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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…

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.

Mastodon fork idea: rip out all the UI for changing anything. Keep the readonly public views, but require the operator to provide their own CSS. Keep tooting an api-first experience.
@…

«GRAM — A code editor for humanoid apes and grumpy toads»
Do any of you know this code editor and do you use it? How is it and does it come close to the Vim?
🐸 #gram

Food delivery favorite forced to fork over millions after DOJ alleged discrimination against American workers (Peter D'Abrosca/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/food-delivery-favorite-forced-fork-over-millions-doj-alleged-discrimination-american-workers
http://www.memeorandum.com/261021/p2#a261021p2

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 …

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

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.

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

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

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

very happy to learn about #scythe, an actively maintained fork of the #python sickle library used to harvest and parse #oai records -> check it out at

@… In a competition between Linux and a no-AI "Humix" fork, I'd have to bet on the former.

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…

@… 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:

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

RE: https://famichiki.jp/@FlockOfCats/117403224181481289
the new fork LibreTorment is so much better tbh

⚠️ 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…

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social Tubular offenbar ohne Maintainer und Pipepipe der aktive Fork?

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social Tubular offenbar ohne Maintainer und Pipepipe der aktive Fork?

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

Hard debian fork coming ?

By the way, has everybody switched to that vibe-coded WordPress fork by now? What was it called again…?

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

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

"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 […]

Moin! K3 macht keine halben Sachen

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.

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

Sarai: "Securing the system was a large part of why Cloud Glider ended up overengineered"
Sophie: "You mean securing the system *from* the fork bomb? … Securing the system *from* the fork bomb, right?"
I did not, in fact, secure the *system* from the fork bomb. Rather, actually, the other way around. 🤪

🔀 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…

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

It's kinda funny that the certificate compromise comes just after another round of upstreams bashing at distro packaging.
Let me get this straight for the people in the back. In a perfect world, you'd just upgrade a single package on your system and be good. Unfortunately, we're far removed from even a reasonably good world.
Pretty much everything that matters in #Python uses certifi. dev-python/certifi in #Gentoo is a fork that uses system certs, so our system install is good. But in every virtual environment (venv, conda, etc.), you need to upgrade certifi.
certifi is also bundled in a bunch of packages, including pip. dev-python/pip in Gentoo has certifi unbundled, but you need to upgrade pip in your virtual environments (using vulnerable pip!). On Gentoo systems, you also need to upgrade dev-python/ensurepip-pip, which is the upstream wheel which we couldn't figure out how to unbundle.
pip is also bundled in Python to bootstrap venvs. In Gentoo, we're configuring Python to use our system dev-python/ensurepip-pip package, so as soon as you upgrade it, you're good. But where this isn't the case, you need to wait for new Python releases and upgrade, because otherwise venvs will start with vulnerable pip. On the plus side, you can remember to upgrade it after creating a new venv.
Lock files are particularly popular in the Python world, and a dependency cooldown is the new fad. You will need to update certifi in them, and exclude it from dependency cooldown.
Many #RustLang packages (think uv) also use a bundled certificate store. All these packages need a lockfile update and rebuilding, meaning downstream patching or new upstream release. So yes, everyone (including Gentoo users, because Rust doesn't really support dynamic linking, great design for #security) need to update uv, and possibly wait to discover more random Rust packages that are vulnerable.
I'm also going to guess that all flatpakers are affected, all popular browsers, and possibly everyone else who knows better than to use distro packaging. All containers are affected, and will need to be rebuilt, with new system certificate stores and all the packages that bundle their own stores…
And the best part is, most of these upstream package distribution systems have no other security layer except for TLS certificates. You can update Gentoo packages safely, because we are using our own key infrastructure. But pip, uv and so on are subject to a MITM risk while upgrading the vulnerable packages.
This is the true definition of clusterfuck.

#SilentSunday #photography #MacroPhotography #cutlery

"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

You see, it was important that the Cloud Glider has a persistent control mechanism to stop it reliably
I started with a Boolean in an s3 bucket, checked by each instance's glider daemon before deciding whether to continue propagation
However, an s3 object is fallible if the glider is outside control, so I needed more extensive configuration settings (i.e., in DynamoDB) — and an EmergencyHold mechanism that would yank IAM permissions if anything goes wrong. The EmergencyHold triggers a full stop, which pulls propagation permissions while retaining other operation permissions in order to create an audit log of state for an incident review
The "incident" in this case being that the fork bomb didn't, uhh, fork or bomb as expected 🙈 ::awkward_monkey.gif::

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.

in my bubble, I've seen several anti-LLM fork of pro-LLM projects. most of these are small efforts, the viability is questionable, but it's not obviously doomed.
what about the opposite? are there pro-LLM forks of anti-LLM projects?

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.

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.

thinking, if I create a new open source thing now, I'll try pre-forking it: set up an explicit fork where LLM contribs are ok, and let the LLM folk worry about keeping it in sync. not sure what barrier there should be for bringing LLM changes upstream to core. maybe, whoever's championing the change has to livestream a detailed explanation of the PR using hand puppets

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