Boatperson, computer wizard, qualified counsellor, stick twizzler, father, and self enquirer.
Helping those building democratising technology to reverse the corporate capture of online spaces. Ex: #SafeNetwork
Techy self: https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg
Techy blog: https://toast.happybeing.com
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415973849880514
This whole thread is a good explainer for people who still wrongly think Bluesky is a resilient/user-run/federated network like Mastodon is.
The reality is that Bluesky requires infinite VC money to fully replicate, whereas Mastodon can run totally self-sufficiently on a Raspberry Pi.
Newsletter: As the president’s family’s shady dealings continue to mount, SEC enforcement actions have collapsed to twenty-year lows. The CFTC says it doesn’t need staff when it has AI.
Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:
#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.
A regular Saturday in the West Bank: Jewish terror and ethnic cleansing
S.F. activists display 120-foot ‘End U.S. aid to Israel’ banner on Twin Peaks
Activists said they are "urging an end to U.S. funding for Israel's killing of over 100,000 Palestinians, Lebanese, and Iranians."
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-arms-embargo-israel-banner-twin-peaks/
@bmaxv you might be interested in https://reading-room.com/
It's a project which is archiving papers on the #Autonomi network which is similar to ipfs but permanent (no recurring fees, no extra pinning).
The update problem is solved to. You can reserve an address which is a pointer which can be updated whenever the content changes, and can retain a complete history of previous versions of a document (or any stored data). I used this to build Autonomi Dweb for hosting websites on Autonomi 1.0.
Omg #Paddington the movie is so funny. I'd forgotten, and was laughing so much in the first fifteen minutes the salt from my tears burned my eyes and I had to pause.
And such a good take on migration and how vile it is to behave like the Daily Mail - looking at you #BBCNews - and demonise migrants and those who help them.
At least it is still on #iPlayer, until it is no longer allowed. #movies
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