Experts warn demand for public housing outstripping supply
New research shows demand for social housing has grown at the same time as the number of people helped into homes slowed around the country. ⌘ Read more

Num dia em que manifestantes da @climaximo@climaximo que pediam o fim aos voos de jatos privados foram presos, relembro aqui a proposta do @BlocodeEsquerda@BlocodeEsquerda - que espero que volte nesta legislatura - para caminhar nesse sentido:

https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/jatos-privados-ps-e-direita-chumbam-fim-do-capricho-dos-super-ricos/84127

A proposta bloquista (de 2022) foi chumbada pelo PS, PSD, Chega e Iniciativa Liberal, com a abstenção do PCP.

Cool tools I’ve learned about this afternoon during #WikiConPT :

https://mapcomplete.org/
https://osm.wikidata.link

Thanks @waldyrious@waldyrious !

[$] Out of Pocket and into the wallabag
Mozilla has decided to throw in\
the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking
service that it acquired in 2017. This has left many users scrambling
for a replacement for Pocket before its shutdown in July. One possible
option is wallabag, a
self-hostable, MIT-licensed project for saving web content for later
reading. It can import saved dat … ⌘ Read more

Debian XMPP Team: XMPP/Jabber Debian 13 Trixie News
Debian 13 “Trixie” full freeze has started 2025-05-17, so this is
a good time to take a look at some of the features, that this release
will bring. Here we will focus on packages related to XMPP, a.k.a.\
Jabber.

XMPP is a universal communication protocol for instant messaging, push
notifications, IoT, WebRTC, and social applications. It has existed sin … ⌘ Read more

The Final Checkmate: Republicans Move to Destroy the Balance of Powers
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Corporate media and newspapers like The Washington Post and the The Los Angeles Times, both owned by MAGAt billionaires, as well as local television stations owned by MAGAts, and the social media rightwing disinformation network are not reporting what is happening in the United States accurately. They do not acknowledge that … ⌘ Read more

Canadian BSD Conference to Require Masks, Social Distancing
It’s 2025. ⌘ Read more

Rule change would allow Trump to ‘cook the books’ and hide collapsing economy: report
Tom Boggioni,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Fascist governance is always inferior to democratic governance. Can you think of a single fascist ruled nation in history that was world leader in social wellbeing, education, science, or medicine? No, neither can I because there is no such example One of the hallmarks of fascists is that they never want t … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy
Lexi Lonas Cochran ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: I have been telling you for years about the contribution immigrants have made to the economic and social success of the United States. Apparently, as this article reports, this is beginning to dawn on others. What it is also telling anyone who can actually think is that aspiring dictator Trump and his servant … ⌘ Read more

10 Groundbreaking & Historical “Firsts” We Witnessed in 2025–So Far!
While we typically perceive history as something we only read about in books, 2025 has already proven that history is happening right before our eyes. Despite economic, political, and social conflicts, this year has brought about incredible events and discoveries unlike anything the world has ever seen. Some leave us hopeful, others uneasy—but one thing […]

The post [10 Groundbreaking & Historical “Firsts” … ⌘ Read more

‘A Huge Scandal’: Internal Doc Exposes Trump-Musk Hunt for Social Security Fraud as a Sham
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor and Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I see all of this disruption of federal government agencies as part of a scheme to cause chaos, confusion, and create misdirection of the attention of the American people. Meanwhile, a coup is being carried out to turn the United States from the democratic republic the Founders des … ⌘ Read more

L’État français n’est plus géré, du tout.
Dans les années 70, la France pouvait s’enorgueillir de finances saines et se contentait de perdre la 7e Compagnie. Cinquante ans plus tard, elle n’a toujours pas retrouvé la 7e Compagnie et perd, avec elle et beaucoup d’autres choses, plus de 6 milliards d’euros dans sa protection sociale. Comme l’explique un récent communiqué de la […] ⌘ Read more

NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible?
Patrick Pester ,  Trending News Writer  -  Live Science

_Stephan: I chose this for two reasons. First, I saw a misinformation report in a conspiracy group social media saying it showed climate change wasn’t real. Second, because it shows that climate change is more complicated than is generally understood. We are going … ⌘ Read more

What Problems are Truly Technical, not Social?
Most “tech” problems (and solutions) seem social, with e.g. most newer startups relying on internal connections to gain real world adoption, otherwise blocked due to institutional apathy and bad regulations (sms 2fa, hospital faxes…)

A recent (unlocated) poll asked a similar question: “what percent of workers in the software industry are employed writing programs that should not exist?” While we do have NP-hard problems, politically hard problems like avoi … ⌘ Read more

Our pledge to help improve the accessibility of open source software at scale
GitHub takes the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) pledge.

The post Our pledge to help improve the accessibility of open source software at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Breaking In Through the Backdoor: Password Reset Gone Wrong

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Imagine being able to take over any user’s account on a platform — even without their interaction. No phishing, no social engineering, and…

[Continue reading on InfoSec Wr … ⌘ Read more

curl’s CI job for spotting domain squatting
Comments ⌘ Read more

Shazam’s New Viral Chart Tracks Hit Songs Across TikTok, TV, and More
Shazam today announced the launch of its Viral Chart, which lists the fastest-growing songs of the week that were “discovered on screens and socials.”

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“Shazam’s new Viral Chart playlist doesn’t just track TikTok hits—it captures the full spectrum of songs blowing up right now, whether through streaming, socials, TV placements, or that random 2004 banger s … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Onslaught Hits Staffers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Henry Carnell,  Digital Fellow   -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The Trump coupsters have no interest in the science of renewable non-carbon energy. In fact, because the carbon energy oligarchs support Trump, there is an active effort by his administration to keep the United States dependent on carbon energy. The result is going to be disastrous for social and individual wellbeing. … ⌘ Read more

Grâce aux efforts de tous, le chaos s’installe gentiment
Au moins la France peut-elle s’enorgueillir d’avoir, outre des paysages magnifiques, une situation sociale très… fluide, qui évolue de plus en plus vite. Ce qui est un événement hallucinant un mois donné devient un fait divers cocasse le mois suivant et passe dans la routine le mois d’après. Tenez, prenez par exemple cette amusante histoire […] ⌘ Read more

A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them
Andrew Freedman,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation on social media, plus America’s gun obsession, plus the rise of fascism in the MAGAt world, is creating a serious distortion of the U.S. culture. Here is an example of what I mean. The only thing that is going to change this is you an … ⌘ Read more

Nobody want to be a shitty programmer. The question is: Do you do anything not to not be one?
Reading blogs or social media and watching YouTube videos is fun. After them, your code may be a little better, of course. But you need a lot. You need to study! Read good books and study the code of other programmers, for example. Maybe work with a new language, architectures and paradigms. You need break the routine.

If you know Object-oriented programming, you learn functional programming.
If you know Model-View-Controller, you learn Model-View-ViewModel.
If you don’t know anything about architectures, you learn Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, etc.
If you know Python, you learn Ruby or Go.
If you know Clojure or Lisp… you don’t need to learn anything else. You are already a good programmer. Just kidding. You can learn Elixir or Scala.

Be a good programmer my friend.

Currently developing a visual novel, where the player helps a shut-in demon girl slowly overcome her social anxiety! ⌘ Read more

Confession:

I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.

The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).

I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.

Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.

On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️

ya girl’s a contract sysadmin now!!!!!!!! https://bsky.app/profile/fujocoded.bsky.social/post/3lo4yd57rbs23

that said, and reading to @sorenpeter@darch.dk and @andros@twtxt.andros.dev I have new thoughts. I assume that this won’t change anyone’s opinions or priorities, so it makes no harm sharing them.

It’s always tempting to use something that already exists (like X, Masto, Bsky, etc.) rather that building anything through effort and disagreement until reaching to something useful and valuable together. A ‘social service’ is only useful if people is using it.

I’ll add that I haven’t lost interest on the ‘hacky’ part of twtxt about developing tools, protocols, and extensions as a community. It’s the appealing part! It’s a nice hobby to have, shared with random people across the world.
But this is not the right way for me, and makes me feel that I’m unwelcome to propose something different (after watching replies to my previous twt). Feels like “If you don’t agree, you are free to leave, we’ll miss you.” Naah, not cool. I’ve lived that many times before, and nowadays I don’t have enough spare time and energy for a hobby like that.

Let’s see what happens next with the micro-community!

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m very sorry but my feelings are similar to @eapl.me@eapl.me . For a long time I thought that Yarn was part of the Twtxt ecosystem, and not that Twtxt is an extension of Yarn. I don’t feel comfortable with what has happened. I didn’t expect this change of direction.
The nice part of Twtxt is that it is read by humans, with a simpler format. It’s the heart of the social network.
I need to think for a little time, but I’m thinking of stopping my involvement in the community.

@Yarn@yarn.social yo, what’s up? I am busy running my business here!

Hello @Yarn.social@yarn.social 👋 (testing something)

Oh wow, that 48 hours timelapse from SDO is super cool: https://social.bund.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/413/834/747/006/466/original/91b1698392ae5188.mp4 At the end, the moon is whizzing by.

Finally I propose that we increase the Twt Hash length from 7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! – I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social’s 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update

Teens, Social Media and Mental Health
Michelle Faverio , Monica Anderson and Eugenie Park,  Research Staff  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Are you old enough to remember a time when there was no internet or social media, and what your life was like. More social activity. More physical activity. More hanging out physically with friends. Drive-in movies and dances.  Today’s teens are fatter, less socially comfortable, woefully misinformed, and influenced by the weaponization of misinform … ⌘ Read more

@twtxtory@twtxtory.adn.org.es Hello 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 😅

P.S: the couple first Seasons and Her (The movie) are the main reasons I find it a bit difficult to go back to mainstream social media or even care about smartphones 😆

42% of Americans under 30 say they’re ‘barely getting by’ financially, Harvard survey finds
Mike Winters,  Money Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: When I was a boy, the social consensus was that each generation would do better than the one before. Despot Trump has reversed all of that and, as you can see in this report, it is particularly affecting young people who didn’t go to college. We are moving into a recession, maybe even a depression, a … ⌘ Read more

I’m thinking of building a hardened peering protocol for Yarn.social’s yarnd: pods establish cryptographic identities, exchange signed /info and /twt payloads with signature verification, ensuring authenticity, integrity, and spoof-proof identity validation across the distributed network.

on timeline the mention looks OK. Is there an issue on Yarn?

It’s an interesting topic. For example on Bsky it’s natural to allow domains https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial

Although TwiXter only allows (letters A-Z, numbers 0-9 and of underscores)
https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/x-username-rules

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Zulu said:

what is twtxt for you?

For me Twtxt is just the underlying format that Yarn.social builds upon 😅

@bender@twtxt.net I use it. It’s not the feature I use the most in the fediverse, but I communicate this way with several friends. For example, it’s the main way I talk to the original creator of the twtxt-el repository, the way people greet me for the first time or the way they notify me of some bugs in the software I maintain. I can even tell you that it’s the main way I talk to some maintainers of the Emacs community. If there are any of you reading my words, speak up!
Why not have the same? There are things I want to say to @prologic@twtxt.net in private, why should I have to send him an email or private IRC? Or an public twt.
Of course, here’s a topic we’ve already talked about: what is twtxt for you? For me it will always be a social network, in microblogging format, but an asynchronous way of communicating. And having a tool to control visibility is basic 😄
I look forward to hearing from you @eapl.me@eapl.me !

How to take climate action with your code
There are 60,000+ climate-focused projects on GitHub, explore one this Earth Day!

The post How to take climate action with your code appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz (as I was trying to say…), Glad you think so👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

Holy hell?! When I post this:

@<kate https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/user/kat/twtxt.txt> Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (_best that I can anyway!_) truly decentralised (_slow_) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

Something is swallowing it.

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

• Sharing small posts
  
• Sharing links
  
• Sharing media
  
• Having long conversations
  
• Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
  
• RSVPing to virtual or physical events

💡 I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social 😅 There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as “client” features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

• Voting – a way to cast, collect a vote on a decision, topic or opinion.
  
• RSVP – a way to “rsvp” to a virtual (pr physical) event.
  

Both would use “plain text” on top of the way we already use Twtxt today and clients would render an appropriate UI/UX.

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
Alec MacGillis,  Reporters  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Fascist authoritarians like Despot Trump and his minions don’t ever like objectively verifiable databases to be compiled or maintained because the information can be used to prove how inferior their social policies are. If you have been reading my research papers (see SR arch … ⌘ Read more

Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:

• 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging
  
• 2017–2019 – Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche
  
• 2020 – Yarn.social launched by @prologic@twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI
  
• 2021–2023 – Pods sync, user mentions, blocking, search, and media support added
  
• 2024+ – Yarn.social becomes the reference Twtxt platform, with active federated pods

I asked ChatGPT what it knows about Twtxt 😂 And surprisingly it’s rather accurate:

Twtxt is a minimalist, decentralized microblogging format introduced by John Downey in 2016. It uses plain text files served over HTTP—no accounts, databases, or APIs.
In 2020, James Mills (@prologic@twtxt.net) launched Yarn.social, an extended, federated implementation with user discovery, threads, mentions, and a full web UI.
Both share the same .twtxt.txt format but differ in complexity and social features.

Editor’s Note
,    -

Stephan:

_Like billions of others across the planet I have been watching for months now as the entire social order of the United States of America is dismantled in an attempt to create a neo-medieval oligarch owned white supremacy, male dominant, authoritarian fascist state. [1], [2], [3] As I write this we are not the same country we were before January 2025, and the destruction of the na … ⌘ Read more

Apple Sports App Now Lets You Share Game Cards via iMessage and Social Media
Just in time for the start of the NBA and NHL playoffs this weekend, the Apple Sports app has received a new Game Card Sharing feature.

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With this feature, Apple Sports users can generate and share game cards for all supported leagues, whether the matchup is upcoming, live, … ⌘ Read more

i must stop ghosting all my social media except discord and fedi when i am depressed. ghosting is the mind killer

@doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt It was always intended to have both Yarn.social and Salty.im integrate together. Yes. This includes having a set of specifications that anyone can write clients to.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I don’t see any “fighting” here. This is just good experimentation. Unfortunately there hasn’t really been enough time or effort by other “client authors” yet, me especially as I’ve been super busy with ya’ know my “day job” that pays the bills and refactoring yarnd to use a new and shiny and much better SqliteCache 🤣 – I certainly don’t think your efforts are wasted at all. I would however like @doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt encourage you to look at the work we’ve done as a community (which was also driven out of the Yarn.social / Twtxt community years back).

Overcoming social anxiety starts with having confidence! ⌘ Read more

Americans Give Early Trump Foreign Policy Actions Mixed or Negative Reviews
Laura Silver, Jordan Lippert, and Andrew Prozorovsky,  Research Staff  -  Rew Research Center

_Stephan: I am following reliable research polls on Trump and his administration because I have been so surprised at how many Americans still support his coup, and his destruction of the economy, social security, education, and healthcare. My explanation for this is that a large per … ⌘ Read more

The manosphere and networked misogyny
Zhen Troy Chen, PhD, FHEA , Dr. Calogero Giametta, PhD , Dr. Jacob Johanssen, PhD & Dr. Irida Ntalla, PhD,    -  Nature

_Stephan: One of the many negative effects of social media is the rise of the manosphere. I had no idea until I began to research this the weaponization of misinformation how many American men, particularly young men, are weak, psychologically disturbed, insecure about their manhood, and threatened by women. In the United States ri … ⌘ Read more

Bluesky Gains Twitter-Like Message Reactions and New Search Page
Bluesky is rolling out a new update introducing features that might ease the transition for social media users coming over from X (Twitter).

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First up, version 1.100 adds emoji reactions to Bluesky’s direct messaging system. Users can now respond to messages with quick emoji reactions by holding down on … ⌘ Read more

‘Fossil Fuels Are Killing Us’: Major Study Details How Fossil Fuels Are Driving Climate, Health and Biodiversity Crises
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: As a madman and his enabling oligarchs and quisling Senators and Representatives are dismantling American democracy, social order, and economy they are also destroying all efforts to stop the planetary disaster being wrough … ⌘ Read more

** leibovitz **
Folks what that haunt me (positive) on the Fediverse may have seen me sharing progress shots from this, but here I am, and I have made another camera application for the web. Leibovitz combines a lot that I learned making my other camera applications into one, hopefully less clunky package.

With leibovitz you can either take new photos, or upload any image file and apply filters to it. The UX to toggle between the two modes is … ⌘ Read more

The billionaire-filled city so secretive it does not want outsiders to know that it exists
James Cirrone,  News Reporter  -  Mail Online (U.K.)

Stephan: Yet another example of the neo-medieval trend that is socially reshaping the United States. You have probably never heard of Bradbury, California, and that is the way the residents want it. It is the richest city in California.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/ … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz the site i mentioned last week that got flooded by teens? yeah it’s this site, based on the retrospring codebase, it’s a social Q&A site. ask me stuff on there!!!!!!!!

TikTok Gets Another 75-Day Reprieve From Ban
U.S. President Donald Trump today said that he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days as his administration continues to work on the sale of the social network’s U.S. operations.

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TikTok was barred from operating in the United States when the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act [went into effect on January 19 … ⌘ Read more

Nem é preciso ir espreitar as notícias da #nintendo, a Ciberlândia é a minha fonte

(aguardando pelos takes dos correspondentes @seyon, @RuteRadio e @ines@ines)

@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I want to highlight another social problem: People don’t read. Paper industry is a bad moment because people don’t pay for books; it does not matter if it is a physical or digital platform. I have this information because I have a good friend who left the industry after publishing a magazine, books and working in an editorial. DRM is a try to give some more money.

Sanders Says 67,000 Could Die Awaiting Benefits Under Musk Cuts to Social Security Administration
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I am writing this the media is telling me that Republicans have won the two House races in Florida, a state where many people can’t get home insurance; where universities are having courses removed, and public school curricula is being altered from education to indoctrinati … ⌘ Read more

iOS 18.4 Bug Seemingly Resurrects Previously Deleted iPhone Apps
Apple’s latest iOS 18.4 software update appears to be causing long-deleted apps to reappear on some users’ iPhones, based on corroborating reports on forums and social media.

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Several Reddit threads ( 1, 2, 3, [4 … ⌘ Read more

DOGE To Rewrite SSA Codebase In ‘Months’
Longtime Slashdot reader frank_adrian314159 writes: According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to “rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months.” This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. Given that the code has to track the byzantine … ⌘ Read more

Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds.
I’d like to change that. It’s by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these. It doesn’t have to be hacky all the time, as you don’t need to be a nerd to have a blog.
But, for that to happen, someone has to build the tools to improve UX.

by design there really is no way to easily discovers others
Yeah, I agree, and although there are directories of email addresses, usually you don’t want that, unless you are a ‘public figure’.
I couldn’t say that a microblogging is a “social network” by default, as a blog is not either. At the same time, people would expect to find new people and conversations, as you’d do in a forum.

I think of two features on top of the current spec:

• Clients showing a few posts of what your following are watching but you don’t, so perhaps you find something interesting to follow next. Or that feature of “Your ‘followings’ are following these accounts/people”. (Hard to explain in english, but I hope you get the idea)
  
• Sharing your .txt into some directory, saying “Hey, I have this twtxt URL, I want to be discovered”. I’m thinking of something like the Federated tab on Mastodon.

@prologic@twtxt.net In all seriousness: Don’t worry, I’m not going to host some Fediverse thingy at the moment, probably never will. 😅

But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️

Thank you @python_valencia@twtxt.python-valencia.es for letting me show you the secrets of a decentralised plain text social network like twtxt.
I hope you enjoyed the talk! ❤️🐍

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Un système de santé plein de (mauvaises) surprises
Tout en se gardant bien de le recopier, le monde entier nous envie notre système de sécurité sociale français. Mais si. C’est en tout cas ce qui nous est dit et seriné depuis des années. La réalité est cependant plus contrastée et ces colonnes se font parfois l’écho de ces petites bizarreries qui font tout […] ⌘ Read more

Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance
Joe Lancaster ,  Staff Writer  -  reason

_Stephan: In the course of my life, as I have studied how wellbeing fostering social transformations can be made to happen, I have spent a considerable amount of time in fascist, authoritarian, and communist countries. One of the things I learned over those years is that the people in those countries become very sensitive to tripwires … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MoneroTop - Spasm-powered XMR forum

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• https://monero.top
  
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well… it has been an opportunity to build an artisanal microblogging client on top of a minimalist protocol. I agree on the hacker toy part.

And of course it’s about being part of a niche community which is (mostly) amazing, and nurturing. As there is almost no one writing in my native spanish, it has been an interesting challenge to share my thoughts in english, as well.

I couldn’t say it’s a ‘social network’ per se, I think it lack many engagement things usually associated with social networks, although it has a social part of igniting discussions, learnings and behavioral changes, which is the meaning of social for me.

What is twtxt for me? It is a community of users sharing plain text following a specification that can be readable by both humans and machines.

For some it is a microblogging platform, for others it is a social network, others see it as an enhanced RSS feed and a few consider it a hacker’s toy. I use it as a learning platform. And as collateral damage, I’m meeting some very interesting people.

And for you?

[LTH] [Bounty] [0.1 XMR] Stack Wallet - Add missing icons for swap providers
Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/184/

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s how twtxt started: As microblogging. Yarn shifted up some gears and now it’s more like social media – more powerful, but a bit different. 😅

Bluesky Extends Video Limit, Adds DM Filtering in Latest App Update
Bluesky has released an update that makes it possible for users to post longer videos to the social media platform and X (Twitter) rival. Version 1.99 triples the maximum video length from 60 seconds to three minutes, addressing one of users’ most frequent requests.

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10 Persistent Misconceptions About Africa
You know how some people think there is only New York or only California in the U.S.? The same kind of thing happens with Africa. Those who don’t live on the mother continent often have strange misconceptions about it. For example, Africa is a country. Log onto any social media platform, and you will find […]

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[ANN] [Bounty] Generate Feather icon for desktop entry in local dir

Icon missing when “creating .desktop entry” after reboot on Tails. Creating it the icon in .local would fix this issue.

Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/183/

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Plants Are Losing Their Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide as Emissions Rise
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  Eco Watch

_Stephan: It hardly gets discussed in social or corporate media, but the breakdown of the matrix of life on Earth is become more pronounced with every passing year. I think, as I describe in the two papers of mine you can download and read, that because we aren’t just not doing enough, under criminal Trump all prepar … ⌘ Read more

Yes, Mozilla Receives USAID Money.
The Firefox maker spends millions from tax payers on “social and political” training, “centering marginalized groups”, and “engaging race, gender, sexuality perspectives”. ⌘ Read more

What we know about Medicare ending telehealth coverage in April 2025
Amelia Clarke,  Contributing Writer  -  Snopes

_Stephan: The Trump coup is explicitly designed to make you and your family less healthy. Of course, Trump and his Frankenstein Musk don’t say that, but what they are doing tells us everything we need to know. There is an enormous amount of misinformation on the social media platforms about telemedicine. But this report on Snopes, I think, ca … ⌘ Read more

General Services Administration cuts tech unit
Danny Nguyen,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: As with all fascist oligarch governments, criminal Trump and his minions are cutting off information the government provided for free as a service. The result will be that help and support from a wide range of agencies, including Social Security, IRS, Medicare, and Medicaid, will be severely limited in the support they can provide. Given the last month’s news about what Trump’s cou … ⌘ Read more

Delicious Foods That Were Born from Mistakes and Stubbornness
History is filled with inventions born out of necessity, but some of the world’s most famous foods exist simply because someone felt petty. Whether it was a battle against big corporations, a middle finger to social norms, or just a chef refusing to admit they made a mistake, these foods exist solely because someone wanted […]

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I read a lot about Clean Code, SOLID, TDD, DDD… now I’m discovering «A Philosophy of Software Design»… but nobody talks about the importance of the project architecture. Do we depend on the framework to do the work for us?
You know I’m a big fan of Clean Architecture, but I feel alone when I share my thoughts on social media or at work.
You have to think outside the framework.

Community managers in action: Leading a developer community for good
GitHub’s Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program just wrapped up a second successful year, helping Community Managers gain experience in using open source for good.

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[LTH] [Bounty] [0.35 XMR] Silent.Link - Develop android widget for displaying of account balance
Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/179/

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
Lizzie Presser, Andrea Suozzo, Sophie Chou and Kavitha Surana,  Staff Writers  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: As you know if you read SR regularly, I don’t care about political partisanship. SR is based on objectively verifiable social outcome data. What I care about is: does something foster and increase wellbeing at every level of the matrix of life, or does it decrease it? Here are facts about what has happened to the health of pregn … ⌘ Read more

Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies
Adam Cancryn, Megan Messerly and David Lim,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: America’s already poor illness profit system is going to get much worse. I find it hard to believe that “king” Trump and the Republicans have such little concern for the people who voted them into office. It is going to be interesting, if tragic, to watch Trump voters face the reality of what they have done, as all the social systems that … ⌘ Read more

‘Outrageous Lies’: Claiming Fraud, Trump Floats Kicking Millions Off Social Security
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Social Security and Medicaid are about to be gutted. Millions will be affected by the loss of financial support and healthcare. I have told you over and over we are in the midst of a coup and one party – the Republicans – has collapsed and like docile hamsters are doing what they are told. The only thin … ⌘ Read more

I finally captured this lil guy last week and have been holding him the past several days. He has taken well to socialization as you can see. ⌘ Read more

Head of Social Security abruptly resigns after clash with Elon Musk over DOGE’s access to sensitive data
Stephen M. Lepore,  Reporter  -  Daily Mail

_Stephan: The Musk gangsters of “king” Trump are looting your personal information and Michelle King, Acting Commissioner of Social Security had the integrity to resign from her post after she could not stop them.  And so the Trumpian coup continues. The American people creat … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Eve of Social Justice https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/17/social-justice.html #programming #project #devjournal

New York Gov. Refuses To Extradite Doctor Charged In Louisiana For Abortion Pill
Molly Bohannon ,  Reporter  -  Forbes

_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend has taken on a new and very nasty aspect. Louisiana a state with a social outcome data profile like a third-world country is run by MAGAts. They are totally committed to assuring politicians not physicians control women’s lives and the state is trying to reach beyond its borders to try for murder … ⌘ Read more

[LTH] [Bounty] Haveno: Add support for DAI

DAI is useful asset to trade with XMR for access to many liquid and lending markets. CakeWallet supports DAI. This bounty would be complete upon the merge of a pull request, closing these issues.

Links:

• https://bounties.monero.social/posts/175/haveno-add-support-for-dai
  
• https://github.com/haveno-dex/listing/issues/21
  

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@prologic@twtxt.net Ha,ha :-) I do not maintain anything! In the context of that post I was just an ordinary citizen. So the ‘we’ refers twice to “we, the citizens of the Baltic States”. (Classical case of social media ‘talk at cross purposes’. Now I understand, why they do this Introduction-thing over on mastodon ;-)