If you're thinking of grabbing a .XYZ domain, do it in June and a portion of your registration fee will go towards protecting digital rights. https://gen.xyz/birthday

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 24, 2018, 15:03

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**Drew DeVault** @sir@cmpwn.com · Jun 24, 2018, 15:03

git 2.18 has been released, including my first patch 😀

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 24, 2018, 19:02

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**Janelle Shane** @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Jun 24, 2018, 19:02

One fun thing I discovered about Visual Chatbot: no matter what the photo is of, it will always report there are at least a couple giraffes.
It learned from answers that humans gave, and apparently nobody ever asked "how many giraffes are there?" when the answer was zero.

**Ben Cohen** @ben · Jun 20, 2018, 23:26

**Ben Cohen** @ben · Jun 20, 2018, 23:26

And upgraded.

**Ben Cohen** @ben · Jun 20, 2018, 23:21

**Ben Cohen** @ben · Jun 20, 2018, 23:21

Upgrading Mastodon to 2.4.2 -- don't expect any issues.

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 15, 2018, 21:07

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**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Jun 15, 2018, 21:07

"I should finally not bring a giant pile of old computers with me just because I haven't bothered to destroy their old drives this time. I'll just gut all of them and see how many drives I have to destroy"

*pile of gutted metallic corpses to the side, beholding a tower of spinning platter babel*

"oh my god"

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 15, 2018, 17:47

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**Eugen** @Gargron@mastodon.social · Jun 15, 2018, 17:47

I'm gonna add dat:// and gopher:// to linkable protocols in toots. IPFS hasn't decided on a URI format yet, I don't think anything else needs this treatment?

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 15, 2018, 00:55

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**Nick Doty** @npd@octodon.social · Jun 15, 2018, 00:55

Henry George wrote _Progress and Poverty_ in San Francisco, pawning all his belongings to cover the cost of the plates because no one would publish it, recognizing exactly the same problems that we see in San Francisco today. And he identifies the remedy (property tax, in particular tax on land valuable by virtue of location), the very remedy that wealthy voters have explicitly excluded from California with Proposition 13.

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 14, 2018, 18:55

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**Drew DeVault** @sir@cmpwn.com · Jun 14, 2018, 18:55

Guys your repo's package repositories are maintained by people and they all have email addresses and a desire to work with you should you reach out to them

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 14, 2018, 16:22

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**Christina ✅ 🇨🇦** @cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 14, 2018, 16:22

Mastodon.cloud restarted yesterday with new admins and new server.

The server is administered in Japan and has a new Code of Conduct.

I ask for the news of mastodon.cloud's return to the fediverse be boosted and shared as widely as possible; its many users dispersed to other places.

Thank you for boosting!

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 13, 2018, 16:57

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**Todd Weaver** @todd@puri.sm · Jun 13, 2018, 16:57

Polish up your applications, Purism will be posting a number of job positions within the next few weeks. The future home of these job postings will be https://puri.sm/jobs/

**Ben Cohen** · Jun 13, 2018, 19:24

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**Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅** @bob@soc.freedombone.net · Jun 13, 2018, 19:24

News at ten: most internet systems, including some well known ones, are fly by night operations held together with crudely taped on cat photos, good intentions, coffee and late night coding.