Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:
- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers
Shots from the field.
#Midtones #FilmPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #MediumFormat #BehindTheScenes #MamiyaRB67 #NikonF801 #Aotearoa
A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.
Two babies
📷 #leicam3 #summicron DR #50mm
🎞 #kodakvision500t
#analog #analogphotography #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #catsOfMastodon #cat #leica #m3 #kodak #vision3 #500t
My "No, your use-case does not negate all of the horrifying externalities" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
What you working on there?
#Plushtodon is here to keep me motivated on a Friday afternoon. 💜🐘
#plushtodon is the newest addition to my desk, alongside slowpoke and Kevin the wizard
If I was meant to respond to them they would have been called YEStifications.
It had come to that. #grickledoodle #duck #shame #consensus #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, but actually “identity verification”, then it’s easy to understand that the real goal is “papers, please” for the entire internet.
How am I supposed to get anything done? #catsofmastodon
