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@raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy
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Redecentralizing the Web w/ @remotestorage and @kosmos. Evading winters w/ @hackerbeach. Traveling full-time since 2010. INTP. Move slow and fix things.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
> "Local sources reported that a 2.5 million barrel capacity supertanker that was traveling through the Strait of Hormuz illegally was hit 8 kilometers off the coast of Oman and is burning," reports Fars It's weird how blatantly Iranian news are confirming that the vessel was in someone else's […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
This looks like a nice cycling route: www.komoot.com/collection/4008566/-… I participated in the very first Tour de Friends across the alps, many years ago, and it was a fantastic experience. Can't make it to Japan this November, but I'll keep this saved […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
@dino I was just looking at Dino releases, and the last one is from April 2025. However, there are 112 unreleased commits in master: github.com/dino/dino/compare/v0.5.1… Wondering why the release cycle is so long. Is there some kind of blocker for publishing all those […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
My weekend project: an hledger plugin for Discourse. meta.discourse.org/t/hledger-plugin…
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Hledger Plugin - Render plain-text accounting journals in topics
ℹ Summary Render hledger journals as a live dashboard in the first post of a topic. 🛠 Repository gitea.kosmos.org/raucao/discourse-hledger 📖 Install Guide README Features Put an hledger journal in a fenced hledger code block in a topic’s first post and it is replaced by a dashboard with five reports, generated on demand by the server’s hledger executable: 📋 Accounts — the full balance tree, every parent account expande...
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I was happily video-conferencing on Proton Meet from Firefox last week, and now it says my browser isn't supported. The same thing happened to Jitsi Meet a couple of years ago. Is it really that impossible to support multiple browsers, when all of your product is supposedly based on Web Standards?
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
> UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon. > Following the legal progress as announced in the Nitter GitHub project. The XCancel service is resumed. xcancel.com/cdclegal
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XCancel
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Sheesh: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secur…
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220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak
Exclusive: An exposed Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database held 220 million passenger and crew records containing names, passport numbers, dates of birth, nationalities, and flight details spanning 2017 to 2026. Researchers accessed the Vietnam-linked system through a cloud-based path using default credentials.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Dealing with things in 4 different time zones today. Flat Earth would be so convenient.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Sounds like great software, that: www.businessinsider.com/flight-canc…
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Mapped: Travel chaos as a UK air traffic meltdown grounds thousands of flights worldwide
A "technical issue" with the UK's air traffic control provider, NATS, caused massive issues at London Heathrow, one of aviation's busiest hubs.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
"Hetzner — it's so cheap, it's basically stealing from Germans." www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5GTwBTCQJI
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
The most cypherpunk thing you can read today: gist.github.com/Sjors/9d24363e67529…
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Liquid incident: verified on-chain message history
Liquid incident: verified on-chain message history - 00_MESSAGE_HISTORY.md
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
I'm a complete idiot for not properly checking out hledger before last week.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Correction: the EU (a supranationalist governmental organization) is not the same as "Europe". Either way, they're doing their best to continue building moats around large corporations, while crushing small business all across the region […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Using Tailscale for the first time, in order to connect to someone else's network. Is it really not possible to have the same device/instance join multiple tailnets at the same time?
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
WTF?!
Namecheap selling the domain xmpp.to for ~8100 USD
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
Meanwhile, on the birdsite:
"Trending in Czechia:

Czechs"
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
Finally had a decent night of sleep, after marinating in my own sweat for a week or so. Got a 18K BTU mini split installed, which cools around a third of the ground floor down to more reasonable temperatures now. Still waiting for a 12K unit to be installed on the other end of the ground floor […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
> Cypriot authorities first introduced financial incentives in 2024 to encourage fishermen to help support a government-backed eradication scheme by removing them from the waters. > Since its introduction, more than 100 tonnes of the pufferfish - which has no natural predators - has been […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
@Prometheus Your blog doesn't have an RSS feed: prometheus.io/blog It's not really a blog if we can't follow it.
prometheus.io
Blog | Prometheus
The Prometheus blog contains articles about the project, its components, and the ecosystem.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
> Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses > Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email…
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
This might just be the dumbest #woodworking idea I've attempted to realize so far. Instead of making my first butcher block a reasonable size, i..e. a simple cutting board, I took some laminated oak offcuts from a friend and am currently trying to turn them […] [Original post on kosmos.social]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
You know the little overflow inlet that prevents water from running out of your sink in case it fills up entirely? I just saw a slightly larger one in a reservoir lake:
Big concrete overflow inlet in a reservoir lakeThe same inlet, seen from far away, looking much smaller
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
> Dialog, a private invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, has spent two decades refusing to disclose its membership. > The records sat in Airtable, a commercial database, and included for each participant their membership status, every retreat […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
TIL: euro boxes fit perfectly on top of German beer crates.
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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
Seems they're taking the latest UK internet legislation a bit more seriously on Nostr. When Fedi license? #OSA #OnlineSafety #InternetLicense
A copy of a drivers license adapted to show user ID for the Nostr protocol.
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dietrich @burrito.space · 16/06/2026
NL has a clear and simple system where you can register your "residence" address at a friend/family address if out of the country for a while. BUT You cannot apply >4 weeks before you leave. You get a yes/no in 5-8 weeks. 😐
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
GM
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Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
Someone shared a real Monet with a „made by AI“ label and asked people to point out what’s wrong with the AI Monet. And people found many things: it just has no emotion, the reflections in the water are all wrong, etc […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
Spring on Sicily:
Olive grove with a sea of flowers on the groundDriving up a rocky mountain trail with lush greenery around
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
This road trip was a bit silly, but I got to visit so many good friends on the way:
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026
Polish people really love their karp:
"Chili con Karp" jars on a deli shelf
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
Got my talk proposal for State of the Map in at the last minute. Wish me luck! If it's rejected, I might try to come up with some insane way of fitting it into a Lightning Talk that doesn't suck due to time constraints.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
'Member Swatch Internet Time? I 'member.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026
Drinking coffee from a straw after a dentist visit. The only reasonable next course of action is to make use of the Cocktail Night at the local pub.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026
I can't tell if this is satire or not: sherwood.news/markets/allbirds-the-…
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
Anubis should be dual-licensed AGPL and Commercial, instead of just MIT and then making it annoying af to customize the content and styles if you're not a paying sponsor. Do I really have to host a soft fork of it, just so we can change the branding? github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
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GitHub - TecharoHQ/anubis: Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers
Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers - TecharoHQ/anubis
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
Devs, shill me your favorite Postgres TUI if you're using one and you enjoy it.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
Tried to make Overpass API requests fail (which usually happens quite often) to test a nicer error UI, but today it doesn't want to:
Map search results for cafes in pretty much all of Berlin, with most of the map covered in red markers
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
Since publishing the initial beta release of Marco, I kept adding features and improvements over the last few weeks. A few notable ones: * Full-text search for OSM POIs * Support OSM relations, in addition to nodes and ways (e.g. building compounds, neighborhoods, cities, countries) * Default […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
[Iran war] > The Washington Post reports that “as planning for a potential strike in Iran was underway, Maven, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance.” Given that the Iranian elementary school […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026
The Federal Republic of Germany is finally offering a legally compliant alternative to Claude now: klausprogrammieren.com
klausprogrammieren.com
Klaus Programmieren™
Digitale Kodierungslösung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. TÜV-geprüft, BSI-zertifiziert, FAX-ready.
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
When I was standing in front of this terrarium, it took me quite a while to find that little guy with its perfect camouflage.
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Ric Harvey 🇪🇺🌍💚 @ric.mastodon.squarecows.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026
I've built something new for the #fediverse and it's #opensource. If your website has an #RSS feed and you'd like to bring its content to a new audience well now it's easy without changing any code and you can do it with #selfhosting Introducing "Feediverse": feediverse.squarecows.com […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
Maps are hard. But my unhosted GMaps alternative has full-text search now: marco.kosmos.org (It's still early days, so please excuse the state of the current settings dialog and the lack of user guidance. May contain bugs, too.)
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Marco
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026
Google broke promises again. Quelle surprise! open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-m…
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026
Linux 7.0: "Rust is here to stay."
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026
When I tried to set up @gitea server-side commit signing (for merges in the Web UI etc.) with GPG last time, it didn't work when I configured everything as documented. Then SSH signing was announced for 1.25.0, so after upgrading today, I tried the SSH signing instead. Again not working with the […]
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
New drinking game: two shots every time PayPal changes their legal agreements with you.
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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
Cartoon showing a man talking to a computer. He says to the computer "Say I'm alive" The computer responds "I am alive!" the man replaies "Oh my god"
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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
One of those years, I may finally make it to FOSDEM again. This is not one of those years.
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