Anyone up for joining a group call about the future of #SocialHub in the next couple of weeks?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/anyone-keen-on-a-fediverse-conference-in-2023-24/3167/75

You don’t need to be willing to volunteer for anything other than being on the call. I’m just looking for indications that people still think SH is (or could be) a useful community service, and worth rebooting.

#fediverse #ActivityPub

Neue Studien zeigen: 4 000 Jahre landwirt­schaftlicher Nutzung haben Oberboden in den Alpen nahezu komplett erodiert. Der Verlust an humusreichem Boden vermindert die CO₂‑Speicherfähigkeit und verstärkt Erosion durch Wind und Wasser. Für Klimaschutz und Artenvielfalt brauchen wir dringend renaturierende Maßnahmen wie Beweidungskonzepte, Aufforstung und bodenschonende Landwirtschaft.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2488768-ranching-and-farming-have-eroded-almost-all-the-soil-in-the-alps/

#NABU #Naturschutz #Landwirtschaft @NABU #Alpen

@EC_DIGIT @EC_OSPO Ok so here's one case where it's a bad idea beyond the usual ecological arguments.

What if someone is trans and doesn't want their deadname in the Blockchain transactions forever?

Because it's hard enough for some Devs to get their deadname removed from software contributions in places where it's possible but projects don't want to.

You can't update a Blockchain ledger. It's the whole point of it.

https://posts.arborelia.net/the-software-heritage-archive-wants-to-deadname-me-forever/

Tired of zoom, meet, w/e video conferencing software collecting your data?

Signal's got you❤️

NEW: call links let you start a video call with your fave Signal users easily, no group needed. Announcing these, and other improvements to calling here👇

https://signal.org/blog/call-links/

Well, it's time. I'm releasing my tool that lets you aggregate patch and update status of hosts over ssh on unix-like systems.

The github repository has details as well as links to the exhaustive documentation.

It is my hope that at least another person finds it useful

https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere

#SRE #HomeLab #Python #unix #linux #freebsd #SysAdmin

Lesbische Paare haben in Italien ein Grundsatzurteil erstritten: Ein Kind kann in seiner Geburtsurkunde zwei Mütter haben. Die Frauen der „Prozesse von Padua“. 👉 https://taz.de/!6098846/

Die AfD schafft es immer wieder: Wir lernen am meisten über Verbots-Vorraussetzungen über Urteile, die die AfD selbst beantragt hat.
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/detail-verdachtsfall-urteil/?utm_source=mstdn

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.

But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.

There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of trying).

Note which people and organisations allow their names to be used to legitimise this effort so you don’t trust a thing they say on this subject in the future.

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/

#EU #FOSS #freedom #tech #funding #EuropeanSovereignTechFund #corporateCapture #openWashing #BigTech #microsoft #GitHub

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hv937V/

How DEI helps everyone.

Merz says he won't put pride flags on Bundestag for pride. So BVG (the Berlin public transportation company) put pride flags all over the Bundestag station 😂

Framing einmal anders:

Coworker: ...and the IP address are compared with a string match.
Me: grinning manically
Coworker: Why are you looking at me like that?
Me: Open up a terminal and type ping 4.2.514 and hit enter.
Coworker: ...what's the fourth number?
Me: grin widens Just hit enter.
Coworker: WTF!?

I wrote some weekend words on why you should think twice before allowing AI access to your email, calendar, or any other personal data. This may seem obvious to some, but perhaps not to others: the privacy and security risks just aren't worth it.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/for-privacy-and-security-think-twice-before-granting-ai-access-to-your-personal-data/

Oh hey - Tax the rich, you can sign an initiative for that now which might actually make an impact assuming you’re a German citizen

We’re currently at ~ 50% with three weeks left

DE:
Hey - Reiche Besteuern statt von ihnen gesteuert werden. Da gibts grade ne Bubdestagspetition zu.

Grade bei ca. 50% und noch mit drei Wochen Laufzeit.
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_04/_09/Petition_180180.nc.html

Nun sagt ein Microsoft-Manager unter Eid aus: Microsoft kann Kundendaten vor dem Cloud-Act nicht schützen. Also keine seichten Ausreden mehr: Alt-F4, bye bye, Microsoft, Amazon Cloud, Google … (you name it) https://chaos.social/@kenji/114874702711777286

Apple and Google both provide support for offline speech-to-text using local models. Users can configure it to be fully offline.

The Murena Voice to Text service in /e/OS sends the user's audio to OpenAI which is hidden away in their terms of service:

https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509

One of my favourite things… and places… people and creatures. #bornhack