💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu how did you try disabling locales?

@julian@activitypub.space Hi yes we send to sharedInbox when there's more than one recipient on that instance, otherwise direct to to the user's inbox.

@mayel@sunbeam.city ​

“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

Love this quote! mastodon.social/@mayel/11522...

“Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.” ― Ursula K. LeGuin

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

Don't the captcha people understand that by now we're not selecting motorbikes or fire hydrants but what we think the algorithm thinks other people think they are?

@ozoned@social.ozoned.net

ah thinking about it more, one of your viewers may have guessed the issue, saying you had to set up a domain and set the hostname. As port 80 redirects to port 443 and that one couldn't work without those.

@bonfire@indieweb.social

@ozoned@social.ozoned.net Thanks for sharing! That was very useful to watch even if painful at times (mostly because I wanted to jump in with pointers but it was prerecorded :D). I took many notes of things to improve with the documentation and tooling.

Overall, the docs and tooling for deploying directly with docker (compared to those using @coopcloud@social.coop which is the recommended and simpler approach) are out of date and too complex mostly because they've been adapted from the dev ones, and we're thinking about how to offer an alternative method with only a compose file and a .env (though I'd welcome advice about how to do so in a simple way, as the just commands are mostly there to reduce the guide to a handful of steps/commands instead of having to copy paste a lot more, and they also set some variables used in the compose file to make it more flexible, but maybe that's not worth it, or there are some other ways to simplify?)

Here's some hints on the main blockers you encountered:

• you first entered MIX_ENV=ember when you wanted FLAVOUR=ember
• if you enter ctrl+c in iex it pauses the app so it wouldn't respond unless you unpause it (by pressing c for continue)
• we recently closed port 4000 which now not open outside of docker's internal network by default (for security since you usually want people to connect through the web proxy in prod) and need to update the docs
• we need to better document that it's also running a web proxy by default on ports 80/443, and point to where the caddy config is
• at one point you were looking at docker-compose.yml instead of the release one docker-compose.release.yml
• during of the following attempts where you tried to run dev you were still following the prod guide instead of the dev guide which uses different just commands and env vars

I'm not sure why you weren't able to connect on port 80 during the first attempt though, as the elixir app logs didn't show anything, and caddy's error log was pretty cryptic, I'd be curious what you'd see on port 4000 if you opened it in docker-compose.release.yml

@bonfire@indieweb.social

How do I not give free labor to AI companies by basically labeling their training data when I write #alt-text? #alttext

Are you still on #Spotify?

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.

And don’t forget:

• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).

And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.

Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.

#QuitSpotify #music #ai#militaryTech #techbro

“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/spotifys-ceo-invests-1-billion-into-an-ai-military-startup-and-musicians-are-fuming/news-story/78805666e2374281801622066dc87319

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

https://organizingmythoughts.org/some-thoughts-on-techno-fascism-from-socialism-2025/

Well, it’s official: I have been released from my employer and I am now looking for new employment.

I am an Elixir and Ruby on Rails software engineer with a penchant for learning new languages and technologies quickly. I am a keen problem solver and an excellent communicator. I am passionate about building tools with open source software for the good of mankind. I also have a background in electronics and RF mesh networking.

I prefer remote, but would be open to a hybrid position in the Fort Worth, Texas area.

#GetFediHired #FediHire

Bonfire's progressive web app is getting cool 🤟

@gaditb@icosahedron.website oh yeah they're definitely different! maybe enough that each (or something in between, like showing what boundaries you applied to people who you give permission to) may be desired in different situations or use cases?

@gaditb@icosahedron.website yeah that's an interesting line of thinking, I think the authors of these to FEPs have been exploring that: github.com/bonfire-networks/...

@gaditb@icosahedron.website

I think the Bluesky example you linked to is an unfortunate illustration of what happens when we expect technical tools to cleanly solve social problems. Making a blocklist public is obviously egregious, but even private exclusions can be exposed through old-fashioned social interactions. For example, someone casually referencing a post might unintentionally reveal to someone else that they weren't included.

In Bonfire, boundaries aren’t meant to control what others do on their own instance (apart from defining who an activity is addressed to, similarly to BCC with email). They’re more about controlling what reaches you on yours. Since ActivityPub doesn’t yet support strong security features like end-to-end encryption or object capabilities, boundaries are designed as a local-first mechanism. They help shape your experience and interactions rather than enforcing strict rules across the network.

So, in your example, if someone starts harassing you, you can block them, or just silence them or the thread in question. From your perspective, those replies disappear, and new ones won’t appear at all. Your instance silently enforces these boundaries by ignoring unwanted interactions, even if the sender’s server is unaware and still allows them to post.

It’s not perfect privacy or hard enforcement but harm reduction and local autonomy in a messy, federated world...

@gaditb@icosahedron.website Don't worry I'm enjoying it, keep em coming!