Pieter Hollants 🇪🇺 @[email protected]

Vladimir Putin goes to visit a school in Moscow to have a chat with the kids. He talks to them about how Russia is a powerful nation and how he wants the best for the people.

At the end of the talk, there is an opportunity for questions. Little Sasha puts her hand up and says "I have two questions - Why did the Russians take Crimea? And why are we making war against Ukraine?" Putin says "Good questions," but just as he is about to answer, the bell goes off, and the kids go to lunch.

Mozilla ist quasi die SPD unter den Browserherstellern.

Also, Vertraulichkeit von DMs, alles nice und dandy und für 90% der Admins auch uninteressant und eine uncoole Unterstellung, aber wenn ich mich recht erinnere, wäre an nur einem, der nur mal was technisch analysieren wollte, das Mausnet vor 30 Jahren fast zerbrochen, so dass man sich dafür einen CoC geben musste. https://www.ohse.de/uwe/mausnet/sysoptreff94a.html

Gestern bin ich #ausGruenden zum ersten Mal seit Langem ein Auto gefahren (VW Golf 8). Ich war schockiert, wie grottenschlecht Interface-Design eigentlich sein kann – sowohl software- als auch hardwareseitig. Ein kurzer Bericht. (1/n)

@o0karen0o gmail anti-spam measures are so "good" because they aggressively scrub emails with little regard to false positives. Based on my experiences hosting my own email servers for over 20 years I am convinced Google believes email should be a centralised service provided only by the tech monopolists...preferably only them.

Running an email server these days is actually pretty easy. The ONLY hard part is jumping through the ridiculous hoops put up by gmail and to some extent Microsoft's email services...almost all of which do next to nothing to mitigate spam.

So frustrating that many gmail users are unaware that emails from small independent mail servers are regularly dumped into spam, have attachments and/or links dropped, and then get annoyed at me for it. Especially in non-tech circles, they often don't believe it's even possible.

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

In zwei Stunden übergibt der BfDI seinen Tätigkeitsbericht an den Präsidenten des Deutschen Bundestages. Um 13 Uhr sind wir dann zu Gast in der Bundespressekonferenz.

Phoenix hat angekündigt, über Ihren Twitterkanal zu streamen. Wir haben mehrfach darum gebeten, dass die Konferenz auch im regulären Stream übertragen wird. Leider ohne Erfolg. Vielleicht hat das Fediverse ja mal Zeit, den einen oder anderen Zuschauerbrief an die Redaktion von Phoenix zu schicken 😉 / ÖA

OH: "GNU Emacs, which is a sort of hybrid between Windows Notepad, a monolithic-kernel operating system, and the International Space Station."

Most of the software you use on a daily basis is really just a glorified for-loop.