tante

Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. Email: tante@tante.cc | License CC BY-SA-4.0 #noAI

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2026-04-02 19:54:55 UTC

“I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working.”
Honestly. That's like 50% of office workers' experience these days

2026-04-01 15:18:52 UTC

I have been thinking a lot about the term "free and open web" lately and I think that if we want to build an Internet that can live up to some promise beyond "I can order garbage delivered to my house quickly" we need to go back to the drawing board. Hard.

2026-03-31 22:33:26 UTC

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@nprofile…4z9s @nprofile…lkqc I elaborated on that here https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-as-fast-fashion/

2026-03-31 21:14:04 UTC

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.
Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.
It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.
Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.
The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.

2026-03-30 10:20:06 UTC

"Das Auf und Ab der Tech-Konzerne an der Nasdaq hat ein Ende - nun geht es stetig abwärts. Um ihre Versprechen zu halten, agieren OpenAI und Co zunehmend verzweifelt."
(Original title: Tech-Konzerne an der Nasdaq: Druckabfall in der KI-Blase)
https://www.golem.de/news/tech-konzerne-an-der-nasdaq-druckabfall-in-der-ki-blase-2603-207049.html

2026-03-25 15:00:46 UTC

I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.

2026-03-25 14:58:17 UTC

That would just be one user account. The service connects with each user's account through a browser making it a bit annoying to detect. So you can block the developer but anyone else could use the same tool to scrape your posts and feed it into a slop machine.

2026-03-25 13:34:02 UTC

Does anyone know if a Mastodon server can block client applications based on their name?

2026-03-23 13:12:46 UTC

The "AI" bubble currently cannot pop because tech has nothing else to land on.
Metaverse was dropped after a few months like a bad habit because everyone could pivot to "AI". But there is no new story available right now.

2026-03-23 13:09:35 UTC

Spending 3 to 5 USD for every USD you make is not exactly what I'd consider good business.

2026-03-23 13:04:39 UTC

"Microsoft 365 has more than 450 million paid commercial seats. After roughly two years on the market, Copilot has converted approximately 15 million of them into paying users. That's a 3.3% conversion rate, at $30 per user per month, generating roughly $5.4 billion in annual revenue. That's less than what Microsoft spent on infrastructure in a single quarter (3)."
None of the numbers make economic sense.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html?guccounter=1

2026-03-22 14:52:19 UTC

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@nprofile…fvyn I knew her short stories just never had read her Long-Form

2026-03-22 14:30:14 UTC

It was my plan to read some Ursula K. Le Guin and having gone through half of "The Dispossessed" I am so angry for it taking me so long to do it.
Holy fuck.

2026-03-21 21:20:20 UTC

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@nprofile…208x WARUM WERDEN DIE HAFENSÄNGER DANN SO KRASS GUT BEZAHLT?

2026-03-21 20:47:52 UTC

Ich hätte also nachweislich mehrfach deutlich mehr Recht als hochbezahlte PWC Berater*innen.

2026-03-21 07:29:27 UTC

The "parrot" in "stochastic parrot" stands for "memorization".

2026-03-20 12:00:16 UTC

Declaring one's humanity seems to be the thing these days so I also did:
https://tante.cc/human.json (using the standard defined here: https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json)
If we know each other/met and want me to vouch for you, ping me.

2026-03-19 11:50:16 UTC

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@nprofile…dv93 sind seine LinkedIn Posts eigentlich offizielle Dokumente oder vibed er da auch nur so rum?

2026-03-10 16:47:54 UTC

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@nprofile…4agh but Microsoft and Amazon have super sovereign EU data centers! Easy. They also have chips!

2026-03-10 08:26:41 UTC

Weil die "KI" Unternehmen alle Hardware kaufen, wird der "du bekommst nur noch ein dummes Terminal und musst alle relevante Infrastruktur mieten" Trend noch weiter angeheizt. Hardware wird nicht nur teuer, sie wird komplett unzugänglich. Da hilft uns dann auch keine Open Source Software mehr.
https://www.golem.de/news/verteuerte-hardware-ki-konzerne-versperren-den-weg-aus-der-cloud-2603-206158.html

2026-03-09 20:01:41 UTC

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@nprofile…m5v4 @nprofile…37xe nur als Hinweis: Brave fällt immer wieder mit shady shit auf (Crypto bullshit, referral codes überschreiben, damit Brave das Geld bekommt, etc) und wurde von einem Typen gegründet und wird weiterhin von ihm geleitet, der wegen seiner Homophobie bei Mozilla rausgeflogen ist. Brave ist ewww

2026-03-09 13:42:14 UTC

"AI" skills are basically just documentation and it says something about how documentation only gets resources and respect if it is framed as "technology". Which has gender bias all over it.

2026-03-09 13:00:28 UTC

A few unsorted thoughts about how the "Claude" models differ from what for example OpenAI release. Basically: One is a religious text, the other tries to be more of a commercial product
https://tante.cc/2026/03/09/claude-magic/

2026-03-05 14:50:42 UTC

This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

2026-03-05 10:02:07 UTC

Okay, my "Democracy instead of just “Open Source”" talk proposal for #rp26 was rejected. Maybe I'll find another home for it.
https://tante.cc/2026/01/19/republica-2026-talk-proposals/

2026-03-05 07:55:11 UTC

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@nprofile…drgj @nprofile…qxkq with code just adding comments wouldn't suffice.

2026-03-05 00:20:05 UTC

"People proudly saying how much the software they work on is “vibe coded” or “written by Claude” underlining how there is no pride in or responsibility for the work one not only put out but actually forces on people."
(Original title: Artisanal care)
https://tante.cc/2026/03/04/artisanal-care/

2026-03-04 16:18:46 UTC

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@nprofile…hzu2 I mean the new code is MIT so removing restrictions seemed to have been the whole point

2026-03-04 14:28:40 UTC

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts.
Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

2026-03-04 13:47:52 UTC

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@nprofile…drgj @nprofile…qxkq if he changes something he gets copyright. Stuff directly out of the LLM is not copyrightable though

2026-03-04 12:55:08 UTC

Kept thinking about it so I tried to add to it in a quick article. It's about software and love. And Open source.
https://tante.cc/2026/03/04/artisanal-care/

2026-03-03 15:57:18 UTC

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@nprofile…jpgl what do they need editors for? They can just use "AI"

2026-03-03 11:16:26 UTC

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

2026-03-03 11:02:50 UTC

Das ist diese Modernisierung, von der wir immer so viel hören.

2026-03-02 11:00:05 UTC

"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.
They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."
(Original title: How to grow strawberries)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/

2026-02-28 13:05:57 UTC

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@nprofile…87tr when they released their "experiment" people asked what their plans were and it was all just cast aside: "Don't criticize us, we're just experimenting"
They got their podcast episode and moved on.
Which in general wouldn't matter. But it will teach 10k people that "decentralized social media doesn't work". And that's really tragic.

2026-02-27 09:50:24 UTC

Given how they can only be produced by exploitation of workers from the global majority no system including any of the big LLMs in their production can ever be called "fair".
"Fair LLMs" of the size required to do the tasks people want LLMs to do (badly) do not exist.

2026-02-26 15:24:42 UTC

"AI" does exist but it's a narrative/political movement of centralization and disempowerment.
But it's not tech and when talking about the stochastic systems popular these days the term shouldn't be used. It obscures way more than it helps and throws so many things together that one might want to look into in detail.
So if you are talking about "AI" is political project/narrative, go apeshit. Otherwise we probably should try to be more specific about what we mean and ask especially the "AI" boosters, what it is specifically they mean.
Side benefit: When you correctly call that fancy new "assistant" a stochastic word generator, a lot of the magic goes "poof".

2026-02-25 11:36:44 UTC

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@nprofile…v2v2 didn't OpenAI just do a shift like that?

2026-02-24 15:26:21 UTC

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@nprofile…a4js @nprofile…3m4w is ja auch nicht so, dass man Zeit mit den Kids verbringen wollte. Es ist ein Wert, der hochgehen muss um den eigenen eugenischen Zielen zu Folgen.

2026-02-24 14:15:36 UTC

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@nprofile…a4js er ist ja sogar Vater eines kleinen Kindes...

2026-02-24 10:42:29 UTC

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@nprofile…k9f7 it's not about "being worthy", it's about ensuring a level of reliability and security.
If anyone wants to code whatever for themselves that's one thing. But OpenClaw is just the latest, most extreme example of somewhat clueless people pushing massively dangerous code on the public.
We do have certain quality gates for people wanting to do medicine, practice law, build bridges. We have absolutely nothing for software. Maybe that no longer suffices

2026-02-24 09:59:19 UTC

Everyone loves not having to have a license to develop and release code but the argument for stronger controls on who gets to do surgery on the core infrastructures of our digital society is getting stronger by the day.

2026-02-24 09:55:27 UTC

Basically: If you run OpenClaw connected to any meaningful system you are not fit to design, program or run any kind of software. That disregard for security and quality should leave a black mark on you for many years.

2026-02-24 09:54:05 UTC

This is a great illustration about the state of the art in "AI": People with access to inconceivable resources running massively expensive, dangerous code on anyone's data (sometimes even their own) with no regards for basic security or quality standards and practices.
The discipline of software engineering has never been great at establishing and following those kinds of practices but "AI" has thrown us back decades. And we'll suffer the drop in software quality and security for a long time.

2026-02-24 06:40:41 UTC

"Briggs and his Goldman Sachs colleagues recently said that investment spending on AI made “basically zero” difference in U.S. economic growth last year."
As Robert Solow was saying ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/23/ai-economic-growth-gdp-mirage/

2026-02-23 13:47:28 UTC

At least 70% of things I read about people doing with "AI" assistants like "Open Claw" are basically things people have been doing with deterministic, secure tools like Home Assistant for years.
Oh you can tell your bot to dim the lights via WhatsApp chat? Welcome to 2015!

2026-02-23 09:14:32 UTC

"Menschen betrügen manchmal, deshalb darf man eine Maschine, die ziemlich verlässlich falsche Informationen verbreitet nicht deshalb kritisieren" ist ein ziemlicher Hot Take für eine *checks notes* Bundestagsabgeordnete.
Selbe Logik: "Menschen fahren manchmal zu schnell, daher dürfen Selbstfahrende Autos so schnell fahren, wie sie wollen." oder "Menschen machen manchmal den Grill an und erzeigen CO2, daher braucht eine automatisierte Produktionsstraße sich nicht an CO2 Limits zu halten".
Das ist eine Kapitulation. Die Aufgabe politischen Gestaltungswillens weil man an Technikdeterminismus glaubt.
Nicht ideal für die Obfrau des Ausschusses für u.a. Medien.

2026-02-23 08:09:49 UTC

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@nprofile…44dh interesting. Thank you for the summary!

2026-02-23 07:59:06 UTC

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@nprofile…44dh what does thins functionally do?

2026-02-22 18:44:44 UTC

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(Sparked by some of the comments to my recent article about Cory Doctorow telling me how my writing sucks and is unreadable because of grammar mistakes and typos.)

2026-02-22 18:42:16 UTC

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Like in German I am actually somewhat eloquent and texts I write don't look like a person with a head injury wrote them.

2026-02-22 18:38:39 UTC

Many of the people I do have online conversations with speak English as their first language. I kinda get by but you native speakers really underestimate how hard it is to express oneself in a foreign language. Concepts work differently, metaphors don't really translate, references you have used for decades don't make sense.

2026-02-22 12:34:10 UTC

Dear media writing about tech: Sam Altman shitting on "data centers in space" is not the story. Nobody thought that that narrative makes any sense.
You failed as reporters when you pretended it did just cause rich dude claimed it would be the future.

2026-02-22 12:11:50 UTC

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(Fun Fact: Sascha Lobo sitzt in deren Beirat https://www.iu.de/news/sascha-lobo-wird-beiratsmitglied-der-iu-internationalen-hochschule/ )

2026-02-22 12:09:42 UTC

Vor einigen Jahren habe ich mal einen Vortrag für Professor*innen der IU gegeben.
Heutzutage würde ich das definitiv nicht wieder machen, die IU scheint mehr eine Ausbeutungsmaschine insbesondere für indische Studierende zu sein.
(Original title: IU Internationale Hochschule: Die fragwürdigen Silicon‑Valley‑Methoden Deutschlands größter Hochschule)
https://www.spiegel.de/start/iu-internationale-hochschule-die-fragwuerdigen-silicon-valley-methoden-deutschlands-groesster-hochschule-a-bd3cb7c8-aa06-43d1-a0a0-6357cc18afd1#ref=rss

2026-02-21 12:20:05 UTC

"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one “liberate” that? What’s the case for open source violence?"
(Original title: Acting ethically in an imperfect world)
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

2026-02-21 09:54:06 UTC

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@nprofile…ulnl pro view. Plattformen müssen das zahlen.

2026-02-21 09:41:50 UTC

Eine Steuer von einen Cent pro ausgespieltem Short-Form-Video (Instagram Reels, TikTok, YT Shorts) würde mehr für die Demokratie und die mentale Gesundheit der Jugendlichen (und Erwachsenen) tun als alles was gerade angedacht ist.

2026-02-20 21:39:54 UTC

Follow up to the article from this morning. In which I argue how @nprofile…ugpy was right in his article: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/

2026-02-20 15:36:16 UTC

Yeah I did that now my mentions are intense

2026-02-20 11:08:06 UTC

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

2026-02-19 23:53:14 UTC

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Let's see if I write this up properly tomorrow morning and put it on the blog in order to have a bunch of fanboys tear me to shreds.

2026-02-19 23:50:06 UTC

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Dammit, now I kinda got into it.

2026-02-19 23:49:24 UTC

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Finally: It's easy to say "but crawling and taking everything is fine, it's what a search engine does". But that requires so much abstraction that it almost becomes a lie: A search engine processes data in order o generate pointers to it, the "index". LLMs do explicitly not do that but annex, conquer, take while cutting any connection the original author/source has to their audience.
The technology might be the same, the systemic effect, the politics are radically different.

2026-02-19 23:46:34 UTC

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This whole argument says that anything you ever do is okay, as long as something "free and open" comes out of it. But the free and open torment nexus is a torment nexus and needs to be destroyed.
Also technology does not need to be "liberated" (and often cannot, artifacts do have politics). If anything needs liberating it's people. And I don't see how LLMs (even the open weights ones) are doing that.

2026-02-19 23:43:56 UTC

Not gonna get into it right now (gotta go to bed) but labeling criticism of LLM based "AI" as "purity culture" and that one can just legitmize using any and all tech if one just somehow creates "free and open" versions of it is not a good take. Really not. Refusing to use LLMs on ethical grounds is also not a claim that problems are solved "by shopping carefully". That's a lot of straw men just to legitimize using an LLM to do spellcheck. Maybe just do it and don't try to throw people under the bus who aim for something better.
(plus: ollama is not an "open source LLM", maybe have the LLM you use through ollama check your facts a bit.)

2026-02-19 16:30:20 UTC

So don't feel like you cannot be a luddite if you like technology, like working on it.
Caring about your fellow human beings' wellbeing and not some corporations bottom line makes you one. Believing that tech needs to be evaluated on what effects it has and that we have a choice makes you one.

2026-02-19 15:58:34 UTC

"Hating technology" in their reading means "not just embracing its inevitability".
Maybe that's the reason: Leftist thought is based on the understanding that politics is a common project that allows us to make decisions about the world. The idea of "inevitable technology" is the antithesis to that

2026-02-19 15:40:05 UTC

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."
(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)
https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/

2026-02-09 15:29:01 UTC

The reason "AI" has settled on "chat" as interface is because what they are actually selling is domination. They are selling you having a personal slave. That's their hook.

2026-02-09 15:20:26 UTC

Look: If I ever take a job at big tech as Mark Zuckerberg's court jester or Sam Altman's conscience or whatever. Drag me. Give me all the shit in the world. Make every EUR I got for selling my soul and ethics tainted.

2026-02-09 15:09:04 UTC

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@nprofile…2x3t I so hat how he drags his hairdresser into it to legitimize his personal decision.
My god, you took the big paycheck. Fine. But be fucking honest.

2026-02-05 19:58:16 UTC

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@nprofile…a7jx exakt die Situation, die Schwarz Cowen in Kontext setzt

2026-02-05 19:53:30 UTC

Fun fact: "Washing machines" are not that good an example because they did not reduce load for women, they shifted types of work around to free men to work in factories and raised expectations. (See Ruth Schwarz Cowen's "More Work For Mother")

2026-02-05 16:00:51 UTC

Bei den Grünen in BW läufts.

2026-02-04 10:42:55 UTC

Und Bach wurde über viele Jahre im deutschsprachigen Raum von Universitäten, aber auch NGOs hofiert als der "KI Visionär".
Die relevante Frage ist aber doch: Warum genau fundet jemand wie Epstein Forschung wie die von Bach? Forschung im Bereich Transhumanismus und "KI"? Warum passen diese beiden Forschungsbereiche so gut zum Weltbild von Soziopathen wie Epstein?
#TESCREAL

2026-02-03 21:23:59 UTC

The color of "AI" is beige.
It's good that a paper did the legwork but nobody can be surprised by this who knows how an LLM works.

2026-02-03 12:26:58 UTC

"The Zersetzung is working. He is taking himself apart, piece by piece, and replacing the parts with synthetic fillers because the world has told him his own parts are defective."
"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett is one of the best pieces of writing about "AI" I have ever seen. Read it over lunch and it literally made my cry in the restaurant.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

2026-02-02 14:30:00 UTC

This year my plan is not just to write more but also to write a bit out of my usual wheelhouse. Do something that's not just sociotechnological critique.
Not sure how to get the ball rolling there but I really love what Mike Monteiro is doing with his Newsletter ( https://buttondown.com/monteiro ). But I don't want to copy that of course. Gotta find a good hook.

2026-02-01 15:52:36 UTC

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@nprofile…wt4z harder to interact with. In Firefox I have a few extensions in the top bar for direct access. That's (for obvious reasons) not as simple with Zen

2026-02-01 15:33:21 UTC

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@nprofile…wt4z I am not 100% happy with how extensions work, that's my main nitpick I think

2026-02-01 15:09:06 UTC

Playing around with Zen Browser on my Linux Thinkpad. Not full sold but it's got some potential

2026-01-31 22:30:02 UTC

The way that "Moltbook" is used as the basis for another spin at the "AGI is right around the corner" wheel really shows how hollow tech - specifically AI - discourse really is.
Oh wow, a stochastic language model trained on social media posts can generate social media posts.

2026-01-31 19:38:10 UTC

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@nprofile…4agh Ecosia underestimated the amount of locations that wanted to participate which made the cost explode. Most haven't gotten any potatoes or information.

2026-01-31 19:34:38 UTC

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@nprofile…9rjk sadly it was a bit of a clusterfuck. Most of the potatoes were never transported to Berlin, it was mostly an incompetently run PR stunt by Ecosia (the search engine) who wanted to pay for transportation but then realized that logistics is expensive and complex.

2026-01-31 15:42:14 UTC

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@nprofile…nxj0 welche Konkreten Aktivitäten zur Umsetzung geplant sind, was erste Prototypen sein sollen, wie man sicherstellt, dass das nicht nur wieder ein Millionengrab für Consultants wird etc.
What the fuck is this thing? Wie verhält sich das zu so absurden "Delos kostet Office365 und daher ist das jetzt souverän"?

2026-01-31 15:35:17 UTC

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@nprofile…nxj0 das kenne ich, aber unkonkreter könnte es nur werden, wenn dort "magische Software macht alles, billig und schnell" stehen würde.

2026-01-31 14:46:19 UTC

Gibt es mittlerweile eigentlich irgendwas konkretes zum mythischen "Deutschland-Stack"? Also etwas Boxology habe ich gesehen, aber nichts, das man inhaltlich diskutieren könnte.

2026-01-29 14:39:29 UTC

Immer wenn ich Berichte über Katharina Reiche lese, weiß ich gar nicht, ob sie korrupt, bösartig, inkompetent oder alles zusammen ist. Eines der letzten großen Rätsel der Menschheit.

2026-01-26 18:52:32 UTC

When these kinds of hypemen are discarding a hype, it's really not going well.
https://www.threads.com/@profgalloway/post/DT-9mZnAcHE

2026-01-26 09:37:21 UTC

These AI companies are really different.
- OpenAI: Used to be true believers but now mostly cynical scam
- Microsoft: How garbage can we make office and people still pay any markup?
- Google: Sure we can throw AI everywhere as well. No we still don't have product management or strategy
- Anthropic: But dude what if my stochastic model is my soul mate? Or god?

2026-01-23 15:48:23 UTC

When would you say someone is "heavily tattooed"?
I was called that today and was very surprised.

2026-01-20 11:17:08 UTC

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@nprofile…hgec not all heroes wear capes.

2026-01-11 09:51:07 UTC

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@nprofile…xnwu yeah. Can you change the user agent that Readdeck's scraper uses? If you add "Googlebot" it should just work

2026-01-08 15:59:35 UTC

Great plan to take a train from Berlin to Amsterdam tomorrow. It's gonna be a wild ride.

2026-01-08 13:39:01 UTC

Okay, for those who want to switch Email providers and think about Fastmail (as I described in my article https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/ ):
This link gives you 10% off your first year. (It will give me 10 USD, too, so you can consider this advertising, but I'll donate the money coming in through this to Doctors Without Borders)

2026-01-08 08:40:06 UTC

This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices.
(Original title: Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/

2026-01-06 22:08:33 UTC

Wow, #Gentoo moving from GitHub to Codeberg is cool. Haven't run Gentoo for years now but still have a soft spot for it (I learned so much running it as main driver).
I also use Codeberg für my code (and joined the association) but we can't just "move everything to Codeberg". That's neither sustainable nor a good model. We should have more associations like Codeberg to offer those kinds of services. Create a whole web of forges for collaboration while we can watch GitHub go to hell.

2025-12-20 20:12:13 UTC

Worked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.