Notices by Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)

Meetings before 10 AM should simply be illegal

There should be a right to have a coffee at the very least

https://youtu.be/upGKj7Fdi9s?si=a0OjnuGg1FzVIkTb

This kind of puts into words a lot of thoughts I've had recently around themeability/customizability vs. not being able to do that and why some people like it and why some people don't

Few things bring me as much joy as reorganizing my physical bank statements and receipts

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@pivic/116935929646970100

He never misses

https://globalnews.ca/news/11970405/donald-trump-canada-wildfires/

Reminder: This is the "drill baby drill" president

The idea of the Cyber Resilience Act and all of the work done with rebuilders, in-toto, attestations etc. all seem like a strange echo from a different time now lol

We've devolved so much since 2023 in this regard it's crazy

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/16/eu-google-ai-apps-android-access/

Correct decision.

I don't know how to explain to people that usually, metadata is what people base their worst decisions on. People kill based on metadata. People murder based on "x talked to y". Governments round up people based on immutable markers, all of which are just metadata.

E2EE just jumped from "relevant" to "w/o it, you can't really provide a service to someone in good conscience in this country" overnight

Making me seriously reconsider where (and whether) to host my Nextcloud next

A storm of spy bills, wrapped in everything from "saving the children" to "securing digital ID systems" to "verifying real humans" unlike anything we've seen before is brewing in every remaining democracy on earth and nothing seems to be able to stop it

https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967

There needs to be a law that makes remote attestation - no matter who provides the root certificates, Google/Apple/GrapheneOS - illegal. There is only one use for this technology right now, and it is to prevent people from doing what they want to do with the devices they own, while also making interoperability cryptographically impossible. This is anti-competitive and should simply be illegal.

CBC's framing of Bill C-22 is hilariously wrong

@mitchellh One of the best descriptions I've heard lately was that it feels like "losing coworkers to dementia" as people adopt it, where everyone feels like they know everything, but when you talk with them in person or there is a problem that needs to be fixed _now_ it becomes very clear that the capability to do that has atrophied basically completely

@mitchellh I would love to see someone commission a study on this. It _feels_ like things are in general getting less reliable atm, esp. the stack I rely on for work (GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion, VSCode, <insert-tui-tool-here>), but then I can't find any data on any of it.

Please, for the love of god, stop calling mass surveillance bills "lawful access". There is no such thing as "lawful access" - once the backdoor is there, it will be used without oversight the second it's in place. There is literally not one example in all of (recent) history of "lawful access" bills leading to anything other than this.

@onepict It's so well written it even got my nonexistant attention span to respawn

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Everyone should read this.

Today is another day of me doing the loosing my glasses in the morning speedrun any%

@inthehands @Unlikelylass True, that's a good point. I'd love to do an analysis of Chinese spending on manufacturing infrastructure and clean energy build-outs vs. the American investments in inference hardware at some point

Damn, I fell for graph 1) again. Turns out that data centre capex actually isn't all that unusual?