Janeishly

I am absolutely fucking SICK of all the unpaid work required to simply exist in the techno-hell that is 2026. I've just spent half an hour trying to take a photograph of my passport that Wise.com will accept – to no avail. They now want me to do something involving live photographs of myself and my passport using my smartphone. JUST FUCK OFF. Let's just let the money launderers do whatever they want, eh? Let the mysterious people who might want to pay my bills do so. Let the people who want to login to my IKEA account to use my 173 points do that too. I reckon I'd save about a day a week if I didn't have to do this shit any more. And given that billionaires are screwing over society far more comprehensively than any "organised crime", I just don't give a shit. Let them take it. Let them all take all of it. #eat_the_rich

@overholt@glammr.us Says it all about what they think a book actually is.

So no matter what happens in the future, no matter how long I live, I will never buy a car made later than 2025. https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-mandates-driver-facing-cameras-in-new-cars-from-today

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems On my phone you get an appropriately positioned "Collapse" box as the conclusion to this post.

I have actually worked for @mullvadnet@mastodon.online a couple of times, translating their book about why data privacy is so important and why Chat Control is an absolutely terrible idea. The people I worked with were lovely. But they weren't the CEO, who, presumably, would have thrown up his hands at the thought of paying me, an immigrant to Sweden. (Or is it only brown people who aren't allowed to pollute Swedish soil?) Either way, I'm sorry for the non-racist people working there, who will presumably now be looking for new jobs in the not too distant future. The thing with being an alternative tech company is that you have to keep your politics at the very least *not* out and out fascist. I guess that bloke is about to find that out the hard way.

@rysiek@mstdn.social @onepict@chaos.social @mwl@io.mwl.io As a white immigrant in Sweden (and coincidentally someone who has actually worked with Mullvad and believes very strongly in data privacy), so much this!

Time taken to write an email: 20 seconds Time taken to work out how to reduce the number of exclamation marks in the same email so I come across as friendly and competent rather than barking: 10 minutes

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu When are you going to stop supermarkets wrapping individual fruit and vegetables in plastic? Most of my plastic waste comes from packaging entirely unnecessary to me.

@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social @markwyner@mas.to I read the first book, went "meh" and donated it to a library. IIRC it just felt too middle class and traditionalist. I've always been more Team Pratchett!

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Can you please stop boosting AI everywhere then? It can't do the job and it's killing the planet and our societies far faster than anything else we've ever done.

RE: https://mas.to/@greenfrogg/116823297167630790 Fuck em, who wants to go to the US anyway?

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I should have probably guessed in advance that she'd be a tortie. I have one, and she very much has Opinions.

@CiaraNi@mastodon.green @agturcz@circumstances.run @antygon@mastodon.com.pl One of the things I absolutely LOVE about the #livecoding movement, and particularly (?) #pastagang is that this isn't true. Young people (and older people, who cares about biological age?) making music using technology, and deliberately saying that it doesn't matter if it's shit music, it doesn't have to be polished, it's not there for an algorithm (ironic, given that it's algorave music), and *yes* they're dancing. And they're being filmed. And they don't care. It is fucking glorious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUdq7QIuYa0

@paco@infosec.exchange Where did she get the fabric?!

Do we have any camera nerds out there? I've got two Nikon 1s (don't snigger, I love them) and they're both unusable at the moment - one has an unpleasantly terminal dark red screen when fired up, the other one objected to me inserting the wireless adapter the other day for the first time in several years and is now insisting that the clock has been reset, but won't let me actually reset it. I haven't got either the money or the desire to replace them (I've got several of the nicer lenses that go with them, for a start), so I'd really like to find some way to repair them, if possible. Any suggestions? I'm in Sweden, if that makes any difference. #Nikon1 #RepairReuseRecycle #Photography #PhotographyCommunity

@Moss@beige.party @futzle@old.mermaid.town I've never used profile notes on here, so I must start. I have an account on another platform where I've done that and the reasons are an interesting read.

If you *were* still using Lloyds, you really shouldn't (don't suppose anyone here was if they can't escape). https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/06/30/lloyds-canary/

Yet more of capitalism pretending to be environmentally friendly. "Half sheets" of kitchen roll are actually more like 2/3 of a sheet, and you always take two because half a sheet isn't enough. So now we're using MORE than we were before they forced this stupid change onto us (at least in Sweden it's almost impossible to find the full sized sheets any more). #CapitalismKills #Environment

Other Kagi users, you'll want to turn off the revolting "Summarize" option on search (click the three dots next to the share button on any search page and hit the slider). #noAI #Kagi

@CiaraNi@mastodon.green Apologies if you got the impression I was trying to say what he was saying wasn't true (I did try to confirm that in a second comment, but it's probably got lost in the thread). And the people who are live coding aren't just doing it online, they get together to do it in physical spaces too (see the video I posted) and yes, they dance. I think that's a lovely countercurrent to the "everything is recorded and may be used against you" experience, and it makes me hopeful that there are ways out of this nightmarish situation.

@Tijflalol@mas.to @igimenezblb@oldbytes.space @fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk @CiaraNi@mastodon.green Yeah, and when I think of it I was at a concert on Wednesday and although it wasn't really the kind of music you *dance* to (BRUIT), there were plenty of young people moving to the music and not giving a shit about whether anyone was looking. BUT I do get the point of the original (and really excellent) rant, that these days a lot of the innocent and embarrassingly forgettable moments of everyone's lives are being captured and, inevitably, arseholes are gonna arsehole.

@ericg Fancy having retained that infrastructure and made it free to use - that's excellent (and the game is a lovely idea)

@4censord@unfug.social I can make clothes without a pattern but they'll look like it. Maybe that's the definition of "going wild"?

@j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz I've never fancied Warhammer, but now I'm thinking I might get back into miniature painting just to produce more rainbow warriorcs!

@reckter@social.oc.is Nearly got to two hours!

@Moss@beige.party Yeah, I had something similar the other day. It's satisfying when you've already shoved them in the "block" hole!

@CiaraNi@mastodon.green Oh, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Pastagang is a weird arty musicky collective, and because you've read about pastagang you're now a member. I'm off to Austria to perform at an art/hacktivism festival this week because I read about pastagang and thus became a member. You have been warned! https://janeishly.com/2026/05/05/and-now-for-something-completely-different-amro26/

@seq@infosec.exchange I did, and I was SO GLAD. They were absolutely amaaaaazing. Just fantastic. So many weird time signatures, so much emotional weight in the music (I was in tears at least three times). As for finding out what's on, I'm afraid I don't know! - I had a Songkick account until last week and that kept me abreast of stuff I could get to, but I've deleted it pga the Suno acquisition. The only other gig I have lined up is Ghinzu (legendary Belgian band who haven't toured in the decade I've been listening to them) - in London! In June. As you can probably tell, I only go to gigs when I really really like the band, and that means I end up travelling stupid distances, but at least not very often.

@adhdeanasl@beige.party Oh, I voted good because it's a good word, sorry! I was going to add "but meaning will depend on the context" (but I'm a translator, that's a constant addendum)

@StaceyCornelius Thank you for sharing this. It's lovely!

@eivind Here's the ProZ pages for English to Tigrinya translators. I can check tomorrow if anyone in my network can recommend anyone - I do know at least one person who may have relevant contacts. https://www.proz.com/freelance-translators/english-to-tigrinya/

@pjf@cloudisland.nz I wonder whether they smell the same as they used to (not the pee-smelling ones, the ones where you can literally smell the Yellow Pages because it's sat in there in the heat and/or damp for ages)? Please also document olfactory impressions!

@patrickcmiller@infosec.exchange The words "no shit, Sherlock" sprang to mind. Can't think why.

@liamoc@types.pl That sounds really demoralising. It also sounds like there's nothing *you* could do, because you've led the horse to water. How much of a problem is this going to cause with your employer, and are your colleagues dealing with the same levels of shit?

Once again I'm reassured that I'm not missing anything by being in the wrong time zone to watch the #Monsterdon selection. Great work, everyone, keep it up. #insomnia

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk I'd like to hope nobody will be using slop there, but people are constantly disappointing me so...

@jonuriarte@tldr.nettime.org All the translators in the world going "It would have cost you like 40$ to get a human to do this. Maybe 200$ if you were paying top rates. And they'd have said 'you can't do this' and given you a campaign that would have worked".

@benc@mastodon.hawaga.org.uk @RockyC@fosstodon.org Yeah, I got that only for Swedish. Funny how some of the people online are *immigrants*. Sigh.

@peter@thepit.social That post seems to have disappeared? I hope it's not been taken down for being incorrect, this would be great news.

@_elena@mastodon.social Let's hope this continues. It should - anyone bothered about data security is probably already here on Mastodon, and anyone who isn't certainly isn't about to leave Feckbook and Twatter. Also, a 13-step identity process????? hahahahahahahaha

@joshsjunkdrawer@mastodon.social I only just started reading his stuff too. Oh well. But what's this about Andy Weir using it?

@pjf@cloudisland.nz I'd love to see a picture of the yellow pages one!

@toroidalcore @MartinEscardo @pastagang #BadCodeOnly #pastagang

Well this is pretty worrying, not only for the vast swathe of Europe that will be too hot to produce food, but also for the rest of it, which is largely currently supplied with food by those red bits. https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/16/interactive-map-predicts-climate-driven-farm-decline-by-end-of-century

Random question - do I know anyone on #LundUniversity teaching staff who'd like to rent a largeish house in the countryside between Kristianstad and Hörby? About 40 minutes' drive to campus, 30 minutes to the Åhus coast.

@markdennehy@mastodon.ie Have you got friends/family who can have them sent to their address and forward them to you? I have to do this occasionally when I really need something from the UK, which these days is fortunately rarely.

Very very unlikely, but is anyone else out there going to see #BRUIT in Copenhagen tonight? I've been wanting to see them for aaaaages, but now it's come to it the logistics are quite difficult and I'm wondering whether I should just not go. Having someone to hang out with would really help! #loppen #Copenhagen #København #LiveMusic

@seq@infosec.exchange No, but that's where I've been going instead to check out tour info. I haven't yet signed up, need to check whether they're AI apologists and/or nazis first!

@scroeser@kolektiva.social Aw, that's lovely

@klemmi@chaos.social @seq@infosec.exchange Yeah, some bands are just worth a lot of travelling to see! This time it took me 4 hours to get to the venue - last time (GY!BE for me too!) was also in Copenhagen but an easier venue to reach, so maybe 3? And it was earlier so I could easily get a train back to Sweden. I did take a couple of photos of BRUIT setting up, I think. Once they started playing my phone wasn't coming out of my bag!