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Microsoft spent four years stuffing Windows 11 with ads, forced Copilot integrations, and bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it.Sam (Sam Bent)
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How they make it hard to fix this heater - videos.trom.tf/w/krjeSgmcz3HD6…
These motherfuckers put some weird screws on this electrical heater so you cannot open it unless you have a very specific screw driver. Absolutely criminal behavior. But I understand it. You have to trade in this world in order to survive and thrive, and so these tactics can create advantages for you: the heater breaks, people buy a new one. Done. More profit.
If we can't change the incentive we cannot change these behaviors.
#plannedobselecence #assholedesign #enshifification #trade #TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism
How they make it hard to fix this heater
These motherfuckers put some weird screws on this electrical heater so you cannot open it unless you have a very specific screw driver. Absolutely criminal behavior. But I understand it. You have to trade in this world in order to survive and thrive, and so these tactics can create advantages for you: the heater breaks, people buy a new one. Done. More profit.
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I mean I don’t really necessarily want or need this thing but
Now I’m invested
I want to see what happens if a customer insists on the physical sticker price.
lol they tried to tell me that I had to wait an hour for a GM to come back and honor the printed price
I was like yeah I can wait I have lots of time
I sat down and just stared at them
10 min later they said fine you can have the printed price
Best Buy is a scam
Anyway, this is how I ended up with an open box ROG Ally X
Now I can play Cyberpunk on the train (I’m going on several long train rides) to bemoan this dystopia
They were trying to get me to ‘upgrade’ to the full price box ‘coz you never know what’s wrong with open box’ but their own open box sticker said ‘excellent condition’
I think sometimes men in consumer electronics think they can scam me on anything to do with computers and devices? It’s very confusing for everyone. Yes I know what RAM and SSD is!
I’ve never bought a car. But I imagine it’s a similar experience
@noondlyt works with bikes too. I once went into a bike shop with a male friend. Everytime I asked a question, the guy in the bike shop gave the answer to my male friend. Every. Single. Question. Even after my friend said "don't tell me, I don't ride bikes".
Reminds me of this tweet from years ago.
@noondlyt in one bike shop I had gone in there largely to shelter from the rain while I waited for a tram. I was looking at the GPS units. Shop person walks over and asks if he can help. To make small talk and kill time. I asked what the battery life was like. "6-8 hours, plenty for any ride you'll do"
"I did a 17 hour 300km ride on Saturday"
The look on his face was absolutely priceless.
@noondlyt
You are persistant 😀
I wish you were there when I am shopping.✊
And Thank you for your service too, it's awesome.
Wow, seeing just this last post in my feed, I thought for a moment it was about buying a car, until I saw the last sentence about Best Buy.
Anyhow, thank you for holding them to it.
I bought a fridge from them and it didn't work (lol, no, autocorrect, it was not a fruit)
When I bought it they told me that if I had any trouble under warranty, they would come out to my house and pick it up
When I called to arrange pickup, they said no that's not a thing
Three times we attempted to return at the store. They always gave us hassle. One time it had some light dust on it, and they said no you can't just wipe off the dust you have to take it home, wipe off the dust and then bring it back. Other times were similar fake issues
The store is an hour from my house
this reminds me of this time decades ago when I got fined for not having a ticket on public transit. I can't remember the specifics, but the fine was clearly unfair in a way I would still have to pay – some bureaucratic BS.
Anyway, I went to the public transit authority to challenge it. Because of the bureaucratic BS, they could not just dismiss me. In the end I waited for about an hour for someone many levels up in the hierarchy to show up so I can lodge my complaint.
1/2
he shows up and the first thing he tells me is that I can of course lodge my complaint but it will be rejected and so I am only wasting my time.
To which I responded: I'm a philosophy student. I have all the time in the world. What matters is that I am wasting *your* time and pulling you out of whatever else you were doing.
*blank stare*
*deep sigh*
The fine was much lower than the combined cost of the time of all the people that had to handle my complaint. 
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ACCC^ – Price Displays: When more than one price is displayed
accc.gov.au/business/pricing/p…
^ The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is an independent Commonwealth statutory authority tasked with enforcing the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)
There are laws about how businesses display prices. They cover how prices are displayed, and what must be included in the displayed prices.Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
In case you find one you can help them
@cam .
Used for canine detection training. I wonder how they confirm that? I think it's a clever maneuver to sell bed bugs but what do I know?
reflecting actual changing expense might be okay? hinting everyone to put the dishwasher on a delay if they can, etc?
Is that not called dynamic pricing by the finbros?
As someone who's dealt with bed bugs, this is an exceedingly cruel hope.
And I agree.
Is be okay with one, narrow implementation of dynamic pricing:
Price is dynamically proportional to a customer’s net worth (with multipliers for net worths over $1 Billion).
In Canada, the law requires stores to honor the lowest of any clearly expressed physical price, and makes it a criminal offense if they don't (though it's not clear if this applies to website/pickup prices).
laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/ac…
There's also a pact in Canada by most big retailers that if an item scans at a price higher than the tagged price, they promise to honor the lower price plus an additional $10 off. Best Buy is part of that voluntary group in Canada.
Best Buy sold my Dad the "gift cards" that the phone scammers used to rip him off. To my thinking, an 80-year old man probably doesn't need a bunch of $500 Google Play cards, and it's at least worth asking him what they are for.
Since then I have never even considered buying anything from them, and I invite y'all to join me.
the what?!
holy fsck that's wild.
oh yes. dynamic pricing.
they osint you and hike the price if they think you can afford it
Since we are all griefing on Best Buy, i've got my own horror story from something like 15 years ago that involves them literally stealing my camera that I had brought in for warranty repair/replacement.
Their scam was even more blatantly scammy than yours, if you can believe that's possible. The punch line to the story is the important part: it got resolved when I went in there with small claims court papers and said I needed the name of the manager and the specific employee who had taken my camera and wouldn't give it back. And then I added that I would be filing these papers and sending out a press release detailing all the evidence of how their scam worked.
Did the manager come out and immediately give me my choice of upgraded replacement cameras off the shelf? Why yes, yes he did.
Small claims court in California is an amazing resource and easy to use.
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@esp32 Supporting Pixel devices has become more difficult, which is why the partnership with Motorola is so valuable.
But AOSP is not Google and can be used without Google services, even though AOSP is, in a sense, tied to Google, mainly because Google is the largest contributor, you can create a mobile OS based on AOSP without depending on Google services.
You cannot ban FOSS, just as you cannot ban encryption and the mathematics used for it; you can discredit it, try to generate negative publicity, attempt to impose backdoors, etc, which is exactly what authoritarian and fascist regimes are desperately trying to do.
@archigato GrapheneOS has an official long term partnership with Motorola and will support many of their future devices, not one. It will support multiple new Motorola devices every year. We aren't lowering our security requirements but rather their devices are being improved to meet our requirements. The reason GrapheneOS won't support their currently available devices is because those don't meet our security requirements. Currently, only Pixels meet our requirements.
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We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.motorolanews.com/motorola-thre…
Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS
Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.marreroc (Global Blog)
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@michael Pixels are the only currently available devices meeting the security requirements for GrapheneOS.
GrapheneOS has an official long term partnership with Motorola and will support many of their future devices:
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
We aren't lowering our standards but rather their devices are being improved to meet our requirements. Existing devices from every non-Pixel Android OEM lack important security features and don't provide the level of driver/firmware updates we need.
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.motorolanews.com/motorola-thre…
Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS
Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.marreroc (Global Blog)
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@lexinova I may be wrong, but I believe that this is what’s planned, from what I understand, and that a version of the Motorola device running GrapheneOS could be offered as an option, sold at a slightly higher price than the original product.
The key takeaway is that this won’t be a GrapheneOS device or one bearing the GrapheneOS logo, but simply a high-end Motorola device sold normally to everyone, which will also support GrapheneOS for those who want to install it. I believe that through this partnership with GrapheneOS, Motorola Mobility aims to become a trusted actor in mobile device security within the business sector.
@Flittermouse @archigato GrapheneOS is privacy project and privacy depends on security. We have very reasonable hardware security requirements which are listed at grapheneos.org/faq#future-devi…. We only expect industry standard updates and security features. The only non-Pixel Android devices meeting these requirements don't allow using another OS. We're officially partnered with Motorola and they're making devices meeting these requirements with official GrapheneOS support.
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Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.motorolanews.com/motorola-thre…
Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS
Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.marreroc (Global Blog)
@gcheseaux Fairphone has made it very clear they don't care about providing serious privacy or security. We aren't going to be supporting their devices or working with them. They already chose a different path incompatible with working with us.
eh, don't forget the asterisk of "only on supported devices." I understand that manually backporting major security and system updates to "EOL" devices is too effort for what you probably see as a small number of potential users, but it still sticks in my craw a little that my pixel 6a is unsupported, even though the hardware continues to be needs-suiting and i don't want to contribute to the growing e-waste problems not than I need to.
I don't want to have to buy another new (or new-to-me) device just so i can get the kind of privacy and security that ought to be part of modern Android to begin with (though that part's surveillance capitalism's fault, not yours)
> I understand that manually backporting major security and system updates to "EOL" devices is too effort for what you probably see as a small number of potential users
End-of-life devices no longer receive driver and firmware updates. Porting major OS updates to them won't resolve the insecurity. GrapheneOS is for secure devices.
> my pixel 6a is unsupported
Pixel 6a is supported by GrapheneOS and will continue to be until it's end-of-life:
grapheneos.org/faq#supported-d…
Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
@digitalCalibrator You won't get decent security on a device not receiving driver/firmware updates. Pixel 6a is not end-of-life yet and is still fully supported by GrapheneOS. It's not one of the recommended devices for new purchases due to lack of recent security features and remaining support time.
The whole point of GrapheneOS is substantially improving privacy and security from the baseline. If Android included our current privacy and security features, we'd have a large set of new ones.
@NNN @archigato Pixel stock OS no longer has nearly as many changes in the monthly releases beyond the security patch backports. QPR1 and QPR3 will be smaller releases than previously and stock Pixel OS exclusive. These releases are only relevant to GrapheneOS for Pixel support. We don't need to deal with it for another device.
GrapheneOS has security preview patch access already which we didn't receive from Motorola but rather from another OEM not working on devices supporting GrapheneOS.
@Johan_E_M Pixel 6a is fully supported and works well. It's part of the oldest generation of supported devices and has an update guarantee from the OEM until at least July 2027.
Some of the laws we're referencing were already passed. It isn't going to result in any changes to GrapheneOS and it will remain available everywhere. Many other projects are making changes due to it or blocking downloads in regions passing these laws but we've determined there's no need for us to do anything.
Ageless Linux
Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.
The fastest path to [age verification] noncompliance. Run this on any Debian-based system to convert it to Ageless Linux:
Installs Ageless Linux identity and a stub age verification API that returns no data. Preserves a thin "good faith effort" argument.
looking forward to the partnership with Motorola but are you going to keep supporting current pixels (8, 9, 10)?
Asking this because I'm using a pixel 6 that will go EOL in October. As such, I might have to buy a new pixel soon, as I don't expect Motorola to ship new devices compatible with GrapheneOS by October.
Thanks!
@plf Yes, Pixels are going to remain supported and it will be a while before the Motorola devices launch. We launched experimental support for the recently launched Pixel 10a yesterday.
The initial devices with GrapheneOS support from Motorola will be 2027 flagships. We'll add support for new devices each year along with expanding to cheaper devices once those meet the requirements.
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A plausible, scalable and slightly wrong black box: why large language models are a fascist technology that cannot be redeemedThe Grey Literature
@aburka
> 100% understood code
I've pulled plenty of code out of my brain where I have 0% idea how it works.
I like that you're calling it a labour of love. There was a time just before the dot-com crash when EVERYONE was getting into programming because it was big money. Those of us in it for love looked on, aghast, as our field was overridden by people who only cared about money, making it all the harder to find work.
This feels like the next iteration of that time, only people learning how to program didn't cause them cognitive harm.
And that suggests that this might be cyclic. I wonder what the next one will be. If it's a quarter of a century away I plan to still be working in the industry. It's what I love.
@psu_13
That was a great blog post, good read 🙂 The idea of manual labor of love and slow code reminds me of the trade-free movement. When everything's made for profit then it will naturally lead to a place where all they care about is that, to make a profit. There are still some good trade-free projects out there, like the ones listed here - directory.trade-free.org/
We should understand that trade is an overall negative influence on our society, and promote trade-free projects
These goods and services are submitted and reviewed by people like you. We cannot guarantee that all of what you see here is trade-free, since at times it is very difficult to review them all and do so properly.Trade-Free Directory
@psu_13
BTW, if anyone is interested in learning more about the trade-free movement then I recommend watching the TROM II documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
Or on the #peertube page directly - videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrW…
I feel like this documentary is now more important than ever, looking at the current state of our world.
First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for ...
#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
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ICE is currently taking DNA samples of protesters that they detain. Even if the protesters are never charged with any crime.
Long List, you forgot
Then they take DNA
Often taken without the persons knowledge, especially in the case of females.
One tampon is enough, it is called discarded DNA in many countrys and no law protects citizens..
I don't know if you are in the UK, but I can tell you 'they' do not ask for any piece of data.
I discovered last week that my local authority, (RCT), has handed all their council tax data for each household over to a third party data management company, and surprise, surprise....all this data is stored in the AWS cloud, no doubt searchable with AI.
We're already trapped....🤨.
This Worldcoin bullshit possibly isn’t gonna be used.
Probably they just need it to train the base model and then make transfer learning with some sorta of authentication.
Canon stock goes up?
... you to turn off your VPN and try again.
Sweden is one of the countries that has a semi-government digital id (known as BankID). Initially it was just used for government and bank interactions but it has slowly seeped into basically everything. The other day I just wanted to check what homework was due for my kid (which shouldn't even require a log in since it isn't sensitive). When identifying, with said e-id, I was told to turn off my VPN and try again...
It geo-tracks too.
yea, at this point, people will start going back to pen-and-paper notebooks, flipcharts, feature-phones, filing cabinets, typewriters, libraries, telegraphs, checkbooks, cash,
CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players and movie theaters for their day-to-day affairs.
they were convenient before,
they're still convenient now,
and they won't EVER betray you.
why even bother with computers?
Then they leak it all and every single form of ID we have becomes useless.
Once it's all breached, leaked, compromised and useless we will end up with the one solution we could have used since day one, a solution that could have been implemented that preserves our privacy, security and identity.
Digital signing. Safe, secure, private.
Breaches and age verification will break ID as we know it and make us all far less secure.
I'm just waiting for the epstein class to roll out sphincter recognition and/or authentication butt dongles.
It's a matter of time. XD
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
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I think that unfortunately, this policy is exactly what big tech wants - fresh training knowledge and training data from humans, which the tech companies are free to remix into new public domain works that are not protected by share-alike.
With this policy, Wikipedia demands that humans work for the bots for free, and the humans can't even take advantage of the bots to work against the theft of the commons.
@yoasif You have no idea what you're talking about. There is no way for humans to "take advantage of the bots to work against the theft of the commons". Slop-spewing bots cannot magically create new knowledge of the real world. All they can do is remix things that were already written and scooped up into their training set to make something that sounds plausible but that has no provenance.
Yes, malevolent capitalists will continue to scrape and attempt to enclose the commons. We fight them and continue to maintain the things we need and that nourish us. We don't destroy our own treasures to keep them from copying.
@dalias I don't actually believe that the bots can generate knowledge, but that is what we are told.
The lie is revealed with the demand for real human knowledge.
It isn't "malevolent capitalists" -- it is Wikipedia that has sold out its community: avclub.com/wikipedia-ai-partne…
If it is good for the goose, why isn't good enough for the gander?
More precisely, why continue to contribute to Wikipedia when they have preemptively sold out the commons?
My genuine hope is that this can spark a broader change. Empower communities on other platforms, and see this become a grassroots movement of users deciding whether AI should be welcome in their communities, and to what extent. On their own terms.
A pushback against the #enshittification and forceful push of AI by so many companies in these last few years.
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I would say that the battle was lost when Wikipedia allowed big tech to buy access to copyleft content without needing to share alike.
Your new policy simply enforces "fresh meat" for the models, without any requirement for reciprocity back to the commons.
Wikipedians then, are signing up to work for free to feed the models, while people downstream from the models can use their labor entirely for free without giving back.
@futureisfoss Yes, but somehow Disney is able to demand that Google stop pirating Disney works for its LLM: arstechnica.com/google/2025/12…
Wikipedia could have presented a legal challenge to the LLM providers, or simply stated that "you are indexing our servers, we can see it - if you don't stop, we will sue to protect our community".
Instead, they got paid to sell out the community.
Disney demands that Google immediately block its copyrighted content from appearing in AI outputs.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
@futureisfoss Unfortunately (and I am blogging about this in a few days, so follow me if you are interested), since LLM outputs are uncopyrightable, I don't think there is any legal way for LLMs to train on share-alike and in turn to produce share-alike contributions.
Copyright can only be assigned to human authors.
See the monkey selfie dispute for some prior context: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_s…
Open to more thoughts here!
@Stinson_108 I am aware, that is my complaint. Thanks for rewording it though, not sure how women survive without the "splaining."
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A petition to disallow acceptance of LLM generated Pull Requests in Node.js core - indutny/no-ai-in-nodejs-coreGitHub
🗞️☕ Are you looking for an interesting weekend read? noyb recently conducted a survey among privacy professionals to find out what kind of #GDPR simplification #European companies actually need.
🔍 One of the key findings was that most professionals don’t actually want protections to be cut back, but for documentation duties and #paperwork to be reduced. In many cases, they even ask for clearer laws instead of more ‘flexibility’.
👇 Find the full survey below 👇
noyb.eu/en/gdpr-omnibus-eu-sim…
The participants' responses often point in the opposite direction to the European Commission’s approachnoyb.eu
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That's right folks, it is now easier to buy a firearm than to load open source software on your phone in America.
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It's a *one-time* delay when you seek to turn off the protection that stops the user from side-loading apps.
To be honest, given how many security-blind people use Android now, I can live with this.
Time was when Android users were all "power users", like Linux users used to be. Those days are long gone.
A bigger issue is Google closing Android off from side-loading apps at all.
You've never had to deal with an upset great-grandfather who is confused about why his bank account has been drained, just to find out a helpful bloke rang up to configure his Samsung phone to get "free messaging" the week before, have you?
You flip the switch when you first set up your phone, and it never bothers you again. Big deal.
Google closing off side-loading completely is a much bigger issue.
And this will be their first step towards closing off "side-loading" entirely, do not give them the benefit of the doubt. They want to steal our right to install the software of our choosing on the device that we bought and paid for, but before they can do that they introduced this "advanced-flow" to prevent the normalization and prevalence of 3rd party app distributers like @fdroidorg
There is malware on Google play store, it was never about safety.
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Thankfully, we know from the experience of the "assault weapon" ban that a ban on phones with locked bootloaders will just put an end to operable older phones with unlockable bootloaders being thrown out.
Like high capacity gun magazines 1994-2004, they will be kept running as long as possible and trade over ebay, craigslist, and if necessary the darknet.
Especially valuble will be phones old enough to have removable batteries that can be changed without having to get the screen off.
I need help with the server hosting all my open-source projects: #Fedilab, #HolosSocial, #HolosDiscover, and more.
The current server costs €350/year but is no longer suited for the load. I often run out of disk space. I need to migrate to a more powerful one with expandable storage. Renewal is due in a few days.
I have set a goal of €500 on Ko-fi, cost unknown.
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#HolosDiscover just hit 3 million indexed posts.
What matters more than the number: 145k deletions processed, 83k edits tracked, and over 1k opt-outs respected, all in real time.
Respecting people is the priority and the only way to do it right is to be a full #ActivityPub participant, receiving deletions, edits, and opt-outs as they happen. Before indexing anyone, Holos Discover follows their account, so they know they are being indexed and can opt out.
Source: discover.holos.social/stats
A privacy-respecting search engine for Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey and the Fediverse.Holos Discover
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@thibaultmol I don’t want to visit the web page. I don’t want to read about it. I don’t want to learn the “easy” actions I must take. I don’t want to think or know about this “tool” in any way. I didn’t ask for it; I don’t even want it to exist. But now I have to. It’s all an unwanted imposition.
So you do it. Opt me out. It’s your job anyway, whoever made this, whoever runs it. I decline to accept the assignment.
…I didn’t get a word of that.
I just want to be opted out of your service.
#Holos 1.0.0 is available! With this release, Holos moves from release candidate to production. This version adds a reverse timeline option to display posts oldest-first.
A lot of improvements have also been made to the relay, especially around Bloom filter performance, that are not always reflected in app changelogs.
Available on #FDroid custom repo:
fdroid.fedilab.app
Direct download: framadrive.org/s/SwXt6GbBC97pZ…
Release notes: codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/r…
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At long last, I hope I understand the purpose of it.
It is a self-hosted "source of truth" which can publish your content to the Fediverse but is not dependent on it.
Am I right?
Ditch Android. Use PostmarketOS.
Sure. If I want no touch, no wifi, no bluetooth, no camera, no GPS, no modem. A rock has more utility at this point.
Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distributionkeepandroidopen.org
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Hi @drq !
I finally got around to watching the remastered version of your video **"History of the Fediverse: A Story of a Free Social Network"** (great remastering work by @acetone, by the way).
I wanted to sincerely thank you for this incredibly informative journey - your detailed explanation of the history behind #OpenSource projects like #XMPP (Jabber), #Diaspora, #Matrix the broader #Fediverse, the #ActivityPub protocol, #Mastodon and others was absolutely fascinating and made the whole evolution crystal clear. It provides a fantastic understanding of the roots and philosophy of the free social web. I've shared it with friends, and I truly believe this content deserves a much wider audience.
Therefore, I have a suggestion: **it would be absolutely wonderful to have an English version**, either with subtitles or a voice-over. Videos of this quality about our history are rare, and I'm sure it would become a classic and spark a lot of interest in the global community.
Also, having timecodes for the different chapters and projects discussed would be a great addition - it would make it even easier to navigate and revisit specific parts.
Thanks again for your work and for your contribution to the free world!
**Links to the video (Russian original):**
- PeerTube (remaster by acetone): peervideo.ru/w/dTvnmDFU4GPgmFQ…
- YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=siOZ0K4sL9…
- Rutube: rutube.ru/video/017baecabaf741…
Ремастеринг подкаста, впервые опубликованного в конце 2020 года. Ссылка на первоисточник: (сервис умер). Главным образом был откорректирован звук: по многочисленным просьбам фоновая музыка стала тише.Мастерская Талантов (RUTUBE)
I'd *absolutely love* to make one, properly, in a voiceover!
The issue is - time and energy. It took me almost a year to make the original Russian one.
I also wanted the video sequence to go with that, in the style of Ahoy, who was my primary inspiration for the project, but I can't use Blender for shit, and there was almost no other FOSS motion design software (and I use FOSS almost exclusively).
Thank you for doing that work! FWIW here's a list of delightful creative tools around video animation, maintained by @ADHDefy
delightful.coding.social/delig…
Delightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.delightful.coding.social
#PawFed is a project close to my heart. It's a collaborative map for animal welfare that bridges the #Fediverse and #OpenStreetMap.
The idea: mention @PawFed from your Mastodon account with hashtags and a location, and your report appears on the map. No signup, no app, just your existing Fediverse account.
It's not perfect yet, but the foundation is there. I will publish the source code soon under AGPL.
More: pawfed.org/how-it-works
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At that zoom level the map can't fetch shelters and vets from OpenStreetMap, it would be too much data. You need to zoom in closer for OSM results to appear.
As for community reports, we are just getting started so the map is empty for now. It needs contributions to grow. That's the whole point :)
@alice @PawFed
Am I correct in my understanding that this requires one to reveal their IRL location in a public toot?
I am sorry, but I am not comfortable with that, unfortunately. I can, and will, however consider setting up another account just for this purpose. Especially since I'm using a certain fediverse app that just happens to handle multiple accounts very nicely ;)
@PawFed
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I feel that at best, it is an attempt to solve a "people problem" with a software fix. I have worked in IT support long enough to know that that never works. It only compounds the problem by creating even more new ones (while not actually solving the original problem).
The illusion of security will be quickly shattered as soon as scammers figure out how to work around it anyway.
Opposition to Israel has NEVER made me feel like I was in danger as a Jew.
But goddamn I feel more in danger because an apartheid state on the other side of the world is committing genocide and war and saying they’re doing it in my name.
I hate that wearing something that may identify me as Jewish may indicate support for a country I want nothing to do with.
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Netanyahu and his genocidal thugs lie to try to use every Jewish person in the world as a human shield for the actions of Israel
Deliberately framing criticism of Israeli actions as an attack on "the Jewish community" is something politicians in the UK do constantly
Its infuriating that its been done deliberately and cynically by so many politicians and much of the media , and
I'm really sorry that you are in this position
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •my advice is still the same. get a cheaper (used) thinkpad (or brand of your choice) and install Linux or *BSD that doesn't have corporate backing or age/kyc verification nonsense added. always install an ad blocker, script blocker, and dns level filtering just in case for your own safety (also install those on your parents and friends family computers).
say no to microslop and their stupid apps. enough is enough.
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Kobold
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd
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in reply to Kobold • • •@kobold correct there are many linux distros without systemd and then *BSD is free from that systemd nonsense.
IBM/Redhat and Poettering all into this age verification nonsense. Any distro or vendor into that stuff need to to be avoided for your own good.
lbky
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •@kobold Get a grip on reality. It's a field in a JSON. Your name is in passwd. Every program on any Linux or BSD can call getpwnam.
Nobody forces you to set either. There is no enforcement mechanism and no verification, but there are legitimate uses for either, as there are legitimate interests in not setting either.
DistroWatch
in reply to Kobold • • •DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
distrowatch.comRay McCarthy
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •I have two spare unused laptops, one with Linux (more than 10 years old, low spec) and one with W10 (Nov 2016).
Which BSD should I try? Both SATA HDD. Download Link? Both boot from USB sticks. The Win10 model runs Linux Mint far better (I swapped HDD from a similar Lenovo).
I use Linux Mint + Mate & X11 100% since 2017. Dual boot Linux (Red Hat, Debian etc) since 1998.
Used Cromix in 1980s.
Tried Crostini on ChromeOS for 3 months (crippled and same HW now runs Mint natively).
nixCraft 🐧
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •I would have done that maybe 20 years ago. Now I'm only interested in using it. That's why I mentioned I'm happy with Linux Mint + Mate + X11. I have also Cinnamon, XFCE, ICeWM etc installed on some to look at and as fall back if I break Mate.
I might have tried Free BSD very long ago (I did once install Xenix from floppies).
I also have Pi4B (2G RAM) with only SD Card. It's gathering dust.
I see freebsd.org/where/
Do I download memstick.img?
download.freebsd.org/releases/…
Get FreeBSD
The FreeBSD ProjectPeet Tetteroo
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •My parents got a new desktop. They wanted one anyway. Pre-installed Win11 deleted and it’s running on Linux Mint now.
My partner bought herself a new laptop. It’s running on Linux Mint now as dual boot.
When I’m back home the PCs of to friends will be installed from Win10 to Linux Mint as well.
Thomas Dorr
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It comes down to build quality and long term support viability.
You get a metal case with five or more years of update support ...
Vs plastic with microslop trying to harvest your data and obsolete the hardware to force a new os purchase/service
People will vote with money
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •as a generic comment.
apple may not force apple intelligence, but they have one and it is in that awful neo junk.
apple is no better than microslop with its windows sloppification system.
Renke Meuwese
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •I'll believe it when I see it. The business case is still painfully obvious:
1) turn on Copilot by default in all Office365 apps, integrating access to all business data of its users.
2) Copilot suggests email responses based on this
3) managers seamlessly integrate Copilot into their workflow, without ever deciding to
4) since everyone's LLM is different, the managers will be unable to leave Azure/Windows
5) increase the price! Locked-in companies ftw
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •I would reverse #1 (Increased Linux gaming ) and #2 (Apple's entry into the low end PC market with 0 forced AI). IMHO it's #MacBookNeo that's getting #Microsoft to #debloat #Windows11. Lots of people, including me as I wrote about in mathstodon.xyz/@nm/11621342792…, are so fed up with #Windows that we're switching to #macOS. Thank you #Apple for #MacBook #Neo and maybe helping to ma
... Show more...I would reverse #1 (Increased Linux gaming ) and #2 (Apple's entry into the low end PC market with 0 forced AI). IMHO it's #MacBookNeo that's getting #Microsoft to #debloat #Windows11. Lots of people, including me as I wrote about in mathstodon.xyz/@nm/11621342792…, are so fed up with #Windows that we're switching to #macOS. Thank you #Apple for #MacBook #Neo and maybe helping to make Windows a little saner.
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