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Run your own mail server, the said. It will be fun, they said (no one actually said that, on the contrary). 😂 I did a live upgrade with full migration of stalw.art and everything survived and works. 😏

Alright, I am now on @eurosky.social 🇪🇺😎

Move to Eurosky or set up my own PDS because I can? 🤔

I love #conventional-commits but as an infrastructure engineer I felt that it didn't capture the whole picture for that domain. It was not designed for it. So I sat down and designed a specification for infrastructure. codeberg.org/devopsguy/in... #devops #platform #cloud #gitops #engineering

I need to take a moment and tell you all just how much I actually love #Firefox new #Kit 🦊🧡

You know what means? It means that soon-ish, I will get to use the #keychron launcher with my main browser. 🧡

It is kind of funny in a way, that #linux had to become a serious platform to play games on first, for it to become mainstream. It is also a little sad.

I may have done it again ... maybe I bought a #pebble round 2 last night. To my defence. It was late, I was tired and it looks really cool and I wanted it #latenightshopping

Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:

Hey @syntax.club, nice work there! Just wondering whether the code base is going to be open sourced?

Well friends, I'm podcastin' atproto.com/off-protocol

After hearing about @tangled.org on @fallthrough.fm decided to give it a shot and push one of my repos to: tangled.org/djotaku.bsky... One of the things that convinced me to give Tangled a shot is that it supports #jujitsu (jj) as a first-class citizen #golang #programming

#tangled is everything I wanted from a modern #git forge: - #atproto based (this is HUGE!) - European - Decentralized - Federated - Social with #vouching - Built with #golang and using a #permissive #MIT license What not to like there?

Changing your email address in all the services you are signed up for sucks but it sucks less knowing that it is my own email address, hosted on my own email server. 😏 #selfhosting #email #stalwart

Just replaced the dead CPU fans of my XPS 13. #feelsgood 😏

Currently checking out #qobuz as an alternative to #spotify, and so far I am very pleased! www.qobuz.com/us-en/discover

#firefox has always been the browser of my heart 🫶🦊

#xteink #love 😍

I think if you're saying "atproto doesn't need a ____" then you're missing the point. Let people build the things they want to see in the ecosystem that they, themselves, will use. We don't need ten things shaped the exact same way, we need every type of shape.

Europe needs independent social infrastructure, not just an app. This is what we're building. eurosky.tech/build/

Did you like CopyFail, but were annoyed that it didn't work on distros with somewhat up-to-date kernels, like Ubuntu 26.04? Don't worry. Dirty Frag has got your back! From the advisory: > Because the responsible disclosure schedule and embargo have been […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

plurality.leaflet.pub/3mhsffn2qa22... How would a truly sovereign hosting variant look like? One that includes Europe for instance? One that is not based on any specific provider but can be self-hosted?

I released some 88x31 web buttons/badges for various Git forges which are hopefully useful for folks leaving GitHub. (I also released badges for @stoat.chat and @listenbrainz.org)

voilà pronouns.blue

Euro-Office needs to clarify something ASAP. 🙄 itsfoss.com/news/tdf-cal...

@dholms.at please integrate something called space docks when it comes to spaces. Can we? Please? 👀

So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API: Mozilla: Opposed WebKit: Opposed Microsoft: Several concerns W3C TAG: Several concerns Developers: Mostly negative Chrome: Ships anyway. A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'

Let me tell you something. It it is a lot of work to run your own infrastructure, especially email infrastructure ... but damn, does it feel good. 🤩 #self-hosting #personal-digitality #digital-sovereignty

tangled.org/did:plc:j5hm... issue ❌ ticket ✅ created! :)

I am contemplating to organise #atproto meetups in #Austria. @atproto.at you're not selling that domain by any chance, do you? 😂

Finally finished moving my professional profile to @sifa.id! Love that place. Besides, the more services I begin to populate in the #atmosphere, the more @danabra.mov's analogy makes sense. It truly does feel like I am decorating my home with more furniture ...

@atprotocol.dev your certificate seems to be invalid.

Hey @tangled.org can we have cords? Disclaimer: I am totally not trying to coin a name for #atproto Gists. 🤫 #gist #github

I read a post from someone suggesting @tangled.org should add GitHub OAuth support because all have it for example GitLab. Now hear me out on this. While he misses the point on #atproto, it is not a bad idea. You can make it even easier for #GitHub users to leave the sinking ship and onboard them. 😏

We launched Zed 1.0 this week! 🎉🎊🥳 As per usual with a new version, we shipped goodies: Stop using breakpoints as makeshift bookmarks... because bookmarks are here! 🔖 Right click on the gutter to add a bookmark and see them all with `editor: view bookmarks`. Thanks austincummings!

A new directory has appeared on Linux distros. itsfoss.com/news/new-pro...

… are fucking kidding me. A github.com cross-account RCE due to the most pedestrian of injection attacks along the obvious exposed surface… and they actually have a globally shared “git” UNIX user!! This is not what taking the role of supply chain stewards seriously looks like.

Very interesting article on the state of security of GitHub Actions. We should maybe ask ourselves how much we are willing to pay for abstraction and convenience. nesbitt.io/2026/04/28/g... #security #github

Damn, that felt good.

How much storage / bandwidth / CPU / memory does it take to run a production Sunlight CT log? Surprisingly little! There's now a public stats page, pulled every 5m from our Tuscolo prod metrics. stats.sunlight.geomys.org Less than 2 cores, 300 MB of memory, ~250 Mbps of bandwidth, 260 GiB of SSD.

Next up on my personal #digital-sovereignty roadmap is a PDS for #atproto.

It's April 2026, 1 year 8 months since FIPS 204. The IETF TLS WG is busy debating the concept of ML-DSA hybrids, and whether they should be composite, concatenated, or separate. The complexity of hybrid auth is, however, firmly denied. In the distance, sounds of a pure ML-DSA PKI being built.

There are no technical or compliance reasons to double the size of symmetric keys in response to the threat of quantum computers. This common misunderstanding of Grover's algorithm risks wasting limited resources that should go towards deploying actually urgent post-quantum algorithms.

Linux is for power users. 🗿

New website ✅ Back on Arch #Linux ✅ Self-hosted mail server ✅ Self-hosted web server ✅ Self-hosted password manager ✅ On my path to #digital-sovereignty. Stay tuned for in depth articles on the why and how of my infrastructure.

Looking for a truly European, fully GDPR compliant static site hosting provider? I did too and stumbled across this little gem. statichost.eu Go check it out! #webhosting #europe #datasovereignty

Became a @linuxfoundation.org certified Green Software Practitioner today. 🌍🌱 #greensoftware #sustainability #it

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