@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOne thing Mastodon brought me back is the connection to blogs. In the past years, I followed mainly news sites via RSS and "professional IT stuff" only on LinkedIn ...
With the degration of LinkedIn and my increasing commitment to the fediverse, I found the link(s) back to some IT-people and my blogroll is steadily increasing.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
https://matduggan.com/mistakes/
saved 2021-12-03 https://dota…
@pre@boing.worldOne thing which is annoying about Vivaldi and also Firefox and presumably also all the other Android web browsers is the way the "Add To Homescreen" button works on pages like Mastodon which are Progressive Web Apps.
If you add the shortcut to the homescreen then it opens as a WPA which means the browser stuff is all gone and hidden. No back button. No way to bookmark. No way to launch a link in a new browser window etc.
Ought to be two separate buttons for "Add a link to the homepage" vs "Add this app as an app to the homepage" but there isn't.
You can get around this by turning on airplane mode and adding a link to the error page to the homescreeen, which then works as a link to the website in the browser, not a WPA app, when you're online again.
I did this to the links I use with Vivaldi before I realized it's proprietary and so will not do.
Trying to rebuild them as Firefox links again and sadly something is broken now. Won't add the error page. Tells me the pixel launcher is crashing.
So I can't have the old web bookmark links to pages in WPA apps. Boo. 😦
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
@Jyoti@mas.toI hate clicking a link and it leads to a paywall or Medium or some other anomic nonsense...
BRING BACK BLOGS!
(and, yes, I realise a lot of us have had them since the '90s and still post on there - I'm about to copy this to mine.)
(bzangy.com, thank you for asking)
@Techmeme@techhub.social @fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Bring back idiomatic design.
https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design
saved 2026-04-12 https://
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaCrawling back to you.... #arcticmonkeys #doiwanttoknow - great waking up song!
https://song.link/d/70322130
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"Dutch police have arrested a man for 'computer hacking' after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn't hand them back."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/dutch_cop…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioFor all the praises for AI for programming:
```
Q: When to use CLOB data type in SQLite?
Claude: […] XML or JSON documents (though SQLite has a dedicated JSON type now) […]
Q: Give me the link to the SQLIte JSON type
Claude: You're right to push back on that — I misspoke. SQLite does not have a JSON data type. JSON data in SQLite is stored as plain TEXT.
```
I do understand companies do not care.
I fail to see how developers would NOT care.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe history of the term "anarchist" is itself adversarial. Those who embraced it did so intending to engage with it as controversy, so I feel like I'm not too out of line with this history in using my socialization of being comfortable while being adversarial, and my social license as a cis dude to just say some random shit for attention, to draw that attention back to this whole subject.
Since this post did get some attention, I'm gonna link back to the one that prompted it (and tag @…, who I think is the author, for a heads up if there's anything to add):
https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
I think I have said some useful things in my post, or at least repeated things others have been saying for years in a useful way, but this post is really the thing to look at (again, if you didn't miss it like I did) and think. There was definitely a time when I would have fallen for that whole hoax, and maybe even have struggled to argue against the things being highlighted. But it's clear that there is still a problem, and I hope repeating these things in my dude voice catches the attention of some folks who might have otherwise missed it... And I hope my adversarial approach doesn't pull focus away from the self-reflection that needs to happen.
Men are the problem here. Men need to fix this. Men are responsible for looking at some of this really horrible shit and acknowledging that we've all been part of the system that makes them possible and have an obligation to destroy that system.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Jensen Huang, who says "we've achieved AGI", on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/jensen-huang-transcript
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine Update from Dylan Combellick.
Friend link bypasses the paywall: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-march-19-f68151732814?sk=25a8a5257a99ec05d9acbad14704dd24
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
HTTP headers that tell syndication feed fetchers how soon to come back.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/SyndicationFeedRetryHeaders
saved 2026-02-23
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoTIL that WB0RLJ Jim posts videos of his POTA activations keyed by time, so you can find your call in his video description with a link straight to the time in the video. Very cool!
I also read his QRZ page and discovered that I did something that he dislikes. I've heard other ops say that if someone gives a partial call, you should reply with your sign twice to cut down on back-and-forth, and now I kn…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-of-root-dns-traffic/
saved 2021-01-07
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The longest train journey in the EU.
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/
saved 2026-04-25 https://
@abstractsun@social.linux.pizzaGoogle has partially walked back their decision to remove Android's ability to install independently published software. Their new stance is that it will still be possible, but it will be more difficult. I assume their plans are still subject to change.
I don't like the FUD that Google is pushing, and I still have a lot of unanswered questions, but I figured that it would be best to link the original source:
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor.
http://www.righto.com/2020/04/inside-am2901-amds-1970s-bit-slice.html
saved 2020-04-18
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
1SubML: plan vs reality.
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2026/04/05/1subml-plan-vs-reality.html
saved 2026-04-08 htt…
