Bookpile just got a new logo by @andycarolan

https://bookpile.org/about

And the logo also has different modes, like for halloween:

https://bookpile.org/about?occasion=halloween

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A weird pattern that needs to be studies by psychologists:

Some folks, when they start using LLMs get into what I would call “manic state” and build tooons of stuff, frameworks, apps that use the framework and such. And then when they try to communicate to others what they build, only speak in half sentences or language only them and their LLM can understand anymore. Further isolating them from everyone because “nobody understands the genius of what I am building”.

At this rate of OpenAI's "sorry we hacked something" disclosures, should I be ashamed that my services haven't been tried to be hacked by it yet? Feeling some FOMO.

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Living in Berlin and want to know what the hell the city is doing in front of your street?

Then you might be happy to hear that I finally updated https://hierbautberlin.de after 5 years, and it is now better in every way possible.

This was started as a @PrototypeFund project back then. Can highly recommend applying there 🥰

Back then it was really really hard to get enough money for rails girls summer of code. Nowadays nearly all DEI non profits are gone because of lack of funding.

But a nazi dotfile repo gets millions of dollars within weeks.

This is totally fine.

1996: “My TV is listening to me.” - person with a psychological crisis
2026: “My TV is listening to me.” - the Terms & Conditions, page 52

Thursday is warn system test day in Germany. There will be loud noises at 11:00 am on your phone, and from sirens.

Today some people finally realize that Starship Troopers is a movie about Space Nazis. Yes, the people in the movie fighting the insects are Nazis. Yes. Yes, I know what that means about the movie. It was done so on purpose. Please get some literacy, folks. 🤣😅

Oh a new Berlin-based ruby user group?

Opens FAQ:

“political discussions are not
permitted”

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Repeat after me:

👏 everything 👏 is 👏 political 👏

Especially if the language and most common framework are in the hands of literal fascist companies and individuals.

I want a beautiful Icon for http://bookpile.org . It should be made by a human. Where should I go and look? It's a private side project, so I have a tight budget, but still want to pay someone.

Thank you @plexus , this was a really great summer vacation read

https://bookwyrm.social/user/Bitboxer/reviewrating/12289596

The online checkout of UGREEN asks me to tip the team of UGREEN?! Really? For the love of everything, please pay your workers a living wage.

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There are still people pleading with the Rails Core members to speak up. They all work closely with DHH. For decades. At this point you have to assume that they share his values. That they all also are fascists. That framework is lost. Do try to migrate away from it.

Hey #bookstodon, I built something and now need your help.

Do you also struggle to share a link to a book? Don’t want to link to a specific store? This might be the solution:

https://bookpile.org/b/9780356508191

A site that lists the reasonable places where to get the book, including libraries.

All open source. I need help in getting the list of cities as full as possible.

Please suggest the best bookstores for your city, including a way to link to a book in that book store.

https://bookpile.org/suggest

Thank you, @inventaire, for making it possible to do open source book projects. Things like @bookwyrm would not be possible without it.

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.

We don't want to be on any list.

And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.

I am afraid what they will do with that.