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Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

Osma Suominen Oct 11

2006: "Data is the new oil"
2025: "AI is the new microplastics"

Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

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Patrick Breyer Oct 12

🇪🇺#ChatControl now officially removed from the agenda for Oct. 14th🥳: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13309-2025-INIT/en/pdf

⚠️However, EU governments continue to work on the proposal.
🗓️The next meeting of EU interior ministers is on Dec. 6/7.

🚫📡🔐Mission: No mass scanning, no backdoors!

Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

Tinker ☀️Oct 11

I just saw this on a laptop at the @bsidesnova conference...

Ads.

On the lockscreen.

How. How do people live like this? Like seriously. Inundated by ads. I mean, not just the tracking and surveillance behind it... but blatant ads everywhere.

They PAY microsoft to show them ads on their lockscreen.

Remember adware? That would gum up your browsers in the early aughts? Like... that was considered malware at the time and removed by antivirus.

Can you turn this off? Is this a third party widget or something?

What....

Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

Greenpeace International Oct 12

Even butterflies are losing their colours as forests are replaced by monocultures.

Without protection for native habitats, the most vibrant species could vanish.

It is not too late. In forests allowed to recover, colour and life return.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/butterflies-losing-colour-cutting-down-tropical-forests-aoe

Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

bµg Oct 12

#TIL Apparently the web crawler from National Library of France is allowed to bypass robots.txt:

> 🇫🇷 En vertu du Code du patrimoine (art L132-2-1), la BnF est autorisée à ne pas respecter le protocole d’exclusion de robot, également appelé robots.txt.

> Under the Heritage Code (art L132-2-1), the BnF is authorized to not comply with the robot exclusion protocol, also called robots.txt.

https://www.bnf.fr/fr/capture-de-votre-site-web-par-le-robot-de-la-bnf

#web

Capture de votre site web par le robot de la BnF

BnF - Site institutionnel

Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

Zeeshan Ali Khan

🇺🇦Oct 12

On my way back home now. @eurorust was a awesome, as usual. 👍 So many great talks, got to learn about so many cool projects and people, and had so many great discussions with awesome folks.

Cherry on top, got #codspeed setup for @zbus on the impl day (thanks to @darthb) so not only we've some cool graphs for each PR, we now auto-detect (possible) performance regressions **before** the PR is merged rather than after:

https://codspeed.io/dbus2/zbus/runs/68ea6497c7753ee0b2702b4f

#eurorust25 #rust

Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

slop enjoyer Oct 12

the movie hackers tricked me into believing exchanging top secret floppy disks via skateboard was a much bigger part of adult life

Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

halcy

Oct 12

easy to overlook a big advantage of mastodon over other platforms: you can very easily use the name for puns. Posting about going to the red planet? Marstodon. Excited about noodle dishes? Pastadon. Trumpet enthusiast? Hashtag Brasstodon.

Filip 🌱 🦀Oct 12

farcaller Oct 12

Here's an interesting read about software quality going downhill: https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

From the Trenches

Filip 🌱 🦀Sep 17, 2025

Organic Maps Sep 17, 2025

This second September release brings a redesigned route planning screen and the ability to view OpenStreetMap `description` tag contents for iOS users. To discover places that have this tag, type `?description` in the search box (similar to typing `?wiki` for Wikipedia-linked places).

There are also many fixes and improvements on both iOS and Android, see https://organicmaps.app/news/2025-09-15/440/ for more details and hints.

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