@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyTrying to teach myself to use https://openstreetmap.org instead of the oligarchs' Google Maps. It's pretty good!
Here's the bike route from our Common Futures office to the offices of the Province of Utrecht, for instance. The direction engine GraphHopper does know the cyclists' shortcut.
@aardrian@toot.cafeI’ve seen a few references to Google’s “Modern Web Guidance” over the last few days, and now seems like a good time to remind you not to rely on it:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/05/maybe-dont-rely-on-googles-modern-web-guidance.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIPO filing: Anthropic's seven co-founders will initially have 50.1% of the total voting power through a new "Founder LLC" aimed at serving the common good (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona
@padraig@mastodon.ieIt appears that https://mastodon.online has the new UI that was shared a couple of months ago https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOne of the most common fallacies is to assume that alternatives must cleanly bisect into "good" and "bad".
Often there's multiple good choices or multiple bad choices or anything in-between including neither.
@teledyn@mstdn.caRE: https://cosocial.ca/@deborahh/117057033566516280
I've seen this before, it's rife through rural renters. Partly explained by the hastily build and shabbily maintained over decades, pawned off on new buyers as they crumble, and they face sometimes a century of unmet building codes, which is not a surprise, but the question I ask is always shut down: why are there no grants or interest-free loans for what amounts to urban renewal, i.e. a Common Good?
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThis is a very good piece. It's also gotten me thinking about something: the rise of gambling (sorry, "event contracts") in the US coincides with AI use; at the same time, but I also wonder if there's causality either way, a common cause, etc.
https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/slot-machine-programming-and-the
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsYeah, so about software developers today.
I recall that back in middle school there was a time that our Polish teacher got angry that the students aren't reading the books they were required to read and started asking every single pupil to summarize what the book was about. She went according to how we sat, and spared no one, grading every answer.
Needless to say, I haven't seen the book or even a summary of it (at the time, it was common for students to buy summary books). However, I sat somewhere near the middle of the class, so before my turn came, at least a few other people answered something, for better or worse. I've listened to their answers, combined them into a coherent story and got a good grade as a result. I think the teacher may have even suggested that unlike my other classmates, I actually read the book.
All I did was mix the previous answers to produce something coherent. And that didn't make me consider myself to be knowledgeable about the book. So why are you calling yourself software developers, again?
#NoAI
@hynek@mastodon.socialGod everyone told me I’m too late to go to Albania, but it’s still SO much fun and unspoiled.
Today while walking the Berati castle I walked off main routes and got intercepted by a grandma who dragged me into her beautiful house and force-fed me cake and coffee.
Everyone is non-intrusively friendly, I’m yet to be tourist-ripped off, young people speak scarily good English, and the food is a best-of of everything common on the Balkans. Including great wine.
