BlueSky is slopware, apparently. Nope nope nope. I'm out. Experiment over.

Drew DeVault – Building and scaling Hare's community governance #FOSSBack YouTube video by Plain Schwarz

Recording of my talk at #FOSSBack is up!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz5s...

A eulogy for Vim

drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2...

#vim #genai

Obviously you SHOULD read the privacy policy, particularly for anything you depend on to maintain your privacy and security, but it's victim blaming to insist that Protonmail isn't in the wrong here because this person should have read the privacy policy.

Protonmail fails to do this. And it's a moral outrage because, thanks to their marketing, Protonmail is the only thing standing between some people and a noose.

The deception is in the marketing.

I am of the opinion that if you market your tool as a means of protecting vulnerable people (e.g. activists), you have a moral obligation to clearly communicate how to use your tool effectively, maintain good opsec, and explain the limitations of your protection.

Sure

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Can I have an "I told you so" for all of the times I've criticized #Proton for misleading consumers about privacy? Privacy is implemented with math, not trust.

Matrix.org Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Does the #matrix homeserver at matrix.org still have a lot of issues? For non-technical users who end up there not knowing how or where to find a good alternative homeserver.

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed.

You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

GitHub warning: "A user you've blocked has previously contributed to this repository." listing the account "claude"

If you block an account on GitHub, you get a helpful warning on every repository it's morged to 👍

(sorry, I can't find who to credit this idea I saw a few day ago)

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

What's cooking on #SourceHut? Q1 2026

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nice, good luck :)

Planning to work with hare-vt or starting your own thing?

Hare 0.26.0 released

Hare 0.26.0 Released

- Loop values and for..else
- #DragonflyBSD support
- Explicit syntax for ignoring errors when needed
- Replacing @offset with fields named _ for padding structs
- Support for explicitly uninitialized variables

harelang.org/blog/2026-02...

#HareLang

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

But if this is the final nail in the coffin for you, then we're ready to welcome you to open platforms like #Matrix. But, expect the exodus to be small and underwhelming.

None of the bullshit Discord pulls matters if your friends are there. The network effect is insidious and underestimated. Anyone can look up the shit Discord gets up to and make a moral choice, but they don't, because their friends are there, and that's _all that matters_.

WhatsApp and the domestication of users WhatsApp's rise and recent PR efforts highlight a class of business models that I call "user domestication".

In Discord's defense, maybe the new rules will curtail some of this behavior. But I don't think age verification will cause a mass exodus that "kills" Discord, because Discord's users have been domesticated.

seirdy.one/posts/2021/0...

Children are constantly being groomed for sexual exploitation on Discord. Several dozen incidents are escalated to Discord's safety team every month - how many aren't caught? These are the latest numbers as of June 2024, the last transparency report. Who knows how bad it is now.

Transparency Hub | Discord Safety Discord transparency reports cover data and insights on the work we’re doing to keep Discord a safe place.

Of course, the real problem on Discord is child sexual exploitation. You should read their transparency reports. Over 7,000 servers were banned for "child safety" reasons between January and June 2024. 100k accounts were banned for distributing CSAM in the same period.

discord.com/safety-trans...

Gaming and Extremism: The Extreme Right on Discord ISD found Discord is a hub for extreme right-wing socializing, community building, and harassment, providing a safe space for sharing ideology.

There have always been great reasons to leave Discord, for instance the fact that Discord is a key part of the funnel for the far-right, hate groups, and modern fascists to bring young people into the fold and organize their activities.

www.isdglobal.org/publication/...

I heard some noise being made about people fleeing #Discord over the new age verification requirements. Personally, I doubt this is going to be what kills Discord, it's too entrenched in people's lives.

A mock-up of a SourceHut page showing the control panel for an organization.

Cooking something up for #sourcehut

you could simply leave the “Jewish” part out of this

it is a choice and it is a bad one and I would really, truly prefer that people ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum not make it

One objection I have to this post is that, well, he worked at a defense contractor, so I don't think he should have had to ask "why" he was building something to understand that its purpose was, ultimately, to kill people. That's the only thing defense contractors _do_.

Don't Get Distracted I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.

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Caleb Thompson: Don't get distracted

The fourth book is live! It includes the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable studies.
I'm really happy with the result. You can get a copy here amazon.com/dp/B0GLP3Q8HB

The cults of TDD and GenAI

drewdevault.com/2026/01/29/2...

#blog #genai #llms