In one of the best things I've read this week, @monsieuricon Konstantin Ryabitsev provides a deep dive on the infrastructure that is under pressure from bots and scrapers at The #LinuxFoundation - specifically the #linux kernel's git repository.

Even after deploying anti-scraper tools such as #Anubis, Ryabitsev estimates that:

"With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers.

This is one more example of the damage being wrought to #infrastructure in the the #TokenWars - the rampant desire for, and unchecked predation of, publicly accessible #data tokens for feeding into machine learning models.

How are crawlers and bots and scrapers influencing information architectures and re-shaping what it means for data to be open or publicly available?

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

Nun ja. #Söder #TUM #BaMS #Verbrennerlobbyismus

Part of my office was closed for refurbishment. I was told to go in to pick up some furniture. It was like a post-apocalypic movie, with eerie flickering lights, files strewn everywhere as though people left in a hurry. It was one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life.

Do you wanna here about tubes? I was here for tubes too. They suck.

@urlyman I don't see any need to change laptops every 3 or 4 years ... all of the laptops in my house are way older than that ... some close to 20 years old.

My still working C128 is 40 years old.

There is a certain time period of all dead computers ... that dreadful bad capacitor period. But other than that, the computers have held up as well as my typewriter. (Which is not actually in a fully working state, nor will it ever be.)

Typewriters are finicky complex mechanical

Het is vandaag Digital Independence Day! Dit keer: alternatieven voor Google Analytics die inzicht bieden in je websitebezoek zonder de surfgegevens van je bezoekers bij Google af te leveren:
https://publicspaces.net/2026/09/06/digital-independence-day-aan-de-slag-met-webstatistieken/

#DIDay #DoeiDag #OpenSource #technology #digitalautonomy

Illustratie door Lobke van Aar

@sebsauvage c'est toujours étonnant de découvrir quelque chose quand ca viens de finir... Ça avait l'air d'être drôlement bien ce blog

One of the most useful things I learned working on open source was the ability to usefully cooperate with people who had different goals. Finding the place where our requirements overlap and the things that are necessary for both.

I think a lot of people in the F/OSS ecosystem try to have this mindset but there’s a big difference between working with people whose goals are different from yours and working with people whose goals are completely antithetical to yours. If I want to empower users and you want to kill immigrants and gay people, that isn’t a ‘well, we can at least agree the UI should be better’ situation, that’s a ‘there is no world in which we both get what we want’ situation.

It’s very important to make that distinction.

Actually vinyl records sucked, hard. Entire relationships crumbled under the sheer personal economics involved.

People went to college just to listen to other people's dirty, scratchy, warped records.

@sebsauvage Le data center alimenté par une centrale illégale qui rejette des tonnes de saloperies sur les habitats voisins (habités par des pauvres évidemment) : https://www.selc.org/news/xai-built-an-illegal-power-plant-to-power-its-data-center/

@hukl ok. Dann ist LTO unpraktisch.

@baldur Nothing that involves paying a monopolist by the token to create anything is “democratizing,” except to those who think that late-stage capitalism in the USA is the reference implementation of “democracy.”

Habe mir viele AfD-Wähler-Interviews angeguckt.

@larsvad3r und bezahlbar ist