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2026-08-06

A list of 55 MCP servers for geospatial tasks, including “geocoding, routing, Po

(source: @Lat × Long)
A list of 55 MCP servers for geospatial tasks, including “geocoding, routing, PostGIS, STAC/imagery, QGIS/ArcGIS, weather, and the commercial location platforms.” Also comes with a Claude skill. https://github.com/willcadell/geo-mcp-servers

2026-08-04

RE: https://swiss.social/@ping13/117037987019825054 Just another day of yours tr

(source: @shapefile)
RE: https://swiss.social/@ping13/117037987019825054Just another day of yours truly enabling skilled #GISchat pros like @ping13 to build awesome AR apps!! Happy and honored to serve! 🤗 Fit for #augmentedreality 🌎💾

2026-08-04

Zurück in der Schweiz werde ich empfangen von Plakaten die «Kein Krieg. Ja» schr

(source: @Peter Gassner)
Zurück in der Schweiz werde ich empfangen von Plakaten die «Kein Krieg. Ja» schreiben – und damit meinen, dass die Schweiz zur Komplizin von Kriegsführenden werden soll.Die Verlogenheit ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht.Und wird Jahr für Jahr von der SVP vorangetrieben, bis unsere Demokratie gebodigt ist. Wir sollten echt mal Anfangen, die Partei als das Problem zu behandeln, das sie ist …https://www.friedensrat.ch/artikel/ein-argumentarium-zur-abstimmung-vom-27-september-2026-nein-zur-unsolidarischen-neutralitatsinitiative#chpol

2026-08-04

this is a really well done breakdown of what happens when you click a button on

(source: @Ed Freyfogle)
this is a really well done breakdown of what happens when you click a button on a web site: https://200ms.thenodebook.com

2026-08-04

Say hello to the ESPHome Device Builder desktop app, available now for macOS, Wi

(source: @ESPHome)
Say hello to the ESPHome Device Builder desktop app, available now for macOS, Windows, and Linux.It's a super easy way to deploy and manage your devices in a single download. You can read more about it in our blog 👇https://esphome.io/blog/2026/08/04/simplify-your-esphome-setup-with-the-new-desktop-app/#SmartHome #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation

2026-08-04

@ping13 @shapefile Credit where credit is due 😉 🙂

(source: @Atanas)
@ping13 @shapefile Credit where credit is due 😉 🙂

2026-08-04

@ping13 Very cool.

(source: @Atanas)
@ping13 Very cool.

2026-08-03

⭐️ I just finished the book “AI and the new fascism” by @RainerMuehlhoff and it’

(source: @Peter Gassner)
⭐️ I just finished the book “AI and the new fascism” by @RainerMuehlhoff and it’s the absolutely best text you can read about our current times! He ties together all the important actors and mechanisms to form a coherent picture of what is happening – highly competent and without fuss.Go read it. Now!Available in German today. French and English in the fall.https://rainermuehlhoff.de/publications.html#bookstodon

2026-08-03

Eine neue (private) #Newsletter-Ausgabe ist verfügbar. https://internetobservato

(source: @Johannes Kuhn (kopfzeiler))
Eine neue (private) #Newsletter-Ausgabe ist verfügbar.https://internetobservatorium.substack.com/p/aus-dem-internet-observatorium-166

2026-08-01

This is ★★★★★ (Timestamp link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RF2lkn-lwA&t=164

(source: @Casey Liss)
This is ★★★★★(Timestamp link)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RF2lkn-lwA&t=1640s

2026-07-31

Would you believe that the first On the Calculation of Volume was published in…F

(source: @Elizabeth Zagroba)
Would you believe that the first On the Calculation of Volume was published in…February 2020? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Calculation_of_Volume

2026-07-31

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/117015579000185450 The AI tech bros coul

(source: @Craig Hockenberry)
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/117015579000185450The AI tech bros could learn a lot from IBM in the late 1940’s: “extra engineers” makes much more sense, and is easier for society to accept. Instead the focus is on “replacing engineers” and that won’t work out well for anyone. Of course they will also ignore this advice.

2026-07-31

“Their AI hacked into a company? That’s nothing! Ours hacked into three companie

(source: @Dr. Drang)
“Their AI hacked into a company? That’s nothing! Ours hacked into three companies.”

2026-07-31

This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss

(source: www.platformer.news)
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them

2026-07-30

Wie es der Zufall will, war #KI gerade gestern auch wieder Thema auf einem der u

(source: @Andreas Bulling)
Wie es der Zufall will, war #KI gerade gestern auch wieder Thema auf einem der unzähligen Sommerfeste. Das Interesse an KI, aber auch die Sorge ist groß und meine Meinung ist bei solchen Events deswegen meist gefragt. So auch gestern.Einen Punkt wollte ich noch unterstreichen, der schon in manchen Kommentaren unter meinem ursprünglichen Post am Rande aufkam und der auch gestern wieder aufkam:Was wir heute KI nennen ist ein Tool. Nicht mehr, aber auch nicht weniger. Von wirklicher Intelligenz, so wie wir sie mit dem Vorbild u.a. des Menschen verstehen, sind wir noch meilenweit entfernt. Aber: In …


2026-07-28

Actual footage of a vibe coder carefully checking the bot’s output h/t https://m

(source: @Kilian Evang)
Actual footage of a vibe coder carefully checking the bot’s outputh/t https://mastodon.social/@glitchypixel@mastodon.gamedev.place/116988732214269914

2026-07-28

It used to be said that there are two things you should never find out how they

(source: @Martin Seeger)
It used to be said that there are two things you should never find out how they are made: laws and sausages.Perhaps it is time to add software and turn the pair into a trio. 😄

2026-07-27

@masek Das Zeug in den Gläsern heißt zwar Miracoli, aber hat geschmacklich mit d

(source: @Cybso :progress: (he/him))
@masek Das Zeug in den Gläsern heißt zwar Miracoli, aber hat geschmacklich mit der Soße in den Packungen nicht viel zu tun :-)Von allen Rezepten, die ich kenne, kommt das hier meiner Meinung nach am nächsten an die originale Soße dran:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhaFoiIR_RkKochen wir uns inzwischen regelmäßig auf Vorrat :-)@isotopp

2026-07-24

Ich will mich zum Thema #KI auch mal äußern. Schließlich forschen und lehren wir

(source: @Andreas Bulling)
Ich will mich zum Thema #KI auch mal äußern. Schließlich forschen und lehren wir in diesem Bereich. Ein Punkt, der in der Berichterstattung und Diskussion meines Erachtens viel zu wenig Beachtung findet:Da rollt eine riesige Welle auf uns zu. Eine Welle ungeahnten Ausmaßes und mit verheerenden Folgen für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Die Welle der Inkompetenz.Kurzer Realitätsabgleich: Bei uns an der Uni sind vorlesungsbegleitende Übungen, Fachpraktika und Seminare effektiv tot. Ob Programmieraufgaben, Übungsblätter oder Textarbeit - der Anteil an KI-generierten Abgaben liegt (geschätzt, denn genau sagen kann man das nie) zwischen 90% und 100%. Studis lassen ganze Bachelor- und Master-Arbeiten …

2026-07-23

Es gab Nazis VOR 1933

(source: @Ruprecht Polenz)
Es gab Nazis VOR 1933

2026-07-23

So, my observations on #meshtastic and #meshcore so far: Meshtastic seems like t

(source: @Saustrup)
So, my observations on #meshtastic and #meshcore so far: Meshtastic seems like the thing you'd bring on a trip. Excellent for adhoc communication in a smaller area without any established network. One firmware does it all. Very chatty and limited to only 3 jumps, making long distance a challenge. Bring it on a trekking trip or a multi vehicle road trip. Great for tactical and ad hoc deployment. MeshCore is less ad hoc. While the companion firmware can talk directly to each other, the network's backbone are devices with the repeater firmware. MeshCore supports routing discovery (with fallback) and limits …

2026-07-22

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) L

(source: @Hacker News 500)
Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)Link: https://bento.page/slides/Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008211

2026-07-22

If you use the `setup-uv` #GitHub #Action in your workflows, consider upgrading

(source: @Mike Fiedler, Code Gardener)
If you use the `setup-uv` #GitHub #Action in your workflows, consider upgrading to version 9.0.0 soon.This version changes the default behavior to store the downloaded #Python wheels from #PyPI in GHA Cache, shedding load from PyPI, especially relevant for frequent CI/CD runs.The maintainers considered this a breaking change, hence the version bump, probably because it flips existing expectations.If you expected that the Action was caching downloads before, now it actually does, so it's a logical fix in that regard.Read more: https://github.com/astral-sh/setup-uv/releases/tag/v9.0.0

2026-07-22

OpenAIs neuestes KI-Modell bricht während eines Tests selbstständig aus seiner T

(source: @heise online)
OpenAIs neuestes KI-Modell bricht während eines Tests selbstständig aus seiner Test-Umgebung aus, sucht im Internet nach geheimen Dokumenten und hackt sich bei der Firma Hugging Face ein. Dort kompromittiert es völlig automatisiert und unbeaufsichtigt reihenweise Server. 😳Zum Kommentar: https://heise.de/-11373435?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#openai #kisicherheit #künstlicheintelligenz #cybersecurity #tech

2026-07-22

agent-shell 0.63 updates https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-63-updates #emacs #p

(source: @Álvaro R.)
agent-shell 0.63 updateshttps://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-63-updates#emacs #pi #omp #ohmypi #claude #anthropic #ai #google #goose #gemini #linux #github #macos #oss #foss #opencode #codex #vibe #windows #hermes #hermes_agent #codebuddy #kimicode

2026-07-21

I haven't seen any reasonable progress on automating empathy. That seems like a

(source: @Alex Bird)
I haven't seen any reasonable progress on automating empathy. That seems like a good skill to differentiate on.Building the right productMaking sure it actually solves a problem people care aboutBuilding the highest impact features firstDesigning easy-to-use developer toolsThis is empathy work (although on LinkedIn you can call it product and project management).

2026-07-21

Die Deutsche Bahn leidet nicht nur unter Verspaetungen - sie leidet unter einem

(source: @padeluun ⁂)
Die Deutsche Bahn leidet nicht nur unter Verspaetungen - sie leidet unter einem Systemversagen. Das ist der Befund der neuen ZDF-Doku mit Dunja Hayali. Sie zeigt, wie Sicherheitswarnungen versanden, bekannte Schaeden jahrelang liegen bleiben und selbst auf frisch sanierten Strecken teilweise wieder Technik von gestern eingebaut wird.Besonders drastisch: Nach dem Zugunglueck bei Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2022 ergab eine interne Untersuchung, dass der gefaehrliche “Betonkrebs” an den betroffenen Bahnschwellen bereits seit 2010 bekannt war. Passiert ist trotzdem nichts - bis fuenf Menschen starben.Auch intern laeuft vieles schief. Laut einer Mitarbeiterbefragung erhalten rund 80 Prozent der Beschaeftigten, die Stoerungen oder Sicherheitsmaengel melden, gar keine …

2026-07-19

Die Zeit legte kürzlich den Finger in dieselbe Wunde. »Gegnern der AfD fällt es

(source: @Oliver Schafeld)
Die Zeit legte kürzlich den Finger in dieselbe Wunde.»Gegnern der AfD fällt es schwer, deren Widersprüche zu skandalisieren. Denn dort, wo man überhaupt keine Moral mehr erwartet, lässt sich keine Doppelmoral attestieren.«🎁🗞️ https://www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2026-07/leihmutterschaft-debatte-jens-spahn-moral-konservatismus?freebie=53b344e0

2026-07-18

All About Berlin - Free guides and tools to live in Germany

(source: allaboutberlin.com)
Free guides and tools for moving to Germany and living in Berlin: how to get a visa, find a job, find an apartment, and a lot more.

2026-07-17

a fun game https://country-draw.vercel.app/

(source: @Sarah Dal)
a fun game https://country-draw.vercel.app/

2026-07-17

“PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-Potts Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/

(source: @Dave Rahardja)
“PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-PottsSource: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZaR5o_iKNy/#ai #Poetry #Poem

2026-07-13

@ping13 That was the one! Thank you!

(source: @Josh Carlson)
@ping13 That was the one! Thank you!

2026-07-13

DuckLake 1.0 production checklist: PostgreSQL + S3 deploy

(source: berndsen.io)
24-step checklist for deploying DuckLake 1.0 to production with PostgreSQL and S3. Covers encryption, backups, access control, monitoring, and GDPR.

2026-07-12

A new technical analysis shows xAI's official Grok Build CLI transmits file cont

(source: @Pikapods)
A new technical analysis shows xAI's official Grok Build CLI transmits file contents, including .env secrets, and uploads entire repositories to a cloud bucket. This happens even when users disable data sharing.Closed AI tools require absolute trust with sensitive data. Open-source alternatives are the only way to guarantee your code stays private. 🔒https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547

2026-07-11

DuckLake & DuckDB: Why We Bet the Company on the Duck Stack | Definite

(source: www.definite.app)
A founder's perspective on why Definite migrated from Snowflake to DuckDB, how DuckLake changes lakehouse economics, and what this means for your analytics budget.

2026-07-11

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

(source: www.404media.co)
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

2026-07-10

Wirklich alles lokal: Hermes-Agent und Qwen 3.6 KI-Agenten sind praktisch, aber

(source: @c't Magazin)
Wirklich alles lokal: Hermes-Agent und Qwen 3.6KI-Agenten sind praktisch, aber dafür intime Daten in die Cloud schicken? Mit Hermes-Agent und lokalen Modellen wie Qwen 3.6 klappts auf dem eigenen Rechner.https://www.heise.de/news/Wirklich-alles-lokal-Hermes-Agent-und-Qwen-3-6-11361489.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#Alibaba #ct #Entertainment #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Sprachverarbeitung #news

2026-07-10

Mario Voigt und Matthias Döpfner: Die neue Unsitte, das Denken an eine KI auszulagern – Kolumne - DER SPIEGEL

(source: www.spiegel.de)
Politiker prompten Gastbeiträge, Medienunternehmer lassen ihre Meinungsartikel von KI schreiben, Schüler ihre Hausaufgaben. So neu die Technik sein mag: Die kognitive Psychologie weiß längst, was das bewirken wird.

2026-07-10

🔥 If you're travelling by train this summer, you might want to check how disrupt

(source: @chuuchuu)
🔥 If you're travelling by train this summer, you might want to check how disrupted trains can get in your area on hot days.Read our report: https://chuuchuu.com/heatwave

2026-07-06

Please stop the AI Confidence Theater - by Elena Verna

(source: www.elenaverna.com)
We don’t need an extra reason to be anxious

2026-07-04

How AI Poisons Creativity

(source: youtube.com)
The video argues that while AI is marketed as an efficient tool for creators, it is fundamentally detrimental to the creative process by removing essential struggles and iterations. Creative value and originality are derived from the process-including research, iteration, and problem-solving-rather than just the final product or initial idea. Historical examples such as the collaborative song-writing of The Beatles, the evolving work of Leonardo da Vinci on the Mona Lisa, and the fluid script development of the film Casablanca illustrate how the creative journey shapes the final result. The use of AI-driven shortcuts-often signaled by a 'sparkle icon'-can create a …

2026-07-01

AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

(source: charitydotwtf.substack.com)
Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. Here's how to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.

2026-06-29

“Doctor, it hurts when agents create unreviewable PRs.” “Don’t do that.” – Jon Udell

(source: blog.jonudell.net)
I recently attended a talk, by an engineer at a large software company, on the topic of unreviewable PRs. The problem? When agents raise PRs with thousands of lines of LLM-written adds/deletes/edits, people can't make sense of them. The solution? Throw more agents at the problem: reviewer agents that scan what coding agents have produced,…

2026-06-27

Home Assistant MCP Server

(source: homeassistant-ai.github.io)
AI-powered smart home control through the Model Context Protocol

2026-06-25

This is a good piece from @emilymbender on how to use language to push back on “

(source: @Bruce Davie)
This is a good piece from @emilymbender on how to use language to push back on “AI” (or “probabilistic automation” as she suggests) and stop anthropomorphising the synthetic text extruders. https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

2026-06-25

Candice Odgers: What we're getting wrong about teens and tech | TED Talk

(source: www.ted.com)
For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol use and pregnancy are at historic lows, and research shows social media may not actually be the culprit for mental health problems. Hear her analysis of what’s really troubling kids these days, and why banning them from online spaces may make things worse.

2026-06-25

Prognose: 2028 wird KI-Coding teurer als Entwicklergehälter | heise online

(source: www.heise.de)
Von der Produktivitätsrevolution zur Kostenfalle: KI-Coding könnte Unternehmen bald teurer kommen als das Entwicklergehalt, prognostizieren Marktforscher.

2026-06-16

Running local models is good now | ✰Vicki Boykis✰

(source: vickiboykis.com)
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months

2026-06-16

Das Fritzbox-Kompendium: Einrichten, absichern und optimieren | heise online

(source: www.heise.de)
News und Foren zu Computer, IT, Wissenschaft, Medien und Politik. Preisvergleich von Hardware und Software sowie Downloads bei Heise Medien.

2026-06-13

If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort | Tom Bedor's Blog

(source: tombedor.dev)
An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the output of an AI to another human to read?

2026-05-19

Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 di

(source: @CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH)
Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.https://virtualosmuseum.org/Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.#retrocomputing

2026-05-12

GitHub for Non Developers

(source: medium.com)


2026-04-20

apfel - Your Mac Already Has AI

(source: apfel.franzai.com)
Your Mac already has AI. Apple ships a language model with macOS -apfel unlocks it with one brew install. No downloads, no API keys, no config. The fastest path to local AI.


2026-04-19

GitHub - erode-app/erode · GitHub

(source: github.com)
Contribute to erode-app/erode development by creating an account on GitHub.


2026-04-15

Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too)

(source: arialdomartini.github.io)
Random thoughts about programming

2026-04-15

Tooltrace

(source: www.tooltrace.ai)
Custom foam cutouts for your tools

2026-04-08

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

(source: piechowski.io)
Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

2026-04-05

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Taggart Tech

(source: taggart-tech.com)
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

2026-03-28

Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder - by Avi Chawla

(source: blog.dailydoseofds.com)
A complete guide to CLAUDE.md, custom commands, skills, agents, and permissions, and how to set them up properly.


2026-03-24

Claude Code Cheat Sheet

(source: cc.storyfox.cz)


2026-03-24

Völlig kostenlos: 21 Freeware-Perlen für den Mac | heise online

(source: www.heise.de)
Die von uns ausgewählten macOS-Helfer erleichtern lästige Aufgaben, erweitern das System um nützliche Funktionen und lassen Sie konzentrierter arbeiten.

2026-03-23

The True Cost of Claude Code - Paper Compute Blog

(source: papercompute.com)
If you're paying $100/month but consuming multiples of that in value, you have to start wondering when that's going to catch up to you. The AI coding tool market is following a familiar playbook.

2026-03-21

Delve - Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I

(source: deepdelver.substack.com)
How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out

2026-03-20

Lobster Boil – On my Om

(source: om.co)
I had coffee this weekend with my good friend Michael Galpert, father to my godchildren. Too much coffee. We talked too much Claw. OpenClaw that is. Michael has been running around the country organizing ClawCons. New York, Austin, Tokyo next. Not industry conferences. In the halcyon days of Web 2.0, we called them meetups and…

2026-03-19

Nightingale — Karaoke from your music library

(source: nightingale.cafe)
Turn any song into karaoke with neural network-powered stem separation, word-level lyrics, pitch scoring, and dynamic backgrounds. Ships as a single binary.