Sometimes I just sit down and realise:

• Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
• Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
• I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
• Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
• I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
• Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
• I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense

Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.

Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.

So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you. :)

Say it with me now:

AI is designed to *sound* correct
It is not designed to *be* correct

This daming clip hasn't been online for years until now. Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer, lying on Newsnight about the fact that the Corwn Prosecution Service colluded with police to secure dozens of wrongful convictions of activists.🧵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGq6ZHB3Aw

#ucpi #undercoverpolicinginquiry #police #policing #undercover #undercoverpolice #spy #spying #corruption #cointel #spycops

I Gave Claude Access to My Pen Plotter

https://harmonique.one/posts/i-gave-claude-access-to-my-pen-plotter

#HackerNews

i was also so so jealous how easily RE2 could ensure something was specialized against at compile time https://github.com/google/re2/blob/972a15cedd008d846f1a39b2e88ce48d7f166cbd/re2/re2.h#L929-L943 i got as close as rust could achieve to it

@lauriewired We recreated the pentium bug?

Computing is futile, it will be approximated

I used to think I was introverted, but it turns out that was dysphoria. I felt like socializing was performing as a character, and it was exhausting.

When I’m presenting as myself, I crave social interaction. My social battery is so much bigger.

On my dysphoric days, that feeling comes back. I want to be alone, and I don’t want to be seen. It’s because I don’t want to be seen as that character anymore more. I’m done.

#Dysphoria #Introvert #Trans

so stupid it made me giggle

credits: https://www.etsy.com/de-en/shop/NerdWorldDesigns?ref=shop_profile&listing_id=4368218732

@parismarx Join EU services, we have the GDPR to protect your data.

Back in the 90s we had a great term for stuff like “building AI satellite factories on the Moon” and “we’ll just envelop the solar system with a Dyson Sphere”.

It’s pretty technical and I forgive you if you’ve never heard of it, the term is “investment scam”.

Don't talk about Bite Club.

Instead of "boosted", it should say "looted"

I would suggest a ban on selling alcohol in glass. But I think a ban on glass stubbies would do it. Put beers, RTDs and other stuff that currently comes in stubbies in either aluminum cans, or plastic bottles.

So you can still have wine and spirits in glass. There's a whole lot less of them, and they're a small fraction of the smashed glass pollution problem. They're almost never the ones I find smashed on streets, in green belts, or at festival sites.

(2/?)

#PolicyNZ

@futurebird @Burn_this_ @sen As the hunter becomes the hunted, so the anteater becomes the anteaten.

Robin Hood

#pun #artistsonmastodon #art #mastoart #watercolour #watercolourpencils #robin #birds #tatimitstift

#Linktipp Wie man Social Media kapert und Kommunikation zerstört https://buggisch.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/wie-man-social-media-kapert-und-kommunikation-zerstort/

Finally blocking Celestarium

I thought about grabbing something to measure from the center out so that everything is super even, but then I decided to eyeball it instead. TBH most of the time it’s gonna be bunched up around my neck or folded around my shoulders, so a perfect circle isn’t necessary. And I can always aim for more perfection when I wash & reblock it a few years from now

#Knitting #FiberArts

UGH omg and now they use the EXACT thing rust can't do. variadic generic parameters https://ztdtext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design/lucky%207%20extensions/unicode%20encoding.html

There are 2 ways to do this, one for decisions that can be made at compile time, and one for decisions that can be made at runtime (e.g., over a variant_encoding<X, Y, Z>).

@lowqualityfacts

I demand even lower quality!