Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

In her retirement, my mum has been learning to play the cello, having played it when she was at school.

She went to the Oxfam music shop at the weekend to get a book of studies, to practice with.

She found one, opened it up, and... saw her name written inside the cover, in her own handwriting from 60-odd years ago.

#music #cello #coincidence

Silent failure is the root of all evil.

#AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the #EU

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/

#privacy #politics

this will likely be a recurring reminder as the weeks go by, but i'm so excited about this project. i have to share! (this is the first time i've been nervous to announce something on this side of the web!)

i'm combining my 10 years of journalism experience with my love for the #indieweb by launching GOOD INTERNET, a regular periodical magazine in both print and digital formats. and this is a non-profit, completely independent endeavor!

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/

ultimately, Good Internet will cover a lot of different aspects of the small web: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. it will be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned indie web travelers!

the #smallweb can be hard to keep up with if you aren't "plugged in," especially if you want to find other hobby website owners, folks coding for fun, weird web projects, or artists taking back their digital ownership. it's overdue that this side of the web has an analog publication!

having a central publication about the decentralized parts of the personal web makes me even more excited to share this hobby with those who might not even know about it--all within beautiful, high-res, high-quality pages.

the idea here is to have a physical celebration of this hobby in addition to being informative, helpful, and accessible.

consider signing up for email notifications when we launch the first issue in may 2025:

https://goodinternetmagazine.com

(if you're interested in #writing an article or op-ed about this side of the web/personal websites, coding an interactive article, or want to know what that even means, send an email to hello@goodinternetmagazine.com! taking pitches for may 2025!)

#internet #socialmedia #personalwebsites #blogging #blog #print #magazine #writer #technology #tech #coding #programming #html #webdev #webdesign #web #smalltech #css #html #dev #web

Isn't it obvious what Trump/Musk are doing with Canada and tariffs? He's trying to make Canadians miserable so they elect a conservative leader who promises to fix everything. People are idiots so it will work.

Uninstalling Visual Studio freed up like 40 GB of my disk space. Good riddance.

Check out my series of #blog posts about writing a fast #Sudoku solve in #Haskell, starting with this post: https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/fast-sudoku-solver-in-haskell-1/

#programming #functionalprogramming #puzzles

T-Bone Burnett, who, amongst other things, starred in one of my favorite weird American sitcoms "The Larry Sanders Show", had some of his music uploaded to YouTube, including my favorite of his albums "the true false identity".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1M9JSGTLk&list=OLAK5uy_mAv4FUNl4lZ_mpQmxgbHG2e9E1PHEac_E

"Machines always do what you tell them to do, as long as you do what they say", 2006, mind you.

My side project this year is cutting ties with Big Tech. Let's see how many of them I can replace or live without by year end.

If you work in government and are asked to remove content from websites, please use the HTTP status code 451 instead of 404.

451 is the correct status code to use for these cases, and you'll be doing the rest of the country a service by using it.

Addendum: you should also include a Link header with the link relation "blocked-by" that "Identifies the entity that blocks access to a resource following receipt of a legal demand."

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725.html

(The EU never had that good a chance to attract talent: If EU states didn't want to play fascism you could actually get many of the brightest and most experienced people on the planet to move and work here. Set some funding/grants up and you could turn the EU into a powerhouse.
[Not _my_ reason for wanting to offer people a home here, if Europe had learned anything from 2 world wars it would understand itself as a safe haven for anyone under threat but we have not. If I were the EU my ad campaign to "move to Europe with your startup to a place safe for your trans employees" would have been prepared last year. Like you could have 50% of the best IT security people living here.]
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Surveillance occurs in multiple ways. We do not use Alexa or similar “internet of things’ devices. Avoid signing up for home surveillance or consider removing these technologies from your home. (7/x)

#Resistance #Infosec

#protip If you're writing a disk image to a block device and then need to trigger a rescan for the various kernel stuff to see the new filesystem / partition table layout, the modern invocation is:

blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdX

You are going to have to trust me when I say, use Linux.

If you need 2nd PC for gaming. Fine.

But use your Linux PC for everything else. Banking, shopping, ect. If it important and can identify you, use Linux.

It does not matter what Linux distro. Newbies, I would suggest Ultramarine. But ultimately, anything is better than nothing. Do not make any excuses. Find away to use Linux.

#Linux #Windows #Twitter #X #Project2025 #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #Musk #Zuckerberg #Trump #Facism #Nazi

Would you be offended if someone used "they/them" pronouns for you after they already know your gender and/or preferred pronouns?

(I'm trying to figure out who might be offended if I stop using gendered language altogether. Boost for science. Feel free to comment instead, if none of these answers apply to you.)

#gender #pronouns

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian

Since Debian Linux has recently left X, you can follow it on Mastodon:

@debian

#debian #linux #distro #debianproject