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Starting my weekend a little early and getting ready to head up to LinuxFest Northwest this afternoon. Really looking forward to it. 😁

#lfnw #lfnw2024



TFW you’re riding the train to work and suddenly everyone around you gets off at the same stop and you wonder if they know something you don’t.

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#Forgejo v7.0 was just released! Get it at https://forgejo.org/download/. 🚀

Forgejo v7.0 is available with translations in Bulgarian, Esperanto, Filipino and Slovenian; SourceHut builds integration; support for the SHA-256 hash function in Git; source code search by default and more. It also is the first Long Term Support version. The adoption of semantic versioning is the reason for the version bump from v1.21 to v7.0 and is compatible with existing tools. ✨

Read more at https://forgejo.org/2024-04-release-v7-0/

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lets `/sbin/fsck`ing go!!

im also thankful to the one person that helped with the Filipino translations :3

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Upgrade from v1.21 to v7.0 went perfectly!

Keep up the good work 👏


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Fedora Linux 40 is HERE! Check out all our latest variants for desktop, server, and more.

New features include:
* @kde Plasma 6
* @gnome 46
* Fedora Atomic Desktops (rebrand for Silverblue et al)
* PyTorch / ROCm
* And more!

Learn more and try Fedora 40 today! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Gnome #KDE

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Upgrading broke things in some surprising ways. Most (not all) icons are gone in my Plasma panels now. It's a good excuse for me to finally play with #sway and go full #wayland though, which has been excellent 😁. I suspect it's my config that broke as opposed to some flaw in the new release (or maybe both?).

Thanks to everyone on these projects for your hard work. You're making a difference and pushing open source forward!



I finally got around to trying out #slidge (https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/) on my #xmpp server to connect up a few of those other chat services and I gotta say I'm really impressed.




I really should have been labeling these. I’ll have to go back and do that. But here is Pia the Peacemaker.


I’m on a boat heading to that mysterious land known as Canada. 🇨🇦 🛥️
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Also known as "the alternate reality version of America where the Revolution never happened."




Time to get going with the Fedora Linux 40 beta. Let's see what goodness this brings and what tweaks I want to make with my setup.

#Fedora





Is it weird that I'm thinking of carving out a day or two off work just to have for myself to hack on code?

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Friendica 2024.03 released


Content warning: We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by snajafov, arcanican

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@Wilhelm the posting has a summary, which is an AP field that is mis-used as CW by some. And TBH mis-labeled IMO in the Friendica UI; but yes the effect is expected.
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This seems to be discussed in https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/14019#issuecomment-2015127342 and I fully agree with the following statement:

"The ActivityPub protocol is completely hidden from end-users so I don't think it's relevant to use the protocol terminology in a user-facing form. I think we should stick to the main use for this field. Even if it's called differently in other platforms than Mastodon, if it is still displayed as content warning on those platforms, we should call it "content warning"."


Personally I never felt the need to give a summary of the post I am about to send. This can easily be done in the post itself. The current usage in friendica is very confusing and I think it should be changed to match how users actually use the field. So +1 for changing that naming to Content Warning.

Besides that, I am not a fan of having to "Click to open/close" to get to the actual post. I think the idea of a post summary is not how real world usage of the Fediverse works. It complicates the usage and is not what I would expect as behavior. In case of the release notes, first I see a "Content Warning" but then depending on your interpretation, that content warning is misused when compared with the majority of the Fediverse. And in order to get to the actual release notes I need engage manually which is annoying.

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No Google, your in app ad service is not allowed to have my precise location. I don’t care if the app your ads are inserted into does for this session.

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One of the first things people ask you when you say you’re writing a book for O’Reilly Media is: “What animal is going to be on the cover?” O’Reilly books are famous for their lovely animal drawings, in rich detail, either in black-or-white or colour. Books are sometimes referred to by their cover animal, like the famous Camel Book by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz.

As an author, you don’t get to choose the animal on the cover. This is a fiercely-guarded prerogative of the O’Reilly Media design department. Authors and editors can make suggestions, but there’s no guarantee they’ll be followed.

Today, I got the design for the cover of the ActivityPub book I’m writing. I have to admit, I haven’t been thinking about it too much, so it was a surprise to see it, and I wasn’t really emotionally prepared. All I can say is that I’m overwhelmed and I absolutely love it.
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The bird on the cover is a Nanday Conure, a South American parakeet. They are extremely intelligent; in captivity they can talk, and are prized as pets. The birds live in central South America. They breed and raise their young in separate, private nesting holes, but when breeding season is over they join into large roosts with many, many birds, connecting their small family units into a bigger flock network.

I couldn’t think of a better description of what ActivityPub is and does.

We’re going to be pushing two new chapters — Activity Streams 2.0 and ActivityPub federation protocol — to the Early Release program this week. (The early release version still has the baby bird on the cover.) If you want to read the ActivityPub book today, that’s the place to look.

https://evanp.me/2024/03/15/cover-animal-for-activitypub-book/

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Shel Silverstein doesn’t get nearly enough credit for predicting ChatGPT.

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Some of you know today as π-day.

But the real insiders know that today is the 30th anniversary of the 1.0 release of Linux.



Looking forward to the nice weather this weekend. Might go out and do a bit of troll hunting.


I did a crazy thing and changed my username on public code repositories. If you've cloned any of my current active projects be sure to update the URL accordingly. (https://codeberg.org/spacenerdmo)


I see the new #Signal app has landed on my phone. I'm happy they are starting to do things better by hiding your phone number and letting you share a username. But I wonder if it'll be enough to increase my use of the app. 🤔






It seems enough people didn't want their Monday happening on Tuesday, so they rolled it into Wednesday instead. 🙄


Just when I think I have a fairly good handle on using git, I see someone perform some deep dark magic with their commits and I realize just how much I still have to learn.



Apparently I didn’t sleep as well as I normally do last night. I’m having a heck of a time trying to stay awake at work.

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Today in the USA we celebrate the Presidents of the United States of America, who in 1996 gave us millions of peaches, peaches for free.

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Few things are more exciting than patching code live in production. 😝


Now that I got that little bit of code cobbling out of my system I wonder what I should tinker with next. 🤔



I'd like to say I'm dusting the cobwebs off my php knowledge this morning but in reality it's been so long that it's more like re-learning php. I'm hacking up a new addon for my #Friendica instance.

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Drew DeVault

@modev I don't know about the emacs package, reach out to the maintainer directly

I don't know about your distro, either, tbh

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Drew DeVault
@modev we do not maintain downstream packages. It's official if that's an official source for your distro.