Phil Höfer

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Entwickler und Vorstand bei SUMA-EV/MetaGer.de, Pirat im Stadtrat in Elze(Han), Rollenspieler, Kultur- und Netzpolitiker.
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Developer and board member at SUMA-EV/MetaGer.org, city council member for the German pirate party, roleplayer, culture and internet politics activist.

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he/him, they/them
2026-02-04

Just saw a screen shot of #windows #vista and got #nostalgia .

After all, why shouldn't I browse for more #KDE plasma themes...

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Being Left Behind Enjoyerthomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-02-03
"Why can't you just be normal meme?"

Woman crying and screaming at child in backseat of car: "Why can't you just make a browser?"
Child called "Mozilla" screaming in backseat of car: "AI" with like 20 "I"'s
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2026-02-03

Fellow fedizens! As decreed by xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_.

#xkcd #xkcd843 #misconceptions #Wikipedia

Miss Lenhart stands in front of a blackboard with a laptop in her hand, saying: Okay, middle school students, it’s the first Tuesday in February. This means that by law and custom, we must spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article List of common misconceptions, so you can spend the rest of your lives being a little less wrong. The guests at every party you’ll ever attend thank us in advance.
Caption: I wish I lived in this universe.
2026-02-02

@anubiarts @tripplehelix I wouldn't mind doing it for you once you release it.

2026-02-01

@admirandus Entschuldigung für den Ausfall. Es war kein Angriff, sondern nur ein interner Ausfall, den wir trotz Redundanz nicht verhindern konnten.

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Nolm & SUMA-Kitnolm@suma-ev.social
2026-02-01

Happy #digitalindependenceday !

This DID, we'll update you with a blog post, telling you our plan for Nolm and SUMA-Kit and when we hope to open it up for the general public.

suma-ev.de/digital-independenc
(scroll down for the English text)

#did #nolm #sumakit #didit

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Natasha 🇪🇺 :mastodon:Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
2026-02-01

Every ad now is "AI Peas"

🖊️ Cartoon by Stephen Collins

#AI

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove.] 

JANET: Ugh... 

LIZ: What's up? 

JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! 

LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas?

 JANET: AI peas?

 LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. 

LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas 

JANET: What 

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] 

LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] 

LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! 

JANET: What 

LIZ: Shut up 

LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. 

JANET: Is it really necessary to- 

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET 

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
2026-01-31

@gimulnautti @pixelfed Wait, I thought that's already possible...

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WaterfoxWaterfox
2026-01-28

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

This is why I drew a line in the sand.

The industry wants to turn the browser into a concierge between you and the web, interpreting and filtering your reality. They call it delegation - I call it a loss of agency.

A browser should be a tool you wield, not something that makes decisions for you.

@arstechnica maybe worth mentioning us as an alternative ;)

2026-01-28

@antars Ja, wir sind dabei und haben Dinge in Planung, nur brauchen wir noch etwas Zeit. Aktuell haben wir hohen Krankenstand.
Der Plan ist, jeden DID eine Aktion zu haben. Diesem Sonntag gibt's erstmal nur nen Blogbeitrag. Danach dann mehr - versprochen!

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2026-01-28

GNU Taler mit Echtgeld ausprobiert - Teil 4: Fazit

Mit dem GNU Taler entsteht ein freies Bezahlsystem, bei dem private Anwender:innen anonym bleiben. Im letzten Teil dieser Serie, geht es um offene Fragen und das Fazit.

#GNU_Taler #Taler #Bezahlsystem #Linux

gnulinux.ch/gnu-taler-mit-echt

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2026-01-28
four panel meme from the movie "we're the millers".
First panel: Man says "With AI, we can't thrust things on the internet"
Second panel: Woman says "Even worse, can't trust pictures"
Third panel: Girl says "Or video"
Fourth panel: Boy says "You guys trusted things on the internet?"
2026-01-28

@MichaelRoss Interesting. For my discord friend group to adopt this it would need video/voice chat with screen sharing, which is not easily implemented. But it's already a better base than #Stoat. I hope they implement AP soon.

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Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

blog.cloudflare.com/serverless

2026-01-27

Nice article on Brainfuck compiler optimization. Makes me remember when I wrote a BF interpreter in high school for my Texas Instruments Voyage 200.

calmerthanyouare.org/2015/01/0

#brainfuck #esolang #compsci #compiler

2026-01-27

@heiseonline Nur nutzt man damn halt immer noch besagte US-Dienste, nur eben mit einem Scraping-Dienst dazwischen. Mit @MetaGer wird zwar nicht gescrapt, aber wir brauchen echte EU-basierte Alternativen wie @openwebsearcheu und bald @nolm.
Und ja, das ist Eigenwerbung, aber ich mache den Kram ja auch nur, weil ich davon überzeugt bin.

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2026-01-26

Finds immer völlig wild, wie Merz und Konsorten ständig sagen: "4-Tage-Woche und Work-Life-Balance gefährden unseren Wohlstand" Junge, das _ist_ unser Wohlstand.

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Die Bundesregierung plant eine riesige anlasslose Zwangsspeicherung von allen IP-Adressen und weiteren Begleitdaten bei allen Providern: Nein zur #Vorratsdatenspeicherung ccc.de/de/updates/2026/ccc-for

Logo CCC
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McWabbit 🇺🇦🍋🌻🍉McWabbit@tenforward.social
2026-01-23

Seen this around without alt text, so I yoinked it to post it myself.

Edit: Based on the earliest mention known and reminded to me (thank you!):
mastodon.social/@mhoye/1157427

Picture of a pair of hands holding a stick of RAM memory with colorful RGB led lighting, in the process of installing it on a motherboard.

Caption reads: The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn’t really exist to be put into GPUs that haven’t been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven’t been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn’t actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.
2026-01-22

@gnulinux Was ich gerne hätte, wäre ein alternatives Frontend (gerne basierend auf invidious), dass die abgespielten videos in einem cache speichert (oder besser @Freenet) und dann anderen Nutzern verfügbar macht, ohne dass die Youtube-Server involviert sind.
Dürfte nur leider rechtlich nicht so einwandfrei sein.

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