Tootfinder

Must admit I did not have Tommy Wiseau in Idiocracy 2 on my 2026 bingo card.
#Melania

RE: #dotMeow

Onekligen besvärande uppgifter för den svenska regeringen. https://www.expressen.se/kultur/kulturdebatt/darfor-ar-detta--en-skammens-dag/

Därför är detta en skammens dag
I dag för 20 år sedan fanns en möjlighet för den fängslade Dawit Isaak att få komma hem till sin familj. Kurdo Baksi skriver om en skammens dag för den svenska diplomatin historia.

Ryanair couldn’t possibly be owned by a bigger jackass than Michael O'Leary…
Elon Musk: hold my beer
#ireland

Riechen für mehr Immersion: „Escents“ bringt Gerüche in die Virtual Reality
Das tragbare Gerät „Escents“ will Gerüche in VR und AR einbinden und setzt dabei auf magnetische Duftkapseln, Bluetooth-Anbindung und Unity-Unterstützung.

Human fracking… is that anything like people farming?
https://ar.al/notes/we-didnt-lose-control-it-was-stolen/
<…

DOJ cover-up: Renee Nicole Good still had a pulse when first responders arrived on scene
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/former-pardon-attorney-doj-is-complicit-in-a-cover-up/ar-AA1UpVql

One year after the return of Trumpism to the White House
— and with it a surge in supremacist ideology
— signals and references to fascism, Nazism, and white supremacy are present in numerous communications from the administration.
Trade union leaders were one of the latest to sound the alarm over the government’s supremacist rhetoric.
The trigger came last weekend from the Department of Labor,
when it shared on its social media an animation featuring a statue o…

As officials showed off a robo-bus in DC, it got hit by a Tesla driver 😂
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/officials-showed-off-a-robo-bus-in-dc-it-got-hit-by-a-tesla-driver/ar-AA1UmQno

Funny, folks said the same thing about Hitler back in the day.

Over the years I've been asked many times for advice on pedagogy, what to read to learn more, etc. I've finally put together a bunch of materials into one blog post: Key Advice • Readings • Neuromyths • For Computer Scientists • Classroom Tips. Enjoy!
https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/ar

Pedagogy Recommendations
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi

House moves to repeal controversial 'Arctic Frost' provision that allows GOP senators to seek $500,000 payouts (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics/arctic-frost-provision-senators-house-vote
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p173#a251119p173

RE: https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/115926613522490523
Your daily “fuck this guy.”

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115922087140816506
Can he just die already?

Dear world,
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
Because fuck this. https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115922082663005538

“When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.”
– Shabana Mahmood, Home Secretary of the UK
https://archive.ph/6fk8h

”Vi är på väg att bli ett fattigt land bland de rika”, säger Eglantine Elkaim, som står och målar i en park i centrala Paris.
Tre regeringar har fallit på knappt ett år och ekonomin går knackigt. Men varför? https://www.dn.se/varlden/den-franska-sjukan…

Paris: Den franska sjukan hotar hela Europa – ”bortskämda”
Frankrikes statsskuld kan hota Europa. Pensionsåldern ska höjas från 62 år. ”Vissa är lite bortskämda. Men alla har det inte lika bra,” säger Pascale Maes.

🥳 Multiple major releases today
• @small-tech/auto-encrypt v5.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme)
• @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost v10.0.0 (

auto-encrypt
Automatically-provisioned TLS certificates for Node.js servers using Let’s Encrypt.

iOS 26 is the mid-life crisis of operating systems.

Has the U.S. Lost Measles Elimination Status? (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/well/year-anniversary-measles-outbreak-elimination-status.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.eHyM.28sDFJkNteSz&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260119/p108#a260119p108

Fuck, no, Apple. I was forced to update to iOS 26 due to lack of security updates for 18 on devices that can run 26 (i.e., due to extortion) but you’re not infecting my Mac with Liquid Ass.
Notice the dark pattern of pestering you in hopes you will accidentally hit the “Restart” button even though you’ve specifically turned off auto updates. Microsoft-level disrespect for consent here.
(Not surprising from a company that gives golden awards to fascists.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Zina51/115926931479897966
Fuck *all* these people.

“My friend, we are completely aligned on Syria. We can do great things in Iran. I don’t understand what you are doing in Greenland”
– Macron to Trump in private message
My friend, we should be fucking over Brown people together like we always do, I don’t understand why you are trying to fuck over white people.

Trump shares private message from Macron offering G7 meeting in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday offered to host a G7 summit in Paris in a private text message to US President Donald Trump, adding that he could invite “the Russians” on the sidelines. The US president then posted the message, which was authenticated on Tuesday morning by the French president's entourage, on his Truth Social platform.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/115929520672656285
Please tell me this is a fucking joke.

Anyone else noticing the new Mona jumps the timeline scroll position, thereby losing your place sometimes when you tap towards the bottom end of the timeline? (Seeing it on iPhone usually when I try to tap the bookmark icon on a post towards be bottom of the screen.)
I don’t have the auto-scroll on new posts feature on. This is very much in response to a tap.
CC @…

Sounds like this could be an excellent beginner’s editor that removes the rather unfortunate “go modal or go VSCode” dichotomy we’re usually faced with (said as a Helix Editor aficionado).
Can’t wait to have a play with it :)
https://fosstodon.org/@orhun/115745950309609393 …

🥳 New Node Pebble release (version 5.3.0)
Thanks to the lovely folks at Let’s Encrypt tagging a new release of Pebble last night¹ (version 2.9.0), there’s now a new version of Node Pebble that uses it :)
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/node-pebble
Enjoy! 💕
¹

node-pebble
A Node.js wrapper for Let’s Encrypt’s Pebble (a small RFC 8555 ACME test server not suited for a production certificate authority)

Node.js devs, so picture this: you run `npm install` and you get a bunch of packages with audit errors.
The only thing I want to know at that point is what’s the root package that these dependencies belong to? (Running npm audit fix is a last resort as I don’t like it fiddling around with the dependencies of nested packages.)
It’s also not a straightforward thing to do, but it’s nothing jq and a bit of piping can’t fix:
```bash
npm audit --json | jq -r '.vulnerabil…

Quick update to my WezTerm config:
• Now draws an unmissable deep-pink border around the active window if the active session is a remote one via SSH so you can easily tell when you’re on your own machine and when you’re not.
https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/bra…

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115748612376238550
The EU should think very seriously about visa requirements requiring vaccination certificates from USians before permitting entry.
Unlike five years of social media history, this will actually keep people saf…

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115745279326032857
The folks, here on the fediverse, who malign those of us that speak up for the human rights of Palestinians and against Israel’s ongoing genocide, who label us “antisemitic” for rejecting the antisemitic co…

The Womp Womp States of America. If they didn’t have nukes, we’d all be laughing. https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115583563233894883

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (@georgetakei@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image It’s like third graders are running our government.

No, please, tell me again how the United States of America is not a fascist country. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115583505315668293

Oh great, new issue spam attack on @…. People really have too much time on their hands. This time posting random images from 4chan, etc., as well as AI-generated bogus issues.
Sorry you guys have to deal with such crap.

Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to @… today and would like to welcome her and her family to Gaza Verified.
She’s an architect who, due to the war, has lost her job and must now support her family …

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

The story isn’t that Trump called a woman “piggy”. The story is that there wasn’t a single person there to punch him in the mouth – whether metaphorically or otherwise – when he did. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115575674112795477

Your daily reminder that @… are only cunts on days with names ending with day.
“The European Commission will launch its long-awaited bid to simplify digital rules in an effort to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses and to promote European start ups in the global artificial intelligence race.”

❌ Ethics
❌ A moral leg to stand on
✅ Most deadly military in the world
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/media/trump-mbs-saudi-prince-abc-mary-bruce-oval-office

Analysis: Trump’s anti-press outburst hits differently with a Saudi prince by his side
President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are.

Hey everyone,
Today, @… and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new members to the Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Ahmad (@…)
• Suad (@…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Let’s put everything through CloudfFlare, what could possibly go wrong.
Can’t hold our last Gaza Verified interview right now because CloudFlare is down and Jitsi Meet uses it.
#centralisation

Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a HTTPS web server at a Web Number (IP address).
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.
¹

Retrograde (n, v): An upgrade that makes things worse.
e.g., I retrograded to iOS 26 by mistake and now I’m stuck with this piece of shit.
#retrograde #tech

The only words that orange piece of shit should ever hear in response to anything that comes out of his filthy mouth is “fuck you!”

Dear European “leaders”,
If you do what the US does, we will end up where the US is.
This isn’t rocket science, you muppets.

Well it sure does sound like Eugen exited for a measly €1M and Mastodon is left with the co-founder of Twitter in a leadership position. I mean, is it too much to ask for for the alternatives to not be run by the same people who built the things they purport to be an alternative to? I guess we should count ourselves lucky it’s not Elon Musk. 🤷‍♂️ http…

Hi everyone,
I had video chats with three people and families from Gaza today and I’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Yazzan (@…)
• Hadi (@…)
• Abeer (

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

The problem is we give sociopaths carte blanche and expect those resisting them to walk on eggshells and be paragons of meekness.
Well, fuck that.

Framasoft are one of the sadly very few non-bullshit orgs (they’re like us, Small Technology Foundation, not Mozilla) working for a better future for technology and society.
They’re raising funds at the moment.
Please support them if you can.
Thank you!
💕 https://framapiaf.org/@Framasoft/11556…

Framasoft (@Framasoft@framapiaf.org)
Attached: 1 image 🌳 Renforcez l’internet du partage en contribuant à la robustesse de Framasoft ! Framadate flambant neuf, PeerTube v8, nouveaux services… Pour cette fin d'année, nous vous avons préparé plein de surprises ! Découvrez comment votre solidarité nous permet de proposer un internet sans pub ni pisteur, pensé pour les humains et humaines ! 🤝 https://framablog.org/2025/11/18/renforcons-linternet-du-partage-soutenez-les-outils-solidaires-de-framasoft/

But this new Nazi bar has vegan sausages…
#Bluesky

Or, you know, leave the Nazi bar.
#Bluesky

I’ve turned off automatic updates on my Mac to ensure I don’t run into the same bullshit with the automatic iOS 26 update on the phone and I suggest you do the same.
Keep the security updates toggle on, though.
First time I’ve had to take such action in about two decades of owning a Mac.
🤷‍♂️
#apple

“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”
Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.
#Mozilla

Just updated Node Pebble to support latest release version of Let’s Encrypt’s Pebble testing server.
#LetsEncrypt…

node-pebble
A Node.js wrapper for Let’s Encrypt’s Pebble (a small RFC 8555 ACME test server not suited for a production certificate authority)

Westerners will literally steal from refugees rather than go to therapy.
#UK

This piece nails it.
#BigTech #SiliconValley https://dice.camp/@brunobord/115558496764119435…

“Oh, look, they’ve built a new sewer… I wonder if it’ll enshittify?”
– Some folks, over and over again
#startups #VC

Anyone know anyone at GoFundMe who can help Baraa?
#GoFundMe #Gaza https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998/115

This is your regular reminder that you can donate to ease the suffering of those in our fediverse family who are enduring settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide at the hands of Israel in Gaza.
https://gaza-verified.org/donate
Thank you!
💕

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

This might be a good time for Minnesotans to read up on what the United States does to places it invades.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-investigating-tim-walz-jacob-frey-minnesota/

“Apple is only continuing to patch iOS 18 on devices that can’t run iOS 26.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/are-people-avoiding-ios-26-because-of-liquid-glass-its-complicated/
Wow. So not only has Apple los…

Are people avoiding iOS 26 because of Liquid Glass? It’s complicated.
Liquid Glass is controversial, but adoption rates aren't as low as they seem.

Fascists: can’t live with ‘em, can’t kill ‘em.
Oh, no, wait…

Liquid Ass: you’re looking at it wrong™

Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad j…

Sooooo excited I just managed to snag tickets to see Alan Menken in Dublin in February.
The musical theatre geek inside me is living his best life right now :)
🎶🥳🎶

I updated the initial Kitten course based on our first lesson with @… and your feedback here. So now we start with no tooling except for your default terminal app and Kitten and it serves as a gentle introduction to the command line and gets to you seeing your first web page in your web browser far more quickly.

I just saw that we now have over 100 verified accounts on Gaza Verified.
https://gaza-verified.org/people/
That’s over 100 people that @…,

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Little JavaScript tip:
You know you can comment out code to quickly disable it:
```js
/*
console.log(‘I won’t run’)
*/
```
But did you know you can also use a labelled block with a break statement to do the same thing in a more flexible manner?
```js
disable: {
break disable
console.log(‘I wont’t run’)
}
```
Then, you can quickly the move the `break disable` to different lines to execute different bits of code wit…

“People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does.”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
No, you muppet, people want tools that do what…

Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

What kind of fucked up country has a secretary of war? What are you, orcs?

On the fediverse, as we live through the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, there are those who oppose the genocide and are trying to help the victims and there are those who deny the genocide, try to erase the victims, and attempt to vilify the ones trying to help.
If you’re neutral, you’ve chosen the side of the latter.
If you give genocide deniers sanctuary on your servers, you’re telling genocide victims that they are not safe on your server.
This isn’t…

Folks, if you want to donate to our Gaza Verified families but don’t know who to donate to or are overwhelmed, here’s is a list of all the families, sorted by those who have raised the least in the last seven days:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
(The list is based on

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Are you more scared of: https://mastodon.social/@euobserver/115564641753988876

EU: All bark, no bite, and everyone knows it. https://mastodon.social/@euobserver/115564641753988876

The UK and Denmark are so poor, so immoral, so without humanity, so uncivilised that they will steal the last belongings of refugees. What sad, pathetic countries. How embarrassed must their people be?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refu…

Satan was unavailable.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/16/trump-gaza-board-rubio-blair

🇵🇸 @small-tech/cross-platform-hostname module deprecated
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/cross-platform-hostname
The release of version 1.1.0 deprecates and removes support for this small module that normalised hostname reporting between Linux/mac…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115900243141960993
But it’s OK, don’t worry about your governments in the EU and UK giving all your healthcare data to Palantir, they’d never do that here.
Pinky promise.

Just once, I’d like to see one of these people fire back with “fuck you, lady, you’re a fucking fascist!”
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2026/0116/1553395-white-house-press-briefing/

Well that’s going to be an interesting dish, Hello Fresh…

So I just wasted a morning trying to debug why the Highlight.js syntax highlighting in Kitten suddenly began to fail only to realise that @… is stripping the hljs- prefixes from the class names.
You can see this for yourself if you have the 1password extension installed at:

Sadly, the whole rest of the world also gets what you voted for.
Yay, democracy! @… https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115726775853906216

The murder of 15 people at Bondi Beach was a vile antisemitic attack and is rightfully being condemned.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/australia/2025/12/15/bondi-beach-terror-attack-injured-gunman-expected-to-su…

Bondi Beach shooting: Australia vows stricter gun laws after 15 killed
Gunman wounded during attack on Jewish celebration ‘is likely to survive’ his injuries with second killed at scene

If you’re overwhelmed by the number of people who need help in Gaza and don’t know who to donate to, this list of Gaza Verified members, ordered by those who’ve received the least help in the last week (rolling) might help:
https://gaza.onl/campaigns/accounts
All our families need help to affor…

In a world with kings, our only agency is to beg “please, sir, be kind.”
#apple #BigTech

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure.

🥳 @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost version 9.0.1 released
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers (including Polka, Express.js, etc.) Unlike mkcert, 100% written in JavaScript with no external/binary dependencies. As used in Kitten¹
https://cod…

auto-encrypt-localhost
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers in 100% JavaScript (without any native dependencies like mkcert and certutil).

🥳 @small-tech/syswide-cas v7.0.2 released
Enables Node.js to use custom Certificate Authorities (CAs) alongside the bundled root CAs.
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/syswide-cas#readme
• Drops legacy Node support
• Is now ESM
• Improved code quality
•…

syswide-cas
Enables Node.js to use custom Certificate Authorities (CAs) alongside the bundled root CAs. (Fork of syswide-cas by a now-defunct startup called Capriza.)

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115899211758268451
If you’re in any way surprised by this you clearly have no idea who Jimmy Wales actually is.

I trust Mozilla the same way I trust any other lying, manipulative, hypocritical bottom feeder.

Hey, at least we’ll still have billionaires. https://aus.social/@jhaue/115725409869759980

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Reduces minimum Bash version requirement for installing Kitten to Bash 3.2 (was previously Bash 5 ). This removes the requirement for people on macOS to upgrade the ancient version of Bash that Apple ships with their desktop operating system. (If you’re on Linux none of this was ever an issue for you.)¹
• Updates runtime to Node 24.12.0, the latest long-term support (LTS) version.

Fuck the United States of America.
And Israel, of course.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. https://norden.social/@stephie_hamburg/115555340426223090

Thank goodness for Smokezilla, an ethical cigarette company that advocates for healthier living funded by billions from Philip Morris.

40 years after first playing Frogger on my Atari 2600, I only just discovered that you can stay on a log or a turtle as it wraps around the screen. I’d assumed for over four decades that you’d die if you hit the side of the screen.
#frogger #atari2600

Funny how decent people don’t want to be involved with génocidaires.
#Eurovision #eurovision2026 #eurovisionSongContest

Folks: Aral, you’re all about free and open technology, why won’t you speak at #FOSDEM?
Me: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115697202966701085
Also, I’m actually all about this:

🇵🇸 To support families facing genocide in Gaza, consider donating to them via Gaza Verified.
#GazaVerified

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

If you think the US will not go full Nazi then you’ve clearly missed that the US has gone full Nazi.

You love to see it (I hope it hurt). https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115717454528667567

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

Pro-Palestinian influencer Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj fired following Zionist smear campaign
Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj gained hundreds of thousands of social media followers by discussing the Gaza genocide. She was fired after a pressure campaign from Israel lobby groups that she believes aimed to silence her. Despite this, she remains unbowed.

“EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps … Officials insist they do not intend to compromise encryption or read private messages. What they want is the so-called metadata: who contacted whom, from where, at what time, and through which service.” – https://