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@smolbrain This is not just about languages btw, it's also about how you structure your code and build dev tooling around your project.

Good morning friends. Apparently today is the Monday that Proprietor needs to remind folks - mostly the rest of the Fediverse, not my folks - that Mastodon's Report function is not a vehicle for critique of Authors' works.

When you come across someone whose stories are not to your taste, you are fully empowered in this situation. Don't READ IT.

You, and no doubt the author, have better things to invest in. I'm quite sure that out there, somewhere, is a book you will like. Get a library card.

RE: https://ciberlandia.pt/@d3/117247637388924882

Age verification is having a moment in the EU. But we should ask why scrolling is so hard to stop rather than for whom 👀

Our 🇵🇹 member D3 has brought the first class-action lawsuits vs. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & YouTube for their “addictive design”.

👏🏾 A bold & timely action! The attention economy has all of us in sight, we urgently need to tackle the business models & design practices that exploit vulnerabilities & manipulate behaviour.

More info ⤵️

Me: "I want to learn German."

Them: "Why would you do that? Don't bother!"

Me: "Because I spend half my time on the Fediverse clicking on the 'Translate' button."

I can't help it if so many of the awesome accounts I follow are in German. And I want to be able to understand their messages without clicking on 'Translate' 50+ times a day. Plus this way I would understand / could attend ALL the talks at Berlin #FediDay.

I'm putting this here so that people hold me accountable 😅🤗

I find it absurd that the em dash is now widely perceived as an indicator of AI use. I have used it since childhood; it is part of my writing style. Sometimes inserting a brief aside within a sentence, at other times emphasizing the conclusion of a thought.

In any case, I use em dashs deliberately, and I am absolutely certain that many other writers do the same.

@smolbrain Well yes, my point is that we learn better ways to build technology and we should be putting more effort into *using* those ways and making technology easier to build and maintain, rather than forever focus on features as tech debt piles on.

If that means moving to better programming languages, then so be it. And no, that doesn't necessarily mean a total rewrite, almost every "old school" language has some better interoperable replacement (Java -> Kotlin, C/C++ -> Rust, etc.) that can be used incrementally.

Seid laut! Schafft Aufmerksamkeit! Zeigt euch solidarisch!
Wir denken an dich Maja! Halte durch! #FreeMaja

Revision gegen Maja beginnt! #BudapestKomplex

‚Am 18. September 2026 beginnt in Budapest das Revisionsverfahren gegen Maja, Gabri und Anna, die im sog. Budapest-Komplex beschuldigt werden, sich an körperlichen Auseinandersetzungen mit Nazis beteiligt zu haben.

Im Gegensatz zu den Mitangeklagten ist Maja seit über zwei Jahren unter menschenunwürdigen Bedingungen in ungarischer Haft, nachdem die deutschen Behörden die non-binäre Person aus Jena im Juni 2024 offen rechtswidrig ausgeliefert hatten. In der ersten Instanz war Maja zu acht Jahren Zuchthaus verurteilt worden, doch die Staatsanwaltschaft beharrt auf der Forderung der Höchststrafe von 24 Jahren. Als zweiten Verhandlungstag im Revisionsprozess ist der 30. September 2026 festgesetzt, an dem das Urteil fallen soll….‘

https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/budapest-revision-gegen-maja-beginnt

#Antifa #Antifaschismus #Ungarn #Repression #Deutschland

@thomasfuchs many such authors

I have finally decided that if I do indeed write a book, it will not be a book that drives a narrative but rather just a demonstration of the act of living without slop. I do not want to enter any contests with other authors because that just feels like another form of all...this. If I can perfect the act of not giving a shit, then maybe I will be ready.

I am so relieved. We got rid of our fascist-dependent government. The ascendancy of fascist-voting small-town working men in Swedish politics is broken. They are still a power to be reckoned with, but they are now officially past their 2022 peak. This election result is a solid victory for me, and it gives me back some of my belief in the intelligence and common decency of my countrymen.

#svpol #val2026 #fascism

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

https://www.404media.co/inside-project-lily-the-humans-reading-your-chatgpt-chats/

Adorning the very top of the Elixir website. We rise!

https://elixir-lang.org/
#goatmire #elixir

Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/14/largest-roman-mosaic-opens-to-the-public

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696132

#HackerNews #RomanMosaic #BathsOfTrajan #Archaeology #CulturalHeritage #ArtHistory

"Knowledge [...] is the only possession they can never take away from you."

Sam Wachman (2025). The Sunflower Boys.

#QSRC #FuzzyReading

10h : nan mais c’est l’application, c’est pas possible, c’est n’importe quoi, on a du rollback, tout ça tout ça
14h : alors euh… non, déso, c’était l’infra, le HA qui segfaultait
Ben voilà. J’avais dis dès le départ que c’était pas mon code 😅

Apparently, @Radboud_uni is part of "The Guild" which consists of "twenty-three of Europe’s most distinguished research-intensive universities in seventeen countries, and is dedicated to enhancing the voice of academic institutions, their researchers and their students."

https://www.the-guild.eu/about/

@lina @mo I know you didn't. I understand your point. The responses to some of the other people I felt weren't understanding mine. So I was trying to clarify at least once.