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Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…
How many people celebrate the holy-days today in the same way that people celebrated them 50-100 years ago?
I know that for us, coming from a very religious tribe called Romania, Christmas was more about the Christmas tree, presents, food and Coca-Cola. Oh and watching Home Alone on repeat. Nothing to do with the original Christmas “holy” day. Or anything Romanian specific either.
And so it was the case for everyone I knew. And that’s one of the many “holy” days that today have become mostly about consuming.
The forces of our trade-based society with its marketing tentacles, are transforming the culture more than any dictators and philosophers do. That you should keep in mind.
#culture #culturecancer #trom #tromsite #holiday #holidays #romania #homealone #christmas #cocacola #money #TradeRuinsEverything
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Looks like #Google may remove the ability of #Android apps to connect to #ADB from the device itself. This will kill off apps like #Shizuku that give consumers the last bit of control over the devices they own.
While their intentions are not clear right now, their history is clear. They will rip out any remaining control the users have over the devices, in the pretense of #security. Never compromise #freedom. We need #Linux phones yesterday!
kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/…
Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.Kitsumed (Kitsumed Blog)
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Snippet from Culture Cancer:
I am quite happy that some of our roots in Europe, like those from the Ottoman empire, are long gone because I would not want to wear this fashionable-onion-hat.
And most likely very few in Europe would probably listen to the Ottoman music today, or understand their contemporary poetry and art. Not to mention their buildings and many traditions that are not at all compatible with today’s standards, morally and structurally.
But these are our “roots”, right? Or if we go back our roots in Europe were the Roman empire. Should we go way back? Why do we regard “our culture” as the “happenings” that have happened only for the past hundreds of years? Isn’t that an arbitrary line to draw and call it “our culture”? Especially since we know we cannot freeze that culture in time and hope to take it with us intact into the distant future.
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Thanks Tio, yeah, not sure if it will be soon.
Submitting to festivals takes as much time, and unfortunately so much money.
I will try to get it somewhere, hopefully to some festivals and also to some video streaming platform or something like that.
Submitting to festivals takes as much time, and unfortunately so much money.
I will try to get it somewhere, hopefully to some festivals and also to some video streaming platform or something like that.
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Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers: Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.
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For the past few releases our TROMjaro ISO would not boot into the live environment on real hardware. It was a Manjaro ISO that they finally fixed. So we just released a working ISO. Grab it from here forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-…
TROMjaro is already 6-7 years old. Stable, fast, based on #xfce and #manjarostable. With unique features - see the website www.tromjaro.com/
#linux #foss #opensource #trade-free #manjaro #arch
TROMjaro 2026.07.24
This release fixes the issues we had for the past few releases where the live environment would not work. We also bring with it the latest Manjaro Stable updates. One minor change.TROMjaro Forum
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@WIRED just broke that facial recognition scanners were shut off for the duration of Taylor Swift’s wedding at Madison Square Garden, demonstrating the dynamics of privilege & power when it comes to who gets to opt out of mass surveillance.
wired.com/story/for-taylor-swi…
For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.Noah Shachtman (WIRED)
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Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall & The Sphere are among the only concert halls in the U.S that use facial recognition surveillance. A small handful of gay bars in San Fransisco recently started using face scanning tech & have faced instant backlash.
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Taylor & Travis made the right decision to flip the off switch at their wedding because facial recognition tech is DANGEROUS. We're asking them & other artists to pledge against playing at venues using this tech because it exposes many vulnerable fans. www.banfacialrecognition.com/venues/
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It passed.
codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pull…
Codeberg bans vibe coded slop.
(EDIT: No, I do not want to debate the percentages of LLM code allowed or "how will people enforce this, I can still vibe code and not tell". This is a statement about intent by a community. It will be a moderation challenge, especially with so many people who have made "coding with an LLM" their whole personality but it's doable. But don't waste your and my time with these boring, juvenile arguments)
Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions
Here is the proposed addition for the ToU that @Gusted and I agreed on post-assembly for the upcoming membership vote. 🙏 The discussion for this proposal is available for Codeberg e. V. members in the forum: https://forum.codeberg.Codeberg.org
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A reef isn't a single organism. Things settle where conditions suit them, and the substrate they share is what makes them a reef and not a scattering of unrelated lifeforms.
ActivityPub is that substrate. The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon series is complete. We published four posts about some of what's growing on it:
1. The microblogging platforms that aren't Mastodon: Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma, Friendica, GoToSocial. Several predate Mastodon, and some were federating before ActivityPub existed.
2. The visual layer: Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube. Your work sits on infrastructure you or your community control, and no ranking system decides who sees it.
3. The writing platforms: Ghost, WordPress, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, Flipboard. Each arrived at federation by a different route.
4. Forums, books, and music: Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, NodeBB, Bookwyrm, Bandwagon.
federatedmind.com/fbm-complete…
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenWeb #Bandwagon #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Lemmy #Bookwyrm #Misskey #nodebb #ghost #microblog
The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon mini-series is complete. Here's everything.
Four posts on what else runs on ActivityPub besides Mastodon: microblogging alternatives & forks, photo and video platforms, writing tools, forums, books, music, and more.Federated Mind
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If the universe is spatially infinite, then by pure probability, every configuration of matter that can exist does exist — somewhere. Including this exact exchange, word for word, in another galaxy. The math doesn't care how strange that sounds.
Yes that is so bizarre is hard to even accept it :D. But considering even a non-infinite universe, the sheer number of planets where life can form is so immense is hard to even put a number on it.
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So true man.... I'm not really a big sports person but I did watch the recent world cup and this is something you can notice in every team. Is not so much about the country as it is about the team, I'm not sure why they even attach nationality into this.
Also that story of Nico's parents having to cross the Sahara desert is truly insane man. Such things still happen today when it comes to human trafficking!
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1. Google tells you that you don't have to worry about sharing your data with Google because it's 100% anonymized.
2. Google is asked to share your anonymized data... and, what a surprise, Google says it's so easy to de-anonymize the data that it poses a threat to you!
Here's my recommendation: don't give your data to anyone. Problem solved. So amazing. Much wow.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…
Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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I wish there was a crowdfunding campaign somewhere to get a reasonably modern phone up and running reliably with real Linux.
I'm talking something with PostmarketOS / Mobian + Phosh/Plasma Mobile / Gnome Mobile and the basics made reliable:
* wifi
* mobile data
* calls
* suspend/wake
* camera
Maybe make Waydroid integration a stretch goal, but not a core requirement.
I would gladly throw a bunch of money at something with the promise to get the basics to work reliably.
Maybe the issue isn't money, but it sure seems like pooling funding for some of the highly talented people working in the space couldn't hurt.
Anyone know of anything like this?
#MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #PostmarketOS #Mobian #PlasmaMobile #Phosh #GnomeMobile #FOSS #OpenSource #Waydroid
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imo the fp5 seems to best fit, but i havent looked at the pmOS wiki chart in a while
i think the main problem isnt really funding but development. lots are interested, but the knowledge is locked behind institutions (eg. schematics and engineers to talk to)
ppp was close (we have schematics), but failed because of disagreements unfortunately
there are linux phones being sold by companies rn, but i would be careful of buying those
fosstodon.org/@Logical_Error/1…
LogicalErzor (@Logical_Error@fosstodon.org)
Oftentimes in the #linuxmobile space, I see people slightly confused as to what this means, even if they don't explicitly define it, but it's easier to think of it as a spectrum.LogicalErzor (Fosstodon)
"LLMs have democratized software development!"
No, LLMs have democratized dependency.
The frontier labs are using the same playbook as drug dealers. Give everyone cheap access to a replacement brain until individuals, businesses, and entire industries are dependent on it for their very existence, then jack up the prices and watch society burn.
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100% but there is a good side in it. SMBs have now an advantage until the time you described.
Just to give an idea how LLM nonsense is affecting #Wikipedia, perhaps a quarter of threads on ANI, the Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents, involve LLM use—either crap articles generated by LLMs, or people using LLMs to write extremely wordy, unhelpful replies to concerns about their behaviour.
That's a huge externality right there - whatever uses AI tech has, it has enabled a DDoS attack on the hardworking volunteers trying to maintain the commons-based project the damn LLMs trained on.
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I also made this blog post "What do I do with myself?" tiotrom.com/2026/07/what-do-i-…
If anyone is interested.
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I also wanted to attach some relevant book, called "Drive Yourself Sane" by Kodish (but attachment somehow did not work). It immensely helped me to move on in my life after certain events, having the appropriate views on hard life situations. So that stuff basically helped me to avoid "sharp corners" and instead make a lemonade, when life gives you lemons ;) Maybe you'll find it useful too.
Once again, get well. Hard times will pass, and you will move forward, well-tempered and better aware.
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Thank you for the book recommendation! I may give it a try. If you want to attach files use send.trom.tf and paste the link ;)
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I read the post about Trom Articles project and it gave me so much hope. I am also hanging on the Trom floaty and now I feel like I took a huge breath of air after being with my head underwater for so long. And I didnt even read the actual article yet. I am so excited to read it and understand this world/society better. I wish I had your determination and curiosity! Thanks to you I also get to learn and keep my head above the water. So, Thank You!
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