if I come back as a ghost I will personally haunt every web designer who messes with the normal operation of the clipboard

Not sure that there's a better illustration for the relationship between capitalism and the commons than searching for "Wikipedia" in the app store and being presented, above the Wikipedia app, with a paid knock-off app that seeks to monetize the volunteer labor that makes Wikipedia possible.

DeepSeek V4 just dropped - two models, Flash and Pro, both benchmarking well, decent pelicans and prices that put them both as the cheapest in their respective categories by a solid margin https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/

We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉 This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post […]

SecureDrop Inbox, the new window into the SecureDrop Workstation, has been rewritten from the ground up to replace the previous client application for existing journalist users. Improving upon the core functionality, it also includes bug fixes, speed improvements, and a range of new features […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/116297596350875297 Really appreciate the contextual explanation of how handles work in the fediverse; when you have a complex design constraint that's fixed, you have to make an effort to help people understand it.

IMO the most likely cause of any kind of #ai bubble pop are Chinese models breaking through. And at least in the open inference markets, that appears to be happening already: "Since February, Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token […]

@neuSoM Gerade auf Bluesky gesehen:

Even Mark Zuckerberg's dumb ideas can't be sustained forever. Looks like his Second Life clone is finally shutting down: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-on-meta-quest/ (https://archive.is/vE4cn) But I'm sure he's got lots more where that came from.

As promised: I'm a staff-ish level software engineer, fairly deeply involved in the Python community (see @NorthBayPython which I organise, and @ThePSF where I'm a board Director). Things I like: understanding/taking apart/reassembling systems; open source; technology in service of humans […]

The Principia about page on the website has seen some improvements recently, so I would like to bring your attention to it. https://principia-web.se/about It features a description of the game and its journey as well as game screenshots and logo. It doubles as […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Fun funding fact: If we had 10 times more money to develop #deltachat , the #chatmail relay network and the #Webxdc secure mini app ecosystem, we would still have ten times less than what signal has (let alone Whatsapp or telegram). But we don't want to increase nudging people for donations, as […]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@qgis/116239960147368925 Have an idea 💡 to improve QGIS 🗺️🛠️ ? Now’s the perfect time ⏳ to make it happen! QGIS grants 💰 are open again! See the announcement below 👇 #qgis #foss4g #opensource #geospatial #devcommunity

Ah, Amtrak. Sending me "your train is running a bit late" SMS 18 hours before departure, but alternating between "last call, board now!" and "actually cancelled, you'll be put on a bus" at the departure time.

arXiv is becoming an independent (nonprofit) company and they're looking for a CEO jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

[Slay the Spire 2 early impressions] - Great mix of familiar and new. The new characters add interesting new mechanics, but if you've sunken a lot of ours into StS1, it's like riding a bike. - It may in fact be too familiar for some, but give it time -- there's tons of new stuff to unlock. It […]

This Redditor is putting together a nice collection of SNL music recordings (often sourced from VHS tapes), a lot from the 1970s and 1980s featuring artists like Simon & Garfunkel, David Bowie, Queen. Some of these are on YouTube in higher quality but still worth a look/listen […]

"The Document Foundation maker of #LibreOffice] has called on the European Commission in an open letter not to rely solely on #Microsoft's proprietary [#XLSX format in the ongoing consultation on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The EU Commission had published a call for feedback on the CRA […]

RE: https://mastodon.world/@gamingonlinux/116178187712286951 A huge milestone in open source gaming -- Slay the Spire 2 is built using #godotengine, after Unity tried to screw over indie devs in 2023. (If you've never played a roguelike deckbuilder, StS is widely considered the pinnacle of the […]

Web applications are only as trustworthy as the servers that serve them, and servers can get hacked. That’s why we are introducing WEBCAT, a tool allowing web browsers to verify the origin of code before they run it. 🌞 Today WEBCAT enters alpha testing! If you like to experiment with […]

If you’re a small, resource-strapped team, for example in a newsroom, how can you figure out what software is feasible for you to build and maintain? I wrote a guide. https://werd.io/can-we-build-the-dog/

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

For Dangerzone, the reproducibility of our container image is one of our core defenses against supply chain attacks. We explain why and share some tools we created along the way. https://dangerzone.rocks/news/2026-03-02-repro-build/

If you want to use #Ghost and you want to support a European small business hosting service that hosts Ghost and has excellent support, Magic Pages has launched a new lifetime hosting plan. For $460 (not sure about EUR price) you get a Ghost site hosted forever. They’re an Austrian business […]

I'm in my late 40s, but when I'm in Germany people still regularly call me "young man". I wonder what the cutoff for that is going to be.

I have yet to encounter a single calendar date range widget that works well (hotel/airline sites all have it). Must be one of those impossible #ux problems. Or maybe just something that people think is easy that's actually quite hard to get right.

TIL that `npm` ships with `npm completion` to enable bash autocomplete. Nice. (Yeah, I still use `npm` over `pnpm` -- old habits, mostly.)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@brookie/115974819968313447 Exemplary work by Johan to engage in direct outreach _and_ document the resulting interactions. Most people won't do quite that much, but if you're an EU citizen or resident and a bit lazier (like me 😇) you can still look up a few accounts […]

A good read with lessons for social systems anywhere. The post explains how "means-testing" (is someone "worthy" of receiving a social benefit?) funnels taxpayer money designated for social purposes into for-profit companies, sometimes dwarfing spending on the benefit itself. There are many […]

Blue jay looking smart even though there’s a sprinkling of ice on its tail. #nature #birds #photography #winter

It's somewhat darkly amusing how a lot of Reddit slop these days is actual news from weeks ago recycled as images or LLM posts that end with "What are your thoughts on this?". Alongside bot upvotes, that stuff usually gets some human attention from people who hadn't seen the news when it first […]

Los geht’s! Basierend auf Daten des Projekts „Politics in sozialen Medien“ [1] sehen wir, dass über 70 % der Bundestagsabgeordneten noch immer auf X vertreten sind. Eigene Scraper für E-Mail-Adressen folgen, doch schon jetzt wird sichtbar, wer dieses […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/115940010397209167 Quote: "It's important that everyone understands that voice cloning is now something that's available to anyone with a GPU and a few GBs of VRAM... or in this case a web browser that can access Hugging Face."

There has been a departure from X in many waves since Musk took over in November 2022. Every departure filters the network down to the people who are comfortable with everything he does to amplify hate. Whatever Twitter once was, X Is now just a test for what people are willing to tolerate.

X is a threat to democracy everywhere, because it is designed to amplify lies that foster authoritarianism. @leavex is building resources for targeted outreach, which is more effective than posting on networks these people aren't on. - Contact #eu MEPs still on X […]

We now have a new homepage! It took some time to create the custom layout (thanks to aivuk on GitHub!), but the result is minimalist. A few minor adjustments are still necessary, but we're ready to add new countries! See the replies for details on how to contribute. #leavex #eu #x #opensource

At Unbreaking.org, we added dozens of events across four timelines this week and did a short briefing on Immigration events in the US along with smaller updates from our Data Security, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research teams: https://unbreaking.org/blog/this-week-at-unbreaking-jan-16/ #uspol

We are looking for a contract security-focused developer to work on WEBCAT (https://github.com/freedomofpress/webcat), a browser extension and a few other components that bring code integrity and transparency to the web. Read more and submit a proposal here […]

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

During the Iraq war I let people gaslight me into thinking I didn't know enough about "foreign policy" and "global politics" to say the war was a bad idea. I would hesitate because, I'm not an expert on those things. But I was right then and I'm right now. You don't need to be an expert, it's […]

Most European politicians are still active on X. Let's work together in 2026 to finally wake up our representatives. https://leavex.eu #leavex #eupol #eu #europe

The burning Cybertruck in front of Trump Tower was a defining photograph for the year that was to follow. And a defining video for the year is a teleoperated robot kicking its operator in the nuts (https://bsky.app/profile/jjvincent.bsky.social/post/3mayddynhas2l […] [Original post on social.coop]

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss […]

"Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is 'Domestic Terrorism'." https://reason.com/2025/12/26/justice-department-says-filming-immigration-raids-is-domestic-terrorism/ This is the best evidence yet that the #Trump admin is turning the term "domestic terrorism" into an all-purpose […]

Well, this was an exciting thing to wake up to! I'm on a list of the best podcasts from women over 50 — alongside amazing women like Amy Poehler, Katie Couric, Michelle Obama, Kara Swisher, Gretchen Rubin, Mel Robbins, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and more! I'm also […] [Original post on zirk.us]

I picked up "I Was a Teenage Exocolonist" in a bundle and quite enjoyed my first playthrough; if you love interactive fiction with a lot of attention to world-building, you should definitely check it out. My full review: https://lib.reviews/i-was-a-teenage-exocolonist

TIL that the Santa synonym (santonym?) "Kris Kringle" originates with the German "Christkindl", which is the tradition I grew up with. In that version it's not Santa who brings the presents, but the "Christ child" -- an idea initially associated with Protestantism due to the rejection of saints […]

It's gotten to the point where an Epstein face blocker would be helpful, as his smirking visage shows up several times a day in various news stories. In the meantime, if you want to help, you may find this PNG useful to attach to posts, overriding whatever they […] [Original post on social.coop]

Now that "cancel culture" warrior Bari Weiss holds real power at CBS, she is wielding it by trying to cancel a short 60 Minutes segment about one of the Trump administration's worst human rights abuses of this year -- the #cecot deportations. The footage did make it onto Canadian TV where […]

What does it take to make web applications auditable? Here's why reproducibility matters, and how WEBCAT—a framework for signing and verifying web applications—approaches the problem in practice. https://securedrop.org/news/webcat-towards-auditable-web-application-runtimes/ #webcrypto […]