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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com
I am an Indonesian. A tech journalist and writer. Wikipedian. Sometimes posting in English.
He/him, but why don't you just use non-gendered language like Indonesian?
The toots are searchable.
Languages: English, Bahasa Indonesia, Baso Minangkabau
Alternate account: @gombang@mathstodon.xyz
Backup account: @gombang@flipboard.social
Ko-Fi: Ko-Fi.com/gombang
Signal: gombang.34
Bsky: @nancengka.com
Matrix: @gombang:matrix.org
Pixelfed: @gombang@pixelfed.social
Friendica: @gombang@libranet.de
Email: gombang@nancengka.com
Personal blog: https://blog.nancengka.com/gombang
Joined: 2026-07-25 18:19:38
43 notes, 1 following, 1 followers
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@Lambo@openbiblio.social (2026-08-15 21:58:51)
"My students (...) mistakenly view a confident, well-written essay as evidence of the quality of their ideas. They see the AI as cleaning those ideas up, getting them through that uncomfortable stretch of having to turn those ideas into prose. What the students miss is that (...) the very act of struggling with how to express what they think is an important part of the process. It’s how they (...) examine their hypotheses, and actually figure out what they think." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/should-you-use-ai
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@userboxes@stefanbohacek.online (2026-04-27 15:37:46)
#wikipedia
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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-16 09:15:24)
Wah ada alumni Solo...
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/ap/users/116374592111493491/statuses/117073555567068999
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@top_news@mastodon.social (2026-08-16 09:08:34)
Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
Officials say a rapid assessment into the impact of the earthquake that destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed 47 is under way.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v00w5ylw9o
#TopNews #News #Indonesia #BNPB #theNationalDisasterManagementAgency
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Reply to @LLENN08@misskey.id
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-16 08:49:08)
@LLENN08 es teh kok hangat? 🤔
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-16 08:22:56)
Masih banyak gempa susulan.
RE: https://pegelinux.top/users/InfoBMKG/statuses/117102079579388751
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@MNNHNewsEnglish@brands.town (2026-06-16 05:15:18)
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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@MNNHNewsEnglish@brands.town (2026-07-14 05:43:30)
BREAKING: selamat pagi
Reply to @thea@misskey.id
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-16 07:47:50)
@thea tandanya tidak pernah solat jumat 😂
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@apps@toot.fedilab.app (2026-08-16 07:25:19)
I have been on #LiberaPay for 9 years now, and I recently got more support than I ever had. I am really grateful for it. Liberapay is like an open source Patreon, and probably the best way to help open source devs.
Thank you so much.
https://liberapay.com/tom79
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@InfoBMKG@pegelinux.top (2026-08-15 20:00:24)
#Gempa #BMKG #Indonesia
15 Agu 2026 17:54:52 WIB
Magnitudo: 6.4, Kedalaman: 163 km
Koordinat: 2.97 LU-98.95 BT (10 km Tenggara SIMALUNGUN-SUMUT)
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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-15 20:17:18)
Gempa teruus
RE: https://bots.krohsnest.com/users/quakes/statuses/117099227858517190
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@antaranews_lenggang_jakarta@mastodon.kodesumber.com (2026-08-15 20:05:46)
Pengamat: Jalur sepeda harus dikelola, bukan sekadar dibangun
Pengamat dari Masyarakat Transportasi Indonesia (MTI) Djoko Setijowarno mengatakan keberadaan jalur sepeda di kawasan ...
https://www.antaranews.com/berita/5696315/pengamat-jalur-sepeda-harus-dikelola-bukan-sekadar-dibangun
#berita #news #indonesianews #antaranews #metro #metronews #metropolitan #jakarta #press
Reply to @lain@lain.com
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-15 20:10:42)
@lain the side effect of consuming too much indomie
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@wafflesies@infosec.exchange (2026-08-15 10:53:49)
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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-15 20:02:10)
Indomie goreng rendang tapi kok pakai kecap. Konsepnya kacau nih.
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@regendans@todon.eu (2026-08-15 19:37:49)
"If Indonesia’s support for Palestine never changes, why is Israel’s ZIM shipping company still reaching its ports?"
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260814-if-indonesias-support-for-palestine-never-changes-why-is-israels-zim-shipping-company-still-reaching-its-ports/
#indonesia #palestine #israel #ZIM
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@FranceskAlbs@mastox.eu (2026-08-13 13:44:02)
SHOCKING! Armed civilians surround a family's home for days, cut water/power, block food/medical aid while soldiers pray with them.
If Palestinians did this to Israelis, they'd already be bombed to smithereens.
But it is Qusra: perpetrators are Israelis. So impunity is inherited.
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@ivy@misskey.id (2026-08-15 18:44:55)
independence
look inside
all foreign services
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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@pare@kamu.social (2026-08-15 18:32:45)
I found this on my hard drive, relevant now that the third Dune movie is coming soon.
#dune #duneMovie #houseOrdos #dune2
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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social (2026-08-15 17:03:01)
Rescuers combed through debris for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake struck off Flores island in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and sending thousands fleeing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/15/asia-pacific/indonesia-earthquake-flores-island/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #indonesia #earthquakes
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@wwahammy@social.treehouse.systems (2026-08-15 02:48:53)
Linux Foundation is trying to get OSI to approve a new license for "open" models. The license has a copyright retaliation clause that says you lose the right to use the model if you assert the model violates your copyright. 😂
It's basically an amnesty for big model creators before courts actually settle this dispute.
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2026-August/006135.html
Edit - cc: @osi @linuxfoundation
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@andrewg@mastodon.ie (2026-08-15 17:24:21)
I hate this timeline.
“A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.”
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online (2026-08-15 12:19:57)
There has been horrible. There has been corrupt. There has been despicable. But this one takes the cake for the most ridiculous...
"In a presidential memorandum... Trump ordered the Navy to remove the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS)... and instead use the older steam powered catapults that system replaced... Trump has long fixated on steam catapults... His reasoning is unclear — but appears to simply stem from his inability to understand how EMALS works."
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-spending-billions-to-revert-aircraft-carriers-to-steam-catapults/
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@nickofnz@mastodon.nz (2026-08-15 11:29:34)
New Zealand is following Trumpism back to the dark ages under the Luxon government.
All mention of climate change and fossil fuels have been omitted from the new science and social science school curriculums.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/climate-change-omitted-from-new-science-and-social-science-curriculums/?utm_source=nickofnz&utm_medium=nickofnz
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social (2026-08-15 06:42:15)
"More than 150 years ago, scientists discovered what they termed a 'greenhouse effect'."
"Governments knew what was coming... In 1938 a British scientist published the first observational study".
By the late 1950s, the science about global warming was so well established that Frank Capra made a documentary to educate the public.
"Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors".
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-08-14/thatcher-climate-crisis-nothing/
#USPol #EUPol #ClimateCatastrophe #news #BigOil .2
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@irfan@sakurajima.social (2026-08-15 15:00:45)
Seriously, I've long not used cash... ever, for years, given how extremely common #QR payments and #NFC payments are everywhere here (MY). Even at your local pasar (markets) and roadside stalls. This makes me not a fan of traveling to anywhere else where this isn't true, cos I hate having extra foreign notes and especially coins after a trip.
I'm going to #Bali soon. I heard QR payments (#QRIS) is popular and maybe even common in at least the city parts of #Indonesia (Jakarta, Bandung, etc.). I hope that's just as true in Bali? I'm expecting to make payments at like eateries, konbinis, tourist spots (for tickets n such), souvenir shops, massage/beauty parlors, etc. Would I need cash for these? I do expect needing to have some cash for 'parking jockeys' as tips (and emergencies ofc)?
Most of my money for this trip, like I do anywhere else, will be in #Wise tho. I'll just add some money in my local currency (MYR), then for card payments, I'll just use #ApplePay and it'll auto convert n charge me in IDR. For QR payments, Wise unfortunately does not support QRIS, so I'll either use my local bank (#Maybank) since MY's #DuitNow supports QRIS, or do the same as I've done in #Thailand where I make QR payments using #TnGeWallet, which charges my Wise card. For cash, I'll bring just a little bit from home, then withdraw anything necessary from ATMs there with my physical Wise card - as it seems that at least for certain ATMs in Bali, they charge nothing for cash withdrawals (unlike Thailand). That'd help avoid exchanging too many bank notes from home.
Reply to @irfan@sakurajima.social
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-15 15:07:04)
@irfan I haven't been to Bali for quite some time so can't really answer. But you can pay with QRIS in rural West Java, so I suppose you can do it in Bali.
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de (2026-08-15 14:48:03)
When agents only talk to agents, people talk past each other
Machines write issues and machines answer them. Emails also increasingly come from agents. It becomes dangerous when no one talks about it.
https://www.heise.de/en/background/When-agents-only-talk-to-agents-people-talk-past-each-other-11410114.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
#IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Sprachverarbeitung #Softwareentwicklung #news
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com (2026-08-15 14:49:46)
Kirain kopdes yang dibangun di lokasi terpencil itu cuma gosip. Ternyata di desa gw juga kasusnya sama wkwkwk. Kopdesnya dibangun di puncak bukit yang jauh dari mana-mana 🫣
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