Notices by Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ (blort@social.tchncs.de)

@cwebber

YouTube only. 😢

@Garwboy

I heartily disagree with you. Until you can prove sentience, I remain deeply skeptical. Sentience is usually accompanied by empathy, and I see little evidence of that here.

@lumi

Revolving door hiring between corporations and government, five eyes and third party doctrine, and equivalent legislation in non-US countries, largely means that government and corporate surveillance are one and the same.

@pedromira

Earth FTW! (Way better than that stupid Venus!)

@rysiek

I'm guessing it's "Meta announces Nazi's/Maga are good and trans/LBTQ+ people bad moderation policy" related.

@smitten

Not really. To reach the highest levels of power you not only need to have been born in to inhuman levels of privilege, but also to do things that any psychologically healthy person wouldn't be willing to do. Thus you're left with insecure narcissists who are willing to do and say *anything* to gain power/approval, and it comes across in how they look.

The psychologically healthy people are content to stay out of the game/limelight just living a good life and helping others.

@raphael

We already use one of the big job websites, so I don't really see what this would offer that's different?

That said, filtering resumes by criteria is still pretty crappy. I mean, I'd love it if people could put in their availability and we could filter by that, in more detail than just "weekdays/weekends/evenings". I'd love to be able to give other industries relevance scores so if people had experience in them, it gave a certain amount of added weight, etc.

@the_adventures_of_an_introvert

I kind of do a hybrid. I allow exceptions, but I actually have clear rules about those exceptions.

For example, there are certain things I'll eat in a food that was gifted to me by someone unaware of how I eat, but I don't allow myself to buy similar foods.

Often when making a dietary change I'll set rules that I 100% follow, but those rules just make it more inconvenient to eat undesirable foods, rather than impossible. Banning just makes me want them more.

@NGIZero

5. Empowering Mobilizon
Creating a governance structure to hit Mobilizon's most important goals and priorities. We really need an open, privacy respecting way to get people offline and building community now more than ever. Governance may not be sexy, but this will make a huge difference! to funding, planning and increasing the features and reach of Mobilizon!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Empowering-Mobilizon/

#NGI #Mobilizon #FOSS #Fediverse

🧵 2/6

@NGIZero

4. Spritely Oaken
The @spritely Institute, headed up by @cwebber (OG #ActivityPub / #Fediverse cofounder) is working on making the next generation of FOSS, decentralized internet (beyond the web). Oaken is a vision to help make running untrusted code on this new frontier safe, opening up far more possibilities. It doesn't exist yet... but now there's funding to build it!

https://spritelyproject.org/#oaken

🧵 3/6

#Spritely #Oaken #NGI #FOSS #SpritelyOaken

@NGIZero

3. Reaction
As the saying goes, without security there is no privacy. "Reaction wants to provide a more modern and efficient approach to regex-based log scanning, allowing multiple reaction instances to communicate, sharing bans across an entire infrastructure as well as more intelligent and user-friendly soft bans."

More intelligent detection and automated security across hosters? Yes please!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Reaction/

🧵 4/6

#Reaction #SelfHosting #InfoSec #NGI

@NGIZero

2. Mox email management and automation

A modern, easy to set up stack to help people more easily and reliably #SelfHost #Email. Email is critical and the common #SelfHosting narrative is that it's impossible, or at least you need to be a technical grey beard/ponytail ninja to pull it off. Anything that helps make this easy could be HUGE, and I'm all for it!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Mox-Automation/

🧵 5/6

#Mox #SelfHosted #Email

@NGIZero

1. OrganicMaps Convergent Linux UI

A great maps application is critical on any mobile platform, and IMO, @organicmaps is the best #FOSS maps app there is today. It's Android only though, despite having a basic testing tool on #Linux. This project finally funds bringing this amazing map app to mobile (and desktop!) Linux - a big win for mobile freedom. I am PUMPED for this one!

https://organicmaps.app/

🧵 6/6

#OrganicMaps #MobileLinux #NGI #NGI0 #LinuxMobile #OSM #PinePhone #Librem5

@NGIZero just dropped the 2025 list of grant-funded FOSS projects, and there's some bangers this year!:
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html

Here's 6 I'm super excited for in reverse order:

6. OpenStreetMap-NG
"a more accessible, privacy-respecting, and developer-friendly mapping platform."

"Our mission is to revolutionize the map and provide a better experience for all users. It is simply the Next Generation of OpenStreetMap."

https://OSM.ng

🧵 1/6

#NGI #OSM #OSM-NG #FOSS #NGI0 #NGIzero

@strypey

I have something similar set up. Tier 1 people are all family that I have using Element+Matrix on my home account. Tier 2 people all have my email. Tier 3 text / call me. I have strict "Do not distrub" rules set up on my phone to limit notifications of tier 2+3.

@MicroSFF

All your stories are good, but this one is amazing! I'd love to see it turned into a kids book or something.

Just a reminder to anyone reading, that you can support more of these stories here on the Fedi via MicroSFF's Patreon page at:
https://www.patreon.com/MicroSFF

BTW Your bio on your site still says that you publish your stories to Twitter.

So, this might seem small, but it's a really cool step forward for #Verso browser (using the next gen, #Rust based, #multithreaded, memory safe @servo engine rather than #Chrome's monopoly #Blink or #Mozilla's #Gecko engines).

They got tabs!

Doesn't *every* browser have tabs? Sure, but others are basically just GUI's slapped on a couple of pre-existing engines. Verso is rebuilding the browser from the ground up using #Servo and #FOSS, even for the #UI.

Early shots fired, #Blink/#Webkit!

@joshua @servo

An all #FOSS web browser, being created by a non profit foundation, using a next-gen independent render engine that is separate from any tech corporation and is, yes, based on Rust, to be exact. 😄

@aral

I actually have answers to all my security questions that are completely unrelated to the question, and thus are pretty much unguessable. For anyone so inclined to use a password manager, you can still keep these answers as notes in the vault or equivalent of your password manager.

People who know me intimately would never be able to guess the answers to my security questions as they're pretty much random words.

#Privacy #Security #Infosec #Banking

Trying to decide between Mastodon and GoToSocial for a self hosted future instance on Yunohost, so I'm polling people using either:

If you use:

Mastodon+Yunohost:
How hard was it to get set up? How close does it stay to upstream? Does it take a lot of resources? Does it break often?

GoToSocial + Yunohost:
How reliable is it? Do you find yourself having to go withoput the most recent Masto features often with popular apps?

#Mastodon #GoToSocial #Yunohost #Fediverse #SelfHosting #Fedi