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finxol @finxol.eu · 27/08/2026

how is a cooling failure in one datacenter causing a global outage of all Proton services? (actual question)

Screenshot of the Proton status page that states :
Global Outage
Identified - We have identified a critical cooling failure in our Frankfurt datacenter. We are currently in the process of shifting traffic to our backups sites.
Aug 27, 2026 - 00:38 CEST
Update - It appears that Proton VPN works for some, so it has been changed to "Partial Outage" rather than "Major Outage"
Aug 27, 2026 - 00:18 CEST
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Aug 27, 2026 - 00:14 CEST
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Aug 27, 2026 - 00:11 CEST
Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Aug 27, 2026 - 00:09 CEST

finxol @finxol.eu · 17/08/2026

uh github down again.. was wondering why my dokploy wasn't picking up the pr again, turns out it's just the latest github outage

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 27/07/2026

this is a survey that's really worth taking > So while there's still a human in the loop, let's leave aside libraries and frameworks and just check in: how are you doing, really?

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State of Devs 2026

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 11/07/2026

Besides the flood of AI spam, what's your biggest frustration with GitHub or working in OSS these days? Just dump them here like if I was your therapist.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 15/06/2026

am i…famous?? 🤡

Screenshot of Bluesky account page, reading "finxol @finxol.eu 300 followers." The text is centered and appears to be in a sans-serif font.

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Hidde @hidde.blog · 06/06/2026

Findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate: 🌿 80-90% is not in training models, but in day-to-day use. 🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse. 🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon. unu.edu/inweh/news/e...

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Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns

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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 05/06/2026

Just launched at Public Spaces in Amsterdam, The European Social Stack Open Declaration! A set of common principles agreed by complementary technology leaders 🫶 Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: european.social #EUSocialStack #Europe

A screenshot of text which reads: An open declaration, The European Social Stack. Open Social Platforms and Private Messaging. Sign the declaration.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 05/06/2026

first experience hooking up an llm with mcp running automatically on a webhook. www.openstatus.dev/blog/agent-w... will probably write some more about the experience and just ai in general later on my personal blog (should find the time next week, no promises)

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How we built an agent webhook for our status pages

A build log: wiring an AI agent to openstatus webhooks so it writes the status page report itself, and the things that bit me along the way.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 23/05/2026

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Gogo Penguin Nick Mulvey Tom Odell Matmatah Faada Freddy Franz Ferdinand Archive Mac&Wester Manu Katché Carlos Núñez

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finxol @finxol.eu · 22/05/2026

So… did they ever say what happened when a bunch of people “left” Deno a few weeks/months back??

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finxol @finxol.eu · 16/05/2026

Well it seems my first feature for @openstatus.dev is already useful! www.openstatus.dev/status/anthr...

Screenshot of the OpenStatus external services page. Below the navigation bar, there is a section titled "status" followed by a larger heading "Is Anthropic down?" which indicates that Anthropic is operational but experiencing minor issues. There is a "Minor Issue" label and a note that the status was last updated 5 minutes ago. Below this, there is a section titled "Anthropic uptime – last 45 days" with a horizontal bar graph showing uptime. Further down, there is a section titled "Anthropic recent incidents" listing three incidents with details such as start and resolution times, and severity levels labeled as "major" or "minor." The severity levels are color-coded with red for major and yellow for minor.

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Andri Óskarsson @andri.dk · 10/05/2026

This needs to stop. It’s trivial to encrypt things and if outlawed we’ll lose privacy while criminals can still do it reclaimthenet.org/france-moves...

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France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging

France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 04/05/2026

wtf is up with the ios screenshot tool?? i can’t crop screenshots, it only resizes them 😭

Photo of an iPhone screen, showing the screenshot tool compressing the image instead of cropping it

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finxol @finxol.eu · 04/05/2026

absolute internet magic if this actually ends up happening for real

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finxol @finxol.eu · 15/04/2026

Well that's quite the spike for claude..

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

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finxol @finxol.eu · 30/03/2026

new handle who dis

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/03/2026

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

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finxol @finxol.eu · 12/03/2026

me when writing anything to anyone other than close friends/family

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 08/03/2026

society has solved global warming by creating new, more pressing concerns

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finxol @finxol.eu · 06/03/2026

“A deep grief about how the technology industry has become so abhorrently hostile to the human experience that it has inadvertently distracted me from real and true humanity held deep within art and music;” Beautifully well written piece on the direction the tech industry is taking.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

A child sitting on a wooden bench near a body of water. The person is facing away from the camera, looking down, appears to be sad. Tall trees with green and orange leaves surround the bench. Autumnal colours. The sky is overcast.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 17/02/2026

still going strong with the Microslop® mockery

Two memes about "Continvoucly morging." The first meme shows a man and woman in bed. The man says "I bet he's thinking about continvoucly morging" and the woman says "I could be continvoucly morging rn." The second meme shows a soldier in a jungle saying "I love the smell of continvoucly morging in the morning."

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finxol @finxol.eu · 17/02/2026

Grid lanes coming!

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finxol @finxol.eu · 11/02/2026

I’ve successfully switched my non-tech savvy almost-60yo mum to linux on her daily use laptop, ama

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finxol @finxol.eu · 29/01/2026

@tangled.org can't seem to be able to login right now.. I'm getting a 500 error on the POST request, with the error "auth request failed: PAR request failed (HTTP 400): invalid_client" I'm logging in as usual with my atproto handle. ublock is deactivated.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 28/01/2026

I've just played around on my blog to add 2 shiny new things: `grid-lanes` and bluesky post integration! finxol.io As always, it's when I have other things I'm supposed to be doing, but here we are. (I might need to update this OG image some time, it's not very useful or pretty currently)

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finxol's blog

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finxol @finxol.eu · 13/01/2026

almost there with anchor positioning being newly baseline!! 🥳

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finxol @finxol.eu · 12/01/2026

@deno.land Now that the new Deno Deploy is out of beta, will there be an easy migration option for projects on Deploy Classic? I'm mostly thinking of env vars, since we can't access them from the UI, the rest is straightforward enough, but would still be nice cc @lcas.dev

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finxol @finxol.eu · 02/01/2026

how is github ui still so broken in so many ways?

Screenshot of a GitHub repository page showing a broken layout issue. A modal dialog is open in the center displaying GitHub Sponsors information for the "webpro-nl/knip" project. However, the main repository content visible behind the modal is severely shifted to the left side of the screen, demonstrating a UI rendering bug where the page layout is misaligned and cut off on the right side. The modal appears to have caused the underlying content to display incorrectly rather than remaining properly centered and visible.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 29/12/2025

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

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finxol @finxol.eu · 19/12/2025

A lot of hours spent rebuilding a usable timetable for French students! Huge work from @kernoeb.noewen.com. I came in pretty late on, worked mostly on the planning picker, making as nice as possible to use.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 16/12/2025

Raycast wrapped has landed! Some ridiculous stats: - 3091 opens for Raycast - 13415 opens for @zen-browser.app - 10207 opens for @zed.dev - 9426 opens for Ghostty All other opens are nowhere near even a 10th of those

Raycast Wrapped 2025 annual usage dashboard showing personal productivity statistics. Left panel displays installation date (335 days ago) and total app launches (3,091 times). Center highlights Wednesday as most active day with 35,592 total app launches, 10 extensions installed, and 1,304 total actions. Main feature shows 108 apps used throughout 2025. Right side displays Zen Browser as top app, personality card identifying as 'IDE whisper' fluent in Cursor and Xcode. Additional stats show 16:00 as most active hour, 5 quicklinks, 11 hotkeys and 5 aliases for supercharged access. Bottom shows top extensions: Window Management, Clipboard History, and Emoji & Symbols. Dark theme with neon red and blue accents

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finxol @finxol.eu · 20/11/2025

Go take the State of React 2025 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

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finxol @finxol.eu · 23/10/2025

welp just found out i can’t access my photo library on my phone anymore 🤡 updating to the latest beta doesn’t fix it. wtf is going on with apple??

The iOS Camera icon on the left, and a placeholder icon on the right instead of the Photos icon

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matt @stavola.xyz · 17/10/2025

While I don't entirely agree with this assessment, it's in the ballpark. - AI is definitely a technological advancement, but the utility is often oversold - The real danger isn't the AI itself but the human evil it enables at scale - Regulation is necessary but ultimately will be ineffective

A results screen with text and an image. The text reads:

"Your AI-dentity is...

the Pro-Human Idealist"

The image is of a human male(?) with glasses and short, seemingly curly, red hair. They are wearing a white shirt that has the word "Man" above a horizontal line with the word "Machine" below it, the implication possibly reading as "Man over machine." They are also wearing blue pants and black boots. They are kneeling with one knee on the ground and are pointing at their head with one hand while raising the other directly in the air. They are smiling.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 03/10/2025

After seeing a few shiny PDS home pages, I've finally taken the time to make one myself! pds.finxol.io It was a great first experience building with atproto :) The output is contained in a single HTML for easy deployment. The code is on tangled for the curious tangled.org/@finxol.io/p...

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PDS Homepage

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 28/09/2025

How is this not bigger news in tech/security circles. Jaguar Land Lover lost $250M (£200M) and counting thanks to a cyberattack that it still couldn’t mitigate. This is growing every week. The cost of underinvesting in security is very real. 1+ month recovery is bonkers

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finxol @finxol.eu · 18/09/2025

Why in the world do they always default to opting you in?? (i know why, it’s just egregious)

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling. I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

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finxol @finxol.eu · 05/09/2025

The joys of debugging CI 🤡

Multiple commits with failing CI, only the last one passes CI:
chore: does this fix ci?
ci: debugging
ci: more debugging
ci: please work
ci: now it should work right?

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

We are a small software company based in Amsterdam, and we have an issue with our current mid-tier hosting provider. They were perfect, but after being bought by a US corporate, their service is going down while their prices are going up. No more US companies. What are our options within the EU?

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I can’t stand the Big 3. But where are the EU alternatives?

We feel we need to move away from our mid-tier hosting provider because it’s been bought by a US corporate. But what are our options within…

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