@CleoQc I heard it can take a few days for everything to transfer across. One day I'll stop procrastinating and also make the #cosocial move.

This is absolutely awesome! The @leavex campaign now has their website up an running, so we can see exactly which members of the EU parliament still support Musk's disinformation platform X, and avoid voting for them.

I hope @leavex expands to add every national parliament — the disinformation has to end.

Se their excellent overview here:
https://leavex.eu/politicians/

Please boost this to support the campaign.

Die Peacefully

#MakeAMovieBoring
#HashTagGames

Canadian job leads, I'm not affiliated with any of these companies:

Eclipse Foundation is hiring a product manager - growth, "This is a remote position. Candidates based in the European Union or Canada are preferred." No salary range listed. Apply at https://eclipsefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/bXv1MisZWS/Product-Manager-Growth. via @EclipseFdn.

DriveSavers is hiring a Remote C/C++ Software Engineer (Data Recovery Tools), 100% remote position. Need experience in C/C++, binary data formats, storage technologies, file system internals, backup solutions and technologies. "This is a remote position open to candidates worldwide. Availability for some collaboration during U.S. business hours is preferred." No salary range provided. Apply at https://drivesavers.applytojob.com/apply/dSkcKqyDQu/Remote-CC-Software-Engineer-Data-Recovery-Tools.

Lattice is hiring for the following roles (all of these have two openings, one in Ontario the other in BC, they are listed as remote): Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform, Lead Product Manager, Staff Product Manager - Integrations. Salary range is listed within each job description. See the job descriptions for each at https://lattice.com/careers#open-positions.

Absolute Software is hiring a webflow content engineer, 100% remote in Canada. You need experience with setting up split tests (A/B) using tools like Adobe Target, VWO, or Google Optimize, familiarity with Google Tag Manager (GTM) and GA4, integrating Webflow forms, write basic JavaScript or CSS, and Figma. No salary range listed. Job details at https://jobs.jobvite.com/absolute/job/o2Fizfwi.

CloudLinux is hiring for a number of different roles (some are available remote worldwide), see https://cloudlinux.com/about-us-company-jobs/ for all their openings.

Telus / TELUS Consumer Health is hiring a senior web marketing manager in either Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, or Toronto. Salary range is $90,000-$134,000. They are looking for someone to have experience using Contentful, Figma, GA4, BigCommerce, HTML/CSS and CSS-in-JS. Details at https://careers.telus.com/job/Vancouver-Senior-Web-Marketing-Manager-BC-V6B-0M3/598977217/.

STGC Technologies Consulting is hiring a senior front-end developer in London, Ontario. Must have experience in Vue.js (or React or Angular), accessibility standards (WCAG), state management libraries such as Vuex and Pinia. No salary range listed. Apply at https://summittechnologygroup.applytojob.com/apply/lzk5dADXA8/Senior-FrontEnd-Developer.

#WPJobs #WPCareers #WordPressJobs #CanadaJobs #CanadianJobs #DevJobs #WebDevJobs #WordPress #FediHired #GetFediHired #hiring #RemoteJobs #FediJobs #ITJobs #JobAlert #TechJobs #ToJobs #TorontoJobs #CalgaryJobs #WinnipegJobs #RemoteWork #FediHire

One of the biggest cheers at the #BlueRodeo concert tonight was when Greg Keelor said "I've really had enough of Donald Trump" before playing God and Country

@goaty

Ants haven't figured out pottery that we know of yet. But they do sculpt clay:

Indian Harvester ants, Pheidole sykesii create levies around their nest entrance so that when it rains the flood waters do not enter, but rather flow around it while they stay dry underground.

They build in response to the water so you can tell which direction the water comes form during the rains based on the height of the walls.

About Bluesky and federation:
Edit: There might be some mistakes, and my information could be outdated, but the point still stands - Bluesky wasn't built on 100% federation from the start.

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.

Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation#:~:text=For%20a%20smooth%20transition%20into,for%20everyone%20in%20the%20ecosystem.). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.

It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.

If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.

ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.

I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers

@Paulatics is there any movement afoot of getting government communications and individual politicians to adopt alternative platforms? I can see how leaving X completely could be a big ask right now, but they can at least start using other platforms.

My new steam mop has wifi. Why does my new steam mop have wifi? At least it doesn't have "ai".

As many of you will know, I’ve been campaigning for more than a year to get the Govt of Canada off X. This week’s Grok nonsense pushed me over the edge - and I said a very bad word! https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/01/07/get-the-fk-off-there-mps-senators-call-on-government-to-abandon-x-twitter-following-wave-of-grok-porn/487023/ #cdnpoli #X #Grok

Wow, what a list this is

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states/

How does one become a professional agitator and what does it pay?

@CleoQc I built myself a more powerful nas device over Christmas because the pi was struggling. It runs adguard, jellyfin, syncthing and transmission. Really happy with how it turned out, but obviously a lot pricier than a pi.

@evan @futurebird @emilymbender hundreds of millions of people use Facebook and buy lottery tickets on a weekly basis, those aren't good things either.

@mick sometimes there is joy in deleting the bits, when a legacy system has outstayed its welcome and needs to go (as long as you know there's an air gapped backup on the off chance that someone wants it back)

Happy new year everyone, here's to another year filled with fun and stimulating algorithm-free conversations. #HappyNewYear2026

Air to Ground Message:

1 PEPPERONI PIZZA PLEASE

Area: Grand Rapids, MI, USA
A: #a78309678fb
F: #f7c0e6d4ad7

#acars #vdlm2

Perfect winter's day for our 10 mile stank along the coast path from Porthcothan to Mother Ivey's Bay (and back again) #Cornwall #Walking #SWcoastpath

@noondlyt @alice @AltAfterDark Stripe's TOS says businesses that promote pornography can't use their service. But a business that supports an individual who happens to have an alt mastodon account containing pornography seems a bit of a stretch of that rule.