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<p>Dass Zivilgesellschaft ein Gofundme für Big Tech aufmacht, hatte ich nicht auf meinem Bingokärtchen für 2025. Aber diesmal ist es ganz bestimmt das gute Big Tech, für das da Standardisierungs-, Entwicklungs- und Werbearbeit geleistet werden soll</p><p>/s</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev" class="u-url mention">@<span>isagalaev</span></a></span> yeah, can't say that was an issue at home, and can definitely say that I've had days at this airport where it definitely _was_ grey due to smoke</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@chrisjrn" class="u-url mention">@<span>chrisjrn</span></a></span> at least it's not due to smoke.</p>
<p>Seattle Airport. There is an insipid guitar duo playing Daydream Believer in the food court. It is grey outside. The usual.</p>
<p>Sunday’s book was The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. </p><p>In 2020, I couldn’t write another serious novel about serious people dealing with serious problems. So I set out to write a fun, fluffy book to amuse myself. </p><p>Apparently, I wasn’t alone in that feeling. John Scalzi felt it too. </p><p>Full review: <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2f654441-d9e2-4109-b335-d072da2ad845?redirect=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/</span><span class="invisible">2f654441-d9e2-4109-b335-d072da2ad845?redirect=true</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scifi</span></a></p>
<p>Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-45-free-as-in-beer/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/buil</span><span class="invisible">ding-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-45-free-as-in-beer/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Retro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinuxGaming</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://retro.pizza/@mrencyclopedia" class="u-url mention">@<span>mrencyclopedia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis" class="u-url mention">@<span>sarahjamielewis</span></a></span> this ^</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis" class="u-url mention">@<span>sarahjamielewis</span></a></span> RSS is still as useful as it ever was. Both of my websites use it, Mastodon uses it, every podcast uses it, but people talk about it like it's dead because Google killed Reader a decade ago.</p>
<p>If you want actual free feeds, liberated from billionaire control and algorithmic meddling, where you can run your own filtering and sorting as much as you please - we had that, it was called rss - it scaled really well.</p><p>"Let's aggregate everything through a small number of very expensive relays" is not going to serve that goal, especially not given any current or future form of at-proto.</p>
