New #blogpost:

Using Mastodon: hashtags, etc.

https://bammerlaan.nl/posts/Using-hashtags-Mastodon

A small educative post about how you can use Mastodon and curate it to your needs.

I've added #Mastodon as a #comment system for all my #blog posts. A reaction to this Mastodon post will show up as a comment.

#opensource #education #socialmedia #x #facebook #instagram #threads #bluesky #tiktok #youtube # #pixelfed #peertube #friendica #moshidon #mastodon

New #blogpost:

Using Mastodon: hashtags, etc.

https://bammerlaan.nl/posts/Using-hashtags-Mastodon

A small educative post about how you can use Mastodon and curate it to your needs.

I've added #Mastodon as a #comment system for all my #blog posts. A reaction to this Mastodon post will show up as a comment.

#opensource #education #socialmedia #x #facebook #instagram #threads #bluesky #tiktok #youtube # #pixelfed #peertube #friendica #moshidon #mastodon

Right! I forgot! I just published a new #blogpost, "Line-based #Lisp Editing"! It's about my desperation for an #ed(1)-editable Lisp and the ways I cope with this gloom.

https://aartaka.me/lisp-lines.html

EDIT: I've posted this - that will clarify even more things: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/10/10/when-bigger-stops-being-better/

I’ve received many reactions to my latest blog post. Some constructive, others critical, but all useful to better understand different perspectives.
However, two recurring dynamics emerged in the comments (mostly outside the Fediverse).

First: I didn’t mention any names. I understand the disappointment, but naming them wouldn’t have helped anyone. Before publishing, I did my homework - that draft had been ready for over a year - and I even asked some of the people involved.
They took action privately to warn friends and colleagues, with good results, but they didn’t want public exposure. Many years have passed, and that company no longer has the same relevance anyway.
Some understood my choice (naming them could have meant serious legal trouble for me), but others started quoting US laws and amendments to "prove" that I could have safely done it. What many don’t realize is that the world isn’t the United States - not everyone plays by the same legal rules. And even if I won such a case, it would still mean wasted time, energy, and peace of mind. Cui prodest?

Second: "Stories like that can only happen in Italy because there are so many small, family-run businesses".
That one annoyed me more - especially because it often came from Italians themselves.
First of all, I’ve worked in several countries, and I never said the story was about an Italian company.
Second, small businesses are not a problem - they’re a strength. My experience taught me that large corporations tend to turn employees into replaceable parts of a giant machine. Customers become faceless numbers, almost subjects rather than clients. At some point, a company’s need for endless growth becomes a trap - not a service that enriches people’s lives, but a "necessary evil".
And that, to me, is the real danger: believing that bigger automatically means better - in tech, and in life.
I wrote about this a few months ago, and I still believe it even more strongly today: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/09/macbook-pro-vs-car-why-small-businesses-still-win/

#ITNotes #BlogPost #TechCulture #SmallBusiness #Writing #Reflections #PersonalThoughts

Throw-away fruity laptop

We now live in a throw-away society — there's no denying it. Fast fashion often dominates the news, but Tech is not squeaky-clean by any means.

https://forkingmad.blog/throw-away-apple-laptop/

#blogpost #linux #mint

Throw-away fruity laptop

We now live in a throw-away society — there's no denying it. Fast fashion often dominates the news, but Tech is not squeaky-clean by any means.

https://forkingmad.blog/throw-away-apple-laptop/

#blogpost #linux #mint

#Menschen vertrauen #ChatGPT #intimste#Informationen an. Der Hersteller scannt die Chats, lässt sie von Moderator*innen lesen und gibt sie in bestimmten Fällen sogar an die Polizei weiter. Das hat das #KI- Unternehmen #Open_AI als #Sicherheitsmaßnahme nach einem Suizid eines Nutzers verkündet.

#OpenAI, der Hersteller von ChatGPT hat in einem #Blogpost angekündigt, seinen #Chatbot sicherer...

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/datenweitergabe-an-die-polizei-eure-chats-mit-chatgpt-sind-nicht-privat/#netzpolitik-pw

#Menschen vertrauen #ChatGPT #intimste#Informationen an. Der Hersteller scannt die Chats, lässt sie von Moderator*innen lesen und gibt sie in bestimmten Fällen sogar an die Polizei weiter. Das hat das #KI- Unternehmen #Open_AI als #Sicherheitsmaßnahme nach einem Suizid eines Nutzers verkündet.

#OpenAI, der Hersteller von ChatGPT hat in einem #Blogpost angekündigt, seinen #Chatbot sicherer...

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/datenweitergabe-an-die-polizei-eure-chats-mit-chatgpt-sind-nicht-privat/#netzpolitik-pw

I've found a nice way to organise my feeds (e.g. websites or the Fediverse) using the zones from permaculture. See the image for a general impression, I've written more on how I use it here:

https://kedara.eu/organising-feeds-permaculture/

I'd be happy to hear whether this system could work for you or not, especially once you've given it a try.

What systems do you use to keep track of favourite writers and reduce the overwhelming feeling of the unread counter?

#blogpost #blaugust2025 #blaugust #permaculture #feeds

I've found a nice way to organise my feeds (e.g. websites or the Fediverse) using the zones from permaculture. See the image for a general impression, I've written more on how I use it here:

https://kedara.eu/organising-feeds-permaculture/

I'd be happy to hear whether this system could work for you or not, especially once you've given it a try.

What systems do you use to keep track of favourite writers and reduce the overwhelming feeling of the unread counter?

#blogpost #blaugust2025 #blaugust #permaculture #feeds

My account of and thoughts on the proscription protest last weekend — certain to anger absolutely everybody, I imagine.

I've been going nuts with Classic Neg/Pro Neg and ramping up the white balance through this stupidly hot summer, and I think I probably overdid it with these edits.

I do intend to go to the planned follow-up in September, and likely any future ones after that.

#protest#ProtestPhotography #blog #blogpost #blogging

https://rhys.wtf/posts/the-proscription

My dog bites me.
Like a lot.
Here is a blog post I wrote about it (as one does):


https://theleafslug.com/entries/my-dog-bites-me

#dog#blogpost

My dog bites me.
Like a lot.
Here is a blog post I wrote about it (as one does):


https://theleafslug.com/entries/my-dog-bites-me

#dog#blogpost

If, like me, you've ever been annoyed at people just saying to grep the output of ifconfig for inet, and the likes, to get the assigned IP address of a network interface.

I got annoyed one time too many.

Have a proper solution.

May or may not also work on for example the *BSDs, but should definitely work on any modern typical-userland Linux.

https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/ip-address-of-network-interface-linux/

#Linux#BlogPost #blog#PersonalWebSite #indieweb #networking#IPv4#IPv6

If, like me, you've ever been annoyed at people just saying to grep the output of ifconfig for inet, and the likes, to get the assigned IP address of a network interface.

I got annoyed one time too many.

Have a proper solution.

May or may not also work on for example the *BSDs, but should definitely work on any modern typical-userland Linux.

https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/ip-address-of-network-interface-linux/

#Linux#BlogPost #blog#PersonalWebSite #indieweb #networking#IPv4#IPv6

A new Dear Creative Soul letter, a letter from me to fellow creatives, this time about why you shouldn’t feel intimidated by someone else’s creativity and judgements about your creativity.

(this is something I struggle with all the time, this letter was SO needed!)

https://sylvia.studio/the-truth-about-your-creativity

#creativity #blogpost

Another month, another links roundup blog post.

https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2025/links-06/

Shout-out to @Em0nM4stodon @82mhz @_elena @samaaberg@patel.riyen @thelatestkate (that I know of on Fedi).

#IndieWeb #links#BlogPost

I woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post.
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux#GNU #FOSS#Accessibility#BlindTech#FreeSoftware#Gatekeeping#DisabilityInTech#OpenSource#Orca #ScreenReaders#ArchLinux#BurnItDown #blogpost