@SteanSlh This "stop war!" calligraphy is impressive.

As I do prefer peace (& laws & trade & democracy), I share it.

#FollowFriday

Österreichische Parteien im Fediverse (alphabetisch geordnet)

:gruenAT:
@gruene_akademie
@Gruene_Bildungswerkstatt_Wien
@gruene1010 (inaktiv)
@GrueneNeubau
@Gruene_Poellau
@GrueneSimmering

:KPOe:
@kpoe_graz
@kpoe_linz

:links:
@links_12_23

:partei:

@diePARTEI_stmk

:pirat:

@piratenparteiat

:SPOe:
@spoetexingtal@fedi.at
@spoetexingtal@instapix.org

:volt:
@voltoesterreich

:wandel:
@wandel

Wo bleibt der Rest?
(Gerne ergänzen, falls ich Gruppen vergessen habe)

#Grüne #KPÖ #Links #wandel #SPÖ #VOLT #Piraten #VSStÖ #AG #GRAS #KSV #LiLi #KJÖ

@jalefkowit

What's great about the fediverse is that someone like that can have a presence here, but not on my server, and I can mute or block them or the server they're on if I want to. It would be beneficial for the government to have a Mastodon instance, regardless of how much we may disagree with their policies. Isn't that what we want? Isn't that what we're striving for? To get everyone off tech-bro centralized platforms designed for division, addiction, and profit.

An MIT research study of 54 people writing essays followed by brain scans has shown startling results.

ChatGPT users showed lower brain activity, weaker memory, and less creativity compared to those using Google or writing unaided.

Frequent ChatGPT users showed declining brain activity over sessions, resorted to copy & pasting more and most couldn’t remember the content of the essays they wrote when asked afterwards.

The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.

https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

The recent paper showing LLM use weakens your brain contained specific traps for LLMs so that when #AI evangilists tried to use AI to counter it, the results were mediocre.

https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

Time to wake up, time to act: Ergebnisse 2. Sachstandsbericht zum #Klimawandel:
> Temperatur in Österreich ist seit 1900 um 3,1 Grad Celsius gestiegen, mehr als doppelt so stark wie im globalen Durchschnitt.
> Schäden durch Extremwetterereignisse nehmen massiv zu.
> Vorsorgender #Klimaschutz und Anpassungsmaßnahmen sind viel kostengünstiger als Bewältigung der Schäden, die durch Klimawandel verursacht werden.
Handlungsbedarf im Verkehrsbereich besonders groß. In Österreich einziger Bereich, der mehr Treibhausgase verursacht als 1990: https://vcoe.at/presse/presseaussendungen/detail/vcoe-zu-klimabericht-verstaerkte-klimaschutzmassnahmen-im-verkehr-noetig

Advertising in WhatsApp? Thankfully, the DMA allows interoperability and I can just use another app!
Oh, wait...

🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off.
💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.”

8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way:

→ 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls
→ 2007: roaming caps
→ 2017: the end of roaming charges
→ 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing:

🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU
💰 Protection from unexpected charges
🆘 Better access to emergency services

Fair for operators. Free for you.

#ThisIsTheEU

Sharing our experiences is important to us! 💎

That's why this week, we're telling you about our experience developing the #PeerTube mobile app.

Today, we published our second and final blog post on the subject! By reading it, you'll discover the steps that made us sweat when trying to publish the app on the Apple Store. 🥵

👉 https://joinpeertube.org/news/flutter-app-dev-feedback-2

#blog #AppleStore #Android #iOS #Flutter #PlayStore #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware

I just donated to veteran charities named by Craig Wood, who sails solo from Mexico to Japan to raise money for amputees like him. He lost his left hand and both legs.

https://givestar.io/gs/mexico--japan-solo-sail-world-record

This unique 100hz sound alleviates sea sickness

A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered that stimulating the inner ear with a 100hz sound reduces motion sickness afterwards. They tested it on mice and men. If you are sailing and prone to sea sickness, you may want to replicate their findings by listening to the sound for at least one minute. Here is a 100hz sine wave mp3 I made myself for you to download.

If it doesn’t work for you, read “A unique sound alleviates motion sickness” and find out more about this effect. I would appreciate a comment on your experience. Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato maybe too.

https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result-en/2025/04/20250408-01.html

[…]

https://www.leobard.net/blog/2025/06/12/this-unique-100hz-sound-alleviates-sea-sickness/

Reading-Time: Blog about the Origins of Soundtracker -
...heavy substantial reading with lots of sources about computer history!
https://nodeponds-nerdletter.de/reading-time-blog-about-the-origins-of-soundtracker/
#Tracker #Commodore #Amiga #16bit #Achives
#newsletter #computerart #art #arts #creativecode

I just established a monthly sponsorship of @syncthing / https://syncthing.net/

Go sponsor those open source dependencies/projects that you want to keep!

@leobard @fedihost @digitalcourage @iftas

Everyone should be able to make their own rules to protect their culture and they can decide how to handle their people and their connections. That again takes funding from each of those cultures to make sure they have a trusted and safe way to express themselves.

15/15

@ozoned @leobard @fedihost @digitalcourage I'm slowly working on tooling for CSAM after we had to pull the plug on IFTAS CCS (which I lead the development of), and I'm working with several others to try to improve the building blocks we need to tackle that.

@thisismissem @leobard @Karlitschek @fedihost @digitalcourage @PaulaToThePeople @ozoned ich liebe auch das FIRES-Projekt
https://github.com/fedimod/fires

@leobard @Karlitschek @fedihost @digitalcourage @PaulaToThePeople @ozoned well, for one, your server uses mastodon, so all of this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pulls?q=is%3Amerged+is%3Apr+author%3AThisIsMissEm

@thisismissem - good point. what code have you been working on that goes into products I may be using so that I know where to direct my contributions to?

I appreciate "product and license" thinking, where code is packed and productivized so that consumers can buy. If I see a business model where the payment can be distributed amonst thousands of software/service consumers, I am much more eager to chime in. Maybe others, too.

Remembering something @Karlitschek said about 20 years ago, that sustaining end-user open-source applications is tricky, especially the last 80% work to make it a smooth system (and expanse the user universe beyond devs to anyone).... I like the business models of Wordpress with WooCommerce/Akismet or KirbyCMS where there is a clear flow of money for service.

I want #productize #fediverse, not #enshittification #socialmedia

(Thinking about hosters who could also charge for services and buy your code such as @fedihost @digitalcourage @PaulaToThePeople )
(Still in @ozoned threads)

@leobard @ozoned @fedihost @digitalcourage so funding to independent developers, like myself, helps push forwards the development of trust and safety tooling, improve security, and overall make your experience on the fediverse better.

Generally you won't directly see the work I do, but you or your mods would probably notice if it wasn't there.

@ozoned @fedihost @digitalcourage

I'm in, I'm in. I mean, for Donating.

I like your idea of connecting FOSDEM, W3C, FEDIVERSE, ... evolving the network.

Where can I put my money 💶?

(Answering to "the thread" as larger thing now by replying to 1/15)