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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Back in 2019 I was still living in Montréal, but took these two photos during a trip back home here in Iceland. One on the way to Viðey, the other on a beach somewhere on the Reykjanes peninsula, I think. #iceland #photos #photography

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I did find this photo from 2022, from a tourist-y trip to the old artificial caves in the south of Iceland #iceland #photos #photography

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

“It’s ridiculous. AL is all over the place.” — my mom

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zicklepop@nyan.lol ("🌸 melanie kat 🌸") wrote:

Did you know you can use omg.lol's source.tube to update your now page automatically? Here's how! Get forking.

https://source.tube/melanie/now-updater

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

An early Christmas present. I have a head cold so, I can’t currently smell anything. I think they call that irony in the literary biz.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
freebliss@post.lurk.org ("Simon Repp") wrote:

Hey Vienna & Surroundings, we're warmly inviting you to the fifth #permacomputing meetup – January 13th (2026) from 19:00-22:00, one last time at GT_'s lovely space at Alte WU/Spittelau (alas, just temporary use): https://gtblank.org/event/99

This time around we have the pleasure of having Maël Madon present their "Reflections on sufficiency for data centers", to quote them: "I am a researcher in Computer Science, with an interest in environmental impacts of computing. In this talk, I want to share with you some insights from my PhD work, in which we tried to go beyond efficiency measures for data centers, and rather think about "sufficiency". I will explain how we approached the problem, give some results and also personal thoughts on the question."

@Ansimorph, me, the GT_ crew and the local permacomputing community are looking forward to seeing you all there! （＾▽＾）／＼（＾▽＾）

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livcomp@hachyderm.io ("Dave Ackley") wrote:

It Once Was Walled
But Now It's Free

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3689492.3689807

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

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kev@fosstodon.org ("Kev Quirk") wrote:

I've been using #Firefox for over 20 years at this point, but after a stream of cock-ups, I'm thinking about moving on.

https://kevquirk.com/blog/is-firefox-firefucked/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
fabio@manganiello.eu ("Fabio Manganiello") wrote:

New #Mozilla CEO: “Blocking ad-blockers in #Firefox could bring in an additional $150M in revenue“.

Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.

Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and the only folks who still use it regularly are exactly those who don’t want ads constantly shoved in their faces, nor trackers to suck up every valuable detail about them.

And they are willing to go the extra step and use a browser that is less supported than the overwhelmingly Chromium-based crowd out there.

Take ad blockers away (and, most importantly, take away Manifest V2 extensions), and those few remaining users will just dwindle away to Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium/Cromite/Vanadium, or to support Ladybird/Servo, before you even finish saying the words “profit margins”.

And of course their collective hallucination with AI has now crossed into the realms of ridicule. Nobody knows exactly what kind of new useful features will be added nor how those will solve problems that users want to solve. All we know is that “AI is coming”, embedded in a lot of low-value features that nobody asked, and that some product managers rushed to release just because someone at the top of the food chain asked to “put AI in their product”, and with literally zero chances of competing against the AI features provided by the browsers of companies like Google and Microsoft who can afford to invest into AI 3-4 orders of magnitude more resources than Mozilla.

I’m wondering why Mozilla seems so committed to this mission of firing dumb CEOs just to hire someone who is even dumber and detached from reality than their predecessor.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

I’m sorry, but I have switched from #Firefox to #Chromium
I don’t believe it could be a good browser anymore 😔
#Librewolf is still an alternative but it is now to dependant of a software going to the wrong direction

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

All I want for Christmas is a corpse in the White House…by natural causes, preferably.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/21/it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhrQ1fgMGo

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koala@todon.eu ("eri 🌿") wrote:

parece que vou a dar a miña primeira charla o mes que ven no FOSDEM, qué medo aaa :yell:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/NJM3KB-mathml-core

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

My photography was in a bit of a slump from 2020-2022 (for obvious reasons) but I did have fun experimenting with processing old photos using geometry-matching algorithms

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

A couple of photos from 2023 #iceland #raven #bird

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
mathieui@piaille.fr wrote:

Opinion piece: fuck the future big tech is trying to sell us #blog
https://blog.mathieui.net/this-is-not-the-future.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's wild to hear Martin Wolf talking about inequality this seriously. Martin Wolf!

https://youtu.be/YSQ7LY0ca0o?si=JtjPgZFUxgrcdIpq

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Ed Zitron finally calls out Hank Green for his bullshit AI videos. Love to see it. I don’t think Hank has plausible deniability anymore. He’s seen the criticisms. He can do the research. And if any money was involved he can give it back.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbusters/

#HankGreen

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

"Four Waymos blocking traffic in all directions" (per scanner) 12/20/25 1939PT #SanFrancisco

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apilsetas wrote:

by Maurizio Fantini

#photography

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Catfish_Man ("David Smith") wrote:

Oddly furious about this Waymo* thing. Like, how the fuck is your disaster response plan “idk I guess we’ll distribute roadblocks randomly across the city, focusing on blocking high traffic areas”?

It’s a good thing this is just a power outage and not, say, a larger follow-up to the four minor earthquakes in the last 24 hours.

*for non-SF folks: power is out across much of the city and waymos cant navigate it

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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Epstein-Trump photos "disappear."
It's a mystery!
Whatever could have happened?

Or:

Justice Department Flouts Law,
Suppresses Evidence
Of Trump-Epstein Collusion

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France, 1958

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

She has a history of choosing to work with the right-wing even when she was the leader of the left-greens, even her crime novels are written in collaboration with one of the more right-wing fiction writers in Iceland

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The person who destroyed the left in Iceland is now running an ‘AI’ centre: ‘New Nordics AI’

https://www.visir.is/g/20252819768d/katrin-ordin-stjornar-for-madur

This thing: “New centre for artificial intelligence launched to promote use of AI in Nordics and Baltics”

https://www.norden.org/en/news/new-centre-artificial-intelligence-launched-promote-use-ai-nordics-and-baltics

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governa@fosstodon.org ("ricardo :mastodon:") wrote:

#Linux Apps Without Distro Lock-In? Explore This Lesser Known Snap and Flatpak Alternative

https://itsfoss.com/pkgforge/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
monsieurvenus@masto.es ("Silvia 🎃🕸️🎄") wrote:

Me ha parecido bastante acertado