Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant

Small gray flycatcher with a simple, bold facial pattern. Has a brownish gray body with a black eyeline and crown and a white eyebrow; usually has very faint streaking through the face and breast. Looks big-headed and usually perches upright. Found around forest edges at high elevations, especially near the treeline and around patches of bamboo; often forages in groups and frequently associates with mixed-species flocks. Listen for its lisping high song and stuttered “peep” call notes.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/unstit1
Photo Location: Peru

the thing about “never attribute to malice what can be easily explained by incompetence” is that it’s rat-fuckable

when there is functionally no difference between the two, engaging with someone as if they’re incompetent means accepting their frame, that what they’re ultimately trying to accomplish isn’t *bad*, they’re just going about it in a way with bad side-effects, and people use in bad-faith our good-faith willingness to treat them as incompetent to push their agendas

engaging with someone as if they’re malicious, on the other hand, means rejecting the harmful frame, recasting the argument in terms of “why are you trying to do this bad thing?”, and not quibbling about the details of why the thing is bad

these age-verification laws whose implementations are a form of category error is a good example; if you engage with a proponent of them with “well here’s why your implementation is bad” you’re tacitly approving the larger idea that surveliance is good, and you just disagree with the techniques; bad-faith actors use this

If instead you come back with “why are you trying to surveil everyone’s computer use? Why are you laying the groundwork to prevent people from using their own computers?”, you re-cast the frame. Sure, there are probably incompetent people who don’t realize the results of what they’re going to do, but casting the larger idea into question AND KEEPING IT IN QUESTION is the only effective path I’ve found to debating people on things like this

so, instead:

don’t ascribe to incompetence something that is functionally malicious

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Bad Apple but it's an ext-background-effect blur region

#wayland #niri

Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/answers/questions/2007466/are-costs-incurred-when-attempting-to-scan-passwor

See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.

We’re building a user-friendly WebAssembly language reference on MDN!

Want to help make Wasm more accessible? We’re looking for technical writers and reviewers to join the project.

Start here if you're interested: https://github.com/mdn/mdn/issues/821

The ActivityPub For WordPress project is, in a lot of ways, one of the most impressive projects in the space for what it has accomplished. Every release gets better and better, and there’s a robustness to the project that I can’t help but admire.

Making ActivityPub federation work with the myriad of WordPress configurations out there is nothing short of a miracle, and I’m forever grateful for the work @pfefferle and the team put in.

The Call for Proposals for the 15th edition of @piwo Poznań Free Software Fest, a conference I'm somehow involved in, is open until Thursday (April 23th). If you're interested in sharing your perspective on topics such as digital independence, the legal aspects of FOSS, privacy software development or cybersecurity, consider submitting a talk (there's also a dedicated Python track this year). It's a great community, last year there were like 200 participants.

📆 The event's on May 30th (Saturday) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (western Poland).

➡️ Details and CfP link: https://piwo.sh/en/news/2026-03-24-call-for-proposals-is-now-open/

Boosts welcome!

EDIT: updated the deadline

RT: https://fosstodon.org/users/piwo/statuses/116399002028609823

So this is a result of my photo walk. One is wild goose, the other - red kite. Both birds are very popular at the Baltic coast. #Photography #birdwatching

So they won't be more'ns

This feathered visitor recently stopped by the IRAM 30-m telescope to assist with EHT observations.

The bird had gotten lost in the fog and appeared at the control room door- more than 1,500 meters above its usual habitat.

After a brief "internship," it was safely released back into nature the next morning.

#M87MOVIE

@mhoye

As Margaret explained it to me, NASA wanted the lunar lander's actual landing to be 100% automated with no manual override. She disagreed, and insisted on implementing an override. NASA didn't like the idea but Margaret just went ahead and wrote it.

Of course, on Apollo 11's final approach, the lander was headed for a field of giant boulders. Neil Armstrong used Margaret's code to override the computer and manually divert to the actual, safer, landing point.

folks who say it's the code that matters when someone actually makes a decision based on technical merits