#hattip — Public Fediverse posts

#HatTip to @kiffie, who has a link in their profile to the BrandCramp account for The Weapon and The Shield. Which is how I stumbled upon it.

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@autistics

#HatTip to @digitalcortex for the infographic;

https://mastodon.social/@digitalcortex/116507222057290945

... and @ashiel for the transcription I used as alt text;

https://eldritch.cafe/@ashiel/116509700956338464

#TIL about @TechFreedom;

"... a three-session programme for social purpose organisations who want to understand their technology risks and do something about them. Working as a small cohort, you'll audit the tools you rely on, explore practical alternatives, and leave with a plan for reducing your dependency on Big Tech."

https://techfreedom.eu/

We need something like this in Aotearoa.

#HatTip to @dajb for linking me to the blog post where I found a reference and a link to it.

#Listening to Philosophy of the World, from the 1969 album of the same name by The Shaggs;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqK1CjE9bA

This album makes Pure Guava era Ween sound like classical music by comparison. But it has an off-kilter charm that instantly appeals to me

#HatTip to Curt Cobain for championing this album, and the #KEXP podcast The Cobain 50 for introducing me to all the great albums on his infamous list.

#Cobain50 #TheShaggs #LoFi #punk #music #CurtCobain ##podcasts

OK, wait. Ich grabe weiter.

git blame liegt falsch, denn ich habe nur den Source code umformatiert. Habe mir jetzt die gesamte Historie dieser Figure gezogen und sie stammt tatsächlich von @frederic_horn !!

Er hat im November 2019 den Commit "Grafik mit 'F' zu 'Determinanten und Orientierung" verfasst und \pgftransformcm aus https://tikz.dev/base-transformations gefunden!

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"This leads to three possible outcomes:

* no government dares to take action, and they keep to calling things “completely unacceptable” ...

* One government takes action against X, and the US regime retaliates so hard that no other government will dare ...

* One government takes enforcement action against X, creating a permission structure for other governments to also take actions."

@laurenshof, 2026

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/

#HatTip to @wedistribute for the link to this article.

#Listening to Straightlining by hardcase #Otautahi rockers AVON DADS, released in 2025;

https://avondads.bandcamp.com/album/straightlining

#HatTip to Freak the Sheep, who played this funny and rather catchy track on the March 12 edition of their show on 95bFM. Which I catch up with from The Tron via their podcast feed;

https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/16982213/freak-the-sheep-w-chris-cudby-march-12-2025

They've been playing a lot of hardcase tunes on the show of late. Long may this continue!

#music #rock #comedy #NerdRock #AvonDads #Aotearoa #NZ

A #HatTip to #KrispyKreme for #ShowingLove to tomorrow’s leaders- #Graduating #ClassOf2023

#Graduation 2023: Krispy Kreme gives #graduates a #free dozen #donuts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2023/05/22/graduation-2023-krispy-kreme-free-dozen-donuts/70238166007/

"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."

https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism

#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.

#FreeTrade #FreeMarkets #neoliberalism #corporatism #SidneyDekker

Like a lot of people over the last few years, I've been getting really into the idea of regressing to a simpler phone that's just a phone, and demoting my touchscreen to being a pocket tablet. I've posted a few times on the #DumbPhone tag (#HatTip to @Mastodon for the feature that allows me to filter posts with a tag from a particular account). The first time in 2023, asking for device recommendations;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110149459018648853

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#hardware #DigitalDetox #UX #MobileUX #DigitalHygiene

"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.

Don't quote me on that."

Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s

#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.

#WINZ #GovtIT

@vaelen I don't think this Applesoft BASIC effort from this past weekend's INIT HELLO Apple II conference outdid you, I must say. :-) #hattip

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/54689657478/in/album-72177720328016203

#INITHELLO #mandelbrot #mac #AppleII

#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link to this story;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/544486/school-lunch-failures-original-contractors-ready-to-offer-alternatives

Like the Irex ferry cancellation, this is further proof that whenever the NatACTs try to fix what they claim is "wasteful spending", they end up spending more public money for inferior results.

Unlike Irex, which is difficult to unf%& k, school lunches can be fixed by canning Rimmer's penny-pinching failure, and going back to the local providers it displaced. Fingers crossed.

#NZPolitics #SchoolLunches

#TIL about #MOBIFREE;

"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."

https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works

#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks who are a partner in this project, and referenced it in their retrospective on 2025;

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/01/23/fdroid-in-2025-strengthening-our-foundations-in-a-changing-mobile-landscape.html

#EU #EthicalTech #MobileComputing

@deutrino
Another potential use for sodium ion battery tech is in grid-scale storage systems, like those mentioned here;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/556884/construction-capacity-can-t-keep-up-with-phenomenal-demand-for-solar-power

(#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link)

I have no idea what chemicals are currently used when building such systems. But if they're lithium ion they'll be stupidly expensive to build, and if they're lead acid - which seems more likely - they'll need replacing much sooner.

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#energy #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #GridScale #SodiumIron

@deutrino
Another potential use for sodium ion battery tech is in grid-scale storage systems, like those mentioned here;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/556884/construction-capacity-can-t-keep-up-with-phenomenal-demand-for-solar-power

(#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link)

I have no idea what chemicals are currently used when building such systems. But if they're lithium ion they'll be stupidly expensive to build, and if they're lead acid - which seems more likely - they'll need replacing much sooner.

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#energy #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #GridScale #SodiumIron

@deutrino
Another potential use for sodium ion battery tech is in grid-scale storage systems, like those mentioned here;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/556884/construction-capacity-can-t-keep-up-with-phenomenal-demand-for-solar-power

(#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link)

I have no idea what chemicals are currently used when building such systems. But if they're lithium ion they'll be stupidly expensive to build, and if they're lead acid - which seems more likely - they'll need replacing much sooner.

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#energy #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #GridScale #SodiumIron

@deutrino
Another potential use for sodium ion battery tech is in grid-scale storage systems, like those mentioned here;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/556884/construction-capacity-can-t-keep-up-with-phenomenal-demand-for-solar-power

(#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link)

I have no idea what chemicals are currently used when building such systems. But if they're lithium ion they'll be stupidly expensive to build, and if they're lead acid - which seems more likely - they'll need replacing much sooner.

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#energy #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #GridScale #SodiumIron

Oh christ-on-a-stick here's another one!

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCJUST_SCF_5C7F002D-E4B4-4573-5563-08DD042D0CD2/crimes-countering-foreign-interference-amendment-bill

The formal submissions closed on 16 Jan but you can still write to your MP, government ministers etc about why bringing back Cold War style treason laws is a gobsmackingly bad idea.

#HatTip to @norightturnnz for bringing my attention to this in a recent blog post.

#NZPolitics #ColdWar2 #ForeignInterference

The #IEFT were warning of this in the 90s:

"Export controls and usage controls [on cryptographic software] are slowing the deployment of security at the same time as the Internet is exponentially increasing in size and attackers are increasing in sophistication. This puts users in a dangerous position as they are forced to rely on insecure electronic communication."

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1984

#HatTip to @onepict for pushing us to read this.

#cryptography #security #privacy

#TIL about #AudioMass, a web-based Free Code app which...

"... lets you record, or use your existing audio tracks, and modify them by trimming, cutting, pasting or applying a plethora of effects, from compression and paragraphic equalizers to reverb, delay and distortion fx."

https://audiomass.co/about.html

#HatTip to @poujolrost for the link.

#AudioProduction #AudioEditing

#HatTip to Mutual Interest Media for publishing the article this diagram was included in;
'The Evolution of Digital Currency to Cryptocurrency'
https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/03/the-evolution-of-digital-currency-to-cryptocurrency

#MutualInterest #Cooperative #LongForm

"The group chats are 'the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion', wrote one of their key organizers, Sriram Krishnan, a former partner in the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (typically styled a16z) who is now the White House senior policy adviser for AI."

#BenSmith, 2025

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

There are so many layers of horror in this that I don't know where to start.

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#HatTip to @cdarwin for the link.

"It’s an imperfect metaphor, but one way to think about this is: I am not reading everyone’s mail. I am measuring the dimensions and weight of some mail and using that information to help build better mail trucks."

@darius, 2024

https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2024/10/25/fediverse-observer/

Well put.

#HatTip to @LaurensHof for the link.

#FediverseSchemaObservatory #SchemaObservatory #FSO

#TIL about #UnCloud;

"... browser-to-browser file sharing and messaging.

Your files and messages will not be stored in the cloud or uploaded to a server.

UnCloud uses WebRTC direct communication between browsers."

https://theuncloud.co/

#HatTip to @mike805 for developing this.

#WebRTC

#Listening to Skip That Shit by Raiden Freeman, from the 2023 album DF2;

https://bankruptworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/df2

This is some funny shit. I dare you to listen to it. I double dog dare ya!

#HatTip to Chris Cudby of the Freak the Sheep kiwi music shop on 95bFM, for introducing me to this crackup track.

#music #comedy #electronica #RaidenFreeman #95bFM #FreakTheSheep

"Advertising executives aren't 'creatives'. It's like calling landlords architects."

#DominicHoey, How to Lose Money

#HatTip to Freak the Sheep for exposing me to this righteous spoken word track.

https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/17208338/freak-the-sheep-w-taylor-mcgregor-november-12-2025

Dominic is also known as Tourettes, maybe that track is here somewhere? Have a dig ...

https://tourettesone.bandcamp.com/

#podcasts #95bFM #FreakTheSheep #music #SpokenWord

Ever since I heard Uh-Oh by The Subliminals the other day it's been a total earworm. Now I'm #listening the album it comes from, United State, released in 2000;

https://thesubliminals.bandcamp.com/album/united-state

This has aged very well IMHO. Equal parts 3Ds-esque psychedelic rock, and HDU style mathrock, it's upbeat but unapologetically quirky. Great fun. Totally recommended.

#HatTip to Freak the Sheep on #95bFM for reminding me they exist.

#music #indie #MathRock #TheSubliminals #podcasts #FreakTheSheep #KiwiMusic

#TIL about #MOBIFREE;

"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."

https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works

#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks who are a partner in this project, and referenced it in their retrospective on 2025;

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/01/23/fdroid-in-2025-strengthening-our-foundations-in-a-changing-mobile-landscape.html

#EU #EthicalTech #MobileComputing

"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.

Don't quote me on that."

Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s

#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.

#WINZ #GovtIT

"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.

Don't quote me on that."

Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s

#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.

#WINZ #GovtIT

"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.

Don't quote me on that."

Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s

#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.

#WINZ #GovtIT

#HatTip to @blocsonic for releasing music by Louis Lingg and the Bombs. Also, to Donnie Ozone and the crew at Tha Bloc Report podcast. Who introduced me to the band by playing a whole bunch of their tracks - including Freaky Deaky and Nowhereland from that 2021 album - on an April 2024 edition of the show;

https://blocsonic.com/bloccasts/episode/the-april-2024-episode/

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#CCMusic

@ChrisMayLA6 Obviously, the previous control for prices was competition but given the regulators everywhere appear to have turned a blind eye to the myriad of mergers, acquisitions and mega-mergers ...

We have a system of monopolies everywhere, hiding in plain sight through sub-brands and partnerships etc.

Once monopolies are in place, there path is clear.

#hattip to @pluralistic and his book Enshittification.

While adding @endurain to the ActivityPub watchlist for fediverse.party, I noticed that @forgejo has added code enabling me to add a fediverse address to a wiki page on @Codeberg, and have it automatically become a link to the profile for that address. Great stuff!

#HatTip to whoever had that idea and coded it, and also to @smallcircles for tipping me off about Endurain, and supplying the info about on the Delightful list that I was able to draw from for our listing.

#FediverseParty #CodeBerg

I just started reading the blog of @gilles. #HatTip to @mayel for the link to Gilles' homepage.

Anyway, I read this blog post;
https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2025/03/the-pain-in-mansplaining/

... and saw "fediverse reactions" at the bottom. So I tried putting that URL into the @Mastodon search bar. No dice.

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#UX #FediverseUX

#HatTip to the @fdroid threadiverse community, and others, for offering such rapid and thorough clarifications. Many thanks to @lnxw37a2 @hildegarde @alienghic @plm00 @Axolotl_cpp.

Thanks also to @tootbrute @kurikai for offering suggestions for other soft keyboard apps, and to @snek_boi for reminding me to format the first sentence of my Mastodon post so it becomes a good title in the threadiverse post.

#Listening to One Million Pines, from from the 6 track mock rock mini-album Measure Twice, Cut Once. Released in 2022 by Ōtepoti band by Night Lunch;

https://nightlunch666.bandcamp.com/album/measure-twice-cut-once

Bogans rock on steroids, making Deja Voodoo look sedate and sensible by comparison, and raising the ghost of Darcy Clay in the best possible way.

#HatTip to Freak the Sheep on bFM for introducing me to Night Lunch via their song Scary Car, from the 2021 record Table for Two

#music #rock #comedy #NightLunch #Aotearoa

Just for shits and gigs, I've been reading about the origins of Huawei's proprietary mobile OS; #HarmonyOS;

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android

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#HatTip to @billbennett for the Ars link, which I found here; /https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2106/S00013/huaweis-i-dont-believe-its-not-android-harmonyos.htm.

FYI Bill I tried to find a copy of this article on your own site to link to, but although search seemed to find one;

https://billbennett.co.nz/huaweis-i-dont-believe-its-not-android-harmonyos/

...clicking it currently redirects here;

https://billbennett.co.nz/oppo-find-x8-pro/

A bug in #Ghost or a misconfiguration? (CC @johnonolan)?

@llamasoft_ox I've been in several IRC channels / networks daily since 1995. Peeking in. #hattip

#TIL about the #NivenlyFoundation;

"We set the precedent for member-controlled and democratically-governed technical organizations. We support open-source services and projects around the world. We believe in balancing power between our contributors and maintainer(s) that sustain our projects with the corporations that use them."

https://nivenly.org/

#HatTip to Nivenly projects @pachli and @hachyderm

https://pachli.app/about/

I presume you're familiar with this @ntnsndr?=

"... since 2010, New Zealand had incurred $64b in costs from natural hazards, at least $19b of which came from central government.

The research showed that 97% of the central government expenditure was on responding to and recovering from natural disasters, with only 3% spent on risk reduction and resilience."

#MartySharpe, 2026

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360932600/government-rejects-plan-prevent-landslides-and-save-hundreds-millions

#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link (see the post above for a link to the post referencing this)

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#NaturalDisasters #resilience

"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.”

#HenryFarrell, 2025

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis

#HatTip to @laurenshof for bringing my attention to this piece in one of his;

https://connectedplaces.online/the-digital-services-act-and-theories-of-power/

#SocialMedia #MediaTheory

@boehmax
> I would like to use more PeerTube and less YouTube … but I can’t seem to find nice creators

I'm guessing you've tried browsing the #PeerTube hashtag and searching for your interests on;

https://sepiasearch.org/

... and ...

https://fedi.video/

Some other discovery methods are discussed here;

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-use-peertube-how-do-i-follow-peertube-accounts-from-mastodon/#DiscoverPeerTube

Searching PT is covered in more detail here;

https://fedi.tips/how-to-search-peertube/

#HatTip to @FediTips for the diligent work they continue to do on these guides.

#FediTips

#Listening to...

"Annihilation/Billionaire Death Drive is a second volume of anarcho-industrial punk from Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s Displeasure, the digital subsidiary of Unsanitary Napkin. The album expresses an even greater sense of urgency about the fragile state of our planet, and a greater sense of fury towards the depraved hypercapitalist sadists ruling over us"

https://mirlo.space/displeasure/release/annihilationbillionaire-death-drrive

#HatTip to unstream.stream for making this more discoverable!

#music #electronic #industrial #Displeasure

If anyone is wondering why they're getting a bunch of notifications about posts featuring #Disintermedia blog pieces, I just edited them to replace the SS links with links to my Ghost instance at disintermedia.net.nz.

#HatTip to @lightweight for providing hosting and a huge amount of handholding to help me get this off the ground.

If you need some utter sillyness to distract you from the interactive horror novel that is postmodern life, here's an oldie but a goodie;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

#HatTip to Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist for reminding me of this.

#MindCandy

#Listening to A Better World, a 2025 album by political punk bands The Dissidents and D.O.V.E;

https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/album/a-better-world

If you need to feel less alone in your frustration at the designer dysfunction of a world built for profit not people, check it out.

#HatTip to @uneasylistening for the link in their profile that led me to The Dissidents' music.

#music #punk #TheDissidents #DOVE

#HatTip to Alternatives Airwaves, who featured Rebuffering in a Nov 2023 edition of their podcast. A mix of corporate rock, of which the podcast delivers only the intro and outro, and CreativeCommons tracks, played in their full glory;

https://pinecast.com/feed/alternative-airwaves

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#podcasts #AlternativeAirwaves #CCMusic

#Listening to Rich People, a standalone track by Carsie Blanton from 2022;

https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/rich-people-digital-single

Licensed under CreativeCommons (BY-NC-ND 3.0), as is all the music she's released since on BC. Maybe everything there, but I didn't check every single release.

#HatTip to the @bsots Radio music podcast for introducing me to this song, in part 2 of the interview with @musicman;

https://radiobsots.blogspot.com/2023/07/bsots-180-in-conversation-with-douglas.html

#podcasts #BSOTS