In other words, if you want to be discovered on Mastodon using your own domain, you can do so by copying the contents of https://<your mastodon server>/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:<your account>@<your mastodon server> to https://<your domain>/.well-known/webfinger.

One caveat: this approach works much like a catch-all e-mail address. @anything@yourdomain.com will match, unless you add a bit more scripting to only show a result for resources you want to be discoverable.

Edit: Seems there is a GitHub issue which requests custom domains as well.
Edit (15 Nov 2022): Folks have been using the approach of serving up webfinger on a different domain through proxy setups, e.g. using CloudFlare.

Rocky Bergen: Papercraft models are now available on the Internet Archive free. If you want to support my work consider buying me a coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/rockasoo
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So it’s long overdue that major libraries and services like GitHub are reconsidering the use of terms like “master” and “slave”. (Django actually replaced them six years ago to use more accurately descriptive terms.) Whether or not they are intentionally rooted in the metaphors of Black enslavement, the plain fact is that living people have clearly stated that the words make them uncomfortable. Our intent matters much less than our impact.

Der Virus ist so individuell, dass es von den verwendeten Firewalls nicht erkannt wurde. Um zu erforschen, wie die Täter in das System eindringen konnten, werden Daten gesammelt.

Java Code ist unstrukturierter trockener Staub von Codefragmenten in Klassendateien, die inert in keiner Weise miteinander interagieren. Erst mit den passenden Factories, Delegates, Generators und ClassLoaders werden sie instanziiert und zusammengesetzt. Der entstehende Haufen an Querverweisen führt dann nur zufällig irgendwann einmal tatsächlich wirksamen Code aus.

Papis is a powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.

via "gallo"

This is the story of when I re-wrote the Lotus Notes Formula Engine. It's a pretty cool story, it turns out Vader is Luke's father and I get frozen in carbonite. No wait, that's something else. Enjoy!

I calculated that as of notebook #94, I had been writing in Field Notes for 3,469 days*. Since the notebooks are 48 pages long, that puts me at 4,512 pages. So it looks like I average 1.3 notebook pages per day.

Squires’ bold move draws attention to the moral — and financial — dilemma of open-source development, which was likely the goal of his actions. A massive number of websites, software, and apps rely on open-source developers to create essential tools and components — all for free. It’s the same issue that results in unpaid developers working tirelessly to fix the security issues in their open-source software, like the Heartbleed scare in 2014 that affected OpenSSL and the more recent Log4Shell vulnerability found in log4j that left volunteers scrambling to fix.

Neuromancer pushes back at the idea that technical advance always results in progress. This book is still surprising, still relevant, and it still deals with unanswered questions.

What we’ve come to experience more fully, in the years since Neuromancer was written, and especially since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, is the internationalization of information and cultural life. So much of life takes place on the Internet now

Debian is not the only project that suffers from this.

Despite the fact that Red Hat is an enterprise Linux distribution, the problems goes even further there where you e.g. still can find a so-called LTS version of PHP 5 that long since should have been permanently terminated.

Update 2022-04-01: Someone asked me about Alpine Linux, whether Alpine is suffering from the same problem. The answer is yes, only not to the same extent as Debian.

I have identified two important kinds of value judgment -  important vs. unimportant, and success vs. failure. I have showed how these judgments are made by our existing code highlighting themes: comments are hidden as unimportant, and deletions are displayed as errors. These judgments intrude on and influence our own thoughts and judgments. Further, I demonstrate that the judgments made by our existing color themes are the polar opposite of those that we wish to convey: comments are important, and deletion is neither dangerous nor improper. I suggest historical explanations for our current situation, and show that rectifying it is actually extremely easy.

Almost all systems using traditional relational database management systems (RDBMSs) rely on leader election to pick a leader database which handles all writes, and sometimes, all reads. In these systems, election may be automated, but it’s frequently done manually by a human operator.

“Conventional wisdom will kill you in your search for a job,” Siegel says. “You want the simplest, most boring résumé template you can find. You want to write like a caveman in the shortest, crispest words you can.”

In most cases, when candidates apply for jobs their résumés will first be processed by an automated applicant tracking system (ATS), Siegel says. To increase your chances of advancing to an interview, you should submit a résumé that the AI will interpret accurately.

In creating this vast, faceless bureaucratic machine, the Loki design team needed to source enough old hardware to furnish whole offices. “A lot of it was our set decorator Claudia Bonfe and her team [who] found an amazing array of retro televisions,” says Farahani. “Some of these things, they’re old and they’re brittle, so by the time you get them, the amount of modifications that we wanted to do to them, they just wouldn’t hold up. So it was easier in many cases to just fabricate them or build them from scratch.” (There is, however, a prominent Lear Siegler ADM-3A sitting on the reception desk when we first see the TVA, which could be the real deal.)

build awareness that NTLM needs to die (probably find better wording). This is our stretch goal. It won’t happen any time soon but it’s good to know where we’re heading. Make sure that any new application works without NTLM e.g., by disabling NTLM via GPO on all new servers you bring to production.

A century ago, the leading symbol of information management was the filing cabinet; by the turn of the millennium, it was Google search.

Aaron Reed's 50 Years of Text Games (intro) so far covers 1971-1986. But several dissertations reconsider texts from the further past in similar terms: "machine[s] for producing possible worlds".

If, as Eco argues, a literary text is “a machine for producing possible worlds”, including the many worlds the audience imagines, then one way of looking at computer games is as machines for producing such machines.

The Grand Hotel was designed by Nikola Dobrović (1897-1967) in the early 1930s for the native island family. The construction took several years and represented an attraction nothing like what had been seen before, and when the hotel opened in 1936, it kicked off the development of modern tourism on Lopud.

“As people realise it’s not going to end soon, this is when cracks begin appearing.”

While people may not be able to travel far, especially those in lockdown with travel limits, Scott says there are ways to find space close to home by going “somewhere you can see the horizon, you feel less crowded, less stressed and less pressure”.

“We know being cooped up in small spaces, especially in environments with lots of noise and activity, is not good for our mental health.”

She recommends going to the top of a hill, the beach, a forest and parks or, if you live in the inner city, even the middle of a football field. She says research shows even virtual reality, for example putting on a nature documentary, also works.

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“We call it zoning out instead of relaxing. You zone out on Netflix or a packet of chips, but even though you haven’t done anything, you haven’t relaxed. You wake up the next morning and you’re still tired.