Aral Balkan

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral

Social oncologist.

I make small things.

Unapologetically anti-genocide.

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Me: https://ar.al
Small Technology Foundation: https://small-tech.org
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Gaza Verified: https://gaza-verified.org

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2026-04-11 22:02:48 UTC

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Yep, it’s been half an hour and no dropouts… I’m calling it, my lovely new BBC Micro B is fixed :)
Yay! Soooo excited to play with it tomorrow 🥳
Here’s a before video:
https://vimeo.com/1181523949#t=26
And an after:
https://vimeo.com/1182284426
And the issue, for anyone else who stumbles on this thread, was the 16MHz oscillator circuit (marked X1 on the main board).
Also, I could only find a lot of 50 of them, so if anyone needs one, just hit me up and I’ll send it to you :)
Huge thanks to the folks on the stardot.org.uk for sharing the fix: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=246304#p246304
#BBCMicro #BBCMicroModelB #video #dropout #issue #fix #x1 #oscillator

2026-04-11 21:24:40 UTC

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Setting a stopwatch now but so far, it seems to be stable. And I swear it appeared so much faster than before :)

2026-04-11 20:46:23 UTC

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Right, well, oscillator replaced. No solder accidents.
Going to put it back together and try it out.
🤞
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2026-04-11 19:25:21 UTC

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So mine’s apparently an Issue 4 from 1982. Although there’s a sticker in it that reads 1 Nov 83 (maybe when it was sold/serviced?)
The board’s out and yes, I was a bit of a barbarian and, since I’m not going to be using the composite out, cut the wires to it instead of desoldering them. If I ever need it, I can just connect the wires again.
Now the bit that scares me…
#BBCMicro
#repair
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2026-04-11 18:17:55 UTC

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✅ Step 1 (the easy bit)
(The X1 oscillator is circled in white.)
(Did I mention I’m a nervous solderer?) :)
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2026-04-11 18:09:02 UTC

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Wish me the luck, the little guy’s going under the knife… the video signal cuts out intermittently so I’m going to try changing the 16MHz oscillating crystal.
🤞
#BBCMicro
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2026-04-10 06:55:00 UTC

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116378390202896203
If you were wondering whether the phone you paid hundreds of pounds for is yours, it’s not. It’s still Apple’s and they decide what you can do with it.
That isn’t a tool; it’s a shackle.
And no trillion-dollar corporation is your friend.
(I’m tapping this out on what will likely be my last iPhone. Hopefully the EU will get its act together so people without iPhones and Android phones can still do basic things like banking and paying for stuff with their phones by then.)
#note1gqz…ugrp

2026-03-12 13:19:35 UTC

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Thank you 💕

2026-03-12 13:01:00 UTC

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As an en dash person myself, I feel like I’ve dodged a bullet.

2026-03-12 12:45:49 UTC

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*tears out hair*

2026-03-12 12:45:20 UTC

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Manar, if you could please make a version of this post without mentioning all these other people and let me know, I’ll be happy to boost it.
(Mass mentioning people in posts can get your account suspended for spam and we want to avoid that.)
Lots of love to you and your family 💕

2026-03-12 12:41:52 UTC

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Today in surveillance capitalism…

2026-03-12 12:40:39 UTC

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Glad to hear you’re safe.

2026-03-12 12:37:49 UTC

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Thanks so much, Aaron :)

2026-03-12 12:33:57 UTC

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You and I both, Sean, you and I both.

2026-03-12 12:33:19 UTC

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Only they can’t ride a horse and they have nuclear weapons for dicks.

2026-03-12 12:30:41 UTC

@npub1pyy…6wy6 Yeah, you tell yourself that.

2026-03-12 12:29:36 UTC

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Is “a not-a-fascist that supports genocide” like a pacifist that supports war? I’m sorry for my confusion, I’m terrible at bullshit.

2026-03-12 12:12:22 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltEvil/116215770563388306
“It just would have been genocide as usual in Gaza and I was perfectly fine with that.”
When will corporate liberals learn to stop blaming people for not voting against their conscience and instead tear down a system whose only offer to the world is genocide or genocide, faster?
#note1edp…587d

2026-03-12 11:25:37 UTC

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Thank you 💕

2026-03-12 11:24:04 UTC

If a not-for-profit for-profit privacy-protecting company funded by surveillance capitalism isn’t trustworthy, I don’t know what is. @npub1ycl…n2g4 https://polymaths.social/@cmccullough/statuses/01KKFS4A6MWZG4KTYMR46AKD79

2026-03-12 11:20:58 UTC

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But they’re bloody everywhere :)

2026-03-12 11:19:17 UTC

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Real men bomb schoolgirls and sink unarmed ships™

2026-03-12 11:16:03 UTC

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Aaaargh! :)

2026-03-12 11:10:54 UTC

Is it too much to ask to live out the rest of my life without hearing some guy in a video utter “so, let’s get into it” ever again?

2026-03-12 09:23:03 UTC

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I can see both her Mastodon profile and her verification page (https://gaza-verified.org/people/@npub17gv…pqfv/)
Are you still having trouble with it?

2026-03-12 09:03:30 UTC

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Nope. He comes and builds a mini Las Vegas on the seafront, moves all the Palestinians into concentration camps or expels them, or, if he’s feeling generous, allows them to clean the rooms in his hotels.
There is no world in which anything Trump does benefits anyone in Gaza or anywhere else. He’s in it only for himself. He’s a malignant narcissist with an army.

2026-03-12 09:00:41 UTC

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💕

2026-03-12 08:59:18 UTC

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I wish we could get some of these to Gaza.

2026-03-12 08:56:44 UTC

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“They may mostly look like us but let’s not forget that they’re still our subjects.”
Once a colonialist…

2026-03-12 08:50:23 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/116215317674500263
You’re entirely right, that was a girl’s school and not a military stronghold. Thank you for correcting me.
Is there anyone else I can help you murder today?
#note1vgl…8fk3

2026-03-12 08:47:18 UTC

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Trump doesn’t want peace, he wants a piece of Gaza.

2026-03-12 08:45:58 UTC

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Thank you for leading the struggle on this. And congratulations.

2026-03-12 08:33:23 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Folks, we did it. We now have $600/month in pledges to pay Aseel and her family’s rent so they can leave their tent and move into the apartment they found.
I’m going to collate the list of patrons today and be in touch about how we can best execute the payments.
I’ll also update you on the status of Aseel and her family’s move from their tent to their new apartment.
Thank you all so much.
💕
#note1puj…em9f

2026-03-12 08:29:17 UTC

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Aaron, thank you so much. I’m sorry I apparently missed your reply when you first wrote it :)
I’m going to collate the list of all the patrons and I’ll be touch very soon so we can coordinate how best to make the payments, etc.
💕

2026-03-12 08:25:27 UTC

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Thank you so much, that puts us over the line :)
I’ll figure out the best way we can set these up and will be in touch shortly :)
💕

2026-03-12 08:08:44 UTC

“Normal” is the leash they lead you by.

2026-03-12 07:46:44 UTC

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116212328257230121
“These men aren’t aberrations, they’re a template I’ve seen everywhere. They’re saying the same words I’d heard all week in the mansion. The same words I’d heard in the copycat San Francisco transplant coworking spaces of Melbourne, Sydney’s Silicon Beach, and Apple’s developer conferences: Violence, then rebuild; profit, then philanthropy – repeat! Different war, same business model, new interface, same shining eyes. ‘We’re making the world a better place.’”
Every word of this post resonates with me and what I’m working for with the Small Web stuff👇
#note1a3h…xgsv

2026-03-12 07:10:13 UTC

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Just woke up to another anonymous patron for Aseel with a $50/month pledge :) Thank you so much! This leaves us with just one $30/month pledge (or three $10/month pledges?) to hit our $600/month goal that will cover Aseel and her family’s ongoing rent so they can move out of the precarity of their tent and into the relative safety and stability of an apartment.
Can we get this over the line today.
The moment we’ve secured enough pledges, they can move.
Thank you all so much for getting us this far :)
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #mutualAid #fediAid

2026-03-11 22:37:08 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Folks, I really want to see Aseel and her family safe in the apartment they’ve found and out of the precarity of life in a tent.
We’ve got 15 patrons, including me, who’ve pledged to pay $520 of the $600 a month they need for the rent.
We just need maybe two or three more patrons to pledge to pay the remaining $80/month among them.
He moment we have the pledges in, they’ll be able to move.
So what do you say? Your patronage will literally put a roof over a Gazan family’s head.
If you’d like to pledge a monthly amount, please either reply publicly to this thread or directly to me if you’d like to remain anonymous. Once we hit our goal, I’ll be in touch so we can coordinate our monthly payments.
Even if you can’t help financially, sharing this post might get it in front of someone who can.
Thank you!
💕
(I’m off to bed now but hopefully I can deliver some good news to Aseel when I wake in the morning.) :)
#note1puj…em9f

2026-03-11 22:29:08 UTC

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💕

2026-03-11 22:16:05 UTC

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Alt text: social media post: Helen Dixon
Global Digital Regulatory Consultant; Independent Non-Exec...
4h • Edited
I just started in a really interesting new role!
I am delighted to join the team at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP at a time when data and technology regulation along with digital platform governance are rapidly evolving.
Regulators are placing greater emphasis on accountability, transparency, and risk mitigation in online environments.
As the firm's Global Digital Regulatory Consultant, I look forward to helping clients develop practical strategies that enable them to operate confidently while meeting regulatory and societal expectations.
#MHCLaw #Leadership #Regulation

2026-03-11 22:02:49 UTC

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You spelled evil sociopath wrong.

2026-03-11 22:00:00 UTC

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Yep. And it’s possible they have heuristics for when they show the doorslam and when they don’t.

2026-03-11 16:50:33 UTC

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I guess my screenshot took was lying.

2026-03-11 12:26:19 UTC

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I hadn’t heard of it but likely not, no. Funds are tight at the moment and I have to deliver on the Small Web this year (self imposed deadline).

2026-03-11 12:10:58 UTC

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Of course :)

2026-03-11 10:41:16 UTC

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Most of Starmer’s energy is spent standing upright while lacking a spine.

2026-03-11 10:31:40 UTC

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Thanks, undoing my boost.

2026-03-11 10:19:24 UTC

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I mean, haven’t we already? :)

2026-03-11 10:16:31 UTC

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I truly don’t know.

2026-03-11 10:15:23 UTC

“The founder of OpenClaw, vibe coder Peter Steinberger, was also hired by a Big Tech firm.”
If there’s one thing that gives me comfort in this world, it’s knowing I will never be called “vibe coder”.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/meta-acquires-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network/

2026-03-11 10:09:06 UTC

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Alt text: screenshot of social media post.
Photo of rows of dead kids in white burial shrouds with their portraits framed next to them and grieving relatives.
Text: Zarah Sultana MP O @zarahsultana
Today parents in Iran buried 165 children killed in the attack on a girls' primary school by the United States and Israel.
From Gaza to Iran, this is what "liberation" by the West looks like.

2026-03-11 10:05:01 UTC

When you post things on Instagram, Facebook, and X, this is what they look like to people who don’t use those platforms. @npub1c6v…d3tg https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116172585169719449
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2026-03-11 09:53:08 UTC

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Eat a sloth’s mouth may just be my new favourite insult :)

2026-03-11 08:14:27 UTC

I don’t understand why people are so upset.
The rules are pretty clear:
• Israel and the US can bomb the fuck out of anyone they want.
• If you don’t like it, you can go pound sand.
Seems fair to me.
🤷‍♂️

2026-03-11 08:06:56 UTC

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I wonder what percentage has been damaged by human beings.

2026-03-11 07:26:33 UTC

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You too :)

2026-03-11 07:23:32 UTC

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Now if only we could also adopt that mindset for free software that exists to benefit people, not corporations.

2026-03-11 07:18:15 UTC

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It’s early :)

2026-03-11 07:14:55 UTC

Remember folks, Trump is only bombing the shit out of the Iraqi people because he cares deeply about women’s rights.

2026-03-11 07:05:49 UTC

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Ah, I missed the AI bit. Are we talking something like Anthropic or OpenAI here or is this a local ML model?

2026-03-08 09:45:46 UTC

When Anthropic’s AI isn’t being used to mass murder schoolgirls in Iran, it’s helping Mozilla improve Firefox.
So it’s not all bad, surely.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/
#AI #Mozilla #Anthropic

2026-01-05 10:21:30 UTC

Folks, I’m just putting the finishing touches on an update to the Gaza Verified site that will make signing up for a verification account as easy as signing in with your Mastodon account (with none of the manual adding of the verification link to your profile that proved to be a stumbling block for many).
I’ll be reopening sign ups today once I’m done with that.
In the meanwhile, please remember that there are folks in Gaza who are suffering through an ongoing genocide at the hands of Israel and its Weatern allies (US, UK, and the EU) so if you can help, please do:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
None of us are an international agency and we can’t help everyone but you can help improve one person’s life and that of their family and that means something too, especially when the international agencies that should be helping are being prevented from doing so by Israel and the US.
#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #israel #usa #uk #eu #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid

2025-05-07 14:03:31 UTC

RTÉ asks EBU for discussion on Israel's inclusion in Eurovision Song Contest
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0507/1511481-eurovision-nuj/
#israel #genocide #Palestine #BDS #boycott #eurovision #ireland

2025-05-05 10:48:45 UTC

So the other day my Onewheel started pushing back at relatively low speeds. My first thought was, “must be tire pressure.” Pumped up the tire, went out again, same thing. Hmm… could I have inadvertently changed the shaping?
So I fire up the app to find the setting for the shaping and I’m stumped. There’s nothing about it on the main nav at the bottom. So I look under the hamburger menu and I find a Settings section and go there. Nope, nothing.
Wtf?
Literally after staring at the app for ten minutes I accidentally trigger the photo carousel and *bam!* get notified that the shaping has changed.
Which, clearly, is how I’d fumbled into onto the beginner setting when I ride Pacific.
The shaping, by the way, is what determines the character of your board and ride. It’s a major thing. It impacts safety. And in this app, it’s set by swiping on a control that looks like a photo gallery of OneWheel photos.
🤦‍♂️
Moral of the story for designers: make everyday actions simple to perform, yes, but, equally, make actions that are infrequently performed and/or could have potentially catastrophic consequences hard to perform. Also, make your controls look like controls and label them.
#design #OneWheel #app
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2025-05-02 09:48:46 UTC

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Yeah, it never worked properly for me under Wayland/Fedora. Ended up switching back to a Mac after six years as it was seriously impacting screen reader testing during my development work. Not sure what the current state is given major distros are removing x11 support.
https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/

2025-05-02 04:47:24 UTC

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Nice. Does it have a working screen reader? There’s an open issue from three years ago saying the screen reader doesn’t work.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/issues/480
#gnome #accessibility #gnomeOS

2025-05-01 07:45:26 UTC

Well look what just arrived from Palestine by way of Amplifier Films.
If you want to wear a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian people in their resistance against Israeli genocide while also helping @npub1srk…l9a9 raise funds for their documentary, A Red Road to the West Bank, go here and please donate:
https://amplifierfilms.ca/wear-your-solidarity-keffiyehs-for-a-cause
#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #colonialism #Keffiyeh #PalestinianSolidarity #IndigenousResistance #AmplifierFilms #documentary
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2025-04-30 06:39:46 UTC

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if every four years you must vote to keep out fascism, you’re not living in a democracy, you’re living under siege.
Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. Either democracies have constitutional protections and democratic institutions to enforce them to ensure fascism can never be voted into power or they are just fascisms in waiting.

2025-04-30 06:20:45 UTC

Morning all! I was supposed to join @npub1k64…eehk for their Lispy Gopher Show podcast yesterday but time zone differences meant I had to send a recording instead which they discussed with questions from their mud (yep, it’s a geeky community) :)
I touched on the history of computing, the current challenge to our human rights and democracy with technofascism, and how the Small Web is one attempt to safeguard our freedoms by creating a peer-to-peer web owned and controlled by everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing. (And the role of design and simplicity in making this possible.)
Anyway, here’s the full recording I sent (as it skips around a bit in the show):
https://vimeo.com/1079992713
And here’s the recording of the show itself with commentary by screwlisp and the community:
https://communitymedia.video/w/kTjUgHSYCZsJwucUPVoLgx
Thanks for having me on and sorry I couldn’t be there in person.
💕
#LispyGopherShow #lispyGopherClimate #screwlisp #podcast #SmallWeb #SmallTech #Kitten #Domain #Place #peerToPeer #web #HumanRights #Democracy #design

2025-04-29 11:05:47 UTC

An asshole in every language. https://mastodon.social/@botwiki/114418271600163996

2025-04-29 09:57:01 UTC

“Some cochlear implant users who can’t afford to keep up with compulsory technology upgrades are now losing their hearing.”
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/
Congratulations, capitalism, you’re doing amazing, sweetie.
Via @npub1swf…6nkk
#capitalism #theCrueltyIsThePoint #humanRights #humanity

2025-04-21 11:28:43 UTC

Do not visit FSA (Fascist States of America) reason #24,528.
Already made plans?
Cancel them.
#USA #FSA #fascism #travelWarning #EU https://beige.party/@amiserabilist/114373886321240206

2025-04-16 10:00:29 UTC

Yay, just got my Kobo Libra Colour and it’s beautiful 🥰
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2025-04-16 06:55:59 UTC

Oh, this? It’s just the federated Bluesky PBC, funded by federated venture capital, federatedly censoring people on behalf of the federated dictator of federated Turkey, Federated Erdoğan. https://mas.to/@osma/114346166890552471

2025-04-16 06:40:52 UTC

Folks in five years: Oh, Bluesky enshittified, who could have seen it coming?
OK, OK, calm down, I’m just kidding.
It won’t take five years.
#SiliconValley #BigTech #ventureCapital

2025-04-15 21:09:05 UTC

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Don’t forget they’re VC-funded. They will go to shit eventually. They all do. (See the news section which is all Microsoft links, for example.) I’ve started using/paying for Kagi and it’s currently good.

2025-04-03 07:03:12 UTC

“International law.”
https://www.inkl.com/a/lwBRArtvnxv
#israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #Netanyahu #Hungary #Orban #EU #ruleOfLaw #internationalLaw #ICC

2025-04-02 12:45:33 UTC

I swear if I see any MAGA here in Ireland I’m just laughing in their faces. I might even point. I suggest you do the same. You run a pub or cafe? Refuse to serve them. Show these bastards they’re not welcome here. We don’t need fucking fascist tourists in Ireland.
#Ireland #MAGA #USA #fascism

2025-04-02 05:53:41 UTC

Any non-US companies that bow to US fascism should be boycotted to death. (Goes without saying for US companies.) https://aus.social/@spinopsys/114264688892861801

2025-04-01 15:30:15 UTC

New Kitten release
• Minor fix: Styles automatically gathered and de-duplicated from the body into the head are now placed _after_ other items in the <head> slot. Since you would expect styles added to the body of the page to override ones in the head, this now brings Kitten’s behaviour in-line with authoring expectations.
https://kitten.small-web.org
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕
#Kitten #SmallWeb #CSS #web #dev

2025-03-31 19:58:52 UTC

New Kitten update
• 🥳 Kitten HTML templates and kitten.Component component render functions can now be async.
https://kitten.small-web.org
This is quite a big one and it took me finally biting the bullet and getting my head around generators in JavaScript to implement properly.
So now you can mix synchronous and asynchronous components as you like and if there are any asynchronous components in your templates they will automatically be awaited (even if you forget to use await) ;)
I’ll write a proper post/tutorial/documentation for it soon but for the time being enjoy the screenshots where a layout template gets the latest three posts from my mock fediverse public timeline service and displays them on the page.
The kitten.Component version also has a refresh button that streams a different three to the page.
For those of you unfamiliar with Kitten, this is all the code in either example. No scaffolding, nothing. Pop either into a file called index.page.js and run kitten in that folder and visit https://localhost to see the example run.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕
#Kitten #SmallWeb #async #components #templates #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #NodeJS #generators #web #dev
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2025-03-31 07:59:26 UTC

There, fixed it for you.
#UK #neoliberalism #capitalism
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/114/255/984/496/418/602/original/f16ab9614ac72d9c.jpeg

2025-03-30 22:25:05 UTC

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Good luck with it :)

2025-03-29 10:58:26 UTC

Dear mobile app devs,
Do not make me take a fucking screenshot of your fucking app and use fucking optical character recognition just so I can fucking copy and paste some fucking text.
Thank you for your attention.

2025-03-28 10:20:08 UTC

The only way things might change in the US is if the people rise up. Mass protests. A general strike. While I’m not giving up hope that that might happen, I’m also not holding my breath. In the meanwhile, those of us on the outside must do whatever we can band together and divest ourselves of reliance on the US… especially in critical areas (and that includes technology and Internet infrastructure) before we’re held to ransom. The US is not becoming a fascist country, it has become a fascist country and we’re all fair game. The sooner we come to terms with this new reality and start taking action to protect ourselves as well as the core tenets and institutions of civilisation itself, the better.

2025-03-27 15:01:18 UTC

How’s them vibes?
(Almost like it’s good to know what you’re doing when you do something.)
Via @npub19xz…pzaf (Web Weekly newsletter #155 – https://www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-weekly-155/)
#vibeCoding #coding #tech #bullshit
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2025-03-27 07:24:53 UTC

Challenge to white Europeans: “I loved you when all we were doing was fucking over Brown people in faraway lands together but now you’re attacking us and we’re white and that’s not OK, so our romance is on hold until you come to your senses and we can go back to the way things were” isn’t the shining moral stance you might think it is.
How about a little introspection? How about a little embarrassment of past and ongoing complicity? How about a commitment to human rights and justice for all? https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114230979296153201

2025-03-26 07:45:58 UTC

Oh yay, a dickhead measuring contest. https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/114227569196515435

2025-03-25 21:32:52 UTC

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These folks? They seem very commercial. What’s to stop them offering the free certs tomorrow? There’s value in having a noncommercial EU alternative funded with taxpayer money.

2025-03-25 18:59:59 UTC

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Very cool. You know what, I think I might do as well but it’s on a different continent.

2025-03-25 18:22:22 UTC

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None of that is insurmountable or even hard. Could be done in a week if the political will was there. It’s such a low hanging fruit.

2025-03-25 18:15:58 UTC

“Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”
Dear @npub1m96…ag4y, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @npub19zc…jfcm €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
CC [@nlnet](https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet ) @npub1dk0…k0wd
#USA #fascism #OpenTechFund #LetsEncrypt #SSL #TLS #encryption #EU #web #tech #SmallWeb #SmallTech https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/114223873439053263

2025-03-25 12:40:12 UTC

Fascism at home is what happens when you don’t give a shit about fascism abroad.

2025-03-25 12:28:59 UTC

So yeah, if anyone happens to have a spare $50K lying around and wants to get me an early birthday present… :P
(Seriously, though, what I beauty. Likely the cleanest, most attractive perpetual calendar I’ve seen. The artistry that goes into these things… alas, one can admire from afar) :)
https://www.chrono24.com/glashuetteoriginal/glashuette-original-ltd-edition-4150-platinum-senator-classique--3dmp-perpetual-cal--id33290171.htm
#glashuetteOriginal #perpetualCalendar #platinumSenatorClassique

2025-03-24 22:43:52 UTC

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Not as much as you might think for this use case. (Initial model training aside.) (“Your media is processed locally on my own server”)

2025-03-24 18:52:41 UTC

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Getting the same.

2025-03-24 17:23:30 UTC

Somehow managed to get food poisoning so that’s fun. Extra marks for having only had a cheese toasty and a (dirty, but not in that way) chai latte for breakfast at a local cafe I always go to.
(Feeling better now after details I won’t go into here even though they’re rather hilarious in hindsight.)
:awesome:👍

2025-03-24 11:13:35 UTC

[@andre](https://fedi.jaenis.ch/@andre ) Hey, just wanted to say thanks for sweeping through Kitten’s dependencies. I’ll schedule some housekeeping time to look through them. I know I’d looked at a couple earlier and they were a bit hairy but most should be simple to update.)