I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
Hi everyone! We’re excited to share some updates:
Bonfire 1.0.1 is out! 🎉
This release is all about making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. It brings features like following hashtags, scheduled posts, dashboard widgets, and more. This is the very first delivery from the maintenance work funded by your incredible support. Thank you for helping us reach this milestone and keep Bonfire thriving!
For details about the release see our latest blog post: Bonfire 1.0.1: Building Momentum
What’s next for crowdfunding?
If you're an existing backer, the pledge manager is now open. Please keep an eye out for updates there so we can start preparing rewards for you.
The campaign is open again for the next month. With core maintenance funded, every new pledge (or increased pledge from existing backers) now goes directly toward our first stretch goal: federated groups. Support or share our extended campaign to help fund community-owned, cross-instance spaces for real collaboration and self-governance.
Bonus good news: Thanks to a new grant, end-to-end encrypted messaging in Bonfire is now funded and in development!
Thank you once again for being part of the Bonfire movement! Your feedback, support, and community spirit make all of this possible. If you have questions or want to get involved, reach out or come say hello at FOSDEM if you’re in Brussels at the end of January!
With gratitude,
The Bonfire Team
Leute,
seid ihr alle Millionär*innen, lebt von Vermögen?
Habt ihr nie als Arbeitnehmer*in gearbeitet oder das vor?
Wart ihr nie krank?
Die offizielle! e-Petition gegen Streichung der Lohnfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall dümpelt vor sich hin. Keinen interessiert es.
Wenn sich da nur ein paar Tausend einsetzen, ist das ein klares Signal für #Merz, so weiter zu machen.
Eigentlich müssten jetzt Millionen auf die Straße.
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_11/_27/Petition_191189.$$$.a.u.html
free idea
instead of using a crappy software license to mess with corporate users, simply have the documentation website for your noncommercial project only be available during nights and weekends
Today marks 133 years since the US' illegal overthrow of our sovereign country of Hawaii, not unlike #venezuelainvasion. The US banned Hawaiian language and forcibly made us a fruit & tourism colony & military outpost for imperialism. But we Native Hawaiians continue to resist. #Onipaa
Die Medien sollten X.com-Zitate immer mit Formulierungen wie: „Auf der Deep-Fake-Porno-Plattform X schrieb Merz …“, einleiten.
people are MISSING OUT on U+2044 FRACTION SLASH!
9400723⁄205473
👆 this does NOT use sub-/superscript letters!
Rainbow Wool from gay sheep
Did you know that about 1 in 12 sheep is gay? And we are not just talking about rams. According to scientists, same-sex behaviour has been documented in over 1500 species. You see, queerness is quite prevalent on planet Earth. But sadly, there are still many people that have a problem with it. The shocking truth is: 62 countries still criminalize same-sex relationships – that’s right, it’s illegal to be gay in one third of the world! And even where it is not illegal, cases of queer hostility are increasing – including in Germany. This is why we are getting the help from a gay flock of rams in a small town in Germany: We are using their wool to create fashion products that support projects for the queer community.
Hiya everyone! I am running into a fun issue with BundID no longer functioning correctly for me due to the Dutch government having shared unwanted information regarding my transition.
I am looking for a lawyer from whom I might be able to get some advice / who might be willing to represent me in a case against the German federal government or the Dutch government.
Do any of you know a lawyer or legal expert who'd be willing to help or give their two cents on this?
extremely angry rant about puritans
Bose recently did an unambiguously good thing, by publishing the API for the audio hardware they were originally going to brick: https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source
However, I've seen some people say "don't praise Bose for this, they didn't do this until there was backlash".
SHUT UP. Shut the FUCK UP. I'm DONE living in a society where you get dragged through hell if you make a mistake, EVEN AFTER YOU CORRECT THE MISTAKE. I'm so fucking tired of hearing stupid excuses for this kind of puritanism like "they should've known better" NOBODY KNOWS BETTER UNTIL *AFTER THEY MAKE THE MISTAKE*. THAT'S HOW LEARNING *WORKS*.
And before you say "Companies aren't your friend" PUNISHING THEM FOR FIXING THEIR MISTAKES WON'T MAKE THEM DO THE RIGHT THING EITHER. If other people, or companies, see someone get punished for both messing up AND fixing the mistake, they just won't bother at all!
People HAVE to be allowed to make mistakes. They HAVE to be given a chance to improve.
Study finds women use gen AI less than men not due to gaps in skill, but bc they view it as harmful to mental health, employment, privacy & the environment. This is not misplaced: AI has significant energy demands and risks of bias and misinformation.
https://www.unite.ai/research-finds-women-use-generative-ai-less-due-to-moral-concerns/
In einem immer rechter werdenden Deutschland ein zentrales Register von trans und nicht-binären Personen anlegen?
Das will unsere Regierung. 😱
Wenn dir das auch unheimlich vorkommt:
Es fehlen noch 4̶0̶0̶0̶ 3000 Stimmen für die Bundestagspetition dagegen:
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_14/Petition_183950.$$$.a.u.html
Du zählst, und wenn du andere auch noch überzeugst und informierst, auch offline und außerhalb des Fediversums, noch viel mehr!
Danke dir!
Edit: Zahl fehlender Stimmen upgedatet. Ihr seid super!
Die zentrale Forderung aus dem Umfeld des #CCC bleibt unverändert: eine unabhängige und belastbare Bewertung der Sicherheitsrisiken, transparente Kommunikation gegenüber den Betroffenen und ein offener Entwicklungsprozess über den gesamten Lebenszyklus der #ePA.
https://www.heise.de/news/39C3-Weiterhin-ePA-Experimente-am-lebenden-Buerger-11125835.html?wt_mc=nl.red.ho.ho-nl-newsticker.2025-12-30.link.link
#Datenschutz #Digitalisierung #eHealth
In den Niederlanden wird unkontrolliertes individuelles Böllern 2026 verboten. Diesen Weg sollte Deutschland auch gehen.
https://taz.de/!6141558
Rule of thumb, whenever you are about to type in that people should "just" do something, step away from the keyboard and read up on the situation. If it were a "just" thing it would've happened by now. I know I'm a broken record on this subject, but you can really improve your thinking by just (lol) treating "just" as a signal word you are likely not seeing the whole picture.
Just found this on Reddit. This is the info we currently need at #39c3, I guess.
Ignore AI upscaled YouTube videos with yt-dlp: https://alexwlchan.net/til/2025/ignore-ai-scaled-videos/?ref=mastodon
YouTube have started upscaling videos using AI. If you don’t want to download those versions, you can skip them by passing a --format option to yt-dlp.