Tootfinder

Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.

Some images from earlier this year, edited with #ThingUmbrella tools)...

Ubisoft says Tencent's €1.16B investment in Vantage Studios, set to reduce its debt, is complete, giving Tencent a 26% stake in Vantage and valuing it at €3.8B (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

For those of you in Europe that just had #DST end, I hope you remembered to update your clocks and watches. My watch already updated itself correctly, as you can see. 😉
#ClockChange #TimeChange

Writing unit tests for my random number generation library continues to be difficult. My tests are failing because the bias in the distribution exceeds my expectations, but I'm wondering whether I should just repeat the test more times and permit it to exceed expectations some of the time (as long as it does it symmetrically/rarely/etc. My gut tells me that second-order expectations aren't any better than first-order expectations, but another part of me disagrees.
Thinking more as I write this (writing is thinking): second-order tests can at least give me better info to work with towards fixing things I think! So maybe I'll invest in them.
#coding

Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough (Lisa Fazio/The Tennessean)
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/10/24/nashville-vanderbilt-trump-compact-academic-excellence/86859777007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p41#a251024p41

Besides the obvious objections, I find it deeply ironic that Claude Code would send me an email thanking me for my efforts towards simplicity in software.

Übermorgen bei unseren Nachbarn:
#UniGöttingen

@… ah, yeah — I am mostly thinking about security footprint here. If a token is compromised, this might help prevent malicious code (because it would need that code to exist in the repo too)

I do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)
https://mastodon.mallegolhanse…