Mozilla is sending me beg mails while their CEO is getting millions per year.
A single person of this corpo is making more then I make in a lifetime and they beg me to give them money… what the fuck
I want to use the last day of the year to thank the community here on Mastodon.
Every day, I learn things here that are worth learning. The discussions are, by Internet standards, very polite and focused on the issues.
But most importantly, I see people here having a voice that they do not have in traditional media or in algorithm-driven social media.
That makes Mastodon extremely valuable, and we should all strive to preserve that.
The year 2025 has been a tough one, and I have little optimism that 2026 will be easier. We will likely see a further rise in authoritarianism, fascism, and racism.
To stem the tide, we must work together. My wish for the coming year is that we continue to see others fighting the same fight as allies, even if they have different priorities for where they invest their energy.
But please take care of yourselves. Do not feel guilty about time spent on self-maintenance. Keep this in mind: You can only help others if you are first in a position to do so.
Best wishes from Kiel, Martin
P.S. Special thanks to @jerry for maintaining this instance. I really feel "at home" here.
I only read 1 book this year in 2025. I am pretty bummed about it. Started a few books, but never found the time or “momentum” to finish them. Some were a bit hard. I read plenty of articles, documentation and even portions of programming books, but only one book front to cover. I plan to change that, at least be it one or two more books.
What bummed out most was that on most days, I was too tired to read before bed, which I did almost everyday since very young.
@slims Since you only read one, I hope it was a good one. 😋
@amro uh... You need to do that more than once per year.
@evan
This explains Poop Mountain on my balcony or as it is known in certain travel guides; Mont Merde
Protests against the ruling regime grow in Iran.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Iran #BreakingNews #Breaking
US Measles Cases Surpass 2,000, Highest in 30 Years: CDC https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/31/1335203/us-measles-cases-surpass-2000-highest-in-30-years-cdc?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
🎇Your Vote for 2025 Headline of the Year🎇
My new years resolutions for 2026
Following the long tradition of blogging my resolutions since 2008!
https://cubicgarden.com/2025/12/31/my-new-years-resolutions-for-2026/
@cubicgarden nice!
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 69:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/18429157-defining-agi-oops-all-eugenics-2025-12-08
I thought it was going to take at least a little effort to tear this paper-shaped object apart. Instead, it was so flimsy it basically disintegrated under the force of simply … reading it. Listen in as @alex and I deploy the ridicule as praxis.
Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!
He's not even sworn in and fucking Politico is counting him out. With journalists like Politico's and the New York Times', who needs enemies?
@jeffjarvis How they abhor good people who serve the many not the already rich few
Eines der #39c3 high lights:
„Morality Violation fine machine“ #39c3 #demolitionman #newspeak #censorship
Auf dem letzten Tag des Jahres noch nach #protonmail gewechselt und ein fabrikneues ThinkPad Z13 bei Ebay geschossen, auf dem ich wohl #Linux Mint installieren werde.
Mein #digitalindependenceday wird ein ganzes Jahr werden 🥳
@pallenberg Top! Am besten noch, wenn man eine eigene Domain nutzt. So ist man nichtmal an den Anbieter gebunden.
that’s one long mermaid
Tomorrow in The Hague, EU Member States launch a new international organisation, one that invests in and cares for #DigitalCommons and open source. The EDIC for Digital Commons is a long term commitment and strategy to help governments transition to open source, work with the communities and strengthen the ecosystem. Much needed.
@Wtebbens Maybe we're lucky that Silicon Valley is in the USA?
@evan replace WS by @signalapp 🙏
@zohrankmamdani today is the day to turn on Fediverse sharing on your Threads account. https://www.threads.net/settings/account/fediverse
@zohrankmamdani today is the day to turn on Fediverse sharing on your Threads account. https://www.threads.net/settings/account/fediverse
🙄
@nazgul “What if Agile but really stupid?”
From archives to sound. 🔵
Our new Future Knowledge #podcast episode features composer Erika Oba on her piece “Blue Lights,” a new work written to celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived. What does that scale sound like?
🎧 Listen ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/what-does-1-trillion-web-pages-sound-like
@TallSimon @rgammans @bjn @AspiringLuddite @losttourist @tek Nope, the UK variety just went vegan for several years! (They added the dead cow carcasses back relatively recently. Moo.)
