Notices by Genders: ♾️, 🟪⬛🟩; Soni L. (soniex2@chaos.social)

hello linux fans and non-fans and begrudging users, we would like to pre-announce SystemDonut, a new kitchen-sink init system targeting musl. its main feature is that it's not systemd, that is, it's not coupled to glibc like systemd is. expect a full announcement 2026-04-01.

@jonny we still worry about the specs being controlled by a fascist(?) iwrc. but we suppose that can be dealt with by maintaining our own independent implementation, and hard-forking if necessary?

@agatha ... we're making a localizable programming language.

@dalias @simontatham url + commit hash?

@dalias selfhosted? vdo ninja would probably work, it's not super high protection or anything but it's something we know a few streamers use, no hype

@dalias a bluetooth speaker with usb?

@dalias (any more requirements? power source (wall/battery)? portability? headphone jack?)

@dalias we're planning to block the IP addresses of ofcom offices specifically. (would love to have a list of them.)

and possibly setup an email bridge. maybe we should all be browsing the web over email.

@hrefna since you seem to prefer long-form responses: the poll can answer the question of why scientists are on bluesky, but it cannot prove scientists are on bluesky, because it induces a selection bias by design.

yet it's being passed off as "scientists are on bluesky".

do you not see how this can be used to manipulate you?

what's the point of science if you can't point out the flaws

@hrefna biased polling.

@ryanc ipsec and/or tcp-md5 are firewalls

@dalias we did, in fact, read it.

you still think your mods aren't gonna get annoyed about you reporting those posts, if they could also see *you actively brought the posts into the global feed in the first place*?

@dalias the purpose of "audit log" feature we proposed to various fedi software is that it lets mods detect when an user is actively bringing hate speech into the global feed.

if you see lots of uncorrelated "reply" causes, that's one thing, but if you see lots of correlated "search" (or "explicit request") causes, that has a completely different interpretation.

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/3319

@dalias that's only applicable to mastodon. if we had "git blame" (or really an audit log) for federation, you would get banned instead of threads

@NireBryce we believe this is a CSS problem? (but they refuse to accept it as their problem)

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/11255

please grant us the sweet release of not maintaining rust crates ever again

please take this crate from us: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/selfref-is-looking-for-maintainers/121839

(for trans ppl/Black women only)

:BoostOK:

#rustLang

#askfedi does POSIX allow using socket after socket fd has been allocated but before call to socket() returns (e.g. with threads)?

@lispi314 also wasm

@hrefna @jenniferplusplus the more y'all talk about AP the more we want to stay away from it heh.

if it's worth anything: thanks for that.

@nekohayo we should use JXL everywhere and put "Best viewed on safari" on our websites.

chrome users get the alt text.