#Microsoft sent an email to everyone saying they're listening to people now and they will definitely not pushing AI to everything anymore.

Also Microsoft enabled #github to collect all your "inputs, outputs and associated context to train and improve AI models". This new tickbox is enabled by default, even if you explicitly disabled Copilot before.

Actions speak louder than words.

You can disable the option at https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

#enshittification

We use 32 million ha of land globally (ca. 1 Germany) to grow plants for biofuels. This equals 1.400 TWh per year, or 4% of our global energy consumption for transport.

If we'd use the same area for PV, we could produce 32.000 TWh per year, already considering the potential yield for the areas where we grow bio fuel plants.

For comparison: the entire world consumed 31.000 TWh of electricity in 2024.

I love such comparisons.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQBgNpooCEo

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1

10 years today.

Die Straße von Hormus brennt, die Spritpreise steigen und wir rasen direkt in eine 3. Ölkrise hinein. Jetzt ist die Gelegenheit wie in den 1970ern diverse Sofortmaßnahmen zum Ölsparen einzuführen z.B.

- 9€ Ticket reaktivieren
- Tempo 100 auf Autobahnen
- Tempo 80 auf Landstraßen
- Autofreie Sonntage
- Kaufprämie für Fahrräder
- Pop-Up Radwege auf Pendelstrecken

Wann versteht die Regierung, dass Verbrenner und Öl-Heizungen nicht Freiheit, sondern Abhängigkeit bedeuten?

"Pete Arnold was able to get this shot of burrowing owls on the east side of Cheyenne this spring by leaving a GoPro video camera near their burrow."

https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/burrowing-owls-put-on-show-for-local-photographer/article_5129f4e0-49de-11ef-b692-7327b2da8f6d.html

#Nature #Animals

TL;DR on the new EU regulation on railway telematics: all information on railway transport, including fares, ticketing rules, timetables, realtime positions, etc will have to be made available under EUPL or Creative Commons terms

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32026R0253

Incredible news: Skip is now free and open-source for everyone!

Create fully native x-platform apps in Swift and #SwiftUI, with deep Android and #JetpackCompose integration, powered by the Swift Android SDK

Read more and learn how to contribute:
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/