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Dominik Röttsches Feb 23

JA Westenberg Feb 23

Every AI company knows they're building the wrong thing.

And they can't stop.

Because the competitive structure specifically punishes anyone who slows down long enough to build the right thing.

The race is real. The destination is fake.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in-ai-is-building-the-wrong-thing-for-the-same-reason/

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and

Westenberg.

Dominik Röttsches Feb 11

RE: https://mastodon.social/@apike/115994088759317820

Wouldn't it be nice if we had COLRv1 support in WebKit?

Dominik Röttsches Feb 6

Elara Voss fucked my wife Feb 5

Things that seem small but accumulate. Each one is survivable. Together they form a compelling case for simply walking into the sea. The sea does not have YAML. The sea does not require a GITHUB_TOKEN.

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

Ian Duncan

Dominik Röttsches Feb 3

Ulrich Kelber Feb 2

Was ich mir dringend wünschen würde: Ein Bündnis von Medien und Medienschaffenden, die einfach X nicht mehr zitieren, so wie „Junge Freiheit“ oder „Russia Today“ auch nicht zitiert werden. Wenn Staatschef:innen, Politiker:innen, Firmen o.ä. öffentlich erwähnt werden wollen, sollen sie einfach Plattformen wählen, die die Bürger:innen nicht ausspähen und die Demokratie europäischer Prägung nicht zerstören wollen #DIDit #savesocial

Dominik Röttsches Jan 22

Alex Russell Jan 22

The Grok/Musk AI undressing scandal teaches us that Apple and Google's shameful app stores stand for nothing but profit, invalidating one of the 5 arguments they make to retain monopoly power to tax all software. But the other four arguments are bullshit, too. The iceberg of deception is larger than the tip of content moderation:

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

Naked Power

Apple and Google's app stores stand for nothing and will stand up to no-one. Good riddance.

Alex Russell

Dominik Röttsches Jan 16

Chris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jan 16

The Fonts chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac, by HTTP Archive, is now available

#webfonts

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts

Fonts | 2025 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

Fonts chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac covering performance, design, and development trends for typography across the web.

Dominik Röttsches Jan 15

CCC Jan 15

Dossiers of humans with name, photo, date of birth, and full address: #Palantir is building the technological infrastructure for ICE’s activities on the ground https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.

404 Media

Dominik Röttsches Jan 15

kottke.org Jan 15

From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig, and oops all spinnakers. https://xkcd.com/3193/

Sailing Rigs

xkcd

Dominik Röttsches Jan 14

heise online Jan 14

Trotz Kritik an X: EU-Spitzen weiterhin nicht bei Mastodon

Von der Leyen & Co. kritisieren X scharf, posten auf Elon Musks Plattform aber weiterhin politische Botschaften – nicht hingegen bei der deutschen Konkurrenz.

https://www.heise.de/news/Trotz-Kritik-an-X-EU-Spitzen-weiterhin-nicht-bei-Mastodon-11140102.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#ElonMusk #EU #IT #Mastodon #Mobiles #SocialMedia #X #news

Trotz Kritik an X: EU-Spitzen weiterhin nicht bei Mastodon

Von der Leyen & Co. kritisieren X scharf, posten auf Elon Musks Plattform aber weiterhin politische Botschaften – nicht hingegen bei der deutschen Konkurrenz.

heise online

Dominik Röttsches Jan 8

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Lilith Wittmann Jan 7

"Logge dich jetzt mit deinem Indymedia-Organisationszertifikat ein, um ein Bekennerschreiben zu veröffentlichen."