Nostr notes by scy

Thank you, #DuckDuckGo. ...

2026-10-22T17:20:37Z

Thank you, #DuckDuckGo.

stealing and reposting good memes will continue until alt texting ...

2026-10-22T09:39:51Z

stealing and reposting good memes will continue until alt texting improves 🤷‍♂️

#eMudhra

In meinem Kopf laufen die Fantastischen Vier … LLM, CVE, HTTP ...

2026-10-21T16:27:07Z

In meinem Kopf laufen die Fantastischen Vier …

LLM, CVE, HTTP
RCE in PHP, ojemine

I propose declaring October 21 to henceforth be International ...

2026-10-21T09:12:52Z

I propose declaring October 21 to henceforth be International Static Website Day.

#PHP

Playing around with the Home Assistant Voice (Preview Edition), ...

2026-10-16T09:10:09Z

Playing around with the Home Assistant Voice (Preview Edition), it's fascinating how well it works out of the box.

But what's even more fascinating: This is "just" an ESPHome device. With a 70k YAML config, but still! You can see it here:
https://github.com/esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe/blob/dev/home-assistant-voice.yaml

It has several features that I didn't even know were in ESPHome:

Animations for LED strips
https://esphome.io/components/light/#strip-animations

Wake word recognition
https://esphome.io/components/micro_wake_word/

Programmatic OTA
https://esphome.io/components/ota/http_request/

#HomeAssistant #ESPHome

Little known fact: If your Star Trek video essay, article, social ...

2026-10-15T01:09:21Z

Little known fact: If your Star Trek video essay, article, social media post, or whatever, contains "Shut up, Wesley" played as kind of a funny in-joke, I will stop watching/reading it at that very moment, and not return to any of your content ever again.

We as a fandom have caused Wil Wheaton great pain and trauma since the 80s and 90s, and if you think it is acceptable to continue doing that to this day, you are a terrible human being who knows nothing about Trek values.

#StarTrek

It's still not a good look, but I'd at least be hesitant ...

2026-10-11T14:24:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…vnsr
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It's still not a good look, but I'd at least be hesitant to jump to conclusions like "Nitter are Nazis!"

Looking through the repo to find the source of your screenshot, ...

2026-10-11T14:23:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…q2et
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Looking through the repo to find the source of your screenshot, I've noticed that they only had that address in their readme for 6 weeks or so:

Introduced Aug 26:
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/f75bf5872e36a255a9765114ec0eb2a0394bef1f

Removed Oct 9:
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/145ca9eb68d195a74598ae39a4d6da002b252c38

I wonder whether this wasn't any sort of ideological alignment, but just "oh no, we got a cease & desist, help!" after which poa.st was like "we can help you protect free speech!!1!" and zedeus had no idea who they were 🤔

Was würdet ihr denn als Editor für macOS empfehlen? Kriterien: ...

2026-10-02T19:06:09Z

Was würdet ihr denn als Editor für macOS empfehlen?

Kriterien:

• Für Leute, die nicht programmieren, aber Markdown und YAML schreiben müssen.
• Markdown-Preview wär eigentlich ganz geil, ist aber streng genommen optional.
• Leichtgewichtig. VS Code ist wahrscheinlich schon zu dick.
• Kostenlos. Und am besten freie Software, also Open Source.
• Unterstützt EditorConfig.
• Git-Integration wär cool, also zumindest mal geänderte Zeilen markieren.

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2026-09-11T09:21:03Z

Gestern beim Abendspaziergang aus einem Haus nen Brandmelder ...

2026-09-09T10:38:59Z

Gestern beim Abendspaziergang aus einem Haus nen Brandmelder piepen gehört. Im Haus war alles dunkel, Feuer oder Rauch war nicht zu sehen. Auf Klingeln hat niemand reagiert. Die Nachbarn (Doppelhaus) waren daheim, reagierten aber auch nicht auf Klingeln. Der Brandmelder muss schon minutenlang gepiept haben.

Also die 112 angerufen und die Situation geschildert, inklusive "ist womöglich nur ein Fehlalarm".

5 Minuten später stand ein kompletter Feuerwehrzug in der Straße.

This website is mentioning "content-driven development", ...

2026-09-01T11:55:46Z

This website is mentioning "content-driven development", but I misread it as "consent-driven development".

And gosh do we need consent-driven development.

I'm looking for a good, modern tutorial for C++. Something ...

2026-08-23T13:20:19Z

I'm looking for a good, modern tutorial for C++. Something that _does_ mention "this is how it was done in the past", allowing me to understand older code, but also says "we don't do that anymore; the recommended way is now this".

I'm a seasoned programmer, I don't need an introduction into programming itself. But I find myself increasingly wading through C++ and C code for microcontrollers, and my university C knowledge isn't particularly helpful.

(Don't recommend Rust please, it won't help.)

You know what bothers me? There are a _lot_ of good IT or ...

2026-08-23T13:10:00Z

You know what bothers me?

There are a _lot_ of good IT or "tech" things.

The "bad" tech is almost always commercial, surveillance capitalist stuff. Technology built to exploit.

But it's giving all of tech a bad rap. And I hate that.

We can build really awesome things, things that society can profit from. But these things are usually hobbyist or volunteer projects, and severely underfunded. Proprietary exploitation tech is where the money – private _and_ public – goes.

I was there when SourceForge went to shit. It felt a lot like ...

2026-08-18T09:08:40Z

I was there when SourceForge went to shit.

It felt a lot like GitHub is feeling now.

I really don't care whether coding AIs are "there ...

2026-08-11T18:54:14Z

I really don't care whether coding AIs are "there yet". My problem isn't whether the quality is "good enough".

I care about open source developers living in poverty while the companies who stole their work are worth billions. My problem is the ethical and environmental, and frankly, societal implications we're gonna face. We're _already_ facing.

But to be honest, what I'm really mad about is that Aaron Swartz is dead and Sam Altman lives.

You'd expect that they skip certain numbers when numbering ...

2026-08-10T11:44:38Z

You'd expect that they skip certain numbers when numbering their vehicles, but apparently they don't…?

So … when are we going to actually do what we can against it? ...

2026-07-21T07:38:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…l575
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So … when are we going to actually do what we can against it? I'm talking about real change, not "too little too late".

Mai Thi hat ein sehr gutes Video zu #Sonnencreme rausgehauen: • ...

2026-07-01T10:55:31Z

Mai Thi hat ein sehr gutes Video zu #Sonnencreme rausgehauen:

• Sonnenbrand vs. Hautkrebs
• Eigenschutzzeit vs. Lichtschutzfaktor
• "chemische" vs. "mineralische" Sonnencreme
• gibt es "gesunde" Bräune? (nein)
• _verursacht_ Sonnencreme Hautkrebs sogar? (eher unwahrscheinlich)
• Risiko-Nutzen-Abwägung: Hautkrebs vs. Sonnencreme-Inhaltsstoffe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBW65Jbesjw (28 min)

Ich hab ne Menge gelernt und fühl mich definitiv besser vorbereitet auf den (restlichen) Sommer.

Die Idee hinter dem Toot ist nicht, draußen ne niedrigere ...

2026-06-28T10:56:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…6c0p
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Die Idee hinter dem Toot ist nicht, draußen ne niedrigere Temperatur vorzufinden.

Protipp: Wenn's euch in der Wohnung zu warm ist, geht einfach ...

2026-06-28T10:51:57Z

Protipp: Wenn's euch in der Wohnung zu warm ist, geht einfach mal 10 Minuten raus.

Would've loved to have gotten an easy choice there, but alas, ...

2026-06-17T13:33:41Z

Would've loved to have gotten an easy choice there, but alas, not in this timeline.

#BorgBackup #restic

Viele derer, die frisch mit dem Fotografieren beginnen, sind am ...

2026-06-06T10:08:01Z

Viele derer, die frisch mit dem Fotografieren beginnen, sind am Anfang erst mal in einer Canonlernphase.

Okay, es kam wieder und jetzt hab ich doch ein Foto 😁 ...

2026-05-21T08:22:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…zeam
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Okay, es kam wieder und jetzt hab ich doch ein Foto 😁

Gerade ist ein Eichhörnchen auf meinen neben mir stehenden ...

2026-05-21T08:08:16Z

Gerade ist ein Eichhörnchen auf meinen neben mir stehenden Rucksack geklettert und bis auf so 20 cm an mich ran gekommen 🥰

Foto hab ich natürlich keins davon, aber omg so cute!

I now have several friends where the agreement is basically ...

2026-05-15T09:26:08Z

I now have several friends where the agreement is basically "instead of overthinking and spiraling and guessing, you can just _ask,_ anything and everything and at any time, and I'll treat it with respect and sympathy and tenderness"

and it's so much better than anything else.

When you're close with each other, it should be a safe space, with no question being awkward.

stolen and alt-texted ...

2026-05-14T21:26:17Z

stolen and alt-texted

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2026-04-18T08:32:53Z

The one weakness of this post is the implications due to what ...

2026-04-05T21:15:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…k36p
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The one weakness of this post is the implications due to what "the Duncan Idaho machine" actually is.

(Spoilers for Heretics of Dune I guess.)

I don't know who needs to hear this¹, but you can actually ...

2026-03-31T13:08:25Z

I don't know who needs to hear this¹, but you can actually _ask_ for things that are important to you in a friendship or a dating situation, instead of just trying to be whatever the other person seems to need.

¹ it's me, I'm who needs to hear this

Ich hab jetzt mal versucht rauszufinden warum ihr das alle ...

2026-03-17T05:30:17Z

Ich hab jetzt mal versucht rauszufinden warum ihr das alle spielt, und ja, ist schon nicht schlecht :)

Glaube mein Ziel werden perfekte Solves, auch wenn's länger dauert. (Heute hab ich auch noch Anleitung gelesen und so.)

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 17th 2026 (Medium), in less than 25 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

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2026-03-15T18:01:19Z

Wieso heißt es Impressumszwang und nicht Werpflicht?

If we as progressives think it's okay for people to engage in ...

2026-03-14T18:27:00Z

If we as progressives think it's okay for people to engage in things that are unhealthy to their bodies, like consuming drugs, or sex with lots of bruising, or eating burgers and pizza all the time,

then why are we struggling so much to allow them to engage in things that are _psychologically_ unhealthy?

Because we absolutely do. We disapprove of it, we judge them for it, we blame them for hardship that results from it.

"FOSS maintainers are unpaid and don't have the resources ...

2026-03-12T11:22:32Z

"FOSS maintainers are unpaid and don't have the resources to manage large open source projects, they _have_ to use AI to get anything done."

I've seen this take a couple of times in recent weeks, and I've got two things to say about it:

1. We've been able to manage large open source projects for decades in the past, without LLMs.

2. Ever thought about how there may be a connection between "FOSS is unpaid" and capitalism producing trillion-dollar AI companies and more and more billionaires?

Richtiges Outfit für nen geschäftlichen Call würd ich sagen. ...

2026-03-10T13:48:10Z

Richtiges Outfit für nen geschäftlichen Call würd ich sagen.

cute date idea ...

2026-03-08T22:52:57Z

cute date idea

Damn I hope we spend 2027 to 2037 suing the whole LLM industry ...

2026-03-04T12:57:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…exfr
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Damn I hope we spend 2027 to 2037 suing the whole LLM industry into the fucking ground.

Every software project built using license-violating training data, every piece of music made by stealing from thousands of artists simultaneously, every picture created by ripping off people who barely have enough to make a living.

Sue them all for copyright violations.

I don't care if we need twice as many lawyers to do that.

Or, option B, abandon copyright altogether. Both works for me.

"The test data has also been moved to a separate repo to help ...

2026-03-04T12:51:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…tuvm
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"The test data has also been moved to a separate repo to help prevent any licensing issues"

So you've used the LGPL-licensed tests provided by contributors as a spec for Claude?

And of course Claude wasn't trained on the existing chardet code, nu-uh.

Like, usually when trying to free code from copyright or NDAs, it's an elaborate process, with the authors having to guarantee to never even have looked at the original code.

Did you add "pretend you didn't see the original" to the prompt? lol.

Dan Blanchard, maintainer of Python's "chardet" ...

2026-03-04T12:39:14Z

Dan Blanchard, maintainer of Python's "chardet" library, used Claude to rewrite the entire project's codebase so that he can switch the license from LGPL to MIT.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

I highly doubt that this is legal, but who the fuck cares these days anyway, right?

If I was a contributor to that project, I'd tell him in no vague words what I think about shit like that. "No bro, it's totally not relicensing your code bro, this is totally new code bro!"

via https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271
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Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to ...

2026-03-04T11:43:43Z

Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.

security by obscenity

"You can control what you think. You can control how you ...

2026-02-27T09:39:56Z

"You can control what you think. You can control how you think. And therefore you can control who you are."

That's Chinese-American Olympic freestyle skier, model, millionaire and Stanford student Eileen Gu, and I've never heard about her, but she seems like a pretty interesting and smart person.

#EileenGu

Kumpel von mir löst seine Werkstatt auf und hat ne Menge Zeug, ...

2026-02-23T18:43:16Z

Kumpel von mir löst seine Werkstatt auf und hat ne Menge Zeug, das spätestens im März in neue Hände muss – oder den Container.

Plasmaschneider, Schweißgerät, Formatkreissäge ca. 180×180, Elektro(nik)geraffel, diverses Zeug.

Am liebsten würde er alles komplett abgeben, also eher nicht einzeln rauspicken. Hackspaces, offene Werkstätten evtl.?

Standort ist bei #Hennef (Sieg) aufm Dorf, Preis VHB aber günstig.

Fotos:
https://cloud.scy.name/s/H92FcYWeqFgXemE

Kontakt über mich, schreibt mir ne DM. Gerne Boosts.

Take me down to parallax city Where the back moves slow and the ...

2026-02-01T18:11:28Z

Take me down to parallax city
Where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly

I've been using i3 and Sway for years, and I'm now using ...

2026-01-09T23:45:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…q9y5
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I've been using i3 and Sway for years, and I'm now using Gnome almost exclusively.

Do I miss tiling windows and extreme customizability from time to time? Sure.

But what I don't miss is spending hours at a time trying to get apps to deal with the window manager aggressively resizing them, or getting screen sharing or screenshots to work.

Like they say: Choose the right tool for the job. Use something user-friendly if that's your focus. If you want raw hack value, use something else. 🤷‍♂️

You know you don't _have_ to reproduce their sick wording, ...

2026-01-09T14:11:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…z8ea
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You know you don't _have_ to reproduce their sick wording, right? Could've at least put some quotes around "spicy mode".

Or call it what it is: non-consensual porn, psychological violence, (re-)traumatization.

🫸 "trans bubble" 👉 "Haj society"

2025-12-30T12:25:20Z

🫸 "trans bubble"
👉 "Haj society"

TIL: Instead of the standard pattern of if k not in mydict: ...

2025-12-29T18:34:43Z

TIL: Instead of the standard pattern of

if k not in mydict:
mydict[k] = []
mydict[k].append(foo)

Python comes with a subclass of dict that will automatically create missing elements from a factory function as soon as you try to access them:

from collections import defaultdict
mydict = defaultdict(list)
mydict[k].append(foo)

#Python

Öh, Crypto-Nerds, wie genau funktionieren eigentlich PINs für ...

2025-12-08T11:53:23Z

Öh, Crypto-Nerds, wie genau funktionieren eigentlich PINs für Girocards und Kreditkarten? Insbesondere frage ich für die "Wunsch-PIN"-Funktion, mit der ich online(!) die PIN für meine Kreditkarte ändern kann.

Ich ging bislang davon aus, dass die PIN den Hardware-Crypto-Teil der Karte entsperrt und nicht bis zur Bank wandert.

Bei Girocards scheint das auch so zu sein, denn da kann ich die PIN nur am Automaten ändern.

Bei Kreditkarten kann ich aber online eine neue vergeben? Wie geht das?

Wago has announced 2.54 mm pitch pluggable connectors. Push-in ...

2025-11-30T11:20:58Z

Wago has announced 2.54 mm pitch pluggable connectors. Push-in clamp technology and levers.

It's basically a PATA connector with individual levers per wire. (Not compatible though, but very similar in form factor.)

https://www.wago.com/global/pluggable-connectors/1-conductor-female-connector/p/2712-1220

#Wago

Say what you will about Debian, but I still have about 2½ years ...

2025-11-24T13:51:54Z

Say what you will about Debian, but I still have about 2½ years left before I even have to think about Firefox getting AI features.

German here. I struggle to find a source in English, but ...

2025-11-12T20:53:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…7rcd
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German here. I struggle to find a source in English, but https://www.recht-gegen-rechts.de/gesetze-gegen-rechts/symbole-strafbar-oder-erlaubt.html has an overview of forbidden and allowed symbols. Check the three at the bottom, which are all allowed because they're unambiguously symbolizing opposition to Nazi ideology.

Can't say anything about the situation in Austria though.

What the fuck is wrong with men.

2025-11-08T10:22:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…m6es
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What the fuck is wrong with men.

TIL: You can create popup menus that open and close based on a ...

2025-11-07T12:44:37Z

TIL: You can create popup menus that open and close based on a button in plain HTML, no JavaScript needed.

You can also position elements to be adjacent to other elements in plain CSS, no JavaScript needed.

And you can have the browser make sure that these things are positioned inside the viewport and automatically move to a fallback position, for example to have a dropdown open _over_ its associated button if that button is at the bottom of the screen.

In plain CSS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsD9bE_QVAs

Cereal Experiments Lain ...

2025-11-05T16:40:37Z

Cereal Experiments Lain

The instance I'm on is not on Mastodon 4.5 yet, therefore I ...

2025-11-03T11:04:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…jaeu
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The instance I'm on is not on Mastodon 4.5 yet, therefore I haven't had the chance to play around with the user interface yet, but according to that discussion I've linked, pasting a quotable link will show in the user interface that Mastodon is preparing to quote that post.

The solution, if you just want to link to something and not "quote" it, seems to be to click a "cancel quote" button when composing your post.

But users need to be aware of this or there absolutely will be leaked DMs.

The upcoming "quote post" feature in Mastodon and other ...

2025-11-03T10:59:29Z

The upcoming "quote post" feature in Mastodon and other Fedi software can lead to DM leaks.

"DMs" were always "everyone that's mentioned via @ can read the message".

However, with the quoting feature, _linking_ to someone's post from a DM, even without mentioning them, may be interpreted as "quoting" their post by Mastodon. And if that user allows quotes, they will be notified of your (DM) post _and_ be able to read its content.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/36685

Except that these are not pronouns, these are articles. And while ...

2025-10-20T17:15:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…kj9d
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Except that these are not pronouns, these are articles. And while you can derive the usual er/sie/es pronouns from it, you can't derive neopronouns.

This was originally from a (now unavailable) Twitter post that ...

2025-10-19T00:22:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…7exl
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This was originally from a (now unavailable) Twitter post that said "I did the thing where I let my 2½-year-old nephew take over my Animoji and he mostly had one question" and had this video attached.

https://x.com/thisjenlewis/status/1179884667207589889

#MemeHistory #Hello #HowYouTaday #HelloHowYouToday #JenLewis

Thinking about starting my online dating profile from scratch. ...

2025-10-19T00:13:13Z

Thinking about starting my online dating profile from scratch.

I'm sorry. (For what it's worth, I've explained this ...

2025-10-06T12:46:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…2n3l
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I'm sorry. (For what it's worth, I've explained this not only for you, but also for other people reading the thread.)

Parts of this "guilt complex" are a good thing, I think, but it does cause people to talk and act without reflecting, and it's increasingly getting in the way of solving real issues.

Well I can see how that would be a controversial opinion for many ...

2025-10-06T12:25:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…5x4z
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Well I can see how that would be a controversial opinion for many Germans, not just chaos.social users.

Germany's past is causing all kinds of … complications when it comes to our perception of Israel and its politics, and our legislation on Holocaust denial doesn't make it easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Holocaust_denial#Germany

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if people reported that post because they interpreted it as "downplaying the Holocaust", which is legally problematic over here.

As a user on chaos.social, I don't think there's any more ...

2025-10-06T12:04:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…ud3j
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As a user on chaos.social, I don't think there's any more Zionism here than on other servers with a mostly German user base.

That said, as far as I know you're only getting an anonymous report, while the chaos.social admins will see the reporting user's name, right?

I'd assume that if some chaos.social users were reporting lots of Palestinians "for simply existing", our admins would notice that and put an end to it pretty quickly.

Or are you seeing things that suggest otherwise?

Right? You should try Windows 11 instead, and record your ...

2025-09-30T21:07:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…fwqp
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Right? You should try Windows 11 instead, and record your cursing. Would probably be great content.

Fun fact: The German word "fast" (pronounced like the ...

2025-09-28T09:03:22Z

Fun fact: The German word "fast" (pronounced like the English "fussed") means "almost".

We enjoy pointing this out when eating fast food.

#German #FastFood

By the way, if your website only uses minimal styling, or no ...

2025-09-13T14:00:36Z

By the way, if your website only uses minimal styling, or no styles at all, consider setting

<meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark" />

in the <head>. This allows browsers to also use their default dark mode styles on your page, without you having to do anything. If you don't, it'll always be light mode.

For example, these screenshots show this minimal document and how it will be rendered when the browser is set to light or dark mode.

#HTML #DarkMode #WebDev #WebDesign #accessibility

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2025-09-10T20:41:05Z

Let's tessellate.

To add a bit of chaos to the world, start referring to CDNs as ...

2025-09-02T00:35:24Z

To add a bit of chaos to the world, start referring to CDNs as "geocaching".

Websites that don't use cookies are not involved. Neither are ...

2025-08-31T00:13:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…ea5x
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Websites that don't use cookies are not involved. Neither are websites that only use cookies that are _required_ for the website to function, e.g. session tokens.

It's only when you'd like to use cookies to track users and deliver personalized ads that you have to deal with this stuff.

It's a choice.

Most websites simply don't choose the privacy-friendly option.

Spock's stance regarding generative AI and LLMs. #StarTrek ...

2025-08-17T15:16:08Z

Spock's stance regarding generative AI and LLMs.

#StarTrek #StarTrekSNW

Hi #WHY2025, I'm looking for queues on the camp! People queue ...

2025-08-10T11:48:11Z

Hi #WHY2025, I'm looking for queues on the camp!

People queue up here at the showers, in front of food trucks, for the badges … and what else?

I'll be providing a website later today where people can report how long the queues are, so that others know what to expect and maybe go somewhere else, or come back later.

To do that, I need your input on where you've experienced significant queues. Just reply to this post: Where was the queue, and what was it for?

Feel free to boost for reach! :)

I mostly do software hacks, sometimes hardware ones. Crafting ...

2025-08-08T11:20:37Z

I mostly do software hacks, sometimes hardware ones. Crafting hacks are very rare, but here we are.

I present to you: Magnetic Paracord.

It's simply magnetic rings lined up on paracord. Very useful for non-permanently attaching light-ish things to metal surfaces, in irregular shapes, and with easy attachment and detachment. When you're using many small magnets and can't be bothered to attach/detach each one individually.

I'm using it to attach mosquito net to the entrance of my van.

"While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there, the ...

2025-07-27T07:29:11Z

"While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there, the fact that you can set up a speaker in your yard and conceivably store any amount of data in songbirds is fucking crazy"

— Benn Jordan, "I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo

31 min video about recording birds and bats with ultrasonic microphones, with some bonus content about #birdwatching / #birding apps, automated bird recording software, and acoustic cameras that can show you where a sound is coming from.

So, turns out #Mastodon no longer displaying alt texts on hover ...

2025-07-23T08:52:37Z

So, turns out #Mastodon no longer displaying alt texts on hover was a deliberate change. 😩

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33799

Look, I don't want to go all xkcd 1172 here, but it'd be really great if I could do actual work instead of having to work around things broken by random updates.

#Tomorrowland partying with an improvised main stage, with the ...

2025-07-19T08:36:08Z

#Tomorrowland partying with an improvised main stage, with the one that burned down just days ago right behind it, is such a 2025 aesthetic.

I thought that the mainstream scientific opinion these days is ...

2025-07-11T08:32:58Z

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I thought that the mainstream scientific opinion these days is that all genders were involved in hunting? Where are you taking this "making bone grease was a job for women" from?

Sehe die ersten Freelance-Jobs, deren Arbeitsauftrag im Prinzip ...

2025-07-09T15:52:35Z

Sehe die ersten Freelance-Jobs, deren Arbeitsauftrag im Prinzip lautet "reparier mal das, was die KI fabriziert hat".

Ich sag's euch, das wird die nächsten Jahre ein nicht zu vernachlässigendes Tätigkeitsfeld.

"This tram is configured using a filesystem containing ...

2025-06-30T13:24:07Z

"This tram is configured using a filesystem containing DOS-style configuration files."

"Ah, the famous initramfs."

Okay, jetzt ganz konkret: Ich hab krankheitsbedingt ein Ticket ...

2025-06-29T16:16:43Z

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Okay, jetzt ganz konkret: Ich hab krankheitsbedingt ein Ticket fürs #HOA25 (https://hackenopenair.de, Di–Sa) abzugeben, inklusive Wohmobilstellplatz. Hat mich 199 € plus 40 € für den Stellplatz gekostet.

Ich hab's gerade nicht besonders dicke, deshalb würd ich mich freuen, es zu dem Preis weitergeben zu können, aber wenn das finanziell für dich nicht geht, können wir gern auch über Alternativen reden.

#HOA ist meine liebste Chaosveranstaltung. Gechillt, gemütlich, gute Laune. Und Glühwürmchen!

"from another service". You fucking liars. #SoundCloud ...

2025-06-29T12:02:50Z

"from another service". You fucking liars.

#SoundCloud

Jetzt nur mal theoretisch gefragt, ich lote hier einfach meine ...

2025-06-29T08:23:15Z

Jetzt nur mal theoretisch gefragt, ich lote hier einfach meine Optionen aus: Wär hier jemand kurzentschlossen genug, mir mein Ticket zum #HOA25 abzukaufen? Womöglich sogar inklusive meines Camper-Tickets, also ner Wohnmobil-Erlaubnis?

Edit: Aus der Theorie wird Realität, ich verkauf mein Ticket. Siehe auch mein Reply auf diesen Post. Schreibt mir gern ne DM oder so.

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2025-06-27T15:05:42Z

Particle physics is giving me a hadron.

Write! A fucking date! In your fucking changelogs! (And in your ...

2025-06-10T10:07:02Z

Write!

A fucking date!

In your fucking changelogs!

(And in your fucking blog posts! And elsewhere on your fucking website!)

Today I saw someone use the term "vintage DVD" and ...

2025-06-03T20:35:45Z

Today I saw someone use the term "vintage DVD" and I'm not ready for that.

Somebody should set up an Asterisk server that you can call and ...

2025-06-02T09:44:36Z

Somebody should set up an Asterisk server that you can call and scream into, and call it Void over IP.

#Asterisk #VoIP

"Wir haben ein neues Softwareupdate veröffentlicht, das ...

2025-06-01T20:33:27Z

"Wir haben ein neues Softwareupdate veröffentlicht, das spannende Verbesserungen und Fehlerbehebungen enthält."

Du bist meine Buchhaltungssoftware. Kann ich bitte nur unspannende Verbesserungen haben? Ich hab keinen Nerv für Aufregung in meinen Finanzdaten.

As a #Vim user, I appreciate all of you ending your posts with ...

2025-05-17T21:03:40Z

As a #Vim user, I appreciate all of you ending your posts with #esc.

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2025-04-29T11:44:03Z

TIL: The European Union Public License. ...

2025-04-28T15:16:47Z

TIL: The European Union Public License.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence

Looks pretty decent actually!

• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity

#EUPL #EuropeanUnion #software #license #FLOSS #OpenSource #licensing

so take these broken links download all files again mirror what ...

2025-04-17T15:23:05Z

so take
these broken links
download all files again
mirror what you can

and when we hear
the platters spin
the old-school web will open up
and let us in

Stolen from https://berlin.social/@jack/114227820756592888, added ...

2025-03-26T09:39:05Z

Stolen from https://berlin.social/@jack/114227820756592888, added alt text & source.

Originally by Rosemary Mosco, https://rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-and-moon/misleading-names

This also highlights an ActivityPub issue: If you approve ...

2025-03-25T22:34:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…9yjw
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This also highlights an ActivityPub issue: If you approve someone's follow request, you're technically not granting that _user_ access, you giving their _instance_ access to your protected posts. And it's then up to that instance to behave in the correct way and only show your protected posts to those users you have actually accepted.

Sure, from a technical standpoint this might be obvious, but it can still be somewhat counterintuitive.

Oh, great. #Pixelfed had a broken implementation of ...

2025-03-25T22:28:33Z

Oh, great. #Pixelfed had a broken implementation of "follower-only" posts, _and_ fucked up the disclosure / bugfix release process.

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

Summary of the bug: If you have a protected account (on Pixelfed, Mastodon, GTS, whatever) and a Pixelfed user followed you and got approved by you, _all_ users on that instance were now able to see your followers-only posts, not just the one you approved.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #security #fail

"We are experiencing dozens of brief outages per week, and I ...

2025-03-18T18:48:23Z

"We are experiencing dozens of brief outages per week, and I have to review our mitigations several times per day to keep that number from getting any higher."

"If you personally work on developing LLMs et al, know this: I will never work with you again, and I will remember which side you picked when the bubble bursts."

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

Holy shit, Drew has _had_ it.

And this, folks, is why some of us are so passionately hating LLMs and generative AI.

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2025-03-17T20:20:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…q2m3
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Would've been a great opportunity to change the name.

2025-03-17T19:23:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…qvyj
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Would've been a great opportunity to change the name.

Gelernt: Eine Windkraftanlage (vulgo: "Windrad") ...

2025-03-06T20:15:19Z

Gelernt: Eine Windkraftanlage (vulgo: "Windrad") produziert pro Umdrehung etwa 8 Kilowattstunden.

Also acht Stunden Mikrowelle laufen lassen. Eine Umdrehung!

Fand ich krass, ich hätte viel weniger gerechnet.

Quelle: Sendung mit der Maus von 2024.
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/die-maus/wie-viel-energie-erzeugt-ein-windrad-bei-einer-umdrehung/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLXNvcGhvcmEtYjc1MWY5ZjQtY2Y3My00NDRmLTg1MWYtYmMwNDgxMjJiZWIw?isChildContent=

#Windkraft #TIL

"Trying to get rid of US services" also means looking for ...

2025-03-01T13:18:18Z

"Trying to get rid of US services" also means looking for alternatives for #Signal. (I don't intend to dump it outright, but with Signal being my main messenger for the past years, I think I should at least _consider_ other options.)

Of these(!) options listed(!) in the poll, which one(s) would you recommend?

Please don't suggest others.

via https://mastodon.nz/@weekendspy/114063487635028135, added CN ...

2025-03-01T12:15:21Z

via https://mastodon.nz/@weekendspy/114063487635028135, added CN and alt text

#Codeberg, my code hosting platform of choice, suffered an attack ...

2025-02-12T18:42:44Z

#Codeberg, my code hosting platform of choice, suffered an attack earlier today that sent racist spam to many users.

This could've happened to other platforms too, but Codeberg was targeted because they're explicitly welcoming people and projects with a diverse and inclusive mindset.

But what really stood out to me: The post-mortem and apology.

https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

It's extraordinarily well written and a great example of how to do these things. Excellent job, team! <3

Heh, Drew is organizing a sit-in to protest against Jack Dorsey ...

2025-01-16T16:36:13Z

Heh, Drew is organizing a sit-in to protest against Jack Dorsey (former CEO of Twitter, billionaire, Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiast) holding a keynote at #fosdem2025.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html