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Bridge to Bluesky

Apparently, Ryan Barrett @snarfed.org, an engineer/developer, is about to connect a bridge between Mastodon (Fediverse) and Bluesky.

Announcement here: snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106

Of note the bridge is OPT-OUT. That is, your content will be automatically bridged to Bluesky, UNLESS you OPT-OUT.

So how do you opt-out? You have to DM Ryam Barnett at @snarfed, email him (somehow), file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.

#BlueskyBridge

okay i knew they weren't *good* but this wording is incredible (derogatory)

> Do not use Ko-fi.com for Illegal or Adult content. Only use Ko-fi.com in legal, genuine and positive ways.

you're telling me that adult content is not legal, genuine, or positive? really?? hmmmmmmmmm

With gba-link-connection, a set of C++ libraries for providing Serial Port functionality in Game Boy Advance homebrew games, it is now possible to send multiboot ROMs to other GBA systems via Wireless Adapter.

Learn about how it works at github.com/afska/gba-link-conn and check out the library repo on GitHub github.com/afska/gba-link-conn

Video demonstration by Afska below (originally posted on the GBADev Discord).

#GBADev

WARNING TO ALL FEDIZENS

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE USE https://doubledouble.top/

doubledouble.top is a piracy website that allows you to freely and very easily download any piece of music in lossless quality from most of the popular streaming services without paying the corporations!!!

please, think of the copyright holders, shareholders, and maintainers of the streaming services before using doubledouble.top!! they’re people too!!!

@mcc The right way to solve this is not to address stuff with domains whose ownership is transient, but with some sort of address whose semantics are "the site run by the party who owned domain D at time T" in a way that's cryptographically provable via DNSSEC signature chain that was valid at time T and whose existence was attested to by a notary at time between T and T+ε.

@mcc i'm more worried about .io for crates.io. that alone is far more infrastructure sunk cost than the rest of rust combined i think

Core Rust infrastructure is frequently hosted on the .rs ccTLD. Some of these sites could be used to drive supply chain attacks if their domains were ever compromised. .rs is operated by an NGO, but ultimately controlled by the government of Serbia.

Do there exist plausible future chains of events that could lead to some future government of Serbia suspending, or redirecting, Rust project/community sites hosted under .rs? Does the Rust community have contingency plans for this hypothetical?

no centralised social network could ever produce "the taliban deleted my account". that's a mastodon special.

i think this is the first fedi instance to have been seized by terrorists. godspeed queer.af

RE:
queer.af/users/erincandescent/statuses/111917570311051145

:boosts_ok_gay: PSA: queer.af has been seized by the Afghanistan NIC

the domain does not resolve anymore, this means that the website cannot be accessed anymore

i'm going to contact the admin to help them with allowing users to login still and press "migrate" on their accounts, since i have a feeling thats still possible, as a last-gasp effort of the server

I NOW HAVE A CERTIFICATE

SEE YOU, SUCKERS! I'M GOING TO COMPUTER!

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Have you ever seen a bus driver graffiti a car that has been parked in a bus stop?

Because I haven't. I saw nothing happen at all and there is no way I could identify the bus driver who did it.

This is lovely. A mix of nostalgia and joy and throwback hacks made of the worst and best parts of 00s JavaScript that came together to make me literally tear up. https://lyra.horse/antonymph/

When you're poor and can't feed yourself, it is more moral to simply go to a supermarket and take food from there

Supermarkets have unlimited food. The companies have infinity money

Food banks, charities, your friends and family, etc. also have limited resources. They may need the money themselves. If you take food from a supermarket, that means there's more food and money left at those places which can be used by people who can't do it

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