You mean the "No politics here"? Or their kinda transphobic one?
Nonetheless, I am currently using @MetaGer and am quite happy with it for now.
‼️ Großartige Neuigkeiten: Das Warten hat ein Ende! Der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags hat unsere Bundestagspetition "Tax the Rich" für eine gerechte Besteuerung großer Vermögen ENDLICH online gestellt! Unterschreibt, teilt und sagt es allen weiter – schon ab 30.000 Unterschriften muss der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestages eine öffentlichen Anhörung zur Vermögenssteuer einberufen. Setzen wir das Thema endlich auf die politische Tagesordnung! #TaxTheRich
https://www.attac.de/startseite/teaser-detailansicht/news/tax-the-rich-epetition
I'm beginning to understand why there are so few blogging platforms that work with #activitypub. I thought I'd make my own as a weekend project and while it shows up fine in https://browser.pub/, getting #mastodon to correctly display posts and followers is driving me absolutely crazy.
Why does Mastodon need its own weird special stuff? Why can't it just load the followers and outbox collections like the standard expects? WHY?
People of the Fediverse, stop everything. This is some true shit happening here: Two-Factor Authentication, a thread:
In French, the word for "factor" is "facteur". But it has another meaning: mailman. Yes, the one who delivers letters in your physical mailbox. For this reason, there is a funny meme in French where 2FA is in fact your mailman coming in and confirming that it's you.
"I came here to stand up for the rights of a minority... but this crowd looks like a majority." - Judit Hernádi
#BudapestPride today was illegal... but also the largest we had in 30 years. Incredible turnout. Trying to ban it made it stronger. Propaganda trying to make hate the majority opinion failed.
A handful of counter-protesters blockaded the Freedom Bridge (because irony is lost on them), but the parade moved one bridge over and passed them by.
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice
Great up-to-date post on the state of Linux and Wayland accessibility.
Also read:
And:
I love a good rant, and this is one I totally endorse. A great examination of macho Linux horseshit. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
Für Hobby-Musiker:innen und #CreativeCommons vielleicht nicht uninteressant:
Am 28.03.2025 hat die #GEMA angekündigt, kollektive Lizenzen auch für Musik von Nicht-Mitgliedern vergeben zu wollen. Das betrifft z.B. auch die Aufführungsrechte (Cover) oder die Nutzungsrechte für das Training von KI-Modellen.
Es sind noch drei Tage Zeit, um vorab zu widersprechen (danach nur für die Zukunft). Die gesetzliche Grundlage gibt es seit 2021, hattet ihr das auf dem Schirm? 😮
I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.
But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."
This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.
If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.
#spyware #AI #LLM #Google #spying #phone #Android #private #data
Kurze Erinnerung: Diese Petition braucht Zeichnung!
Bundestagspetitionen sind bei Erfolg bindend, insofern sich der Bundestag dann damit beschäftigen muss, und diese hier ist wirklich wichtig für eigentlich alle von uns, denn der Zugang zu Psychotherapie soll ziemlich erschwert werden: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/petitionen/_2025/_04/_16/Petition_180389.html
Billionaires
"Bezos' Venice wedding party moved to isolated area on security concerns"
Good. Billionaires should never feel safe. They should be running, hiding, hunted. Always looking over their shoulder, unable to trust anyone or anything. Let them skulk in their underground bunkers and never party in our streets.
"“Masculinity and patriarchy are one in the same” is one of the ideological pillars of patriarchy. It frames masculinity as something that can only be affirmed via a dominance relation and renders all forms of counter-hegemonic masculinity invisible. Ceding that territory to patriarchy only serves to erase the butches, trans mascs, trans men, nonbinary people, etc. who explore and live out subversive forms of masculinity. We would be far better served by understanding masculinity as something that patriarchy attempts to capture, rather than something it inherently owns, therefore shifting our understanding of masculinity away from seeing it as a component of the enemy and towards understanding it as continuously contested territory."
– Lee Cicuta, "Masculinity: Contested Territory." https://butchanarchy.medium.com/masculinity-contested-territory-ad94621032b
I am looking for a political science/international relations researcher who might propose a project for a high-functioning high school student at the Institute for Computing in Research. The student has strong background in math and programming, and has expressed an interest in sci/tech-informed approaches to diplomacy and de-escalation, but any research direction would be great.
#politicalscience #mentorship #internships #education
joking based on other replies
Well.. apparently he is someone who either can't spell good or uses a Smartphone which autocorrects stuff in ways which are just slightly off.
Well I just drink a full glass of Walter. Bit by bit. After that my hiccup is gone in 100% of cases.