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Need a fancy name to use instead of #selfhosting? I got something for ya ;)

Introducing #SPI — the Sovereign Private Infrastructure. Sounds a lot more sophisticated :) (Yes, I work in marketing, I admit :)

And yes, the S could also be Self-managed or Self-owned if you want to avoid Sovereign. I however think it is time to take language back from the extremists. Best way is to confuse them. Divide et impera, as true Federati should do :)

If anyone happens to know the street photographer in Exeter who just caught me being attacked by pigeons, please: I *need* a copy of that. Thank you!

#Exeter

(Inspired by a conversation elsewhere but it's honestly an evergreen toot that I could relevantly post every day)

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Nerds, please learn that "doesn't work for my needs" and "is fundamentally broken" are two different things!

You start a new international train service on 15 December. When do you announce it and start ticket sales?

:sncb: and :sncf: think 3 December is acceptable :bonk:

when i first coded my blog i was like, should i have comments? and instead i decided to make a static site without analytics or javascript because the only comment i really want is "i believe in us, comrade"

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@beeps Absolutely, and segmenting up the intersection risks escalating from the already not-great implication that neopronouns are a combination of he/she/they to implying that particular neopronouns align more strongly with particular "standard" pronouns - which is something we probably shouldn't assume.

Maybe the user setting the pronoun could decide where on the intersection is highlighted, with perhaps an option of choosing a point outside of the rings entirely.

But at a certain point it begins to stretch the constraints and utility of the iconography.

@beeps Neat idea, I'm not sure that I love that the neopronouns are a clear afterthought all bunched together in one category - but nice to have interactive iconography for pronouns otherwise.

Somehow I hadn't (knowingly) seen the pronoun icon before now, but somehow I've seen it multiple times today.
pronouns.design/

That's sorta neat.

Nu ben ik echt al tijden volwassen maar ik heb nog steeds geen glijbaan in huis.

I think there ought to be significantly more memes utilizing this image, it's so good 🏴‍☠️

bluesky 

If something can happen accidentally, it can also happen intentionally.

Firehose access on Bluesky gets shut off for Bridgy Fed for a while github.com/bluesky-social/atpr github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/

Not malicious, but what's notable here is that Bridgy Fed was unable to work w/ Bluesky during this period. I think @mcc is right that it's a reminder this is a result of centralization mastodon.social/@mcc/113541216

My train which normally ends in Utrecht wil continue to Groningen Europapark, but the middle trainset will end in Zwolle. I don't believe that

Billionaire politics; "philanthropy" 

@researchfairy Philanthropy is actually a genius marketing term for creating or capturing institutions governing people's lives and instrumentalising them to operate as you see fit and usually for your ultimate benefit.

It makes wresting people's self-determination away sound so benevolent.

Billionaire philanthropy is just how they make you forget all the heinously unethical or illegal shit they did, while also taking un-democratic control of yet another thing that they absolutely shouldn't fucking control

obscure life lesson 

@joepie91 who would win: a WAF that costs 400 USD a month, or two bored teenagers

re: obscure life lesson 

@joepie91 Relatedly, surprising amount of internet far-right movements turn out to be headed up by some aggrieved fourteen year old.

With PHP 8.4 release last week, here is your annual reminder:

Symfony and Laravel have a massive core team, with lots of PHP internals connections, that set an unrealistically high bar for being compatible with new PHP versions.

Don't expect single-maintainer teams to be anywhere close to this without getting outside help in some way.

Run a library's testsuite on PHP 8.4, sponsor some money, whatever. Just don't expect them to simply support PHP 8.4 from day 0.

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