Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your in-development software up to the real Fediverse. I built this because I wanted ways to test in-progress fedi software for compatibility without actually making it live and breaking things.

Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University

Introducing the ASML ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse - Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University

The ActivityPub Fuzzer is a small program to help developers build social media software on the Fediverse by emulating known Fediverse software.

I've learned recently that there are adults who do not know that 1mL of water weighs 1g. If you didn't before, now you know.

I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites". At first, the network was the thing that mattered. Then, the media was the thing that mattered. A quick Google Trends query shows the shift might have happened around 2012: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%22social%20network%20site%22,%22social%20media%20site%22&hl=en

if you are intolerant of people who are tolerant of people who tolerate intolerance, that's the paradox of the paradox of intolerance of tolerance of intolerance

Weird that I can't think of this off the top of my head but... who on the fedi is based in the PNW and is an implementer of / contributor to Fediverse software? (small projects fine! tinkerers too! technical role or not! just trying to consider who I might be able to wrangle together to talk about stuff because I feel professionally isolated sometimes)

I would like to do some cheap large format (like poster size, not street sign size) printing of poems I like, to put up in my home. Anyone have any hints, tips, and tricks along those lines? Local print shops are great but too expensive for me at the moment for what would just be "text in a pleasing font on a piece of paper, but bigger"

I had to stop everything I was doing today to make this.

I made this neat little e-ink display for my kitchen with bus arrival times and hourly weather. It uses an ESP32 microcontroller device and talks to Home Assistant. More details here:

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Use ESPHome with e-ink Displays to blend in with your home decor!

I got this working! It shows: current temperature and weather icon row of temperatures and weather icons for: now, now+3h, now+6h, now+9h This i...

I followed the guide at the top of that thread but made a bunch of changes and posted some annotated code.

"35% of the US stock market is held up by five or six companies buying GPUs." Ed Zitron, The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble

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So ARPANET had a famous "Flag Day" where they switched over to TCP/IP in 1983; it required a simultaneous switchover of all host machines to the new protocol. And I know that "flag day" has since referred to big changes like that in networked systems. I assumed the name referred to some bitwise flags set in packet headers. Turns out, the term comes from Multics, when similar coordination was required for an encoding change. It happened on actual US Flag Day 1966!

Flag day (computing) - Wikipedia