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I just read an a post on Mastodon with some welcome illustrations to promote the Global Switch Day on the first of Februrary 2025. There are a lot of Fediverse based alternatives for services that are by now heavily affected by enshittification. Here is a list of the replacable commercial platforms with their Fediverse alternative and (if you are interested), where I live on them. Plaform Fediverse Alternative My Home X/twitter/bsky/threads Mastodon @maub@23.social instagram Pixelfed @maub@pixey.org (barely used) reddit Lemmy @maub@slrpnk.net Facebook Diaspora jakap@nerdpol.ch WhatsApp Signal/Element(*) maub.23 / @maub:ccc-ffm.de (*) neither of those is officialy part of the Fediverse, but both offer reasonably secure e2e encrypted communication with no corporate interference to your privacy. ...

Just finished a script, that enables me or anyone else who cares to send tweets directly to a IRC-Channel. The script is powered by the best IRC-Client ever made, perl, and Net::Twitter::Lite. Update [2023-08-18]: Nobody should use twitter or perl or irc any more ;) Update [2013-06-15]: upgrade to Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1 Update [2013-01-12]: second update today added the setting “_count” and some cleanups with vars and setup Update [2013-01-12]: drastically reduced the amout of requests to the API P.S.: you can also follow me on twitter, but beware that almost half of my tweets will be neither about programming nor in english ;-). Follow @matschundbrei, if you don’t care! ...

Today I do not have very much to do at work. I am not moaning about it, I would just like to point out that my actual team has a very strict “don’t change anything that works before a holiday or the weekend”-policy, this is a very good policy, but it leads to personal downtimes on fridays and the days before holidays for obvious reasons that I like to fill with personal development. So I began learning something about screen and the modelines which are used in it. I found a comment from someone which was pointing out his zshrc which one should look up for a funcion namend “screen_title”. I immediatly searched the web for his name and zshrc, and the only thing that came up was his blog. Unfortunately I was sucked in by his latest post, pointing out a presentation on slideshare and completly forgot about my intention visiting this site. From this presentation forked some talks about databases and bigdata and complexity that I would really like to share. Let’s start at the beginning. My interest for Hadoop as a technology was mainly generated by a stong powersource, namely the catalog of videos over at Cloudera and a whitepaper by Greenplum which was pointed out by Dmitriy Ryaboy in his video about Pig at twitter. ...