Funny when a recruiter ask you about a "gap in your resume" and you tell then that you had a child and moved to another part of the planet (with the kids).
I should add that line in LinkedIn: "Expert mover, caretaker across continents"
Abbiamo provato il nuovo robot che aspira, lava e soddisfa anche le esigenze di chi ha animali domestici. È il primo dotato della tecnologia OmniCyclone
...and when you need hot chocolate, "worst I have ever had" is not likely to improve your mood. Sort of like when the top of your ice cream cone falls off onto the floor just as you're going out the door of the shop.
@moonrabbit I literally couldn’t drink it. It tasted… wrong, and left a greasy coating on the roof of my mouth. Obviously I am nowhere near assertive enough to have taken it back, so I just left it. Next time, remind me to just post £4 down the street drain, it would be more satisfying
@sindarina @moonrabbit oh the whole day has been full of annoyances. Wanted a toastie in M&S but they were physically inaccessible, so I ordered poached eggs on toast, only to be told they didn’t know where the eggs were. I tried to buy boots but the shop had hardly anything in my size. Then it started raining when it had been forecast to be sunny and I didn’t have a coat. Then two buses in a row on the route to campus were cancelled, so I ended up waiting around for half an hour. Then the disappointment of the hot chocolate.
bahhhhh to all of that. but hooray for the meetings! maybe it's one of those balance things? still, that seems like a lot of annoyance to get through 💜
A Pontetetto e in piazza XX settembre le celebrazioni per la Liberazione dal nazifascismo Il sindaco ha guidato le cerimonie del 5 settembre: "Giorno di memoria e gratitudine verso chi rese possibile la libertà della nostra città"
“We’ll do your teeth like Yanukovych has” - advertisement appeared in Kyiv shortly after the surreal appearance of former president of #Ukraine who pronounced same old bullshit but with brand new, snow white teeth 😆
Ha impresso un segno indelebile nel costume del proprio tempo, al punto da meritarsi un aggettivo registrato dalla Enciclopedia Treccani per indicare il suo timbro stilistico unico e inconfondibile. (ANSA)
If Mozilla wasn't acting as a puppet to keep another company from being a monopoly, we could have had Firefox OS instead of watching Google locking down application development after using it to establish their presence.
土耳其军工企业Baykar的所有者、总统埃尔多安的女婿 Selçuk Bayraktar 基于 Mastodon 开发了社交媒体平台 Next Sosyal，埃尔多安本人和多个政府部门已经入驻。Next Sosyal 已经在 Google Play 上取得了超过100万次下载。平台起初未提及 Mastodon 的开源代码，但在接到 Mastodon 组织的请求后，已遵守 AGPL 许可，并在其“关于”页面声明其基于 Mastodon 且为开源平台。周报作者认为，像埃尔多安和特朗普这样的领导者更懂得如何利用社交媒体直接与支持者沟通并控制信息传播，而民主国家领导人在这方面却表现得缺乏兴趣。 （注：这里提到特朗普，很可能是因为其 Truth Social 也是基于 Mastodon 开发的）
Next Sosyal is a new Turkish social media platform that is based on Mastodon. The platform has not enabled federation, and is thus not accessible from the fediverse. Next Sosyal is endorsed by Turkish ruling party AKP, and president Erdogan recently made his first post on the platform. Erdoğan quoted a poem from a prominent Turkish poet, and posted “Are you ready?”, with the hashtag “We’re starting,” along with emojis of the Turkish flag, the Earth and a rocket.
Next Sosyal is developed by Selçuk Bayraktar, who owns military drone company Baykar and is the son-in-law of President Erdogan. The platform is branded as a “local and national” alternative to global platforms such as X and Facebook. Bayraktar describes the platform as a safer and cleaner space for constructive dialogue free from trolling, disinformation and Western platform algorithms.
The Nordic Monitor news site further reports: “Several ministries and public entities now maintain official Next Sosyal profiles. Staff in these offices report that social media guidance increasingly favors the platform. Press releases, bulletins and announcements are expected to appear on Next before being shared on global platforms. Some officials say internal memos suggested de-emphasizing X and Instagram entirely. In addition, some major corporations have reportedly started opening accounts on Next out of fear of government pressure.”
Bayraktar claims that the app now has over 1 million users. Since Next Sosyal is a slight reskin of Mastodon, it means that the same API also works. API calls to Next Sosyal on August 22nd showed an exact user count of 850.000, and as of September 2 the API claims a total of 1.100.000 accounts. Registering on the app requires a Turkish phone number, making it difficult for me to verify these numbers by looking at timeline activity, but the exact roundness of these numbers does raise some suspicions for me.
The platform was originally released without any reference to Mastodon’s source code. Mastodon is released under the AGPL license, which means that you can use, modify and distribute the software freely, as long as you publish the code under the same AGPL license. After some requests from the Mastodon organisation, Next Sosyal is now compliant with this, and explicitly mentions that “NSocial is an open source Mastodon-based social media platform developed by TEKNOFEST entrepreneurs.” on their About page.
We live in a world where authoritarian rulers seem to have a better grasp of current social media dynamics than many democratic leaders have. Both Trump and Erdogan understand the value of building a social media platform where they have a direct connection with their supporters, and can control message distribution. That both leaders use Mastodon for this, while democratic leadership shows little interest in building out their own social media distribution platforms on the open social web is painful.
In Other News
Last week I wrote about SocialHub, a forum to discuss ActivityPub, and how it fits into a larger understanding of the ‘substrate’ layer of the fediverse. One of the points I made is that the communication layer underneath the fediverse (meaning places to discuss and collaborate on ActivityPub, for example) is fairly decentralised. The positive effect is that this creates a distribution of power, nobody can control all the conversations that happen about ActivityPub. This also means that coordination is more difficult, as developers are spread out over multiple places. There has been quite some movement this week in this space of “what are the places to talk about ActivityPub”:
The direct cause for writing the article was SocialHub potentially shutting down. A new administrator has been found, workers cooperative Pavillion. The cooperative was hired by forum software Discourse to create the ActivityPub plugin for the forum.
Activitypub.rocks is the ‘official’ website for the ActivityPub protocol, but it has not been updated for almost five years. Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the co-authors of ActivityPub, has decided to hand over the website to the SocialCG, the community group for ActivityPub that is part of the W3C. A new initiative to work on the website from the SocialCG is led by Johannes Ernst, who also organises the FediForum conferences.
Activitypub.space is a new forum to discuss ActivityPub, created by NodeBB developer Julian Lam.
Fediverse software updates:
A blog by the WordPress ActivityPub team with more details on their latest updates, with expanded moderation tooling and improvements under the hood.
Piefed now has a build-in discovery tool to find new communities to subscribe to.
Blogging platform WriteFreely has further fediverse integrations with their latest update: it now displays ‘likes’ on WriteFreely blog posts made on other platforms. Other platforms such as Mastodon will now also show a preview or summary of a WriteFreely post, in addition to a link.
LemmyBridge is a new browser extension that connects you to Lemmy discussions for any website you visit.
Pixelfed releases the ‘Stories’ feature on their Android app.
And an overview of all fediverse software updates of the week.
And some more links:
WeDistribute writes about the Client-to-Server part of ActivityPub, a part of the protocol that is rarely used, and how the Social Web Foundation is working on promoting its use.
A tutorial that explains how you can do podcasting with PeerTube.
FedInspect, a desktop application for analysing fediverse server configurations and features.
Help Echo, a disabled trans woman flee texas, especially with the changes that have occurred in the state due to the election result. She does not feel safe in Texas anymore and would need our help to migrate to a safer state. She is also unable to work due to her disability. All donated money would be used for relocation and to find shelter.
Samsung Galaxy S25 One UI 8 Beta 7 will be released soon!
While the beta recruitment was closed for the Galaxy S25, Samsung was working on the seventh beta of One UI 8. This suggests that further improvements are to be made before the final version of One UI 8 that will be released this September.
As spotted by a tipster, Tarun Vats, Samsung has just dropped a new beta build to the testing server of the Galaxy S25. This signifies that the seventh beta will make its way before the stable version, at which final improvements in those two versions must be made to ensure smooth experience. The testing build can be identified as ZYI3, but it may not be a final Beta 7 build. The seventh beta version will be released to those who are beta testers of One UI 8 on their Galaxy S25. After that, the stable release should be the next update.
We advise beta testers to check for all updates to ensure that you’re using the stable version of One UI 8 on your Galaxy S25 by the end of September. The company warns that if you didn’t update to the stable version after the beta program ends, you won’t be able to update to versions released after One UI 8.
To update to One UI 8 Beta 7 on your Galaxy S25 once it gets released, follow these steps:
Open Settings
Navigate to System Update
Tap Download and Install
You should see the One UI 8 Beta 7 build and its changelogs
Tap Update now
Let it download, install, and verify
Reboot the phone
Make sure that you have fully charged your battery before attempting to update to One UI 8 Beta 7. Never interrupt the update in any way, or issues may occur later. You’ll need to download the update via your Wi-Fi connection to avoid high mobile data fees.
Tesla is proposing awarding Elon Musk nearly $1 trillion to deliver millions of robotaxis and humanoid robots, as well as add trillions of dollars to the company’s valuation.
Help Shanda and their queer household, who are Ukrainian refugees who fled to Georgia, flee again to Spain to escape georgia's increasingly anti-trans environment and government. They need your help to fund their move and take care of the legal stuff, the transportation and apartment rent. Georgia is slowly being overtaken by russia politically, and the ruling party has adopted the anti-LGBTQ+ narrative and has made transition illegal.
They plan to move out of Georgia around mid autumn, if things go according to plan.
Kennedy on a media tear to make it seem like he’s got widespread support. The anti-vaxx movement has been very very good at using social media to appear huge, when it has in fact been a small but vocal and well-organized minority with opinions way outside the mainstream. Unclear whether it’ll work.
Quando vi dico di presentarvi alle elezioni comunali con la lista "Punk Is Not Dead" è perché ci sia qualche persona intelligente che eviti situazioni da facepalm come questa:
«Settimo Torinese dedica una via a Louis Braille, ma è un vicolo cieco»
Il presidente dell'Apri la prende con filosofia: "Siamo abituati ad essere autoironici e non ci sentiamo offesi". La via intitolata a Braille dopo un centinaio di metri finisce in mezzo ai prati
Or at the very least, don't own any ammo and make sure you shoot through everything you buy when you go to the range. At least then it'd take a trip to the store to give your brain time to cool off first.
State police looking into the initial four deaths, which were announced on 1 September, told the German Press Agency (dpa) that there was no evidence of any third party involvement.
It really needs to be stressed how desperate and insane this is. This is the secretary of commerce insinuating that the terrible jobs numbers—produced by the Trump administration!—are the result of some kind of anti-Trump conspiracy. Totally deranged. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrh…
Ma prima, permetteteci di dirvi grazie per tutti i suggerimenti che ci avete dato dopo la SFU 2025, grazie a tutti gli amici e soci che si stanno rendendo disponibili per aiutarci a gestire sempre meglio l'evento e grazie per le molte interessanti proposte per conferenze e workshop. 🫶
Per questo primo giro di annunci, abbiamo deciso di presentarvi tutti i #workshop che potrete trovare alla #SFU2026.
Atanas
in reply to Olivier Leroy • • •Me: "They're from the space bar and Enter key.“
🌎 Don Meltz
in reply to Atanas • • •That's when I went to yale.
Atanas
in reply to 🌎 Don Meltz • • •