Robert

@robertgzr@toot.berlin
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Ein Deutschlandticket sollte nie teurer sein als ein Anwohnerparkausweis.

I don't wanna be "old man on the internet" BUT RSS feeds are great for project updates, blogs, newsletters, and stuff like that. We really should all band together and use them widely. Make it a thing that everyone does. I don't want to hand my email out to everyone and clutter up my inbox. I don't want to have to remember to check your page every day for updates, and I don't have the time for all that either.

If what you are doing is about getting the word out or talking about whatever you're passion is or having whatever you create out there to actually be seen by real people, to be useful or interesting to them, put it in a feed. If you are just using the content for engagement farming or bringing clicks to your page or to get eyes on ads, then I really don't want to read it anyway I guess.

#RSS #NewsLetters #ProjectUpdates #Blogs

overnight train: has lights at 100%, making sleep harder to come by

regular train: dims the lights as soon as we leave köln, but people are on tiktok without headphones

#fosdem

So I spent a couple hours yesterday, and made a trap for AI crawlers on my knowledge base website. Instead of https://izv.ee/everydoor/flutter-plugins they would get https://izv.ee/fake/everydoor/flutter-plugins (by user agents — see https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt ). Poisoning AI training data is the best we could do.

Used Quixotic https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html for that, thanks @marcusb

Plugins for Flutter Apps

The idea is to have an OTA plugin infrastructure: imagine opening a file with the app, and it adds some new functionality, e.g. a button, or a processing function.

Ilya Zverev's
Jack Dorsey keynoting at #FOSDEM is such a 2025 thing. Sure, his blockchain company is sponsor so he gets a spot but it's such a bad look.
https://chaos.social/@onepict/113839529451423834
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict@chaos.social)

Jack Dorsey keynoting at the plague confen... *Cough* sorry #FOSDEM seems par for the course. We've wandered far away from FOSS it appears. Or perhaps we were the first victims of the grift. Believing that those who claim to be FOSS are ethical and making a political choice. I won't be there. But if you're going there anyway perhaps join Drew de Vault at the sit-in? Think of it as an opening taster for #OFFDEM https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html #NoBillionairesAtFosdem #FOSDEM2025

chaos.social
AI Written, AI Read cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne

One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for “too long; didn’t read.” With the explosion of generative AI tools, we’re rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: “too long, didn’t write.” A January survey from Fishbowl found that 40% of nearly 12,000 workers have used ChatGPT

Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne - Marketoonist is the thought bubble of Tom Fishburne. Marketing cartoons, content marketing with a sense of humor, keynote speaking.
Donald Knuth on the rewards of computer programming
What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound? Well, @bert_hubert did just that. And it sounds like you are listening to an old school modem. Creepy stuff! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/
Tracker Beeper - Bert Hubert's writings

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits and clicks to (at least) Google, but a log that you have to manually create first and then analyze is not very dramatic.

Bert Hubert's writings
i think the EU should pass legislation that enforces standards based 2factor auth (like totp/hotp) for banks, health insurance etc. it is absolutely unacceptable that people are _forced_ to buy android/ios smartphones to use critical services

"As the web becomes an anaerobic lagoon for botshit, the quantum of human-generated "content" in any internet core sample is dwindling to homeopathic levels."

What writing.

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