I'm sorry, upgrading homebrew no longer involves git now, it involves downloading a 32 megabyte JSON file ????

Timeless and priceless advice for all developers, but especially junior developers. https://alex.party/posts/2025-10-08-junior-dev-tip-scroll-up/

Heute gelernt: Gips ist ein Nahrungsergänzungsmittel (E516), weshalb die Produktion eines Gipsbergwerks alljährlich als hallal und koscher zertifiziert wird. Wo steckt Gips drin? Zum Beispiel in Zucker, weil es in der Verarbeitung der Zuckerrübe als pH-Puffer gebraucht wird. #geowissen

It's normal that the first thing I open after installing @LineageOS on my #nintendoswitch is Mastodon, right? :smirkgrin: #homebrew

This talk is gonna be amazing, this is the first slide

Which brings us to the age-old question: Has nobody done this before because it's hard? Or because it's really fucking stupid?

Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does. Trump just stripped SpaceX […]

If anybody needed another reason to license their projects under AGPL, this might do the trick :smirkgrin: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy/

Fedi when AWS goes down: ​:neofox_smug:​ Fedi when Hetzner goes down: ​:neofox_surprised_pika:​

Japanese Government Declares War on AI to Protect Anime, Manga in Official Warning https://screenrant.com/anime-manga-ai-japanese-government-war-warning-openai-sora-2/

The company I currently still work at, but have already handed in my resignation with, just fired our director of engineering. Seems like he didn't trust in LLMs blindly enough. Now, they have a new director of "AI& Engineering" who will lead the dev teams - oh never mind, they're now called AI […]

this is hilarious

How the media are gaslighting trans people

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? https://www.seangoedecke.com/weak-engineers/

I recently finished a large refactor on the #immich helmchart I maintain ✨ v0.10.x now uses the common library v4 ! If you're interested in hosting immich and use #kubernetes, maybe give it a try! It's not yet finished as in fully stable, but it already does everything you need. I've been […]

We should call members of the fediverse The Feds #shitpost

If we had a diversity committee for the entirety of the fediverse, it should be called The Fediversityverse #shitpost

We're excited to announce that #fedify has been awarded a service agreement by the @sovtechfund! The Sovereign Tech Fund is investing €192,000 in Fedify's development over 2025–2026 to strengthen the fediverse ecosystem. This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's […]

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people. And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off. Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts. Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public […]

If your book(s) were, or are pirated on LibGen and subsequently used by Anthropic to train its AI models, the courts have ordered them to pay a minimum of $1.5B. Authors might/could/perhaps get an estimated payment of $3,000 per work (based on current estimates of the # of pirated works trained […]

So impressed by this lad from my local Croydon doing incredible journalism https://youtu.be/ShYgr-dHAOw?si=bKWtCykgJfyi9QVu

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity > Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and collaboration […]

Fuck Nintendo and their bullshit "oooh but nono this is the Nintendo Switch version, not the Nintendo Switch 2 version" "Oh you bought this on the Switch 2? Well you still bought the Switch version" "Oh yeah and the versions are listed as entirely separate games. You can't upgrade" "and we never […]

What it's like using closed source software

I don't know which manager needs to hear this, but: Your top performing software engineers are not the ones yearning for and diving fully into LLMs. They are the ones that will quit because they need to review the AI slop that others dump on them in a feeble attempt to "deliver more value"

We're excited to share an update on #fedify's development! While we're actively working on Fedify 1.9 in the `main` branch, we've also begun preparations for Fedify 2.0 in the `next` branch. Before you get too excited about revolutionary new features, we want to set clear expectations: Fedify 2 […]

Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that […]

Anybody skilled with patching apps using https://revanced.app/ and some free time? I would like a LinkedIn version that blocks everything besides connection requests and messages. :lul: Whenever somebody tries to meaningfully connect on there, I can't help but see something in the feed and get […]

It's 2025 and some things still don't support webp as a normal image format

I recently bought a turntable. Very happy with it, but now I'm considering to upgrade our speaker setup. Currently we have the YAS-209 soundbar+subwoofer I would like some higher quality audio for music, and surround speakers might be nice for TV, but optional The turntable can connect using […]

"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software. Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority: - sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon) - sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from […]

About once every year I feel the urge to dive into an #mmorpg again The time has come, welcome back #ffxiv :gaspwow: Let's see for how long i'll stick around this time

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support