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.

JayViiJoachim
JayVii shared a note by Joachim May 23, 2026

RE: chaos.social/@rixx/11662480807

Having to do a wanking motion in order to do something AI-related feels a bit on the nose.

#environmentalStorytelling

rixx
Screenshot of Firefox on Android, showing a hint above the navbar reading "Shake your device to summarise this page in seconds."

Firefox noooo

#firefox #ai

JayViiJan Kosyk
JayVii shared a note by Jan Kosyk May 20, 2026
Ein Comic-Kinder-Reginalexpress mit Brille und Schaffnermütze. Davor ein paar Münzen und Fahrkarten. Oben drüber steht "Ronny Refund"

Verspätungen mit #Deutschlandticket lassen sich nicht entschädigen.
Nein?
Doch!
Oh!

Mit #RonnyRefund könnt ihr euch eure D-Ticket-Verspätungen über den Monat zusammenrechnen lassen und sobald die Bagatellgrenze von 4 EUR überschritten ist, bekommt ihr einen #Schriebs für die #DeutscheBahn generiert, den ihr nur noch per Mail abschickt.

Alle Infos ums Wie und Warum sind auf der Webseite in einem FAQ nochmal zusammengefasst.

ronnyrefund.de/

JayViislaut
JayVii shared a note by slaut May 14, 2026

Digitalzwang
Das gute digitale Leben setzt voraus, dass wir Digitalisierung nicht mit Überwachung gleichsetzen und immer auch Wahlfreiheit haben, analog zu bleiben.

#digitalcourage
digitalcourage.de/digitalzwang

JayViiforrestbrazeal
a founder tells his team: "after a spiritual pilgrimage, two mountaintop leadership retreats, an ayahuasca experience, and a devastating personal tragedy that threw everything else into perspective, I've concluded that our company needs to chase the same current trend as every single one of our competitors in the industry"

here's to the crazy ones. the misfits. the rebels.

JayVii

For my personal tech-news feed tn.jayvii.de, I use RSS feeds from other link aggregators like HN, lobsters, reddit or Lemmy.

Unfortunately, the RSS feeds of the later two link to the posts, rather than the URL that post links to. Is there any way to circumvent this behaviour or extract the URL from reddit/lemmy via a thin webscraping layer I can run the RSS feed through?

I have something like morss.it in mind...

#reddit #lemmy #selfhosting #rss

JayViiGrapheneOS
JayVii shared a note by GrapheneOS May 10, 2026

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

JayVii

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

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

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