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Mastodon 4.7.0 was just released. It includes lengthy database migrations. Because of that, we need to monitor this update more closely than usual and roll it out in smaller batches across our customer base. We're planning to finish the updates this week, though. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0 Update: ✅ All customer instances are up to date. The database migrations weren't that lengthy after all. We feared that creating the materialized view for the ac...
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Security fixes for Mastodon and Hometown were just installed. ✅️ https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.1 https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.5.17%2Bhometown-1.2.1 The only fix likely relevant to our customers is the one for a denial-of-service attack via malicious JSON-LD. We also updated libheif, which just got a new release with one critical security fix: https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/releases/tag/v1.23.3
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Mastodon 4.7.2 was just released. ✅️ All customer instances are up to date. The release temporarily disables HEIF/HEIC support – probably because of the recent critical security fix in libheif. Our customer instances are already running patched libheif libraries, so this may be unnecessary in our case; nonetheless, we have not reverted this temporary disabling. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.2
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Heads-up for admins of instances hosted by toot.io 📬 We saw a coordinated spam wave: one actor signed up on dozens of our Mastodon instances at once with the same email address (plus tricks like name+1@…). The result was a flood of confirmation emails to one inbox, which hurts our mail reputation for everyone. Fix, now live: each email address gets at most 3 confirmation emails in 12 hours, across all instances that use our mail delivery. Every message after that just gets dropped. Normal sign...
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We just enabled a narrow filter on all our customers' Mastodon instances that blocks those "Automated protocol deliverability probe" registrations from ever being created. If you host your own instance, here is the filter we use: https://gist.github.com/d--j/767afe195afd48a496eea87bc5f6b33d If you are a customer of ours and DO want to get these, please contact us and we will disable the filter for you. We still have the mail filter in place (see https://toot.io/@host...
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Mastodon 4.7.3 was just released. ✅️️ All customer instances are up to date. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.3
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The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) reported that about half of their members working at a national centre for disaster response were fired in January #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition https://www.desmog.com/2026/08/03/as-climate-fuelled-wildfires-rage-mark-carney-cuts-emergency-response-and-funds-fossil-fuels/
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George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’ https://kotaku.com/george-lucas-artificial-intelligence-ai-museum-art-2000715801?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Kotaku Latest @kotaku-latest-Kotaku
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I’m no mathematician, but I’ve followed the last couple of weeks of breathless commentary from a distance, because it bears some resemblance to a field I do know: software. Maths has its own software: the Lean theorem prover and related tools. Squint at it, and it is kind of shaped like software unit testing: no theorem is known unless it is testably proven. So, AI came, and wrote a million-line Lean proof for something which has remained unproven by human thinking. Only, the proof was an expl...
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Damn fedi will literally necroboost anything lmao
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#NoBillionaires #nobillionairesneeded #GuillotinesWork #climatechange
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“We've seen internally in Meta cases where, if you can develop the right agentic loop and you have the right eval or the right metric for the agents to optimize, you can have a swarm of agents accomplish more than a team of 100 engineers” - Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer at Meta
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D'en haut, d'en bas...le couloir des Sultanes, Vercors
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Santa Monica Pier / Blinn-ratio Utah teapot
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First post on the Fediverse! I'm a candlepin #bowling media page. Candlepin bowling is a variant of bowling primarily from New England and maritime Canada. The sport is small but passionate, and super exciting! Here's a video of weird things happening in the game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUbnKHvFJvI&list=PLIIuNa8zs9Es&index=3&pp=iAQBsAgC I'll also make a point that Three Ball Spare does not make use of AI. Anything you see posted from here is all organically mad...
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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’ https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/linkedin-adds-a-button-to-report-ai-generated-slop/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Artificial Intelligence in 2023: News and Updates @artificial-intelligence-in-2023-news-and-updates-Techcrunch
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The lovely @cryodraws posted a thing on Bluesky which prompted me to look at some of my smut art! The prompt was: "If you see this, post what you consider to be your hottest work" And I'm like: Oh man, it depends! Like, how explicit are we talking 😂 If it's more subtle, I do really love this Artemisia Pinup: #NSFWart #spanking #BDSM #Lewd #MastoArt #Comics
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RE: https://mastodon.art/@JenJen/116974447609458904 You bet your ass I already have the first Vloghalla almost ready to go. :minette: The pre-trip one.
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Holding my tongue.
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Poll: How do you prefer to be monitored? 👁️🗨️ #ttrpg #paranoia #surveillance
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When I see that someone is spending time on X, a social media platform that has its own AI CSAM generator, for its “cheerfulness”, I assume that’s like visiting Epstein island for its sunny beaches. A pretense.
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As someone who has watched a great deal of tennis I have to say the most obnoxious fans I've ever seen (at a tennis match) were the troglodytes at today's French Open at the Fritz v Rinderknech match. I've seen a lot of bad sportsmanship but these Philistines sunk to the level of the sewer today. #frenchOpen #Fritz #RolandGarros #MoronicFans
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th October 2026 The spooks grow ever closer, and the abyss grows ever sandier. Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that...
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#MonsterdonAlert IN TWO HOURS IT'S #MONSTERDON we will be watching The Bat (1959) https://timeloop.cafe/deck/@Taweret/117423007301220089