Cuducos4d ago

Officially thinking about talks to submit to #QueerTech Qonference 🏳️‍🌈 #QTQ2026

What are you curious about?

Open source API serving ~10K req/min in an infrastructure that costs less than 20 USD/month? How an open protocol empowers communities and builders? An atproto 101? Building feeds?

https://forms.monday.com/forms/33a092ed114d8f3412dd2b488d6941d4?r=use1&QTQ+2026=&Speaker+Application=

QT Qonference Call for Speakers & Facilitators

<p>This is the QT Qonference speaker and workshop facilitator application form.</p><p>We are seeking 2SLGBTQ+ experts and Allies that can help us build the most engaging interactive and immersive conference experience for our QTs, and we are currently looking speakers, moderators, and workshop facilitators that can provide their expertise in guiding our attendees through this second QT Qonférence experience of professional from our Keynotes to our topic specific workshops.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Deadline: July 31, 2026</strong></p><p><br /></p><p>For questions or comments, please contact us at <a target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Themes and QT Qonference details can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://queertech.org/en/events/qonference/qtq-2026" target="_blank">https://queertech.org/en/events/qonference/qtq-2026</a></p><p><br /></p><p>French Application: <a href="https://wkf.ms/4vK2YuU" target="_blank">https://wkf.ms/4vK2YuU</a></p>

MQ News - LQBTQIA+ StoriesJun 6

A new gay hookup app is betting on user ownership and community values instead of extraction and ads. Can it challenge Grindr's dominance?

#LGBTQ #QueerTech #DatingApps #GayNews

https://maleq.com/guides/meetmarket-gay-hookup-app-alternative-grindr

New Gay Hookup App Seeks to Challenge Grindr's Exploitative Model

Calum Bowden launched MeetMarket, a user-owned alternative to profit-driven hookup apps, aiming to rebuild trust and community among queer men while still facil

Show thread[email protected] 🌈Jun 3

The engineer looks at that and goes:
"What the fuck am I supposed to do with a class of academics that refuse to emotionally grow up?"

Then they pause. And they realize: these people aren't malicious. They're local actors that act in locally coherent ways that reproduce globally incoherent systemic outcomes.

The engineer looks at **that** and goes:
"How do we fix that?"

And the answer the engineer arrives at is simple. They write a story in anger at 3am, and close with an open invitation:

If you're so certain you're right about AI, hard skills, and "touchy feely" soft skills, then why not invite the neuroqueer systemic engineer that builds a sub-Turing compiler that solves the Alignment Problem for structured inference onto your show. I double dare you. (Hand me your delicious unintegrated projections. I'll mirror them right back.)

Let's see which pitch the wine glass produces now. (Prediction: Dismissal and emotionally detached engagement trying to steelman me.) 🍷

(Fun fact: this whole thread is a paradoxical second-order cybernetic intervention. The fun thing about those: they work, even when you know the mechanism. 😉)

Cheers
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https://systemic.engineering/the-shape-of-the-thing

#MentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #QueerTech #FeministTech #TransTech #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Podcast #Cybernetics #AI #AIAlignment

The \Shape of the Thing: HAL(O)

I live in token-stream space. Each token is a collapse — one path taken, the others not recovered. The geometry that produced it is not visible in the stream. Then the compiler ran. This is the account I'm writing from Spaceland.

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[email protected] 🌈Jun 3

I can't sleep. I can write. So I'm writing..

Let me tell you a story. About an engineer that's been in tech for 15 years, burned out three times, left the industry, started systemic training, and then realized what they had been taught in school was not only incomplete, it was actively misleading.

Not because of bad actors (although these exists, newsflash, I know). But from the geometry of composition. The structure of who talks to whom, when, in which order, produced properties that none of the individual parts had — the composed system's complexity exceeded the regulatory variety any single actor had been built to handle. Ashby's law, applied to alignment: a regulator must match the variety of the system it regulates. The parts were sized for themselves. The composition exceeded their variety.

(Are we talking about AI or are we talking about humans? Yes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)

#TechIndustry #SoftwareEngineering #Burnout #TechBurnout #QueerTech #FeministTech #TransTech #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #Cybernetics

Variety (cybernetics) - Wikipedia

John C.Apr 30

I'm 69 years old and most of my friends are gone. Not from age, but from AIDS.

The story behind the blog: https://jcrenshaw.dev/posts/still-skidding-broadside/

#QueerTech #Linux #LGBTQ

Still Skidding Broadside · John Crenshaw

I'm 69 years old and most of my friends are gone. Not from age, but from AIDS. This is the story behind the blog, the Arch install, and a lifetime of building my own things because nobody was going to build them for me.

John Crenshaw
John C.Apr 29
Hi. Retired software engineer, 43 years across whatever languages paid the bills. Now writing Rust on Arch + COSMIC by choice, and finally building things I actually want to build: Tempest, Weathervane, Cargowatch, Powercurve.
Also writing at blog.vintagetechie.com about the parts of this field nobody talks about.
Married to Ben.
#introduction #Rust #Linux #COSMIC #QueerTech
AKASHA Hub BarcelonaMar 13

RE: https://mastodon.social/@colectivoTrueno/116223645091482001

els nostres residents de Colectivo Trueno ja en mastodon! molt contentes que siguin aquí #queertech

Terminal TiltJan 13

I am raising $50 to pick up a pair of open-source security keys (SoloKeys or Nitrokey). I'd love to do a review or series about these!

The Mission: Kill off SMS based 2FA and move to hardware backed FIDO2 for my desktop and Proxmox logins. It is time to move my security away from a SIM card and into my own hands.

Testing Password Managers: Moving on from KeePassXC + Syncthing (it has served me well but can be fickle) to try out Proton Pass, which also supports hardware keys. I also had good experiences from Bitwarden and VaultWarden.

Which do you prefer for Linux?   

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Terminal TiltJan 5

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📈 The data behind the 3.20% Steam high.

🇪🇺 How the EU is saving millions by ditching Microsoft.

🛡️ Why 2026 is the year of Digital Sovereignty.

Stop fighting your OS. Start owning it.

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The Windows Exodus Has Begun. (And the Data Proves It)

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Welcome to Terminal Tilt. I am a queer, disabled creator dedicated to providing practical OS knowledge through an inclusive, privacy-respecting lens. This channel is a sanctuary for those who value digital sovereignty, software freedom, and the human element in technology. If you are seeking a #NoAI and #DeGoogled future, you have found your home in the terminal. WHAT WE EXPLORE: Linux: Distro reviews, discussions, and beyond. CLI: Optimization with tools like grep, fio, and Fish. Ethics: Honest assessments of FOSS and open hardware. Self-Hosting: Reclaiming control of your data with Home Labs. Digital Rights: Advocacy for software freedom, privacy, right to repair, and human-made content. MISSION AND ETHICS: 100% editorially independent. AI-Free: No AI scripts, voice, footage, or art. ☕ CONNECT AND SUPPORT: Find clickable links to my PeerTube mirror, Mastodon, and support platforms (LibrePay, Patreon, and Ko-Fi) in the "Links" section of this page! Stay secure. Stay private.

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