Frontend developer by day; full-stack sleepy person by night. Puts the “soft” in software. Wears colors to hide away his timidity.
Transphobes eat shit and die alone.
| website | https://kleinfreund.de |
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Package delivery services increasingly rely on guesswork in their tracking pages rather than accurate data entered by the driver. I had GLS claim my shipment of mattresses are out for delivery in the last three days and without fail they claimed nobody was home when I know for a fact they weren’t even at my door.
I’m now supposed to pick up the mattresses somewhere. I’m told where in an email. An email I haven’t gotten
This is a choice by the company. They don’t need to lie to me.
I need you to know that twelve hours ago Boards of Canada posted to their YouTube channel an unexplained video titled "Tape 05" containing three and a half minutes of previously unheard music
This is epic.
Líra, the bookstore chain that Fidesz tried to bully out of existence, has just moved all Orbán books to the "History" section.
LOL
We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund @sovtechfund 🎉
This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
... and we can announce our final three speakers:
@Meyerweb the father of CSS testing and documenting
@jaffathecake (Mozilla), returning to conferences near you
@csswizardry who's going to talk about his recent article about containment
See you there!
Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Estonia are soon enabling offline debit card payments for at least seven days without network connectivity. The change covers payments for essential goods in physical trade, such as food, medicine, and fuel. Each country has made - or is in the process of making - the required changes to their related regulations to enable it.
The motivation for this change is to enable payments even in exceptional situations such as network disruptions due to sabotage or conflict. TL;DR: You can pay for essentials even if Russia cuts the cables.
Plans for this change were announced in May 2025: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/nordics-estonia-plan-offline-card-payment-back-up-if-internet-cut-2025-05-07/
#resilience #preparedness #infrastructure #payments #banking
It’s shocking how many small businesses are still using Facebook. And Facebook is becoming increasingly hard to access for non-members.
I’m wondering what an open alternative would look like—maybe:
• Support for a few simple web pages. Maybe not even fancy layouts but only Markdown-based text (with links, images, tables, etc.).
• News updates could be provided via ActivityPub. IIRC, Mastodon has plans to let you subscribe to those via email.
Anything else?
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