mastodon 4.6.8+glitchProgrammer, hacker, colored light connoisseur, treasurer of Hackerspace @bitlair@hsnl.social, 🇳🇱, bicycle enjoyer 🚲 and fidget toy engineer.
Big fan of electronic music. Drum & Bass, Synthwave, Vaporwave, (Psy-/Prog-/Tech-)Trance, Ambient, Frenchcore, etc. Tag me in your favourites, I'm always looking for new stuff to listen.
Golang, Rust, Python. Dislikes: unwarranted complexity, repetition, disharmony, bigotry
Hey Europeans!
If you do not like what the State of Israel is doing to Palestinians, Lebanese and the stability of the Middle East in general, then please please sign this petition on halting the EU-Israel Association Agreement:
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en
Germany 🇩🇪 is still a big country that is still below the threshold, so if you are German and have not signed yet, then please do so and spread it along your fellow countrymen!
Back home again from #39c3 and new years celebrations
Please remember to take the time for aftercare for your post-con drop. You will have likely exhausted your brains happy-chemicals so feeling like shit would not be out of the ordinary
Rest, talk to people, rewatch some lectures. At least that is what I will be doing
And thank you all for being there! I always enjoy the vibe of people acting out their unmoderated weird self :blobhaj_heart:
Oh btw, here is the yearly particulate matter readout around new years. Mind you that I was not at home and kept everything closed. I did forgot to switch off the mechanical ventilation, which is likely how it still got inside 😬
@dthompson@toot.cat @cwebber@social.coop @spritely@social.coop The most mentioned one would be https://stoat.chat/ I heard it is decent but I have not tried it myself.
Alternatively:
And probably a few more that I have not yet discovered. This is a crowded space, holy shit
RE: @labria@social.yeschenko.com
Before corporate had access to LLMs:
OH: "One persons trash is another persons rage-room"
What is a decent document scanning app for Android nowadays?
I used MS Office Lens until now, but it started requiring MS Drive now :(
Other apps require creating an account and monthly subscriptions...
Looking for thoughts on the following:
I was tending to https://bitlair.nl again today and I see that it getting hammered by crawler bots again. The server is really beefy so it handles it just fine, be it a little bit slower.
But I am wondering whether to set up Anubis to block the bots? Like, it does not sit well with me to waste compute and energy to serve empty MediaWiki Talk pages over and over.
The counter argument is that Bitlair is already hard to find by people as-is as we have no clue how to do proper promo. There *may* theoretically be people using chatbots to discover Bitlair in a way that a search engine also would.
