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I wonder if we're about to see a splinter in the European far right between MAGA worshippers who serve as the fifth column of tech monopolies and nationalists who have to reject fealty.
There's precedent: the French Résistance had fascists and hard conservatives fighting the Nazi occupation.
There's precedent: the French Résistance had fascists and hard conservatives fighting the Nazi occupation.
Here is only at first paradoxical reaction I believe we will see more of - AfD member of the Bundestag Kay Gottschalk argues the US tariffs over Greendland call for more European sovereignty, a European military alliance, a German nuke and ends his video with the slogan "Long live Europe".
January 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I wonder if we're about to see a splinter in the European far right between MAGA worshippers who serve as the fifth column of tech monopolies and nationalists who have to reject fealty.
There's precedent: the French Résistance had fascists and hard conservatives fighting the Nazi occupation.
There's precedent: the French Résistance had fascists and hard conservatives fighting the Nazi occupation.
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so frigging cute
January 18, 2026 at 9:39 PM
so frigging cute
Ok but now one step further: every post IS just a text file on my hard drive. local clients work offline and the files are synced to a pds out of band. the same way a service indexes PDSs, there is an sqlite with indexes for the files locally.
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Ok but now one step further: every post IS just a text file on my hard drive. local clients work offline and the files are synced to a pds out of band. the same way a service indexes PDSs, there is an sqlite with indexes for the files locally.
we need to stop allowing model and platform providers forcing their clients on us. we need separation of powers for the digital realm. no facebook can be allowed to have an exclusive client with internal apis, no anthropic can be allowed to force their shitty cli and agent ui on their subscription,
January 18, 2026 at 1:57 PM
we need to stop allowing model and platform providers forcing their clients on us. we need separation of powers for the digital realm. no facebook can be allowed to have an exclusive client with internal apis, no anthropic can be allowed to force their shitty cli and agent ui on their subscription,
In XR light, mode is not a matter of taste, it just does not work. Now is the time to default to dark mode and add light mode optional later.
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
In XR light, mode is not a matter of taste, it just does not work. Now is the time to default to dark mode and add light mode optional later.
Because everyone (except OS vendors) is getting this wrong, even component libraries, THIS is how a menu works, memorise it, put it into your component libraries, put it into your rules and prompts. Lets make good menus everywhere: gist.github.com/lucidNTR/363...
Proper UI behaviours
Proper UI behaviours. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Because everyone (except OS vendors) is getting this wrong, even component libraries, THIS is how a menu works, memorise it, put it into your component libraries, put it into your rules and prompts. Lets make good menus everywhere: gist.github.com/lucidNTR/363...
We are deeply flawed individuals, most of us trying our very best.
January 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
We are deeply flawed individuals, most of us trying our very best.
The fact that apple calendar is constantly silently failing to move entries, just resetting them where they were or fails to even set event names, leaving me with multiple "new event" entries" which i have no idea what they were and no way to see what happened, should make you anxious.
January 12, 2026 at 12:27 AM
The fact that apple calendar is constantly silently failing to move entries, just resetting them where they were or fails to even set event names, leaving me with multiple "new event" entries" which i have no idea what they were and no way to see what happened, should make you anxious.
Soon reality: People do cheap looking ai upscaling and i have to run downscaling to restore original look of all the pictures and videos
January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Soon reality: People do cheap looking ai upscaling and i have to run downscaling to restore original look of all the pictures and videos
If faced with the decision to deal with the UX of *nix or giving untrusted agents dangerous access to fix that shit for them, most people will chose the latter and its hard to blame them.
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
If faced with the decision to deal with the UX of *nix or giving untrusted agents dangerous access to fix that shit for them, most people will chose the latter and its hard to blame them.
I like to imagine that is today, somwhere in the world.
January 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I like to imagine that is today, somwhere in the world.
@signal.org s ccc talk has some ok statements but it sounds again like they want to empower app developers to belittle the user and applications being able to opt out of things even if the user consents, which is exactly the kind of android and ios bullshit that crashes automation and interop.
January 3, 2026 at 9:26 PM
@signal.org s ccc talk has some ok statements but it sounds again like they want to empower app developers to belittle the user and applications being able to opt out of things even if the user consents, which is exactly the kind of android and ios bullshit that crashes automation and interop.
Well hydrated and ready to fuck up some shit
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Well hydrated and ready to fuck up some shit
if you watch one talk, make it this: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos...
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...
media.ccc.de
January 2, 2026 at 11:11 PM
if you watch one talk, make it this: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos...
Why do all the HID UIs limit the maximum acceleration and speed to ridiculous slow values? Are integers expensive to add to a slider? Is everyone afraid dumb users set it up so fast they cannot undo it and so decide to accept 10% of users will never be able to setup their ideal cursor speeds?
December 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Why do all the HID UIs limit the maximum acceleration and speed to ridiculous slow values? Are integers expensive to add to a slider? Is everyone afraid dumb users set it up so fast they cannot undo it and so decide to accept 10% of users will never be able to setup their ideal cursor speeds?
The best way to #pauseAI is to just cap the energy consumption per company. Its easy to measure and has positive externalities besides giving us time for security and tooling research.
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The best way to #pauseAI is to just cap the energy consumption per company. Its easy to measure and has positive externalities besides giving us time for security and tooling research.
Things that will be possible:
- maintain a fork of a project in another language or ui framework
- maintain a for with complex changes while keeping upstream syncing in
- revive your favourite unmaintained projects
- clone any software locked in evil corp
- maintain a fork of a project in another language or ui framework
- maintain a for with complex changes while keeping upstream syncing in
- revive your favourite unmaintained projects
- clone any software locked in evil corp
December 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Things that will be possible:
- maintain a fork of a project in another language or ui framework
- maintain a for with complex changes while keeping upstream syncing in
- revive your favourite unmaintained projects
- clone any software locked in evil corp
- maintain a fork of a project in another language or ui framework
- maintain a for with complex changes while keeping upstream syncing in
- revive your favourite unmaintained projects
- clone any software locked in evil corp
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annas archive rules
holy shit major props to anna's archive wow annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...
annas-archive.li
December 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
annas archive rules
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i have received several e-mails
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
i have received several e-mails
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if the usa would just enforce the anti monopoly laws they have and the eu the data portability laws we have, the world would be a very different place. The problem is not policy but much deeper
December 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
if the usa would just enforce the anti monopoly laws they have and the eu the data portability laws we have, the world would be a very different place. The problem is not policy but much deeper
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lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE
brexit was our 9/11 from within, ukraine from the outside. both were announced and we did nothing to stop it and had nothing in response. its arguably better than a war under false pretense but we surrendered our last bit of optimism for growing together to the grim chaos of post globalization.
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
brexit was our 9/11 from within, ukraine from the outside. both were announced and we did nothing to stop it and had nothing in response. its arguably better than a war under false pretense but we surrendered our last bit of optimism for growing together to the grim chaos of post globalization.
Its obvious we will need drastic ai taxes, if done right they will also push open models. better to do before ai controls even more of public discourse. as with my calls for advertising bans, this should only apply to companies with z millions revenue.
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Its obvious we will need drastic ai taxes, if done right they will also push open models. better to do before ai controls even more of public discourse. as with my calls for advertising bans, this should only apply to companies with z millions revenue.