Slight problem* with the server. Hopefully be back later today.

*I managed to lose the private keys at some point.

At some point the rate of SpaceX exploding and crashing things is going to exceed my rate of giving lectures about space junk. But not quite yet... guess I know what to add to my lecture for tomorrow.

Fuck Substack. Read indie.

@TomasHradcky @Daojoan i have a substack filter set up. it’s called “cuz it’s ran by nazis”. just add the main domain and *.substack.*

it’s harder to do with people masking with their own domains, but if y’all know of anybody doing so, just spread the word.

@smallcircles someone could start selling an all-in-one appliance, like a WiFi router with a built-in mail server, ActivityPub server, XMPP server, #Forgejo server, and #Drupal server all rolled into one. Then instead of recommending people “roll their own,” you could recommend people just buy this device, and use it to connect to #ActivityPub, #XMPP, and publish their own blog with the built-in Drupal server, and so on.

#tech #Internet #RollYourOwn #SelfHosting

Now is not the time for the scientific community to self-censor. We need to all unite together and get behind grassroots efforts like #standupforscience if we are to effectively overcome the attacks on science!

De-google-ify Internet

Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.

The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.

They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!

Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:

@Framasoft

https://degooglisons-internet.org/

#europe #opensource #europeanalternatives #EUtech #boycott #degoogle #google

I have a Tory MP. If all Green voters voted Labour instead, I would've had a Labour MP. But... If all Labour voters voted Green instead, I'd have a Green MP!

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

@llamasoft_ox when you're young you see old people dying of old people things but eventually people younger than you start dying of old people things and it can't be because they are old it must be a terrible new trend. :)

Researchers tested drug cross-interactions on mice.

White House thought the word "transgenic" meant the same thing as ‘transgender’ and posted this:

hey hi do I know anyone who's big into historical swordfighting, I have a practical question for a scene in a book

I got called to come to my son's school to help change his insulin pod. I got there to discover that the app on his phone had thrown a memory corruption error and wiped out all of his insulin dosage settings

Fortunately, I have been keeping a copy of those settings in a self-hosted git repository, mostly so that I could look through the git history and see how the numbers change over time. This helps me understand the impacts that some of these changes are having

So there I am in his school's office on my phone reading a CSV off of my @forgejo instance and plugging all of his dosage settings back into the app on his phone

We use these tools to store our source code. But here I am using it for the code that keeps my son alive.
#t1d

Comic by Trine Watrins

#chronicillness #autoimmune #chronicallyill #chronicillnesshumor #chronicillnessmemes #autoimmunememes #fibromemes #fibromyalgia #spoonie

@concretedog @biglesp snap, you can make it work Les.

We should start a club for big geeks eating less to be remain big geeks for longer :)

I thought Torchwood Canary Wharf had been blown up. What are UNIT doing flying a Chinook along there?

As it's #WorldBookDay I thought I'd mention I've written 2 #Scarfolk books. Having just checked, Discovering Scarfolk seems to have gone out of print*. The Annual's still in print. Book 3? Rights available if interested. I've also written a novel, yet to find a publisher, with 2 new novels on the go.

*Just before it would have started, finally, to pay out royalty payments.
Want to get rich? Or even just reach the heady heights of minimum wage?
Don't write books.
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