Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Mich nervt auch diese "Hilfe alle Schweizer Journos sind links"-Hysterie....

Ja wo sitzt denn die Macht in diesem Land? Nicht bei den Migrant:innen, nicht den Gewerkschaften oder bei den queerfeministischen Kollektiven...

Dieses Land ist bürgerlich-konservativ-wirtschaftsliberal regiert.

@adfichter auf #LinkedIn zu #Journalismus:

«Aufgabe des Journalismus wäre eigentlich das genaue, kritische Hinsehen bei den Mächtigen. Diejenigen, die in Charge sind. In Politik und Wirtschaft.

Und nicht Anbiederung und Umgarnung.

Mich nervt diese "Hilfe alle Schweizer Journos sind links"-Hysterie..

Ja wo zum Teufel sitzt denn die Macht in diesem Land?

Nicht bei den Migrant:innen, nicht bei den Gewerkschaften oder bei den queerfeministischen Kollektiven...»

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adriennefichter_kleiner-rant-zum-versagen-gewisser-medien-activity-7286466098789531650-6ayq/

J’ai eu le plaisir de faire un entretien avec @rekrek pour @bastamedia, ou je reviens sur l’actualité récente des réseaux sociaux, leur lien avec les milliardaires américains, Bluesky, et notre annonce récente de la fondation Mastodon (et de pourquoi c’est vraiment important qu’il existe un RS ouvert et non soumis au capital)

https://basta.media/mastodon-bien-commun-surtout-vu-environnement-mediatique-politique-quitter-X

Ami·es journalistes ou politiques, n’hésitez pas à me contacter si vous voulez aussi discuter de ces sujets 😉

Hello mastodon...what's the vibe on here like? Trying to make the digital jump to alternative social platforms....not backing down is proving to be a bit exhausting but this nature nerd trans queer muslim woman will not back down ✊🏽🪲🦋🐚

Good response to the garbage Wokeness lecture by Paul Graham. https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/113861729112073208

where are all the young queer people? Am I alone here?
My name is Lin (any pronouns) and i am in my 20s, i am also wlw!! Im here because I hate the use of Meta ai in apps and i want to find like-minded friends! Is anyone out there?

#wlw #queer #tiktokrefugee #tiktok #gay #art #friends #meme #introduction

I've received 5 VC offers "to chat" regarding Pixelfed in the past few days.

Not for sale.

Pixelfed belongs to the people.

I'd rather be broke and true to my beliefs, than sell out.

That's why I'm organizing a Kickstarter to fund the ethical development of Pixelfed, Loops and more.

It's time that someone stood up to them, instead of joining them.

Are you with me?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

Hello, I'm Wissam, a 32 year old carpenter from France. I'm a #tiktokrefugee and not yet an #instagramrefugee but hopefully soon. I'm sick of all the attention seeking publicity on a platform where money is the only language it speaks. I'm glad I found Mastodon.

I'm interested in mountains, nature-related topics, self-sufficiency, DIY, gardening and obviously beards.

I hope to connect with like-minded people and have a healthier, more interesting relationship with social media.

Cheers 😊

I swear every time I see not just a big post with a hundred of the same replies, but the hundredth big post on a subject with a hundred of the same replies, I am renewed in the fact that #FetchAllReplies will fundamentally change this place for the better. As far as I know only we and one other masto/glitch instance have it, and it is already without a doubt the biggest game changer I have ever experienced on the fedi - when everyone has it, it will just be a completely different network.

And with that I'm gonna work on the PR until it's Mon ster don time

“””
“Write JavaScript like it’s 2005” had been GitHub’s front-end team’s guideline since its inception, until React got pushed down from Microsoft management and most of us on the front-end team quit. If you are a user of github.com, consider how it has changed since 2020.

This is an old practice that has gotten lost in the ways with the manufacture of JavaScript industrial complex/ecosystems and frameworks.
”””
https://muan.co/posts/javascript

Wrote up a gnarly sequence of hacks for downloading every video in a TikTok account, just in case anyone needs such a thing in the next ~24 hours

uv, yt-dlp, JS in the Firefox DevTools and optionally throws in mlx-whisper for generating transcripts too https://til.simonwillison.net/tiktok/download-all-videos

The TikTok ban will deplatform thousands of progressive content creators and skew online discourse to the right. It will consolidate media influence within right-leaning platforms like Meta and X. Over time, I believe this reconfiguration will permanently alter the political landscape of the creator economy https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

@jducoeur commented

1. it's shorter but less readable because you have no idea what it does
2. the open aspect is the return of `CanBuildFrom`. I don't know why Scala is obsessed with hiding the underlying datatypes, but this is bad
3. the loss of regularity makes Scala 3 harder to learn
4. could we first check if we can implement tree-sitter-scala, IntelliJ, Metals support before accepting the SIP?
5. Python has one way of defining a list. this ain't it chief
https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/pre-sip-a-syntax-for-collection-literals/6990/32?u=eed3si9n #Scala

#Introduction 🌍

Just discovered this space, and I’m excited to be here!

I’m a Cloud/DevOps Engineer, thrilled to connect with you all.

I specialize in #CloudSecurity, #Kubernetes, #Terraform, and #DevSecOps.

Looking forward to learning from everyone, sharing insights, and talking about building scalable and secure infrastructure!

Let’s discuss #CloudComputing, #DevOps, #GitOps, #Automation, and more.

Cheers!

Hi, scientists from the Fediverse! It seems that Nature is asking people about Twitter migration and if they are happier on #bluesky .

On Nature writers' minds, Bluesky is the only place to migrate to. There's not a single mention of the Fediverse in there! However, there is a small free text box where you can write your thoughts, in the step before "send" button. So I did fill the poll anyway, writing why I decided not to go to Bluesky but to Mastodon instead.

I thought that maybe if we get enough people to actually fill the survey and mention that they migrated to Mastodon, we can make a stronger case for open, free networks. It's an extremely short survey, so let's try! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00037-y

#academicchatter #OpenScience

Downloaded Xiaohongshu (Rednote) to see what content people would get recommended with, and for Switzerland and probably Germany, it’s all AFD propaganda.

The DIY FOSS Cyborg https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-diy-foss-cyborg/

Yes, I met a DIY FOSS Cyborg who lives in Emacs and Guix full-time. And YOU TOO can live such a life, if you dare!