Wow, iNaturalist co-founder @kueda goes into detail why he quit the project he started. The tl;dr is that the leadership and governance seem ill-equipped for the task at hand. https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/ #inaturalist #citizenscience

I really feel like most people from ‘good countries’ shouldn’t try to justify their patriotism by saying ‘I went to (some Asian country), we are incredibly lucky here’. No, you are just a condescending fucker

«Maintainability isn't just a matter of hard-won experience teaching you where the pitfalls are. It also requires the cultivation of "Fingerspitzengefühl" – the "fingertip feeling" that lets you make reasonable guesses about where never before seen pitfalls might emerge. It's a form of process […]

«We used to be able to learn about our hobbies and interests from hundreds of experts on a wealth of websites whose only shared motivation was their passion. […] Now, Learning On The Internet often means fighting ads and endless assaults on one’s attention — it means watching […]

I need university administrators (and probably some other people too, but definitely university administrators) to understand something: you cannot motivate your faculty to do more research or better teaching. They are already maximally motivated people. They did not get the job by being […]

Trying once more with the right hashtag: Does anyone have have recommendation for a CLI/TUI RSS Reader that can tie into FreshRSS? Currently trying Newsboat, but would like to see if there's alternatives I'm missing out on! #rss #cli #tui

I wrote about the @CoMaps map distributor tool that I wrote to make it easier to download & serve map files in a local network - and also about why one would want to do that in the first place! https://tzovar.as/comaps-map-distributor/ #openstreetmap

That reddit thread about how delivery riders/drivers are exploited by Uber et al.? Sounds like it's likely a fake, based on the week evidence the "whistleblower" produced. But it's fascinating/depressing how much the writer of this article relies on "I asked another LLM if this was […]

We are looking for an experienced Android UI developer for https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android. Native Java, close to the system, with minimal deps and fluff. Networking/encryption/persistence is not part of the job as it happens in https://github.com/chatmail/core Remote collab is […]

After enjoying tooi that much (thanks @ihabunek!), I've started playing around with newsboat as a TUI RSS reader. Are there better/more modern alternatives I should check out?

"Anna’s Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension" - Still up in .li, .se and some other domains. https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-after-surprise-suspension/

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought. https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html #github #floss

Wish I had seen these before placing an order for stickers on the weekend! 🤣 https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115828881875398663

I wrote about the @CoMaps map distributor tool that I wrote to make it easier to download & serve map files in a local network - and also about why one would want to do that in the first place! https://tzovar.as/comaps-map-distributor/ #openstreetmap

This morning we can feel like we're in the big city in our village of 3,000 people: The power outage already lasted long enough to deplete our UPS batteries. It's basically like we'd be living in Berlin 😅 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-power-back-for-some-berliners-but-others-freeze-on/a-75382671

I looked at exactly two pages, in a single PR, on GitHub before being hit by "You have exceeded a secondary rate limit. Please wait a few minutes before you try again; in some cases this may take up to an hour". The irony of a company that pushes LLMs based on scraped code so hard putting this […]

[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.