Wanneer Orbán met dreigementen en propaganda mensen het zwijgen wil opleggen.

En dan dít antwoord!

Wat ben ik trots op al die Hongaren die staan voor mensenrechten!✊🏽
#BudapestPride 🏳️‍🌈

https://nos.nl/artikel/2572851-massale-opkomst-bij-verboden-pride-mars-in-boedapest-ook-nederlandse-politici-aanwezig

Today, we (@bkuhn & @richardfontana) excitedly announce that we have restarted, revitalized, and relaunched copyleft-next!

Today, #GPLv3 turns exactly 18 years old. This month, #GPLv2 turned 34 years old. These are both great licenses and we love them. Nevertheless, at least once in a generation, #FOSS needs a new approach to strong #copyleft.

Read more in this thread about the relaunch of the copyleft-next project … ( or read more on the post here: https://lists.copyleft.org/pipermail/next/2025q2/000000.html )

Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.

> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*

"A cyclist can go 3 or 4 times faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well."
—Ivan Illich

✨ New blog post: “Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot”
Switching to Linux. Self-hosting. Fossifying my phone.
I thought the old internet was gone — turns out, it just needed a reboot.
https://laurahargreaves.com/the-old-internet/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopost

#OldInternet #OpenWeb #FOSS #Linux #DigitalReboot

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.

Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?

Here's the actual impact.

"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.2JRa.e3Ju6r_pL1Im

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green

Hallo Mastodon! 👋
Ich bin Rebecca Lenhard, Bundestagsabgeordnete und Sprecherin für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung der Grünen Bundestagsfraktion.
Ab jetzt bin ich auch hier auf gruene.social – für offene Debatten und Austausch im Fediverse 💬

Schreibt mir gern, wenn euch Themen wie #digitaleSouveränität, #Telekommunikationsausbau oder #KünstlicheIntelligenz bewegen. Ich freue mich auf den Dialog!

Das Deutschlandticket kostet den Staat also "eine ganze Menge Geld", so der Verkehrsminister.

1,5 Milliarden. Also weniger als die Hälfte der Erbschaftssteuer, die eine (!) Oligarchenfamilie aus Versehen gezahlt hat, weil sie ihre Stiftung nicht rechtzeitig fertig hatte.
Für den #Straßenverkehr gibt D jährlich 70 Milliarden aus. Also 46 mal so viel.

Aber das stellt niemand infrage.

So ein #schniedel

Will die Bahn ihre Sitzplätze nicht nur verteuern, sondern auch reduzieren? Die Aufregung ist groß. Höchste Zeit für die Verweigerung der Reservierung.
https://taz.de/!6096882

A colleague made the analogy that using an AI to assist your code basically means you're moving from a developer to doing code review of a junior developer all the time. But without any of the upsides of doing code review of a junior developer - like helping them improve their understanding of the project, improving their skills, building relationships.

Oh sure, they may be able to spit out "good enough" code when you can tightly contain the specs of what you want them to do, when you have a very good understanding of what you are wanting them to do, and how the solution should look.

But unlike when I work to improve my own skills in a language and codebase, where it's my own skills and knowledge getting better, and in a durable way I can carry from place to place, all I've really "learned" is how to instruct some SaaS tool how to do something at this moment in time. But next month, they might change the model to the point my prompts no longer work. Or they might run out of venture capital and shutter their products entirely. Or the company might decide to stop paying for the product so I can't use it anymore. Or government regulators could shut it down. When I know something, I know something.

Repeating my past recommendation to leave Spotify.

I have recommended leaving them in the past for their exploitation of artists.

Recently, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invested $700 million in military AI company Helsing. And he is also now their chairman.

With the profits he made from preying on artists and subscribers alike, he is taking a lead role in facilitating militarism, war, and genocide.

Iedereen zíet toch wat er in Palestina gebeurt, wat private equity doet, en wie er wint bij een verhoging van het defensiebudget? https://www.groene.nl/artikel/werkelijkheid-2025-06-25?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=mastodon

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated.

The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.

#FediHire

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

De broncode van de KNMI-app is nu vrij beschikbaar op GitLab: https://gitlab.com/KNMI-OSS/KNMI-App. Dit betekent dat iedereen de broncode kan lezen, aanpassen en verpreiden. Opensourcesoftware is belangrijk voor meer openheid in ICT-systemen van de Rijksoverheid. #opensourceweek

Looked at @creativecommons's Signals page (https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/) again.

I think this subheading is basically the smoking gun:
"If everyone blocks access, everyone loses. How can we avoid this path?"

This fully falls into the "there is no alternative to AI" camp and from that assumption there really are not many paths to take. Question is: Why take that stance?

Payeth and be saved. Europe enters a new age of militarization. Cartoon for Trouw:
https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#NATO #NATOsummit #Trump #Rutte

Trotz vollmundiger Versprechen der Regierung, mit #Sondervermögen-Milliarden die #Bahn wieder fit zu machen, passiert das Gegenteil: Die Bahn plant laut internem Papier massive Kürzungen im Fernverkehr – über 20000 Sitzplätze sollen wegfallen. Statt Ausbau folgt Rückbau. Das ist kein Aufbruch, sondern ein Armutszeugnis für Verkehrswende und Glaubwürdigkeit der Regierung.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/deutsche-bahn-internes-papier-zeigt-kahlschlag-im-fernverkehr-li.2336939

What even is this timeline? https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman/114751095054600869

Hey @creativecommons, how’s this for a CC signal for AI, you clowns?

🖕

https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

#CCSignals #AI #CreativeCommons #SiliconValley #BigTech