Shred

@shred@oldbytes.space
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Open source developer, retro computer fan, creative writer, amateur photographer, Japan otaku. Too many hobbies, too little time!

This is a feel-good account with (mostly) unpolitical topics. I'm writing in 🇺🇸 English and 🇩🇪 German.

Older posts at: https://mastodon.social/@shred

#OSS #Java #Coding #3Dprinting #Retro #RetroComputer #Amiga #C64 #Sinclair #Atari #Hardware #Photography #Japan #日本 #Writer

Bloghttps://shred.zone
Softwarehttps://shredzone.org
Short Novelshttps://infinisomnia.org
Repositoryhttps://codeberg.org/shred

Some say #retrocomputing is a form of escapism...

Considering it's a generally upbeat and authentic community (or scene) in an otherwise money-driven and superficial technology world, I'd say that's a compliment, isn't it?

It's nice that there are still corners in computing where you can hear someone say they're excited by something and take it at face value.

Also, that there are still corners in computing free from corporations. Because, well... they're all defunct.

#retro #randomthoughts

Mastodon ist jetzt offiziell „Digital Public Good“ – also digitales öffentliches Gut – und steht damit auf einer UN-Liste neben Projekten wie Wikipedia oder LibreOffice. Das Fediverse bekommt damit Rückenwind als gemeinwohlorientierte Alternative zu Big Tech. Anerkannt wurde Mastodon von der Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), einer Initiative der UN. Die Kriterien: Open Source, Datenschutz, kein Konzerninteresse. Für alle, die digital unabhängig und demokratisch kommunizieren wollen, ist das ein starkes Signal.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #DigitalPublicGood #UN #DigitaleDemokratie #BigTechAlternativen

https://blog.campact.de/2025/06/mastodon-ist-als-digitales-oeffentliches-gut-anerkannt/

Mastodon ist als digitales öffentliches Gut anerkannt!

Inklusiv, nichtkommerziell und unabhängig: Mastodon ist jetzt als digitales öffentliches Gut anerkannt und wird bei Nutzern immer beliebter.

Campact Blog

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

@filippo

Maybe, as a bank, you should not be using a random library taken from the internet, with a single maintainer and some 100 stars, and make it a critical dependency of your banking operations.

Maybe, as a bank, your IT should write and maintain such a library and open source it.

Maybe, as a bank, you should not continue to use the first library, and do the second thing after the first library was able to take down critical parts of your infra the first time.

Because we live in a society, and as a bank, you should be contributing to it, too.

But then, what do I know.

@julijane

Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

Hier wird manchmal dafür geworben nicht mehr zu liken, sondern zu retooten. Weil Gründe 🤷‍♂️

Ich mag und feiere jeden ⭐️

• weil sie zeigen, dass ein Toot gelesen wurde.

• weil irgendetwas daran für gut befunden wurde.

• es gibt viele gute Beiträge und wenn wir alle teilen, die wir gut finden, dann wird viel thematisch durcheinander geteilt. Was zumindest bei mir dazu führt, dass ich bei manchen Accounts die Boosts ausblenden lasse.

TIL the difference between "dd skip" and "dd seek"... 🤦‍♂️

Did you know that not paying the Open Source maintainers you depend on can end up costing your company money? @vladh explains why 👇

https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/not-paying-open-source-maintainers-is-expensive/

Not Paying Open Source Maintainers Is Expensive | Open Source Pledge

Not paying for the Open Source software you use can seem like a great deal — but it can end up costing you money.

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