Tim Chambers

Toot, Toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Huge Update Tuba 0.10 features a redesigned post composer, YouTube playback, timeline tweaks and more, making this open-source Linux Mastodon client even better. You're reading Toot, Toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Huge Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

I like some of these UX enhancments to this: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/tuba-0-10-mastodon-client-linux-new-features cc: @Tuba

The XKCD “All modern digital infrastructure” comic showing a teetering stack of boxes representing said infrastructure, only now a large wedge has been inserted ⅓ of the way up, placing most of the boxes at a precarious angle. The wedge is labelled “AI”

All modern digital infrastructure in 2025 (seen elsewhere):

A new study from two researchers at the University of Amsterdam looks at what makes social media so terrible — and found that it's not algorithms, non-chronological feeds or humans' tendency to seek out negativity. "Rather, the dynamics that give rise to all those negative outcomes are […]

Single most annoying thing to me about Claude Code is that it consistently does "what it believes you meant, based on what you said" rather than "what you said"

Apparently this is a deliberate/intentional feature - but really wish there was a way to disable

"The Pixar Lamp!!"

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/13/apple-launching-robot-virtual-companion-in-2027/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.

Very cool! astral.sh/blog/introdu...

Software: Ghost Displaying aggregated statistics about instances participating in the Fediverse running this software as of 2025-08-12.

New Ghost CMS users on the fediverse... cc: @ghost

Great post by Dries https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure

It is high time that #OpenSource is recognized for what it is, critical digital infrastructure!

I was happy to be able to contribute a small amount to this post.

All the more need for the open social web, & discovery services like @Flipboard & @surf --

"The number of sessions resulting from Google Search traffic has declined to 28% from 52%...The decline has prompted People Inc. to internally use the term 'Google Zero.' ...'OK, we need to aggregate […]

Daily Beast story headline: White House Wants Big Balls to Get Same Medal as Rosa Parks The move would appeal to Trump’s MAGA base. The screenshot of the story features a video of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt .

Apparently, being a DOGE douche, former Com denizen, and getting carjacked and beat up by two 15-year-olds qualifies one for consideration for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. Who knew? […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]

@phillycodehound Hoisted on their own petard, as they say.

How Cheryl Hines went from liberal Hollywood actress to Mrs. MAHA.

From @WSJ: "She used to be Larry David’s TV wife. Now she’s a political spouse to one of the most polarizing Trump officials of them all."

Gift link: https://flip.it/6GUX2d

#CherylHines #Hollywood #LarryDavid #MAHA #RFKJr […]

Breaking: Ramping up federal control of Washington DC, the Department of Justice has dispatched over 100 Epstein File clerks to assist with police efforts.

For the love of god can we stop anthropomorphising LLMs. No, ChatGPT did not "come up with an excuse" or "think about its mistakes". Gemini did not "lie about its reasoning" or "struggle to understand basic concepts". Grok didn't "decide to praise Nazis" or "express it's support for genocide" […]

Trump Administration to Put F.B.I. Agents on Night Patrol in Washington

Trump is also putting FBI agents (?!) on patrol in DC at night.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

So I made a thing.

The vast majority of the time was spent in navigating guidelines around packaging and screenshots (and I probably still have bits of that wrong), and being less familiar with Codeberg than GH.

Fedinspect is expected to be more interesting for developers poking around at […]

Giving a talk about bitchat, nostr private groups with MLS, and what we’re doing with andotherstuff.org at #why2025 in an hour at 7pm CET. Watch the stream https://streaming.media.ccc.de/why2025/delphinus

Today Trump again proved he is #PutinsPuppet. He said: “I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelensky was saying, ‘I have to get constitutional approval’ to relinquish territory. He’s got approval to go into war and kill everybody, but he needs approval to do a land swap?”

Trump pretended […]

A time-lapse of the night sky provides a background to the text which reads: Now distributing across the Open Social Web. Ghost. The future of community building is on the Open Social Web.

Earlier this week Ghost announced a major update. With it, every Ghost publication is now on the Open Social Web.

This is a huge step forward for the Open Social Web and a real testament to how work across the Social Web is benefitting creators and […]

[Original post on newsmast.social]

Last month, job boards for actors were flooded with ads looking for people to record “conversations, character voices, and natural speech to help train AI systems," for a project by Microsoft. Payment was orders of magnitude more than a normal acting gig — up to $80,000, where a national ad […]