Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/

good writeup of the rock-and-hard-place that itch is stuck between

i've worked in ecommerce, it fucking sucks and nothing works right

Yesssss!

"We are very excited to announce the preview release of ACME support in NGINX. The implementation introduces a new module ngx_http_acme_module that provides built-in directives for requesting, installing, and renewing certificates directly from NGINX configuration. The ACME support leverages our NGINX-Rust SDK and is available as a Rust-based dynamic module…"

https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol

/via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@acirep/115022763840493408 #Rust #nginx

looks neat as an instagram-like frontend for Mastodon api compatible softwares: https://oslo.town/@matt/114994487058558789

I know PixelFed exists but it's all just text and video and images at the end of the day - so what if the Mastodon interface just looked like Instagram and then you could sign in using your existing Mastodon account... a concept:

https://coxy.co/instadon/v3

This is just hacked together real quick, but should I work on this to make it a real thing?

I've been thinking for quite some time that something like this would be cool, and that you can get lots of different types of fedi "experience" out of putting different frontends together that cater to different styles.

BREAKING: CVEs in your software? Simply say "no". So-called white-hats can't declare your software vulnerable without your consent. Find out more in our legal column, click here.

Matrix room admins & server operators should probably note that a server upgrade and a room upgrade to v12 will essentially be required next Tuesday: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/security-predisclosure/ 👀

#Matrix #MatrixRooms #MatrixAdmin

QueerCoded 1-3PM at Queermunity

<p>QueerMunity, Saturday, July 19 at 01:00 PM CDT</p><p><strong>Learn to Code</strong> workshop created by Margo and Forest from <a href="https://cyberia.club/" target="_blank">Cyberia Computer Club</a> / <a href="https://layerze.ro/" target="_blank">Layer Zero</a> in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.</p><ul><li><p>Learn to Code</p></li><li><p>Find Community</p></li><li><p>Get to Know your Computer</p></li><li><p>Build your own Website / Software</p></li></ul><p>Hosted twice a month at <a href="https://www.queermunitymn.com/" target="_blank">Queermunity</a>.</p><ul><li><p>3036 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408</p></li></ul><p>QueerCoded will require face masks for in-person workshops, it's a good idea to reduce airborne infection risk!</p><p>Please bring your favorite mask, but if you don't have one, we will be providing vertical strap surgical masks at Queermunity.</p><p>The workshop is drop-in friendly. You don't have to attend every session.</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/queercoded-1-3pm-at-queermunity

what if we found a way to harness all the energy used by proof-of-work challenges in LLM countermeasures and directed it to a very large laser, which we then pointed at Sam Altman's head?

feel like this would solve so many problems!

Everyone believes learning how to computer is the kind of thing that only happens to other people

"feel unsafe? are you sure that's not just discomfort from having to face the fact that poor people exist?"

Wow, rare Hacker News W:

This is the true problem with AI. It's with who owns it, and what they will inevitably use it for. Whether it can do cool stuff with code or equal a junior developer is irrelevant. What it can do is less important than what it will be used for.

The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs, which from their perspective is a cost center and always will be. If you're not an owner, then you have no control over the direction or use of AI. You are doomed to have your life disrupted and changed by it, with no input whatsoever. To quote the article, your six shillings a day can become six shillings a week, and you are left to just deal with it however you can. You are "free" to go find some other six shilling a week job. If you can.

And if you think, "Oh, every technology is like this, it's always been this way", you are right. You have always been at the whims of the owning class, and barring a change towards economic democracy, where average people regain control over their lives, it likely always will be.

It's early days and the project is still in beta but we have published an early version of a @coopcloud recipe (https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/lasuite-docs) that makes it easier to deploy Docs for smaller organisations (the La Suite deployment has apparently approx 15,000 users).

We are offering managed Docs instances with full support provided by us. Hosted in the EU by a worker owned tech co-operative.

No bosses, no CEOs and we pay all our taxes.

#foss #workercoops #coop #tech