Mastodawn

It's done. I can't believe it's finally done. I've been working on this in mostly secret for so long, and I'm so excited to share it with y'all!

https://taggart-tech.com/ringspace/

https://ringspace.net

Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web

For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.

Rick Valenzuela Dec 1

Apparently my MTD of unknowingly toggling 'mouse on' in tmux for the first time is 1.5 agonizing days

Rick Valenzuela Nov 25

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!Nov 25

Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.

Posted in Nov 2012: Two Years
Posted in Dec 2017: Seven Years
Posted in Nov 2020: Ten Years
Posted yesterday (Nov 2025): Fifteen Years

Wishing another fifteen (and many more) to Randall Munroe, his wife (name unknown but it's not Megan), and everyone else. #FuckCancer

Two Years

xkcd

Rick Valenzuela Nov 23

Adrian Nov 22

My meme dealer provided me these, thanks Beni!

#DigitalInfrastructure

Rick Valenzuela Nov 22

JosephMenn Nov 21

Hi all, wanted to let people here know about the imminent release of the revised version of my book on the Cult of the Dead Cow. This first-ever update chronicles the surge in #hacktivism by the group and others in the face of Big Tech’s alliance with the far right. The paperback and audio publish Dec 2!

Rick Valenzuela Nov 22

Bianca Kastl Nov 22

No comment 😂

Rick Valenzuela Nov 20

Idzie Nov 20

My mother would like to join mastodon and I told her I'd ask for some server recommendations!

She's into gardening, crafting, ecology, cats, and prepping (from a more leftist direction). She's COVID cautious, disabled, and not very good with tech. She's in Canada and it's important to her to be plugged into Canadian politics. Any suggestions of well-moderated places that might be a good home for her? :)

Rick Valenzuela Nov 20

Viss Nov 20

microsoft just opensourced zork

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.

Rick Valenzuela Nov 20

Taggart Nov 20

Cool to see some research on what this English major has learned from doing my own testing: verse significantly aids in jailbreak prompts.

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

Rick Valenzuela Nov 20

henk ✅Nov 20

"Qualcomm-owned #Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform."

(source: Adafruit https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_opensource-privacy-techpolicy-activity-7396903362237054976-r14H)

Oh boy, that was fast! Somehow we need to find more future-proof models for open-source hardware. Letting the market do its thing is showing its true colors once again. Pure evil! 👿

#opensource #hardware #fablab #makerspace #electronics