just finished watching this documentary about Brandon Darby who was an FBI informant (snitch) in the anarchist scene in New Orleans before I lived there who ended up working for Breitbart afterwards. I had heard much of this story second hand from people who had met him or knew him over the […]

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

just came across a really good interview with Zohran Mamdani's father Mahmood from 2004, highly recommended for some added context for our new mayor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNchRxv1E9c

Three years ago, I decided to quit Twitter and install a Mastodon server to see if it can replace it for me. It worked better than expected and I discoered so many new amazing people along the way. I would also never have imagined that I could end up recruiting and leading the team building it! […]

lil touch test (finally found the i2c usb adapter while cleaning up forsaken corners of the studio with @theawesomerandomness )

Just had my first post get backfilled comments while I was looking at it! @jonny has done the amazing task that has been being asked for since at least 2018 so bravooo https://post.lurk.org/@ojack/115507858488381017

really great in-depth video about the diversity of chinese languages by HelenaEnRose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqF8f9pij8

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503016101266241 I am so happy with this release, it includes a lot of things we have wanted for a long time, and we managed to release it only 4 months after 4.4. I am glad to be working alongside such an incredible team and it feels so good to finally […]

Dearest offline friends! Please join us for our monthly offline friends küfa (solidarity kitchen) this Thursday, NOVEMBER 6 @ 19h. ¡Queridos amigos offline! Únase a nosotros en nuestra küfa (cocina solidaria) mensual para amigos offline esta Jueves 6 de […] [Original post on autonomous.zone]

#apx v0.20.0 https://docs.rs/apx_sdk/0.20.0/apx_sdk/index.html This release comes after the recent updates to FEP-fe34 and FEP-ef61: - Implemented the algorithm for determining owner of an object (`ownership::get_owner`). - Updated the URI canonicalizer implementation (`CanonicalUri` type). - […]

Sweet little update that just went live in Ghost: Default feed is people you follow, but you now also have access to categorized Explore feeds to discover new things from people you don't (yet!) follow Just a fairly simple reverse-cron situation to start. Give it a try and tell us what you think!

Looks like Mamdani won which is incredible.

finally some good news; notorious war criminal dick cheney has died and is now dead

Here's another #fep for representing torrents on activitypub :) short, sweet, and with a reference implementation and tests! towards a federated bittorrent tracker with #sciop ! PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/714 Discussion […]

frogpost till the frogs sleep

anyone remember about a month ago when i asked for help identifying font support for a bunch of weird unicode characters? well, i kind of just finished the project that was for, and instead of using existing unicode characters i ended up actually MAKING MY […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

ok so we got Zohran Mamdani and Zack Polanski, any other politicians with Z names to be excited by?

today @bitartbot and @screenmunger are side by side making real nice "generative art" with no "intelligence" https://freeradical.zone/@bitartbot/115481300406396374 https://genart.social/@screenmunger/115481295234067904

Glad to see a Zohran themed GoToSocial instance in my timeline, bravo @baslow

# Marhaba! Ismee Zohran Mamdani #mamdaniformayornyc admits his Arabic needs work, but with a little help from his friends (and supporters, and -- cats)... #zohranmamdani #mayormamdani #understandmamdani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdsP1yO5DuM

# Phone bank for Zohran with Jeremy Corbyn! #mamdaniformayornyc #mayormamdani #zohranmamdani #understandmamdani […]

I will keep frogposting untill I run out of frogs

I recommend not getting stung by a wasp on your wrist. It's very hurty no good owcheee ugh

lizardposting

seeking recommendations for drawing apps for android phone. preferably open source but i'm fine with freeware! wanna be able to do quick thumbnail type sketching on the go ive seen some kids on the bus doing crazy shit on their phones before but couldn't figure out what the app was. mostly just […]

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Latest additions to the list of `FEDERATION.md` implementers: Loops and snac. There are more than 30 projects in total. https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/67ff/fep-67ff.md#implementations

was wondering what font the Zohran Mamdani campaign is using and learned its hand lettered at a co-op by worker/owner Aneesh Bhoopathy of https://forge.coop

trying to relax after a hard days work by watching a little documentory about the downfall of yugoslavia, as one does https://youtube.com/watch?v=bbH13sBHvDI

Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers. https://fedi.wrm.sr #fediverse

Today! 28.10. 19:00 is part II of the p2p lecture series @ offline This one is about the "Event Delivery" part of the "Walkaway"-Stack: Connectivity Substrates (Internet and Post-Internet). 📝 All infos & schedule here: https://pads.offline.place/p/r.06dda24

[fediblock] don't need to say much about this #fediblock... a very quick look at the profiles on this instance and its mainly racist/sexist/all the words you would imagine go next in that list, edgelords merovingian.club

Elon Musk's new alt-truth Wikipedia fork is live and has quite a thorough "article" on the #fediverse that has some funny claims: "Empirical data highlights low cross-instance engagement, with studies noting asymmetrical and infrequent interactions even between major platforms like Mastodon and […]

Firefox is adding ADS IN THE ADDRESS BAR https://mas.to/@alternativeto/115449083398299641

It's funny, y'all seem to like when I rant about being annoyed with tech bullshit but really I would rather just post pictures of cute frogs that I see and not how everything is fucked up and falling apart.

my partner @xhaos has a residency with ONSITE Site-Specific Art Residency & Festival and is doing a performance on 7 November at Acker Stadt Palast, #Berlin, which I am very sadly missing, but *you* should go "I work in the fields of film and video […] [Original post on social.wake.st]

we launched 4 little products in the MNT shop today, 3 of them are spare parts for MNT Pocket Reform and 1 is a new *iridescent/holo fabric* version of the MNT Reform Sleeve! 1. https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform-sleeve 2 […]

Is there a good article or thread countering this narrative that Signal (and communication of that scale) is not possible without its relience on AWS? https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445701583902092

icymi, in the Matrix State of the Union they said they didn't plan on pursuing decentralized social media, but they do hope to make it easier for those ecosystems to use Matrix so they don't have to reinvent what Matrix has already done

The highlight of my day...

Anyway, I hope this is a step forward for Muslim Americans and Arab Americans*. And I hope Cuomo, Adams and Sliwa get righteously trounced and go slinking off to whatever sleazy den they crawled out of. *Not synonymous.

Anyone know if this account for the new president of Ireland has been verified anywhere? https://mastodon.ie/@CatherineGalway/115436437552612782

Not sure why you'd think this is a good way to get your account approved on my server but uh no

Listening to the new t.a.t.u. album. Its pretty good, it feels like a throw back

After some more tweaks, I think it's pretty darn good to use now. If you want to use @phanpy as an installable iOS app and know how to install things via XCode, here you go! https://github.com/matfantinel/iphanpy

sneak peek of a little atproto app i’ve been working on. it’s called sidetrail it is for sharing “trails”. a trail is a sequence of stops where you do, learn, or think. a trail feels personal — it is whatever “worked for you” (this is a mockup with fake data)

Oh hey, new t-shirt. Thanks @anew.social!

Oh shit mastodon finally working on changeable usernames! "Several other changes need to be implemented, so not before a few versions, but the idea is to allow username changes eventually for accounts created after this gets merged." https://vmst.io/@mergebot/115373550302843191

my friend Nathan makes really lovely nerdy philosophical "rap songs" and recently longer video essays, I love his work vary much https://youtube.com/watch?v=KQswc94uaeA

My #followfriday recommendation for this week is @aral and @joynewacc list of authentic, verified accounts of people in Gaza, who all need our help. https://gaza-verified.org #ff