Wolfgang

»Don't underestimate the value of trying.«


Open Source, BSD and Linux, Virtualization and Container, Digital Sovereignty, and IT Security.

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2025-05-17
Screenshot of an article entitled “How the Web Became Unreadable” with the lede obscured by a Medium login modal
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2025-05-17

Thanks for nothing.

Cartoon drawing shows an elderly woman at a train station ticket office window being told, “Okay, one more time: Go home and log on to our website from your computer, create an account and purchase your ticket with your credit or debit card, download the ticket to a smartphone, then come back at the allocated time... Just what part of ‘easier and more convenient’ don't you get?”
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
2025-05-17

Nero Burning ROM will always stay in my heart as the best product name ever. This is not open for discussion.

1/3

Nero 5 Burning ROM start screen on Windows 95.
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2025-05-17

If you aren’t using AI, you run a very real risk of falling behind in the race to produce voluminous mediocrity while slowly forgetting how to do your own job.

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Steve Atkinslluad@mastodon.ie
2025-05-13

“Don’t write your own cryptography code” does _not_ mean “Let an LLM write your cryptography code”.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-05-12

I.D.I.C. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.

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Space Catitude 🚀TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-05-10

Literally could not get tickets to my son's commencement without installing a smartphone app. That is really a gross privacy violation.

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BeyondMachines :verified:beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange
2025-05-09

This meeting could have been a podcast 🎧 .

My conspiracy theory is that some people at work are
addicted to setting up meetings because no one listens to them at home, and they don't know how to start a podcast.
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Image of a hand-drawn pie chart titled "Where is the Thing?"
One half is labelled "Carelessly set down (I forget where)" and the other half is labelled "Deliberately put in special place (I forget where)".
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Wonder of Sciencewonderofscience
2025-05-07

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

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2025-05-05

Solar panels cleaning solar panels

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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
2025-05-04

Sorry, I forgot my ID Badger today 🦡

An sign in an office "SECURITY NOTICE. All Employees Must Wear ID Badgers When Entering"
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captain acab :antifa:redsad@ohai.social
2025-05-04
Left: Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze. Right: Batman. Caption: He was trying to cool the planet and she was regrowing the forests. And they wanted us to root for... the trust fund billionaire. 
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2025-05-04

This is a homerun of a joke

Back of a Honda odyssey with a bumper sticker that says “My other car is an Iliad”
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2025-04-30

Wir sind die #Werbewende.

#Hamburg #Werbefrei - unterschreib bis zum 13. Mai für eine bessere #Stadt.

#Regulierung #Außenwerbung #Spam #Adblocker #Stadtgestaltung

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skyeskyeskyeskyeskyeskyeskyeskyeskyeskyeskyeskyeskye@void.rehab
2025-04-29
a venn diagram of "Me" and "Electron". the intersection says "start behaving differently when observed"
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2025-04-29

Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

ODF logo and map of Europe with Germany highlighted
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BeyondMachines :verified:beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange
2025-04-29

some people deserve Extra-Hell

The hell cartoon
the devil at the gates of hell looking at the clipboard: Huh, your name's not on our list
person: Of course not. Because I don't belong here. 

person: I invented blocking of CTRL-V into web form password fields.

The devil puts down the clipboard and and takes the person to the gates of Extra-Hell
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦bert_hubert@fosstodon.org
2025-04-29

In 15 minutes Europe will hopefully launch its next climate satellite. The launch can however only be watched via YouTube since we apparently can’t do that ourselves and have to put our government info next to the antivax promo. esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web

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2025-04-27

the day i learned what FTDI is (it was yesterday)

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