"If you want to be in the Fediverse without relying on big intances, or if you just want to own your #data & #identity on the network, running your own instance is the way to go.
That is where Mastodon alternatives such as GoToSocial & #snac comes in.
snac (Social Networks Are Crap) is a minimalistic, lightweight #ActivityPub instance…perfect for single user instances or small communities, and it's so light that even a #RaspberryPi can handle it without breaking a sweat."
https://rochacbruno.com/deploy-your-own-fediverse-instance-with-snac.html

Absolute peak late stage capitalism.

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A tweet from Heshmat Alavi's Trenchcoat @UrOrientalist Imagine dying for the Epstein empire and the one time your sacrifice is acknowledged, your name is covered up by the stock ticker Featuring a screenshot from CBS news Showing 6 US service personnel who have been killed in the illegal war on Iran. Killed in Action Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Winter Haven, FL Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Wivite Beer Lake, MN Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20 West Des Moines, IA Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54 Sacramento, CA The details of the 6th person are hidden behind the Dow Jones stock market ticker.

On the plus side, at least future generations won't have the cognitive skills to judge us harshly.

CC: @rostiger@merveilles.town

PRs must not incorporate any material generated by or with the assistance of any so-called "generative AI" tool or LLM.

https://www.mieres.es/mieres-pone-en-marcha-caja-de-resistencia-contra-la-censura-en-la-cultura/

Y por cierto, si empezáis a buscar "teatro censura PP" el año "top" fue 2023. No han parado pero ese año se vinieron arriba.

CC: @ruisan@masto.es @philspectrum@mastodon.social

Sabiendo como sabía eso lo único que demuestra es un acto de prepotencia más, de los que vemos en los pueblos de la sierra en cuanto pillan poder. Aquí en Cerceda hemos tenido a otra mujer de bien que destrozó la parte cultural que ofrecía el pueblo a bajo precio (y se lo colocó a una empresa que subió la cuota, claro) y se encargó de que no quedase un santo, beato o espíritu afín sin celebración alguna. Ah, y tuvimos escuela de tauromaquia junto con Moralzarzal.

Inciso: entiendo que hablo para conversos pero si Vox pilla poder a nivel de ministerio irá justamente a por minorías, mujeres (no de bien, esas no se tocan), educación y asuntos culturales varios. El resto no le interesa todavía porque no tiene programa político para ello.

CC: @ozzelot@mstdn.social

usage: ksh random.kitto.sh (probably works with bash)

img_viewer needs to be able to read urls.
you can add more emotions too!

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it works

Entropy 2

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #linux #foss #comic #art #mastoart #privacy

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Girl: "Master?" Fish and Penguin are playing chess. Fish: "Yes?" Girl: "It should compile by morning. I'm off to bed." Fish: "Fine, fine" Girl goes to bed, reads hagakure and falls asleep.

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analognowhere presents techno-mage in entropy 2

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Girl awakens in the Realm of the Spirit of The Machine. She notices Fossangel in the distance.

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Girl: "Fossangel!" Fossangel: "SHHH. Fill this in first." It's a clipboard: Before you dream, we must verify your identity. Name, DOB, Address, MATA_ID. Girl: "I have to do this in my own dream now?!" Fossangel: "Girl.. You have no idea how deep this thing goes."

Sorprende que puedan llegar a ser tan estúpidos. Necesitan estados funcionando para seguir siendo ricos por lo que estas noticias me parecen poco creíbles.

#jopeta

in case you ever wondered why bluesky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3meomclcfss2w

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Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

White and circled numbers have Unicode codepoints.

CC: @peterkotrcka@bsd.cafe @stefano@bsd.cafe

one of the nice things about working for yourself is, you can simply choose not to use any microsoft products

#snac por otra parte fue más simple y rápido, no tiene una gran estética pero siempre me ha funcionado bien

https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage

Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

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A fresh start for LibreOffice Online

https://analognowhere.com/_/ciluto/

the future is still old news

#unix_surrealism #technomage

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girls and machines

Week in Fediverse 2026-02-20

Servers

- snac v2.90
- Castopod v1.15.0
- Ktistec v3.3.0
- tootik v0.21.1
- Badgefed v0.1.1
- Gush! v0.0.30
- Wanderer v0.18.5
- PieFed v1.6.6
- Our technical direction (Mastodon)

Clients

- Sengi v1.8.0
- tooi v0.21.2
- Summit v1.77.0
- Aria v1.4.3
- Pixelix v4.3.2

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.5.0
- PeerTube Browser: A video discovery project for the federated PeerTube network

Protocol

- FEP-34c1: Collection Filtering using TREE Hypermedia Vocabulary

Articles

- Where Does Community Live?
- Why MAEPs? What should they look like?
- how to not regret c2s
- Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy
- FR#154 – Search and Community

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c5906-05c0-87bf-8302-8226a8513c00

the full thing (in Spanish / en español)

#artwork

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Ilustration by Ángel Ortega of the unnamed protagonist of EXISTIR, in three panels, walking through the ruins of a subterranean city, surrounded by columns and giant skeletons

Hope you won the combat in the watchtower

Who could have imagined this. Also, water is wet, or so it seems.

the great cyber war

#unix_surrealism #computer #ai

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vt100 on a stack of boxes, wearing a helmet with an m16 by its side YOUR PC NEXT?

CC: @bsdcan@bsd.network

UMBELA

   Del lat. umbella 'quitasol'.
    1. 1. f. guardapolvo (‖ tejadillo voladizo sobre un balcón o ventana).
       Sin.:
          + guardapolvo, tejadillo, voladizo.
    2. 2. f. Bot. Grupo de flores o frutos que nacen en un mismo punto del tallo y se elevan a igual o casi igual altura.

Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”.

He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards Organization?), but a thinking tool devised by one person.

The scale says:

• Type 1: Uses all the energy available to its planet. For example, an albedo-zero world completely covered in solar cells.
• Type 2: Uses all the energy available to its star system. Not a million satellites in orbit, but a Dyson sphere that captures all the light and radiation of a star.
• Type 3: Uses the energy of all stars in a galaxy.

The idea of launching data centers into space, more precisely into LEO, must therefore be evaluated on a different scale:

The Kardashian scale

• A Type 1 civilization on the Kardashian scale has a public discourse that is no longer driven by facts, but by emotion and attention.
• A Type 2 civilization no longer has this discourse under control, and counterfactual emotional discourse begins to control politics, research, and the economy, where unscientific and outright stupid narratives now take over steering.
• A Type 3 civilization has complete epistemic decoupling: visibility has fully replaced truth, reach beats evidence, and consistency is irrelevant as long as the narrative is exciting. Physical limits are dismissed as “bad vibes”, and criticism is read as a moral flaw and subversion.

So we are not measuring energy, but loss of contact with reality. Many tech visions of recent years (everything from and including Bitcoin onward) map directly onto this scale.

We are now already a Kardashian Type 2 civilization.

The time is probably right.

Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together the foundations of an app tailored to my needs.

A lot has changed since then and today we have great alternatives like IceCubes, Mona, Ivory, etc. Each one has strengths and weaknesses though, so I picked up my old project again and kept pushing it forward.

So I’m happy to announce that my app will finally see the light: I’ve been using it for the past few days and, in my spare time, I’m fixing bugs and adding missing features. I’m building it around my own needs, so it doesn’t have to “appeal to everyone”. I wouldn’t call it opinionated, but it’s definitely targeted.

The app will have one key trait: #snac2 support will be a first-class feature, not an incidental one. Many apps, especially on iOS, support snac as a side effect, but the experience is often not optimal. In this case, the choice is deliberate and it strictly follows the Mastodon API support implemented by snac. So snac will work properly (within the limits of the platform, of course).

Among the features already implemented: the app is minimal and lightweight (under 10 MB, including debug code), easy on RAM, and privacy-first (for example it strips EXIF data from media before posting, so the server will never see it). On snac it also cleans up the "Boosted by Aoderelay" messages that appear when using a relay, removes the character limit, and supports posting in Markdown.

I also added support for Apple Intelligence to generate alt text, both for the media I post and for media posted by others that is missing alt text.

Everything is processed locally through Apple APIs and only on supported devices. The results aren't amazing, Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, but in my opinion it's the only privacy-friendly and ethical way to approach it. And of course, you can disable it.

On Mastodon it supports all the main features: lists, quote posts, granular notifications (you can choose what you want for each category), notification grouping, multi-account support, and it works.

It's still missing a few things (block, etc.) and has some bugs, which I’m spotting as I keep using it.
As soon as it's stable enough, I'll invite a few people to test it. I still haven't fully decided how I'll distribute it: an Apple Developer account has a yearly cost, and I hope to reuse it for other projects too. So this app might be paid, with a trial period, but if possible (I still need to check what’s feasible) I'd like it to be free if you connect to one of the BSD Cafe instances, illumos Cafe, or any snac instance, including your own.

I don't know how long it will take before it's ready... but I can already tell you what it will be called.
It already has a name, and it's... MastoBlaster.

This name was chosen for personal reasons, and also because of its similarity to Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder, which even today feels relevant and fitting for the Fediverse.

Stay tuned!

#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #Mastodon #iOS #FediverseApp #Announcement #Apple #snac #snac2 #BSDCafe #illumosCafe

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MastoBlaster, showing my profile on my phone

acquired - tome of pf

(this is not sponsored content, I just like the book)

thank you @pitrh

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #pf #bookofpf

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girl studies the ancient tome of PF

#unix_surrealism

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8 panel comic sun girl, black girl, girl brain bus, girl, girl finger, laptop, girl hand, laptop

Every time I see an interesting or good quote posted online, I run to Wikipedia to make sure the person quoted wasn't some closet Nazi, sexual predator, or religious nutjob, and time and time again I find only disappointment.

#quotes

APOTROPAICO

   Del gr. ἀποτρόπαιος apotrópaios 'que aleja el mal' y -aico.
    1. 1. adj. p. us. Dicho de un rito, de un sacrificio, de una fórmula, etc.: Que, por su carácter mágico, se cree que aleja el mal o propicia el bien.

#artwork

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A drawing by Ángel Ortega, showing an underwater giant anglerfish monster with an appendix that looks like a woman outside the sea surface

@occult @kelp @neauoire subversive.pics is purposely not on any social network. I won't stop anyone doing what you're describing, but I have no desire for it.

#unix_surrealism #dataswamp #technomage #art #comic #openbsd

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Do you ever wonder how different thing would be if we had met in the data swamp?

@Migueldeicaza @bigzaphod @jamesthomson "I feel like I get 10x more done" is the new "I think the stripper really likes me".

Get snac'd up (not just) for #fosdem !

You can now purchase #snac propaganda stickers and apparel to show your allegiance or to wage war with.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/analognowhere/shop?artistUserName=analognowhere&asc=u&collections=4443355&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=top%20selling

Blessed be the hacker @grunfink for they can C.

#snac2 #runbsd #linux #unix_surrealism #fediverse

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snac's suzie qr, points to comam.es/what-is-snac

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snac alien SINCE YOU LEFT ME IVE BEEN SNACPILLED comam.es/what-is-snac

https://subversive.pics is now aggregating 11 subversive galleries with @occult being the latest addition.

Instagram is starting to foam at its machine mouth!

#art #thestudio

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Coo coo

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We see two house sparrows drinking out of a puddle. The male says to the female: "Good puddle!" to which she replies "I love you but you have low standards". Pigeons arrive in the background, the female says "Ope! Here comes the herd" There is a long horizontal frame of the two sparrows in the midst of a bunch of pigeons cooing around them. The male then says "gentle giants" the female agrees "mhm" and then says "coo" and the male responds "haha. coo!"

this fall cannot front

#plan9 #9front #cirno #glenda #catv #unix_surrealism

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Just two anime girls living in the moment.

strlcpy(3)

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #analognowhere #fish #penguin #mata #linux #comic #art

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MATA_Bots descend upon Fish's bunker. Bots: "CLEAR! KEEP MOVING, THE FISH IS HERE" Fish: "I'll buy you time. Use the ventilation system. Go wake her up. Get her out." Bots: "GOT A SEALED DOOR. BREACH IT" Fish: "And Purple? Thank you." Bots: "BREACHING! MOVE MOVE!" Fish: "For what it's worth... I wish for unlimited ammo."