Scientists have discovered that it is possible to just do something, without making a podcast about it

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Super fascinating read https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

just upgraded my 12 (!) year old dell laptop to the latest Ubuntu with the latest KDE plasma and it just worked. Linux is so boring these days...

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#39c3 ticket ✅

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Deutsches #stadtbild ohne die #Brandmauer nach #rechts

Wu-Tang are coming to Berlin. Wheeeeee

Huh, that's a new one. Fake Cloudflare captcha asking you to please run the osascript from http://185.93 . 89.62/d/xxx33312 to collect and uplaod all your passwords and cookies.

2006: "Data is the new oil" 2025: "AI is the new microplastics"

Donated to @kde Keep up the great work and happy birthday!

Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked. TrumpWorld is not going to like what it says. This week in Rome, Pope Leo XIV quietly handed a letter to a group of visiting U.S. bishops. Inside were messages from migrants families separated by deportations, children afraid to sleep and […]

Nächste Runde Prototype Fund: https://www.prototypefund.de/bewerbung Einzelentwickler*innen & kleine Teams können ihre Open-Source-Idee für die Gesellschaft wieder fördern lassen – mit bis zu 79.167 € (Solo) bzw. 158.000 € (Teams) Förderung vom Bundesministeriums für Forschung, Technologie und […]

TIL: Wikimedia runs a public DoT / DoH service: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DNS #DNS

I love this "we have slim dependencies" blogpost from Obsidian in which they list the few dependencies they have. One of which is Electron a multi million line of code project that has all of chrome and all of nodejs. Wow, how slim indeed... Satire is dead.

Current status

Aber dennoch hat sich Bolle janz köstlich amüsiert

Wow https://kefir.protopopov.lv/posts/announce0.html

🇪🇺YES: Germany is not supporting the EU's #chatcontrol bill as proposed! The blocking minority needed to stop this illegal mass surveillance plan seems secured (for now). ✅ Opposition now also from LU🇱🇺 & SK🇸🇰! #keepupthefight https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Engineers that never bothered to document stuff now create elaborate merkdown docs for the AI coding thing of the week. I need a different job...

How is Oracle doing so well these days? Nobody talks about their tech yet Wallstreet seems to love it. I don't get it.

Nepal's parliament set on fire after PM resigns over anti-corruption protests https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c741n80ndlxt

any opinion on uv for managing python projects? Great stuff or a liability?

This is a fantastic extension to read things behind paywalls. It even works on mobile #firefox https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

Big layoffs at work this week. ☹️

A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

"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 […]

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On several input channels I’m seeing rage about the new Android Phone and Contacts apps, big redesigns with no warning. If there are people for whom you provide tech support, e.g. elderly relatives, you'd better get in touch and teach them how to answer a phone call, because tapping the green […]

Absolutely nothing could possibly go wrong here....

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

Introducing the concept of the Mettigel to people from other continents is always fun

O hai Dublin. You so sunny!

A totally normal day working in security

Love is love

Taking VS code + some AI thing and calling it a proper IDE is like taking Ubuntu, changing the desktop theme and calling it a new linux distribution

RIP Ozzy 😢

today in the land of why is this using AI: I had to report a meter reading to my gas provider. They have a fancy chat bot to do so, however the chatbot requires precise formatting. What could have been a 3 field HTML form was a simulated Chat thing. Who is asking for this? How does this improve […]

Okay, I have an early career Engineer ask me for help on something and they could have searched for the error message for 2 seconds and found the answer. Instead they chose to do random things that an AI suggested them w/o knowing what they were doing. This is going to be a wild ride...

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash […]

Are the Americans OK?

Watching multiple bird families teaching their young how to fly and feed themselves in our garden. Good start to this Sunday.

FOSS in space https://www.dwarmstrong.org/foss-in-space-1/

We gave up on #SquidGame. The third season is tedious and basically Saw level torture porn. They should have left the concept alone.

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases

It is so hot even the bread is melting