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@hey@voidq.xyz
Added a new admirations entry point to the web UI, containing a timeline of liked, boosted and reacted posts. Please take note that, after installing the new version, it will start empty, and be filled with subsequent reactions (contributed by violette).
It's now possible to disable showing posts in a given set of languages.
Nested quoted posts are limited up to 3 levels.
New configuration knob: by setting keep_replies_posts to true in server.json, remote posts that a local user has replied to are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).
New configuration knob: by setting keep_replied_me to true in server.json, remote replies to local posts are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).
Ensure actors' public key PEM never includes anything after the end marker.
Fixed some memory leaks (contributed by inz).
Several additional keyId checks (many thanks to lainsoykaf for bringing this to my attention).
Fixed crash in the JSON parser (many thanks to nullenvk for bringing this to my attention).
Mastodon API: fixed lost custom emojis after edition (contributed by e0w0e).
Updated French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish translations (contributed by dragondaddy, daltux, zen).
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.93 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/33311
GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK!
It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
Thanks to violette, hanchan, inz, lainsoykaf, nullenvk, e0w0e, dragondaddy, daltux, zen and anyone else I may have missed for also contributing to the improvements in this release!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
Opening of Lathe of Heaven still goes so hard. One of my favorites.
Third (IIRC) paragraph:
What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?
…is permanently embedded in my brain.
how to sleep tutorial
In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id/
@zackwhittaker so does this mean that everyone that works for a shitty company that requires them to use AI is now also going to have to give a third party private information or lose their job?
Hooray for the surveillance state!
@zackwhittaker Good thing that in Europe there are very strict laws on how companies are allowed to use (or for that matter transfer to third parties) personal data of employees. 😁
as if we didn't already have way too many reasons not to use an LLM products already, requiring giving your data to someone as untrustworthy as persona is certainly another major reason to avoid this.
I don't think that's gonna go as well for them as they're hoping.
I mean, obviously, we'll see. I just suspect they're going to edge out some folks who'd otherwise sing their praises.
@zackwhittaker Makes my shift out of the technical world that much nicer. I'll just grab my bucket of popcorn and watch the fireworks. 🍿 🧨
TechCrunch reporting on privacy issues would like you to remove your ad blocker you enabled for privacy.
@badsamurai yep, I hate it too but it's above my pay grade, and I don't recommend people switch off their ad-blocker.
Did you read the policy your self ?
rather then rely on what some one else said ?
It really isn't clear what it means, and of course less clear what it will mean in the future
@zackwhittaker @vmstan if this doesn’t work I’ll just move on.
The tech bros hate to hear this but we’re at the point of commoditization for everything but the most the frontier models. And most folks don’t need ‘em.
To hell with them all
@zackwhittaker
They learned from the tobacco industri and the narcotics trade...
Make a lot of people addicted and they will do what ever you ask. Slowly turn them in to robots making their only mission in life to pleas your will.
I still have not tried Claude for software development and I have gone from "oh, I need to be part of this" into "I am proud not being part of this" in a very short period of time.
@zackwhittaker I clashed with Claude in February when they denied my access to my paid account unless I give them my mobile phone number. I terminated all subscriptions.
@zackwhittaker 🤣 they are absolutely nuts. I’ll never ever see me use their crap. Now especially not.
@zackwhittaker make a bet: "Anthropic will leak my biometric ID in..."
| A 10TB docker image: | 0 |
| NPM package: | 0 |
| Puffpal-style endpoint for an Android app: | 0 |
| In LLM weights: | 0 |
@zackwhittaker This is the same Peter Thiel (Palantir) company, Persona, that does identify verification for Discord and Reddit, too.
We need to get back to the UNIX philosophy of SMALL apps, because SMALL = EASY TO MAINTAIN AND KEEP ALIVE , you can have a web of apps but if they are all small its easy for someone to take over, its easy to keep them alive, or even make a new version in a new language to replace them (what RUSTACEANS are doing with terminal apps right now).
The big monolith apps ARE the [security/privacy/data ownership] problem.
#dev #developer #programming #software #softwaredevelopment #opensource #foss
YouTube updates Shorts to make it even more like TikTok
YouTube is adding even more TikTok-like features to Shorts, including a new "clear screen" mode that removes the icons and text from the video you're watching. In a blog post on Thursday, YouTube says it's also replacin…
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/957422/youtube-shorts-update-tiktok
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TheVerge [The Verge]
Notion Mail is shutting down, but your Gmail inbox isn’t going anywhere
Notion is killing its email client because users prefer AI agents to an inbox.
https://www.androidauthority.com/notion-mail-is-shutting-down-3681674/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #AndroidAuthority [Android Authority]
What's your preferred clients for the Unix terminal (must be cross-platform, not Linux-only, for goodness, sake! 😅) and Android?
I've noticed that @tut@fosstodon.org and @pachli@mastodon.social (and other @Tusky@mastodon.social forks) don't quite like snac, and tend to act a wee bit cagey. ;)
lynx. 
However, each API client that I try fails loading custom emojis, I cannot understand why and I do not know if it is something specific with my server setup or if they have some
dealing with all SNAC instances. For Android, #Fedilab from #FDroid is what I would recommended anyway. 
Two things you can see here... It's pretty hot! That's why I stayed home and implemented a missing feature into snac. That's what you can also see - it finally sends push notifications to devices! In this case, we can see notifications coming from #MastoBlaster App for iPhone.
What we can also see, it's still a bit faulty and not the expected content, but a first success here at least ;) I'll make some further adjustments when there's time and get in touch with @grunfink@comam.es to check if we can get this upstream. Thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for testing with me :)
#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #activitypub #snac2 #c #programming #clang #MastoBlaster
Hi folks! ✌️
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The new version you can download through my website 👉 https://xolat.games/servers/
Or view the game's source code here 🏔️👉 https://codeberg.org/xolatgames/Battle-for-Burgers
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#godot #godotengine #godot4 #gimp #game #games #gamedev #multiplayer #3d #3dgame #online #onlinemultiplayer #selfhost #platformer #opensource #codeberg #3dplatformer #gdscript #selfhosted
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i upgraded my librewolf today. it suddenly crashed a minute ago, and after restarting it assumed that Chinacat.ttf Comic Sans MS is gonna be the new UI font
(NOT a fontconfig thing, all of my other applications use monospace fonts… honestly, this isn’t that bad, i just wish it was larger…)
Is Linux Mint still the best choice for people leaving Windows?
Else I will have to go back and change the distro. Luckily they already used LibreOffice for some time, so their spreadsheets and browser look the same.
I will be posting wires and wireframes now #photography #art #jagodacore
@hey You can take look at this article:
https://repo.or.cz/code-notes.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/notes/Unix_As_An_IDE.txt
@hey Of course, you can take look at this Neovim config too:
Keep in mind that an external software requires additional maintenance work. Meanwhile embedded in OS tools are developed alongside the whole system.
Stop feeding the machine! ✊
Big AI profits from token bloat & subscription traps, hiding real utility behind opaque paywalls. Privacy shouldn't be a luxury you trade for convenience.
I’m fighting back with Searchbase v1.0.0: a sovereign, self-hosted search layer for LLMs. No ads, no tracking, just clean Markdown to stop token waste & reclaim autonomy. Open source & privacy-first, forever. 🏴☠️
Deploy it now: https://searchbase.md
🟠 CVE-2026-44724 - High (7.8)
systeminformation is a System and OS information library for node.js. From 4.17.0 to 5.31.5, on Linux, systeminformation is vulnerable to command injection in networkInterfaces() when an active NetworkManager connection profile name contains shell...
🔗 https://www.thehackerwire.com/vulnerability/CVE-2026-44724/
#CVE #vulnerability #infosec #cybersecurity #security #Tenda #patchstack
#voidlinux setup
systemd ❌️ runit ✅️
glibc ❌️ musl ✅️
X11 ❌️ Wayland ✅️
Gnome ❌️ KDE ✅️
@hey My laptop on X11 was having random reboots for years whenever I played a video on VLC or loaded google maps on Firefox. I tried making a sacrifice to Cthulhu but it didn't work. Wayland seems to have fixed it, no crashes or reboots for a month now.
ps -ww -p 88163 -u | awk '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) a[i,NR]=$i} END {for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) { val=a[i,2]; if(a[i,1]=="VSZ" || a[i,1]=="RSS") { val=sprintf("%.2f MB", val/1024) } print a[i,1] ":\t" val }}'
USER: snacThe usual solution is to use an ActivityPub relay. This, however, resulted in receiving looots of posts, hitting file size and inode limits on this small VM. Thus, I gave up this experiment a while ago.
Now, I just stumbled about https://relay.fedi.buzz/ from @astro@c3d2.social, which allows to only follow certain hashtags, which is kinda exactly what I wanted ❤️
After following the Subscribing to Fediverse Relays section from snac(8), I came up with the following jq(1) command to subscribe each hashtag I am already following on my #snac instance. And yes, this would be way faster to do by hand for those six hashtags in total.
$ # Create multiple snac follow commands for each hashtag the "xz"If the generated commands are looking not suspicious enough, rerun the command within
$ # user follows. The "data" directory is the $SNAC_BASEDIR.
$ jq -j \
'.followed_hashtags.[] | "snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/",.[1:],"; "' \
< data/user/xz/user.json
snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/openbsd; snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/snac; [ . . . ]
$() or execute the output manually.Finally, I am able to doomscroll #biketooter for weird and ridiculously expensive bikes from my instance; yay!
Also, I think it's important to remember that #snac also allows following hashtags by those RSS feeds provided by several Fediverse implementations (like Mastodon), avoiding the need of subscribing to a relay. E.g., you can add https://mastodon.social/tags/snac to the followed hashtags field, and it will periodically poll that RSS from the big instance and add to your timeline those posts tagged with #snac.
It's the complete URL for the entrypoint, with https and without any rss. Following the OP example, https://mastodon.social/tags/biketooter in its own line.
It's not immediate; RSS feeds are polled with the period defined by the rss_hashtag_poll_hours keyword in server.json (default 4 hour, minimum 1).
But, you can have snac running from a subdirectory of your main domain (which, as far as I know, no other fediverse implementation does). I.e. you can have your snac root in example.com/social and then you can identify as you@example.com . So you have no unnecessary subdomain just to be you.
Which is what I do for this very domain.
CC: @mms@bsd.cafe
@hey @grunfink @stefano @mms I understood the traditional meaning of "split DNS" is using one set of DNS addresses internally and serving a different set to the Internet.
That way your internal systems can get internal network addresses for hosts in yourdomain.com, meaning the traffic stays private, but the Internet sees only the public addresses of those hosts you choose to expose there.
Use `:w !sudo tee %` to save a file that requires elevated permissions to edit, when you have forgotten to append sudo before opening it.
The 60th OpenBSD release is here... 7.9!
https://www.openbsd.org/79.html
Start your sysupgrade engines!
Lots of vmd/vmm fixes and we will upgrade as soon as possible.
Artwork by Lyra Henderson.
New: NYC Health and Hospitals says a data breach earlier this year affects 1.8 million people. Hackers stole personal info, medical data, government-issued IDs, Social Security numbers — and *biometrics*, including fingerprints and palm scans.
Already one of the largest healthcare breaches of 2026.
I am slowly coming to understand that the reason some applications crash often on OpenBSD is not the fault of OpenBSD, but the fault of poorly written applications that have tons of vulnerabilities. OpenBSD is designed to be a secure operating system as one of its main goals, and trying to circumvent these safety guardrails by "optimizing OpenBSD for desktop use" -- i.e. tweaking sysctl.conf to the max -- defeats the purpose of having the guardrails in the first place.
If you want an OS where applications are free to roam full of holes and exploits without crashing, use Linux I guess. It will happily continue to allow those poorly written programs to run, giving the user a false sense of stability. Meanwhile, I'm starting to prefer safety and security over "desktop performance at all costs". If a program misbehaves it should die, and OpenBSD will kill it before I even know it misbehaved.
@kaidenshi every day I inch closer to finally dual booting a BSD. And I thought I'd escaped the gravitational pull after that close call when I read the entire backlog of Lawrence Tratt.
@MaddieM4 I have OpenBSD running on a few devices, but my main desktop is Void Linux. When I finally move it to OpenBSD I won't even bother with a dual boot, I'll just go all the way. And I'm close. Really, really close! Honestly just waiting on the LibreWolf port being worked on by @libreleah to be accepted into ports and I'm there.
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 for now, you can just compile my librewolf port from source. i've been told that it won't be merged for 7.9. therefore, it would be merged for 8.0, and in the mean time merged into just -current once openbsd has fully reviewed it.
they're not taking new ports in the tree at the moment, because it's locked for a few weeks. they will presumably unlock the tree after the release, which i'm informed will happen some time in the middle of May.
@libreleah @MaddieM4 May is great, happy birthday to me! I've been trying to get your port to compile on my secondary workstation here at the house but I'm still trying to figure out dependency stuff (I am in no way, shape, or form a developer). I think I've managed to tackle every dependency except icu-i18n. If I can't get it to build on my own I'll just use your -current port once it hits the tree since I tend to run -current anyway.
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 no need to figure out dependencies. just make sure if using my master branch to be on openbsd -current. i onyl maintain that branch for current. i'll start maintaining it in tagged releases from openbsd 8.0 onward, once openbsd merges my port in -current
@libreleah @MaddieM4 Oh it's nothing wrong with your port, I just ran into issues building dependencies so I tried installing them as packages to both speed things up and avoid any compile issues, and that one package was being fiddly (the correct version from ports kept erroring out during compile, and (at the time I tried it the other day) the version in packages wasn't right).
Trying again right now with a fresh install of -current on my most powerful dedicated OpenBSD machine, hopefully this time it's all in place and it builds successfully.
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 on my i7-4790k, the port takes about 12 hours to compile, which includes building dependencies. once dependencies are done though, building librewolf on its own takes maybe 2 hours?
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 i'm contemplating whether to host a package repo for librewolf, for openbsd 7.9, since 8.0 is the first stable release that will receive my port. as i said before, they'll start merging new ports again in probably a few weeks. new ports are locked for now until the 7.9 release i think. that's the impression i got anyway. librewolf is the first openbsd port i ever did.
@libreleah @MaddieM4 That would be awesome and much appreciated! I still want to succeed at building it for my own personal achievement, but a pre-built package would be a boon to those of us who have been waiting years for a proper LibreWolf port. I feel like the intersection of OpenBSD enthusiasts and LibreWolf enthusiasts has to be wide and populous.
@libreleah @MaddieM4 In other news, all dependencies satisfied on my current iteration, and the librewolf package officially started building at 20:08 local time. It's an HP mini pc with the i5-6600T so probably similar compile time to yours, if not a little slower. Fingers crossed!
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 Please do share a screenshot once you have it running!
@libreleah @MaddieM4 Success! Damn it feels good to run this browser on this OS. Thank you so much Leah!!
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 fun fact: you might sometimes have to compile it again, when updating snapshots. unless you idk stick to 7.9 (like, update to 7.9 from pre-7.9 -current before release). because openbsd doesn't do ABI-safety like on linux, so userland stuff will have to be recompiled when enough things change in kernelspace.
but enoughh of me being a debbie downer. congratulations!
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 but lw doesn't change much. unless firefox does a new release. so i'd probably not worry about it, plus 7.9 is out soon. and also i assume they'll merge my port in -current at some point over the next few weeks. then you'll be able to just use the binary packages, so no worries.
@libreleah @MaddieM4 I backed up the package I built for safekeeping since it runs perfectly (actually a little faster than Firefox on the same machine). I tend to run -current so I'll just use your binary once it's merged.
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 now u must re-compile. https://mas.to/@libreleah/116456565479340855
@libreleah @MaddieM4 Hell yes I'm about to chuck an SSD I found in my desk into my main workstation and start grinding away at it.
@libreleah @MaddieM4 Just under an hour on the main workstation. I think I'm ready to go all in on OpenBSD now. Thank you so much!
@kaidenshi @MaddieM4 i also hardened some of the options at build time. you can see it in the git repository for my port. it's much closer to the hardening openbsd applies for firefox now, but with librewolf's additional hardening.
so i have been learning #sam and #acme properly and oh my god. acme is the best editor i have ever used. i love the fact that it really is an os interface in its own right. i have been completely underutilising it. i now have a setup on my second desktop at all times.
sam just seems like ed on steroids with a lot of the acme benefits of the mouse interface.
i am using acme for actual work or writing and i use sam for quick edits or config files.