Thu, 2026-01-15
RT jackdaniel:
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.” - Tolkien on LLM creations :)
RT crk5:
Did you know that the United States bought the US Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million? Under that agreement (called the Treaty of Danish West Indies), the US is required to recognize Greenland as Danish territory.
Just a random fact with no correlation to recent events.
RT eri:
99% of smart home crap just feels like
why is it connected to the internet? so it can get updates
why does it need updates? because it’s connected to the internet
Wed, 2026-01-14
RT michi:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an emerging technology that’s driven CEOs from multiple companies to come out in public and ask people to stop saying mean things about it.
Tue, 2026-01-13
RT pzmyers:
Scott Adams dead at 68. That’s how old I am! I better not celebrate too hard.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/scott-adams-is-dead/
RT CHopen:
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00:59 [/mastodon] #neuhier #chopen #OpenSource #digitalesouveranitat ●
Mon, 2026-01-12
RT noheger:
Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why.
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
RT spiezmaestro:
@mxk Guten Morgen, vielleicht etwas für dich:
https://www.srf.ch/wissen/technik/zugssicherheit-stellwerke-die-diskreten-rueckgrate-unserer-eisenbahn
Sun, 2026-01-11
Spaziergang am Nachmittag — 15:17
🗺️ • ⏱️ 1h01:05 (1h06:43) • 📏 5.4 km • 5.3 km/h (⏶ 9.2) • ⛰️ 19.0 m (⏷ 444.2 ⏶ 457.0) • 💓 103.5 (⏶ 120.0)
1.17 new kilometers
— From Wandrer
15:17 [/strava/2026-01] ●
Sat, 2026-01-10
RT allpoints:
@angusm @pluralistic “Tech debt as a service” is my new all-time favorite description of vibe coding.
Thank you.
#Coding #DevOps #developers
22:21 [/mastodon] #coding #devops #developers ●
RT eva_maria_faber:
«Was wohl wäre, wenn das kollektive Gedächtnis der Welt andere Dinge erhalten und wiederum andere verloren hätte. Wenn alle Kriege und alle diese unzähligen Könige, Herrscher, Führer und Söldner vergessen und nur Menschen in den Büchern blieben, die ein Haus mit eigenen Händen gebaut, einen Garten angelegt, eine Giraffe entdeckt, eine Wolke beschrieben und den Nacken einer Frau besungen hätten» (Nino Haratischwili).
#Literatur
21:52 [/mastodon] #literatur ●
RT alexr:
Dear services that refuse email addresses that have the name of the service in the address:
We domain owners do that because we do not trust you not to sell that address to others or otherwise use it inappropriately. Your algorithmic refusal of that address is sketchy af.
Tue, 2026-01-06
RT misty:
Highly recommend reading this story about a reporter casually finding out his wife is a world Tetris champion: https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/
RT ploum:
How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.
Mon, 2026-01-05
RT FediFollows:
Microsoft Office has been replaced by “Microsoft 365 Copilot App” 🙄 (not a joke, see office.com)
Fortunately there are many good alternatives on the Fediverse:
➡️ @libreoffice - Free open source office suite, can be used entirely offline
➡️ @CollaboraOffice - Online fork of LibreOffice, upstream contributor
➡️ @nextcloud - FOSS personal cloud including collaborative office tools
➡️ @CryptPad - FOSS online office suite with maximum privacy
➡️ @ONLYOFFICE - FOSS online office suite(via @jbz )
RT ed1conf:
:flan_guitar:
Now I’ve heard there was a secret way
To edit text on your display
That’s better than emacs (that’s made by GNU), yeah.
It goes like this, you type E D
And nothing shows up visually
You baffle newbs who haven’t got a clue, yeah.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You type an “a” to start append,
Then period to mark the end.
There is no AI bot that’s gonna screw ya.
It’s there for you in rescue mode
And when you need to edit code
Or when you need to spoof some Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
RT HeidrunMueller:
#Venezuela Mein erster Gedanke bei der Meldung: Wie Kinder, die Grenzen austesten. Tr🍊 testet aus, was die EU, die Weltgemeinschaft hinzunehmen bereit ist. Da nur sanftes Grummeln und zahnlose Apelle folgen werden, wenn überhaupt - was kommt dann? Grönland, Kanada, …? Das wird für uns alle ein absolutes Scheißjahr werden. Die heutige Grenzüberschreitung markiert einen schrecklichen Wendepunkt in der internationalen Politik. 😕
01:10 [/mastodon] #venezuela ●
Sat, 2026-01-03
RT agl:
Even when the underlying reality changes, the status quo has a strong grip. People are deeply creatures of habit. It’s also difficult for the emerging understanding to overcome the barrier of becoming “common knowledge” and, prior to that, people will follow old patterns because they assume that it’s expected.
High-salience events create new common knowledge and so lead to larger changes in behaviour than might otherwise be justified. For example, the ‘56 Suez crisis was a high-salience event that communicated that world power had shifted from Europe to the US. Its impact was much greater than a narrow analysis would convey.
The Russo-Ukrainian war and today’s events are also high-salience, and they communicate that there aren’t any rules any longer.
One consequence is that, in the absence of Pax(ish) Americana, the only effective defense is a nuclear one. This was well understood: a lot of the motivation for creating the post-WWII system was to create an alternative to nuclear weapons. But Libya gave up its program and Gaddafi ended up dead. Ukraine gave up its weapons and got invaded. Venezuela didn’t have them.
It’ll take a while for this to play out, but I suspect keeping it in mind will help with understanding the news over the next decade or so.
