I'm planning to format my aging Intel i5 (2.5 GHz), 10GB DDR3 HTPC because it's been awhile. It runs Pop!_OS 22.04 right now. MythTV connects to the tuner card for digital antenna signal. Hard requirments: No snaps (*shudder*) Going to give Linux Mint Debian Edition a shot! Will also give tvheadend a try because MythTV is a giant PITA to set up. https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/

> I tracked 100 once-successful blogs over four years to understand what happened after Google's Helpful Content Updates and the rise of AI Overviews. The results were striking: the median blog lost 85% of its organic traffic, while only 21 continued to grow. This study reveals the patterns behind the winners, the losers, and what it takes to build a blog that can survive in 2026. https://danielstanica.com/posts/Great-Blogging-Collapse

@thisismissem I just checked, if I want to double my (peasley) 16GB RAM it would be roughly $400. When I first bought the laptop that stick of memory was $108 🥲

This article really resonated with me. https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/ Especially this part: > If you do not understand the ticket, if you do not understand the solution, or if you do not understand the feedback on your PR, then your use of LLM is hurting Django as a whole. > > Django contributors want to help others, they want to cultivate community, and they want to help you become a regular contributor. Before LLMs, this was easier to sense because you were limited to communicating what you understood. With LLMs, it’s much easier to communicate a sense of understanding to the reviewer, but the reviewer doesn’t know if you actually understood it. > > In this way, an LLM is a facade of yourself. It helps you project understanding, contemplation, and growth, but it removes the transparency and vulnerability of being a human. > > For a reviewer, it’s demoralizing to communicate with a facade of a human. Emphasis mine. It puts into words exactly how I feel about the latest spate of AI generated content, and why I push so hard (sometimes offensively so) for the human behind the PR/work to be revealed. Part of it is standing up and owning the work produced, even if it was produced wholly or in part by AI, and part of it is ensuring that that peer that I want to talk to is actually capable of understanding the problem and solution. Most fixes, every feature, and every PR adds maintenance burden to a project maintainer. If someone sends me a drive-by PR authored by AI, I have no idea whether the submitter intends to stick around.

@aimee@mastodon.nz great suggestions, thanks! Science magazines would be great reading material :)

So NodeBB tests have been failing for the past few days because coveralls.io is down. Coveralls is a code coverage bot that is free for open source projects. We integrated it into our workflow years ago and it's been trucking along fine all these years. While coveralls being down technically prevents us from running our tool to launch a new version, we could always just do it manually. Their outage page is here: https://status.coveralls.io/ They are on day 3 of the outage and have absolutely no idea when things will come back up. This paragraph is worded curiously: > We want to be transparent with you: after two full days of working directly with our hosting provider’s account team, we still do not have an ETA for service restoration. Despite having internal sponsorship within our provider’s organization, we have been unable to get the traction needed to resolve what appears to have been an automated action, one that no one on their side has taken ownership of causing or fixing. (Emphasis mine.) Perhaps I have been reading too many AI-doomer articles. This sounds like an AI agent went in and started deleting shit. The post mortem is going to be very very very interesting. cc @mariusor@metalhead.club, because he started an HN thread about it

@gabboman sorry for the delay, it has been approved now.

Feelin' FOMO over missing FOSDEM, but this does make up for it a little bit. [image: 1769652220877-2026-01-27-12-30-44-339.jpg] [image: 1769652209351-2026-01-27-12-30-59-736.jpg] There is however another ActivityPub conference by @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com in Montreal next month (I'm even speaking there, hopefully!), so looking to get my fix there.

@reiver@mastodon.social I would've! Unfortunately we booked a family vacation for this week, before FOSDEM dates had been announced 😅 Send save the dates for FediCon! 😝

This is another attempt at uploading media via my custom app. If you see the image below, iQon is coming soon.#Fediverse #ActivityPub

@douuuu I thought Ghost now supported AP? Does that not include comments/replies?I have limited experience with Ghost but what I implemented was a Javacript someone created, so if you self-host Ghost, maybe you can add it?Thanks for the link to your blog!

I'm against banning social media for under 16's. Just outright banning doesn't make something unavailable - just unregulated and not monitored. Alcohol and vapes are still common among under 16's - especial those that are vulnerable. I am for under 16's not being allowed on corporate socials though - as they are toxic places which do provably screw with brain development in youth - because of that algorithmic nature. I am considering pitching an idea to a local established non-profit that I sometimes work with, who run a number of local youth clubs across the region. It is an idea of setting up a fediverse instance for 11-15 year olds. An account can only be made in person alongside being a member of a youth club -with parent / guardian consent. It will not be federated to the general social web, and begin as a self-contained bubble - but with the idea of other regions creating the same thing and federating together. It would be moderated by the same volunteers / employees that run the youth clubs and social services - who are fully vetted, and follow the protocols - which already also includes moderating each other. Perhaps even somehow make it so the kids can't post on it during school hours, and after, perhaps, 10pm? There would of course be a set of standards expectations, or community codes of conduct, like here in the Fedi. Perhaps also running regular fun things too, that get kids thinking creatively (like what happens at the clubs anyway). There are of course many many issues with this idea, and I can't see it actually happening just like that. Not only is there unlikely the right fedi project to accommodate needs, but things like the online safety act potentially blocking the ability to create safe community based social networks for youth. And I'm sure there are many other issues as to why this idea might not work either. Like, what happens when someone turns 16? Are they just kicked off? However, I do know that corporate socials are bad - but not providing good safe alternatives when attempting to protect children, actually makes them more vulnerable and unsafe. We need a way to embrace them, not outcast them.#socialban #socialmedia #fediverse #activitypub #youthwork #onlinesafety

Yay! My #Mastodon trifecta is now complete! My blue & orange (is it orange‽) #Plushtodon came in last night, & I opened it yesterday, but I was too tired to post about it as I just got off work. But yes, I am excited that the two smaller Plushes arrived! Thanks @Mastodon for creating these!Also…we need more #ActivityPub apps to create real world wearables or plushies, as they are great conversation starters for folks who are not familiar with the #Fediverse.

Does anyone know what software/library FUTO keyboard on Android uses for their speech to text capability? It's embarrassingly good. Like, it puts Google to shame, and it's all done on device. It supports punctuation, and has much higher fidelity. It would be fantastic to roll it into NodeBB as an in-browser speech to text parser.

I remember it being massive news when Pebble made moves to resurrect. Now they're trying to forcibly take away the grassroots dev community that kept Pebbles alive after they were abandoned by the original company. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. https://rebble.io/2025/11/17/core-devices-keeps-stealing-our-work.html

Hey cloudron@social.cloudron.io, you guys are awesome. NodeBB has a Docker image that is community supported but Cloudron literally has one-click NodeBB hosting! So... ah... can you turn on ActivityPub so your forum can join fedi? :smiling_imp:

informapirata very cool!

For us Canadians, it's Thanksgiving weekend 🦃. I spent mine (besides stuffing my face with food) on the Niagara escarpment doing some single pitch sport climbing. [image: 1760380059754-1000014277.jpg] [image: 1760380059874-1000014276.jpg] [image: 1760380060463-1000014275-resized.jpg] [image: 1760380061357-1000014274-resized.jpg]

richardcrawshaw@mastodon.green interesting! Why do you think it's less secure? I find it isn't significantly slower to process (it's kind of like a mini-game), and my screen won't show the marks for my PIN.