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Archive for September 15th, 2026

Song: Your Ancestor | Nynke Laverman – “This is your ancestor speaking”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/15

A song I am kind of ashamed how true especially the last phrase is: [Wayback/Archive] Your Ancestor – Nynke Laverman (Official Music Video) – YouTube.

I got referred to it exactly one year ago in a Mastodon comment on my blog post Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Finding back the source.

[Wayback/Archive] boiert: “@wiert @kaasbaas Your Ancestor | Nynke Laverman…” – ieji.de

The song starts with this

Hello there
This is your ancestor speaking
Your predecessor from the 21st century
When you emerged repressing me
Remember? That was us
The Homo Economicus

But be sure to listen (or read the full text at [Wayback/Archive] Your Ancestor | Nynke Laverman) to the very end.

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bitbonk/DotNetSocialBot: A Mastodon bot that can boost a community

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/15

Since Elon is trying to burn some USD 44 billion as rapidly as possible, many on-line communities that grew big on Twitter are now trying to re-establish themselves on other social network services.

One of them is Mastodon, the Fediverse based federated or distributed social network.

Like Twitter (or maybe “unlike Twitter”, because of the tremendous API charges for Twitter bots) Mastodon bots can be of tremendous help on spreading awareness of a community.

One example is [Wayback/Archive] bitbonk/DotNetSocialBot: A Mastodon bot that can boost a community running at [Wayback/Archive] .NET Bot :dotnet: (@bot@dotnet.social) which helps boosting the .NET community on Mastodon (quite a few harrdore .NET developers have an account on [Wayback/Archive] dotnet.social, but you can follow the bot from any Mastodon server: the virtue of a distributed social network).

It is written in quite a generic way, and founded on a solid framework, which means it is easy to extend to other communities. Heck, it might be even be easy to generalise it into a highly configurable universal community bot!

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Posted in .NET, BASTA!, C#, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Mastodon, SocialMedia, Software Development | Leave a Comment »