I’ve been testing out silk painting for a future project, and I think it’s pretty cool. It’s easier to control the dyes than I expected, but the whole process is kind of involved and time consuming

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How did you get your gender?

me: I will simply translate the kung fu comic from Chinese to English

original artist: I like baroque attack names :)

me: no

original artist: I like writing them in Traditional :) :)

me: no--!!

original artist: and when the attack is special enough, I like...

me: don't do this to me please I'm begging you

original artist: seeaaaaal scriiiiiipt! :D

Do YOU know a good lawyer?

In these last 3 days of our fundraising campaign, help our fandom project find friendly lawyer(s) for hire! See details in gdoc + pic below.

(And when this gets 300 shares across all our socials, we'll unlock THREE new backer rewards)

📝 Full requirements: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ucE37YOlZqbCDObHcSFkndJI3roYCrIW07xefJlFB0/edit

💰 Our campaign: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/fujocoded-llc/fujocoded-software-and-education-for-a-better-web

Today I'm launching a project I've been working on for several months - a browsable directory of self-hosted software:

https://selfh.st/blog/introducing-selfhst-apps/

It's a supplemental tool to Awesome-Selfhosted and meant to be an alternate view focused on details that I personally find more relevant. And more importantly - it'll always be up-to-date as it's built on the dataset I use to monitor updates and releases for This Week in Self-hosted.

Feel free to reach out with feedback!

I embloggerated, about xz and Tidelift. Some key points:
- the first, angry, draft was titled "I told you so", because we've been saying volunteerism + increasing burdens + solo maintainership is a recipe for disaster since 2017
- money (and Tidelift) is not a magic bullet, it's a cornerstone—not enough by itself, but without money, other proposals will never hit scale
- there's many more things I wish Tidelift could do, but we need more scale first 😞

https://blog.tidelift.com/xz-tidelift-and-paying-the-maintainers

I think the #xz incident is teaching us that our infrastructure is dangerously fragile in the face of well-organized/funded attackers. The response isn’t “try harder” or “donate to your OSS project”, it needs to be institutional, professional, and at scale.

So, here’s my proposal, called “OSQI”, aimed at starting a how-to discussion: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI

[Achievement Unlocked]

We hit two important goals in one fell swoop:

1) We're 50% funded (🎉) with $1,500 raised
2) Our announcement got 200+ boosts across socials

We didn't get to publicize our unlocks (you were too fast!) but a promise is a promise: with 200 boosts, the non-stealth option can now be yours!

Grab it at "Lemon seed" level ($80+) or as an add-on ($45 with any $1+ pledge)!

Back our campaign and help us build a better web for fujoshi and beyond!

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My Boston centric #eclipse info post on #DreamWidth:
https://nosrednayduj.dreamwidth.org/139899.html

You all probably know all this already anyway.

the existence of moral support implies the existence of immoral support 🤔

Developer accused of unreadable code refuses to comment

Good morning, nerds! The British Library just dropped its after-incident report on the ransomware attack that has disabled the Library for, uh, months?

Let's dig in.

Something you can do for all of humanity is to acknowledge and congratulate people for NOT WORKING, for doing less, and making that the goal, instead of this death cult of maximum productivity and stress all the time.

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