Hi. 👋

I am JayVii, a data enthusiast with a passion for Free and Open Source Software. I care about social inclusion & privacy. This is my personal Fediverse server, powered by ktistec. I modified its appearance with my own adjustments.

I typically remove shared posts after ca. 3–6 months. I do keep most of my own posts (for now).

I post about a variety of topics, both in German and English, such as:

I also developed a few tiny & simple self-hostable tools to ease my life (and that of others), such as:

You can find out more about myself on my website or in my introduction post.

JayVii
JayVii posted 6:27am

Every single time, when I follow a direct link to github. Or at the very least on my first click on anything there... What a scam of a platform.

Screenshot of a github error page: too many requests. Please wait for a few minutes and try again or log into your github account.

#github #scam #enshittification

JayViiMatthew Green
JayVii shared a note by Matthew Green 2:14am

There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs.

JayViiGabriele Svelto
JayVii shared a note by Gabriele Svelto 7:52pm

The fact that Google decided to dump a 4 GiB language model file on every Chrome installation is yet another sign of how the generative AI craze is unsustainable. Don't look at it from the side of users, look at it from Google side. Having every user download a 4 GiB monster which will need to be routinely updated is a significant cost. It takes a ton of bandwidth to do that, far more than Chrome updates consume. And yet they're doing it because they're desperate to externalize the cost of "AI".

JayViitofuwabohu
JayVii shared a note by tofuwabohu May 3, 2026
Looking for voice message transcription recommendation

I don't like voice messages for several reasons and I'd like to transcribe them. How do you do it?

- Needs to run local on Android or selfhosted on my own server (no cloud service)
- The flow from the Signal app should be as easy as possible
- Basically only needs to work in German

#Signal #Android

JayViiAnjiolina Nakaya

Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.

Scientists are famous oversharers.

JayVii
snarky remark about signal phishing attacks

This would have never happend with #Element/#Matrix, because

could not decrypt message

#Signal #SignalApp

JayViiBerto Garcia

What a time to be alive:

"For gaming, Microsoft views steamOS as the benchmark, and is working to optimize the platform so that steamOS and Windows gaming performance are comparable."

So they're trying to make Windows beat Linux at running... Windows games.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

JayVii

What isn't discussed enough within the whole Signal Phishing attack debacle in Germany, is that users have been primed for years to accept fishy (in-) security processes by online services, apps, payment providers and banks.

I (and probably you too) get (legit) messages and mails from banks you wouldn't believe... It is no wonder, that people interact with phishing-DMs via their messenger, when this is what other services call their official authentication procedures for a decade or so.

#Signal #SignalApp #Phishing #Hacking #Securityupdate

JayViitante
JayVii shared a note by tante Apr 27, 2026

We kinda settled on talking about "enshittification" a lot because it maps to our experience of the world: Everything slowly collapsing.

But what we need is a push towards first "unshittification" and then "antishittification": Digging us out of the ditch and then building political and economic infrastructures and policies that make sure it does not happen again.

JayViiKai Arzheimer
  

Portrait of a man with text overlay reading “Today, I completed a chore I have been putting off for 7 months. It took 12 minutes. I will learn nothing from this.”

Sad but true