A very Swedish affair:
Booked a London weekend (down from Yorkshire) but realised after booking everything that the day of the return trip is Vasaloppet – a cross-country ski race that my partner watches every year.
Have now paid to catch a later train so we can watch it in the hotel room, and have added the traditional bilberry soup to our packing list.
Build systems suck, all of them. They try to solve a real problem but fundamentally the only way to win this game is not to play.
*ducks*
We have spent decades building programming languages that are carefully crafted to make it possible to create reusable abstractions and then expose those abstractions to consumers of your component.
With very few exceptions, almost no build systems try to do this. And the ones that do, do it badly. They hard code logic, or they make people write special-case non-reusable build logic for things that it's quite likely more projects need.
The only build systems people enjoy using are the ones that narrowly scope their problem to something that's easy (e.g. building a single language) and these tend to have a horrible usability cliff as soon as you stray out of their niche.
DDL BUONGIORNO: VIA LIBERA DAL SENATO, PROMOSSO UN FITTO CALENDARIO DI MOBILITAZIONI TRANSFEMMINISTE https://www.radiondadurto.org/2026/01/28/ddl-buongiorno-via-libera-dal-senato-promosso-un-fitto-calendario-di-mobilitazioni-transfemministe/ #News
»Meta stärkt WhatsApp-Datenschutz mit neuen „strikten Kontoeinstellungen“« (heise)
Solche Überschriften treiben einem die Tränen in die Augen. 😅
Wer einen datenschutzfreundlichen Messenger sucht, der einigermaßen verbreitet ist, greift zu #Signal. 👇
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/whatsapp-ade-signal-und-threema-ueberzeugen-als-sichere-alternativen/
RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/115963873612884664
Reminder that in the UK in 1900, before mass vaccination for childhood diseases began, 20% of all babies died before their fifth birthday (from diseases we currently vaccinate them against).
RFK jr's appointee wants to kill roughly 20% of all newborn Americans "to improve the breed" or something.
(Not including those paralysed for life by polio.)
@cstross wow, what a moron - we had to monitor our sewage systems and proactively vaccinate children to get rid of the damn thing.
I remember growing up with kids my age wearing thick metal frames around their legs because of the disease.
Don't see them anymore because we eradicated it.
Get rid of the idiots soon guys!
RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/115963873612884664
Reminder that in the UK in 1900, before mass vaccination for childhood diseases began, 20% of all babies died before their fifth birthday (from diseases we currently vaccinate them against).
RFK jr's appointee wants to kill roughly 20% of all newborn Americans "to improve the breed" or something.
(Not including those paralysed for life by polio.)
What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.
Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!
Join @blaine, New_ Public’s Principal Software Engineer for Roundabout, at a @dweb virtual meetup this Wednesday from 1-2pm EST
DWeb’s principles stand for “technology that enables the primacy of people as beneficiaries of the technology, by upholding their security, privacy and self-determination.”
Blaine will present on Roundabout, our new local community app. Folks from Awana Digital and Department of Decentralization will also present.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public/115963218617178904
On a brighter note, @blaine will be presenting at the online @dweb event today, and you should attend if you have time.
Here's his presentation from last year's #AtmosphereConf, where he kicked off the conference with an incredibly inspiring talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-H1nzWHLoI
since the editrex revived my 2025 resolution recently i might as well announce my 2026 one. in 2026 we are normalizing saying shut up cracker
"you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink"
me, nodding wisely: yes sometimes horses are not thirsty
@jbz
*tiny violin noises*
The buttons I want
…In reality, “It is not currently possible to completely turn off all AI integration in Google Sheets, as these features are becoming deeply embedded into the core service.”
In other words: “Fuck you, Workspace team member”
When an insider gives away the game, we should listen.
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells 5.3 million followers, “You are all being incited into civil war”.
She is right. That is what Trump is doing.
Everyone must prepare every necessary step to prevent Trump from starting a civil war, which could turn into the most deadly civil war in the history of planet earth.
In 279 days, Trump loses the midterms. Time is on the side of freedom.
@randahl @opiniedweiler Trump is snel aan het aftakelen.
Hij is nu in de fase van complete onberekenbaarheid.
Have you ever tried to contribute to an EU opensource project hosted at
I did and failed.
Why?
It's happening! Tomorrow I leave for Aotearoa New Zealand to visit a whole bunch of amateur astronomy clubs (to yell about satellite pollution) and then spend a few weeks with collaborators at University of Canterbury (to yell about satellite pollution, and hopefully also talk about the Kuiper Belt and interstellar objects!)
I am looking forward to new foods, visiting farms, having conversations with farmers and astronomers, and different stars (hello MAGELLENIC CLOUDS!!) #ProfSamLectureTour
@sundogplanets Have a safe trip! That sounds like a lot of fun.
I think some are still missing the point. I’m not saying they’re going to lock up every single person who uses a VPN or watches porn.
Your government’s strategy is to make “crimes” like this as common and easy to commit as possible.
This way, if you ever do something completely legal which they *actually* don’t like, *which can be completely unrelated to VPNs or bypassing age verification,* they can pull up your internet history and easily prosecute you.
Organize a legitimate protest, and the government’s swift response will be to label you a child sex offender because they found you using evil VPN technology.
This is how free speech dies, not from a law that says “free speech is dead now,” but from draconian, authoritarian laws like this that give the government “plausible” reasons to go after anyone, which can’t easily be fought against.
This has always been the playbook to target innocents. In the USA, drug possession laws being created as a pretense for cops to raid and dismantle minority communities, for example. And now this is coming to the digital realm.
Een vraag over Algemene Voorwaarden in IT.
Ik ben freelance softwareontwikkelaar, sinds kort voltijd.
Ik was van plan de algemene voorwaarden van NLdigital te gebruiken, die leken prima.
Maar gisteren volgde ik met interesse het rondetafel gesprek over digitale authonomie. En daarin ontpopte NLdigital zich als echte lobbyclub voor Amerikaanse techbedrijven.
Ik zou nu liever andere algemene voorwaarden gebruiken.
Is iemand bekend met goede standaardvoorwaarden voor maatwerk software?
@dinandmentink als je lid wordt/bent van NLUUG kun je de NLUUG voorwaarden gebruiken.
Zie https://nluug.nl/nluug-voorwaarden/
CC @nluug
🤔Is ICE bad because their agents are brutish and violent? Individual hate?
Or is ICE bad because their mission is ethnic cleansing? Systemic hate?
You can be more efficient with your systemic deportations, if you are *slightly* less brutish.
If we replace Bovino for Homan, is that an improvement?
ICE is crashing out these days because for all their increased budget, and fancy SS style trench coats, and raids on elementary schools, they still can't match the scaled efficiency of deportations that previous administrations could.
Do... do you know who accomplished those scaled deportations?
@mekkaokereke ACAB. That's the reason.
Post leaves out the germane context that this guy makes anti-trans videos for the abhorrent PragerU.
White biologist sues Cornell, alleging illegal race-based hiring https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/01/28/cornell-university-discrimination-lawsuit/
