Christopher Kurth

Online & Web Engineer for a free, decentralized and democratic web ⋅ Geek ⋅ #WordPress & OpenSource Enthusiast

This is my *personal* main account on the Fediverse.
#Thüringen, #Jena

Location
Jena, Thüringen 🇩🇪
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2026-01-27

Liebe #Didit - Mitstreitende, bald ist ja wieder #DID bzw. #DUD. Ich bereite gerade meine weiteren Schritte vor. Dabei ist mir meine Smartwatch gerade aufgefallen (neue Samsung). Wie schaut das eigentlich dort aus? Gibt es da brauchbare BigTech-Freie Alternativen? Welche wären zu empfehlen? Neben den Sport brauche ich die auch für Gesundheitsüberwachung (#Herzkrank) mit EKG und Blutdruckmessung.
Hat Zeit, falls da „etwas in Mache“ ist, aber noch Zeit benötigt.

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2026-01-27

Every single tech advocate carrying water for OpenAI and their products should be thinking about who they’re giving publicity to. Because I sure am. theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

#uspol

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Marina Weisbandafelia@chaos.social
2026-01-27

In der Ukraine gibt es in weiten Teilen keine Energieversorgung und die Menschen kompensieren mit ihrer Energie. Weil sie für ihre Freiheit kämpfen müssen. Meanwhile stimmen im Westen immer mehr Menschen in geheizten Wohnungen gegen ihre eigene Freiheit.

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Florian Zieglerflorianziegler
2026-01-27

I am making progress on getting to a point where I can be as productive on my machine as I was on macOS. It is a process and usually not as straightforward, but very rewarding and fun and I am learning a lot.

👨‍💻 Today I got Espanso (text expansion) running on my system and I wrote a blog post about it: florianziegler.com/journal/tex

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2026-01-26

LinkedIn, Shadow Bans und die Abhängigkeit von US-Plattformen

kuketz-blog.de/linkedin-shadow

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2026-01-26

‼️ Wer Windows 11 mit einem Online-#Microsoft-Konto nutzt, speichert seine #BitLocker-Schlüssel automatisch in der #Cloud.

Diese können bei einem rechtlichen Ersuchen an das #FBI weitergegeben werden, wie #Microsoft nun bestätigt hat. Eine lokale Speicherung ist möglich, aber nicht voreingestellt. Die Schlüssel liegen unverschlüsselt vor, was ein erhebliches #Sicherheitsrisiko und #Datenschutzrisiko darstellt.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

#Windows11 #Datenschutz #Cybersecurity #cloudsecurity

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Enno Parkennopark
2026-01-26

Bei Signal läuft wohl gerade eine sehr breite Phishing-Kampagne. Ich habe das nicht bekommen, aber mehrere in meiner Bubble. Falls ihr das bekommt: Nicht drauf eingehen, stattdessen melden und blocken.

cyberinsider.com/signal-users-

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Remkus de Vriesremkus@devries.frl
2026-01-26

Last Friday, the very first Within WordPress newsletter of 2026 was published. And it was absolutely chock-full of interesting WordPress news.

withinwp.com/newsletter/agent-

WithinWP newsletter promo: bold "Subscribe Now!" text with description about curated weekly WordPress news, performance and security focus, and phone graphic.
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The Repositorytherepository
2026-01-26
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2026-01-26

Moin! 📣
In einer Woche gibt's den nächsten offiziellen digitalen Unabhängigkeitstag und wir machen mit! 🎉

Kommt gern zu uns in den Space, wenn
- ihr Hilfe braucht beim Umstellen auf Linux, 💻
- ihr Open Source Programme und Apps ausprobieren wollt 📱
- oder mal in Mastodon, Matrix und Xmpp reinschauen wollt. 🌐💬

🗓️ Start: Sonntag 1. Februar,
🕑 ab 14 Uhr.
📍 Ort: Space - Am großen Teich 2, 98693 Ilmenau.

Wir freuen uns auf euch! ☺️

#diday #dut
#ilmenau
@chaoszone

Orange-violettes Di-Day Logo als Grafikdatei. Untergrund ist ein Rechteck in orange, Schrift in Großbuchtaben "DI.DAY" in violett und ein übergroßer Mauszeiger in klassischer Form, weiß mit schwarzem Rand, pixelig dargestellt.
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WordPress Meetup Jenawpjena@dewp.space
2026-01-26

Im Februar besucht uns @simon wieder 🎉

Dieses mal mit dem Thema „Digitale Souveränität in der WordPress-Praxis“

📅 Datum: 10. Februar 2026
📍 Ort: JEDI - Jena Digital Innovation Hub

wpjena.de/event/26-februar/

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Enno Bungerennobunger
2026-01-25

Laut UMAW/Luminate wurden 88% aller Songs auf "demonetized" = haben kein Geld erhalten.

Hier eine Übersicht, was an mich für den selben Song in D pro Stream ausgezahlt wurde:

🇪🇺 Spotify: 0,003€ (0,3 Cent)
🇺🇸 Apple Music: 0,0069€
🇪🇺 Deezer: 0,0076€
🇺🇸 Amazon Music: 0,008€
🇺🇸 Tidal: 0,010€
🇪🇺 Qobuz: 0,012€

Fairster & derzeit korrektester Streamingdienst ist Qobuz, zahlt das 4fache u bereits ab 1. Stream. UI auch super. Wenn Euch menschengemachte Musik am Herzen liegt, sagt's weiter. ❤️

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
2026-01-25

From my European perspective the most shocking thing about these ICE shootings in the US is that the shooters can simply walk away, step into a car and drive off. Because they know they have impunity.

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2026-01-25

have just seen my favorite meme of the year so far, hands down.

The meme is a matrix of 4 frames with Jurassic Park characters and the options "Doesn't use AI", "Uses AI" on the vertical axis, and "Doesn't know how AI works" and "Knows how AI works" on the horizontal access.

Thusly: Alan grant doesn't know how AI works and doesn't use it. The scummy lawyer doesn't know how AI works but DOES use it. Ian Malcolm knows how AI works and does not use it. Dennis Nedry knows how AI works and DOES use it.
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w4tsn ~> :idle:w4tsn@darmstadt.social
2026-01-24

Meine Firma othermo GmbH (8 Jahre, 30 Leute) sucht nach nem Senior Wesen für die IoT Gateway Firmware Entwicklung (aarch64-linux CM4 based, buildroot, python, rust) im Bereich Protokoll-Reverse-Engineering. Raum Alzenau, Bayern, 100% remote möglich.

Unser Team(7) ist mostly queer, nerdy, chaos-nah. Die Hälfte sitzt in Darmstadt. Meme-level C1 Professional required, genauso wie Liebe für CI/CD, typing, git. NixOS appreciated.

Hiring details:
othermo.jobs.personio.de/job/2

#FediHire

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2026-01-24

The enshittification of computer repair is happening.

AI has amazingly managed to make repairable computers practically worthless.

The increase in memory and storage pricing is destroying the second-hand market for computing hardware and this makes me sad. I watched a video from someone that runs a repair shop, and this is what's happening:

The memory/storage alone is worth more than the rest of the computer, so people are stripping them out to sell separately.

The second hand market is now flooded with computers that have no memory or storage. Buying new memory or storage to put in these used computers is now more expensive than buying a new computer.

So we now suddenly have a giant e-waste problem PLUS a giant problem for repair shops that want to stay in business.

In the video, he was basically saying that they have to pivot to the only computers that folks aren't stripping RAM and storage out of - computers that have those things soldered on. The irony here is that repair shops now have to ignore the most repairable computers and focus on the least repairable computers instead.

youtube.com/watch?v=T6eiFyJMWgM

cc @pluralistic @iFixit

Christopher Kurthchristopher@dewp.space
2026-01-24

By the way, I’ll be at the #CloudFest Hackathon in Rust again this year 😊 Who else is coming?

I’m so excited to be part of it again!

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Ricardo B�nffyrbanffy
2026-01-24

European Alternatives european-alternatives.eu/

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Connected Placesfediversereport
2026-01-24

New from me: FR#150 - On ICE, Verification, and Presence As Harm

Bluesky has verified the account of ICE, which was a step too far for many in the fediverse, wanting to disconnect from the bridge between the networks

The presence itself of ICE on Bluesky is a form of harm, and Bluesky is not well equipped to deal with this new challenge. Making things worse, their verification system is set up to delegate responsibility, but instead they made no use of it

connectedplaces.online/reports

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2026-01-24

So, I'm teaching kids how to use a computer at a local non-profit and what I've found over the past year is that a lot of kids that come to the class have actually never used a keyboard and mouse before. I am going to incorporate a short "how to use a keyboard" section into the class. Most likely on day one. Can anyone recommend a good website or app (that runs on Linux) that I can use? I want it to be fun, more like a game. Thanks for the ideas!

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