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• Post #4446141

  Excited to announce that @fedipub@ruby.social (formerly known as Federails), the Rails engine for #ActivityPub that powers (amongst other things) @manyfold@3dp.chat, has been awarded a grant in the latest round from @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz. I’ll be building community, docs, rounding out features, and ideally making it usable in non-Rails Ruby apps too! https://nlnet.nl/project/Fedipub/

• Post #4354063

  This morning in #Amiko, the community #RailsFork: 1. 138 people now in the Matrix space at https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org 2. We've had success in running some **major** #Rails apps on experimental forked versions of both `rails` and `railties`, and at running our equivalent of `rails new`. 3. We're building community governance using Sociocracy: https://sociocracy30.org/ 4. Work progresses on website, brand, and determining a non-placeholder name This *is* happening, and we n...

• Post #4308491

  Today in @amiko@ruby.social news; - community still growing (>130) - increasing activity on all fronts, from website dev to governance to design And… … we have a complex real-world app running *without the Rails gem or namespace*. 🎉 Onward!

• Post #4308073

  Incredible scenes: had a takedown demand from a large unnamed miniature company for a model I remixed and published on Thingiverse. - It only uses CC-BY sources - it’s a proxy for a unit that does not have a purchasable model - it looks completely different from anything they ever made I think this is purely because it uses one of their trademarked words in the description and tag, and it’s been caught by some script. Shame I have it completely self-hosted these days… https://manyfold.floppy....

• Post #4284740

  Today, from the “why the hell would anyone build this?” department: https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/

• Post #4247765

  Some updates and stats for #Amiko (#Rails fork): ~650 boosts for the “this is happening” post. That’s *huge* numbers for the Fediverse, in my experience. 98 people in the matrix space as of right now. Should break 100 shortly. Code exploration has started, we’re working out how to do this. If you run a podcast or tech news blog, I’m happy to talk to you about all this, DM me. We need your help, *especially* if you’ve ever been involved in Rails internals. https://matrix.to/#/%23amiko:matr...

• Post #4165739

  RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116940067151749214 This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise. https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org

• Post #4084921

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@concretedog/116976794778175500 Note that the opt-out mentions username; it also means organisation name, so make sure to opt out those too. And you can replace the list with “- all” to ask for everything under that name to be removed. 3316 requests so far, let’s get that number up. Ludicrous that we should need to do this.

• Post #4062388

  RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Darkedge/116974859896967732 GIVE ME THIS RIGHT NOW

• Post #4008998

  I've set up a Matrix space for anyone up for forking #Rails away from #DHH's influence. Let's start actively working on this. https://matrix.to/#/#forking-rails:matrix.org (If there's already a space for this, do let me know, I'll go there instead)

• Post #3936625

  Someone (I suspect the same one who was ban-evading earlier) is now spamming #EMFCamp people via Matrix. Get a fucking life, you twat.

• Post #3906825

  DHH has now gone even more full “send ‘em back where they came from” along with “stop trying to fix climate change” and “AI hypercapitalism yay” I cannot express enough, FUCK THIS WHITE NATIONALIST ARSEHOLE, and anyone not wanting to cut the #Ruby and #Rails communities ties with him should be *fucking ashamed of themselves*.

• Post #3812253

  Boko Haram get some special category of Darwin award, surely: > We saw in a movie how motorcycles can jump over bridges … We used A.I. to learn how to do this. We gave it information, like what motorcycles we use and the distance we need to jump and so on, and it gave us steps on what we have to do. We dug holes and filled them with broken glass and fire to practice. 18 of us died in the process. Eight of us managed to do it. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/13/terrorists-are-using-ai-and-th...

• Post #3806975

  This morning I've had three "hey I'd like to work on this" comments on various GitHub issues. Nowadays I have to waste my time looking at the accounts to make sure they're not LLMs or people wanting to use LLMs, and all those 3 were. One was out and out pretending to be a human; two were doing some AI programming course (CodePath AI301?) and had decided that picking an issue from a project that explicitly disallows LLM contributions would be a good idea. Fuck *all* of thi...

• Post #3782746

  Further progress #emfcamp

• Post #3677061

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sabrinkmann/116880922879964890 It's honestly SO exciting to see people create lovely things, host them on @manyfold@3dp.chat and then I see them come up in my feed. It's like... the system works!

• Post #3514930

  For all your goose valuation requirements, #HTTPShirts has you covered. Props go to @livingpixel@indieweb.social for the invention of the 571 error code, and for Softbank for being... whatever it is they are. https://sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshirts

• Post #3473249

  Mastodon really wants me to know this important news:

• Post #3472176

  Accidentally painted a #Moonstone Jackalope while waiting for code to do code things today. #MiniPainting

• Post #3448505

  Trying to solder something and it’s an exercise in frustration, as my iron appears to be dogshit. Maybe at 50 it’s time to treat myself to a decent one. Recommendations welcome. I don’t do much soldering, but when I do I’d like something that *works*

• Post #3380564

  Some new #HTTPShirts available: 102, 303, 406, 409, 507, 508, plus bonus spline reticulation and burning printers: https://sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshirts

• Post #3303482

  I appear to now be a fashion designer for balding men

• Post #3299702

  RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116732458668556757 Modern finance is *insane*, and apparently getting even more so. This makes absolutely no sense, surely?

• Post #3166541

  Been meaning to do this for years... HTTPShirts is now live for all your HTTP-based clothing needs. https://sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshirts

• Post #2532256

  Just backed the Technofascism Survival Guide: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide #Kickstarter

• Post #2523361

  Excellent quote from Prof @jamespjh’s inaugural lecture, which I’m currently at: “if I can’t code it, I didn’t understand it” Also: “It’s actually just written in English but it’s in green text on a black background which makes it code”

• Post #2381864

  I highly recommend going to see your MP in surgery. Had a great chat, they listened closely and took on board my concerns. Well done.

• Post #2369060

  RE: https://cathode.church/@kaye/116549489237944586 10/10 would enable communism mode

• Post #2308080

  #PensionBee customers on the climate plan. You may be unaware (as I was, h/t @JaxVent) that the top 10 holdings on your pension are AI, big tech and chip companies, and that the portfolio is overwhelmingly US-based; see : https://res.cloudinary.com/pensionbee/image/upload/v1745937730/pdf-resources/All_World_Climate_Paris_Aligned_ex-Fossil_Fuel_Index_Equity_Sub-Fund.pdf Personally that’s not really what I had in mind for my money (though I get why 📈). PensionBee have reacted well to customer f...

• Post #2177669

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