Three days ago, I set up a new contact form on my websites. I've been bombarded with spam ever since: variants of the "hi I'm writing about the prices" bullshit in dozens of different languages. It's (still) trivially easy to weed them out, and I do. ~150 messages per day. All of them originate […]

Good read, that. > That reverence for the military can carry with it some darker elements. “The big picture implication,” Callahan says, “is January 6th. That is the big picture implication —radicalization. It’s feeling like you need to militarize yourself to defend yourself, and to just enact […]

I'm not sure how to deal with the information conveyed on this web page https://boingboing.net/2025/05/01/congratulations-to-the-european-gull-screeching-champions.html

Yo #freescout frens, do you know of a custom module that lets you use a Mastodon account like an inbox? As in: incoming mention = customer message, outgoing answer = reply on Masto?

Will im Dez evtl. nach München fahren. Bahn.de gecheckt, aber "Datum liegt außerhalb der Fahrplanperiode" Alter, was

🇩🇪Ab heute MÜSSEN Plattformen dein Browser-Signal #donottrack respektieren: Wer es setzt, darf keine personalisierte politische Werbung mehr sehen – ohne lästige Banner-Rückfragen! Prüft kritisch, ob Meta & Co sich daran halten und meldet Verstöße […]

Still a deeply wonderful song. Timeless, really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jad1-vxh1vQ

"I18n" is an abbreviation. Whether it stands for "internationalisation" or "iReallyDon'tCare,Man", that's up to you, the developer

This part of the Nobel committee's statement hits. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/press-release/ #politics #nobelpeaceprize

Dieses Thema für #flensburg liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen und/oder weiterverbreiten: > Verpackungssteuer für Flensburg - Gemeinsam gegen die Müllflut > > Wir fordern die Flensburger Ratsversammlung auf, eine kommunale Steuer auf Einwegverpackungen nach dem Vorbild der Stadt […]

Dieses Thema für #flensburg liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen und/oder weiterverbreiten: > Verpackungssteuer für Flensburg - Gemeinsam gegen die Müllflut > > Wir fordern die Flensburger Ratsversammlung auf, eine kommunale Steuer auf Einwegverpackungen nach dem Vorbild der Stadt […]

Dear fellow Euro polities and companies, you better get your shit together, fast. I am already in the process of moving a lot of stuff out of the US, and away from US providers, AMA. #digitalsovereignty https://mastodon.social/@pxlnv/115336213728804492

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here? I'll pay the bills. Period. I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team. DM me.

I very much like #freescout so far. Maybe a bit too much. I'm currently thinking about creating one or two more custom modules for it, in PHP of all languages, FFS

100% das. https://mas.to/@xax/115332403875417651

Are you a #freescout user? I've made a bare-bones module that lets you (the admin) add custom JS to all your instance's pages. https://github.com/czottmann/freescout-extrajs Super-simple, works for me, YMMV, have fun, kthxbye lol

It took a minute, but I completed my migration from #helpscout to #freescout. Reasons: €€, #digitalsovereignty. freescout.net is open-source and nice out of the box. Custom modules cost me €68 (lifetime), hosting is ~€6/month (PikaPods + mailbox). Everything's hosted in the EU! Migration was […]

Trying to find a good way to build a #rag based bot that let's my daughter chat with her physics text books. Is this a task for #openwebui, #n8n, or something else? #llm

Cute! https://messenger.abeto.co/

Das Jane Goodall Institute braucht unsere Hilfe, nachdem vor Kurzem eine Förderung verloren gegangen ist: > Klimakrise, Artensterben, soziale Ungerechtigkeit – viele junge Menschen wollen etwas tun, aber wissen nicht, wie. Genau hier setzt Roots & Shoots an: Das Jugendprogramm des […]

Solider Scherz, keine Anmerkungen https://layer8.space/@ich_iel/115306581677860471

> Tiny men with big sticks upend sanity the world ‘round and all you can do is try to find your footing and push back. @craigmod.com, my man, thanks for today's missive, and especially for *that*. Erryone else: Craig's doing another walk, follow along: mailbot2000.craigmod.com/h/r/3D7AC42B...

My home state of #schleswigholstein keeps leading the (German) pack when it comes to switch the public administration over to #foss. I'm really impressed. While other states and cities (hi #munich) claim it can't be done, they just do it. https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/115298281426236370 […]

"Die haben den größten TEDI der Welt in der Stadt" ist ein ähnliches Lob wie "München ist Ende September bis Anfang Oktober der größte Produzent an Erbrochenem"

Hej, jeg hedder Carlo. Jeg bor i Flensborg. Nul, en, to, tre, fire, fem, etc. (Day 1 of a 8-day introductory Danish course.)

I think this essay should be re-posted on a weekly basis. > Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm […] > […] the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to […]

Zwei wirklich interessante Interview, aus unterschiedlichen Gründen: > Woke ist vorbei – aber woher kommt die neue rechte Härte? Der Autor Thomas Chatterton Williams sagt: Was 2020 schief lief, verfolgt uns bis heute […]

Die aktuelle Bundesregierung hasst einfach alle Menschen, die keine Millionäre sind. https://mastodon.social/@spiegelnews/115280951586660326

Discovered https://lingo.dev/ – this looks pretty much exactly what I was looking for (for apps (xcstrings) + website + docs). Does anyone have any experience with it they could share?

TIL the word "titmice", and that makes the undying 12-year old in my head very, VERY happy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird) #birds

Useful tiny #fish #LLM function: ```fish function umm llm prompt $argv[1] \ --system "Context is macOS terminal. Be concise. When naming command line flags, name both long and short flag if available." \ --model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-coder | gum format -- end […] [Original post on norden.social]

Thanks, ChatGPT, that'll do #alienearth

Forza Horizon 6 was just revealed! Now if everybody and their mom would please go make a reaction video to that teaser, thank you

Telling inquiring potential Russian and Israeli customers that they can't purchase my apps because I don't want to give their gov'ts money for their genocidal wars, that's not fun. Most of them are understanding and graceful about it, though. Good folk.

The Ruby community has a DHH problem: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem #ruby #rails

"Stay frosty" 👏🏻

Once again, some friendly person linked my Actions For Obsidian from their newsletter, and all I see in my website analytics is a spike and the referrer "convertkit". Sigh. Dear creators, thank you for the link but once again, I don't know who sent me all those folks, and I guess this isn't […]

Good morning, sports racers

Interesting read, that. > How much does climate anxiety fuel the anxiety behind the so-called ‘masculinity crisis’? How much are we driven to addictive screens because the weather is getting worse, and we have reason to be afraid of the sky? www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

> Trump is waging culture war on #Europe by promoting rightwing allies, report finds You don't say www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... 🇪🇺❤️

I remember the last season of The Mandalorian – so naturally, this trailer makes me feel *nothing* anymore. More content, huzzah 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115250123359892475

John Oliver hat 10 Minuten über #Bernd das #brot gemacht und erstaunliche charakterliche Übereinstimmungen festgestellt. 😂

TIL about cargo bike snow plows 🤯 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypUGjGWo_hg

I keep coming back to this banger of a blog post about map projections which shifted *my* mental model of the world: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/maps-distort-how-we-see-the-world You wouldn't know it from looking at our "standard" flat maps but both the US and Russia (while […]

If you're getting all tingly just thinking about #Remedy's #CONTROL game, and would like some fine reading that goes along so well with it, don't sleep on this: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub There's a properly edited v2 of this coming […] [Original post on norden.social]

Oh, #hugendubel hat jetzt einen #Audible-Konkurrenten am Start https://www.hugendubel.de/de/category/131531/hoerbuch_abo.html #hoerbuch

We visited #aarhus last year, and had a good time. I wanna go back there, for the same reason I'm jonesing for #stockholm every now and then – the place just *feels* right to me. I can't put my finger on it yet for Aarhus, tho, meaning I can't clearly articulate yet the *why*.

Die #klimademo werden emotional auch immer anstrengender, ehrlich. Also die sind wichtig, aber die Frage nach Wirksamkeit wird größer. Fuck Harter Monat mal wieder. #flensburg

Consumerism is the Perfection of Slavery - Prof Jiang Xueqin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG-8XLLaE0 13 mins well spent. The man explains really well how we went from socialism (50s, 60s, 70s: worker-centric societies) to consumerism (90s+: money-centric societies). He calls it "the […]

Das ist 'ne gute Adresse: https://antistalking.haecksen.org/ #stalking #StopStalking