2025-11-30 15:54:25
I love this high quality screen but I miss the extra width from my old one. Was thinking of a second monitor but no one makes > 200 ppi small screens (21" or smaller) except as portable monitors.
Caught a bug over the holidays so I’m mostly resting, feeling sorry for myself, and taking the time to at least carry out some mindless housekeeping tasks (updating dependencies, etc.) on some of my Node modules.
Released updates to the following packages yesterday:
Tape-based Node.js testing:
• Tap monkey (https://
high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://
Big Tech ist Europas Lobby-Champion: Mit 151 Mio. € hat die Branche 2025 alle Rekorde gebrochen. Fünf der sechs größten EU-Lobbyakteure kommen aus dem Silicon Valley. 720 Parlamentarier stehen 890 Digital-Lobbyisten gegenüber. Microsoft, Meta & Co üben Druck wegen der Digitalgesetze DSA, DMA und AI Act aus. Knickt von der Leyen ein? #netzpolitik
Geen persoonsgegevens voor Big Tech-lobbyisten! | WeMove Europe
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11-dpc-ireland-petition-NL/?referring_akid=16801.1140952.VhuFml&source=mailto
> Een voormalig lobbyi…
096 Кіборги всіх країн...
Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy?
PS. Здавалося б, величезна жінка з механічною рукою, чого мені ще треба? Але що мені як автору не подобається в цьому моменті — це те, як легко на Кім падають вайфу. Лише пару-трійку сторінок Азазель кидав/кидала Кім по всій кімнаті.
Пейсінг в сраці.
PPS. Бажаю всім безпечних свят і щоб всі, хто намагаються вас вбити, лососнули тунця.
Euch allen viel Spaß auf dem #39c3!
General Motors verbannt Apple CarPlay aus allen Modellen und verärgert damit 79 Prozent seiner Kunden – und China? Die liefern längst fahrende Rechenzentren, die digitale Dienste und Datensammeln quasi serienmäßig beherrschen. Die FAZ zeigt: Der Kampf ums Armaturenbrett ist längst ein globaler Showdown mit hochkarätigen Tech-Playern und einer chinesischen Bedrohung, die westliche Hersteller wachrüttelt.
@FAZPro (€)
Lol - John Carpenter's 1988 They Live.
Starring famed 80s wrestler Roddy Piper - who coined "I'm here to kick ass and chew gum and Im all outa gum!" - who discovers a pair of special sunglasses that show the world as it really is: we are subliminally controlled by aliens using global warming to make Earth's atmosphere similar to their homeworld, depleting its resources
`DISRUPT! SHIFT PARADIGMS! MOVE FAST BREAK THINGS!`
high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://
This marketing image for a garage door keypad's tech support is perfect in its soulless vapidity. Yes, it lacks any sort of subtlety in the ludicrously homogenous selection of people. 😠
However, my initial gut reaction was a fascination w/ reconciling the man on the left's impressive promontory of hair & his headset.
Does he have a single thin indentation in his hair plateau after a long day's work? The equivalent of a hat head, but thinner? Is there a horizontal…
Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
TARRANT: Yes, they're clear all right. Aren't they, Avon. We've just risked our lives, for nothing.
SOOLIN: Not for nothing, Tarrant. We risked our lives to make Servalan rich.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/433 B7B5
Femmebot: The Podcast Powering Women In Tech
There are tech podcasts, and then there are human podcasts. At crybaby, we bridge the gap between the two...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/femmebot/
high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://
Woke up at 5am and got an idea to fix a 3D print that didn't quite fit. Started the printer and it might be done in time for when I have to leave the house. No, I'm not a addicted to tech nerdery #3Dprint #3Dprinting
Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000 attendees, yacht parties, and more (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-conference-neurips-ff6398df?st=CPQ9Zc
Prompted by the inability to locate a dongle I _knew_ I had, I embarked on a major purge / organization of my tech accessories. What's the point of having something if you can’t locate it when you need it?
I was ruthless.
All power adapters < 15W GONE - life’s too short
All non USB-C cables GONE (I have a few adapters USB-C to just about every legacy USB plug and Lightning pictured)
Waiting on a couple bins to finish up, but everything will be in a labeled bin s…
086 Особисто
Іноді я тішу себе думкою, що мене теж можна назвати "професійний інакодумець".
А потім прокинається синдром самозванця.
#comic #ТемнаНаука
Der #DeutschlandStack soll die Verwaltungs-IT modernisieren – doch Transparenz bleibt Fehlanzeige. Das @digitalministerium hält Konsultationen hinter verschlossenen Türen ab. Kritiker:innen warnen: Wenn Open Source nur draufsteht, aber nicht drin ist, profitieren am Ende wieder die großen Tech-Konzerne.
➡️
Kicking off EuroSky Live #EuroSkyLive
French government always talks about technological sovereignty…
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/12/15/us-tech-firm-palantir-extends-deal-with-french-intelligence-agency_6748523_7.html
„EU makes it even easier for Chinese EV companies to dominate the European car market“ There, fixed it for you.
EU Moves To Ease 2035 Ban On Internal Combustion Cars - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/003222/eu-moves-to-…
So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
I really like my Presonus speakers. They sound decent! But they take up a lot of space and have lots of wires. I'd love something in a soundbar form factor and am willing to take a small hit in driver size and stereo separation for it. But not a cheap plastic box.
Fascism has arrived in the US. Here's a video of a (liberal) lawyer just straight up saying the courts won't save you.
The system only speaks two languages now: money and violence. If you want a chance to avoid the second, now is the time to use the first. #MassBlackout is a #Boycott of the American corporations that support the dictatorship. By showing that people have the power to shut down the economy if elites don't listen, we can hit them where it actually hurts.
From now until December 2nd, do as many of these things as you can:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
This is one of the few times that boosting stuff on social media and doing nothing else actually *can* make a difference. Boost posts tagged with #WeAintBuyingIt, #MassBlackout, and #BlackOutTheSystem. Make sure everyone you know knows about it. Hold each other accountable to keep from spending. You may already not be spending because.... well,.. #Trump has already made everything too expensive. The thing is that elites can't actually tell the difference. Spreading word, making the protest seem as big and impactful as possible is all that's really needed to fracture elites and turn them against each other. Boost, write your own post, make these tags trend on every platform you can, then do nothing.
Don't buy things, don't work. Just stop. Refuse to participate in capitalism. This is the ultimate "fuck you, make me" because they absolutely can't make you. This is the ultimate reminder of where power actually comes from.
If you're outside the US, (continue to) boycott American products (if the tariffs haven't already taken care of that) until the regime falls. Cancel all American streaming services, and any other American tech you can. If you're stuck on American tech, spend some time to look for local alternatives.
It turns out the world is more interconnected than capitalists would like you to believe, and we all actually have the power to change things. It's time to prove it.
#USPol
🥳 New Node Pebble release (version 5.3.0)
Thanks to the lovely folks at Let’s Encrypt tagging a new release of Pebble last night¹ (version 2.9.0), there’s now a new version of Node Pebble that uses it :)
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/node-pebble
Enjoy! 💕
¹
The Chicago-Kent, Illinois Tech IP Program cordially invites you to: "What’s the Skinny? Drug Labels and Patent Infringement," Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12-1 pm.
The panel is open to the public but please RSVP in advance here: https://
Manchmal findet man die kreativsten Tech-Projekte an den ungewöhnlichsten Orten! 💡
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11078638
Taboola and Paramount Skydance launch a CTV product called Performance Multiplier, aiming to extend the reach of Paramount's small and medium-sized ad partners (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/taboola-launches-ctv-product-with-paramount…
high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://
#WritersCoffeeClub Nov
18. Do you include real-world quotations in your work?
19. What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
20. How did you find your writerly voice?
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18. I did once. Now my settings are mostly fictional so real-world quotes are immersion-breaking and rarely appropriate.
It's not so hard to reforge them.…
I want this "toy": Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
CALLY: Avon, repeat that. Message indistinct. Repeat that.
VILA: Communications blind spot. Or maybe he landed in the volcano.
CALLY: No, I think he's all right.
https://blake.to…
I guess we should probably add #Clankerslop and #FurryPorn to Cypher's list
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics
Just updated Node Pebble to support latest release version of Let’s Encrypt’s Pebble testing server.
#LetsEncrypt…
#aral_pulse hat den neuen extra Tarif eingeführt. Für nur 2,99 € im Monat gibt es ein HPC 0,54 € pro Kilowattstunde.
Für euch interessant?
After 18 years #edu tech and online #tutor service #Chegg, that started out simply renting #textbooks has now had to lay off nearly half its staff and bo…
So, I was typing in #LibreOffice Writer and wanted to use the French phrase tête-Š-tête. I don't have a French keyboard, so I typed "tete-a-tete" and thought I'd let spell check add the diacritics.
Instead I got the image shown. Maybe it's just me, but if the phrase "tech-a-tete" is in the default spell checker (and I promise I did not add it) surely the far…
#WritersCoffeeClub
18. Are there writing ‘traditions’ which ought to be preserved?
19. If you were to teach a writing course, what would be the most important lesson?
20. If you write instalments (issues, chapters, etc) what’s the average length of one instalment?
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18. I dunno. Are there?
19. Any writing "rule" can be broken. But extraordinary choic…
Sources: Kalshi told investors that its trading volume grew six times in the last six months and it is on an annualized pace for $600M to $700M in net revenue (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/las-vegas-kalshi-king
095 Вовк і кобра
Агов
#comic #ТемнаНаука #переклади
Zwei Visionen des Internets prallen aufeinander: Jimmy Wales verteidigt die kollektive Weisheit von Wikipedia gegen Musks Vorwürfe. 🌐
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11078253
high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://
Data And Drams
A series for tech folk distilling their best careers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Folks: Aral, you’re all about free and open technology, why won’t you speak at #FOSDEM?
Me: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115697202966701085
Also, I’m actually all about this:
#WritersCoffeeClub
19. How do you keep track of dates and events in a WIP?
20. What rôle does death (or undeath!) play in your work?
21. What is your take on the adverb debate?
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19. Any WIP that needs dates and events is probably already big enough to void memorization.
I went all the way from stickies to txt files to wikis to, eventually, Campfire. I love m…
Hands-on with Xreal's Project Aura prototype glasses: they feel like VR shrunken to a far smaller form, the 70° FoV is small but enough for immersion, and more (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/google
Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
SOOLIN: Why don't we wait in the Pursers Office?
TARRANT: What a good idea! [They enter the Pursers Office and check the monitor screen.] Any minute now.
[Entering the Space Princess hold.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/267 B7B4
090 Департамент Відволікання
So sparkle
Much distraction
(плакати на фоні — предмет моїх гордощів)
#comic #ТемнаНаука
🥳 JavaScript Database (JSDB) version 6.1.4 released:
• Adds TypeScript type definitions
Been meaning to do this for a while and finally got round to it :)
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#javascript-database-jsdb
Der Bundesrat fordert eine #Digitalabgabe: Tech-Giganten wie Google und Meta sollen endlich für die Medienvielfalt zahlen, die sie mit ihren Plattformen untergraben. „Faire Wettbewerbsbedingungen“ sind überfällig – lokale Medien kämpfen ums Überleben, während Konzerne Milliarden scheffeln. @…
high_tech_company: Krackhardt high tech company network
Multiplex network of 3 edge types representing relationships (advice, friendship, and “reports to”) between managers of a high-tech company. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 21 nodes and 312 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://
"You should have no expectations of privacy if you are running for public office."
#думкиВголос #Yarr
094 Порохова бочка
Нащо потрібні тисячі слів
#comic #ТемнаНаука #переклади
Yours truly speaking at Defuse Dublin (IxDA) last month, where I presented on Gaza Verified and Small Tech/Small Web.
All photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/irq95gn1ncUJtL4W7 (apologies for Google/Alphabet, Inc. link)
All talks:
„Endspiel gegen Europa“ nennt Albrecht von Lucke das, was sich zwischen Trump, Putin, Orbšn und der AfD abspielt – und er hat recht. Wer Demokratie will, muss sie jetzt verteidigen – gegen rechte Autokraten und gleichgültige Tech-Oligarchen. Keine Zeit mehr für Bequemlichkeit. #Demokratie #NoAfD
Gegen die Scham: https://shop.ladefuchs.app/shop/crazy-elon-aufkleber/
#WritersCoffeeClub
16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works?
17. What is the significance of a work's dedication?
18. Do you tend to incorporate supernatural elements in your work?
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16. Not much, for better or worse. I adapt to the setting, of f course, but beyond that my vocabulary is a part of my writing style.
17. Such dedication.…
„Microsoft war nie sympathisch – das ist jetzt sein Vorteil.“ (Clickomania) Während andere Tech-Giganten für Rückgratlosigkeit kritisiert werden, zuckt man bei Microsoft nur mit den Schultern. KI-PCs, Datenschutzrisiken, Trump-Lobbying – Hauptsache, die Börse jubelt. @… #Microsoft
Hoppla? Welcome back, #SWM!
085 частина 2
Розбив сторінку на дві, бо вона була дуже велика.
#comic #ТемнаНаука #переклади
ARD und ZDF vertrauen bei der Verbreitung digitaler Inhalte zunehmend auf die wenigen Big-Tech-Plattformen. Sie geben also Schritt für Schritt, Sendemast für Sendemast, die unabhängige Verbreitung auf - und begeben sich gleichzeitig in ein Ökosystem, dessen Regeln andere festlegen. "Wer die Infrastruktur beherrscht, beherrscht auch die Information und Meinung", schreibt Björn Staschen - epd medien #Medien
#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 30 — the day I skipped
30. Share some good things about how your work went this month!
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I am burnt out, but hey, no time like the Present Continuous.
I have approached the 100th page of translation for #DarkScience aka
Ursula von der Leyen vertraut lieber den Visionen der Tech-Bosse als der Wissenschaft: KI schon 2026 „auf Menschen-Niveau“. Die EU-Kommission nennt das Fortschritt – Forschende nennen es Marketing. Zeit, dem Hype die Substanz entgegenzusetzen.
#Europa #Desinformation
„Künstliche Int…
089 Чоловік-репортер
Герой, на якого ми... хто це взагалі такий?
#comic #ТемнаНаука #переклади
093 Кібербулінг
Ackshually, в роду у Кім були не лише корейці та американці, а й орки.
#comic #ТемнаНаука #переклади
Welcome to the Hotel California, aber mit Daten: Bei Big Tech einchecken? Kein Problem. Auschecken? Viel Glück. Europas Antwort: Digitale Souveränität – offene Standards, grüne Rechenzentren und der Euro-Stack. Damit wir selbst bestimmen, wann wir gehen. | @netzpolitik@chaos.social: Jenseits von Big Tech: #DigitaleSouveränität als Schlüssel für Nachhaltigkeit und Demokrati…
#WritersCoffeeClub
10. What have you recently learned which will have a big impact on your work?
11. How accessible is your work?
12. How can writers ensure the focus is on the work and not the writer? Or should they?
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10. That's a hard question.
I fear I've reached a plateau where nothing freshly learned can do that.
11. It consists of words.
Чесно вкрав.
#memes
088 (Котячі) Очі та вуха Нефілополя
"Це перша сторінка, яку я робила без Фотошопа. Переходжу на Clip Studio Paint — мені дуже подобається, як вийшло." — Сенна Діаз
#comic #ТемнаНаука
#WritersCoffeeClub
6. Do you make use of unconventional punctuation?
7. Talk about a character from another's work that's stuck with you.
8. How do you keep yourself motivated?
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6. Not much. I love my em dashes tho.
7. I dunno. At some point it was Motoko Kusanagi. Sylvanas Windrunner. Before Blizzard butchered her in WoW.
Oh, and April Ryan and …
084 Парк "Геєнна"
#comic #ТемнаНаука #переклади
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
3. Do genre conventions provide an essential framework, or stifle original storytelling?
4. What would you like to see explored in prompts for this hashtag game?
5. What’s a no-longer popular trend in writing you’d like to see make a comeback?
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3. Both. And neither. A convention is a tool. With enough experience you begin to see when breakin…
092 Фронт Визволення Меззодів
A challenger appears!
Імена учасників ФВМ взяті з Ars Goetia, середньовічного фанфіка по християнству (перша частина "Малого ключа Соломона"), за яким сторіччями ганялася церква. Срачі навколо КАНОНУ — явище набагато старіше, ніж хтось міг би подумати. Винятком є Наум (малий біблійський пророк, який напророчив падіння Ніневії) і, власне, сам Азазель.
#comic
Hot take: "AI in everything" belongs to the same trend as using radioactive materials, mercury and arsenic in skin care products instead of reactors, thermometers and chemistry.
Programmers with "mandatory workplace AI" are the new Radium girls.
#IT
Have you been filled with
d e t e r m i n a t i o n
recently?
How did you do that?
#photo #думкиВголос
If you know, you know.
#думкиВголос #політика
Поступова трансформація медичних діагнозів у лайку — на жаль, поширене явище. Цікаво, що "аутист" мігрує в іншому напрямку і може тепер стати компліментом.
Цікаво, як так сталося.
Цікаво, чи можливо відтворити цей процес.
...А спонсор цього поста — Уляна. Уляна: пиряй в блекаут з укулеле.
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The gradual transformation of medical diagnoses into slurs is, unfortunately, quite ubiquitous. With this in mind, a reverse migration of "autistic" is all…
#WritersCoffeeClub December 2025
1. From where did the inspiration for your current WIP come?
2. What do you dislike as reader and thus avoid in your own work?
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Postponing Nov30 as I'm answering while in transit.
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1. It didn't.
2. A number of things, hard to describe in the moment. It's a kneejerk. Two categories - a) bad taste, and b) not…