"It didn’t take long after #DavidBowie died for people to start saying that everything fell apart after 2016. His soul-shaking, time-stopping departure seemed to have wreaked havoc on the earth, as if he alone had been placating the malevolent forces that challenge the equilibrium."
#10years #paulmorley #artofnoise
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-morley-ten-years-later-david-bowie-is-still-everywhere/
"We stopped imagining that winning was even a possibility. We told ourselves that the real prize was the friends made along the way.
I’m as guilty of this as anyone. When my friends scoff at the idea of #anarchist video content, I pretty much entirely abandon writing 101s for youtube, never do anything with footage I shoot of #activist campaigns, treat social media largely as a space for cranky kvetching into the void rather than friendly explainers. I would rather keep my standing in my circles than help explain things to newbies."
https://humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2015-in-review/
#retrospective #history #anarchism #usa #america #portland #oakland #10years #antifascism #authoritarianism
Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after 10 years
https://github.com/mockito/mockito/issues/3777
#HackerNews #Mockito #Maintainer #Stepping #Down #10Years #OpenSource #Community #Contributions #Java #Testing
10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13
https://www.datocms.com/blog/a-look-back-at-2025
#HackerNews #bootstrapped #success #entrepreneurship #revenue #growth #team #building #10years
🎉 Kỷ niệm 10 năm BK Door: Cửa chống cháy đã bảo vệ hàng nghìn công trình khắp Việt Nam! Từ những ngày đầu, thương hiệu đã khẳng định chất lượng và an toàn cho mọi dự án. 🚪💪 #BKDoor #FireSafety #Construction #Vietnam #10Years #CửaChốngCháy #AnToànCôngTrình #ThươngHiệuViệtNam
Sit down and enjoy this little moment of happiness (translated into English for all our English-speaking fans! as a single post)
As Undernet’s end-of-year message, we want to share with you a recap of the best moments from these 10 years and from 2025, to show how our community has grown and what we have achieved.
Social and community progress on the server
This year:
▶️ We promoted and sponsored FLISoL 2025 
🎮️
▶️ We took part in the Reconectar.uy campaign. 🌎️ 
▶️ We were proud to be mentioned in a peer-reviewed paper by Uruguayan researchers published in the journal Neuroscience 🧪 🔬 🥼
▶️ We made ourselves available as a collection point for donated hardware for Resistencia Programada ♻️ 💻️ 
💽
▶️ We achieved something historic: full self-sufficiency of the server! We needed UYU 71,800 and raised UYU 77,035 — that’s 107% of operating expenses(*) 🎉 🎆 👀 🥰 🥳
(*) It’s important to remember that this figure only covers electricity and internet. It does not include hardware replacements or upgrades.
Mastodon continues to be our main platform and our consolidated community, where people have already managed to:
▶️ Find jobs 🧑🏭 👨💼 👩🏭 👩💼
▶️ Go on dates 🫦 👯♂️ 👯♀️ 🥂
▶️ Adopt pets 🐈️ 🐶 🐱
▶️ Collaborate on scientific research 🧪 🔬 🥼 👩🔬 👨🔬
▶️ Exchange seeds 🌱 🫑 🌾 🪴
▶️ And what else? ⁉️ Tell us in the comments!
Over these 10 years we’ve gone through hardware upgrades, replacements due to failures, new disks, power supplies, boards, etc. Always using accessible, consumer-grade hardware because that’s what our budget allows. Other times, we’ve relied on donated hardware as a way for people to support the project.
2025 Advances in Security, Decentralization, and Technological Sovereignty
New hardware:
▶️ HP 1410 24G switch with 24 ports
▶️ New YaCy server: AMD quad-core, 16 GB RAM, redundant storage
▶️ New firewall server: Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM, redundant storage
Server management:
▶️ We subscribed to BitDefender for one year to run periodic virus scans (yes, it’s a commercial company, but we use it for very specific functions). This complements what we already had: Amavis + SpamAssassin + MalDet.
▶️ We installed a new independent physical firewall server equipped with: pfSense, Suricata, pyBlockerNG, TrafficShaper
▶️ We subscribed to NordVPN, not for Undernet’s own traffic, but to separate residential traffic from server traffic. This allowed Undernet’s IP to be removed from blacklists like SpamHaus, SpurUs, etc., significantly improving security and the server’s IP reputation.
▶️ We distributed workloads and services across new physical servers. We now have 5 independent servers, each dedicated to specific tasks.
▶️ We completed one full year successfully operating one of the 6 NTP Stratum 1 servers in Uruguay, with an excellent score on https://undernet.uy/ntp/
New services:
▶️ Castopod for podcasts at https://air.undernet.uy
▶️ ShareLaTeX/Overleaf for collaborative LaTeX editing at https://tex.undernet.uy
▶️ YaCy on a quad-core server with 16 GB RAM and redundant storage at https://yacy.undernet.uy
▶️ Local Spanish Wikipedia dump at https://wiki.undernet.uy
▶️ Renewed mailing-list system (Sympa) at https://listas.undernet.uy
▶️ Two new MMORPG game servers (Stendhal and The Mana World)
▶️ Migration from Tiny Tiny RSS to FreshRSS at https://rss.undernet.uy
▶️ RSSHub deployed at https://hub.undernet.uy
Little by little, our project grew stronger and earned people’s trust, finally achieving self-sufficiency after 10 years - years in which we watched corporate social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram deteriorate, increasingly censor, suspend, allow hate speech.
Ten years ago:
▶️ 1 server (total resources: 8 cores, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB redundant storage)
Today:
▶️ 6 servers (total resources: 26 cores, 74 GB RAM, 14 TB redundant storage)
Undernet in numbers (**):
▶️ Our DNS server processed 391 million queries in 2025 (12 queries/sec)
▶️ Our NTP time server answered around 410 million time requests (13 queries/sec). Our server has a strong reputation, and the pool directs about 18% of Uruguay’s time queries to us.
▶️ Our Mastodon node handled 201 million local or federated tasks such as boosts, likes, previews, notifications, etc. (6 ops/sec)
▶️ Our email server processed around 750,000 emails in 2025 (1 email every 40 sec)
▶️ Our network transferred 62 TB of data in 2025 (170 GB/day)
👉️ The Undernet experiment worked!
A community-run server can be maintained by many people collectively, managed cooperatively, administered responsibly, and aligned with our own interests.
And one last thing: thank you @bicivoladora @gabriel @piracalamina @j3j5 for always being there. I love you all very much.
Orinigal thread with pictures in Spanish -> https://mastodon.uy/@santiago/115691347221226446
#undernet #uruguay #fediverse #mastodon #community #digitalsovereignty #crowdfund #internet #floss #communityrun #10Years #selfsufficiency #grassrootstech #selfhosting #decentralization
10 Years of Let's Encrypt
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years
#HackerNews #LetsEncrypt #10Years #DigitalSecurity #OpenSource #SSL #Certificates #CyberSecurity
On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using automated software. Of course, in retrospect this was just the first of billions of certificates. Today, Let’s Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world in terms of certificates issued, the ACME protocol we helped create and standardize is integrated throughout the server ecosystem, and we’ve become a household name among system administrators. We’re closing in on protecting one billion web sites.
Time to start using your seasonal profile pic,
@hvdsomp ? #memento #10years
💾 https://archive.md/4q2vP
🐦 https://x.com/hvdsomp/status/674659432588972032
🇫🇷 Dix ans de solidarité : Convention nationale de Standing Together
Rejoignez Standing Together le 27 novembre 2025 pour une diffusion en direct où ils présenteront la feuille de route vers un avenir commun, au-delà des
guerres sans fin, fondé sur la justice, l'égalité et une véritable sécurité pour tous ceux qui vivent sur cette terre.
19h00 IST | 18h00 CET (Paris) | 12h00 EST | 9h00 PST
Le lien de diffusion vous sera envoyé avant l'événement.
Inscription : https://t9ihn.share.hsforms.com/2SFMajQ1ESm2kYo0Cewnyrw
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Ten Years of Standing Together: National Convention
Join Standing Together on November 27th for a livestream as they lay out the roadmap toward a shared future beyond endless war, built on justice, equality, and true safety for all who call this place home.
19:00 IST | 18:00 CET (Paris) | 12:00 EST | 09:00 PST
Streaming link will be sent before the event
Registration : https://t9ihn.share.hsforms.com/2SFMajQ1ESm2kYo0Cewnyrw
#StandingTogether #10years #Israel #Peace #Justice #Equality #Security #Paix #Egalite #Securite #Haifa
🎉 10 Years of Go in Prague! 🎉
We’re thrilled to celebrate a decade of the Prague Golang Meetup — thanks to 1,150+ members and 20+ past events that brought together Go enthusiasts in the heart of Europe.
Come join us for an extra-special celebration — whether you’ve attended before, are curious about Go, or want to connect with fellow devs — here’s to the next decade! 🚀
📅 26 Nov
📍 PORT 7
#GoLang #Prague #TechMeetup #10Years #Community
https://www.meetup.com/prague-golang-meetup/events/311971817/
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