Notices by mhoye (mhoye@cosocial.ca)

I love email like this. “We’ve updated our term of service. By doing nothing, you agree to sign a contract on behalf of anyone who ever gets into your car”.

Sure guy.

A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, @Gargron stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.

A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.

These two things are not the same at all.

Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands.

#infosec

Where does “board member saying something that’s obviously nonsense about the company finances” fit on our hierarchy of market-legible signals?

https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116260908095581163

@mawhrin Speaking truth to power is outdated thinking, these days we speak fluff to stonks.

Between the metaverse and his Hawaiian estate it’s difficult to believe this presumptive philanthropist wants to build a better world when he’s spent dozens of times as much money building a world that doesn’t exist and bunker to hide from a world that shouldn’t.

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116258329496486071

The more you look at it the worse it gets.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

Disappointed but not surprised.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/03/19/joint-statement-leaders-canada-united-kingdom-france-germany-italy

Once again I am heartbroken to remind you that the Dunning-Kruger effect is probably not real:

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real

Like Freudian psychology, Hardin's tragedy of the commons and any number of other popular pseudoscientific narratives, it caters to our preconceptions and makes fore entertaining, easy to re-tell stories, but it's also... not true.

And - again, I am entirely saddened by this - that means that if we keep using these metaphors we're legitimizing the false ideas behind them.

There was a time when Dril’s identity was leaked and we all just agreed to ignore that and mind our business as if it hadn’t happened and I think we owe Banksy at least that much.

"we caught one" god. Luxurious.

Once again, I strongly advise you to set up fail2ban so that anyone you serve a 404 catches at least a full day ban, and if you don't care about talking to other people's services, do your best to fully block the IP ranges associated with all the major hosting companies.

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/21/raised-shields/

https://infosec.exchange/@foobardevs/116246141464905287

Two games, both called "Piece by Piece", were coincidentally released within a few days of each other by their developers.

They got in touch with each other, and now both games are available together as a Steam Bundle, because reasonable people can find mutually respectful, no-drama ways to solve problems.

https://www.polygon.com/steam-games-piece-by-piece-bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/68985/Piece_by_Piece_Double/

Anyone else remember that thing where 2020 taught us that a bufferless, deeply interconnected world of just-in-time production was incredibly fragile, and an otherwise completely manageable temporary disruption would cascade quickly into economic catastrophe, but instead of learning any lessons or building resilient, humane infrastructure we told everyone that the crisis was past and normal was back and go sacrifice your lives and health to grease the machine?

I do.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

One must imagine Sysiphus typing angrily, taking a long breath and deleting it.

What options do I have, if I want an operating system and software that won't take a dependency on nondeterministic, proprietary generators?

Where all these age verification laws seen to be coming from: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

@cwebber "The law always bends to capital, and when it doesn't capital buys new laws" is how I've heard that fundamentally expressed. Nobody should be looking at the copyright term extension acts and seeing a tool that benefits the people or the common good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

Devuan it is then.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md

“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3

The future of resilient society is solar on every roof, beer fridge sized batteries in every basement, shipping crate sized batteries in every tall building and fractal energy independence in any urban environment.

https://weatherishappening.network/@wordshaper/116206317138195654