Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Some random man just walked into our house, up a floor, to tell our electrician to move his van. What the fuck.
The insanely psychotic UK Lawyers for Israel is trying to get Medicine Sans Frontiers proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK...
Pro-Israel group condemned for demanding UK ban on Doctors Without Borders
The single largest emitter of methane in the U.S. is Energy Transfer in Louisiana
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/us-companies-methane-pollution-rankings
For any fellow Mastodon server admins in the UK, I'm aware of the Social Media Platforms (Ofcom Licensing) Act 2026.
It would make it basically illegal to run a Mastodon server as a UK citizen.
It's a private member's bill and it's not likely to pass, I'm starting the lobbying against it. It won't pass on my watch. It's a good faith effort to solve a very specific problem but it's too broad.
https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/67647/documents/8738
Yep, this Hacker News post has the right of it. They're pushing for a "great slowdown" because the gains have been incremental for, uh, a while.
Like I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's nowhere near enough to get them to profitability, so they need an escape, and now. Or their valuation poofs.
If you really still think it’s about antisemitism—and not about enabling Palestinian genocide—then you’ll have to pretend Kanye pro Hitler West isn’t playing at several of the same venues Macklemore was just cancelled from for saying Free Palestine.😐
Apple found a new way to sabotage and ruin PWAs in iOS 27. When you add a PWA to the Home Screen, it forces this fade onto it, and you can't remove it. Unbelievable.
RE: https://mastodon.au/@nigl/117063080892127255
I need to know who’s responsible for the Gooder Living account, because it’s fucking amazing.
Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.
Just popping in to have digital scream because somebody just said something didn't exist because they checked with Google, of course they just checked with Google's AI overview, they didn't actually use a search engine, because then they would have found out that the thing they wanted did exist, and was available in the local supermarket.
I swear AI is turning people's brains into mush
If you really think that AI running out of control is a dangerous possibility, then make tech company CEOs legally liable for illegal actions taken by their company's agents.
Joy Mastodon loves the Caspar farm stand collective, and decided to dress the part. #Plushtodon
