My relay at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com has currently 139 instances connected, mostly tech related sharing the same mindset and interests like #Linux, #BSD, #Ansible, #Proxmox, #Coding, and many more! You can easily join from your instance when using #Pleroma, #snac (#snac2), #Mastodon and its forks 🙂

#fedi #fediworld #fedicommunity #community #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #homelab #Python #Debian #RockyLinux #Feditips

Well, this website is wild. Run functioning versions of vintage Mac and NeXT operating systems from the comfort of your own web browser.

https://infinitemac.org

#tech #apple #next

#Mastodon #socialmedia ##tech
Really struggling with Mastodon at the moment. I can’t copy things how I used to, it’s taking ages to load posts, and it’s annoyingly clunky and very very slow.
I’m not sure what’s happened, but am I the only one who’s noticed this?

Ohhhh.....because we needed exactly this. 🤯

A new botnet takes the shotgun approach to attacking consumer-grade devices by attacking close to *60* bugs across more than *30* vendors.

One of the things that concerns me the most about this is how poorly these devices are secured and supported. What a nightmare.

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/j/rondodox.html

#tech #news #cybersecurity #CyberAttack #yikes

Recommendations please !

I've been using blogger/blogspot for years to write stuff which includes maths.

Blogger is ancient, the templates are not up to modern aesthetic standards, and stuff is starting to break now eg uploading images and having to hack the html to prevent them being low-res blurred.

But the advantage of Blogger is that you can edit the html templates which means you can include libraries like MathJax for typesetting maths, and Prism for syntax-highlighted code.

Question - what do people recommend today for maths content blogging?

Constraints:

1. Must be "free - it's a hobby
2. I can't self-host, I can't pay for it, and I don't have the time and skills to manage a tech stack
3. Sorry, not Wordpress
4. Sorry, not GitHub (pages)

Every time I look, it seems the ancient and now neglected blogger is still the best option.

#tech #web #maths #blogging

If you are creating more harm with your solution than the problem you are trying to solve, perhaps your solution just isn't one.

#Tech

Experts and executives have been predicting that it and other AI models will eliminate untold jobs — forecasts that seem, at a first glance, to have been borne out by the plethora of tech sector layoffs in the wake of its debut.

But a new study from Yale University found quite the opposite in the United States, which should give anxious workers some relief as it goes against the hyped up prognostications of many tech CEOs.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/yale-study-ai-job-impact

#ai #jobs #tech

Dear solarpunks, hackers, and off-grid nerds of all stripes, i have a solar related question for you:

a friend has a 24V solar setup with an mppt charge controller and inverter. unfortunately the batteries regularly go down to 24 (and overnight, sometimes even below that 😭 ). the inverter only gives a screaming alert when it's way below 24 and generally the people who use the system don't have a way to know if the batteries are getting too low.

do any of you have suggestions for how we might set up an alert for when the batteries are around 24.2? ideally it would send a text or something, but if it makes a really loud sound, that might be ok as well.

the inverter does make a sound when the system is too low, but that's when the batteries are way lower than 24 and we don't have a way to set any options for it.

the charge controller is a victron and there's a victron app, but i haven't seen an option in the victron app that's like... "alert if battery voltage hits x value."

anyway, our budget is limited, but any ideas you all might have would be most appreciated 🙏 🌞 ⚡

#solarpunk #solar #offgrid #diy #tech #SolarPower #hack #hardware

Can #CoryDoctorow’s #Book ‘#Enshittification’ Change the #Tech Debate?
The term, which Doctorow popularized in essays in 2022 and 2023, refers to the way that online platforms become worse to use over time, as the corporations that own them try to make more money. Though the coinage is cheeky, in Doctorow's telling the phenomenon it describes is a specific, nearly scientific process that progresses according to discrete stages, like a disease.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/books/review/cory-doctorow-enshittification.html
https://archive.ph/Yc2xb

I Thought I Knew #SiliconValley. I Was Wrong
A whole cohort of #billionaires seemed to place their companies’ fortunes over the well-being of society.
It should be the best of times for the #tech world, supercharged by a boom in #AI. But a shadow has fallen over Silicon Valley. The community still overwhelmingly leans left. But with few exceptions, its leaders are responding to Trump by either keeping quiet or actively courting the government.
https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/
https://archive.ph/SImQX

In 1912, the Nobel Prize in physics might have honored special relativity, or the photoelectric effect, or the liquefaction of helium. Instead, it recognized an advance in...the design of lighthouses.

https://physicsworld.com/a/nobel-prizes-youve-never-heard-of-how-a-swedish-inventor-was-honoured-for-a-technology-that-nearly-killed-him/ #science #tech #nobel

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The first light designed to use Gustav Dalén’s technology is located near Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It has since been converted to run on electricity.

What's a good CRM / ticketing system? Self hosted ideally - docker would be a big win!

#SelfHosted #docker #sysadmin #tech

Welcome #FreeBSD 16.0 on my laptop! Smooth, fast, and running perfectly with Xfce.

FreeBSD #Unix #OpenSource #BSD #FreeBSD16 #Xfce #DesktopUnix #Tech #FreeBSDCommunity #FreeBSDLaptop

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Screenshot of a FreeBSD desktop running Xfce 4.20. On the right, a terminal window displays neofetch showing system information: FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT amd64, uptime 2 hours 43 minutes, 1044 installed packages, shell tcsh, CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3450U with Radeon Vega Mobile, and 14 GB of memory. The desktop environment uses the Greybird theme and elementary Xfce HiDPI icons. In the background, a Firefox window is open on the official FreeBSD website showing the “Download FreeBSD” button and latest news. The panel at the top shows open applications and the current time and date: Sunday, October 5, 15:41.

Building a Game Boy out of Lego? Just awesome!

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/lego_game_boy/?td=rt-3a

#lego #gameboy #nerd #tech