Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

So to answer the question can you CNAME¹ the apex of a zone is yes²

¹actually cname, not aliasing, or fake cnames that services like cloudflare provide

²if you don't care about RFCs, write your own dns server and your clients are ok with weird things happening, cache poisoning and some resolvers exploding.

All of the drama around Wordpress is poster child #1 for why Open Source is not adequate to assure good governance -- forking is expensive and hard, and allows a lot of sins to be swept under the carpet.

“A capitalist ethos of independence & productivity, & the pervasive colonial perception of nature as commodity, would have us see abandonment as natural, even inevitable. An ethics of abandonment is, what leads massive amounts of money & energy to be poured into fantasies of escape like Elon Musk’s rocket ship or billionaire bunker estates, or the politically mercurial fantasy of the rugged ablebodied survivalist living off the land post–climate apocalypse.”

Sunaura Taylor - Disabled Ecologies

After transitioning was the first time in my life where the puzzle that was myself, my life, my future, actually fit together. Before transition I couldn't image my future. Not because I though I wouldn't live to see it, but because I couldn't image it. I could not image myself being a middle aged man one day. But now I can imagine a future for myself. One that fits, that feels right.

Love it when journalists provide context when reporting news.

"Mastodon’s announcement comes at a time when the WordPress open-source project and its cofounder have been embroiled in a months-long legal feud, and Meta’s Zuckerberg has made headlines for stripping back Facebook and Instagram’s fact-checking and content moderation before lying about it to Joe Rogan."

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko

#mastodon #news #TechNews #MastodonNonprofit

The picture vs how it was created, part 2

#fooselPics #photography

Ugh, I'm not a fan of this current wave of genai proponents positioning people who see through the hype as trying to keep the rest of the team from being successful, and themselves as the Reasonable Adults who don't want your Negative Energy 🙄

beseeching small businesses to post their hours on their websites. not their facebooks. you have a website. please. use it

“Why Agile Is Losing Steam - by Charles Lambdin”

https://thelaterallens.substack.com/p/why-agile-is-losing-steam

> Clients do not want you to maximize value as much as they want you to make them look successful—and those are often two completely different things.

if photomatt ever calls you trying to get someone fired you are required to go interrupt him and into the most over the top “do you have any idea who the fuck I am dickwad” routine you can manage and then tell him to go whine to someone else and hang up on him. that’s the gig. don’t let me down.

Just a pigeon taking their daily commute to do their best at working 9-5 at the seed factory. They've got an important message to put in their boss's pigeonhole. #BirdsOfMastodon #birds #pigeon

Artists discover a new glowing #mushroom in Switzerland https://phys.org/news/2025-01-artists-mushroom-switzerland.html

Is the #bioluminescence in many #Mycena species overlooked? ― A case study from M. crocata in Switzerland https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mycosci/65/4/65_MYC633/_article by Renate Heinzelmann et al.

"the decaying wood M. crocata grows on can also emit a green glow when split open, lasting up to 4 hours... While some glowing #mushrooms might attract #insects to disperse spores, the bioluminescence of hidden #mycelium does not fit this hypothesis"

#Fungi