Eric Ireland
@erici.linuxrocks.online.ap.brid.gy
#slackware rocks
I live in Melbourne.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://linuxrocks.online/@erici, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
I live in Melbourne.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://linuxrocks.online/@erici, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
I got a haircut yesterday and asked my daughter what she thought of it. She said “bad,but not as bad as the last one”. 2026 looking up!
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I got a haircut yesterday and asked my daughter what she thought of it. She said “bad,but not as bad as the last one”. 2026 looking up!
I started wearing glasses today. Feels strange. I look weird too.
January 19, 2026 at 8:16 AM
I started wearing glasses today. Feels strange. I look weird too.
Reposted by Eric Ireland
Hi #forkiverse folks: thought you might like to know, you can follow both #hardfork and #searchengine through the fediverse too.
Follow the #podcasts by following these two fediverse accounts that bridge the RSS feeds to the open social web.
@1026613
and
@1371595
You can follow and see each […]
Follow the #podcasts by following these two fediverse accounts that bridge the RSS feeds to the open social web.
@1026613
and
@1371595
You can follow and see each […]
Original post on indieweb.social
indieweb.social
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Hi #forkiverse folks: thought you might like to know, you can follow both #hardfork and #searchengine through the fediverse too.
Follow the #podcasts by following these two fediverse accounts that bridge the RSS feeds to the open social web.
@1026613
and
@1371595
You can follow and see each […]
Follow the #podcasts by following these two fediverse accounts that bridge the RSS feeds to the open social web.
@1026613
and
@1371595
You can follow and see each […]
Reposted by Eric Ireland
The secret anti-protest police in Australia
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7ampodcast.com.au
January 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM
The secret anti-protest police in Australia
7ampodcast.com.au
7ampodcast.com.au
January 18, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Reposted by Eric Ireland
Please explain why you still use the internet if you think federating with #bluesky is bad now cause #ice joined. The web has Nazis too.
People don't seem to understand that on decentralized networks, horrible people also using it is only a problem if their shit is pushed at us. If their […]
People don't seem to understand that on decentralized networks, horrible people also using it is only a problem if their shit is pushed at us. If their […]
Original post on liberal.city
liberal.city
January 17, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Reposted by Eric Ireland
RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/
We're now up to TWELVE sites which are text only 🙂
If you want a fun weekend project, see if you can make a plaintext version of your blog.
Details:
We're now up to TWELVE sites which are text only 🙂
If you want a fun weekend project, see if you can make a plaintext version of your blog.
Details:
shkspr.mobi
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM
RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/
We're now up to TWELVE sites which are text only 🙂
If you want a fun weekend project, see if you can make a plaintext version of your blog.
Details:
We're now up to TWELVE sites which are text only 🙂
If you want a fun weekend project, see if you can make a plaintext version of your blog.
Details:
The “Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026” is going to be a disaster for free speech in Australia. The Liberals and the Greens are right to block it. If you want a feel for the kind of chilling effect it will have, read up on what’s going on in Europe, especially the U.K […]
Original post on linuxrocks.online
linuxrocks.online
January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
The “Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026” is going to be a disaster for free speech in Australia. The Liberals and the Greens are right to block it. If you want a feel for the kind of chilling effect it will have, read up on what’s going on in Europe, especially the U.K […]
Some of the writers who withdrew from Adelaide Writers’ Week after Randa Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation have previously argued that free speech is not freedom from consequences, including organisers deciding not to host someone. E.g. Jane Caro (2018). #auspol […]
Original post on linuxrocks.online
linuxrocks.online
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Some of the writers who withdrew from Adelaide Writers’ Week after Randa Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation have previously argued that free speech is not freedom from consequences, including organisers deciding not to host someone. E.g. Jane Caro (2018). #auspol […]
Reposted by Eric Ireland
Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 37 years ago today, Y1 class #tram no 613 running a summer Sundays trip to St Kilda Beach, stops in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, January 15, 1989.
On Summer Sundays in the 1980s, extra trams were run to the tourist […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
On Summer Sundays in the 1980s, extra trams were run to the tourist […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
January 15, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 37 years ago today, Y1 class #tram no 613 running a summer Sundays trip to St Kilda Beach, stops in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, January 15, 1989.
On Summer Sundays in the 1980s, extra trams were run to the tourist […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
On Summer Sundays in the 1980s, extra trams were run to the tourist […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
Reposted by Eric Ireland
[Iran]
Just in 48 hours, 12'000 people were killed. This means on average 4.16 people *per minute* lost their lives.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/
This 2 days death toll is way more than the maximum death in *a month* in […]
Just in 48 hours, 12'000 people were killed. This means on average 4.16 people *per minute* lost their lives.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/
This 2 days death toll is way more than the maximum death in *a month* in […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
January 13, 2026 at 7:31 PM
[Iran]
Just in 48 hours, 12'000 people were killed. This means on average 4.16 people *per minute* lost their lives.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/
This 2 days death toll is way more than the maximum death in *a month* in […]
Just in 48 hours, 12'000 people were killed. This means on average 4.16 people *per minute* lost their lives.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/
This 2 days death toll is way more than the maximum death in *a month* in […]
Reposted by Eric Ireland
My wife and I got different fitness trackers recently. I already #selfhost a bunch of services. Are there any decent FOSS apps for syncing/sharing/archiving workout and health data?
January 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
My wife and I got different fitness trackers recently. I already #selfhost a bunch of services. Are there any decent FOSS apps for syncing/sharing/archiving workout and health data?
I've started using a #podcast server called #pinepods which is sort of like tt-rss but for podcasts. It works pretty well. At first I tried running it on #slackware but installing #docker on there was a bummer (failed to build) so I gave up and used #debian. It works pretty well if you subscribe […]
Original post on linuxrocks.online
linuxrocks.online
January 13, 2026 at 6:40 AM
I've started using a #podcast server called #pinepods which is sort of like tt-rss but for podcasts. It works pretty well. At first I tried running it on #slackware but installing #docker on there was a bummer (failed to build) so I gave up and used #debian. It works pretty well if you subscribe […]
Reposted by Eric Ireland
Good to hear @Podnews's predications for #2026.
https://pod.link/podnewsweeklyreview/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODQ3ODIyMA
Even better to hear #adptivepodcasting being mentioned (38:00 - SMIL podcasting) by @samsethi & @james
Maybe too advanced for its time in 2023, but certainly something which […]
https://pod.link/podnewsweeklyreview/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODQ3ODIyMA
Even better to hear #adptivepodcasting being mentioned (38:00 - SMIL podcasting) by @samsethi & @james
Maybe too advanced for its time in 2023, but certainly something which […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
January 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Good to hear @Podnews's predications for #2026.
https://pod.link/podnewsweeklyreview/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODQ3ODIyMA
Even better to hear #adptivepodcasting being mentioned (38:00 - SMIL podcasting) by @samsethi & @james
Maybe too advanced for its time in 2023, but certainly something which […]
https://pod.link/podnewsweeklyreview/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODQ3ODIyMA
Even better to hear #adptivepodcasting being mentioned (38:00 - SMIL podcasting) by @samsethi & @james
Maybe too advanced for its time in 2023, but certainly something which […]
Maybe Denmark could swap Greenland for Washington D.C.
January 9, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Maybe Denmark could swap Greenland for Washington D.C.
Reposted by Eric Ireland
The more I look into it, the #podcast2 folks fighting for open podcasts are in exactly the same fight, with almost 100 % the same challenges & opponents as the #opensocialweb folks are. Just a different front. We should all be natural allies. cc: @samsethi […]
Original post on indieweb.social
indieweb.social
January 4, 2026 at 1:42 AM
The more I look into it, the #podcast2 folks fighting for open podcasts are in exactly the same fight, with almost 100 % the same challenges & opponents as the #opensocialweb folks are. Just a different front. We should all be natural allies. cc: @samsethi […]
The golden age of vaccine development
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/
The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
worksinprogress.co
January 8, 2026 at 8:18 AM
The golden age of vaccine development
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/
Two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don't have to. And never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be. #auspol
January 8, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don't have to. And never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be. #auspol
Reposted by Eric Ireland
Dual-cab ute, but Kei Car. Spotted on the streets of Kawagoe.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car)
January 8, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Dual-cab ute, but Kei Car. Spotted on the streets of Kawagoe.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car)
Reposted by Eric Ireland
So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
: It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
www.theregister.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
Reposted by Eric Ireland
How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.
https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html
#github #floss
https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html
#github #floss
How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
ploum.net
January 5, 2026 at 11:27 AM
How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.
https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html
#github #floss
https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html
#github #floss
Last week we went to have lunch with friends and were talking about what we do online for entertainment. I said I am a podcast fanatic. My friend was very surprised and didn’t know what podcasts were; he just follows channels on YouTube. I don’t mind listening to the occasional ad on a podcast […]
Original post on linuxrocks.online
linuxrocks.online
January 6, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Last week we went to have lunch with friends and were talking about what we do online for entertainment. I said I am a podcast fanatic. My friend was very surprised and didn’t know what podcasts were; he just follows channels on YouTube. I don’t mind listening to the occasional ad on a podcast […]
Man who filmed Uyghur concentration camps now fights for his own freedom in the United States
https://hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-filmed-uyghur-concentration
https://hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-filmed-uyghur-concentration
January 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Man who filmed Uyghur concentration camps now fights for his own freedom in the United States
https://hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-filmed-uyghur-concentration
https://hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-filmed-uyghur-concentration