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• Post #4456406

  «if our institutions, news and elected officials continue to feed and water the oil company-conceived mega-falsehood that climate breakdown is something just “our great-grandkids need to worry about,” human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries.» https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization

• Post #4455818

  RE: https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@theplaguedoc/117059592475403090 Let this be the first igNobel prize awarded to a fediverse thread please! 🙏

• Post #4445252

  So tired of this…

• Post #4376320

  The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to bullshit that very crowd of people. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United/Claims_and_responses #wwu #wikipedia #wikimedia

• Post #4283504

  @osm_tech@en.osm.town happy sysadmin appreciation day, thanks for all the work and effort to make sure we all can map!

• Post #4082905

  In another edition of "are the LLM addicts okay?": Apparently some of them think "people who weren't allowed to use unlimited resources for vibe coding on a community-run, free platform" should be counted among the victims of Nazi Germany, or something? https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3x6sabry56u7xeyr3w3tn55f/post/3mrfqsminhk27

• Post #4053948

  «"I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider their stance," said Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask and one of the co-founders of AI agent biz Earendil.» Or in other words: It Is Difficult to Get a an "AI" Bro to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It 🤷 https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/23/codeberg-gives-vibe-coded-projects-the-toss-promotes-human-floss/5277717

• Post #4042818

  RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@codefloe/116963861098218609 "Don't like having a say in the governance of your digital infrastructure? Join us on our very own, company-controlled platform" - no notes , GitHub could write that same copy 😅

• Post #4032672

  It was a great pleasure to write up this post about the #Codeberg's recent votes with respect to LLMs and the impact that LLM have on #FLOSS more broadly, together with @Gusted@social.linux.pizza and @fnetX@social.anoxinon.de: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

• Post #4011098

  I co-proposed/wrote the #Codeberg vibe-coding ban and all I got was a lot of haters in my mentions. And a nearly 70% approval rate, with one of the highest voter turnouts the association had afaik (and one that's comparable to the last EU elections). 😎

• Post #3760464

  «According to a study, more than two-thirds of Germans believe that their ancestors were not Nazis. Nearly 36% believe that their relatives were among the victims, and over 30% believe that their ancestors helped victims of the Nazis — for example, by hiding Jews. But this can't possibly be true. Only about 1% of Germans actively resisted.» If folks wonder how the German 'remembrance culture is going 🙈 https://www.dw.com/en/how-do-germans-cope-with-having-nazi-grandparents/a-7788659...

• Post #3637038

  «Theoretical tools are now often software, whose complexity makes its behavior inscrutable to its users and puts them at risk of losing their tools to software collapse. Scientific instruments increasingly rely on built-in computers that create exactly the same issues. Finally, digital technology has enabled industrial-scale production of data, e.g. in DNA sequencing, and that technology is itself not convivial either.» Great reflections on conviviality by @khinsen@scholar.social https://blo...

• Post #3619956

  I'm obviously biased, but maybe give @CoMaps@floss.social a try for today's #DIDay: https://www.comaps.app/ A free & Open Source map app for Android, iOS & Linux that's based on #OpenStreetMap data and provides offline maps that work great for hiking, biking and driving.

• Post #3564584

  I've slightly adapted/expanded @liberty@mathstodon.xyz's LLM statement for my own website 🔨 https://tzovar.as/llms/

• Post #3540152

  Participated in a research interview this morning about how "AI" is destroying digital commons I co-run in various ways. Right afterwards read an email, by someone I used to think highly of, about how banning LLM usage in a FLOSS project was futile…

• Post #3517892

  If there's folks on the ground in Venezuela who want to help humanitarian mapping efforts by collecting street-level imagery: We've updated the allow-list of https://panoramax.libre.net.ar/ to include the region in permitted location for imagery. #Panoramax #OpenStreetMap #Venezuela

• Post #2534250

  RE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/116555851287909865 This is a feature many folks have been waiting for. Between this and the ability to self-host your maps, deploying CoMaps in places with limited connectivity is now even easier!

• Post #2511603

  RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@Gusted/116559319232384213 What @Gusted says here. And I'm very happy that we worked together on putting together some motions for the next Codeberg member Assembly to propose the org takes a clear anti-AI stance. ❤️

• Post #2511602

  Und wieder mal zeigt sich auch wie der globale Norden seinen Lebensstil auf Kosten des Südens erkauft: Chile erreicht landesspezifischen Erdüberlastungstag schon am 7. Mai | amerika21 https://amerika21.de/2026/05/285264/erdueberlastung-lateinamerika #umwelt #kapitalismus #lateinamerika

• Post #2511601

  With gitlab willfully self destructing under corporate greed and delusions of "AI", I got another example to include in my talk next month about not trusting #opensource / #openscience infrastructure in the absence of collective governance. https://tzovar.as/open-science-beyond-licenses/

• Post #2511600

  Spam/scams that start with 'I found your LinkedIn profile…' – jokes on you, I don't *have* a LinkedIn profile 😆

• Post #2511599

  «Según los organizadores, un millón y medio de personas se movilizó este martes en diversos lugares del país.» Masiva protesta en Argentina contra recorte a universidades https://www.dw.com/es/masiva-protesta-en-argentina-contra-recorte-a-universidades/a-77139351

• Post #2511598

  I hadn't used RStudio in a while – partially for not really using R and partially for disliking Posit – but had to use it a bit today. When trying to commit changes, I noticed that RStudio seems to have touched the `.Rbuildignore` and `.gitignore` without ever asking me. The things it added? `.claude` and `.positai`… Bad enough that they push that "AI"-garbage in the first place, but making every user look like they touch that shit? Despicable!

• Post #2511597

  «In the end, Disney didn’t hollow out adulthood. It just noticed it was gone and is building a better mousetrap — sorry, Mickey — to make more money. And the thing about kingdoms, even “Magic” ones, is that if you’re not a king, you’re more than likely a serf.» Disney Is Encouraging and Exploiting the Rise of “Kidults” https://jacobin.com/2026/05/disney-kidults-american-culture-profit

• Post #2505351

  These people deserve to be endlessly mocked: Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

• Post #2504655

  «What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write.» https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/

• Post #2367845

  «Whatever you’re building, you have NO margin to get away with being uglier/harder/more difficult than big tech» Some good points in this piece on "What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech" by @bert_hubert! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-the-open-world-must-do-better/

• Post #2331125

  «I have spent the last couple of weeks trying to work out how many of the open source packages we all depend on are in roughly that condition: resolving in every install, pulling millions of downloads a week, accepting new issues, with nobody behind the sunglasses. I’m asking now rather than a few years ago because AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is changing how often somebody actually checks for a pulse.» https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/08/weekend-at-bernies.html

• Post #2317356

  «Digital commons is a bigger call than digital autonomy. It’s a better call because digital commons gets you digital autonomy, but not always the other way around. Almost everything we do today is Digitally Uncommon.» Really great talk by @bert_hubert on where much of the tech is currently stuck and how commoning can be away out – if paired with the right focus on delivering quality! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/keynote-opening-digital-commons-edic-eu/ #commons

• Post #2302295

  «AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo, wearing a new mask. Tell the nephew to do something else. Anything. It won't save him either, but at least he won't have to pretend the thing destroying his life is a robot.» https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp