Tootfinder

Very interesting project to follow: @…, „a friendly Ruby on Rails fork for humans that doesn't tolerate bigotry“.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116935974212144392
Never mind not being a fork
– It's a rewrite of an early kernel from December 8, 1991
– just a few months after the initial release, Linux 0.01.

That feeling when you’ve got twice the number of followers on the fediverse as the closed-source VC-funded European social network being peddled by the EU Commission has accounts.
Hey, @…, y’all are so incompetent you can’t even do evil right.
Muppets.
@…

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] Good morning Fedi friends. Is anybody curious about how the #WSocial experiment is going? You know, the private, for profit "European answer to X" endorsed by the European Commission, which is a fork of Bluesky and has quietly gone closed-source before its beta launch (à la #TruthSocial)? I've got numbers for you! Nearly two months in, W Social has almost the same number of accounts as #Eurosky... You know, the European fork of Bluesky that does NOT require government …

A IS FOR APPLE
https://web.archive.org/web/20150723005417/http://aisforapple.net/main.htm

NPR acquires Hard Fork co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton's video-first show Machine Gods, debuting as a podcast from October and as a radio program in 2027 (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g-s1-143481/casey-newton-an…

Looking at something claiming “Accessible by default” with its barely-WCAG-passing thing & tiny 10px text, vibe-coded patterns, SC misrepresentations, Twitter-only social presence, and failure to use HTML correctly reminds me that this ‘law’ also applies to sites:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/03…

Accessibility Law of Headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. Yes, that…

Repository of forkbombs in various languages https://github.com/aaronryank/fork-bomb/tree/master

Linus Torvalds:
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
In reply to a developer on one of the Linux kernel mailing lists, Linux creator Linus Torvalds firmly put a foot down to push back against anti-AI comments.

In my latest article for Inquirer.net, I talk about @… and its 15-year history despite being only 1 year old. (I also talk a bit about data privacy and @….)

CoMaps and the right to fork
CoMaps, my favorite OpenStreetMap-based mobile app, is now one year old! This Google Maps alternative first became available on Google Play and the Apple App Store on July 3, 2025. What

The gram text editor (https://gram-editor.com/), a slop-free fork of Zed, might be my favorite text editor after Emacs and Vim

So I wanted to unbundle #uChardet from #cChardet #Python package.
It didn't build against system uchardet 0.0.8. So I've checked, and it turns out cchardet is using some old patched fork of uchardet. Ugh.
Fortunately, upstream added the "missing" function too, with a different API (that's not really a problem), but they didn't make a release in 4 years. Ugh.
I could at least replace the old patched uchardet with upstream uchardet, right? Except now I'm getting test failures over misdetected encodings. 0.0.8 works fine there. Though the particular test doesn't look very realistic (note all the repetitions):
#Gentoo

Protip: if you threaten someone, hold your shrimp fork more menacingly

@… schau dir das beads das dashboard dazu an ;) da gibts noch viele verbesserungen. deswegen hab ich auch nen fork gemacht weil das ding super alt war... zb ist der "copy" button hinter dem todo broken.... PRs welcome ;-)
und wass ich dir auch empfehlen kann, so fing die ganze RAG sache bei mir an:

Misjudged some chicken on the end of a fork and ended up cracking my front tooth. FML.

Sources: Hard Fork co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are nearing a deal for their still-untitled, forthcoming podcast that could be worth up to $5M a year (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

I've released the first beta of Scantailor-Spectre, a fork of Scantailor for tidying up book scans. The workflow is PDF in to (OCR'd) PDF out. Ideal for cleaning up old yellow scans. It processes a 250 page text in about 2 minutes, basically unattended. Oh, and it does a round trip to Zotero.
1/2

from my link log —
Shrinking Ruby hashes.
https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/05/shrinking-ruby-hashes.html
saved 2026-08-06

Wonder if this is the same fork of KeePass that I saw discussed some months back
https://codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass

In addition to Ana’s layout fork, @… made one using the anchor positioning polyfill and @… provided details on how to hide, er, `<details>` (which I don’t use) from an in-page search.
‘Link Popover Navigation’

Link + Popover Navigation
This is a redress of my 2019 post Link + Disclosure Widget Navigation, except (as the title implies), I’ve modified it to use native HTML popovers instead of ARIA or HTML disclosure widgets. Popover has the benefit of using appropriate HTML structure and semantics while removing the need for scripting…

@… for thumbsup there's an open issue for the compile/installation problem in the issue tracker and a fork/PR that updates the dependency causing it. You can manually install the fork.
That's... not a great situation, but doable.

⚠️ Deprecation warning
I’ve deprecated @small-tech/syswide-cas – the fork of the syswide-cas module I was maintaining as the original is unmaintained (and undeprecated) – on engines >=24.5.0 as node:tls now has a setDefaultCACertificates() method you can use natively and the module is no longer required.
https://www.

At the beginning of this year, when three stations were responding to me in Morse Walker at the same time, it was all I could do to get enough characters to narrow it down to one caller, let alone pull a full call out of the pileup on the first listening. I didn't see any point in going above three simultaneous calling stations, and said so on my blog.
Now in my fork of Morse Walker, you can s…

I have my own CLI parser - a fork of the old kingpin - and over time its evolved to have deep runtime introspection among other unique features.
Here using that to generate web based help viewers and I think this is a pretty sweet idea, will have to think how to incorporate this into my doc sites.
Short 2 minute video and screenshots
https://w…

If I had all of the time in the world, I'd fork Frigate NVR, set it up to offload all of the processing and video storage to a server in Atlantic Canada, and call it Frig It NVR.
Sadly: this would not be my first "did it for the name” project.
Doubly sadly: mostly only maritimers and Trailer Park Boys fans would even find it funny. But I sure would.

Honestly the lovely app icon by itself already is reason enough to switch from #Gram to #Zed as code editor.
https://gram-editor.com/

So now that #awscli 1.x is pretty much dead, I've finally gotten around to packaging 2.x properly for #Gentoo. You know, the one where other developers claimed it was impossible to build from source because (checks notes) upstream said so. So we instead must use their horrible 70M binary package that bundles its own Python interpreter along with all the random libraries and dependencies.
And guess what? Sure, they don't publish it to PyPI anymore, but it still is a regular #Python package branched out from 1.x. It has regular Python package dependencies, a regular Python build backend and when you build it with it, you get a regular Python wheel that can be installed and just works with the system Python and system dependencies.
Sure, it's crap, but it's no worse than the 1.x crap. It bundles a modified fork of the unreleased 2.x branch of botocore (now dead for 5 years, apparently) and a fork of s3transfer. It has some random meaningless dependency pins that we patch out. It has a horrible test suite that can eat tons of memory if run via xdist, but with some hackery, I've gotten it to work reasonably.
Honestly, I feel like Gentoo developers these days just don't care to even try.

I'm trying to build a fork if Ghidra, and depending on what version of Gradle I use, I get different errors.
Using the minimum version gives me this:
https://discuss.gradle.org/t/could-not-open-cp-init-generic-class-cache-for-in…

Could not open cp_init generic class cache for initialization script
Hello im using Gradle 8.0 and java 19 and i get the following error when i try to run it in eclipse FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. What went wrong: Could not open cp_init generic class cache for initialization script ‘C:\Users\stich\eclipse-workspace.metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.buildship.core\init.d\eclipsePlugin.gradle’ (C:\Users\stich.gradle\caches\7.5.1\scripts\7fciaz2tzo3lxxw75zggl661a). BUG! exception in phase ‘semantic analysis’ in source unit ‘BuildScript’ Un…

Hard debian fork coming ?

Normally I go to the Benalla Street Art Festival but this year it coincided with some guy chopping my chest open. Did an overnighter to catch up with the new art work this week. #BenallStreetArtFestival
It was minus 4 when I woke up but the art work was worth it. Here's a few examples

Moin! K3 macht keine halben Sachen

"Beavers restored a volcano-scarred river. Now it’s at risk again"
#Beavers #Animals #Environment

Beavers restored a volcano-scarred river. Now it’s at risk again
More than 40 years after sediment from a volcanic eruption filled up a stretch of the North Fork Toutle River in the U.S. state of Washington, beavers are turning the smothered waterway into a thriving wetland. However, a planned infrastructure project now threatens to undo five years of restoration progress, reports contributor Isabel Gil for […]

Monkeys Have Geometric Skills On Par With Human Preschoolers, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/monkeys-have-geometric-skills-on-par-with-human-preschoolers-study-suggests

#SilentSunday

TWO BINS. TSA took everything out of my bag 1 by 1 & laid them out in across 2 bins, plus the bin I already had with my laptop, display, mouse & 3 cables.
They threw away my biodegradable 'potatoware' utensil package (fork/knife/napkin) cuz apparently my potatoware knife is a 'threat'.
#smh

I remembered yesterday that I had already known and implemented a few things I needed to analyze Intel ME Gen 2 binaries.
The load address is in the metada that `intel_fw me show` prints.
Modules can be unpacked and decompressed via unhuffme, which puts the load address in the file name. I will add the Huffman decompression feature to intel_fw, too.
So with the load address and the Ghidra fork, I now get sensible decompiled code and references, e.g. I can see where strings a…

I decided it was time to check out Firefox alternatives.
LibreWolf came up, and being a FF fork, and a quick check shows it seems to update in a timely manner, I decided to give that a go.
I decided to utilise Firefox Sync to get most of my FF setup imported into LW. Went smoothly enough, although I discovered that the tabs syncing is just providing a list of what's on other devices, not actually creating and populating all of the same windows.
And, of course, some ext…

Wieder einmal der supergeile Kichererbsensalat mit dem supergeilen Dressing (Dijonsenf! Dill! Kewpie-Mayonnaise!) und der knackigen Stangensellerie. #nommention

Chickpea Salad With Fresh Herbs and Scallions Recipe • 5★ (Gift Recipe)
A lighter, easier take on classic American potato salad, this version uses canned chickpeas in place of potatoes and favors Greek yogurt over mayonnaise. The trick to achieving the creamy texture of traditional potato salad is to mash some of the chickpeas lightly with a fork. It travels well, so it deserves a spot at your next picnic or desk lunch.

there's this one guy on a gh repo basically telling people to stfu when they submit feature issues or bug issues and now someone in there just shared a maitenence fork cuz the last actual release for this thing was like 7 months ago and it's time sensitive to keep it up to date and now they've just resorted to good ol fashioned name calling

from my link log —
Discovering Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
saved 2020-06-20

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?

There's a MangoWM fork with "infinite canvas" which seems to implement something akin to a ZUI on top of Mango. I've installed it but don't have it configured properly yet. It runs, but it's ignoring some of my keybinds! https://github.com/ernestoCruz05/mango-ext

🔀 An orchestration board takes tasks with dependencies. Each started task gets an isolated git worktree plus path leases, so overlapping edits are never assigned, and a quality gate must pass before merge
↺ Session resume locates each agent's own session store on disk and runs its resume command, no flags to paste. Fork a pane to branch a session while the original keeps running

Have you seen my fork of scantailor? Any chance you have a recent Mac and a bunch of PDFs filled with yellow book scans? You know, the kind you might get from places like the Internet Archive? Oh, and it integrates with Zotero.
https://software.is-lost.org/scantailor-spectre/inde…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270
I’d say let’s fund it from the commons with the EU funding an independent org to maintain such a fork but I don’t see that happening with the muppets in charge at the moment who think …

NYT tech reporter Kevin Roose, host of Hard Fork with Casey Newton, is leaving the paper to launch a new show with Newton (Kevin Roose/@kevinroose)
https://x.com/kevinroose/status/2067620115223593241

Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) on X
Leaving The Times

Not wanting genAI code in the kernel is “puritanical” now. https://bsky.app/profile/esteraxiom.mom/post/3mqrtrd24522m
This is like some evil mirror universe version of the rust in the kernel discourse.

It's a pity they didn't make a fork of MkLinux for UltraSPARC called MK ULTRA

"Democratic lawmakers gave Pulte a sharp deadline to turn over a detailed accounting of how he split his time between FHFA and the Office of the DNI, including copies of his official calendars, and until August 7 to detail FHFA's progress on a separate list of housing affordability recommendations they sent him last August."
Trump ally gets damning demand from Dems: fork over docs — or resign - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/bill-pulte-2677647046/

Öffi Sounds ist ein Fork von AntennaPod, einem kostenlosen Open-Source-Podcast-Manager für Android.
Die App konzentriert sich auf das Entdecken und Anhören von Inhalten des deutschen öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks über ARD Sounds (ehemals ARD Audiothek), behält dabei aber die zentralen Funktionen von AntennaPod zur Podcast-Verwaltung und -Wiedergabe bei.
Öffi Sounds | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.oeffisounds.app/

honestly I’m tempted to fork the fucking kernel myself just because everyone else is busy whining instead of actually *doing something* about the fucking situation
and also because if I do it poorly someone will step in to point out how wrong I’m doing everything and fix it themselves

honestly I’m tempted to fork the fucking kernel myself just because everyone else is busy whining instead of actually *doing something* about the fucking situation
and also because if I do it poorly someone will step in to point out how wrong I’m doing everything and fix it themselves

So I've decided to make a sacrifice and eat a sausage for breakfast (one of many suddenly put to the fridge when the freezer broke). Lulu the #cat entered my lap immediately. So I'm taking a piece with a fork, putting it in my mouth, putting down the fork and taking the plate, so that the tomato wouldn't fell out of the roll… and in the meantime, the cat started licking my fork.

Ik heb dus blijkbaar een stuk of 5 accounts bij 'theFork'. Eenmaal ergens reserveren en restaurants aangesloten bij de vork gevent je e-mailadres door naar the fork. Handig als je een e-mailadres gebruikt, maar ik heb voor elk restaurant een apart e-mailadres. Vandaag heeft 'theFork' blijkbaar weer eens een update voor zijn gebruikersvoorwaarden, en dus 5 maal de mededeling via e-mail.
Goed moment om al die accounts definitief op te zeggen.

#SilentSunday #photography #MacroPhotography #cutlery

welp, time to go find a Debian fork

welp, time to go find a Debian fork

Zero days since the #Python feedparser library switched to yet another #SGMLlib fork.
Yes, #Gentoo has only packaged the previous SGMLlib fork because of them.

So if you think you can "just" solve the destruction of infrastructure done by #AI crawlers, think again.
Konstantin Ryabitsev, Creepy crawlies
#NoAI #NoLLM