If you run a large Mastodon instance, and have upgraded to 4.4, please turn on referer headers.

It is *so* important for the health of the Fediverse.

At the moment I have 4x the followers on Mastodon as I do on BlueSky - but my blog's stats don't show that. In fact, they show the opposite!

Yes, it is privacy preserving. Yes, it makes a difference to publishers. Yes, it will show how vibrant an ecosystem we have.

TIL, If you type `thisisunsafe` on a Chrome TLS/SSL error page (e.g. https://expired.badssl.com ), Chrome will bypass the error and load the page for you. This is Google Chrome's TLS/SSL bypass cheat code.

Source https://thomascountz.com/2025/07/17/chromes-ssl-bypass-cheatcode

Es ist doch einigermaßen erstaunlich, wie ein komplett haltloser Vorwurf eines angeblichen Plagiats den Ruf und die Karriere einer Richterin bedroht, während ein ehemaliger Gesundheitsminister, der Milliarden versenkt, völlig unbeschädigt weitermacht, obwohl es Belege und heftigen Widerstand gibt.

if you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:

ohaaa! Die Mainstage vom #Tomorrowland ist abgebrannt (vor Beginn des Mega Festivals..)
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/ungluecke/id_100822918/-tomorrowland-in-belgien-hauptbuehne-von-mega-festival-brennt.html

I keep seeing this sentiment that desktop Linux has become woke and gay.

Desktop Linux has been woke and gay the whole time. Y’all just for some reason decided you suddenly have a problem with it. We didn’t change, you did. Okay some of us came out of the closet. But we’ve been talking about diversity and inclusion for decades and equity has been the entire focal point of the free software movement since like the 70s! It’s woke gay anarcho-communism and you fucking loved it until 2016

Search engines in a nutshell

#SearchEngines #Google #Bing #DuckDuckGo #ZoTop #SearxNG #Brave #Qwant #Startpage #SwissCows #Mojeek #Ecosia #Lilo #Stract #Marginalia #MullvadLeta #Kagi

https://www.jeey.net/google.html

Stylo package got the Antonio Zampolli prize 🏆🎉
Congrats to Maciej Eder, Mike Kestemont, Jan Rybicki, Joanna Byszuk, and everyone involved with the Computational Stylistics Group! 👏👏👏
The prize is awarded every 3 years for outstanding output in #DigitalHumanities Previous recipients were Voyant Tools, TEI, Ray Siemens, and Chad Gaffield
#DH2025 #stylometry #Lisboa #Lisbon

The hottest thing in local Seattle politics is the city's war on Saint Rat / Hot Rat Summer, a mosaic that someone put up (without permission) on the old pumphouse in Cal Anderson Park last year. Recently, city workers have been painting over the mosaic, and good citizens have been cleaning off the mosaic to restore it when they do so. It is a fierce battle, and one I hope the citizens win. We must fight for Hot Rat Summer.

EDIT: IMPORTANT UPDATE NEWS FLASH JUST IN! https://bsky.app/profile/councilmember-amr.bsky.social/post/3lu27fhkj3k2d

“Nazi please”

Greg Gutfeld On Fox News

Still true #webdev #javascript #react

#liiive is a platform for real-time collaborative annotation on #IIIF images. But sometimes you might want to share your work once it’s done, without allowing further edits or replies. Now you can!

The liiive dashboard now lets you switch rooms into read-only mode: Visitors can view the image and read annotations, but only the room owner can make further changes.

Available now: https://liiive.now

Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.

— Mikko Hypponen

#quality #security

Dinge die eins so im Internet liest:
"furchenschweiss1448 ist hoffnungsvoll für die Zukunft"

Na dann bin ich ja beruhigt.

WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

https://wetransfer.com/explore/legal/terms

Nochmal #Vermögenssteuer🎯
Ja, es triggert einige.
Gut so !

Aber nochmal: bitte bei den Fakten bleiben: es geht weder um die Familien-Limosine noch um Omas Häuschen.
Der Freibetrag liegt bei 1.000.000€.
Dann 1% auf die zweite Million ....

Es fehlen noch ein paar Stimmen
fürs Quorum.

Zum Spaß einfach mal die Kommentare lesen ....🤡💸

Link zum mitzeichnen:
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_04/_09/Petition_180180.nc.html

@ljo 3:1 uff 😥

I thought I knew how quirky JS is but I got schooled by https://jsdate.wtf and only got 8/28 right. And half of those were guesses

I scored 11/28 on https://jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

@jascha 🤯

Thanks for sharing this masterpiece.