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Hey fedi-friends, we have stopped using this account other than to repost from our new home, The Programmer's Fulcrum. Please follow us at @thefulcrum to interact. Languages: EN et FR #fediverse #ghost #MicroPub #bear #OMN #CSS #HTML #HTMX #ActivityPub #ATProto #fediverse
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Servo Report for Week 22 2026

- Implement font-variant-position & font-feature-settings
- Make Blob.stream() supports readable byte streams
- Implement Window.screenLeft and Window.screenTop
- Support event handler content attributes on SVG elements
- Continued work on DevTools & accessibility

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

https://github.com/sponsors/servo
https://opencollective.com/servo

Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut that to 1 trillion $. With 1% of that money you could have paid 25000 FOSS maintainers 100k dollars per year each over the same time period. That probably covers most of the FOSS ecosystem and then some. And it's one percent. ONE FUCKING PERCENT.

2/4

RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116692255028632777

From sloppy human programmers to begin with.

Did you know you that on #PeerTube you can transfer the ownership of your videos to someone else? 

It's really easy!

Please note that the user receiving the video must accept the transfer.

👉 https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/library#change-ownership-of-a-video

Now that people are coming in again from Bluesky bc that site enacted draconian policies, I have a suggestion. Not for the newcomers, no: for the people who might have Opinions about hustling here or about sex work in particular:

Keep Those Opinions To Yourselves.

Let people use mastodon as a workplace. Mute, or block, whatever you want. But if your idea of Mastodon is this pristine space where people only do what you deem proper, you're wrong. You're lucky.

In big news, the European Commission has: Commission boosts open and interoperable digital ecosystems for public administrations. https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/commission-boosts-open-and-interoperable-digital-ecosystems-public-administrations-2026-06-03_en #opensource #FuckSiliconValley
Commission boosts open and interoperable digital ecosystems for public administrations

As part of the European Technological Sovereignty Package, the Commission adopted a new Open source Strategy, reaffirming its commitment to work towards an open, collaborative and resilient digital environment.

Directorate-General for Digital Services

On a different note - I ranted about the Tech Sovereignty package yesterday. Well, it motivated me to dust off my personal blog (last post: 2020!) and migrate away from Blogspot. And write a 1700 word analysis of the commission's proposal. Enjoy...

https://jospoortvliet.com/blog/the_tech_sovereignty_packacke_encourages_and_disappoints/

#Techsovereignty
#CADA
#ChipsAct2
#DigitalSovereignty
#OpenSource

The Tech Sovereignty Package encourages and disappoints

The open source strategy by the commission as laid out today in the technology sovereignty package says some good things, but ultimately misses the mark by aiming low. It lacks any real, hard targets and changes to procurement which could mobilize part of the 264 billion the EU currently spends every year on foreign big tech. Quoting from press conference: Good news: Europe has all it takes. Unfortunately, while that is true, it seems Europe is not yet ready to truly mobilize its resources.

Jos Poortvliet

Stifling Speech Through DNS Infrastructure

How governments are using domain name suspension to censor websites.

https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/stifling-speech-through-dns-infrastructure/

Stifling Speech Through DNS Infrastructure

How governments are using domain name suspension to censor websites.

Internet Exchange
Bonfire 1.0.3: Stability, Clarity, and Federated Publishing

Since the 1.0 release of Bonfire Social, we've been heads-down listening to our our pilot communities, beta testers, and co-design partners. Version 1.0.3 is the result: a release focused on stability and polish, which fixes a wide range of bugs and brings meaningful usability improvements, especially around feeds, boundaries, and more advanced features.

Joining the atmosphere – Rachel Andrew

The website of Rachel Andrew.