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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

What if next year's #FediDay became a Democratic Social Media Day? We need fewer conversations exclusively among Fediverse enthusiasts, and more conversations among people who care about democracy and are actively seeking alternatives to Big Tech social media. Let's bring together journalists […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

It is not too late to fix the regressive idiocy that was #Brexit. Even without a campaign, most Britons already know that the only parts that haven't been a tragedy have been a farce. As deeply imperfect as the EU still is, I would love to see a happy reunion […]

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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I’ve just brought back an old project I created in memory of Aaron Swartz: his Open Access Manifesto, available in 25 languages thanks to contributions from people around the world. openaccess.eza.link Feel free to send corrections or contribute missing languages. I wish Aaron were […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/117354… Very excited to be able to offer these new services (and to continue our existing ones) for open source infrastructure projects. Huge shout-out to @tarakiyee for all the prep work to make this happen.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The #Notion AI icon gives serious Clippy vibes, blinking and rolling its eyes while you work. It is substantially actually one of the better integrations I have seen, but I really do not get why we have to keep turning everything into Microsoft Bob. At least give me a doggo if you do that.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I like #Slack more than I do many other closed source work apps, but it has to have one of the worst menu hierarchies ever built. There are half a dozen poorly differentiated menu structures (app-wide pull down menu, workspace menu, button bar, profile menu, gear icon, various "+" and "new" […]

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Mr. Encyclopedia @eopoint.com · 14/09/2026

Every company right now for some reason

The famous 1979 IBM training slide but altered to read "A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer is the perfect shield for legal liability lol"

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Simone @simone-z.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The Secret of Monkey Island on Commodore 64? No release date yet, but an awesome work already emerges from these screenshots! It seems that all room graphics and room animations are done. Work in progress for characters animations and music. A project by […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

If you're in Berlin or willing and independently able to move & work there, we just opened an incredibly important role for prioritizing public investments in critical open source infrastructure -- and for making the case for these investments to reach the scale they truly need to. This is a […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Using a Mac in a work setting (for now) and am constantly baffled that anyone might still hold on to the belief that Apple products are particularly user-friendly. It's not just switching cost either. Basic things like the calendar and notifications integration are much cleaner in GNOME, and […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I am quite late to the wonderful Garfunkel and Oates catalog, which means I am also late to discovering their losers' anthem. Maybe you are, too. It's an old idea, of course, but beautifully conveyed (and very lovingly animated): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2qEUwFbGM

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I really wish #Jitsi would use a different diceware approach to generating its meeting URLs; I have to discard easily 30% of the meeting links it generates because it uses phrases like "PunchRuthlessly" which are really not the kind of thing you want in a meeting invite.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I want to read a (human-written) sci-fi story about a guy who was never meant to exist in the timeline, and therefore constantly finds himself exactly in the wrong place at the wrong time. Standing in the way at the supermarket exactly when a meet-cute was supposed to happen; being the one guy […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Pretty wild to be walking through the streets of Berlin after a heat wave with up to 41 degrees Celsius and see election campaign posters of the far right for "affordable energy instead of climate lunacy" ("bezahlbare Energie statt Klimawahn"). How far gone into the far right conspiracy brain […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

TIL that pressing [Shift] in #Thunderbird before clicking "Forward" preserves rich-text formatting of the original, even if my global setting is plain-text. A bit hidden, but very handy once you know about it.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

New Sovereign Tech Agency job opening just went live. If you live in Berlin or are able to independently relocate & work there, this is an opportunity to give #opensource maintainers access to deep human expertise: security audits, post-quantum encryption work, Cyber Resilience Act conformance […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Thank you Photobucket, after the million emails about my never-used account being deactivated, it is good to know that I still have ... nothing in it. Useful like a bucket with holes in it.

Screenshot of a Photobucket email with the text "Hi there! Your Photobucket account has 0 photos waiting."

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

As an Open Source person I am apparently expected to keep doing things for free so I get invited to participate in EU policy events in Brussels, with not even an attempt to offer me compensation for travel, lodging or time. So I decline.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I don't think I will get used to #Notion's weird UX. Block-level editors seem like a major UX regression to me, not a step forward, putting far more of the cognitive load for basic layout, selection and editing operations on the user.

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Martine (she/they) @fedi.miri64.xyz · 09/07/2026

I am happy to announce that I will be joining the first cohort of the Standards program by @sovtechfund! Excited to now have the funding to continue working with @ietf for at least one more year and looking forward to all the new things I will learn. 🤩

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Honored to be one of ten maintainers in the first @sovtechfund standards cohort. I'll be representing #ActivityPub and the #fediverse at the w3c, bringing eight years of running Pixelfed and Loops at scale into the room where the spec gets written […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

#RIP Gunther von Hagens, who turned dead bodies into edutainment. I have mixed feelings about the commercial aspect of his work, but on balance, I appreciate his lifelong dedication to demystifying the human body and death itself at this strange intersection of art, craft, and science. True to […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Had to redo a contract, but it was for a good clause.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

I really wish #Thunderbird had just a single well-designed search function instead of this confusing distinction between "quick filter" vs. "search box". I constantly use the (not very good) search box by accident, when what I really want is "quick filter", which generally gets me what I want. #ux

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Dear #UX designers and product managers, if you feel the need to shove pop-up overlays in people's faces to tell them about your new feature, your new feature is not integrated well enough to tell your users about. No, your cute clipart does not make it less disruptive. Just have a single […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Dear @nextcloud, your Talk icon looks way too much like a magnifying glass. I constantly land on Talk when I want to land on Search. #UX

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

It's fun to have cute domain names until you realize that the domain name oligopoly has been racketing up prices over the last few years and that cute name you paid $35 for now costs $90/year.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

## not everything horrible that is reported is true There is a story going around about Bezos at VivaTech in Paris, the first and last third of which are reasonable, the middle third of which has him saying that water for data centres is more important than “b/a/s/e/l/i/n/e h/u/m/a/n […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

this is definitely a 2 star hotel. I can tell because they don't do the toilet paper triangle thing

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

RE: chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/1167… Besides Dubya, W Social reminds me of Post News, which was similarly hyped by Very Important People, only to be quickly shut down for lack of users. If the EU wants to actually advance a positive vision of social media, open source […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

* If you are in Berlin or willing & independently able to move there, and * You have a program management (or reasonably comparable) background, and * You have deep, technically grounded understanding of open source and free culture ... I would really like to hear from you about this role on […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 01/06/2026

We've noted a significant part of Open Washing in the AI space is models with proprietary licences claiming they are Open Weights. This undermines the term "Open Weights" so our first step was to propose a category below that, and require that Open Weights […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Weights Available Al: The model and weights are available, however are not Open
Source, and are subject to usage restrictions.
Examples: llama3, deepseek

Open Weights Al: The model and weights under an Open Source licence with no limits on reuse.
Examples: Qwen, Mistral, Phi, (now Gemma too!)

Open Source Al:
The model and weights, as well as training code and training data or data information, all under an Open Source licence with no limits on reuse.
Pleias, Linagora AI, Eleuther AI, ProbablAI etc..

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Ulrich Kelber @ulrichkelber.bonn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Als eine Gruppe von Menschen aus #Bonn haben wir einen Bürger:innen-Antrag zur intensiveren Nutzung des #Fediverse durch die Stadt Bonn und ihre Beteiligungen gestellt, der jetzt ins Ratsinformations-System eingestellt wurde […] [Original post on bonn.social]

Screenshot aus dem Rats-Informations-System der Stadt Bonn. Zu sehen sind die Daten des Bürgerantrags 261174 „Bürgerantrag: Antrag zu stärkeren Nutzung demokratisch organisierter Fediverse-Plattformen in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Stadt“

Federführend ist das Bürgerbüro, beteiligt das Amt für Presse, Protokoll & Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Als Beratungsfolge ist der Ausschuss für Beteiligung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger aufgeführt

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Someone really needs to teach the German #Sparkasse about accessibility. The CVV numbers on their debit cards are printed in a ridiculously tiny, thin font. I am near-sighted and I still regularly struggle without pointing a light source directly at the card.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

if I come back as a ghost I will personally haunt every web designer who messes with the normal operation of the clipboard

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Not sure that there's a better illustration for the relationship between capitalism and the commons than searching for "Wikipedia" in the app store and being presented, above the Wikipedia app, with a paid knock-off app that seeks to monetize the volunteer labor that makes Wikipedia possible.

An Apple App Store search for "Wikipedia" features a paid knock off app more prominently than the official Wikipedia app.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

DeepSeek V4 just dropped - two models, Flash and Pro, both benchmarking well, decent pelicans and prices that put them both as the cheapest in their respective categories by a solid margin simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deeps…

Flash: Excellent bicycle - good frame shape, nice chain, even has a reflector on the front wheel. Pelican has a mean looking expression but has its wings on the handlebars and feet on the pedals. Pouch is a little sharp.

Pro: Another solid bicycle, albeit the spokes are a little jagged and the frame is compressed a bit. Pelican has gone a bit wrong - it has a VERY large body, only one wing, a weirdly hairy backside and generally loos like it was drown be a different artist from the bicycle.

Table comparing AI model pricing with columns Model, Input ($/M), Output ($/M): DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.14 $0.28; GPT-5.4 Nano $0.20 $1.25; Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $0.25 $1.50; Gemini 3 Flash Preview $0.50 $3; GPT-5.4 Mini $0.75 $4.50; Claude 4.5 Haiku $1 $5; DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.74 $3.48; Gemini 3.1 Pro $2 $12; GPT-5.4 $2.50 $15; Claude Sonnet 4 / 4.5 $3 $15; Claude Opus 4.5 $5 $25; GPT-5.5 $5 $30.

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉 This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post […]

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SecureDrop @securedrop.social.freedom.press.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

SecureDrop Inbox, the new window into the SecureDrop Workstation, has been rewritten from the ground up to replace the previous client application for existing journalist users. Improving upon the core functionality, it also includes bug fixes, speed improvements, and a range of new features […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Sarahp/11629759635… Really appreciate the contextual explanation of how handles work in the fediverse; when you have a complex design constraint that's fixed, you have to make an effort to help people understand it.

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

IMO the most likely cause of any kind of #AI bubble pop are Chinese models breaking through. And at least in the open inference markets, that appears to be happening already: "Since February, Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token […]

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 17/03/2026

As promised: I'm a staff-ish level software engineer, fairly deeply involved in the Python community (see @NorthBayPython which I organise, and @ThePSF where I'm a board Director). Things I like: understanding/taking apart/reassembling systems; open source; technology in service of humans […]

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Principia @principia.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

The Principia about page on the website has seen some improvements recently, so I would like to bring your attention to it. principia-web.se/about It features a description of the game and its journey as well as game screenshots and logo. It doubles as […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 17/03/2026

Fun funding fact: If we had 10 times more money to develop #deltachat , the #chatmail relay network and the #webxdc secure mini app ecosystem, we would still have ten times less than what signal has (let alone Whatsapp or telegram). But we don't want to increase nudging people for donations, as […]

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@qgis/116239960147368… Have an idea 💡 to improve QGIS 🗺️🛠️ ? Now’s the perfect time ⏳ to make it happen! QGIS grants 💰 are open again! See the announcement below 👇 #QGIS #FOSS4G #OpenSource #Geospatial #devcommunity

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

Ah, Amtrak. Sending me "your train is running a bit late" SMS 18 hours before departure, but alternating between "last call, board now!" and "actually cancelled, you'll be put on a bus" at the departure time.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 13/03/2026

arXiv is becoming an independent (nonprofit) company and they're looking for a CEO jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

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