Today I coded something I've been dreaming about for many months - a solution to the #ActivityPub scaling problem.

The problem is that if 20 people cast 5 votes and those votes are federated to 500 servers, the instance hosting the community needs to do 20 * 5 * 500 = 50,000 network requests.

The solution is to bundle the activity up into chunks. I describe the solution and how #PieFed does it here https://peertube.wtf/w/v5aWpxjS2P4pJSn62a2AYG (probably only of interest to developers).

#fediverse

Los Ángeles ayer. ¿De verdad alguien quiere algo así para su país?

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A hard boiled south of the border thriller in which the hero detective must track down a pair of sexy assassins before they catch on to his investigation. The Murder Ritas.

Dear United Airlines: I really want to respond to your quality surveys but you continue to send me down huge lists of questions and don't let me skip.

A few questions, a comment box, and that's it. I'm not going to spend 5+ minutes answering your million questions.

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

I know Paul Graham is not someone you generally want to take any advice from, but it's hard to not see truth in this:

By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in.

And it certainly seems like it all applies if you replace "the Internet" with "AI" and "Yahoo" with "OpenAI".

I deployed a broken thing. Oops.

I switched to @alpinelinux as my daily driver a couple of years ago. It's such a solid and simple distro. Just updated from 3.21 to 3.22. Took all of 5 minutes and zero issues.

Technical Writer looking for work!

Previously worked at Red Hat on OpenShift and Ceph, and at various startups. Been contracting the past year, but it's a tough market out there, and I'm very much in need of work.

I come from a technical background (software engineer). Open to contract work and FTE.

Reach out here or fionn@kelleher.email. Happy with solo work, or joining a team of writers.

Boosts appreciated.

Yup. The new #Nicaragua national speed limit is now 50 kmh (or 31 mph)!!!!!

This is not the way to stop the rise in accidents or crash fatalities. I mean wtf!!!!

Thank god I'm flying home to LA tomorrow where I can have some normalcy (riots, etc.) for a while. It'll feel good to be home.

Now when I'm asked why I use #aerc (or #mutt) for email I'll show them this:

https://possum.city/notes/a935f25f5kl1007g

I gripe about this basically every time I need to do anything official but the bureaucracy is so god damn slow and inefficient here in #Nicaragua. Three days I've now wasted.

These anomalies didn’t happen nationwide. They didn’t even happen across all voting methods—this just doesn’t reflect human voting behavior

https://substack.com/@thiswillhold/p-165658733

Anyone out there now of a #postfix compat #greylist filter that checks if the connecting server is part of the SPF configured senders? So annoying when big senders send email from various IP's and my system keeps re-greylisting them.

"Builder.ai used 700 engineers in India for coding work it marketed as AI-powered, after hype now goes bust"

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/builderai-used-700-engineers-in-india-for-coding-work-it-marketed-as-ai-powered-after-hype-now-goes-bust-2734963-2025-06-03

LOL

"Hey bro, I've got a great idea! Let's destroy our city that we're so proud of!!!"

• Every teams fan base after they've won a big championship

#idiots #paris

I thought ghost kitchens were cool until I found out the name was very misleading.

In England do they call it Super Mario Bruvs

God I can't tell you how much I hate the term "vibe coding"...

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/29/2025/the-hottest-new-vibe-coding-startup-lovable-is-a-sitting-duck-for-hackers

Seems like the SEO experts have found LinkTaco and are adding back links. Realizing I didn't place "nofollow" on the links. I'll get that fixed today.

Happy Monday

#medellin #colombia

How people still use Github is beyond me:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

Use Sourcehut, Codeberg, etc. instead.

Could Nicaragua be a new "It" destination?

https://www.vogue.com/article/nicaragua-travel

#nicaragua #travel

Updated my Samsung to One UI 7.0. That was a mistake.

Woke up at 5am yesterday to watch Chelsea lose 2-0. (this is a sad)

Stayed awake to watch Barcelona beat Real Madrid for the 4th El Clasico in a row this year. (this is a happy)

So in the end, things evened out. (Not gonna mention the LA Galaxy because I'll just begin to tear up)

#football #futbol

@caarlos0 @andreynering

an absolute legend teaching other legends (go enjoyers, duh) about the best platform (terminals) 🏆

we will try and get the recording of his talk and link it in the future for your listening pleasure!

Update: Carlos said the slides and material are available at https://carlosbecker.com/posts/gophercon-latam-2025/

I'm about 12 minutes away from harassing every Arsenal fan I know with:

"'Champions of Europe', you'll never sing that! You'll never sing that! You'll never sing that!"

Like most fans of English clubs, we're all PSG fans today!

I love it.

#championsleague #uecl #arsenal #psg

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

I've been exhausted from training as I reached the end of the current block. I told myself that my back is tired. Feels tight/sore. Don't push myself today. I even said I wasn't gonna being my belt or chalk so I'm not tempted to push.

I didn't listen. I brought my belt. My chalk. I pushed. I hurt my god damn back. Now I'm walking around like Quasimodo over here.

Hope it's not too bad. Feels like I'll be fine in a couple of days. Luckily I'm going on vacation next week so I'll be resting for a bit.

#powerlifting

Government Signal clone hacked in 20 minutes.

https://cyberinsider.com/signal-clone-app-used-by-trump-officials-hacked-in-minutes/

#security #cyber #trump

New LinkTaco release dropped:

https://linktaco.com/blog/new-linktaco-release-0.4.0.html

#bookmarks #opensource

I don't see what all the fuss is about. All US businesses have to do is build a few tens of thousands of factories and then hire and train 10 million specialised workers who'll be willing to work 60-hour weeks for $3 an hour.

Should take 6 weeks, tops. 3 if they use ChatGPT.

Whelp.

#nba #lakers

Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL's sponsorship of the network before us.

OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a very long time. They support projects we use, learn from, and contribute to. Many of these projects call Libera.Chat home.

Nonprofits, businesses, governments, and you all depend on projects OSL sponsors. If not directly, then somewhere upstream.

OSL is worth saving.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl

I was today's years old when I realized that a #golang http.Server.Listen() can be called multiple times with multiple listeners.

Until now I was instantiating multiple servers, one for each listener instead, which was a waste of resources.

#go #dev

"- In March 2025, senior members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) living in exile were targeted with a spearphishing campaign aimed at delivering Windows-based malware capable of conducting remote surveillance against its targets.

- The malware was delivered through a trojanized version of a legitimate open source word processing and spell check tool developed to support the use of the Uyghur language. The tool was originally built by a developer known and trusted by the targeted community.

- Although the malware itself was not particularly advanced, the delivery of the malware was extremely well customized to reach the target population and technical artifacts show that activity related to this campaign began in at least May of 2024.

- The ruse employed by the attackers replicates a typical pattern: threat actors likely aligned with the Chinese government have repeatedly instrumentalized software and websites that aim to support marginalized and repressed cultures to digitally target these same communities.

- This campaign shows the ongoing threats of digital transnational repression facing the Uyghur diaspora. Digital transnational repression arises when governments use digital technologies to surveil, intimidate, and silence exiled and diaspora communities."

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/04/uyghur-language-software-hijacked-to-deliver-malware/

#CyberSecurity #Malware #Spearphishing #China #Uyghurs #Xinjiang #Surveillance

Anyone else ever wonder if your recorded call was ever used for training or quality purposes?

The ever resourceful North Koreans are at it again.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_interview_questions/

I don't think I honked this but someone crashed my main vehicle about 6 weeks ago. And the wheels turn very slowly here in Nicaragua so I've been driving my old Hilux in the mean time (I was literally going to sell it the day after the crash, so I had to cancel that).

Well, finally today I get my vehicle back.

Oh, fun fact about Nicaragua. Full coverage car insurance here covers only 80% of the damages. So I have to pay 20% of the repair costs even though it wasn't my fault. Fun times in the tropics.

#rant

Migrated from anubis to go-away for a few reasons:

1. Anubis became to flashy for me. The progress bar, the need for npm, etc. just to build it. I hacked my own fork to keep that stuff out but keeping up with development became too much work.
2. go-away supports one daemon for multiple backends
3. go-away is a lot more configurable in terms of rules, conditions, specific situations, etc.

Not hating on Anubis. I still think it's great, just no longer fit my needs as it developed.

#anubis #go-away

// Claude wrote this!

Just ran into this in the wild for the first time. I threw up a bit in my mouth.

New GraphQL API schema docs for #LinkTaco

https://linktaco.com/blog/new-api-documentation-api-linktaco-com.html

Thanks to gockel from Conrad Hoffman over at Sourcehut for this.

#opensource #api #graphql #docs

Finally got annoyed enough with the honkers page repeating letters that I threw up a quick fix. Probably could be done better but whatever.

Changeset here:

https://hg.code.netlandish.com/~petersanchez/honk/rev/bcd251aa6eba5e62225cd157444dc497a337554a

#honk

Oh ffs! Just learned about "meal sequencing". Just eat clean whole foods (most of the time) and move your body. Don't worry about getting your fiber before your protein or whatever the fuck.

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

Make yourself a single point of failure, then fail.

LOL. Great line from:

https://drewdevault.com/2025/04/20/2025-04-20-Tech-sector-restistance.html

Getting Forked by Microsoft.

https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/

#opensource

Happy Monday all... Just dropped my reading list for 2024:

https://petersanchez.com/books-i-read-in-2024/

#reading #blog

Getting ready to watch the referees give Real Madrid about 4 penalties.

#championsleague #uefa #cheaters #arsenal #realmadrid

I had to write 3 tiny new CSS classes this morning. The font size wasn't being reflected on render. Then I remembered !important....

I think I'm a front end developer now.

#frontend #developer #css #godihatefrontend