So now there’s official quote boosts on Mastodon I want to make it clear that the only valid use for this is “look at this great thing, here’s why I like it” and “I agree, here’s my yes-and”
Quote dunking is absolutely not allowed for anything; anyone doing that goes in the unfollow/block bin. Even if you’re right, you’re just boosting the reach of crap I don’t want to see, and dragging the tone down to those other places. Don’t do it.
Dear websites, please just stop with the AI chat bot rubbish. If I want to search through your published info for something, I'm probably better at it than your chatbot.
And when I close the chat and rate it "1 - Terrible"... Maybe don't respond with "Great! What went well?" Because that just reinforces why I don't want to use your crappy chat bot in the first place.....
I see a lot of reporting about the Louvre theft and that the French people are "relieved" that thieves got caught or that we feel "humiliated" that it happened in the first place.
Absolutely not. Nobody around me cares one bit about it. We care about the public service disappearing, we care about the rampant corruption in the political spheres, we care about the pensions they're trying to steal from us.
We're more than ready to trade stupid jewels for transparent democracy that works.
So I read that the 3 months it took to resolve the licence compliance issue is "unacceptable by Fedora" with strong implications that it should've been done faster and _immediately_. This is a bit sad that someone dug up another thing to criticise on.
Firstly, the fixes were deployed on most part within 1-1.5 month. The public announcement took longer due to various external factors like consulting lawyers. The date to drop EOL runtime and apps which didn't receive the fix is set in January 2026 because we wanted to give people enough time before dropping things left and right beneath their shoes.
Secondly, none of the changes I did was specifically "for Fedora". My motivation was to fix our own runtimes. I saw it as any other issue filed. So it probably doesn't matter to me whether it's acceptable or unacceptable to them. I don't really care.
Lastly, I'm not sure what is the expectation here but since everyone is a volunteer and we don't have an army (we barely have 5 or 6 people) working on this, large scale changes like this are going to take time and people just have to deal with it.
Adrian vovk and I iterated on how the licences should be installed multiple times over almost a month with several fixes and adjustments being done. We wanted to get the automation mostly correct and future-proof... so that we won't need to touch it every few days on a per element basis. That would've been just annoying to deal with.
This work was also exposed as a stable and public API by fdsdk which fdsdk's downstream junctions can depend on. Designing something that downstreams can depend on for the foreseeable future also takes time.
In parallel, at that time fdsdk was preparing for its yearly major release (25.08) that demanded a bunch of attention.
Then just backporting and rebuilding all branches of all the runtimes is going to take time as there is no unlimited supply of runners or infrastructure. Reviving EOL branches also takes significant time and effort.
These changes are huge as it involves rebuilding everything in the project. fdsdk for example takes close to 1200-1400 minutes for each rebuild.
Criticisms like this when the intention was to genuinely solve the issue properly and quickly and collaborate, leaves an odd sour taste.
Two years ago we launched tuta.com 🥳
Here's why it's great:
⚡️️ Only 4 letters
⚡️️ Means "secure"
⚡️️ Brand name allows growth
Check out how the new domain helped Tuta become one of the most popular encrypted email providers! 💗 tuta.com/blog/two-years-tuta
Time to celebrate: Two years of tuta.com | Tuta
Two years ago, we launched the Tuta domain. Today we are celebrating the best email, calendar and contacts apps ever!Tuta
NS has published the price list for 2026.
Interestingly, they charge (like in 2021) different surcharge for the first class during weekday (80 %) and weekends (40 %) in place of flat 70% surcharge.
This means that travelling first class in the weekend will get cheaper next year. That being said, the monthly surcharge for Weekend Vrij 1st class increases from € 10 to € 10,45. I fail to see the logic there.
ns.nl/klantenservice/betalen/t…
Prijzen l Prijs van treinkaartjes en abonnementen | NS
Bekijk de prijzen voor losse treinkaartjes, abonnementen, Dagretour en Fietskaart Dal.Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Oh and they are cancelling Altijd Voordeel and Weekend Voordeel plans, because "offer was too wide and confusing." 🙄
Fine, so occasional weekend traveller who does not have time to travel during the week is now forced to pay € 6,35 in place of € 2,35 per month. This is outrageous. #ns
nieuws.ns.nl/treinkaartje-in-2…
Treinkaartje in 2026: gemiddelde prijs 6,52 procent omhoog
De prijs van het treinkaartje en de meeste abonnementen stijgt vanaf 1 januari met gemiddeld 6,52 procent. Eerder werd nog een prijsverhoging van 12 procent verwacht. Voor kinderen tot en met 11 jaar blijft de prijs volgend jaar gelijk.Nederlandse Spoorwegen
A co by to bylo za pátek bez blues.
youtube.com/watch?v=t2X_jRETyh…
Meena Cryle and The Chris Fillmore band - Stay away from me baby - live for Bluesmoose radio
Meena Cryle and The Chris Fillmore band Stay away from me baby - live for Bluesmoose radio Live at Bluesmoose Radio 12 oktober 2016 - Groesbeek Netherlands...YouTube
Auch heute leider wieder im Deutschlandfunk: „Das sogenannte Verbrennerverbot“. Nein, die Gegner einer Schadstofffreiheit nennen das so und ihr übernehmt Kampfbegriff.„Anders als Deutschland lehnen Frankreich und Spanien mehr Technologieoffenheit ab“. Nein, die EU-Verordnung ist maximal technologieoffen. Was die Verbrenner-Fans wollen: Ausnahmeregelungen für ihre veraltete Technologie, weil diese keine Schadstofffreiheit erreichen kann.
Sorry, aber Ihr müsst journalistisch sauberer arbeiten
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the story never did. A brief moderate transitory inflation. A long and strong jobs and structural reorientation boom. But the dominance of the misinformation machine: where Biden-Powell reattained full employment…
braddelong.substack.com/p/bide…
Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the story never did. A brief moderate transitory inflation. A long and strong jobs and...Brad DeLong (DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before)
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Absteniéndome en aquellos asuntos en los que tenga un interés personal, así como de toda actividad privada o interés que pueda suponer un riesgo de plantear conflictos de intereses con mi puesto público.
Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?
01:36:33 up 1151 days, 22:58, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.01
Hmm, yeah, I forgot this VPS existed.
I guess discovering this VPS must feel similar. 😂
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Twenty employees at Conde Nast confronted HR over the company’s decision to shut down Teen Vogue
The company FIRED four of them then filed a federal labor complaint against the NewsGuild of New York
Goddamnit I'm going to have to cancel my Wired subscription
thewrap.com/conde-nast-union-f…
Condé Nast Fires 4 Employees, Files Federal Labor Complaint Against Union - TheWrap
“Extreme misconduct is unacceptable in any professional setting,” the company says after an altercation between HR and staffers due to Teen Vogue consolidationCorbin Bolies (TheWrap)
More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.
We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.
Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.
He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.
He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.
ICE deported him anyways.
They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.
Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.
What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?
He died a few weeks after deportation:
ICE enforcement may be a mass disabling event.
Disease is rampant in the camps.
Disabled people report having their medical needs ignored and their conditions drastically worsened.
The indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and violence causes harm.
Abolish ICE.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n…
#disability #uspol #fascism #ice #abolishice #eugenics
Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state
Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatmentRamon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
I know people are nostalgic about film, but using a bunch of chemicals and letting some rando in some shop see all your photos is objectively worse.
Now if only people would have proper privacy on their digital devices!
In other news, it's super fascinating how film is actually made!
Lastly, I have a Pentax Spotmatic camera with four lenses, case, all the extras available for sale to a good home. One lens is even the desirable japanese radioactive one!
it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/05…
Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: Kodak quietly acknowledged this week that it will begin selling two famous types of film stock -- Kodak Gold 200 and Kodak Ultramax 400 -- directly to retailers and distributors in the U.S.it.slashdot.org

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in reply to SuspiciousDuck • • •To už není sedmitečné, to už má teček víc.
Pokud se nepletu, sedmitečné a sytě červené bylo tady vždycky tradiční, ale poslední dobou sem imigrovaly „čínské berušky“ (oranžové, víc teček), které jsou agresivní a ty tradiční prakticky zlikvidovaly.
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in reply to Jan • • •„Slunéčka východní vytlačila slunéčka dvojtečná, která v české krajině skoro nemáme. Slunéčka sedmitečná ještě můžeme vidět, ale mnohem méně, než si je pamatujeme například z dětství.“
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Berušky z Číny pronikají do českých domácností. Klidně je vyhoďte, radí entomolog
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