Jay Cuthrell July 31, 2026 Fediverse

My Fediverse Digest for July 2026

A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for July 2026.

Jul 01

12:16 AM

Superb.

Faouzia - Unethical (MAPHRA Vocal Cover)

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05:03 AM

My Fediverse Digest for June 2026

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/fediverse-digest-2026-06/

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Jul 03

01:47 PM

having a true Clippy++ kind of day

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TIL for the new lines of low cost lightweight Matter compatible light bulbs there are two steps needed to make the light appear, well, brighter in Apple Home. You set brightness to 100% then you set temperature to whatever your brain registers as making brightness look like what you thought the first step should have done. I understand why but it seems like Apple Home is trying to protect me from blue light or something similarly odd.

I remember noodling with chip-tool or something similar when a prior smart bulb app stopped working but I don’t recall when.

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08:03 PM

portainer has come a long way

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Jul 04

07:45 PM

2 years later… 588K views.

Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history is 4.5 hours of looking back to look ahead.

Source: SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

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09:14 PM

CIPHER (Contradictions, Inflections, Practices, Hacks, Extremes, Rarities) but for…

roadside food trucks as flash qahveh khaneh
niche youtube channels flash comment communities
cosmos/retro/noplace/airbuds/discord cliques

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09:22 PM

🦥🏳️‍🌈 Source - GoToSocial 0.22.0+git-60b693f 🏳️‍⚧️🦥

upgrade done
no notes

#gotosocialadmin

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Jul 05

01:53 PM

What The Fudge for July 05, 2026: AI Infrastructure Oops, Token Rationing, and Digital-Only Mandates

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-017/

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04:59 PM

And when Apple is selling a high memory Mac mini with* 10–12 weeks *lead time… it seems the DRAM supply chain has reached the do the funky chicken phase.

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05:32 PM

Ain’t no disco like a Buck Rogers disco

#WeBroughtYouSomePills

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10:35 PM

Started down the path to a #selfhosted #portainer #docker, newsletter engine digester after finding an old Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM that I forgot about and the power adapter to my old Dell laptop with 4GB RAM.

Daily: Laptop runs one #n8n workflow that fetches emails, sanitizes text via JS, and tasks a Pi running #ollama (qwen2.5:1.5b) with a 3-bullet summary, then logs to local #postgres.
Weekly: Laptop runs another similar n8n workflow late Saturday night to aggregates the logs, extracts macro-trends via Pi, and email me a brief.

This is both awful and wonderful but with zero cloud fees, completely local, and doesn’t require sub-millisecond response times.

Next: Find slightly more suitable hardware after I get this tuned.

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Jul 07

10:23 PM

When you check ye olde spam folder and you notice the current state of startup move fast break things MarTech stack being used has succumbed to lowest common denominator AI-slop when the copy has left behind the world of {$first_name} and gone full on [STEP 3 follow-up - copy TBD]

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Jul 08

09:05 PM

Amazing.

@Switch-Angel Creating Trance on the train to New York

#strudel

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Jul 10

10:36 PM

Indeed.

你可能正在处理一段包含大量图片和链接的内容

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Jul 11

12:00 AM

Always in the rotation

Steam Powered Giraffe - Honeybee

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09:09 PM

Still amazed by the limits available for gemini-flash-lite-latest.

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09:20 PM

This Nopia demo tho 🤯

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Jul 12

08:03 PM

What The Fudge for July 12, 2026: On-Device AI, Memory Boom, and Big Tech Pivots

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-018/

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Jul 15

10:36 AM

This article about LiteRT.js tho
🤯

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Jul 18

10:14 PM

A tale of two gimme some mores

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Jul 19

04:56 PM

Donavon Frankenreiter - Free (Featuring G. Love)

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08:03 PM

What The Fudge for July 19, 2026: Open-Source AI, Regulatory Headwinds, and Enterprise Capital

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-019/

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09:10 PM

When I said “Ship Left” 1, I meant what I meant. The dread of having any third-party IaaS/PaaS/SaaS simply decide your AUP does not apply 2 is real.

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10:11 PM

Ended up shifting the Pi workload to an older iMac M1 with 16GB RAM which performs much better than expected and more reliable

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Jul 20

11:51 AM

Eastern NC coastal waterways are beautiful to look at from a distance but what you cannot see (easily) are the increasingly periodic “elevated levels of fecal bacteria” in some of those waterways.

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Jul 23

07:37 PM

Having a “Say No To Spec” circa 20-ish years ago flashback…

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Jul 24

03:57 PM

Not that I’m going to attempt this right now, but if I was going to do a one shot vibe coded app via “stream of consciousness” that ought to exit and let the machines do what they will, it would be this… “The 30 Thirds Movements”

Create a vignette composition ringtone app that monitors for the cycles of different sequences associated with repeated Notifications and then forms compositional elements of a longer form musical score based on Ry Cooder meets Jacob Collier for biryani potluck style five string guitar riffs combining Indian raga/raag bhupali/khamaj-esqe with essential pentatonic blue scales and a major emphasis throughout with the occasional seventh or the ninth to keep things interesting based on timing of those notifications within a definable microseconds pattern that can be assigned to any of your contacts, app, etc as the default ringtone so that when you are feeling particularly prone to context switching such as flow state you are actually listening for the musicality of communications or attention seeking where it is a pleasant experience, and not so much a drowning siren of beep beep beep with no tonal variation.

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