This post raised a full-on belly laugh for me at the end, but it speaks to a serious issue - I'm amazed by the lengths poor Dave Barry has had to go to, to convince Google to stop telling everyone he's dead in AI Overview answers.
Death by AI
One man's struggle with his mortality.
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The price of batteries is coming down so fast, that this paper has basically said it makes more sense to build a solar project, and then 5-10 years later invest in batteries *then*, when the cost of batteries is so much lower than it is today. For context, we've seen the cost of batteries in China drop by 30% in a single year (!) for one of the larger tenders in 2025 .
Bluesky Social
Eric Hittinger (@elephanteating.bsky.social)
Our New Paper that might be interesting to some folks around here: "The Optimal Timing of Storage Additions to Solar Power Plants" 🔌💡 Open a...
I spend more time on Masto than Bluesky, but I find it interesting that this guy is running almost the entire stack required for bluesky, including ingesting the firehose of all the millions of users, on a 200 USD / month server:
in and out, quick appview adventure | futur
it's an appview, michael, how long could it take? tl;dr I'm running what is, to my knowledge, the first instance of the Bluesky AppView containin...
 That's not far off twice the cost of larger "galaxy” size hosted instance from Masto-host, intended for hosting low thousands of users:
Masto.host
Pricing | Masto.host
Pricing for Masto.host fully managed Mastodon hosting plans. Starting at $6/month.
 They're not the same thing obviously, but still, it caught my eye.
Has anyone seen more info about how this switch from Microsoft in Denmark is being implemented? The article here says they’ll essentially be giving half the gov Libreoffice but staying on Office 365 for everything else, while the other half keeps using the whole integrated Office 365 suite for a year. That feels like it’s a very uneven match up and: [@bert_hubert](
EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social)
3.19K Posts, 1.19K Following, 8.3K Followers · Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur ...
 ) has a piece on why
Bert Hubert's writings
What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech - Bert Hubert's writings
Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end ...
Mastodon
Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
In Denmark, The Ministry of Digitalization now removes all Microsoft software from ministry computers and switches to open source in a strategy tha...
WOOT! I pay for Youtube, to avoid the ads, and because honestly I easily use it enough to justify the cost, but paying something like couple of months of subscription fees to increase the chances of there being a viable alternative in future was an easy decision to make. Looks like I wasn't alone 💯
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PeerTube (@peertube@framapiaf.org)
We've reached the first goal of our crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube app! You're amazing! Thanks a lot! 🥰 Thanks to your support, everyo...
If you're involved in the Mastodon / Fediverse #fediscovery programme, you've worked on the project, or you've been following its progress over the last year or so and you're going to this event, would you leave a comment in this thread? It was funded as part of the EU NGI Search programme, and I think it's an interesting project. I'd like to learn more about it, and I figure others might as well:
Mastodon Community Meetup · Luma
Mastodon Hosts a Gathering for re:publica 25 An evening of casual conversation, connection, and community with the people building the decentralise...
 I’ll add some links in the next post. /1
This is such a good post, and does a really good job of explaining the strategic risks when going all in on what you might refer to as “deeply integrated closed cloud”. [@alberto_cottica](
Mastodon.green
Alberto Cottica (@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green)
4.54K Posts, 385 Following, 1.07K Followers · Post-growth economist, citizen, runner. Network science, complex systems, digital anthropology, coll...
 ) in the context of your recent FOI to the European Commission about their use of suppliers, I think it's worth a read, and if you're not following [@bert_hubert](
Fosstodon
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)
8.05K Posts, 1.12K Following, 941 Followers · Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur s...
 ) already, I think you’d get along.
Fosstodon
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)
“Going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going...
This looks cool - and I had no idea it existed before reading a post by @npub19450...2lkl. It's useful to have a thing like this to point when you're arguing for public money to spent on stuff other than Palantir or AI factories, because if you are talking about digital skills, then stuff like this is arguably much more directly helpful.
MDLS
MDLS
Helping to tackle digital inequality by developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) for households with children covering all four UK nations.
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WOW - The French government announced a project simple called Docs: “A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentationZendisorm that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline." It’s even offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood (Y.js). LOL, does this mean I get to roll out the "Liberté, Egalitité CRDTé” Dad joke? I think it does. Link below
Docs
Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.
 V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)
hi folks, can I get your help? Where I work, at the Green Web Foundation, we're looking for a #Django developer to join our small but ambitious team working towards a fossil free internet. We're looking for someone to help me with maintaining and developing our platform. Almost everything we do is open source, you'd be working with grown-ups. Job link below:
Green Web Foundation
Jobs - Green Web Foundation
 If you know someone who might enjoy working with us, would you let them know, or share this in your networks?