Hey, listen. #Codeberg is being spammed with LLM bots right now. They started like an hour ago. Each bot is opening up one issue in a random tracker every minute.

I have no idea what the spread is, but each individual bot has like seven pages full of issues now. PieFed and FEP are both starting to see issues piling up because of this.

RE: https://social.wedistribute.org/objects/771856be-078f-4022-9971-7fd4b283426d

Migrating (some things) to Codeberg. It’s the switching costs that get you. #XProc #XMLCalabash

https://so.nwalsh.com/2025/05/26-codeberg

#Moon, deer, Miyajima, by Ohara Koson (#OharaKoson), ca. 1910.
#shinhanga

Wenn man als mittelalte, momentan eher unsportliche, dicke Frau mit ab und an Rücken, wenig Zeit und Schreibtisch-Alltag über ein Fitnessstudio-Abo nachdenkt und in der Nähe Kieser, NonStopGym und PureGym sind, was von denen wäre denn empfehlenswert und warum?

#Muckibude #FollowerPower

I find it interesting to call on researchers to exercise caution when using US platforms for research data and to urge them to migrate their data to non-commercial European infrastructures—when the university depends on Microsoft, who have just demonstrated that this dependence is not merely a theoretical risk

#AcademicChatter #Microsoft

@mcc ... now that they've baked in copilot, I might as well yank every repository I still have on github and be done with it.

I moved everything to #Codeberg quite some time ago and have found it does everything I need without any glitches, and a commitment from them on no AI ever, is a huge plus. The list of addons isn't huge, so check what's available.

Remember that @Codeberg is on the fediverse, too... if you ever need answers or updates.

#Postman is logging all your #secrets and environment variables 😬

https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424

#Security

docx2tex is now 10 years old and has been released in version 1.10! Thank you for 14k downloads and the valuable feedback that helps to make this tool better. #texlatex #ooxml #oss
https://github.com/transpect/docx2tex/releases/tag/v.1.10

@jeroenbosman @Jeroenson @hvdsomp So, an age old topic that's dear to my heart :) .. how resilient is "doi.org" from U.S. influence?

(De?)cenralised #OpenScience #ScholComm

Are there other academic researchers out there interested in drafting a statement about refusing to use generative AI for research (from initial planning/design/conception through writing, editing, and beyond)?

I imagine something similar to this: https://refusinggenai.wordpress.com/, but for the research process.

Feel free to reply publicly or via DM.

#generativeAI #LLMs #academicchatter

Ich habe demnächst ein paar PCs zu verschenken, weil sie nicht Windows 11 fähig sind. Ein Kunde überlässt sie mir. Ich spiele LinuxMint drauf. Falls jemand jemanden kennt, der einen PC haben möchte, bitte gern bei mir melden. Ich prüfe keine Bedürftigkeit. Ich will sie nur an Menschen geben und nicht wegwerfen.

Gern weiter Teilen.
#FediGive #windows11 #LinuxMint #EineSorgeWengier

There was a question about "what AI skills should librarians have" on one of my listservs. My Ideas:

• Knowledge of the IP theft underlying these tools
• Discerning “we just relabeled something and now are pretending it’s AI to charge you more while making the product worse” from vendor pitches
• Understanding the inherent biases, the ecological harms, the underpaid mods
• Addressing loss of critical thinking and reading skills ]
• Demonstrating how this is being used as labor suppression

Eine Schule in #Lörrach würde gerne um die 300 (!) Desktop-PCs mit Ryzen 3/5-CPUs, 16 GB RAM sowie 256/500 GB SSDs für einen guten Zweck spenden (genauere Angaben haben wir leider nicht). Da wir aktuell keinen Bedarf haben, suchen wir übers Fediverse nach Abnehmer*innen. Bitte meldet euch bei uns, wenn ihr Interesse habt. Wir vermitteln euch dann den Kontakt.

#FollowerPower

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

https://endof10.org/

@awinkler @fuzzyleapfrog @HeptaSean das wäre so toll wenn Podcasts automatisch gesammelt und archiviert werden, schon um nicht auf Spotify & Co angewiesen zu sein und um verlässlich auf einzelne Episoden verlinken zu können. Der Aufwand gegenüber dem langfristigen, gesellschaftlichen Nutzen wäre minimal, aber ein dauerhaft finanziertes, kleines Team und gute Speichersysteme müssen trotzdem bezahlt werden.

it's been 0 (zero) minutes since i last saw a set of overworked coworkers courting burnout as a result of AI bot scrapers abusing the ever living shit out of infrastructure we run as a service to the public