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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 1d

I used to feel some FOMO. Then I realise that nothing will happen if I just wait 2 years until the dust from all this hype settles.Then it will be easier to choose some good tool.

Until then, I just use web AI for basic boilerplates or error debugging. It already helps me a lot.

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 3d

☁️😵 We at @okfn.bsky.social are not afraid to talk about the elephant in the room: there can be no truly public digital infrastructure as long as the ‘cloud’ belongs to corporations.

📸 @avilarenata.bsky.social
at #OGPSummit

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t believe the Irish tried a version of UBI, found it worked, and decided to keep it rather than commission another study.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 5d

A must read!

philip @heltweg.org · 5d

Mandatory mention of www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/f...? :D

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software

Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.

www.kalzumeus.com

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 5d

"I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it."

😂😂

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 5d

Systems having problems handling a two words last name.

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 5d

Ready to participate at the OGP Summit!

As usual, printer's systems cannot handle my last name properly.

#StopSplitingLastNames

Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 6d

I love the work going on around pushing common UI patterns to the platform itself. Improving HTML is key for long term sustainability of the Web.

Maintaining dozens of JS Frameworks is wastefull when you can standardize and integrate into the browsers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknX...

The Platform and a Stylesheet (A path to Platform & SPA Parity) by Tony Ennis ~ BSDC 2025

YouTube video by Montana Programmers

www.youtube.com

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 10d

✍️✨ Thank you very much Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas for your thoughtful report on how #OpenDataEditor is helping journalists tell better stories with data!

#TheTechWeWant
#DataJournalism

buff.ly/sTFEU0m

Free tool helps journalists clean data faster and with fewer errors

Free tool helps journalists clean data faster and with fewer errors Technology and AI. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

buff.ly

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 10d

The good old Query string! One of the things that sadly the SPA mindset killed.

I don't have the link but a while ago there was a huge debate about using the URL and Query string to handle the state of the application. Worth searching and reading.

The HTMX community did a lot of work around this.

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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · 11d

Buongiorno,
John Elkann &Co porteranno a Torino #ItalianTechWeek: la tecnologia che sta rivoluzionando il mondo secondo piani e interessi dei signori della #Guerra,#Sorveglianza,#Capitalismo.
Noi porteremo la #Resistenza, grazie #SerenaDoe per #ItalianTechResistance

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 11d

Vercel is NOT #TheTechWeWant

And as Argentinian, I'm embarrassed to see my flag there. Believe me, there is better tech talent in my country.

Paul Biggar 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 @paulbiggar.com · 12d

Shocked to see Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch meeting with an indicted war criminal, who is committing an internationally recognized genocide

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 12d

Tomorrow we will be discussing our experience building Public Interest Technology: when silicon valley rules do not apply.

How to develop on low budget? Why boring is sometimes more sustainable? How to engage with communities? How to build the right thing? etc etc etc

Open for all :)

Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 12d

✨ Tomorrow: #TheTechWeWant | Read This Before You Build ✨

Are you on public interest tech? This is a chance to take part in an open conversation about learning and unlearning ways of building with communities.

🗓️ 30 Sep
🕒 15:00 CEST
📍 Online
🔗 buff.ly/qvhHpa0

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 16d

Después de dos o tres años se empiezan a descontrolar así que no tengas miedo de mantenerlos a raya. Y si, si crecen mucho atraen bichos. El de mi vieja se mezcló con la enredadera que viene de su vecino y se convirtió en la casa de verano de las comadrejas del barrio.

Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 16d

With Big Tech abusing open source projects, all the AI Training on people's code, the Wordpress case and now the Ruby Bundler's take over I'm tempted to do a paper/presentation titled:

What Open Source can teach you about Capitalism.

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 23d

“Formatted spreadsheets are like the fossil fuel of the data community. They’ll be around for awhile” - Luis D. Verde Arregoitia at #Positconf2025

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Camille Françoise @cmfrancoise.bsky.social · 22d

Today, @archive.org opened a new space for the Open Community in Amsterdam! 🇳🇱

📚This is the beginning of the Internet Archive Europe!

The goal?
🎯 Fight against disinformation, foster learning, sovereignty, support growth.

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 23d

I strongly believe that the spam of AI generated content will push back people to pre-ai tools.

RSS FTW!

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 24d

Europe is a Digital Colony s01e15.

We need better decentralised technology.

Proton @proton.me · 24d

Europe’s digital backbone is built on foreign rails.

In 🇩🇪 DE (58%), 🇦🇹 AT (59%), 🇧🇪 BE (80%), 🇮🇹 IT (69%), 🇱🇺 LU (78%), and 🇳🇱 NL (81%), publicly listed companies rely on US email, and the wider stack behind it.

Read the full study for additional details. 👇

Europe’s tech sovereignty watch | Proton for Business

Europe’s biggest businesses run on US tech — putting its privacy and sovereignty at risk. Read our study on how bad the problem is and why we urgently need a Europe-first tech policy.

proton.me

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · 24d

Why you don’t remove them?
It is what we do, because:
we don’t know of the note are ok, we don’t know what people will do with those notes, I will no share the same if this things are there.
Are all loss for everyone.

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 24d

We are not running it and the host said she can't do anything about it.

I will try to send her some links about how to do it after the webinar. I assume Google Meet has a way to deal with them.

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 24d

And now we are getting spammed with messages of upgrading to Pro Plan:

Abasse's Notetaker
Abasse is on a Basic Otter plan with 30 minute meetings. To record longer meetings, upgrade to Pro

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 24d

20 AI Note takers in the Webinar I'm attending. There are ~50 people attending. We even have AI notetakers from companies and people that are not attending.

The chat gets spammed, there is zero reuse of resources and we are feeding Big Brother with all we say.

This is NOT #TheTechWeWant.

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · 26d

Great writing! I can 100% resonate with it. The phrase I use to describe it is: "Se me apagó el tele." ("My TV turned off")

During University it caused some issues because I was always sneaking off, luckily after a couple of times they realized that was who I am and we started laughing about it.

a young man is dancing in a room with his arms outstretched .

ALT: a young man is dancing in a room with his arms outstretched .

media.tenor.com

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Patricio Del Boca @pdelboca.me · Sep 10

From the perspective of technology building I'd like to emphasize space and time. Users and the product needs to breathe, settle in, mature. As soon as you start adding features just for the fun of it is when you start derailing and you end up with bloated applications that are harder to understand.

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