Ihr könnt den #DiDay ja für ne gute Idee halten — das tu ich prinzipiell auch, weil er lokale Vernetzung und Dezentralisierung stärkt.

Aber vielleicht denkt ihr nochmal darüber nach, ob man das in direkter Assoziation mit einem „D-Day“ oder einem „Unabhängigkeitstag“ haben mag, wo beide Begriffe ganz eng verwoben mit der Befreiung von Unterdrückten (oft Schwarzen, Sklaven, …) durch Europäer verwoben sind. #Dudegemacht

Moin!
Neues Jahr, erster #Chaostreff, 19:00 heute in der #Machbar. Beste Medizin gegen Post-Congress-Depression nach dem #39C3.
Einige Infos:

* Es wird etwas kühler (18C) werden, weil nur 3/4 Wärmepumpen arbeiten. Zieht 1 Schicht mehr an.
* Congress-Items müssen noch final ins Lager eingeräumt werden.
* Wir wollen dieses Jahr ein Geekend im Mai machen. Hier brauchen wir Teams für Programm, PL, Party, Ihr kennt den Drill :)
* Es gibt Kartoffelsuppe! 🥔

#XMPP Community

The #XSF Communication Team announces a new initiative to help evolving the XMPP ecosystem. Join the cross-network workshop series!

xmpp.org/2026/01/chat-of-the-f…

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #xeps #standards #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging

#Russia has just officially closed the criminal investigation of the #Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 their air defense downed over #Grozny in December 2024. Prosecutor’s General office simply states:

It has been established that the aircraft departed at 06:55 (Moscow time) from Baku airport to Grozny airport. Due to weather conditions (cloudiness), after two unsuccessful attempts, the crew was unable to land at Grozny airport, made a decision to proceed to another airport, and during the approach to landing at Aktau airport at approximately 9:28 (Moscow time) collided with the ground, resulting in the destruction of the aircraft and fire, as a result of which 38 people died and 29 received injuries of varying severity.

The fact that the aircraft has been hit by two surface-to-air rockets fired from Russian “Pantsir-S1” system on the ground is not even mentioned and instead they push some bullshit about “weather conditions”, which undoubtedly will be received as an insult by Azerbaijan - which it is.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaij…

2024 plane crash in Kazakhstan

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

I don't understand how the UK government (and indeed many firms) can continue to maintain a presence on Elon Musk's deepfake porn site (formerly known as Twitter), rather than jumping ship to the likes of Mastodon and Bluesky.

Their continued association with X/Twitter isn't just a bad look, it's an endorsement of a site that behaves in a disgusting, degrading way, and has been churning out sexualised images of real-life women and young girls.

Is it just to avoid the wrath of Elon Musk?

According to Newsnight, the UK government say they can't block X—despite the deepfake CSAM—because people could evade such a ban using VPNs.

But the #OnlineSafetyAct is working just fine even though people can use VPNs to avoid having to upload photos of their passport (etc.) to some shady unregulated age verification company.

The UK government's internet policies are totally rational and coherent. Nothing to see here. Please don't ask us any more annoying critical questions.

Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:

- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains

As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:

"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."

In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.

#Degoogled Maps? Yes, it's possible. 📍🗺️

The Big Tech does not need to track your every step 👉use a Google Maps alternative instead.

Find out which open source maps we'd recommend: tuta.com/blog/google-maps-alte…

#GoogleMaps

You can commission me ✌️

This is the kind of thing I do.

You can share that post to help me, if you want 🙏

#art

Global pandemics aren’t new.

What covid is doing is just plaguerism.

I did a lot of thinking about the npm supply chain attacks over my break. I wrote up my thoughts, along with some proposed solutions, in my latest post:

humanwhocodes.com/blog/2026/01…

How GitHub could secure npm - Human Who Codes

Why doesn't npm detect compromised packages the way credit card companies detect fraud?

^{Human Who Codes}