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I feel like doing at least some damage control. (Those Bulgarian "spies"? They are corrupt scum. No one in their right mind in Bulgaria likes them.) ->

Dissonance That Scratches Your Brain | Bulgarian Folklore | Vocal Coach Reacts Analysis | Beth Roars

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Dissonance That Scratches Your Brain | Bulgarian Folklor- Kaval Sviri | Vocal Coach Reacts Analysis

Vocal Coach Reacts | Bulgarian Folklor- Kaval Sviri - Wild Bulgarian Folk Music, Dissonant Harmonies, and the Kavol Flute | Musical & Vocal Analysis Prepare ...
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Winter blue tardis

I don't like the person that reacts, and I will explain why. As someone who has been in a choir, and still can sing, you, by any means do not compair the sounding of i at all. Ours is different than the English one, or another one. There is vibrato, and to be fair, while it does sound really strange, there is nothing wrong in it. Definitely does not sound like it is brain destroying, not to me from a musical standpoint. Bulgarian has not been prefered by me as music to listen to. My view, I don't like this video. But thiese singers are pretty good. Now if I could know who they are, that would be fun. And, that's definitely not sourcery, lol, just folklore songs xd, and a particular style of singing, that I know quite a few people in.
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Chick Enheart

Tak když jsme u těch nestandardních coverů #Metallica 😋
mastodonczech.cz/@chick_enhear…

Chick Enheart (@chick_enheart@mastodonczech.cz)

#hudebni_okenko_z_valasska (48/x) Když vyšla skladba #Nothing_Else_Matters od americké skupiny #Metallica , tak mě chytla od prvních tónů a osobně jí považuji za jednu z nejlepších #power_balad, co kdy spatřily světlo světa.
MastodonCzech
#metallica

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„Remigrace“ je nyní oficiálním cílem AfD: Alice Weidelová byla ve svém prvním projevu v čele kandidátky AfD radikálnější než kdy předtím. Historický revizionismus byl na sjezdu AfD přítomný v každé větě. „Pokud se tomu má říkat remigrace, tak se tomu bude říkat re-migra-ce,“ hřímá Weidelová od řečnického pultíku do publika a sklízí hlasitý potlesk. Dříve kontroverzní termín „remigrace“ dokonce i uvnitř […]

Zdroj politiq.cz/2025/01/12/remigrac… #Politika #Zprávyzezahraničí #AfD :

„Remigrace“ je nyní oficiálním cílem AfD | POLITIQ

Weidelová byla ve svém prvním projevu v čele kandidátky AfD radikálnější než kdy předtím. Historický revizionismus byl na sjezdu AfD všudypřítomný.
Redakce (POLITIQ)
#Politika #afd #zpravyzezahranici

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A giant Soviet telescope looks like a remnant of an older and more advanced civilization.

Its history matches this impression. The Kalyazin RT-64 radio telescope was developed to support communications with robotic missions to Venus and Mars and to prepare for possible manned expeditions to these planets.

The telescope is located near the city of Kalyazin, and still in operation today. Its scientific tasks include deep space communications and astrophysical research.

picture of a giant radar dish behind a church
picture of a giant radar dish behind a forest
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Let's try it again: This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more. That's #Sharkey, #Pixefeld (hence the pic), #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma... How far can it go?

Please share it, wherever you see it! #SocialMedia

@fediverse

The rocket-emoji
#friendica #fediverse #Mastodon #socialmedia #hometown #lemmy #bluesky #akkoma #sharkey #pixefeld #mbin @Fediverse

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Seit einigen Monaten lese ich hin und wieder ein Kapitel aus diesem sehr interessanten und detailreich geschriebenen #Buch:

#Weimar unter #PalmenDie Erfindung Hollywoods und das Erbe des Exils
#PacificPalisadesvon Thomas #Blubacher
In diesen Tagen mit der #Hoffnung und dem Wunsche, die Feuerwehrleute und die Menschen bleiben bewahrt, das
#PalisadesFire kann gelöscht und weiterer Schaden verhindert werden.

#Hollywood #Exil #Faschismus #Judenverfolgung #Film #Literatur #Schauspiel

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade…

Cover des Buches: Weimar unter Palmen Die Erfindung Hollywoods und das Erbe des Exils Pacific Palisades Der Titel steht auf einem sepiafarbenen Bild einer Strandpromenade mit großen Palmen

2025 wildfire in Pacific Palisades, California, U.S

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#film #buch #hoffnung #faschismus #literatur #palisadesfire #weimar #palmen #pacificpalisades #blubacher #hollywood #exil #judenverfolgung #schauspiel

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Gerade ein sehr angenehmes Interview von Tilo Jung mit Jan van Aken zu Ende gehört.

Bei dem, was Jan van Aken über Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Verkehrspolitik zu sagen hat, gibt es von mir ja viel Zustimmung.

Ich würde mir wünschen, @dielinke hätte mehr Bewusstsein dafür, dass, wenn ein Autokrat in ein wehrloses Europa einfällt, wir die ganze schöne Sozialpolitik auch nicht mehr umsetzen können.

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#BTW25


Parteivorsitzender Jan van Aken (Die Linke) | Bundestagswahl 2025 - Jung & Naiv: Folge 745

Unterstützt uns finanziell ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaivDiskutiert im Jung & Naiv Forum ► http://forum.jungundnaiv.de/Teil 1 unserer Gesprächsreihe mit den...
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#btw25 @Die Linke
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Die Linke

stimmt. Grundsätzlich bewirkt Aufrüstung aber einen strukturellen Wandel der Gesellschaft, der definitiv nicht links ist. Und: Wer nicht militärisch abrüstet, lässt sich auf ein Wettlauf ein, bei dem im Zweifel Autokraten das grausamere Eskalationspotenzial haben. Entscheidend ist Diskursverschiebung weg vom Militär, gilt auch f Verflechtung mit der Informatik, dazu empfehlen wir ein Interview anlässlich 40 Jahre @fiff_de netzpolitik.org/2024/40-jahre-…

40 Jahre FIfF: Gegen die unheilvolle Verflechtung von Informatik und Militär

Das Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung begleitet und kommentiert seit nun vierzig Jahren eine Fülle an Themen.
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@Forum Informatik für Frieden
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Tak jsem po téměř 2 letech pořídil nové kecky na #florbal. Dva roky dvakrát týdně na parketách v tělocvičně tomu dá zabrat. Už mi to klouzalo, vzorek skoro fuč na podrážce.

#Mizuno Thunder Blade 2 jsou starší model a už prakticky nejdou sehnat, tak jsem vzal velice podobné (stejná podrážka, krapet jiné šití) Ghost Shadow. Také v super slevě coby starší model jako ty TB2 předtím :)

Pro úzkou nohu jsou prostě házenkářský Mizuna nej 😉

#floorball #handball #TeamMizuno #sport #sports

mizuno court shoes
#sports #sport #Handball #florbal #mizuno #floorball #teammizuno

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Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

A photo of the initial Y Combinator class with Aaron Swartz circled in orange, standing right next to Sam Altman circled in green

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So let me get this straight: First, it was Elon. Now, it is Mark. Two guys are removing all moderation rules on social media. And are people asking another billionaire to build alternative social media? Do you even hear yourself? That is not going to fix anything. Maybe we should go back to the days of blogs, mailing lists, individual forums, and RSS feeds and end this madness of centralized social media apart from the federation. I’m just saying

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První letošní Vídeňák. 😋
(Jako příloha kančí řízečky.)
#zasezerou

Tenhle salát se u našich dělal odjakživa. Jako jo, byl dobrej. Ale když jsem v hluboké dospělosti našel ten správný recept, teprve teď je to ono. Kde se sakra předkům mohl vytratit ten hovězí vývar? 🤔
A vy si nechte chutnat, ať máte cokoliv. 🤞

Dobrý recept je např. tady:
ceskatelevize.cz/porady/100848…

#zasezerou
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The number of currencies supported by Liberapay has jumped from 32 to 133!

Only 22 currencies are supported when paying with PayPal, so the improvement is almost exclusively for payments processed by Stripe.

If you use Liberapay as a donor, you might want to modify your donations to use your local currency: liberapay.com/about/me/giving

If you use Liberapay as a recipient, you might want to change which currencies you accept or which one you prefer: liberapay.com/about/me/edit/cu…

Long screenshot of the page to choose which currencies are accepted and which one is preferred.

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Hallo Friendica Profis,

ich bin aktuell am überlegen, meine lokale Instanz auf einen kleinen VPS umzuziehen. Deswegen bringe ich mich momentan auf den aktuellen Stand der Dinge, was die Installation eines LAMP-Servers und die Installation von Friendica betrifft. Beim rumstöbern bin ich auf eine aktuelle Anleitung gestoßen, wie man Friendica installiert.

Dazu hätte ich zwei Fragen:

  1. Unterscheidet sich die Installation auf einem Raspi zu einer auf einem VPS?
  2. Würdet ihr die Installationsanleitung so durchführen oder würdet ihr was anders machen?
  3. Was würdet ihr generell am System optimieren bzgl. Friendica und dem System selber?

Den Artikel zu der Anleitung findet ihr hier: blogzwo.me/raspberry-pi/friend…

Über Feedback sowie Tipps&Tricks würde ich mich freuen.

@Friendica Support @Friendica Admins

@Friendica Support @Friendica Admins

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TIL that on #Meta platforms now one can write terrible, offensive slurs against LGBTQIA+ folks and immigrants… with zero repercussions. But the second one mentions a #Fediverse project like #Pixelfed, the post is automatically removed.

Meta “moderation” policies in 2025: racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia and sexism are allowed; mention of competition is strictly forbidden.

Source: mastodon.social/@dansup/113813…

#BigTech #dystopia #QuitMeta


dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Stay classy Meta. #MetaBlockingPixelfed
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#fediverse #pixelfed #meta #bigtech #dystopia #quitmeta

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New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work www.404media.co/its-total-ch...

‘It’s Total Chaos Internally a...


‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes

Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.
Jason Koebler (404 Media)

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One of the most important things I consider when choosing a social media platform is whether people can read what I post without being nagged or forced to create an account. For many of my friends who don’t really care about #Mastodon, gultsch.social is just a website they can drop by occasionally to see what I’m up to.

Mastodon

The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!
Mastodon hosted on gultsch.social
#Mastodon

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Monal 6.4.9 (Build 1019, PR #1360) released.

To see the complete list of bugfixes and improvements, check our releases page: github.com/monal-im/Monal/rele…

#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging


Release Monal 6.4.9 (Build 1019, PR #1360) · monal-im/Monal

Fix rare crashes on app startup Don't lock up app on close Improve internal logging Fixed background crash Revert christmas/winter special Fix crash on incoming non-spec-conformant LMC Make xmpp ga...
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#xmpp #ios #chat #MACOS #monal #messaging #im

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We expect that some 50 Auschwitz Survivors will come to the Memorial to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation, which will be held in front of the main gate of the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

On January 27, the eyes and ears of the world should rest upon them.

We must safeguard their voices from silence, distortion, instrumentalization, or being overshadowed. Their message should help us shape the memory of the human tragedy of #Auschwitz.

(Photo: instagram.com/annanovak23)

The iconic railway tracks leading into the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, framed under a vibrant orange and blue sunset sky. The tracks converge at the main entrance gate with the guard tower silhouetted against the fiery hues of the setting sun.
#auschwitz

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The Story of Gunsmoke: A Documentary of One of Radio's Greatest Achievements (April 25, 1976) archive.org/details/OTRRStoryO…

The Story of Gunsmoke: A Documentary of One of Radio's Greatest Achievements (April 25, 1976) : Old Time Radio Researchers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Story of Gunsmoke is essential listening for classic radio enthusiasts just starting to listen to the series and for veteran hobbyists. It was produced by...
Internet Archive

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Comcast Is Spinning Off MSNBC, CNBC, USA, & More & Now They Have a New Leadership Team cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-is…

Comcast Is Spinning Off MSNBC, CNBC, USA, & More & Now They Have a New Leadership Team | Cord Cutters News

Comcast’s planned spin-off of its cable television networks is gaining momentum as Mark Lazarus, the prospective CEO of the new entity dubbed “SpinCo,” announced key appointments to its senior leadership team.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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Friendica Installation

Ich versuche gerade die #Fediverse Anwendung #Friendica auf meinem #Raspberry Pi 5 in einem #Podman #Container zu installieren. Aber bei der Datenbank ist Schluss. da bleibt es hängen. Weiß jemand Rat? @Friendica Support zum Beispiel?

Hardcopy Friendica Installation

Hardcopy Friendica Installation

version: "3.7"

services:

  mariadb:
    image: docker.io/library/mariadb:latest
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - mydb:/var/lib/mysql
    ports:
      - "6033:3306"
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: *****
      MYSQL_DATABASE: friendica
      MYSQL_USER: friendica
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: *****

  phpmyadmin:
    container_name: phpmyadmin_9092
    image: docker.io/library/phpmyadmin:latest
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "9092:80"
    environment:
      - PMA_ARBITRARY=1
      - PMA_HOST=mariadb
    depends_on:
      - mariadb

  app:
    image: docker.io/library/friendica
    container_name: friendica_9093
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - friendica:/var/www/html    
    ports:
      - "9093:80"
    environment:
      - MYSQL_HOST=mydb
      - MYSQL_USER=friendica
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=*****
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=friendica
      - FRIENDICA_ADMIN_MAIL=*****
    depends_on:
      - mariadb

volumes:
  mydb:
  friendica:

networks:
  proxy-tier:
#friendica #fediverse #container #podman #raspberry @Friendica Support
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K@rsten 🏳️‍🌈

@Rainer "friendica" Sokoll Ich habe heute fulltime 6 Stunden Fehler gesucht. Ich bin kurz vor dem Aufgeben. Die docker-compose.yaml funktioniert jetzt, dafür habe ich einen neuen Fehler und der Container startet nicht.
Error: crun: error stat'ing file `/var/lib/containers/storage/volumes/friendica_friendica_friendica/_data`: No such file or directory: OCI runtime attempted to invoke a command that was not found
exit code: 127
@Rainer "friendica" Sokoll

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Extraordinary article on the energy usage of generative AI from BloombergNEF founder Michael Liebreich - absolutely worth spending some time with this: about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-…

I wrote up some of my own notes on the article here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/12/…


Liebreich: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory | BloombergNEF

This year will go down in history as the year the energy sector woke up to AI. This is also the year AI woke up to energy. Is the data center power frenzy just the latest of a long line of energy sector bubbles, or is it the dawning of a new normal?
BloombergNEF
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Matt Campbell

> In 2007 the EPA predicted data center energy usage would double: it didn't, thanks to efficiency gains from better servers and the shift from in-house to cloud hosting.

That latter shift can also be seen as a shift to greater centralization, which isn't necessarily a good thing. I hope centralization, a concentration of hosting onto big servers at a few providers, isn't necessary to keep energy consumption at a reasonable level.

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Eleanor Saitta

@matt
It's a few things. Large cloud providers have done a lot of work to reduce inefficiencies in their ecosystems, including moving to large-scale liquid cooling on some cases, whole rack-aisle airflow calculations, custom chassis designed for power efficiency, etc., meaning that in many cases, less than ten percent of the total DC power is going to things other than compute, storage, and networking. They also have enough load to balance that they can keep most of their machines running at right around the 80% load mark, because systems are more efficient when they're running a heavy workload.

Very few companies with small on-prem DC footprints do anything like this much work, and the systems that are sold to them are generic, because they need to work anywhere, so that kind of extreme optimization just isn't available to them. Loads for individual companies are also often bursty, given peaks in customer demand, monthly batch jobs, etc., and the rest of the time that spare capacity sits idle. Cold-booting hardware carries some risk of systems not coming back online, so servers sit mostly idle, still consuming most of their peak power.

So basically yes, on-prem is hard to make as efficient as cloud systems, for most realistic companies. However, one of the things you can do is get rid of useless compute. Taking the time to work with profiling tools and taking some care at the business level in how and when jobs are run can have a large impact on performance. Getting rid of needlessly complex systems also helps — for instance, the entire targeted advertising ecosystem, if turned off and all related code removed from systems, would likely cover efficiency losses from returning to on-prem systems many times over.
@simon

@Matt Campbell @Simon Willison
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Matt Campbell

Long post

Sensitive content

@Eleanor Saitta
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Eleanor Saitta

@matt
Yes, basically, especially with full lifecycle analysis. We can federalize services politically and take advantage of industrial efficiencies of scale without trying to be digital homesteaders, and most of our options for efficiency come from doing less dumb useless stuff, like data collection, behavioral analysis, personalized advertising, and the entire suite of useless LLM tools.
@simon
@Matt Campbell @Simon Willison
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Eleanor Saitta

Long post
@matt
So, a) if we're talking about large models, they cannot be trained in that context and many of them won't even be able to do inference there. b) For a phone, the embodied carbon (ignoring all other resource impact) of manufacturing is larger than its lifetime energy carbon footprint. c) A machine like that serving a single user is almost always going to be idle, and even if it has significant idle power reduction, it's still going to do much lower useful work per watt than a more computationally capable per watt large system that's running at a steady 75-95% load.
@simon
@Matt Campbell @Simon Willison

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This article from @bert_hubert spells out the principles of sustainable software development really, really well.

If you have a decision that is in any way a close call, I say go with the choice that embodies these principles.

Your future team (which might include you) will thank you.

berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-l…

Screen capture of the "finally" text from the article: Finally Overwhelmingly, these are the recommendations for long-term software development: Keep it simple. Simpler than that. Yes, even simpler. You can always add the complexity later if needed! Keeping it simple requires periodic refactoring / code deletion Think real real hard about your dependencies. Fewer is likely better. Scrutinize and audit. And if you find you can’t audit 1600 dependencies, rethink your plan. Don’t go for LinkedIn-based development choices. Re-visit your dependencies periodically to see how they are doing Testing, testing, testing! Will help you spot shifting dependencies in time, will give you confidence to do the refactoring you need to keep things simple Document all the things, not just the code, but also the philosophy, the idea, the “why” Aim for a steady team. Get actual employees with a long-time investment in your project If you can get away with it, ponder being open source Logging, (performance) telemetry will save your bacon over the years

On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert's writings

Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software.
Bert Hubert's writings
@bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

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The EU must be doing it right. If only our politicians had the same courage.

Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies

politico.eu/article/zuckerberg…


Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies

Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.
Aitor Hernández-Morales (POLITICO)

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Having just been reminded of this blog post by @glyph: blog.glyph.im/2012/10/the-lexi… I decided to repeat something that a friend tried when I showed him the post a year or so ago. I gave Claude 3.5 Sonnet this prompt:

Based on the attached blog post, create a quiz to score whether someone is more of a nerd or a geek. Create it as a self-contained HTML artifact using plain JavaScript.

1/2


Deciphering Glyph :: The Lexicology of Personal Development

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
blog.glyph.im
@Glyph

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Enjoying 2025 Web Wishes by #Igalia thoughtful discussion between @Meyerweb & @bkardell

igalia.com/chats/2025

Loved the reference to the book A Half-Built Garden & the Dandelion Network.

Also great ideas from
@aardrian @yatil & @mherchel for 2025!


2025 Web Wishes | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions.
Igalia
#igalia @Adrian Roselli, pH0 @bkardell @Eric A. Meyer @Mike Herchels disembodied head @Eric Eggert
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