Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

with the squerge of the account / statuses policies side effects pull request, the domain limit stuff for #GoToSocial is now more or less finished, and if you're running a snapshot you can try it out :)

If you're interested, you can read more about domain limits here, including what they allow you to do: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/domain_limits/

Essentially, when it comes to a limited domain you can do stuff like:

reject all media (attachments, emojis, avatars, headers)
mark media as sensitive
mute all accounts by default, much like Mastodon and other softwares allow
force a content warning to be added to posts
set a follows policy so that follows from limited domains are forced to manual approval, rejected, or rejected UNLESS they're "follow-backs"
set it up so that posts get a "hide" or "warn" filter applied by default

Importantly, the mute/silence and filter adding options don't apply to accounts you follow. So if you mute a domain, you can still follow accounts from that domain and see their posts just fine.

With all these options, this should give GtS admins a lot more control over federation with shitty instances, beyond just domain blocking them completely.

Aside from already being available to snapshot users, the feature will be in v0.21.0, which we'll likely release shortly after the new year :)

I just donated to the fediverse instance I use, mastoart.social. In an otherwise rapidly enshittifing online space decentralized social media needs your support. If you are able, please consider donating to your instance! Thanks so much @bestiaexmachina & @Kitty for allowing me to use your instance & happy whatever y'all celebrate at this time of year!

#Nonprofit #Donation #Fediverse #Mastodon #Holidays #NewYear #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Darktable #Christmas

#Oops: The seminal (strongly influencing later developments) paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.

"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors and the study sponsor and potential conflicts of interest of the authors. "

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715

Linux/BSD Fix-It Clinic

<p>Layer Zero, Saturday, November 22 at 01:00 PM CST</p><h1>Linux/BSD Fix-it Clinic</h1><p></p><p>Bring your Linux/BSD desktop or server questions or woes to Layer Zero, and we'll work them out together! </p><p>Saturday, November 22, 2025</p><p>1 - 4 PM</p><p>Ping zico for questions</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/linuxbsd-fix-it-clinic

computers used to be annoying. they still are but they used to be too.

Stepping down as Framework Linux Community Ambassadors

We are Tommi and Fraxinas, Framework Linux Community Ambassadors since September 2024.

We apprehensively followed the developments and the debate concerning Framework’s endorsement and support of Omarchy. We have no direct experience with this Linux distribution, its community, nor with the political environment around it. We did not speak up before now because learning about all of it and keeping up with all the commentary would have been a full-time job. Unfortunately we do not have the time to read every single comment on the dedicated forum thread.

Despite our admittedly limited and superficial understanding of this matter, we believe we have witnessed and read enough to make an informed decision and take a clear position.

The statements from Framework and from Nirav Patel (its CEO) made it very clear for us that Framework is not a company we feel represented by any more, and surely not a company that we want to represent as Ambassadors.

To be frank, it is not even necessary to dive into the petty drama about the recent events in order to provide an explanation of our decision. We are deeply disappointed by a company that is self-proclaimed as the resistance of the tech industry, the good David that intends to stand against the big tech Goliaths that are devouring it. Framework’s behaviour brought to surface an embarrassing and absurd inability to take an explicitly political position, blinded by the Western patriarchal narrative that technology in itself is not political. By trying to keep everyone happy (or at least not to make anyone mad) inside a fictitious “big tent”, the company proved to be no better than any of its Silicon Valley peers, dismissing comments about DHH, and comments about fascism and racism as not strictly related to the main mission.

We were proud to be ambassadors because we believed that Framework not only made products that empowered those who purchase them to fully own and repair their devices, but most importantly because we wrongly expected that this would imply changing the paradigm and the narrative about tech companies altogether.

We were offered the possibility of having a 1:1 conversation with Nirav Patel. We did not take it, because it is self-evident that our opinions are in contrast with the statements that he already made. Too bad, Framework is going to lose much more business than it would have if it simply acknowledged a mistake, took a deep inward look, and questioned its own values and stance.

In a world that is burning, thorn by conflict and greed, it is not enough to be “less evil”, to be radical only in some cases, and be moderate in others. We wanted to be ambassadors of a company that does not see fascism and proprietary software as two distant topics, but that recognised the entanglement of politics and technology, of capitalism and authoritarianism. It seems that this is not the case.

Farewell, Framework. We will miss the shining brave idea we had of you.

— @tommi and @fraxinas

The following statement was cross-posted on Framework’s Community Forum.

#Framework #politicalTechnology #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩‍🏭

a blog post in which I discuss how my #Sharkey misadventures provided some illuminating insights... including how grateful I am for self-hosted software that just works (hello @gotosocial). Also: I'm super grateful for the dot world group that allows me to have a Sharkey account that actually works as intended (thanks @ruud )!

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-316-realist-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

Oslo's electric buses can be turned off from China, tests show
https://www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/ruters-egne-tester-viser_-oslos-elbusser-kan-fjernstyres-1.17629321

The Ruby community: currently in a knockdown / drag-out fight over whether platforming fascists goes against their goals of software engineering.

The Python Software Foundation, quietly continuing to be the adults in the room:

https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659195456270

My local library has started a seed library!

They already created a tool library.

If you think this kind of thing is only for affluent or leftist places, let me assure you, if our poor town of 10,000 in a poor, red, Southern state can do it, your town can do it too.