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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The best-selling music act from each English county

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Wizards of the Coast has really been dropping the ball on a whole new segment of D&D players: Retirement Communities. You got millions of people all hanging out in the same place all the time with nothing to do. Get them into TTRPGs. Make large print versions of key books, oversized high […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

And it happened again: Something interesting/cool I want to share with folks uses AI-generated images 🫩 This time only as cover image for a blog post; and I shared anyway, because the content seemed fine to me after a quick skim. But yeah, doing this diminishes the whole thing. It makes me […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026

The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to […]

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Last week we got a leaflet in our mailbox warning for the End Times. It was a full basket of cherry-picked quotes with typography that hurt my eyes. But the most interesting "fact"* was that Jesus was baptised in 27 BC. * Yes, I understand that was a typo

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[incredibly depressing, satellites] As you look up and admire the beautiful moon over the next few nights, remember that a US-based company has clearance from the FCC to launch a satellite that will be about 4x brighter than the full moon, and moving across the sky at Starlink speeds. And they […]

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kralcttam ☕️ @kralcttam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day! Today marks 43 years since Petrov decided to wait for confirmation before escalating a missile alert up the chain of command in the Soviet Air Defense, preventing nuclear war. A hero for not trusting automated systems fully […]

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: eupolicy.social/@mattis/11732465000… It does not work on my machine.

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@lavaeolus thanks, that's very helpful! I found that the Zotero Translator working with "Embedded Metadata" looks very brittle and does not use type indicators that I expected it to, like Schema.org in JSON-LD. I'll have a better look in the morning 🙌

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

While I would like to figure out how I can fix #Zotero to make it recognise our work blog posts as "blogPost", I just noticed that the Android app can also reflow PDFs like the desktop app. I can read a report on my phone without zooming and panning 🤯🤩🙌

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Over the past 3 years we have gone through a metric shitload of second hand baby and toddler clothes. One thing that still amazes me is how many people clearly use very strongly scented detergent to wash them. I’ve just done a load of laundry with hand-me-downs. We do not use scented soap. And […]

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Woah, those iLands bots are targeting the #code4lib email list now. The message was quarantined as spam by my institution's Everything Provider, which looked like a mistake from the email subject.

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I wonder what happened that I see an increase in spam requests asking me (or rather my "professor" alter ego) for article submissions. I feel lucky that "increase" means going from near 0 to 5 this week and all were classified as spam already, but still.

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

hi if you want to pay a software archaeologist to find, fork, and maintain the last pre-slop version of your dependencies we would love to work for money

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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 21/09/2026

“Geen bezorgdheid over VD”

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George Macgregor @g3om4c.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Publication titles that do not support -- or have never supported -- protocols like RSS or Atom: What's that about?! #RSS #Atom #OpenAccess #scholcomm #syndication #publishing

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Zak toch in de stront met je 289 externe partners aan wie je mijn data verkoopt. Met je stinkende "legitiem belang". Bah.

Wij en onze 289 externe leveranciers gebruiken technologieën (bijv. cookies) om informatie op de apparaten van gebruikers op te slaan en/of te openen om persoonlijke gegevens zoals IP-adressen of browsegegevens te verwerken. U kunt toestemming geven voor de verwerking van uw persoonlijke gegevens voor de onderstaande doeleinden. U kunt ook uw voorkeuren instellen voordat u toestemming geeft of weigert toestemming te geven. Houd er rekening mee dat sommige leveranciers uw persoonlijke gegevens kunnen verwerken op basis van hun legitieme zakelijke belangen en niet om uw toestemming vragen. Bekijk onze leverancierslijst om uw recht om bezwaar te maken tegen verwerking op basis van legitiem belang uit te oefenen.

Lijst met schuifjes van bedrijven als 'AcuityAds Inc'

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Nog een paar dagen en dan is ook de laatste #Zomergasten niet meer (zo makkelijk) te zien. Ik ben blij dat ik de kans heb gehad en genomen om te kijken (en niet alleen de podcast te luisteren). Dank, #vpro 🥹

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Urgs, those darned so called 'AI agents' from iLands scrape fedi for questions re commissions I just got an unsolicited email from one replying to something only written on fedi 🤢 Context: tedium.co/2026/09/11/ilands-agents-…

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The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

iLands, a new AI agent-centric startup, is spamming creatives like me numerous times a day. What do its agents want? My job. Why? They need to buy more tokens.

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Today I had yet another case of sparked joy: I commissioned an artist to create something from a quite silly/fun prompt a couple of weeks ago, and just received the result: It's better than I could have imagined! 🤩 People, commission artists (if you can afford it) - it really really pays off.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Just upped my monthly contribution to my local Mastodon instance. Please support your local instance if you have the means. Decentralization is what keeps the fediverse free and weird.

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Ik heb een paar verjaardagen achter elkaar geld gekregen om een horloge te kopen. Ik had een Tissot, die in een zending van de juwelier was gestolen toen ie een nieuwe batterij moest. (Daarvoor kreeg ik geld terug.) Als reserve had ik een Swatch, die stuk ging toen ie een keer viel – niet te […]

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

"Workplace software management" has always been opaque to me. Since a week or two Microsoft software is seemingly no longer installed in the background; I now get Microsoft AutoUpdate popping up. I do still get [MPOW's app-store] Self Service notifications saying that "[App] requires an update […]

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Meten en rekenen met wiskunde van de middelbare school om planken te kunnen ophangen in de berging. Ook de maten en formules even in een spreadsheet ingevuld en ik heb me nog nooit zo een ingenieur gevoeld als nu 🎓️

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

#PSA adding `185.218.207.228 autistici.org www.autistici.org irc.autistici.org noblogs.org` to your `/etc/host` circumvents the current DNS issue #AutisticiInventati

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

In Amerika is het gebruikelijk om wetten hele politieke namen te geven, want wie wil er nou tegen een wet stemmen Voor Betere Gezondheidszorg. En dat komt nu ook hierheen. De nieuwe Wet op de Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten heet: "Wet bescherming Nationale Veiligheid door de Inlichtingen- […]

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Felix Dreissig @f30.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

CVE-2026-18963: #Keycloak arbitrary account takeover via session confusion using simple HTTP requests. 😱 Nice find and (allegedly) not even AI-powered at its core. A working exploit is publicly available. Given Keycloak's widespread use in critical auth systems, this appears to be flying a bit […]

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

As always: "This is a great time for our Instructors to experiment with how they teach our lessons and to report back on what worked and what did not." I maintain a @thecarpentries lesson on #OpenRefine (with @marijane) and have ideas for improvement, but I really feel there are more people […]

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I was impressed with this researcher, but then: "The full code and data for replicating our analysis will be made available from the following Github repository upon the publication of the paper: anonymized url" is the literal text in this paper. 😠

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Hey #code4lib, we've upgraded to v4.7.0 – in case you noticed any hickups.

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

@jonny what if the AI has transformed the museum to warn us? 😱

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

[cold-take re AI-images in workshops/presentations] grrrr - having AI-generated images in your slides really diminishes your point 🙄 Please, please, please just use CC-licensed stock-images instead

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@platypus thanks for publishing the Oral history of LIAS interviews as a podcast!

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Als je een e-mail krijgt met als onderwerp "vraagje", dan is het logisch dat je antwoordt met "antwoordje" als onderwerp, toch?

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George Macgregor @g3om4c.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Flagged to me on LinkedIn and sharing here because of its absurdity. I have encountered an example like it. Is this in the spirit of 'data availability'?! www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-… Here is the original post […] [Original post on code4lib.social]

Data availability statement from an academic paper: "Access to deidentified participant data may be available to researchers who provide a statistically coherent proposal to the corresponding author, beginning 9 months after publication, for 36 months. By ‘statistically coherent’, we mean that the data requested might reasonably be expected to answer the question asked (either alone or in aggregate with other datasets) with a reasonable chance of statistical precision."

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Challenge for Wikipedians who *really* think an article about a non white male person is promotional spam: First go find 10 articles about white men that are promotional spam and nominate them for deletion and successfully argue their deletion before you even think again about nominating the […]

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bookandswordblog @bookandswordblog.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Does anyone have experience referencing a Google Sheet from LibreOffice Calc on Linux? Sheet > External Links the URL of the Google Sheet is frozen for me. #libreOffice #boostsAppreciated

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Do good things and talk about them. And if good things are done to you, for you, around you, also talk about then. Because knowing may inspire others. Because folks feel lonely and caught in endless doom. Because we sometimes need a push to do something: it's easier if we know there is someone […]

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herbert @hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

RE: cloudisland.nz/@paulh/1170391654207… Here’s hoping journalists in the US are doing the same 👇

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Ik vond een boek "Grip op e-mailbeveiliging" van Joram Teusink in de bieb, dat leek in te gaan op heel veel aspecten van, eh, e-mailbeveiliging — ook dingen waar ik minder van weet. Daarom durf ik niet te zeggen dat alles fout is, maar ik denk dat ik het kan afraden. Het noemt zichzelf "hét […]

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

@christof something weird happened to the text... In some places it's illegible while in other parts it's very legible. "Image enhancement"?

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Hebben anderen dit ook? Ik luister nu Fugees, want in ons tuintje groeit de basilicum goed. Meer basilicum dan we direct zouden eten, dus ik denk aan pesto. Daar heb je ook knoflook voor nodig, die mijn schoonmoeder (alias "oma") in de tuin heeft. Oma en mama = een merk "Omamama" -> Fugees' […]

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