Mastodawn

How true: "... How can it serve Europe to be seen as a sidekick of an erratic, unreliable and apparently megalomaniac US president, or of a warmongering, annexationist Israeli prime minister. That cannot be in Europe’s interest, because it comes at the expense of relations with other parts of the world. "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/why-eu-not-using-leverage-israel-lebanon-gaza

‘Weak and pathetic’: why is the EU not using its leverage to stop Israel?

Deep divisions on Israel mean the union has failed to act over Lebanon, Gaza, or settler violence in the West Bank

The Guardian

Norbert Preining 1d ago

Long read for those who want to learn Iran history and why the US produced what we see now!! #IranWar
https://theconversation.com/decades-of-hostility-between-iran-and-the-us-were-preceded-by-a-little-remembered-century-long-friendship-279636

Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship

Many Americans only know the history of anger and tension with Iran. But an archaeologist who has spent 45 years focusing on Iran says it is worth recalling the time when the countries were friends.

The Conversation

Norbert Preining Mar 24

zoe

Dec 4

I am currently searching for a job (Fulltime, Graz / Austria or Remote).

I have experience in:
- Full-Stack Development
- JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js
- Next.js Framework
- React / React-Native
- Docker, CI/CD
- Linux Environments
- CAD / 3D printing

#GetFediHired

Norbert Preining Mar 24

One of the things that did just work under X11, now makes life difficult for everyone. After decades of #wayland development. When will we ever learn that shiny new is not always the best https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2026/03/24/addressing-global-removal-race-in-wayland/

Addressing global removal race in Wayland – Vlad Zahorodnii's Blog

Norbert Preining Mar 16

Koen Hufkens, PhD Mar 16

Man threatening to leave NATO, and invade member states, demands NATO reciprocity in a war he started. 🤡

The Onion couldn't have done a better job.

Norbert Preining Mar 16

TeX Users Group Mar 16

Congrats to SILICON Director Thomas S. Mullaney for being named UNESCO Chair in Digital Futures!

https://silicon.stanford.edu/

His activity has been reported in TUGboat:
https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb45-1/tb139veytsman-face.pdf
https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-1/tb142veytsman-face25.pdf
🇺🇳

SILICON – Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media

Norbert Preining Mar 13

Tjeerd Royaards Mar 13

What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#GasPrices #oil #OilPrices #Iran

Norbert Preining Mar 13

Show thread

Marei Mar 13

Hans Hagen continued with visual examples of the typesetting improvements they developed for #TeXConTeXt to produce more complex layouts using column sets.

The increased flexibility is amazing and his slides also illustrate why one might want to take toddlers and twins into account when optimizing the typesetting.

I will add a link to the slides as soon as they are publshed. Guess it's better to show than try to explain ;-)

@context #DANTE2026

Norbert Preining Mar 13

Max Iorsh Feb 26

The first real FontForge plugin has landed! Just five years after the introduction of plugin framework, the Variable Font Plugin by @[email protected] is here. Grab your free copy at https://pypi.org/project/fontforge-variable-font/

#FontForge #opensource #typography