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Erik Moeller

@eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

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Personal: lib.reviews and other projects under the permacommons.org umbrella. Professional: Programs @ Sovereign Tech Agency, Berlin. Previously […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.coop/@eloquence, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

"Ignoring the slop" cannot be done and it doesn't help. These reports created with the help of AIs point out actual problems, and sometimes vulnerabilities. Ignoring real vulnerabilities because they were found by AI does not make users safe and secure. It makes them vulnerable. We don't want […]

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Universität Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Mastodon für alle Studierenden: Die Uni Innsbruck eröffnet eine zweite Instanz für alle Studentinnen und Studenten. Nach den Mitarbeiter:innen haben damit nun alle Uniangehörigen Zugang zum Fediverse über lokale Instanzen, angebunden an das Uni-Anmeldesystem via Single-Sign-On. 🙌 […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@hfalcke Reverse-chronological is a good default because it is legible, but users should have choices, and the platforms should be built to make those choices maximally legible as well.

Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@judithbeyer.bsky.social You probably saw proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/100… , right?

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Ah yes, and here we see once again how the interconnectedness of global markets makes the world safer and more peaceful *checks notes* er, I am sure it is just a matter of the markets not being free enough yet […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@dalias Yes, we have funded lots of security audits and fuzzing. You can find many of the past audits that were done in partnership with OSTIF here: ostif.org/category/security/soverei…

Sovereign Tech Agency and OSTIF Security Audit Report

Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Hi folks, if you are maintaining a widely used #OpenSource infrastructure project (think networking, encryption, testing/QA automation, desktop libraries, payment libraries ...) now is a good time to ask for a security audit or other support through the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. The […]

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@everton137 I think we need many such venues that broaden the conversation beyond the folks who are already on the open social web, absolutely. There are so many civil society success stories that could be shared in such a context.

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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 · 02/10/2026

Wormtongue as a Service. techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/musks-ai-…

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.

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"

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

@kleb I have mixed feelings about it. Honestly, I do not need a watermark to recognize slop at this point, and I think most people don't -- but probably the people who will be accused of LLM-ing are actually the ones who at least made some effort to change the output, who used it for smaller […]

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

@kleb The watermark does not work by adding extra wording, hidden characters, or additional tokens. It changes how Claude samples next tokens that were already likely to be picked. The claim is that this should not degrade quality because generation is stochastic anyway: SynthID can encode a […]

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

@kleb What's the concern re: Claude watermarking - false/overstated labeling, output quality, something else?

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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]

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

Huge shoutout to @krakenbuerger, our founding Technical Director, for establishing the structures, principles and methodology that make this work possible -- and for translating them into meaningful practice in the organization's first years.

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

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

Made extra annoying by the fact that some developer or PM thought it would be really cool to incrementally reveal the phrase _character by character_ on the loading screen. "Am I going to get a bad phrase this time? Let's wait to find out!"

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.

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

@benjamineskola Glad my typing into the void helped at least one person :P

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.

Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Today I got to watch a spinner for 15 seconds because optimizing how long it takes to copy a large page clearly did not make it to the top of the backlog.

Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Notion is just so weird and broken. Basic things like linking from page to page behave differently depending on what specific clickpaths you take. And of course their product people prioritize AI features in the UI wherever possible, whether or not they are relevant. It tries so hard to be […]

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

RE: solarbird.net/blog/2026/06/20/not-e… @peter Likely satire and not something he actually said, see social.coop/@solarbird@solarbird.ne…

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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

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..