Mastodawn

Shreyas Zare 6d ago

Catalin Cimpanu 6d ago

Digg shuts down due to bot and AI spam

https://digg.com/

Digg

Thanks for being part of our beta. Stay tuned for what comes next.

Digg

Shreyas Zare Feb 27

Jan Lehnardt

Feb 26

Log4j, *the* project that escalated the need for funding open source in the first place, is currently being DOS’d by slop vulnerability reports. Well done everyone. Slow fucking clap.

https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/discussions/4052

Addressing AI-slop in security reports · apache logging-log4j2 · Discussion #4052

You may have noticed that activity on the public Log4cxx, Log4j, and Log4net repositories has slowed since December 2025. I want to reassure you that the projects are still being actively monitored...

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Shreyas Zare Feb 20

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Feb 20

Web developers: we are going to go out of our way to hide the scrollbars!

Users: but that makes it difficult to know how much of the text is left to read!

Web developers: don't worry, we'll add a non-standard UI element that signals this in some non-obvious, weird way!

Shreyas Zare Feb 17

OpenFactBook.org Feb 16

Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue

OpenFactBook - World Factbook Alternative | Country Data & Statistics

The community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook. Free comprehensive data on 260+ countries: geography, demographics, government, economy, and more.

Shreyas Zare Jan 27

Teun Vink Jan 25

lifehack: use IPv6 addresses as passwords: they have letters, numbers, special characters, can contain caps, and are long enough.

If you accidentally paste it somewhere noone will suspect a thing.

Bonushack: you can put a label in DNS as a password reminder!

Shreyas Zare Jan 5

Rob Ricci Nov 6

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

Shreyas Zare Dec 20

Technitium Dec 20

Technitium DNS Server v14.3 is now available for download. This update adds support for Dark Mode, adds a few new features and options, and fixes multiple issues.

See what's new in this release:
https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Shreyas Zare Nov 29

Technitium Nov 29

Understanding Clustering And How To Configure It
https://blog.technitium.com/2025/11/understanding-clustering-and-how-to.html

Understanding Clustering And How To Configure It

Technitium DNS Server v14 release comes with the much awaited Clustering support. This feature is aimed to allow managing two or mor...

Shreyas Zare Nov 23

Brett Sheffield (he/him)Nov 19

Frustrating to see new #IETF drafts and mailing list discussions etc. continuing to use legacy IPv4 in the examples with no mention of #IPv6

Normalize IPv6 by using it in your documentation and examples. The same goes for #OpenSource projects.

It would be nice if, at least within the IETF standards body itself, we could start dancing like it's 1998 🕺

Shreyas Zare Nov 22

Technitium Nov 22

Technitium DNS Server v14.2 is now available for download. This is a service update for the previous release that fixes multiple issues.

See what's new in this release:
https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

DnsServer/CHANGELOG.md at master · TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer

Technitium DNS Server. Contribute to TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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