[global pol] «If we condemn Putin for trying to depose governments that fall outside of his “sphere of influence,” how can we tolerate a president who does the same? Why should any government around the world not just invade countries when it wants their assets? Trump’s actions will take us […]

overly in-depth (i love it) explanation of why usb-c audio dongles/headsets hit USB-FS bandwidth limits https://epenguin.imalone.co.uk/2025/06/audio-dongles-and-ghost-of-usb-1.html

Ah yes, "World ‘may not have time’ to prepare for AI safety risks" says dude who is a crypto-bro and for some reason is now allowed to cosplay as an 'expert' at the UK's 'Advanced Research + Invention Agency'. If anyone still had doubts about how deep the UK's rot in academia & politics is. If […]

The idea that other countries should take in Americans as refugees, other countries that are rejecting most refugees at this time, is as problematic as all the people calling themselves ‘Twitter refugees’

Gobernantes del mundo analizando qué declaraciones dar para no perder su acceso a sus correos y datos en Microsoft 365

Trying out tooi, a cute TUI (terminal user interface) client for Mastodon! https://codeberg.org/ihabunek/tooi

This is so amazing: In 1970, the city of Paris organised a photography competition, splitting the city into more than 1700 squares of 250 meters length. Now you can browse the images taken in 1970 in this super cool/simple map, square by square! I already checked out my old neighborhood ❤️ […]

Para mejorar mi español estoy escuchando a episodios de Radio Ambulante. Creo que este episodio sobre #wikipedia es perfecto para la gente de Mastodon 😉 https://radioambulante.org/transcripcion/guerra-de-ediciones-transcripcion

With 2025 being over: Ended up contributing to #openstreetmap on 355 days last year, making ~3,300 change sets!

And another super interesting #39c3 talk, about bluetooth headphone exploits: Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone#t=0

Great piece by @mpe about shadow libraries like Anna's Archive, their metadata and what it means for creating successors after takedowns: «The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation» […]

Can't believe that this sleepy sweetheart is already turning 6 today!

New blog: The Next Thing Will Not Be Big https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html

«Hersh’s reporting only got attention because there was a public willing to care. If atrocities are reported and nobody is shocked, what then? We don’t just need new Hershes, but a public that appreciates and demands the kind of work that Hersh has done.» In the age of slop that seems harder […]

Can't believe that this sleepy sweetheart is already turning 6 today!

«Given that the amount of money banks make from the average sale of one vial is approximately $1,200, the industry has less than zero interest in voluntarily putting a halt to their less-than-ethical practices. It’s been proven time and time again that, without anything reining them in, they […]

Released a small update to my early-stage @CoMaps map distributor for locally hosting map files. It now has a small comfort function for updating map files, based on the ones you already got downloaded from a former release. This helps not having to specify your map files of interest for each […]

Rewatched Casablanca tonight: «If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?»

Released a small update to my early-stage @CoMaps map distributor for locally hosting map files. It now has a small comfort function for updating map files, based on the ones you already got downloaded from a former release. This helps not having to specify your map files of interest for each […]

Next #39c3 talk I watched: «Pwn2Roll: Who Needs a 595€ Remote When You Have wheelchair.py?» About how an assistive medical device maker software-locks existing hardware features behind a paywall ­– and how to circumvent it. This is generally a despicable business model, but even more so when […]

Cómo se puede saber que Duolingo reemplazó sus empleados con "IA"? Ahora pronuncia el número "24000" como "veinticuatro cero cero cero" 🤦

Time to catch up with some #39c3 talks. Kicked it off with the excellent «The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber» (original talk is in German, but an English translation is offered. Stay for the QA bit for a fun surprise 😆) […]

Time to catch up with some #39c3 talks. Kicked it off with the excellent «The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber» (original talk is in German, but an English translation is offered. Stay for the QA bit for a fun surprise 😆) […]

«The split keyboard has long been the domain of the tech pervert» - hard to disagree with this 😅 /Cc @pjacock Split Keyboards Are Superior - Aftermath https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

«When the collapse happens, do not let a single person that waved off the economics have a moment’s peace. […] Do not let a single analyst that called AI skeptics “luddites” or equated them to flat Earthers hear the end of it.» […]

Uploading the 13,000 images from our return-trip to #PANORAMAX took 2 days and 11 hours. 🙈

Iran may be on the verge of Internet shutdowns again. If you have friends or family in #iran, now is the time to let them onboard for example with https://tiiiz.ir -- because using in-country servers helps to stay connected. If you need support for setting up a relay in or for Iran, send us a DM […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@borkdude/115799677210560924 Couldn't agree more with what Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) says here in response to one of those sycophantic "Thank you" emails generated by Claude LLM and sent to various people in CompSci... (see @robpike for another example) […]

Finally wrote a small Python script/CLI tool to help myself sort the image sequences I want to upload to Panoramax, so that it's easier to quickly clean them. It's mainly for my own workflow, but in case it's useful for other contributors, I've pushed it out to Codeberg and PyPI too […]

«Stars, downloads, and dependency counts were always proxies for quality and trustworthiness. When the manipulation stayed artisanal, the signal held up well enough. Now that package management underpins most of the software industry, the numbers matter for real decisions: government supply […]

Finally wrote a small Python script/CLI tool to help myself sort the image sequences I want to upload to Panoramax, so that it's easier to quickly clean them. It's mainly for my own workflow, but in case it's useful for other contributors, I've pushed it out to Codeberg and PyPI too […]

Passed this town today on the way home. Apparently the village decided to give themselves the name to spite their political opponents 🤦 Kilómetro 658 - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kil%C3%B3metro_658

Quite a few of #deltachat #chatmail and #Webxdc folks are already and will be around #39c3 -- on-site you can join a group chat (or send us a DM upfront) where we announce dynamically scheduled sessions. You'll find us mostly around Komona but also other places ... for more info […]

Christmas road tripping to visit friends who are in town (aka in the same country but a 5-7 hour drive away 😅). Luckily these two enjoy sleeping in the car, and the 35 ºC outside too.

Christmas road tripping to visit friends who are in town (aka in the same country but a 5-7 hour drive away 😅). Luckily these two enjoy sleeping in the car, and the 35 ºC outside too.

Snuck a little Peruvian gift into the nativity scene 😅🦙

Snuck a little Peruvian gift into the nativity scene 😅🦙

"Surely Google Maps wouldn't get the spelling of streets named after historical figures wrong".

RE: https://en.osm.town/@PanoramaxContribs/115757690233072850 That's how you know the Panoramax bot is unbiased: Yesterday was the first time it randomly picked one of my contributions 😆

«Their interest is in women remaining protected and getting what they deserve, especially for those essentially doing everything in their relationships. While it’s easy to mock the original posters for wanting to legally bind themselves to men who can’t be bothered, one explanation is simple […]

«Peering into Goonworld’s darkest corners has convinced me that what we are dealing with here may well be a structural flaw of networked communication itself. Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide […]

Since the last Android release @CoMaps allows using a custom server from which to download map files. This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks. To make […]

Since the last Android release @CoMaps allows using a custom server from which to download map files. This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks. To make […]

«#23andme recently launched an AI-powered version of our Health Action Plan feature (only available to 23andMe+ members in the United States) and is investing in better ways to summarize and prioritize your results so you can be the best advocate for your own healthcare.» Hahahahaha 😂 Given […]

«#23andme recently launched an AI-powered version of our Health Action Plan feature (only available to 23andMe+ members in the United States) and is investing in better ways to summarize and prioritize your results so you can be the best advocate for your own healthcare.» Hahahahaha 😂 Given […]

«Spotify has around 256 million tracks. This collection contains metadata for an estimated 99.9% of tracks. We archived around 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB in total size.» That's some impressive shadow library work! […]

As someone who so far just used pipenv for his #python dependency management (as most of my stuff is web dev that isn't packaged but rather deployed): If I'd want to write a library that I wanna properly package/release, which dependency manager would you recommend when starting a project from […]

"It’s bad enough having to see glitter in videoconferencing software, or begging to write emails for you, but God forbid you should try to do anything without glitter. Your bosses will ask, where’s your glitter? Is your life’s work at least related to glitter? We’re all covered in glitter here […]

Should scientists apply to OpenAI's fund for research on AI & mental health? Should policymakers consider it a credible safety effort? Avriel Epps & I see it as "grantwashing," and it's an insult to anyone whose loved one's death involved chatbots […]

«LLMs are copyright removal devices - copy open source (or proprietary!) data into it, and you get copyright free data on the other side that you are free to plagiarize into newly copyrighted works. While this process robs all copyright owners, it is particularly damaging to people involved in […]