Summer burns it... and winter drowns it... the seasons change, but the destruction remains.

''Algoritmes zijn niet ontworpen in het belang van de gebruiker, maar in het belang van het platform.'' Onze platformenexpert Lotje sprak met EenVandaag over het gevaar van algoritmes bij social media.

Lees meer: https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/doe-mee/kun-je-algoritmes-uitzetten-op-je-telefoon-zelfs-je-rekenmachine-draait-erop-165329

This.

@TheBreadmonkey Rhapsody in blue trousers

I noticed something:
People who have traveled a lot tend to judge less.

> Not long ago, Mary Beard graced us with a bit of honorable honesty in the Times Literary Supplement, in which she confessed to what is a bit of an open secret among most classicists. She can't sight-read a complex Latin text all that well. Most classicists can't. This admission — from someone like Beard — is good to have out there.

> What irritates me is that —again like most classicists — she treats this as a self-evident fact to be just accepted rather than a problem to be dealt with, as if nobody could hope to actually read Cicero with ease. It always strikes me as bizarre and a bit embarrassing to see classicists insisting that it is impossible to acquire fluid or fluent command of Latin or Greek, that "we" can never do this.

https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignorantiam.html

See also the comments at metafilter, where people argue that indeed, it is unrealistic to expect one of the world's most famous classicists to be fluent in ancient greek and latin, because the word order is just so different.

https://www.metafilter.com/181221/Lingua-pulcherrima

Can anyone on the Node.js team review this pull request and help get it into v26 LTS?

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/63270

It’s blocking Kitten from moving to Node 26. (And not just us.)

#NodeJS #regression #binary

Reddit admins repeatedly asked mods how to make like for them better. And then repeatedly ignored almost every single answer they got, rolling out features nobody wanted and taking away things people used. It was the years and years and years of putting in hours and hours of time working against the enshittification that made me tired, and then it was the stupid fucking over-reaching AI moderation that caused me to leave after my accounts started being banned for no good reason with appeals failing.

It took far too long for them to drive me away, as I know it did for a lot of others.

“Michael Crichton, psychology, and AI - Austin Kleon”

https://austinkleon.com/2026/11/10/michael-crichton-psychology-and-ai/

RE: https://floss.social/@friction/117588654336576591

oh! there's a new cool kid in town 👀
actually for a few years already, but I only see it now.

Nice to see dedicated motion graphics software.
Open source, cross-platform, and not vibe-coded as far as I can tell.
Hope it does well! 💜 🥳

Woman in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 100 lashes for giving birth outside marriage - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/nov/11/woman-in-saudi-arabia-sentenced-to-100-lashes-for-giving-birth-outside-marriage what a barbaric country

@glyph Amen. Move out of the technosphere, enter the sociosphere, think about what people truly need.

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I don’t disagree, but I think the heavy-handed moderation was often in service of “cleaning up” to make the website more commercially palatable. Like when they pulled r/atheism as a front-page reddit.

For me, the out of control engagement bots constantly commenting on my comments was the last straw that made me leave.

Wikipedia is proof you are wrong, it is possible to run large-scale services with no profit

yes, of course, but it’s not a business model. Which means decisions aren’t driven by profit. The issue isn’t about money, it’s how/why it flows

Next week, on CBS All-Access Doctor Culber reconfigures the spore drive to mine bitcoin nevertheless takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque

Sony Put the Walkman's Launch Presentation on the Walkmans It Handed Reporters

https://lockergnome.com/sony-walkman-launch-press-presentation-on-tape/

#sony #walkman #TechHistory #tech #GenerativeAI

Took a bit of a feed break after the push to get the last custom live production presented. Cheers if you attended. I put a lot of work into them for as difficult as it is to do physically and fiscally, it is at least a way I can focus my health fight and still make a good angry friendly space albeit online.

Aside from my utter lack of health and spoon to be a promotional butterfly or a performative socialsmaxer I also do not have the quota on my current video home to post more videos and recent full shows. Struggling to not shutdown more core self hosted infra much less third party video. Also hard to gauge if there is even any interest in videos especially from my low tech and sonic violence space.

Let's try a thread with some videos and see.

For the neighbours!

To be honest, here I’m also feeling that you can’t say some things if you don’t want to get insulted and downvoted.

I have almost nothing positive to say about Windows so I don’t really mind if only Linux is allowed, but I feel like you have to have an anti-state and anti-police stance here.

I’m none of these and I really understood that it’s difficult to have a different opinion here.

Still, I’m enjoying Lemmy/PieFed, but nuance seems more difficult to have here because it ain’t full of « normies ».

About size, I guess it would be nice to have less dead communities, so probably nice to have more people in these.