I am very tired of making the point that the known negative effects of LLM usage and funding/support are so extreme that there is no hypothetical amount of “usefulness” or “productivity gain” that can so much as justify experimentation with this technology.

It is simply ethically beyond the pale and I have a very hard time respecting otherwise intelligent peers who make an explicit choice to ignore all those harms because they have a massive boner for “fun new tech”, regardless of where it comes from.

Simply put, “Is it useful” is not a conversation worth even having and you suck for dragging it in that direction

We're hiring for a part-time position in Finance & Operations at @Mastodon. Fluent German and English language skills are a requirement. In terms of location it's a hybrid role so we're looking for candidates in #berlin or #vienna. I believe this is a rare opportunity to learn about the organisational side of technology non-profits and open source.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/6c969533-e00e-468a-959c-e3c366ff10a4/

#fedihire #job #jobs

Liveblog, the new Mastodon interface designed for live events e.g. watch parties, faced the acid test of #Monsterdon (+ #MonsterMiru) last night... & survived!

• Let me post without having to worry about entering multiple hashtags every time (Mastodon web's capricious hashtag autocomplete is the most frustrating "feature" for me during watch parties)
• It auto-refreshed & kept up with the flow; maybe not as instant as plain Mastodon, Liveblog perhaps every 1-3 seconds, but definitely good enough. (For me at least; at one point another user said Liveblog would only update every ~60 seconds for them IIRC. At the exact same time, it was working fine for me. 🤷‍♂️)
• Enough vertical space for me in my laptop side-by-side watch party setup to be able to see 1-4 posts (depending on their content)

Drawbacks last night (it's under development, & changes/new features are being added daily):

• Couldn't click on a post to see its parent/thread
• Couldn't edit a post
• No notification sounds. Not an issue for me, as I have Mastodon pinned as one of my essential tabs in Zen Browser so I heard notifications from that. (It would sound 3-5 seconds before appearing in Liveblog.)
• EDIT: no emojis, had to remember how to use emoticons :D

I'm going to keep using Liveblog for watch parties. Give it a try yourself, watch partiers!

Liveblog creator: @stefan
More info: https://stefanhayden.com/blog/2026/03/28/Liveblog---a-new-mastodon-client-to-quickly-post-durring-live-events/

#WatchParty #Mastodon

The computer whiz married his router and modem, pronouncing them husbandwidth and WiFi.

Bad news for my neighbor if I'm supposed to love them as I love myself.

I was in a good mood until I started petting a duckling in the park. Then I started feeling a little down.

Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!).
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy

Nach einer kurzen Vorstellungsrunde und einem Beitrag von @sonjdol zu Blogs bei WordPress, Medium, Substack und Co. gehen wir jetzt beim zweiten Magdeburger @fediMD in eine erste Kaffeepause.

Das #Plushtodon ist auch dabei.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Ameboid/116316993709442818

I want everyone to see my cartoon son.

Tux und die Plushtodons haben gerade eine Blume bekommen.

#CLT2026 #linux #tux #chemnitz #ChemnitzerLinuxTage #Plushtodon

#hiking #lofotes #silentsunday #landscapephotography

The wisdom of the Cats

18:15 Uhr wollen wir draußen auf dem Gebäudevorplatz unser großes Tux-Gruppenfoto für dieses Jahr machen.
Wenn ihr mit euren Tuxen oder anderen Figuren mit dabeisein möchtet, gesellt euch einfach mit dazu.
Bis dann!

@LPI
@tuxedocomputers
@thomaskrenn
@b1systems
@ossrox

#CLT2026 #linux #tux #chemnitz #ChemnitzerLinuxTage #Plushtodon

Die #ChemnitzerLinuxTage sind in vollem Gang - dieses Jahr steht unter dem Stern "Souveräne Digitalität" - das merkt man auch am grandiosen Vortragsprogramm 😊

Ihr seid noch nicht im Mittagskoma? Dann kommt gern vorbei - unsere #Plushtodon und #Tux freuen sich immer über Streicheleinheiten!

#clt2026 #ossrox #hosting #opensource

You may find yourself thinking, as I did, "I'm already paranoid, so I can drink the juice no problem." Friends, this was a bad idea. #comics

Trust the process. #comics