Since my last project came to an untimely end, I find myself with more capacity and less work than expected.
So if you need a seasoned Ruby freelancer for *your* project [^1], or know someone who does, we should talk: alexandergraefe.de
Boosts welcome!
[^1]: ideally remote
Freelance Ruby developer with 25 years of experiencealexandergraefe.de
Hey, Fedi. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)
I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.
If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n
The Beaverton does good work, sometimes.
thebeaverton.com/2026/01/fbi-d…
WASHINGTON – Following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, FBI director Kash Patel has advised American citizens participating in anti-ICE demonstrations to leave their firearms at home, while reiterating how guns are still welcome and…Evan Klim (The Beaverton)
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you (checks notes) 11 updated and 2 added apps:
* Florid: an F-Droid Client "on UX steriods" 🛡️
* xrooster: an app for Dutch students whose schools use myx for their schedules 🛡️
RB Status: 811 apps (62.3%)
and 5 #Magisk modules updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Meshtastic has some serious design problems though, the entire network stops working once you get to about 25-30% usage of the airtime and that happens quickly because their implementation is too chatty.
Meshcore is better, but has similar problems. There are capacity issues in the Seattle area right now and they're discussing strategies to resolve it.
> at 20-25% you have a 50% chance of collision
This technology is neat but it's pretty useless if only a couple hundred people can use it "sometimes" in a major metro area.
It's basically like everyone is sharing an Ethernet hub. We're all in the same collision domain.
the only way to fix this is with new hardware where the radios can operate on multiple frequencies simultaneously. It just doesn't exist yet so nobody's built it to work that way.
and then there's the problem of tropospheric ducting that increases the range massively for a period of time and that causes you to get a ton of new collisions from far far away
Anthropic today introduced a new extension to MCP for its Claude AI that brings apps to the platform similar to what OpenAI did previously.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
(paywalled archive.is/Tyb6J)
And I'm sure they will still shutdown video games studios that have product that don't fit the moral code.
For years, the payments industry was aggressive about cutting off access to websites accused of containing child sexual abuse material. Elon Musk changed that.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Rant:
I take dance classes a few times a week. I always wear a KF94 mask. I know it isn’t perfect, but those are the ones that fit my face best and, at least from my experience so far, they seem to sufficiently protect me against germs from people who are pre- or a-symptomatic. However: I have the rule that if somebody tells me that they are sick, I leave. Today was such a day. I arrived, talked to someone, and a few minutes into the conversation they volunteered that they are sick, so I got dressed and left again.
I know there’s worse things in the world, but I’m still annoyed. Especially because of the attitude that I get when I explain this. People tell me that I don’t have to apologise for my behaviour. I mean… I wasn’t planning to. So I just say nothing and leave, but it feels really shitty.
I know that people also censor any photos and videos taken at events. As in: if I’m in it, they don’t upload them, because I don’t look “gezellig” enough. I don’t mind that pics and vids of me aren’t shared publicly, but the reason pisses me off.
ouch.
the world is not going to be kind to the Hugo Bosses of this decade, is it?
Good.
1.25" hard enamel pins. Comes individually packaged with butterfly clasps.collabs.shop
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In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Scotland must not be a staging ground for Trump’s threats against Greenland. 🚫🇬🇱
We're calling on the Scottish Government to ensure our airports and infrastructure aren't used to back a "rogue state" war machine.
Stand for international law: 👉 greens.scot/handsoffgreenland
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„Das Foto zeigt eine Person, die einen schwarzen Mikrofon hält, dicht an ihrem Mund, mit einem dunklen Anzugrock, einem hellblauen Blusehemd und einem gepunktetem Hemd. Die Person hat kurze, dunkle Haare, die mit einer Seitenteilung geschnitten sind, und der Hintergrund ist dunkel mit einem verschwommenen, warmen Lichtquelle hinter ihr sichtbar.“
Man(n) trägt jetzt zwei Hemden. Tippe auf Balenciaga.
Wieviele Blinde haben Altbot wegen dieser Scheiße inzwischen stummgeschaltet oder blockiert?
Vielleicht war der anfangs tatsächlich mal brauchbar. Aber das Modell wurde mehrfach gewechselt, und wer das Ding jetzt noch nutzt ohne wenigstens mal ab und zu reinzulesen was es inzwischen produziert… ich weiß ja nicht. Ich hänge immer noch an den „sich windenden Evergreen- und Barentieren“ von vor ein paar Minuten fest.
Ich komme mir ja als Sehender schon von solchen Texten verarscht vor. Wäre ich blind hätte ich möglicherweise das Gefühl mir bietet jemand eine Lesebrille an.
Join the Internet Archive & partners for PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY 🏛️
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RE: mastodon.social/@karlgroves/11…
PS: Also, make phone calls with help from the "5 calls" app. 5calls.org/
The absolute *minimum* you can do right now is email your representatives in the Senate and Congress to tell them how you feel about what's going on right now. It'll take only 5-10 minutes of your time. Do it now.Karl Groves (Mastodon)
Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honours terms and conditions
As I said, nazis collaborator are just nazis.
(10+ years ago we already established this company was shite)
The the terms and condition doesn't include "thou shalt not kill".
Glad to see where they stand on their propaganda tools.
Hootsuite have dropped ICE in the past
(From September 2020)
But that was the previous CEO.
I should also be noted that the Hootsutie whistle blower in 2020 got shit canned.
vancouversun.com/business/loca…
Sam Anderson's departure comes after she denounced Hootsuite's proposed three-year deal with U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementScott Brown (Vancouver Sun)
I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
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I don’t know why anyone is surprised to find that all of the ICE agents are incompetent bullies on unwarranted power trips.
Where else were all of those security guards supposed to go when the malls shut down?
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Siemens has signed a partnership with NEWAG in Poland
railwaygazette.com/business/si…
And we still have not got to the bottom of NEWAG's GPS location sabotage jonworth.eu/newags-digital-sab…
POLAND: Siemens Mobility and Newag have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their co-operation in the Polish rail market and expand their previous joint work on metro trains into the high speed rail segment.Railway Gazette International
LLM boys pivoting to ads. EVERYTHING IS ADVERTISING!
youtube.com/watch?v=tOtcHKKPoY…
I played all the instruments, composed, mixed, mastered the song, and filmed and edited the video in 4 days.happy new year 🥳YouTube
It is The Law™
> Every piece of software will evolve beyond its intended purpose to sell you something.
mapledice.ca/posts/2024/04/14/…
In the context of enshittification, there is one law that seems to be a constant. I mentionned it here and here: Every piece of software will evolve beyond its intended purpose to sell you something.Maple Dice
We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.
privacyinternational.org/news-…
The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.
Federal Register entry: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-202…
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I feel for anyone in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries, which make up ~ 10M jobs and ~ 3 percent of the nation's GDP. From the U.S. International Trade Administration (trade.gov)
"Inbound international travel to the United States plays a vital role in the Nation’s economy and promotes cultural exchange and understanding. Travel and tourism is the largest single services export for the United States, accounting for 22 percent of the country’s services exports and 7 percent of all exports in 2023. The travel and tourism industry contributed $2.3 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2022 (2.97 percent of the country’s GDP), supporting 9.5 million jobs."
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