SrGesus

@srgesus
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reminder: with Typst, you’re using your own computer to compile, so there are no "compile timeouts" – and this applies with both CLI and on the web

Mastodon is looking for recruiting support to help us hire two exceptional backend engineers for multiple ambitious projects. More news on the specifics and the job description to follow soon.

This is a rare opportunity to work closely with our team on a non-technical project. If you might be interested in this or know someone, please get in touch. Ideally this should be fully or partially pro bono and start end of January.

#fedihired #jobs #hiring

First (non-floral) bird of 2026: Black phoebe

Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design.

In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there simply aren't any ads.

Checks and balances are our foundation, and kindness is our compass. 🌈

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EU Commission's X account has been removed after the EU fined X for transparency failures at the tune $150,000,000. I hope someone at the EU is paying attention to X's behavior as well as our growing community here on the #fediverse .

https://www.euractiv.com/news/x-blocks-eu-commissions-advertising-account-after-e120-million-fine/
Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU. You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lohurgscqafxogwp3f7tsd3l/post/3m7gdnt766k26

"Controversy at [technology] [conference] as participants found to be using [technology] at [conference]".

How would that sentence even make sense for any conference or technology that was doing anything worthwhile? Even the NFT people didn't sink to that level of straight up epistemological tail-eating nonsense. What the hell are we even doing here?

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

WASHINGTON—Responding to recent revelations suggesting the prominent economist was a close associate of the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a devastated nation reportedly joined together to wail “No! Not Larry Summers!” on Thursday. “Oh please God, not Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary Larry Summers!” said visibly distraught Iowa resident Carrie Pritchard, wh…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/no-not-larry-summers-wails-devastated-nation/

@denisedwheeler.bsky.social Remember how offended she pretended to be when a senator called her responses "canned"? Ha!
So Bondi plans her congressional hearings by bringing up dirt on the senators who questioned her rather than answering the questions. This is the lying schemer that is running the DOJ.