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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

@gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy

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Researcher & #Luddite interested in building commons who loves everything open 💖: #opensource, #openstreetmap #openscience #citizenscience #openculture […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

«Some of you may yet be thinking “what the hell? I mostly wanted to join the parent-teacher association and make a climate-friendly school. And now I’m hearing a term Lenin used?” But fear not, revolutionary discipline is still for you.» Many of these points are doubly the case if you really […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Estoy preparando mi charla para #sotmlatam2026 sobre @CoMaps y gracias a @santiago y undernet.uy tuve que actualizar esta diapositiva sobre los nodos en nuestra red de servidores que sirven los archivos de mapas!

una diapositiva con un mapa mundial y 7 lugares que son marcados como servidores de comaps - incluyendo Uruguay

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

As folks might now increasingly start their migrations from the legacy @Codeberg pages server to the new `git-pages` setup: If you are trying to serve pages directly from a git repository without a build stage you might run into the problem of `git-pages` not supporting files stored in `git […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

As folks might now increasingly start their migrations from the legacy @Codeberg pages server to the new `git-pages` setup: If you are trying to serve pages directly from a git repository without a build stage you might run into the problem of `git-pages` not supporting files stored in `git […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Public housing in Singapore: 40-50 floor apartments on the left. Multi-storey parking on the right. Parking building has rooftop garden. Ground floor has daycare for children, and seniors. Bridge connects from residential to rooftop garden. Within walking […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A photo of new style HDB flats in Singapore about 40-50 floors with a connecting bridge at the 15th floor onto the rooftop garden

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

you know, I was hoping I already made this clear netbsd taking money from a relatively unknown fascist group doesn’t damn them. they likely didn’t know who FUTO was. most people don’t. if it runs ok on your hardware (and that’s a big “if”), netbsd is likely a more stable choice than any Linux […]

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Stefano Volpe :spinny_fox: @foxy.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

If you are using @WoodpeckerCI@floss.social for your CI like me, I recommend woodpecker-ci.org/plugins/git-pages by @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social and @mahlzahn@nerdculture.de :blobcat_code:

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Up by two!

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

During my time at Turing we co-designed a survey to understand what patients' biggest concerns for fairness are when it comes to deployments of 'AI' in healthcare/clinical settings. The results are now out: We found that the biggest concerns for negatively impacting fairness were a lack of […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I somewhat dread the (understandable) question of "What made you move to Argentina?". Answering it needs to thread the needle for not being too depressing. "I don't see a future for (myself in) Europe" is typically not what people want to hear, as thinking about the cost of living, disappearing […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

«No Kings. No Demands. No Teeth.» People love to joke that Germans will never put up a revolution as it would mean stepping on the grass. Turns out much of the self-styled 'resistance' in the US is an even wetter blanket. No Kings. No Demands. What Happened? […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

”So our rule is simple: No AI generated articles or illustrations in the magazine! We are not going to feed you slop. And we think you should not give money to any publication that does feed you slop, because they’re both treating their audience with contempt, and avoiding paying workers so that […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

”So our rule is simple: No AI generated articles or illustrations in the magazine! We are not going to feed you slop. And we think you should not give money to any publication that does feed you slop, because they’re both treating their audience with contempt, and avoiding paying workers so that […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Acá en las sierras chicas: «la idea es juntarnos y prepararnos para luchar contra la destrucción que viene generando el Gobierno Nacional» En movimiento www.launionregional.com.ar/en-movim…

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En movimiento - La Unión Regional

Se presentó el Movimiento Sierras Chicas, un espacio con guiño hacia el peronismo, gestado para pensar el corredor desde su gente, sus vivencias y sus necesidades político-electorales. Por Victor Valente En abril de 2025 nació Movimiento Sierras Chicas, un grupo de vecinos y vecinas del corredor, con la inquietud de reunirse para construir un espacio […]

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

this is one thing where it's gonna be hard for people doing this by hand to continue to derive meaning from AI is just automatically "solving" problems people have been working on in teams for years in a matter of hours + barging into open source repositories & stealing / "helping" their work

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

This whole thread about holding community is great, but the "atrophy of humility" really got me. I've seen so many projects (and people) fall into that trap over the years.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"Nerds would rather be slavers than admit that their stochastic token predictor is not intelligent" reveals way more about nerds and their views on other human beings than it says about Chatbots.

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James Hawley, PhD @jrhawley.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

This is a great choice by the #Rstats project! www.zeileis.org/news/rforge_codeberg Moving to #Codeberg as a new software forge is an excellent choice when your current package host is retiring their software.

Goodbye R-Forge, hello Codeberg

After 20 years of service the R-Forge package hosting platform will be retiring soon. Codeberg is a modern alternative that shares many of the ideas and values that R-Forge was built on. A tutorial for transitioning to Codeberg (or other Git-based platforms) is provided.

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

*sigh* Since an update, the tab menu in Firefox Android now includes a seemingly non-removable link/switch for 'their' VPN (which I assume is still funding Nazis…). I guess some goddamn product manager got a promotion for trying to force people into using it/boosting sales. @mozilla and […]

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

made a quick video demonstrating the performance of the upcoming MNT Quasar 8550 module, here in the MNT Reform Next (open hardware laptop). I recorded a bit of Blender, KiCAD, KDEnlive and the Steam library (camera at 50fps) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fM8e0roZGU

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

In a just published post for Wikimedia's diff, we have shared how our collaboration between the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Nairobi and the Wikimedia Kenya User Group helped with mutual learning and forging collaborations — by bringing together scholars, technologists, and […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

In a just published post for Wikimedia's diff, we have shared how our collaboration between the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Nairobi and the Wikimedia Kenya User Group helped with mutual learning and forging collaborations — by bringing together scholars, technologists, and […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

No soy católico pero espero que el papa todavía visite Córdoba el próximo mes para hablar entre luditas. 🙈 www.vaticannews.va/es/papa/news/202…

El Papa en el Gemelli: La intervención ha concluido con éxito - Vatican News

La Oficina de Prensa de la Santa Sede ha comunicado que “la intervención ha concluido con éxito”. El boletín médico informa además que “se le extirpó ...

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

No soy católico pero espero que el papa todavía visite Córdoba el próximo mes para hablar entre luditas. 🙈 www.vaticannews.va/es/papa/news/202…

El Papa en el Gemelli: La intervención ha concluido con éxito - Vatican News

La Oficina de Prensa de la Santa Sede ha comunicado que “la intervención ha concluido con éxito”. El boletín médico informa además que “se le extirpó ...

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Mein Artikel über das 39. Plurinationale FLINTA-Treffen mit 150.000 Teilnehmenden hier in Córdoba ist raus: Großes Treffen für Frauen- und FLINTA-rechte in Argentinien amerika21.de/2026/10/291107/39-plur…

Großes Treffen für Frauen- und FLINTA-rechte in Argentinien

**Córdoba.** Bei der Abschlussdemonstration des 39. pluralen Treffens von Frauen, Lesben, Transpersonen, Travesti, Bisexuellen, Intersexuellen und nicht-binären Personen sind in Córdoba mehr als 150.000 Menschen aus ganz Argentinien zusammengekommen. Die Veranstaltungen fanden vom 10.... weiter 14.10.2026 Artikel von Bastian Greshake Tzovaras zu Argentinien, Soziale Bewegungen

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

«All this math, all this time, all this work, all this capital, all of it dedicated to delivering the most predictable, boring, average thing. We’ll take all the data you’ve given us, and we’ll press it down into the content equivalent of beige, flavorless paste. And suddenly, the “artificial […]

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Tomáš @prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

PARADE STRUGGLES TO VICTORY DESPITE DISGRACEFUL SCENES #content_review #netbsd @netbsd #art #comic #runbsd #unix_surrealism

Funhole Content Review

NETBSD
'Just war or immoral rebellion?'

a: "I only asked it to rephrase some of the sentences."
b: "No."

How to convince yourself to use ctwm?

"We only did it so you would stop talking about the toaster!"

Fact Check: Is it really true that someone drew a picture on a computer without talking to it?

ALL BOTS ARE STILL BASTARDS and 3 other short stories

VETERANS OF THE BSD WARS: Top 7 ways to start a religious schism

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

LOL, got in touch with a customer service via email/their online form: After taking some weeks to reply, their answer is "please get in touch with us via Facebook or Twitter" instead 🤷

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Fuimos a La Falda para la fiesta nacional del alfajor hoy. 🤤 🍪

Un escenario con estatuas de alfajores grandes

Una elección de alfajores

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The benefit of using kit, especially lenses, that are still mechanical: a set of screwdrivers already gets you quite far for self-service. 🙈

A camera next to a set of precision screwdrivers

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Ya subí mis fotos de la marcha contra los travesticidios, transfemicidios y trans-Homicidios a Flickr. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.flickr.com/photos/gedankenstuec… Y estoy subiéndolas a Wikimedia Commons a […] [Original post on scholar.social]

una marcha en la noche con humo rosa y una bandera trans

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Cast my (unexciting as it's a non-contested election) vote for the OpenStreetMap board ahead of the upcoming general assembly.

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Fue a la marcha contra los travesticidios, transfemicidios y trans-Homicidios - y gracias a @Sondra volví con stickers de Mastodon! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Stickers the Mastodon y mariconear.social

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Analogous to how the far right extremists love to cry freedom of speech but only mean theirs, they love to clutch their pearls if other religions claim their freedom of religion rights. 'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The question is whether the EU will take credit as a result of the free roaming regulations. 🙈

mastodon.social

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

«Understanding these aligned rationales helps us better understand our enemies as they cohere across divergent goals and worldviews, all nonetheless opposed to left imaginings of the future. Many of them are indeed assholes, but their efficacy comes less from certainty in their own rotten […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…

The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I'm not saying that this one is overly clingy, but let's say we're working on the idea of giving personal space. #DogsOfMastodon

Me sitting on a sofa, with a small black dog very close/Half atop me

A closeup of me laying down, with the same black dog having her little head laying on my chest/neck

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

People say that free/open source software is community first, creating software second. But often it's "someone is wrong on the internet" first, community second and maaaaybe somewhere down the line there is software. #floss #opensource

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

People say that free/open source software is community first, creating software second. But often it's "someone is wrong on the internet" first, community second and maaaaybe somewhere down the line there is software. #floss #opensource

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

«If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated Zotero’s conception, because we did not know exactly what we wanted, and so could not have written coherent prompts for an LLM. Instead, it took a great deal of time and collaboration to develop a clear vision for what Zotero […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

lol, some press teams really should do some more research before adding people to their lists. Sharing your press release about 'AI-Jewellery' will yield nothing but ridicule for being a stupid cashgrab idea…

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

"This project would become stangent without using AI" Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit. "Life gets in the way, it's hard to keep working at the same pace." Then stop fucking working on it, dipshit. "The project just isn't as fun to work on as it used to be." Then stop fucking working on […]

circumstances.run

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

According to The Atlantic the share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has fallen from 42 percent in 1975 to 12 percent in 2026—a 70 percent collapse in a half century: "Mid-century Americans knew how to throw a party, for better or worse. In some of […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

On the one hand, I'm quite skeptical of the whole idea behind Wikimedia Enterprise. On the other hand, I also see how corporations are destroying the commons by infrastructure-overloading freeloading, requiring countermeasures. In other news, with CoMaps we chatted with the WM Enterprise folks […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

«For the first time since World War II, a far-right party has a house speaker in a German state parliament.» 🫠 www.dw.com/en/germanys-far-right-af…

Germany's far-right AfD makes history again in Saxony-Anhalt

For the first time since the end of World War II, a German state parliament has chosen parliamentary speaker from the far right: Tobias Rausch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

This is a really cute visualisation and interactive way to explore data about people's believes about the afterlife! pudding.cool/2026/10/lifeafter

Life after death?

Thousands of humans around the world wrestling with what comes after it all

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Jens Ohlig @johl.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

“We can confirm that we have discovered some activity by these “rogue” OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The unauthorized bot activities included edits to our wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool we host, and heavy traffic” […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Tapping the sign again, after another exasperating day of seeing too many "I made"… that turned out to be 100% extruded fake software…

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

And so the construction mayhem begins. 🚧

A bunch of building materials, bricks, bags of concrete etc in a garden