Djoerd Hiemstra @djoerd@idf.social

Wow, this is very interesting. Smalltown is a new fork of Mastodon specifically for civic communities looking to host their own social media. It is being developed at Ethan Zuckerman's lab at UMass Amherst.

https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/09/28/welcome-to-smalltown/

(It's explicitly inspired by Hometown and very nicely links to my Patreon on their github, too.)

Dutchies: If you were born before 2005 you can now make an afspraak for a boosterprik 🦠💉🎉

In the last stages of degoogling. I'm currently reposting old Blogger posts about electronics and 3d printing to my Homehack blog. I'm also deleting the 3d models that were still on Google Drive to Printables and a Berlin based cloud service called HiDrive.

https://homehack.nl/peddle-wheel-boat-3d-printed/

#degoogle

choked up - tragic bullshit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Z4EY92zvqYuKqSWgQDPe3

New track on our Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VcOkY7S1DsoTjPNm7yXEn?si=Cl0DDLywTfG-cErQSZ9fVg

#chokedup #usa #spotify #np

I love how this badly designed ad sums up the whole of green capitalism.

Save up to 14% of the planet!

#sustainability #capitalism #solarpunk

Angry Reviewer - https://www.angryreviewer.com/

ECIR’23: Final call for Full Papers (due Sep 30/Oct 7) https://ecir2023.org/

Introducing the MIRACL challenge at WSDM 2023 http://miracl.ai/

Please join me in celebrating Petrov Day today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Tomáš "Word2Vec" Mikolov will speak at the 4th International Open Search Symposium! #OSSym2022

https://opensearchfoundation.org/4th-international-open-search-symposium-ossym2022/

OK this is pretty cool: built-in translation is coming to Mastodon, funded by the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19218

ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go - https://zincsearch.com/

My book The Creative Programmer was just released in early access! https://www.manning.com/books/the-creative-programmer
I've been working on a practical book for coders that summarizes our creativity research in software engineering. No worries, no dry academese present, pinky swear.
If you use code 'mlgroeneveld' you get 40% off!

Feedback is greatly appreciated and you can help me shape the last few chapters of the book! Please share if like!

So this is the officially supported medical information retrieval app in Belgium, and I can't access it because I de-Googled my phone.
Very sad state of affairs.

Onze overheid moet haar kostbare data niet klakkeloos uitleveren aan Google en Amazon

Bart Jacobs & José van Dijk

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-onze-overheid-moet-haar-kostbare-data-niet-klakkeloos-uitleveren-aan-google-en-amazon~b57cb834/