Abraham Williams

I still haven't watched like half of The Walking Dead shows and it's been enough years since I watched any that I'm thinking I should start a chronological watch-through of all of them.

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

https://www.404media.co/the-government-hopes-to-set-a-precedent-an-interview-with-the-man-charged-for-allegedly-wiping-his-grapheneos-phone/

Who the fuck makes vertical video trails for movies...

Testing out the material design floating toolbar updates on @meow@abraham.social #materialdesign

Updated the m3_floating_toolbar better spec compliance, vertical support, and lots more examples #flutter

https://pub.dev/packages/m3_floating_toolbar

Experience Better Browsing: Introducing Native Containers in Firefox 153

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/

The Democratic Party should rebrand as a Freedom Party.

- Freedom to access healthcare
- Freedom to control your reproductive priorities
- Freedom to not get shot
- Freedom to have a roof over your head

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone

Clearly retribution for protesting police intended to silence opposition. This doesn't look like something that would typically lead to an actual conviction as there are some constitutional protections (even at the border). We are not in normal times though.

Indian Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns-jack-dorsey/article71262049.ece

The new Masters of the Universe is a lot of fun. It's kind of like if someone gave GWAR $100 million and said make something PG-13.

I'm also convinced it's in the Community universe.

Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce

https://www.404media.co/patreon-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce/

You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
https://www.404media.co/you-opened-a-credit-card-ice-now-knows-where-you-live/

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

I've been playing around with a little tool to help me learn Dockerfile syntax

https://dockerfile.pub/

Tangled signup takes an email address and login takes an AT Proto handle. If you've signed up already but don't remember which AT Proto you used, you're just fucked.

The Mastodon #openapi spec and #dart client have been updated to 4.6.

• https://abraham.github.io/mastodon-openapi/
• https://pub.dev/packages/mastodon/versions/1.0.0-beta.10

EFF is Leaving X

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

Me when I see a project still using source forge

Copilot CLI now supports BYOK and local models

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-07-copilot-cli-now-supports-byok-and-local-models/

Wisconsinites Can Keep Watching Porn After Governor Vetoes Age Verification Bill

https://www.404media.co/wisconsin-age-verification-bill-vetoed/

I now have arcane pulling from gitea which stores docker compose files. Then there's renovate running whixh updates the docker image versions. The last main piece is on merge the new versions should automatically get deployed. #homelab

Running a #homelab requires you to figure out where to draw the line between self-hosted and and cloud services. Are you going to use Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnel? Or are you going Headcale and Pangolin?

"A complete backup of a Google Photos library through the API is not possible."

For "security" reasons I'm sure.

https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/dataprotection/cloudsynctasks/addgooglephotoscloudsynctask/

"Scrub In Progress: 102.17%
-21 minutes -4 seconds remaining"

...

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Huh, neither UniFi nor Omada has has a thread radio.

"Updates are available for 23 applications" And the #homelab dream turns into a #homelab nightmare.

HexOS 1.0 Has Arrived

https://docs.hexos.com/blog/2026-04-02.html

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Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds

https://www.ms.now/news/trump-classified-documents-smith-investigation-business-motive

Is there an open source self-hosted alternative to Google Maps that includes mobile apps with navigation?

Oracle has to find that Paramount sugar daddy money somewhere.

ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. Decrypting the Program That Does It.

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/

Decompiling the White House's New App

https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned

https://www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-was-banned-from-creating-wikipedia-articles-then-wrote-angry-blogs-about-being-banned/

Extracted the #MaterialDesign Floating Toolbar from @meow@abraham.social

https://pub.dev/packages/m3_floating_toolbar

FInally got an alpha of the #dart #mastodon client powering @meow@abraham.social published.

https://pub.dev/packages/mastodon/versions/1.0.0-alpha.5

Experimenting with on-device translation in @meow@abraham.social

One of the @meow@abraham.social features you can enable is co-opting the Twitter/X share buttons on websites.

The public alpha for @meow@abraham.social is open. You can install it from Google Play now!

Give it a try and let me know any thoughts, suggestions, or issues you have.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.meowstodon.meowstodon

#Mastodon #android #app

The public alpha version of @meow@abraham.social has been approved on Google Play. I plan on making it live tomorrow. #mastodon

Non-blocking publishing in @meow@abraham.social

I'm about single digit features/bugs away from a @meow@abraham.social public alpha.

There are still improvements to be made but this is the current state of @meow@abraham.social theme

Playing around with attempting to identify #AI accounts in @meow@abraham.social.

Congrats @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, it doesn't think you're AI.

Trying a new onboarding flow in @meow@abraham.social

I'm now pretty happy with the @meow@abraham.social feature set. Ihere is three or so fairly large aspects of the code to refactor though. #mastodonapp