A couple years ago I stumbled across this DJ on freesound.org. He's uploaded ~3,500 free audio sound effects to freesound just cause "everyone should have the tools they need to contribute to the world" At the time I bought an album of his off bandcamp. It's legit electronic music. I checked […]

To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping. If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at […]

a new day?

what makes CORS hard to use?

Just learning of this when Unity randomly stopped working on latest Ubuntu 25.10 update. Latest Unity release expects XML2, and I presume Ubuntu no longer ships it. (insert XKCD meme here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDr4fKXmUvc #opensource #foss #unity #libxml2

This might be worth a PSA - if you use #vscode via Snap, every file you delete inside VSCode is not actually getting deleted. It goes to a "Trash" folder in the ~/snap/code/current/Trash and never (ever) gets deleted. Last year I found I had 44 GB in undeleted files, in that GitHub issue this is […]

This is pretty cool. 3D + water is always a fun combination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7K_bfI9iZc #3d #threejs #webdev

RE: https://solar.bots.edent.tel/posts/697eceaa-a8b9-75cb-8184-1de827ffafd0.json Looks like our solar battery will pay back in under 6 years. The maths is complicated because we're on a variable tariff. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/08/review-moixa-4-8kwh-solar-battery/

@TechConnectify - "Burning corn for cars is not economical and a waste" @hankgreen - "Burning coal for power is not economical and a waste" Nice to see Hank and Alec within a day of each other pointing out how profoundly stupid the US's new energy strategy is. To quote Mark Carney at the WEF […]

Made a userscript to show me the starred date https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/564752-github-star-date-display

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/115986491904558099 There are many interested parties ready to work on e2ee here and we need to figure out how to do this right.

Look at what they have been demanding your respect for all this time

Army ants can't see, many ants have poor eyesight. So, how do they know where you are? As a large vertebrate, the vibrations you make when you walk are like little earthquakes to the ants and they notice. They also notice your breath. They can detect CO2. The CO2 thing is well established and […]

Huge respect to @TechConnectify for taking the necessary risk with his 3 million followers by telling it like it is with the political landscape in the US, at the end of his latest video. (linked video at the start of the "Who the liars are and what we need to do about them" section, but the […]

First talk today at the Social Web Devroom we have @pfefferle talking about the state of WordPress's fediverse integration #fosdem #activitypub #fedidev

AP gang with @evan and @hongminhee tonight

Built with Eleventy #11ty ANHVN https://11tybundle.dev/showcase/anhvn-com

It's rare that I need to check TLS version support, but #til that #nmap is pretty great at that. #networking

Several of our teams will be at #fosdem26 ... we'll introduce our PQC and Reliable Deletion ("forward secrecy") efforts, and give an overview over multi-relay #chatmail architectures. Or catch us on the booth or some sunny place outside :) https://delta.chat/fosdem26.html invite link for […]

Wow so while I was explaining how I got into the fediverse to @hongminhee and @2chanhaeng the tv in this cafe started talking about @peertube on #france24

The gorgeous weather has come to an end, and it's just overcast. The temperatures are very much tolerable but another cold snap is on the way this weekend. One more day. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #adoptdontshop #rescuedog #photography #fujifilm

RE: https://mastodon.design/@modal/115977957825673080 Join me for this on Sunday if your at #fosdem!

#ai is making malware websites look pretty convincing now. #security https://youtube.com/watch?v=ns8P-0xEMTU

Trying to convert a JPG logo to SVG and epicly failing. However, while doing so #inkscape "Trace Bitmap" in "Brightness steps" mode made this awesome pattern. For reference, I'm zoomed way in on the letter "A" from a logo. #design

I gotta say—one of the most worthwhile purchases for my car in the last 5 years has been a back-up starter battery. I charge it maybe once every 1-2 years. It's jump started my car half a dozen times, it's jump started other people's cars. If my phone ever […] [Original post on nutmeg.social]

Shout-out to everyone that donated, I think we hit the goal. https://www.gofundme.com/f/alex-pretti-is-an-american-hero

#vercel has this dumb phone verification requirement on login, and you can't re-use your phone across accounts. While I also have both a Google Voice and a Twilio number, both numbers are "not allowed" for verification. So, I went on the journey looking for a website for SMS verification, all […]

I came across a little cyber mystery, maybe Mastodon can help me with this one. (purely out of curiosity) I was looking to integrate a PRNewsWire.com widget into a site when I notice prnewswire.co https://prnewswire.co just shows a video, "All your base are belong to us", which is the classic […]

Ilkley Moor. The snow turns to rain.

A sign of the times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR15xWFtu-s #uspol #music

Just noticed someone uploaded the "We Are Legion" doc to PeerTube. If you find hacking, anonymous, and activism interesting, this is a fun watch. https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/5kH3TaMTRyQ9Q9nY28WjbV

Is there any kind of entertainment or other content people are wanting to see more of on Loops or PeerTube? #loopsvideo #peertube

Man, search engines really suck butt these days.

RE: https://neutronbytes.com/2026/01/24/nuclear-shutdown-is-called-a-mistake-by-german-chancellor/ I don't often toot about #nuclear energy, but it's something I casually follow. I find the juxtaposition between France embracing nuclear and Germany rejecting it such an interesting case study […]

Every federal agent in the US should be legally required to wear a camera. No more excuses. #rip #alexpretti

Spent the last day random researching RCS and why Google Messages is the only Android app that supports RCS. For a new "open standard" to replace SMS, it's wild how it's entirely controlled by large corporations, and basically impossible for a small app dev to use RCS. A complete and total […]

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First coffee of the day… 😳 #coffee #blacksheep

2008: The first RCS messaging spec is introduced. 2012: The newer "Universal Profile" RCS spec is added. 2026: Google Messages is still the only Android app with RCS support.* How did we create an open standard that most phones + carriers now support, and yet, the Google Play Store only has 1 […]

One bit of open-source that I love and doesn't always get a lot of attention is "KDE Connect" (aka GSConnect if on GNOME). The feature I use the most is sending files between my phone, laptop, and desktop. More recently when I switched to #GrapheneOS and […] [Original post on nutmeg.social]

HUZZAH 🎉 overscroll effects for ALL scrollers in Chrome 145+ https://nerdy.dev/overscroll-effects-on-nested-scrollers-in-all-browsers

Extremely cool concept from #wero: use the #dma to role out a alternative contactless payment solution based on Wero instant SEPA transfers, with fallback to card payments for incompatible terminals. An entirely independent, European payment solution.

a few people have been asking what my typical setup is for "running websites that I can completely ignore and spend 0 time maintaining" so I wrote down a few thoughts https://gist.github.com/jvns/5bd9283d7abd5ceb26eb7ed28afe3030

Hmm 🤔

What's worse is that this appears to be an Android native time picker, and is straight from Material Design 3: https://m3.material.io/components/time-pickers/overview

A beam through the woods. #photography #schneefoto(?)

PMG won the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism last night at the @nyvgcc.bsky.social! It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.

I started _Ghost of Yōtei_ today, and just like its predecessor _Ghost of Tsushima_, the visuals are absolutely stunning!