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Bj√∂rn ~ Bumping through life, coding stuff; occasionally entertaining the innocent ~ Reader Advisory: German, cogito ergo sum ~ Ich bin ein Polynomial! 🐻

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boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Skadi took a few steps to the left #caturday #cats #CatsOfMastondon
A black and white cat is lying on a gray polka dot pillow on a couch. Various indoor plants are in the background, along with a cardboard box, which had been exercised by the cat real good.
January 24, 2026 at 12:39 PM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
I have resumed being bed duty, this time for Skadi #CatsOfMastondon #cats #caturday
A black and white cat (white is hardly visible - there is a small spot of her left front paw peeking through - but she is s Tuxedo) is curled up on a person's lap, sleeping comfortably.
January 24, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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foosel.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Today I learned #til: "How to work around tailscale breaking IPv6 on the host"

👉 https://foosel.net/til/how-to-work-around-tailscale-breaking-ipv6-on-the-host/
How to work around tailscale breaking IPv6 on the host
Yesterday I ran into an incredibly weird issue. I installed the Tailscale client on two of my virtual servers hosted in the Hetzner Cloud (running Ubuntu) and suddenly the websites they offered stopped working. I suspected Tailscale and indeed, tailscale down immediately restored functionality. The websites in question are actually on GitHub Pages and my servers are just acting as reverse proxy to resolve domain and TLS, and a look into the web server’s error.log showed that the issue in serving was that the server could no longer reach its upstream at github.io when Tailscale was active. It wasn’t a general loss of external connectivity though - IPv4 addresses still worked great, the webserver however was trying to connect to the upstream via IPv6 and this is where things failed.
foosel.net
January 23, 2026 at 1:10 PM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
I have become the bed #caturday #cats #CatsOfMastondon
A black cat curled up on a person's lap, with a second cat resting on the sofa nearby.
January 24, 2026 at 8:28 AM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
The rightful owners of my bed have reclaimed their space #CatsOfMastondon #cats #caturday
Two cats are sitting on a bed covered with a light-colored blanket. One cat is black and facing sideways, while the other is black and white, lying down and looking towards the camera.
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 AM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
[Past Puzzle]

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
past puzzle
Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
January 24, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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jantietje.norden.social.ap.brid.gy
Das SPSH (Startpaket Schleswig-Holstein) enthält keine Privatpersonen.
Wenn Du Organisationen kennst, die dort aufgenommen werden sollten oder wenn Du selbst da mit rein willst (auch als Privatperson), teile mir das bitte mit.

SPSH - Startpaket Schleswig-Holstein
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Original post on norden.social
norden.social
January 23, 2026 at 8:24 PM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
[Past Puzzle]

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
past puzzle
Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Qwen released a new Apache 2.0 licensed speech-to-text model, with full voice cloning abilities, and it's really effective - my notes from trying it out here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/22/qwen3-tts/
Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation
I haven't been paying much attention to the state-of-the-art in speech generation models other than noting that they've got really good, so I can't speak for how notable this new …
simonwillison.net
January 22, 2026 at 5:54 PM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
[Past Puzzle]

Semi educated guess 🙂
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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
past puzzle
Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
January 22, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy
#language #mathematics #English #grammar .
January 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy
Yesterday, I interviewed a tech guy who told me something too important for me to wait until the podcast comes out for you to hear it:

Many free AI detectors have especially high false positive rates because they make money selling software that "humanizes" writing. 1/2
January 21, 2026 at 9:19 PM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
[Past Puzzle]

Well, i got the century right

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
past puzzle
Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
January 21, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
"Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖"

via Mike Bales
A woman with blonde hair in front of a horse of a similar hue, giving the impression she has a horse's head.
January 20, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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astrovore.gts.vidja.club.ap.brid.gy
After several months of umm-ing and ahh-ing, I handed in my notice at work this week.

If anyone knows of a Canadian company looking to hire a remote senior web developer who will NOT be working on LLM-related functionality (or be required to use LLM-based development tools), please point me in […]
Original post on gts.vidja.club
gts.vidja.club
January 19, 2026 at 12:07 AM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
[Past Puzzle]

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
past puzzle
Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
January 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
The Shop and Art for Sale at my website are open again. These original drawings, prints, and many others are available now.
www.tomgauld.com
Panel One. Two figures walk up a hill in a park. One walks in front and the other is walking a dog Front "My new year's resolution is to stop lending books" Dog-walker "Really?" Panel Two. Front, becoming agitated "It's just not worth the risk: cracked spines! Bent corners! Torn pages! Grubby fingers! Crumbs! Baths! Burglars! Rats! Children!! I can't allow such precious artefacts to fall into the careless hands of clumsy philistines!" Panel Three. Dog-walker "And how do the other librarians feel about this?" Front "Less supportive Than I'd hoped." Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. “Reactor Overheating” 2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads: “Press cancel to avoid critical overload” 3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: “Enter password to confirm” “Incorrect password” “Incorrect password” “Do you want to reset your password?” “Reset link has been sent to your email” “Please choose a new password” “New password can't be the same as old password” The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9. Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up. Night. The Department of Astrobiology building. One upper floor window is lit and a figure in it looks out and says "Dammit! Professor Monroe has all the luck!". In the car park outside, a second figure rises within a beam of light towards a flying saucer. Title: How to focus on writing your book There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read: Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark). Put them in a drawer. Lock the drawer. Throw away the key. Leave the house. Do not look back. Keep to backroads and hedgerows. Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes) Sleep by day. Forage in the evening. Write by the light of the moon When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
One thing that's tough for people who just join the Fediverse, like most of the folks on #theforkiverse , is that there are self-appointed experts who reply to their public posts saying that "the Fediverse" doesn't like that kind of content.

This is untrue. They don't speak for all of us […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
January 18, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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phoenixtrap.com
[-uspol]

If you are using undocumented immigrants’ tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.

If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.

If you are showing up at courthouses, then it was never about […]
Original post on mastodon.phoenixtrap.com
mastodon.phoenixtrap.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:49 AM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
[Past Puzzle]

Knowing the decade is enough 🙂

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
past puzzle
Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
January 19, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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swiftcoder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Apple UX designers please stop overloading swipe gestures challenge (difficulty: impossible)
Annotated iOS 26 screen shot showing the 5 different vertical swipe gestures in mobile Safari
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Music I enjoyed today:

Silver Fang - Fever Dream
https://song.link/y/8TJg9lTGi_0

#musicienjoyedtoday
Silver Fang - Fever Dream (Official Music Video) by Silver Fang
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
song.link
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 AM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
[Past Puzzle]

First guess was good, the rest not so much 🙂

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
past puzzle
Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
January 18, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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rolle.mementomori.social
I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability […]
Original post on mementomori.social
mementomori.social
January 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM
boki.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
[Past Puzzle]

It should be obvious that I had no idea whatsoever 😁

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
past puzzle
Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
January 17, 2026 at 7:03 AM