iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 05/01/2026

The New Rust Office Suite: @typst.app for documents @ironcalc.com for spreadsheets @typst.app (again) for slideshows (who uses anything other than those three anyway)

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Zen @zen-browser.app · 16/12/2025

We noticed a rising interest regarding the use of AI in browsers. To be clear about our position on this: Zen currently is disabling all AI features included in Firefox and will continue to do so.

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Proton @proton.me · 11/08/2025

Instagram’s “Friend Map” sounds like a fun way for friends to share their location. Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops. Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵 1/5

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Ente @ente.io · 31/07/2025

AI age checks are expanding across Google, likely analyzing your photos. Ente protects your memories without profiling you

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

Guardian headline saying, "‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline"

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Tuta @tuta.com · 23/04/2025

🚨 EU citizens - Meta will start using your data for AI 🚨 Say NO and object! Here's how 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-... #MetaAI #EU #AI

Screenshot from the Meta page where you can object to your data being used for AI

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 18/04/2025

Why do I love #podcast way more than YouTube videos? Because it is decentralized and an open standard. You dont like this Podcast app? Well, just use another one. You dont want to be censored? Just host it yourself with RSS. Life can be soo good without BigCorp....

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 01/04/2025

alrighty #spotify, your podcast sucks more and more (now with additional ads, even for premium), back to my love @pocketcasts.com

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Wenn wir schon über kritische Infrastruktur & Abhängigkeit von den USA sprechen: Warum nicht in Projekte investieren, die die digitale Souveränität stärken. Es braucht kein EU-Meta sondern Freie Software & offene Standards. Das allein schafft Synergien und hilft nachhaltig gegen technischen Lock-In.

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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 17/02/2025

TIL—There's a calculator on the cmd-line with `bc`. And you can calculate your text in Neovim by selecting the calculation and sending it to be with `!bc`. Booom, your calculation is now replaced with the result. Thanks, prime!

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Developer Productivity, v2 with ThePrimeagen | Preview

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 15/02/2025

I used the last days to revamp and re-discovery my bash scripts and I decided to share some of them. Do you have scripts which improve your workflow in the terminal?

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CLI Magic #1: Useful Bash Scripts

Some small bash scripts I use on a regular basis

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 09/02/2025

wow @zed.dev is damn fast and good. Love that the configuration is so nice and easy

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Brodie Robertson @brodierobertson.xyz · 08/02/2025

ARCH #Linux USERS You are now safe to update your system, a new patched kernel just came out and the FUSE regression has now been resolved.

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 25/01/2025

I love the decentralization of git. With only one surviving version of the repository (if no shallow clone) you can restore the whole history of the repository. Feels so extremely secure and robust.

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Techlore @techlore.tech · 23/01/2025

It's never too late to start valuing privacy & security, we all started at step 1.

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Obsidian @obsidian.md · 21/01/2025

2024 Obsidian Gems of the Year results are in! Explore the 33 winning projects across seven categories: – Best new plugins – Best new themes – Best existing plugins – Best tools – Best content – Best templates – Best integrations obsidian.md/blog/2024-go...

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2024 Gems of the year winners

Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our fifth annual Gems of the Year awards! After our panel narrowed down the selection and the community voted on...

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 06/01/2025

finished my first book this year #booksky

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 01/01/2025

"new year" is when you do an empty commit to the blog, so the year in footer updates

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 27/12/2024

just installed ghostty (already in the arch extra repository), looks and feels very snappy and fast. the kitty image protocol is a killer feature (forced me to use kitty until now) 👻

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David Flanagan @rawkode.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

I've been a Linux nerd for over 20 years. Still, TIL 🤯

Screenshot revealing that |& is shorthand for 2>&1

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Orhun Parmaksız @orhun.dev · 17/12/2024

Curious where your open-source project stands among others? 👀 🗺️ Explore the Map of GitHub: anvaka.github.io/map-of-github 🌐 With over 400k projects, each dot represents a project. Dots are closer if they share stargazers. ⭐ Source: github.com/anvaka/map-o... #github #map #opensource

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 10/12/2024

alright, migrated to @cloudflare.social without any problems, very nice. Now my blog should load even faster ⚡

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 08/12/2024

that was an hour work, just to get the SSL-certificate working again.. damn it I am for sure no web dev

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kepano @stephango.com · 03/12/2024

Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. Full essay: stephango.com/self-guarantee

Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. You can verify a self-guaranteeing promise yourself.

File over app is a self-guaranteeing promise. If files are in your control, in an open format, you can use those files in another app at any time. Not an export. The exact same files. It’s good practice to test this with any self-proclaimed file-over-app app you use.

Terms and policies are not self-guaranteeing. A company may promise the privacy of your data, but those policies can change at any time. Changes can retroactively affect data you have spent years putting into the tool. Examples: Google, Zoom, Dropbox, Tumblr, Slack, Adobe, Figma.

A self-guaranteeing promise about privacy gives you proof that the tool cannot access your data in the first place.

Encoding values into a governance structure is not self-guaranteeing. Given enough motivation, the corporate structure can be reversed. The structure is not in your hands. Example: OpenAI.

Open source alone is not self-guaranteeing. Even open source apps can rely on data that is stuck in databases or in proprietary formats that are difficult to switch away from. Open source is not a reliable safeguard against the biases of venture capital. Examples: Omnivore, Skiff.

When you choose to use a tool, the future of that tool is always ambiguous. On a long enough timeline the substrate changes. Your needs change, the underlying operating system changes, the company goes out of business or gets acquired, better options come along.

It is possible to accept the ambiguousness of a tool’s future if you choose tools that make self-guaranteeing promises.

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Тsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Every time I'm having a hard time to motivate myself to work on things I just grab my laptop and move to a different room. It kinda resets my brain 'cause the environment has changed. I heard people recommend to rearrange your furniture from time to time for the same reason.

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Тsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Magic The Gathering is boring. I prefer Science The Scattering

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 26/11/2024

I think @zed.dev has become my favorite markdown editor. So simple and clean 😍 focus is intense, like never before

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kepano @stephango.com · 26/11/2024

File over app · 2023 stephango.com/file-over-app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

The ancient temples of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems and other tools.

Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:

"If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s."

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 25/11/2024

@openvibe.social wow this cross-mention feature is awesome

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 24/11/2024

Hi Fi Exhibition, hopefully my credit card does not work today....

Hi Fi Exhibition, lots of monitors with brands

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 20/11/2024

Any tips before releasing my first package to the #AUR? Kinda nervous... #ArchLinux

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 19/11/2024

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 17/11/2024

“The state of most social platforms right now is that users are locked in and developers are locked out. We want to build something that makes sure users have the freedom to move and developers have the freedom to build.” — @jay.bsky.team in @nytimes.com gift link:

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How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth

The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 17/11/2024

True for every developer/creative (and many many more)

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 17/11/2024

Nothing better than watching a Coding Stream on Twitch while writing a boring paper

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songkeys @song.work · 08/11/2024

Wait... that's actually true!

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 16/11/2024

How little code can improve your @neovim.io usage by a lot. Thanks github.com/max397574/be...

https://github.com/max397574/better-escape.nvim

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 16/11/2024

wow, using your own domain as a handle is very easy, thanks @bsky.app for your great blog post on this

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 15/11/2024

Curious when all the "Crypto Bros" will appear...

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 15/11/2024

wow @openvibe.bsky.social solves all my criss-cross mastodon/bluesky problems 😀

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 15/11/2024

a few weeks ago, I wrote a small little post about #LaTeX, maybe you like it ✍️

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Continuous Build in LaTeX

Run LaTeX more like a WYSIWYG editor

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bitSheriff @bitsheriff.dev · 15/11/2024

soooo what's going on here? Left Twitter long ago so ready for new people who didn't fled to Mastodon

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