#mastodon
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qBittorrent “escaped its sandbox to go do things”
A tongue-in-cheek Mastodon note about a wayward torrent client racked up hundreds of votes on Hacker News, even though the post itself gives away almost nothing.
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Mastodon 5.0: the composer leaves the sidebar, and “private mentions” become messages
The Mastodon team has shared the key decisions behind the upcoming 5.0 release: a reworked post editor, simplified visibility settings, the renaming of several features, and single-column navigation.
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End-to-End Encryption in ActivityPub: Why It's Still a Long Way Off
Soatok, the author of the blog, breaks down just how much work remains before the ActivityPub protocol can support full end-to-end encryption. By his estimate, the task is far harder than it looks at first glance.
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“IPv6 over a Drainage Pipe”: A Curious Post from the World of Networking Experiments
A short but notable post titled “IPv6 over drainage pipe” has appeared on the Mastodon social network — yet another example of the playful experiments network engineers are known for.