My Fediverse Digest for September 2025
A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for September 2025.
Sep 01
12:02 PM
When in doubt… duck it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgV_-nJOuE
Sep 12
04:33 PM
I did a dry run on #gotosocial last night and might be getting some RAM back from my #linode #vps by shutting down #mastodon after I flip the #nginx #proxy over. Timing will likely be a weekend or two in the making. We shall see.
Sep 13
03:09 AM
Oh hai #gotosocial
03:36 AM
And scene…
03:44 AM
So, I’m running #GoToSocial 0.19.2 and all seems well but I’m sure there are dozens of things that I’m forgetting to seamlessly migrate. At the very least, I have a db dump and an archive from #mastodon but I’m looking forward to less #mastodonadmin and more #gotosocialadmin time.
09:39 AM
05:28 PM
Work travel on weekends is a mood
Sep 14
09:02 PM
Texas shaped waffles y’all
Sep 16
09:39 AM
So far so good.
Sep 17
09:29 PM
Finding that pinafore.social on Chrome app for iOS is more usable than Mastodon app for iOS with my #gotosocial needs… ymmv
Sep 18
08:05 PM
Reminder: This is a 7 year old video montage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
11:55 PM
Sep 19
10:43 PM
Friday selection
https://youtube.com/shorts/AJ7atBkisOU?feature=shared
Sep 20
03:38 PM
A few thoughts on the chaos of H1-B visa fee hikes via EO on a Friday https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-09-20/
Sep 23
08:46 PM
Last minute travel is last minute
Sep 27
12:41 PM
With a 5000 character limit and Markdown support, I could technically place my daily newsletter here as well in most cases.
Post Analysis for GoToSocial
Percentage of posts under 5000 characters by day:
| Day | Suitable Posts | Total Posts | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 47 | 124 | 37.90% |
| Tuesday | 61 | 63 | 96.83% |
| Wednesday | 75 | 78 | 96.15% |
| Thursday | 69 | 73 | 94.52% |
| Friday | 58 | 67 | 86.57% |
| Saturday | 112 | 122 | 91.80% |
Sunday is excluded from the percentage calculation as it is reserved for digests.
Found 209 posts on Sundays.
12:47 PM
but maybe not tables 🤣
08:10 PM
One Friday news stories was worth a second look. It seems that the US Commerce Department is rumored to be considering ways to revert back to 1995 levels of US-sourced semiconductors.
https://www.techmeme.com/250926/p28#a250926p28
To put this into perspective, that’s like going from the icing on a cake to the cake itself. Tariffs drama aside, this rumor seems more like a slow news day dump that wants to drift on prior activities and see if there are clicks generated.
As for prior activities, it is worth looking at what I had noted back in 2022 around fabrication facilities. Indeed, the wake of pandemic supply chain lessons was just the early beginning of what might become a trend in vertical resilience in many nations and not just the US.
https://fudge.org/archive/when-we-was-chip-fab-focused/
08:18 PM
Testing
