Mastodawn

I had a dream that Mozilla were bullied into including a toggle in Firefox that disables all the corpo bullshit (so no tracking, ads, AI, etc.) but they were really pissy about it so they called it "communism mode" and you had to click on a little Karl Marx to activate it

Ben Zanin 12h ago

Brian Gettler 13h ago

Maybe next time, as a grown-ass adult, you should just hit the brakes on your 2-ton minivan while keeping your mouth shut, instead of cutting off the kid on a bike and screaming at them because they didn't stop.

Ben Zanin 13h ago

Kristoffer Lislegaard 19h ago

New blog post: An open letter to Bandcamp

"Thank you so much for taking a stance against generative AI and banning AI-generated music from Bandcamp."

"Suno is, of course, the biggest platform for making generative AI music, the very thing you are banning from your site."

"Hope to see an alternative pop up that is more in line with your Bandcamp Fair Trade Music Policy."

https://www.kristofferlislegaard.com/blog/2026-05-10-an-open-letter-to-bandcamp/

#bandcamp #beyourOwnPlatform #music #ai #suno #aimusic #songkick

An open letter to Bandcamp - Kristoffer Lislegaard

Ben Zanin 13h ago

tacocrepe🍀20h ago

re-pixelled my old frog sprites #pixelart #frog

Ben Zanin 13h ago

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Jérôme 17h ago

Ah! Beaverton

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/05/local-nerd-disappointed-he-didnt-get-the-long-form-census/

Local nerd disappointed he didn’t get the long form census

TATAMAGOUCHE, NS - An event five years in anticipation turned to bitter disappointment this week, as a local census dweeb did not receive the coveted long form questionnaire.

The Beaverton

Ben Zanin 13h ago

Jason Lefkowitz 2d ago

"Parmigiano Reggiano is one of the world’s most tightly regulated foods. It can only be produced in a small, designated area using three ingredients — milk, salt and rennet — and it must age for at least 12 months before it can be sold. Many wheels mature for 24, 36, or even 40 months.

That long wait creates a financial bottleneck. Farmers must be paid every 30 days. Staff, feed and energy costs accumulate daily. But revenue doesn’t arrive for a year or more. For more than a century, Credem Bank has stepped in to bridge that gap — accepting cheese as collateral."

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/02/food/italy-cheese-bank-parmigiano-reggiano-intl

Inside Italy’s secret ‘Cheese Bank,’ where Parmigiano Reggiano becomes financial gold

In northern Italy, vast climate‑controlled warehouses hide one of the country’s most valuable assets.

CNN

Ben Zanin 1d ago

Joe Brockmeier 1d ago

Getting cozy for a bit of Star Trek (TNG) on Saturday night. Sir Wobbles loves a good fleece blanket and a pair of legs to rest on. #caturday #catsofmastodon

Ben Zanin 1d ago

WTL 1d ago

Save the date, #Ottawa: Saturday May 30, we're having a #Fediverse meetup, starting around 13:00 at Vincent Massey Park (https://www.openstreetmap.org/?#map=19/45.379383/-75.697394), picnic area Q.

It is <1km walk from the Carleton University O-Train station, has parking, and is accessible by recreational paths too.

Come meet some local folks from the community here, bring your own snacks, plan to pack your trash back out. Out-of-towners welcome!

Additional details will appear in this thread.

#OttawaMeetup #OttBike #OttCity

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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Ben Zanin 1d ago

Stefan Sperling 1d ago

(EDIT: Fixes for the issue described below, and for a second issue which is more severe, have now been shipped in got and got -portable 0.125)

If you are using #gameoftrees (on #OpenBSD or anywhere else) please always be diligent about checking SSH host key fingerprints.

Versioned files inside the work tree's meta-data .got directory can be created during 'got checkout' or changed during 'got update'. Files in the meta-data directory should never be under version control, yet the current implementation unfortunately allows this.

Which provides a way for malicious repositories to configure remote servers stored in .got/got.conf which would then be used by the fetch and send commands. Unless you already have the bad host key stored, SSH will ask for verification of the bad server's host key fingerprint as the last line of defense against a man-in-the-middle.

The problem was reported to me by Runxi Yu about 2 hours ago. A fix for this issue is being worked on: https://marc.gameoftrees.org/mail/1778362202.49408_0.html