@Tuba is such a nice Mastodon client. It's really growing on me. I just wish you could combine several hashtags in a single timeline, like yo can do on Tusky or Phanpy. https://flathub.org/en/apps/dev.geopjr.Tuba #tuba #mastodon #mastodonclient #linux #gnome

PayPal denkt übrigens das wäre eine akzeptable automatische Ansage an der Telefonhotline. #paypal #hölle #warteschleife

These iPhone features are getting ridiculous! (By Simon Meyer on IG (simonmeyer_director)

They erased Banksy’s mural in London — just like they erase Gaza’s story every day. 💔

## 40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/40-years-later-are-bentleys-programming-pearls-still-relevant/ In September 1985, Jon Bentley published Programming Pearls. A collection of aphorisms designed […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]

What I absolutely need from #youtube: The stupid thing automatically remembering which videos I've already watched so it doesn't keep recommending them What I absolutely don't need from YouTube: Automatic "AI" dubbing you can only turn off by forging a pact with Pazuzu, the Babylonian demon […]

Die #mondfinsternis konnnten wir wegen des Nebels zwar nicht sehen, aber immerhin hat es für ein brauchbares Foto des #blutmond gereicht. #NikonZ9 mit Nikon AF-S 300mm/2.8, Belichtungszeit eine Sekunde. Nachbearbeitet mit #darktable. #lunareclipse #bloodmoon

Statt in die Stromnetze zu investieren verteilt die Regierung mal wieder Milliarden mit der Gießkanne. Ich brauche die paar Cent pro kWh nicht. Wir reden hier von vielleicht 50 Euro Ersparnis im Jahr. Das macht doch keinen Unterschied, Stromanbieter wechseln bringt eh viel mehr. Aber 10 […]

Has anybody ever seen a #mips Magnum in real life? #retrocomputing

This is the #RVPC, a 1 Euro "computer" you can order from #Olimex in Bulgaria. It sports a WCH #CH32V003 #RISCV microcontroller with 16 kB Flash/2 kB RAM, a VGA port, a PS/2 keyboard port and a buzzer. The VGA signal has to be generated entirely in software […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

After all those years, the only use I have for "#ai", "#blockchain" and "#crypto" is still that 100% of incoming e-mails mentioning one those three things can go right into the Spam folder.

I've been seeing so many crazy comments on #foss and #hacker sites lately, I'm starting to wonder if this is just a coincidence. People questioning the point in FOSS OSes because the commercial stuff just works so well for most people. People defending Google's move to lock down #android because […]

If you've never seen one of the famous Missisippi Beaver videos Holly Muracco from "Something Wild" keeps posting to YouTube, you should really do so right now. And if you've liked them, maybe also donate to their "moonshot" crowdfunder for a new conservation and ecotourism hub! […]

#Klöckner hat aus dem Nestlé-Skandal damals wirklich gar nichts gelernt. Schon beeindruckend

Since people keep recommending #waterfox to me: I've used it for a long time and it has lost my trust. Several times now features like "HTTPS-only mode" somehow got disabled behind my back, while on the other hand "DNS over HTTPS" (DoH) re-enabled itself a couple of times. I don't find joy in […]

They day I decide to finally drop #firefox for #chromium, because if all browsers now suck anyways I can at least use the one with the best performance, some stupid "#ai" company makes an offer to buy Chrome from Google. Of course. Around this time next year, most online stuff will probably be […]

A *brand new* #SEGA #MasterSystem shoot-em-up is in development: Razing Core by BadComputer 🤩 download the free demo ROM here: https://badcomputer0.itch.io/razing-core-alpha-demo you can also follow the development here […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Today I became a Friend of #gnome. https://donate.gnome.org/

#proton making entry-level coder security mistakes does certainly not foster any trust in their other products. https://mas.to/@zzt/114996713299888327 #itsecurity #fail

Tried to get one of the more popular open-source forks of #commandandconquer Generals: Zero Hour working on Linux: https://github.com/Fighter19/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour All I'm getting is segmentation faults, and I don't have the time to find out why. #linuxgaming

We're a week and a half into the 6.17 #Linux kernel merge window and #bcachefs has neither been removed nor have the queued patches been merged. Today Alex Galvin asked Linus to clarify his future stance on this, with Kent Overstreet immediately weighing in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I had no idea #flatpak exported links to applications binaries in `/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/` and `~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/` (depending on if the package was installed system-wide or as a user). The naming scheme obviously requires getting […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

By now I have developed a very critical instant reaction to people who looked at something some time ago and automatically assume "things probably just got better in the meantime". Too often they didn't.

Talking to an "#ai" chatbot is about the same as arguing with the lottery numbers

Mein Bericht von der @gnome Konferenz #GUADEC ist jetzt auf @heiseonline#guadec- hat etwas gedauert, dafür ausführlich ;) https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Desktop-Gnome-Zwischen-Finanznoeten-und-technischem-Fortschritt-10512109.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege #flatpak […]

My article about the @gnome conference #guadec was translated to English (thanks God not by me 😜 ). Linux desktop Gnome: Between financial difficulties and technical progress […]

If you’re on Linux, there’s a good chance you use GNOME: it’s the default experience across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora Workstation, Endless OS, and more. If you’re on another desktop, you still likely use components developed by GNOME contributors—or maybe you get apps from […]

I've been trying to receive some Digital SSTV pictures with #qsstv the whole evening, but there doesn't seem to be much going on on 20m and 40m. At least not at my receiver location and with my #rtlsdr. #hamradio #dsstv #DRM

#Tesla keeps losing market share in Europe. It's so bad now, they've effectively stopped taking new orders for the Model S and X in many European countries because it is too expensive to bring so few units to customers: in Q1 2025 just 58 new Model S and 59 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A couple of old #nikon lenses going to the dump. All broken, but still sad.

"NEC2 was based on punch cards and an antenna model was described as a series of Cards. These are well documented. Nec2++ replaces these cards with function calls each function call the equivalent of an nec2 card." Yes, the simulation model is so old and was […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

While Torvalds has already merged a very long list of trees for the #linux 6.17 kernel, #bcachefs doesn't seem to have been removed so far. Maybe there's still hope?

There is often quite a bit of jealousy from some #KDE fans when #GNOME receives singular large donations (e.g. 1 million from an anonymous donor in 2018, another million from the #SovereignTechFund in 2023). Few of these people seem to know German […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I haven't managed to crash the #phosh session or lock up my #flx1 in more than eleven days thanks to #lmkd by @fakeshell. It now also has system notifications for much improved user feedback. https://github.com/FuriLabs/lmkd #furilabs #linuxmobile #mobilelinux

Nobody: Someone at #xerox: How about we offer TIFF as a file type for scanning, but it's secretly a JPEG file stored in a TIFF container. Nobody's going to notice the file is about 10 times too small and doesn't look good

I already own two #commodore 64, but ordered a new C64 Ultimate: Starlight Edition anyways. Hope they'll reboot the #amiga 500 in the future. #c64 #retrocomputing

The (poor...) way #Linux handles Out Of Memory situations, and the lack of sophisticated application lifecycle management in FOSS toolkits, can make life on #LinuxMobile not so much fun. When memory fills up too much, devices lag and random stuff breaks […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I haven't been at home for 309 out of the last 365 days. Probably time to no longer call it "home". #travel

Someone e-mailed me asking why they couldn't find some piece of information on my website "any longer". Turns out ChatGPT had given them false information and invented a "source" URL pointing to my site. After I explained it to them, their answer was "So ChatGPT really is human.... :-D". "AI" […]

The obligatory macro shot taken with the #oneplus6t running #postmarketos.

Got a #oneplus6t from eBay to check out the current state of #postmarketos on one of the best supported devices. It turned on twice just fine but is now completely dead. Had been lying in the seller's storage for two years (at least that's whats written on a sticker) and it looks like the […]

phosh 0.48.0 is out 🚀📱: We have some new features, quality of life improvements, under the hood work and 🐛 fixes, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.48.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵 🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release. #phosh #librem5 […]

You know your ISP is having some *real* issues when you're not just seeing >15% packet loss and multi-second jitter, but some of the duplicates are actually triplicates: 137 packets transmitted, 113 received, +16 duplicates, +3 errors, 17.5182% packet loss, time 146769ms

An extremely welcome initiative from the 🇪🇺 #eu: 🔋Phone Batteries must retain 80% capacity after 800 cycles. 📱Phone makers must provide 5 years of updates, 🪛 are banned from discriminating against repair shops, 🔧 and must provide parts for 7 years after EOL #eupol #sustainability #tech […]

How to count from one to four in #finnish: Yksi Kaksi Kolme Sauna #kaj

If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The (lack of) understanding of "consent" by #github and #microsoft here is concerning. Let me put it like this, the people responsible would *not* be invited to the fun parties. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/20/github-wants-to-spam-open-source-projects-with-ai-slop/ #ai #genai #llms […]

#newsflash is a great @gnome app that supports synchronization with #nextcloud #news. The new 4.0 Beta release now works much better on my @furilabs #flx1 phone. Especially the web view is so much smoother. #linuxmobile

Looking for a PCI graphics card for my Windows 98 PC. It's crazy how many different spellings of "PCIe" and "PCI Express" sellers are using online, the filter list is getting longer and longer. My favourite at the moment must be "PCI-E16". #retrocomputing