@locustangerine yes! I run https://solarcene.community which is a fully solar powered mastodon instance, it runs of a small system so has aggressive power saving to the point that it will regularly shutdown to save power, so you'll social media will be limited. You can monitor it's schedule with @solar_bot

It's really an experiment but there are users that use it as their sole instance. I've actually not yet reached that point but have an account there @solaradmin

More details here https://git.solarcene.community/smallsolar/solarcene_community_setup/src/branch/main/power_setup

I hate it here.

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era
https://thelocal.to/investigating-scam-journalism-ai/

Hey! I’m CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to “tunes”. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to focus on what's really important in life: adding value.

Are there any #PersonalFinance #ExpenseTracking apps or tools out there that combine traditional expense tracking with whatever it is that #Splitwise does?

I want to be able to record my expenses, see how much I owe others, and how much they owe me, and get a feel for all of my accounts. Does anything like this exist?

The search for a personal finance tool continues
https://akhilunnikrishnan.com/2025/08/the-search-for-a-personal-finance-tool/

Louder for the people in the back! Maybe it's time we kill this abomination with fire.

"LinkedIn Is The Fakest Platform of Them All"

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/109237/linkedin-is-the-fakest-platform-of-them-all

If you still aren't convinced, here's an evergreen look at the delusional weirdos that populate LinkedIn.

LinkedIn's Alternate Universe

https://every.to/divinations/linkedins-alternate-universe-21780381

I’ve just donated to Mastodon. Consider donating too!
https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

#SupportMastodon

Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

#Markdown #TextFormatting

If you get a tattoo based on an outline from OpenStreetMap, you also legally have to have "(c) OpenStreetMap & Contributors" tattooed on you as well. #Fact

@tanvibhakta I was just following the "write what you know" advice 😭

The 2025-era internet just got a whole lot better. *obvious sarcasm*

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket.
https://akhilunnikrishnan.com/2025/05/mozilla-is-shutting-down-pocket/

define: irony

Hello @surf, are invites going out? Signed up to the waitlist a month ago - nothing as of yet.

@ben Good news, but disheartening to see them ignore ActivityPub in favour of the AT Protocol. There's already been *so* much groundwork laid out on the ActivityPub protocol; why reinvent the wheel?

Just once, can Amazon stop updating book covers any time a book is adapted to a movie/TV show? This is worse than physical books with their "stickers" declaring "Now a major motion picture" or "Now on Netflix", and having actors on the cover.

If they can change the outside of the book, what's stopping them from changing what's inside the book? That's right, absolutely nothing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/arts/dahl-christie-stine-kindle-edited.html

My short take on how the 'Murderbot Diaries' series subverts anthropocentric tropes
https://akhilunnikrishnan.com/2024/05/how-murderbot-rejects-the-anthropocentric-trope/

#Murderbot #MurderbotDiaries #MarthaWells

"The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of sea shanties."

Reading the Garbage Day newsletter by Ryan Broderick is always a fun time.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/now-time-sea-shanties

@schrotthaufen @Gargron @ramsey @anildash I cannot vouch for suspension, but there is a widespread fear of content being muted or suppressed if it contains such words, which is why people came up with words like "unalive", "d3ad", "sewer slide" for suicide, and "pdf file" in place of "pedophile".

A cheat sheet for the lazy Python developer. https://akhilunnikrishnan.com/2019/12/a-cheat-sheet-for-the-lazy-python-developer/

@benjancewicz Out of the loop on this. Did PepsiCo do something terrible recently, other than all the terrible things they might have already done?

@robb Using Discord in place of actual documentation is a plague that's taking over. @Edent has written about it as well. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/discord-is-not-documentation/

While Discord would be optimal for taking feedback from users and gathering new feature requests, it absolutely shouldn't be used for documentation and support.