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Mastodon supports scheduling posts natively, but the feature is not available in the official interfaces.

The Mastodon instance mastodon.social plans to implement new terms of use starting July 2025, which have turned out to be somewhat controversial.

How to collapse all diff blocks in Github or GitLab while seeing changes between versions

Some strategies to make Gentoo package compilation a bit faster

My views on a recent controversy on the fediverse on stop federation with instances that unknowngly host unacceptable accounts.

How to split back with POSIX standard tools text files that were merged into one single file.

Since Novembmer ‘21 update, Active Directory new conditions may make it raise a CONSTRAINT_ATT_TYPE violation affecting other products.

I’ve been using Gentoo Linux for 20 years. Why? Because I cannot live without Linux and I haven’t found any Linux distribution that I like so much. Here I tell why.

So let me put it clear from the first line: trusting invalid certificates is wrong.

And now I will explain why it’s wrong and why there are few excuses for it.

We are talking here about certificates for SSL encryption, which serves basically two purposes:

• Privacy — data is transferred encrypted and can only be decrypted by the intended recipient and not a third party wiretapping the line.
• Authentication — making sure the receiving end that will be able to decrypt the data is who they claim to be and data is not diverted to a different receiver by a third party with access to manipulating our transfers.

Invalid certificates obviously defeat the second purpose of verifying the other end’s identity:

Let's start with a bit of history.

Casim.ir is a URL shortener developed by Nicolas Hoizey in PHP eleven years ago (stylized by then as Cas.im/ir) with the intention of creating a light and simple URL shortener.

About seven years ago, I installed it to create my own private URL shortener at chu.so and some other open and public ones with some modifications on Nicolas's project.

Shortly after, I started contributing to the project with improvements and bugfixes and almost instantly Nicolas gave me direct write permission.