J1191.1.1
"The sea is
on fire"

He has all these books but never reads them. He just lies in front of them pretending to be an intellectual.

#caturday #cats #catsofMastodon

Digitale Souveränität erreichen wir nur mit Freier Software! Wir fordern deswegen in unserem Feedback zur Deutschland-Stack-Konsultation: Der Stack muss vollständig als #FreieSoftware umgesetzt werden!

Unser News Item zum Nachlesen:
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Unser Feedback auf openCode:
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Die Konsultation zum Stack läuft bis zum 30.11.2025. Solange besteht für alle die Möglichkeit, Feedback auf openCode zu geben.

#FreeSoftware #PublicCode #DStack #OpenSource @BMDS

Bonjour cher.e camarade sentimental.e qui comme moi souhaite quitter #Spotify mais rechigne à voir supprimer 10 ans de playlists de vacances amoureusement assemblées.

Bonjour cher.e consœur geekos qui comme moi aime trifouiller les nombres avec #Python et #R.

Laissez-moi vous présenter https://exportify.app qui permet d'exporter toutes tes playlists Spotify en fichiers csv tout propres avec plein de stats dedans, genre "danceability" ou "valence" (?). Bon appétit !

#DeleteSpotify #stats

My uncle died about a year ago now, and one thing my aunt is gearing up to get rid of is his music collection. He had *hundreds* of CDs of classical music, many of them near-duplicates, because he may have already had a piece but wanted a particular conductor's version, or a performance by a particular orchestra.

Is there anyone here who might be interested in such a collection as a whole, or knows of someone who might? I feel it'd be good to find a home for it as a whole rather than selling every disc off separately.

The one fucking exposed wire and it had to be an $80 fibre cable.

This is the second fucking cable.

I’m going to murder this motherfucking cat.

I had distributed my 2020 album through DistroKid, which puts it on most of the streaming platforms. I figured I couldn't remove it from specific services, but actually it is possible!

So now, I'm happy to announce my album "quantitative uneasing" will NO LONGER be available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and YouTube soon! 😁

(of course it's still available on the wholesome music platform that is http://bitplanes.nl 🙏)

So, @anildash wrote an interesting reflection on "AI" and Firefox a few days ago: https://www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/wanting-not-to-want-ai/

He argues that the number of people who want Mozilla to just stop with the AI development and focus on a more traditional browser is small (probably true) and that people are so used to using AI in their everyday lives that it's Firefox's/Mozilla's job to make that as secure and "less big tech dependy" as possible.

I think that's not an unreasonable argument. I do think that the actual question is more about _what Mozilla is for_ and not "AI" (or other tech hypes).

From my reading the people who don't want AI in Firefox are often AI critical, sure. But it's also about resources and narrative. The idea of Mozilla was to have something that would work for the good of the open web, that would fight for users through participating in standards development but that would also argue based on what is right. Mozilla's sales pitch was a moral one - at least that is how many in the community on Mastodon for example interpreted it.

So when Mozilla cuts down on policy work, cuts work on technologies like Servo or Rust that were supposed to materially improve the security of browsers and people online while setting a lot of developer hours on fire in order to integrate fundamentally insecure (and some would say fundamentally anti-"open web") systems "just because people use them", it feels like an organization having lost their mission or the drive to push their values.

I think "AI" is just the latest (and probably biggest) event that illustrates a sentiment that has been brewing for a while: That Mozilla's mission or goals have shifted in a way that their original supporters no longer feel aligned with.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/115604184530371368

i've worked at SCI for a few months and it's a very nice place to be at https://mastodon.social/@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange/115604184606085511

Mastodon, Matrix, ActivityPub, XMPP, ATProto. whatever your flavor of decentralization is, there’s room for you.

Submit your proposal to the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM before the end of this week!

https://fosdem.org/submit

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #ActivityPub

@guardaminfaccia @carlux io, avendo già di carattere poco piacere a ricevere telefonate, ho preso la solenne decisione di non rispondere più a numeri sconosciuti. Ho la segreteria e quindi se è una persona di cui non ho il numero e che mi sta cercando per motivi seri, spero che lasci il messaggio.

more specifically, it says something about the preferences of Elon Musk's algorithm.

The state of political discourse on X. A picture is worth a thousand words.

On Wednesday 26th I'm performing at the final Algorave at Corsica Studios. Really sad to hear that it's closing soon 😞 It was where I did my first UK live coding performance as a musician (the first was in a barn in Arles, France).

Come on down if you can! https://ra.co/events/2280905

I also designed the poster 😉

Weg von Google, Microsoft und Whatsapp: „Wer jetzt wechselt, macht das selbstbestimmt“

"Die digitale Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen fällt uns bereits auf die Füße, sagt die Wissenschaftlerin Julia Pohle. Doch sie sieht Lösungen."
https://taz.de/Weg-von-Google-Microsoft-und-Whatsapp/!6129810/