. https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-1110-without-internet/

Even a broken Russian clock is right twice… https://stzl.ink/ifp9r4

When we talk about inclusion and secular government, I don’t think that we ever meant “replacing the Bible with the Quran as the text that public official swear on”. When as an elected public figure you swear on a religious text, you imply the moral superiority of that text over anything else […]

_Tools for Conviviality_ by Ivan Illich is an essay that anyone who wants to better understand economic and societal trends in tech should probably read. Written in 1972, it analyzes technological revolutions such as the sewing machine and the car, but it’s surprising how the same patterns can […]

There are many political tests out there, but I like the Moral Foundations Test because, rather than directly capturing political affiliation or bias within a specific frame of reference, it captures the weight that individuals give to each moral pillar. Focusing on more innate values and […]

A good article by @bagder. In summary: * `strcpy` in C code is usually (but not always) bad. It’s not necessarily bad if you have full control of the input and output buffers, and you run the right checks before the copy. However, we’re all humans, C code is often maintained for decades […]

One million #tikkie requests sent over 2025 were for less than €1. Because what’s more Dutch than charging people €0.50 for a pee on King’s Day, and process that transaction through an app? https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/12/record-number-of-tikkies-sent-one-million-were-for-less-than-e1/

Dear #china, you have left me with no choice but to ban you from my entire network. After months of scraping my Wikiless, my Invidious, my Nitter, my Forgejo, compromising the performance of my servers by requesting commits, blames, bulk PR changes, and even repeatedly cloning my repos over […]

Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting […]

Note how, according to the venue’s president Richard Grenell, it’s Chuck Redd to be at fault for a “political stunt”, for cancelling his performance at the Kennedy Center after the narcissist moron added his own name to it. Note how the “political stunt”, according to this version, is in the […]

“Wrapped” end-of-year products are becoming the norm in tech. What started as Spotify’s way to share your yearly listening habits in a couple of Instagram stories has become a trend in the whole industry - from LinkedIn offering you a yearly summary of your job hunt, to ChatGPT showing you how […]

Thank you for these emails #Google. Their purpose may be to make me feel bad for ruining your multi-trillion dollar empire with the strict policies around trackers and ads on my private and regularly purchased devices. But the more you folks send me emails […] [Original post on manganiello.eu]

Verbal condemnation alone against #israel and its colonialist regime is no longer sufficient. When a foreign minister reacts to the outrage against further expansion of the illegal West Bank settlments with “ _Foreign governments will not restrict the right of Jews to live in the Land of Israel […]

Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore. Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party). Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]

⚠️⚠️ **URGENT MEDICAL APPEAL** ⚠️⚠️ The wife of @MohammedHussein is pregnant and close to delivery, while going through a hard health condition - the poor conditions in #gaza mean that viral infections like hepatitis have become quite common, and they can pose great risks during pregnancy. His […]