There's a scammer on the move, see the quoted post for details. Genuine admins will NEVER demand that you verify your identity.
I've done a guide to scams and how to recognise them at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-avoid-scammers-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse
I understand but lament the choice so many thoughtful people have made to publish their newsletters on the odious Substack. Surely they recognize that they are, at least indirectly, helping some of the worst people in the world spread and monetize malignant views.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vaba7tf7ylt2kaavf4t2kotp/post/3mjfo4h6u7s2f
Join us at 9:30pm central on YouTube for the release of the full day 3 Daunte Wright protest coverage from 5 years ago tonight, on April 13, 2021.
Despite a curfew, protests continued two days after Wright was killed by police. Following a march across Brooklyn Center, masses protested outside the police station amid a large intra-agency police force bent on suppressing protests and clearing the streets.
This video has unreleased footage & live streamed footage in HD.
They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS ported to GNU Hurd
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/13/they-werent-joking-gentoo-was-ported-to-gnu-hurd/
Compared to other 3D printer laws proposed this year, California’s is the most troubling. It criminalizes open source, reduces consumer choice, and creates a new bureaucratic burden. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing #opensource #3dprinting #AB2047
When oil gets expensive, cities get better... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNLaHsKMz8 Yup.
Alternatively, is anyone else in this position? Maybe if we pooled our resources and did this as a co-op with a handful of other small #FLOSS projects we could amortize the cost of doing taxes and maintaining a bank account and business entity and all that across all our projects and make it worth it?
Does anyone know of any non-profits (and preferably co-ops) acting as fiscal hosts for small open source projects? Most of them will only take large, established projects with lots of contributors, but I've got a small project with just a couple of regular contributors that recently lost its only way of taking donations via Open Collective. I can set something up with my personal account, but that feels bad given that others are working on it too. I know small projects with a few donations a year or a huge overhead and burden for fiscal hosts though. We're not on #GitHub (we use #Codeberg) which also seems to be a problem for some of the hosts.
💭 The alternative status quo I dream about 💭
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⤴️ All of these non extractive/exploitive tools are managed by our local tech co-op for XX/mo. They contribute a percentage of that back to upstream developers.
Ringing the bell for anti-fascism/anti-capitalism from big tech sites is just as stupid as the argument, "How else will anyone find it?".
#DumbAllOver
Happy birthday to Ben Fletcher, former head of Philadelphia Local 8 and one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.
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My week starts with a request: "I need a server to deploy to production, but the devs have no idea how to do it. They don't know how to use the terminal, they don’t know how to handle certificates, nothing. They need to be able to click a few buttons and deploy directly to production. They're Vibe Coding experts."
Welcome to 2026.
Impeachment and the 25th amendment are off the table, but Congress has other tools at their disposal. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/04/13
"The problem is that #LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness." - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/bryan-cantrill/ #ai #economics
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa