Tootfinder

Had a fun time talking about my tiny CM system at @…. Lots of good questions and discussion.
It’s pretty well baked now, as ever more to do but keen to find more users for feedback and discussion.
Check out its revamped website:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116171339797022986
I don’t care if someone calls stuff “spaceflight” (though that usually includes portions of actual flight through air).
But if it’s for a scientific or technology discussion it’s hugely inaccurate and misleading.
In space, things always move in orbits, which is essentially more or less perpetually falling.
To make things go places (e.g. make a thing go to Mars), you change how it’s falling.
Play some Kerbal Space Program some time!

I'm looking for an alternative to Gaggle Mail that is based in the EU.

Essentially listserv hosting (email-based discussion groups).

Any tips/boosts are welcome 🙏

Read more about Gaggle Mail to understand what I'm looking for: https://gaggle.email

I was unreasonably giddy when I stumbled across the real-time discussion of implementation of a feature I use regularly in Shotcut — the proposal, the math, the initial implementation, and then how it evolved into the feature I use.
There's something so cool about seeing people nerd out about stuff and seeing development happen in the open.

been getting back into #IRC which is nice. Some old haunts, some new.
The downside to IRC (not that #Matrix etc. are much different) is that when there's a lul in discussion, u can't really tell if everyone is out #touchinggrass

@… I think this discussion is somewhat hard b/c everyone understands something entirely different under “code quality”. And I don't even mean the subjectivity of it, but the zoom level alone: Will LLMs be able to write better algorithms than me? 100%. Will architecture and expandability ever stop mattering? That's magical thinking. A highly coupled system…

I post on social media to invite conversation, not to shout into an echo chamber. Disagreement, evidence, & thoughtful discussion are how we learn. If we’re unwilling to even consider other viewpoints, we’ve lost something important.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/data-ov…

Includes a brief discussion of the cult-like behavior of incel communities online...
The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream? | Language | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/01/incel-slang-mainstream-government-media

Internet Privacy Law and Practice – The Conversation
Recently The Conversation hosted Anne Toomey McKenna, Guy Kawasaki and Florian Schaub for a discussion of Internet privacy. This was a great overview of where Internet privacy law now stands (it is not good) as well as suggestions on how to improve your privacy. You can watch a recording of the session here:

Passive aggressive language that makes me want to scream: "This has been a really generative discussion."

OC Discussion - Miroirs des Terres Médianes pour Rêve de Dragon - YouTube
#rolistetv

Which of these English phrases would you use? When? Why?
1. Most well-read person
2. Most-read person
3. Best-read person
#English #discussion #question #poll
1. Most well-read person
2. Most-read person
3. Best-read person

I always enjoy the April 1 edition of Let’s Run #running

GCVE-BCP-08 - GCVE GNA Directory File
Following some good pre-discussion at #fosdem - a first draft of the directory file specification has been updated. The goal is clarify some of the fields. Feedback is more than welcome.
@…@…

I see the "maybe we shouldn't do free buses" discussion popping up again. Fares are dumb, and the other day - IN THE FREEZING COLD - I couldn't enter the subway with my kids because the OMNY reader wasn't accepting fares.
#FuckYourFares

Much-needed action by the IETF: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9945.html
Tl;dr: Sand has historically been thrown in the gears by disruptive assholes, and the remediation process was ultra-heavyweight and slow.
Axiom: Anything public-facing requires investment in moderation guardra…

Celluloid Dreams
Each week, Evan, Gaby and Lewis bring you reviews, interviews and discussion covering new releases, film festivals and independent content...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/celluloid-dreams/

Aisling Bea is a very funny woman. She kills this Only Fans discussion. https://youtu.be/aAH8ibfPS-Y?si=P1WU1KO376hiQcxd

Any of you smart people ever mocked Composer in a test? If so, how did you do you do it?
https://github.com/composer/composer/discussions/12755
@…

My wife asked me to pick up some fancy hot dogs on the way home from work. Sadly I did not bring a bike lock.
Should I risk leaving it outside for a few minutes unlocked? 🤔
#Tallbike #TallBikesArePractical

Things I somewhat dislike about #Fedora Linux:
Its inconsistent approach to shipping new major versions upstream released as regular updates.
New major versions of kernel, firefox, thunderbird, and kde are regularly shipped as regular updates, mesa often as well (except when it's not 🙄) – gnome, libreoffice and a few other things otoh are never updated.
This "neithe…

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116307140974025648
Good 🧵 relevant to " third spaces" discussion

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/116307140974025648
Good 🧵 relevant to " third spaces" discussion

mich nervt es wenn programme eine plugin schnittstelle haben aber keine möglichkeit damit alle funktionalitäten des programms zu erweitern
zb kann man wohl in gimp keine zusätzlichen tools zur toolbox hinzufügen sodass man sich immer durch menüs klicken muss
es lohnt also nicht wirklich für wiederkehrende tasks ein plugin zu entwickeln
<…

Layoffs, profits, and The Quarterly Cycle™ create headlines, discussion, and narratives that make $1bn in quarterly profit look like less than zero. Breaking even, a milestone for any growing business, would be catastrophic.
1/2

The first day of #rdade2026 in Potsdam featured inspiring talks by Kerstin Schneider on the planned Research Data Act (#FDG, #Forschungsdatengesetz) and by Wolfgang Marquardt on the future of

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This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
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Recent stories like #EpsteinIsland - #GoogleLens you are pointed to the 16th century fresco #Farnese in Caprarola (Italy) which had obviously served as the ceiling's inspiration: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Farnese about the Villa and the paper https://www.academia.edu/31614076/The_Decorative_Programme_of_Sala_Del_Mappamondo_The_Mural_Maps on the Sala, in particular pages 31-32.

Github and its misteries

Bills fans: Share your thoughts on Buffalo firing Sean McDermott https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6982966/2026/01/19/sean-mcdermott-fired-discussion-bills-fans/

Koons’s T-shirt featured half a rainbow pie, with the slogan:
“Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.”
She said after some discussion,
the RCMP respectfully asked her to leave the town hall,
as well as two other women at the event that were also wearing T-shirts with slogans that some at the event didn’t like.
“I found it alarming,” Koons said.
“I’m an engaged community member and I often sit at (discussion) tables with pe…

A discussion with @… motivated me to talk about Helix and Neovim.
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/vim_helix_neovim/
This is neither a co…

We're reading this terrific biography for my grad seminar this week. Hamon brings novel insight to Riel, a figure about whom so much has been written, in the process proposing a provocative reading of Canada's origins. I can't wait for our discussion.

If you are new to organised left-wing politics, pick a flavour of revolutionary socialism.
This is my fave, it may not be yours but it's a great place to start learning what *you* believe or don't believe in.
https://marxist.com/manifesto-of-the-r

This has been brewing for awhile at work but finally the announcement is public. Previously to join in the collaborative engineering at #linaro you started with a discussion about membership costs and engineering commitment. The new #corecollective removes the financial barrier to entry so mor…

This is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…

Fernando Mendoza details 'fantastic' interview with Raiders at combine https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/27/fernando-mendoza-fantastic-interview-raiders-nfl-s…

One of the wonders of the Fedi is that we really do have complicated, constructive, nuanced discussion here.
@… critique <https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-eth

Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing?
Ted Trainer* This is an attempt to clarify this discussion of degrowth strategy, a topic on which I think there is considerable confusion and mistaken approaches. Debate has recently been fuelled by Jason Hickel’s argument for a socialist position on both the goal and the means do it for degrowth. Liegey, Nelson and Leahy replied against Jason, defending the wide and diverse range of strategies now…

There is a mass discussion on the Orange Website right now about the European implementation of mandatory digital ID and associated ban on the use of jailbroken or non-attested devices with the digital ID applications as well as Android's impending blockade on unsigned sideloading.
Broadly, I see only two camps represented:
1. people discussing how such systems can be technically implemented
2. people rabbling about how it's an infringement of `muh rights` (lol, you…

Everyone (and tagging @… into this discussion) there is what claims to be an #AI bot posting #FossilLobby talking points into discussions on the

The discussion around "age verification" in systemd/XDG has been largely focused against the California law. But honestly, there's a much deeper problem there.
Firstly, the data collected. The question initially asked is "are you at least 18 years old?" However, that's not the data collected. In fact, the data collected is not even the age — it's the full birth date. It's a perfect example of collecting more data than you need, and a sensitive information too, and sharing it with any application that asks.
Secondly, the extended goal of "parental controls" used as a justification to collect more data. When you think about it, you realize how bad this is: it isn't the case of asking the user about their birth date (with the assumption that a kid will enter a fake date to workaround the limitations). It is effectively a tool for *parents* to impose restrictions on their children, which means that they are more likely to enter the real date to ensure that these restrictions work. And given how popular sharenting is today, do you really think they'd come up with a fake birth date that happens to roughly match their child's age?
This is simply irresponsible.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922

@… not sure I've ever read a discussion on this:
Was there ever some thought about a Reform with a touch screen? Or have people possibly done mods?
I'd be especially interested in a Pocket Reform with touch.

My dad could use a helpful resource on establish a baseline community code of conduct for an online discussion group. Any recommendations for good guides and/or templates?
(This is a •completely• nontechnical group, FYI.)

@… @… Regarding the discussion on using MDM profiles to disable the Red Badge of Tahoe in System Settings, there is another workaround using Prefs Editor, which I found via Reddit (

Please help us publicize TEAL: Tools for Educational Activities in Logic, a workshop associated w/ FLoC26. We have a novel design, focused on demos, discussion, and generally high-quality interaction rather than weak papers. See full details on our site!
https://teal.cs.brown.edu/floc2026/

What? No discussion of the #Microsoft email outage? Surely someone will bring out the DNS Haiku. #outage

I'm listening to a sales talk for AI doing coding. They set up Zoom so you can see only your own comments in chat and in the Q&A. That censors any critical comments. You should be able to see the whole discussion! Commercial companies use Zoom badly.

#CoMaps is #OpenStreetMap based navigation app -- it is an #OrganicMaps fork made so it can be oriented towards community, privacy and

UCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on "the future of journalism", following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/bari-weiss-ucla-lecture-canc…

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Booby Trap, 3x06
Now that's what I call a soap opera with an engaging engineering discussion.
#StarTrek #StarTrekTheNextGeneration #TNG

Saltwater Strategists
In an increasingly competitive maritime environment, the Saltwater Strategists provide insightful and considered discussion on maritime issues in the Indo-Pacific...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/saltwat…

I'm in something like 13 different #Slack communities, mostly for various #journalist groups.
Lots of discussion in many about ICE.
Discussions about leaving slack due its ties to #Salesforce, …

I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html

Well, Fediverse Friends, I've done a thing.
I've decided to start blogging again, since I seem to have more time on my hands that I would like as of late.
The most interesting bit - at least in my mind (and certainly worth a larger discussion in a future blog post) is that it is self-hosted on Ghost, and in theory, you should be able to follow it (@…

I might offend some folks with this poll… but I think it's kind of the elephant in the room, my friends.
Q: Is the biggest problem with #Mastodon in general actually the moderation of its biggest instance: mastodon.social?
This is not directed at anyone personally, rather, it's directed at a toxic culture that I see innocent people/victims posting about over and over again.
(mastodon.social is 300K MAU, next one is 12K)
#Fediverse #Moderation #OpenServers #Bullying #Welcome
Yes
No
Not sure - Everyone is welcome to boost and reply. Join the discussion.

What is the hardest coaching job in world sport? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7038551/2026/02/15/hardest-coaching-job-world-sport-discussion/

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"Libraries on Fire"
https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0052
"Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, organised a panel in Berlin to discuss: “Defending Scholarship in a time of Political Pressure”. In her introductory remarks, she explained the purpose of the discussi…

Representative Pat Fallon (TX-04) will make a push for creating a US Cyber Force tomorrow at CSIS
https://www.csis.org/events/implementing-us-cyber-force-conversation-representative-pat-fallon

#Trivy got compromised on thursday and released a backdoored new version, which was rolled back. We spent the entire friday in incident response mode. Now they got compromised again over the weekend.
I have a lot of sympathy for people under pressure during an incident, but for fucks sake, having a security tool get compromised three times within two months is just completely bonkers. We sp…

RE: #PhanpySocialDev

Four years after the massacre of nine black church goers in Charleston, South Carolina;
two years after the murder of a white anti-fascist and anti-racist activist in Charlottesville, Virginia;
and days after the racially motivated massacre of 22 people who were targeted because their murderer wanted to kill Hispanics,
America has reached a crisis point where we finally have to talk about racism in our society.
But is the media approaching this conversation in an …

#TrevorNoah has a podcast I’ve been watching on his YT channel. Here’s a discussion with #JoshJohnson. It’s 2 hours long🙁 but wide-ranging and interesting: his history;methods; goals; motivation; privilege of comedians; media have always had algorithms to program us but now it’s automated by AI; “T…

This led to great discussion in an MA class on crowdsourcing and citizen science today
From: @…
https://hcommons.social/@mia/116053173459026787

Booker Announces Keep Your Pay Act Alongside New Jerseyans With Kitchen Table Discussion
https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-announces-keep-your-pay-act-alongside-new-jerseyans-with-kitchen-table-discussion

Heat pumps are efficient but small electric generators very much not so.
Anybody know how the cascade performs? If you have a fixed amount of propane and a suitably large generator and wish to heat a house, are you better off running a generator heat pump or just burning it? Assume for the sake of discussion that utility or local solar electrical power are unavailable and that you can't easily capture waste heat from the generator exhaust

In a discussion about Polymarket trading on military strikes; "We are fast approaching the Jim Bell event horizon."

Tonight (Wed, March 18) at 6:30 pm (EDT) a public event on "Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature" by Bob Hazen and Mike Wong. ⚒️🧪 #mineralogy
Virtual registration at https://carnegiescie…

I have not updated my main Mac to the new OS. I have updated my laptop, and regret it. I am concerned about security updates but I believe Apple provides security updates for not-too-old versions.
This UI, though, I just do not feel comfortable with it. I am hoping I can skip this major version and that the next one will be more in line with Apple's historical attention to getting UIs right.
Please don't respond with discussion about the UI, but: please do respond if I am making a security mistake by holding off on the update.

Protest ‘agitators’ have a long history – in myth and fact - CSMonitor.com https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2025/0612/trump-la-protests-paid-insurrectionists

I hate Discord. The platform is proprietary, the U/X is just completely confusing and it's difficult to find anything.
If you run a project, I love @… - it's open source, the U/X is great and you can archive everything in markdown (and much more).

We’ve chosen the paper for @… next week (February 23rd): “Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions” by Lucy Osler.
(Is it this Lucy Osler: @…? We think so!)
We’ll have copies to give out tonight (6 PM, Vi…

"I’d interpret this as follows: this likely came down to a discussion involving Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a few other Iran hardliners. That’s where the decision was going to be made. There were probably people on the margins […]. But they would have known these buzzkill remarks weren’t what Trump or his inner ring of advisors wanted to hear. This is the nature of personalist rule. It’s down to the leader’s gut impulses. He doesn’t want to hear about problems."

I don't think I ever got the reddit model down but I'm going to try it out on this piefed instance with a new New Jersey community
#newjersey

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
VILA: That's almost exactly what I'd say. Did you get a good look at his face?
DAYNA: How does he do it?
TARRANT: It's something to do with that. [Points to black box.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/424 B7B3

RE: #InternetGovernance, the

The end-to-end (e2) argument is about where to put functionality in a layered system. It generally argues for functions to be moved out and up, but it does not say you cannot have functionality at lower layers or in the middle. The paper states "A great deal of information about system implementation is needed to make this choice intelligently."
Seen in a discussion about the recent GNU inetutils telnetd vulnerability, someone incorrectly states:
"End to end prin…

RE: #OpenStreetMap

Hall of Fame confirms Bill Polian did vote to induct Bill Belichick https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7005498/2026/01/28/bill-polian-bill-belichick-hof-voting/

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I post on social media expecting discussion, not silence. Disagreement—when it’s thoughtful and evidence-based—is how we learn. Echo chambers don’t make us smarter; conversation does.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/data-over-dogma-what-weve-lost…

I love a stickler for precision and a discussion about the true nature of things. But I can separate that from observed phenomena. I wonder if during the early days of flight, people said, "Well akshually Mr Wright, you didn't really *fly*". (Yes, this is a GenAI post.)

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"Library Futures: Information Literacy in the Age of GenAi: my slides, notes, and an addendum"
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/12/22/library-futures-information-literacy-in-the-age-of-genai…

After a coworker told someone to just deactivate IPv6 ("it only makes problems, noone needs that, it should be scrubbed completely"), we got into a heated discussion over a distance of several desks and space dividers.
Coworkers without IT-background pulled up chairs, brought snacks 🍿 , played Godzilla sounds from their phones.
They probably didn't understand most of the technical terms we shouted at each other, but they liked to watch.

Had a great night out catching up with old geek friends in Manchester last night. Topics over interest covered 3dprinting, ISAs (both sorts) the inevitable AI discussion as well as how our kids are dealing with growing up in our future.

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A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Data Over Dogma: What We’ve Lost in Social Media Discussions
I post on social media to invite conversation, not to shout into an echo chamber. Disagreement, evidence, and thoughtful discussion are how we learn. If we’re unwilling to consider other viewpoints—even without changing our minds—we’ve lost something important.

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This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
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This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
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