Some of the people who have reached out interested in implementing @badgefed apparently want a way to see the badges as certificates, so here it is #activitypub #fediverse #openbadges #credentials

RE: https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum/115511841315245403 We need to start doing this with the ones kidnapped by ICE

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@kyleford/115506370638325309 Californians approve measure to federate with Threads.

Over the weekend I ripped Google search out of my blog because it doesn’t work very well any more and replaced with PageFind, which is really pretty cool. Details: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/01/Blog-Search-Pagefind

I was a little sad yesterday, that @nlnet did not approve funding for @badgefed, I was really bullish with the things it would enable. But I am not defeated, I want to continue building on it, and I have just applied to the #fosdem2026 @fosdem , I may need to sell one or two kidneys to pay for […]

Performance review season is here, and Gen-AI has catch up. My manager told me to add certain words about security, because the "AI caught it" missing.

Hey, are there gonna be @fediforum badges for attendees through @badgefed ? I'm a simple woman - I just like a badge! #fediforum

Mastodon for Hunger Relief is starting to hum. Second goal met, new one of $3000 posted. Join in at https://www.grapevine.org/giving-circle/xBnCKKa/Mastodon-for-Hunger-Relief. All donations go directly to 16 food banks, one each in every state where Democrats […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Threatening to arrest governors for seditious conspiracy. Getting dark fast.

Just noticed this site exists: https://justuse.org/curl/

I have a demo in about an hour from a nonprofit that reached to implement @badgefed for their credentials needs, wish me luck! #activitypub #fediverse

Maho Pacheco (@mapache) is coming to FediForum and wants to demo badgefed, new changes and releases. Did you see his demo last time? It's here on our PeerTube channel: https://spectra.video/w/cxkx3UjpTnjnpNupSvnvMt To register for this FediForum: https://fediforum.org

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]

Have you checked out the loooong list of topics people are bringing to discuss at #fediforum next week? It spans the entire open social web, and more are tricking in as people are registering. https://fediforum.org/2025-10/ Your topic is not among them? Come and bring it! FediForum is an […]

And as a general pattern, if you're writing software, *please* don't use one logically-distinct setting as a proxy for what you think the user might want another hidden setting to be. FFS make them separate settings.

If the government shuts down now, it has way less leverage than in the past. After months of trimming agencies and cutting staff, a shutdown doesn’t hit as hard, basic services like Social Security still run, and most people won’t feel the immediate impact. It’s like threatening to turn off […]

Every morning, I open the only proactive moderation tool available to #MastoAdmin folks, and every morning, I wish we had better tools. :blobfrowningbig: The fact these accounts all use the username "J" and yet there is no way to search for that and only that? […] [Original post on plush.city]

Ok what is this, it was pitch black in Seattle area and then for around 10min the sky had this light, and then it disappeared.

I can't longer distinguish between the violent Mexico and the violent US. I can no longer differentiate between the corruption in the political sphere in Mexico and the US. I can no longer feel different on the confidence of the government to improve people's […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

2/ №1: OpenSocial is already a name for something. (Although that isn't the most awkward thing about it.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial In fact, I created OpenSocial gadgets / widgets back in (I think) the year 2008 and 2009. And — ... #opensocial

If your book(s) were, or are pirated on LibGen and subsequently used by Anthropic to train its AI models, the courts have ordered them to pay a minimum of $1.5B. Authors might/could/perhaps get an estimated payment of $3,000 per work (based on current estimates of the # of pirated works trained […]

"Before Microsoft’s review, Israel had moved its cloud services to other platforms, including Amazon, he said." Ugh Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/technology/microsoft-israel-defense-ministry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok8.5pxz.4YgmL8N7wOnm&smid=url-share

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

If you can support one comic today, support @warandpeas

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Dune 1965

Good day all you lovely Fedizens ! Big week coming up on Fireside Fedi! We have THREE! YES! COUNT THEM! THREE! How many? Leave the answer in a reply and you could win one of our amazing TOTALLY real prizes! (Please note these prizes are not real at all.) All times are Eastern US, UTC-4. Mon […]

1/ I have spending time thinking of ways you could automatically create ActivityPub / ActivityStreams data from HTML and Markdown Most people will probably write in plain UTF-8 text, or Markdown, or HTML How to do you take that and get it onto the Fediverse and Social Web‽ This isn't just a […]

Whoever did this, I salute you. 🫡

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

I hate crypto.

I love #activitypub, the vocabulary and spec for methods like revoking a badge is already there on a decentralized network, so I just need to implement it - @badgefed

I finally convinced the nonprofit where I volunteer to use @badgefed !! It is interesting, because as I mentioned in @firesidefedi the fediverse is not a priority in terms of their audience. So even that the badges are using #activitypub on the back, their whole experience is in the badges […]

Utter BS. I lived with a doctor (my dad), I knew doctors, doctors were friends of mine. RFK Jr, you're no doctor. *apologies to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen. ‪The Wall Street Journal‬: Exclusive: An autism report by RFK Jr.’s health department will say Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate […]

When the COVID vaccines were initially released, people traveled from Mexico to the US just to get them. Now, it seems if I want to vaccinate myself or my family, we will need to travel to Mexico. Talk about "third-world" countries.

Good day everyone! I’m feeling much better after last week’s rough patch. I’m on call right now, so Fireside Fedi will be back next week with @julian and @timnitGebru@dair‑community.social joining us. In the meantime, feel free to catch up on the latest episodes: @felipe – […]

I am sleepy today, send me memes

@servelan It really does scream cover-up. For years, that 1 minute of video has been missing, and we have been given so many excuses as to why that is. But now that 1 minute of video resurfaces in a large data dump, only to look "normal". If everything was always normal, why wait years to show […]

I did it! I finished the OU Ready induction ready for my Open University course to start next month. Just a shame they aren't using @badgefed (they're using eu.badgr and it doesn't work, I keep getting an error). #OpenUniversity #student

Thank you to everyone reporting my @blog certificate was expired, I finally manage to fix it, turns out there are extra steps for ECDSA keys instead of RSA keys in my cloud provider.

U.S. immigration agents have arrested two Mexican contractors who were helping to tackle the Bear Gulch fire in Olympic National Forest, Washington. Crew boss David Diaz said they were among 20 Mexican contract workers, all of whom carried work visas and passports, but they were arrested on […]

TIL: https://isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com

Must-read: So-called "age verification" laws are spreading. They will not protect kids. They are grossly insecure. They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression. They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read. We have to stop this […]

Rise! Rise! Hard Rock guitar-shaped tower! And block the northbound view of that motherfucker Trump’s ugly golden tower!

Not one major American news organization has had the spine to lay out, as succinctly and convincingly as historian Garrett Graff does here, our dread new reality -- much less lift a finger to save democracy. The United States has gone fascist […]

Blue states can choke off red states by stopping equalization payments (shhhh, socialism) to the feds.

Today Trump signed an Executive Order that directs a barrage of federal agency action to escalate his dictatorial takeover of the District of Columbia. But embedded in the EO is a deeply chilling provision that orders Hegseth and the DOD to create specialized military units for rapid deployment […]