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  #AskFedi I need a collaborative document tool (maybe like etherpad?) where I can have a public view, a private link for editing, and ideally another so some people can comment. What's good these days?

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  With the Rails 8.2 release (probably) imminent, work is about to ramp up on @mosscap@ruby.social, the fork we've been laying the groundwork for. If you want to reduce the impact of the "weird guys" on Rails, Ruby and OSS in general, we need your help! This is ESPECIALLY true if you're a member of a community marginalized by the far-right rhetoric that comes from Rails' founder. This fork can't be led by the usual white male voices (e.g. me), we need *much* more divers...

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  I'll automate your protocol deliverability probe right into the fucking sea, my son

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  I mean, find me a single American tech organisation that *isn’t* full of right wing libertarians. That’s the secret lurking in open source - it’s actually a weird combo of gun-toting anti-government survivalists and radical progressives* who have managed for years to share some similar goals because politics wasn’t mentioned. But then software ate the world; software *is* politics, and vice versa. * (I’m in the second camp, I’m sure the first camp would use different words for me.)

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  Modern Dependency Problems (with apologies and thanks to XKCD) Probably needs more arrows, tbh

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  Excited to announce that @fedipub@ruby.social (formerly known as Federails), the Rails engine for #ActivityPub that powers (amongst other things) @manyfold@3dp.chat, has been awarded a grant in the latest round from @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz. I’ll be building community, docs, rounding out features, and ideally making it usable in non-Rails Ruby apps too! https://nlnet.nl/project/Fedipub/

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  This morning in #Amiko, the community #RailsFork: 1. 138 people now in the Matrix space at https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org 2. We've had success in running some **major** #Rails apps on experimental forked versions of both `rails` and `railties`, and at running our equivalent of `rails new`. 3. We're building community governance using Sociocracy: https://sociocracy30.org/ 4. Work progresses on website, brand, and determining a non-placeholder name This *is* happening, and we n...

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  Today in @amiko@ruby.social news; - community still growing (>130) - increasing activity on all fronts, from website dev to governance to design And… … we have a complex real-world app running *without the Rails gem or namespace*. 🎉 Onward!

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  Incredible scenes: had a takedown demand from a large unnamed miniature company for a model I remixed and published on Thingiverse. - It only uses CC-BY sources - it’s a proxy for a unit that does not have a purchasable model - it looks completely different from anything they ever made I think this is purely because it uses one of their trademarked words in the description and tag, and it’s been caught by some script. Shame I have it completely self-hosted these days… https://manyfold.floppy....

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  Today, from the “why the hell would anyone build this?” department: https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/

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  Some updates and stats for #Amiko (#Rails fork): ~650 boosts for the “this is happening” post. That’s *huge* numbers for the Fediverse, in my experience. 98 people in the matrix space as of right now. Should break 100 shortly. Code exploration has started, we’re working out how to do this. If you run a podcast or tech news blog, I’m happy to talk to you about all this, DM me. We need your help, *especially* if you’ve ever been involved in Rails internals. https://matrix.to/#/%23amiko:matr...

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  RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116940067151749214 This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise. https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@concretedog/116976794778175500 Note that the opt-out mentions username; it also means organisation name, so make sure to opt out those too. And you can replace the list with “- all” to ask for everything under that name to be removed. 3316 requests so far, let’s get that number up. Ludicrous that we should need to do this.

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  RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Darkedge/116974859896967732 GIVE ME THIS RIGHT NOW

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  I've set up a Matrix space for anyone up for forking #Rails away from #DHH's influence. Let's start actively working on this. https://matrix.to/#/#forking-rails:matrix.org (If there's already a space for this, do let me know, I'll go there instead)

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  Someone (I suspect the same one who was ban-evading earlier) is now spamming #EMFCamp people via Matrix. Get a fucking life, you twat.

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  DHH has now gone even more full “send ‘em back where they came from” along with “stop trying to fix climate change” and “AI hypercapitalism yay” I cannot express enough, FUCK THIS WHITE NATIONALIST ARSEHOLE, and anyone not wanting to cut the #Ruby and #Rails communities ties with him should be *fucking ashamed of themselves*.

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  Boko Haram get some special category of Darwin award, surely: > We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges … We used A.I. to learn how to do this. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we use and the distance we need to jump and so on, and it gave us steps on what we have to do. We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Eight of us managed to do it. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/13/terrorists-are-using-ai-and-th...

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  This morning I've had three "hey I'd like to work on this" comments on various GitHub issues. Nowadays I have to waste my time looking at the accounts to make sure they're not LLMs or people wanting to use LLMs, and all those 3 were. One was out and out pretending to be a human; two were doing some AI programming course (CodePath AI301?) and had decided that picking an issue from a project that explicitly disallows LLM contributions would be a good idea. Fuck *all* of thi...

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  Further progress #emfcamp

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sabrinkmann/116880922879964890 It's honestly SO exciting to see people create lovely things, host them on @manyfold@3dp.chat and then I see them come up in my feed. It's like... the system works!

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  For all your goose valuation requirements, #HTTPShirts has you covered. Props go to @livingpixel@indieweb.social for the invention of the 571 error code, and for Softbank for being... whatever it is they are. https://sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshirts

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  Mastodon really wants me to know this important news:

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  Accidentally painted a #Moonstone Jackalope while waiting for code to do code things today. #MiniPainting

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  Trying to solder something and it’s an exercise in frustration, as my iron appears to be dogshit. Maybe at 50 it’s time to treat myself to a decent one. Recommendations welcome. I don’t do much soldering, but when I do I’d like something that *works*

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  Some new #HTTPShirts available: 102, 303, 406, 409, 507, 508, plus bonus spline reticulation and burning printers: https://sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshirts

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  I appear to now be a fashion designer for balding men

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  RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116732458668556757 Modern finance is *insane*, and apparently getting even more so. This makes absolutely no sense, surely?

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  Been meaning to do this for years... HTTPShirts is now live for all your HTTP-based clothing needs. https://sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshirts

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  Just backed the Technofascism Survival Guide: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide #Kickstarter