Jade

Shame it's iOS only, this looks pretty interesting - they seem to be working on distributed MLS

The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

Dematerializing unposted words from www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

-implemented to prevent unbounded traffic growth (like the AI crawlers end up doing).

FWIW robots.txt was created in the context of search engines and was always a traffic management strategy to prevent overcrawling and wasted budget. Stuff like URL previews and user-directed agents it doesn't necessarily make sense to implement it, but for stuff that is fully automated it should be-

Who wants to bet how many link preview implementations check robots.txt?

Group interviews; candidate with the most hated music taste is hired

Number of plushies must be more than the CEO's

60 members* (I didn't notice it was encrypted for like a day)

Smh Nyx, no Nix

Nex doing nex things 🔥

How I hacked my washing machine - Nex's Blog I ran out of characters for microblogging so this is where the big words go

wrote some words about how i hacked my washing machine because I'm really bad a time keeping and need to be told when things are done nexy.blog/2025/07/27/h...

xD

Let's Talk About Policy Servers How Continuwuity's new Policy Server support helps filter unwanted content, creating a cleaner and safer chat experience for everyone.

So for those of you wondering what that first item in the latest Continuwuity changelog actually means, I wrote an explainer:

jade.ellis.link/blog/2025/07...

#Matrix #Continuwuity #OpenSource

I also keep getting these emails saying that I've got invoices due for my server?? You can help with that at github.com/sponsors/Jad... - or you can help @nex@fedi.transgender.ing at timedout.uk/donate.html

Stargazers · continuwuity/continuwuity [Mirror] A community-driven Matrix chat server, forked from conduwuit - Stargazers · continuwuity/continuwuity

My dopamine receptors also say that a boost and a star on GitHub would help things go faster and make me feel better: github.com/continuwuity...

What's up next? We've got moderation, bug fixes, *cough* security releases and more in the pipeline. As per usual, most things we're planning to tackle are on our Forgejo's issue tracker or pull requests. You can get involved here: forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuati...

A huge thank you to our 11 contributors for this release!

Get the full changelog and download it here:
forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuati...

Here are the highlights:
🕵️ Full Policy Server support to fight spam!
🤖 reCaptcha support for safer open registration.
🚫 User suspension tools for better moderation.
🚀 Smarter room & space upgrades.
🔍 Ability to disable read receipts & typing indicators.
⚡ Sweeping performance improvements!

v0.5.0-rc.7 - continuwuation/continuwuity Continuwuity is a community-driven Matrix homeserver written entirely in Rust. Today we're sharing over a months worth of work with **177 commits**, **36 pull requests** and **11 contributors** as `v0...

*taps microphone* The Continuwuity 0.5.0-rc.7 release is now available, and it's better than ever!

Our amazing community merged 35 pull requests to bring you some fantastic new features for our #Rust-based #Matrix homeserver.

#Continuwuity #FOSS #Homeserver #SelfHosting #Release

(why is the character limit so low? 😭)

Most people don't keep track of what apps have which permissions, and all it takes is one press to enable access to everything. 3/

Local models aren't likely to be an option for mobile use, and even having the API to do a lot of these things available to third-party apps introduces a massive vector for abuse. 2/

Yeah, cloud models are a big problem. But this is less about the programming models that we use on the desktop, and more about things like Google's Gemini in android. 1/

This very clearly articulates the massive incompatibility between AI as it stands and privacy and security

These researchers cooked and ate.

(Using slang as an anti-ai measure, brb once I rewrite my blog and put a filter on my Forgejo instance)

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v0.5.0-rc.6 - continuwuation/continuwuity Continuwuity is a community-driven fork and continuation of the much-loved conduwuit Matrix homeserver, written entirely in Rust. Today we're releasing `v0.5.0-rc.6`! We've made knock-restricted room...

Hey everyone!
New release v0.5.0-rc.6 of continuwuity is out now!

We've introduced a new, welcoming HTML landing page, fixed a lot of bugs and improved knock_restricted room support!

Continuwuity is a community-driven Matrix chat server written in Rust.

forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuati...

Gearing Up for a Summer of Code (Again!): GSoC 2025 Acceptance Announcing my acceptance into Google Summer of Code 2025, where I'll be working on a Matrix Archiver project for MetaBrainz!

I'm doing GSoC 2025!

I'll be working on a Matrix archiver for @metabrainz@mastodon.social !

jade.ellis.link/blog/2025/05...

#GSoC #GoogleSummerofCode #Matrix #OpenSource

Actually stopping AI scrapers from taking down my server Preventing aggressive scraper bots from impacting my forgejo instance

I got tired of AI scrapers attacking my server to the point they took it down entirely. After some experimentation, I think I have a solution now!

jade.ellis.link/blog/2025/05...