When X banned the European Commission's ad account in retaliation for a fine, it demonstrated the exact sort of capricious behavior the DSA is designed to stop https://www.platformer.news/x-eu-fine-account-ban-bier/

Je commence les dessins de contreparties pour "De Profundis", le livre des Nouilles Rampantes ! C'est jusqu'à midi (et quelques) ici: https://www.twitch.tv/bouletcorp

It's weird how all the studies show that a 4-day week and UBI makes societies wealthier, more productive, and happier, but the RW govt types keep insisting on unemployment, austerity, longer hours, and shit labour rights

Wow web search sucks today... Alan Kaye once observed that the modern medium of photography, that when photographs are shown serially and fast enough, become a new medium (movies). Part of a longer discussion. It might have been in Scientific American. Anyone have sauce for that quote?

"We are unsettled to the very roots of our being. There isn't a human relation, whether of parent and child, husband and wife, worker and employer, that doesn't move in a strange situation. We are not used to a complicated civilization, we don't know how to behave when personal contact and […]

Only on mastodon would I have my own cancer mansplained to me, for fuck sake

@jgrg lol it is truly an unprecedented time for potential obnoxiousness

I'm fighting paperwork this morning, and the paperwork won.

🌽 Open Source Ag Tech for Small Farmer Sovereignty The recording of November’s DWeb Virtual Meetup is online! In case you missed it, check it out here: https://archive.org/details/dweb-virtual-meetup-nov-2025-open-source-ag-tech/DWeb+Virtual+Meetup+-+Nov+2025-+video.mp4 #dweb #agtech […]

Goodbye #appflowy, who follow #budibase and #plane into a strictly limited open core model, rendering them unusable for small communities. https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/discussions/7012#discussioncomment-15180180

This is my all-time favorite demoscene production. You need to watch from the beginning, the introduction is important.

Something Strange Is Happening to the Fungus in Chernobyl https://www.vice.com/en/article/something-strange-is-happening-to-the-fungus-in-chernobyl/ {The organism is Cladosporium sphaerospermum, a melanized fungus whose dark pigment might be doing a strange kind of work. Some researchers […]

Update. The French 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 (#cnrs) is canceling the #webofscience and encouraging its affiliates to use #OpenAlex. It cancelled #scopus last year. https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science #clarivate #elsevier #france #opensource #wos

"Curiosity and the Freedom to tinker naturally explains Free and Open Source Software in this light hearted children’s story. Why not have our ice cream machines that make every flavor and shape? Bravo @kirschner and Sandra for your excellent work." - […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Also, since offline doesn't have its own social media, we rely on the groups around offline to use their platforms to share the event. So please feel free to spread both the call for donations as well as the event itself! Thankyou <3 Looking forward to sharing some winter cozyness with you all […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/115648850423801359 TIL: Desktop Linux has overtaken macOS in gaming (3.20% vs 2.02%). FOSS is outplaying Apple thanks to Valve’s investments in SteamOS (gaming-focused Linux distribution) and Proton (compatibility layer for running Windows software in […]

The Fabulous History of Money is a great new documentary series by #arte. From ancient cowrie shells to the rise of the first banknotes and cryptocurrencies, tracing the story of this most consequential of social inventions which is as poorly understood as it is ubiquitous. #financialliteracy […]

The price increases on RAM and SSDs are out of this world. Possibly above the 2020 profiteering. Just look at the graph below showing an almost 800% jump that went down to only 400% with the "generous discounts" of this time of year. There is no way "demand" […] [Original post on mas.to]

@wikimediafoundation @wikimediaDE Could you maybe help me out with a thing? We are having a discussion in the YouTube Upload of the recent 25 years Wikipedia anthem about the soundtrack, which is stellar. Is the artist known? Is there more of it? The video names https://w.wiki/FsGm > […]

Sehr aufschlussreiches Meme heute im Vortrag von #spreuweizen auf der #FAKE25. #hygienemuseum #dresden

11/ There are still some copies available, but this book deserves a reissue with a introduction by somebody famous.

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

#sustainablefinance is not about red tape and woke vibes. Its about having a financial-economic system that is honest, transparent, anchored in reality. Its a new information architecture that needs to be invented, built and iterated on. Europe has the lead and it will be a self-goal to abandon it.

idk, why you're asking me

idk why but the thought of opening an email client now inspires an almost panic-tier response ... ok i opened the work email for the first time in a week and appear to have survived, let's try the personal one

New #starter pack with 72 IT service providers in the #fediverse: ➡️ https://fedidevs.com/s/NzE1/ Who is missing? 🤔 #opensource #foss #DigitaleSouveränität #eurostack #it #software #hardware #business #bigtech #Cloud #podcast #Groupware #office #communication

🔥 Our @lume powered website is live and using the #xeo theme by @rdela / @ricky (who also co-founded @famebot 🤩). Special thanks to @misteroom who is the coolest 🥶❄️🧊 Stay tuned for the grand open sourcing of the code once we get a few small remaining issues resolved 🧑🏼‍💻 Includes the kickass […]

I guess part of the reason that reading code can be harder than writing it is that what you really need to understand isn't necessarily *in* the code, you're kind of inferring the understanding you need *from* the code. Again, we keep conflating the work with the artifact of it, and the value […]

📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing. https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/ #wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by @notjustbikes with @UrbanThree & @StrongTowns. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

Fabrizia Benini closed with the most powerful call for engagement from FOSS developers I have ever heard from the Commission. ~“Your input is crucial. Help identify which digital commons are most strategic for open Internet stack. Share experiences with sustainable governance models that have a […]

Next a panel is Digital Sovereignty: The Role of the EU Budget and public investment in Shaping the Internet Moderator Zuzanna Warso (Director of Research at Open Future Foundation): EU is changing FOSS funding goal to a “single investment journey from research to deployment.” Dr Sergey […]

Adriana Groh, CEO of the Sovereign Tech Agency: ~”Stuff doesn’t get less complicated with more people involved. We need to practice using the instruments we have,” referring to EDICs. But also: ~”Why don’t we have EU-level foundations and companies?” This is an excellent question. I support […]

Gemma started strong re: NGI program transition to Open Internet Stack. ~“There is no Open Internet Stack without the digital commons.” Funding will shift from exclusively development grants to “deployment”, Commission-speak for software having some commercialization that enables the FOSS to […]

Sachiko Muto: ~”Open source is no longer a ‘nice to have’. It is strategically important. This is a concern for democracy. We need to widen the circle of people who are concerned about this. The words we use change who feels this is a concern for them.” She recommended talking about ‘digital […]

> It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable Earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. > Rainer Maria Rilke, on literature

i spoke to @purpleidea about mgmt yesterday and i've gotta say, as a not-sre (so grain of salt), it's really compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vz1MMGkuik it's reactive and declarative and, unlike nix{os}, it's distributed and dynamic rather than single-host and static. unlike k8s […]

I've seen a lot of posts focusing on the specific issues that caused the recent Cloudflare incident, but no discourse about how these companies are being run. We've known how to build completely reliable computer systems for decades. When things fall apart, it's not […] [Original post on mas.to]

**‘Parasocial’ is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025** 🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/parasocial-is-cambridge-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2025 #News #Words #Language #Linguistics #Image attribution: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1265489 […] [Original post on qoto.org]

“Open source has proven itself to be a winning strategy — not recently, but for decades.” — Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Agency CEO. #EUSummit #DigitalSovereignty,

If you're using #debian 13 and you're wondering why the `ping` command has stopped working for non-root users... `apt install linux-sysctl-defaults` will fix that for you.

I have a friend who prefers to stay anonymous who gives this amazing talk in non US (but allied) countries about how long their internet will -really- function if they lose all comms with American data centers and it’s… phew. It’s a thing. Some resilient ones will last a few weeks before […]

Here we go #digitalsovereignty

Good morning to the 1/16 of the internet that’s still functioning mostly as intended.

Just a little joke. #cloudflare

detecting suno audio is actually much easier and more reliable than these heuristic rules - the spectrogram looks nothing like normal human vocals, and the differences are easy to spot. i did a thing at blackhat about this a few years ago […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

Btw, if your site uses #CloudFlare DNS and is now down Just disable their DNS proxy, clear cache and p00f

The importance of Sovereign Tech exemplified by the @sovtechfund with help from #cloudflare on the day of the #digitalgipfel about #digitalesouveränität . The most funny thing is that it makes it appear as if the #sovereigntechfund did something wrong. And maybe they did, by choosing Cloudflare?