Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Found 1 new servers, 4 servers died off this update, 24,008 alive servers now at 12-20-2022 03:14 PT.

8,265,630 total fediverse users, 2,818,516 active users this month. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

mastodon.docmeth02.host a #mastodon server from Private

Dead servers: digivonity.nl blargh.wondering.xyz akkoma.nazileaks.eu pixelfed.marud.fr

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

@gamingonlinux I, for one, absolutely want to see everybody’s cool shit.

@nextcloud I am really happy to have been given the chance to work on Nextcloud, a project that I dearly love and that I think is essential to claiming back our digital life. During these last 1.5 years, I have been involved on so many projects from performance and accessibility to the latest redesign and I am really graceful to all my colleagues who helped me and allowed me to grow so much.

Privacy-Focused #Tails 5.8 #Anonymous #Linux OS Enables #Wayland by Default, Adds New Persistent Storage https://9to5linux.com/privacy-focused-tails-5-8-enables-wayland-by-default-adds-new-persistent-storage

#privacy #OpenSource

There was some merit in saying "growth shouldn't be your goal" when the #fediverse was much smaller, but the way that's morphed into "don't self-promote and just be a person" is simply not how people use social media. Creators are the backbone of EVERY social network, and it must be the case that people can try to use their skills to make a living here.

It is, in fact, virtuous to try to escape the cycle of letting rich corps take your work. We should help those people, not push them away.

@zleap @niko first people, en mass, need to start questioning the viability and suitability of proprietary systems that they've been fed, which (they should have sufficient insight to see) are like Twitter. Having experienced the Fediverse, they see there's another way to do things. One would hope they'll start thinking... hmmm... maybe there's a similar parallel digital universe for everything else I do on a computer.

We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!

We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).

Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.

More info: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

New release of the #opensource #FPGA toolchain for Xilinx 7 series FPGAs, with added support for Kintex FPGAs. Now, for the first time, DDR3 is working on the Kintex high performance banks! And you can build bitstreams for Spartan7, Artix7 and Zynq7 too!
https://github.com/kintex-chatter/nextpnr-kintex-snap/releases/tag/v0.2.0
https://github.com/kintex-chatter/toolchain-installer

I’m just here to try to reach the geeky kids, maybe LGBTQIA, maybe alt, maybe on the spectrum, maybe just a little weird - and tell them that you can be 40 and have a Star Wars living room, and you can decide to not have kids and still have a life full of meaningful relationships and not regret it at all, and you can be a gamer and learn work skills from it, and you can be single but still do everything and travel the planet, you can be covered in tattoos and piercings and still be a successful business leader & public speaker, you can know trans rights are human rights and still be retired from the military, you can do whatever you want to as long as you show up every day and put in the work and put up a good fight - don’t like the people around you, society, your family, crappy friends, lousy spouses, what “they” told you, or the entropy of it all drag you down. Life can be really unfair, but learn your own personal battles, find your own family, and find meaning in the goofy world.