Rouven Malecki

@writescode
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Three decades of software development. Consulting CTO. Berlin/Cape Town
Game Dev Studiohttps://www.robotriotgames.com
Personalhttps://www.rouvenmalecki.net
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An diesem Wochenende sind wir wieder beim #Bücherfest #Berlin auf dem #Bebelplatz . Ihr findet uns am Stand D1, wir freuen uns auf Besuch!
#webookberlin

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated.

The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.

#FediHire

I had the great pleasure of opening the @berlinbuzzwords with a keynote on digital sovereignty, linking it to nationalism and the role of open.
This might be relevant if you are curious about:
- competing approaches to digital sovereignty
- what kind of approach the EU is pursuing
- how current politics influences tech development
- how AI is adding fascist ideology to nationalist agendas
- what to do
👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbz66dUyLBs

Some key points, follow-on thoughts and references in a 🧵
1/
#bbuzz

Aline Blankertz – Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise #bbuzz

YouTube

Das Gesetzesvorhaben zur #Chatkontrolle sollte eigentlich schon längst begraben sein. Aber der Ministerinnenrat gibt nicht auf.
Die Bundesregierung muss ihre Position weiter halten damit das ganze im Rat stecken bleibt.
Zusammen mit vielen anderen Zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen erinnern wir deswegen Innenminister #dobrindt daran was für Konsequenzen ein solches Gesetz hätte.

https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2025/ccc-fordert-von-dobrindt-klare-kante-gegen-chatkontrolle

CCC | CCC fordert von Dobrindt klare Kante gegen Chatkontrolle

Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.

We're going to be moving forward under the expectation that future Pixel devices may not meet the requirements to run GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices) and may not support using another OS. We've been in talks with a couple OEMs about making devices and what it would cost.
GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

It matters. I care.

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

Citation Needed
Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots - sorry I couldn't include everyone 🥲

#TheFutureIsFederated
📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it

Elena Rossini

🔴 ☑️ - „Machtgeilheit vor Moral und Verantwortung“ und alles, was Maja Göpel über die Union sagt:

Quelle:
▶️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=px_bauf8_AA

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

Turns out some old (and new) friends were feeling the same way, so we got a crew together from the Old Days and we spun up a collective, got fiscal hosting with Raft Foundation (badasses!), and spent a couple of months building processes and testing ways to work and things to make, and now we're up:

https://unbreaking.org

We started with three pages we've been using to test and build our collaborative processes:

Equality at Work (part one): https://unbreaking.org/issues/equality-at-work-decimating-the-federal-workforce/

Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.