The #ai hype has been over for a while. Stocks no longer rising, valutations falling, data centers not being built, companies having trouble attracting investment. Whoever starts the next hype gets lots of money. Now is the time to make sure it's something mankind actually needs. Defenses […]

I've never had a #discord account. 30% because I really don't want to, and 70% because the two times I actually tried, the accounts got permanently blocked because of an alleged "Violation of TOS/Community Guidelines" before I was even able to click on the e-mail address verification link.

Age verification in social media is just the beginning. We have to fight against identification with teeth and claws. "Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level" […]

Can someone explain to me how the #eu is supposed to implement #ageverification without then also going after VPNs?

I've given up on trying to learn #rust. It's just not for me, my brain cannot parse it. #programming

1/ Somewhat recently I switched to using the FLX1s Linux phone (from an Android phone). The FLX1s is a privacy oriented phone, that is an open platform, built on open-source software, where I am in control of it. One thing that I find makes using it better […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Recently huge progress was made and we got the first audio coming out of the Fairphone 5 speaker, @bshah and @z3ntu even got call audio working! Coming soon to a Fairphone 5 near you! #fairphone #fairphone5 #postmarketos

This is so cool. Color-cycled animation by Steffest and how it is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyB5cvA6f78 - or if you prefer: An online viewer of the animation: https://www.stef.be/graphics/cycle/?the-vision #amiga #retrocomputing #demoscene

I challenge you to show me something more cursed than Geographic Information System file formats. I know at least a hundred different ones, most have subvariants and can encode data in 9000 ways. Some even store each dataset as a collection of files and if […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Today I handed my @furilabs #flx1 running #phosh and #gnome to an assistant on a ferry to get the paid WiFi activated. I expected to have to explain the whole OS, but she required literally zero help. Navigating phosh, disabling/activating airplane mode and WiFi, opening and checking the WiFi […]

It's here. #commodore #c64ultimate #c64 #retrocomputing

Today we learned, through the pain of quickly losing a couple of sandwiches, that the Gran Canaria Giant Lizard is neither rare nor shy nor a vegetarian #grancanaria #canaryislands #photography #animals #travel #nikon #darktable

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJezMMCogXw I find this episode of Lulu Garcia-Navarroro's #nytimes "The Interview" podcast with Jimmy Wales disturbing. Wales doesn't just dodge every serious question about #wikipedia and #wikimedia for 45 minutes, or name just a single possible improvement for […]

Saw this in the debug output before #servo crashed while browsing NYTimes.com

Heads up for postmarketOS edge users of devices based on the APQ8064 SoC: * Google Nexus 4 (lg-mako) * Google Nexus 7 2013 (asus-flo) * Sony Xperia Z (sony-yuga) Thanks to @Logical_Error these are using mainline kernels now (with zero patches on top!). Read more in the edge blog post […]

I had never heard about the Ctrl/Shift+Insert shortcuts for Copy/Paste. Weird. https://social.cutie.team/notes/af3yrbi3tcxw00hw

The #furilabs #flx1 main camera still impresses me. #linuxmobile #mobilelinux

If I ever get a ship, it'll be named Briship Bateaux I'll show myself out #badjokes #wordplay

…speaking of new devices. @furilabs completed manufacturing of their FLX1s which (as their FLX1) uses #phosh as default UI 🥳 (these are Halium, not mainline Linux based): https://mastodon.social/@Sturmflut/115547756576829366

Looking forward to receiving my @furilabs #flx1s soon. Have been using the #flx1 as my daily driver for a year now. https://furilabs.com/flx1s-update-2/ #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #phosh #gnome

Didn't know the Danish muppet who believes privacy is not a fundamental human right and really wants us to implement #chatcontrol in the #eu is actually called Peter Hummelgaard Stalinsen

Important difference: #grokipedia contains the average of what a random chatbot scooped up on the Internet. #wikipedia contains the average of what Ser Amantio di Nicolao scooped up on the Internet. #ai #aicalypse #grok

Warum scheint es eigentlich so wenige Diskussionen über die Kündigungsbedingungen des #Deutschlandticket zu geben? Man kann es weiterhin nur bis zum 10. eines Monats kündigen. Wer zwischendurch einige Fahrten machen möchte, aber nach dem 10. einsteigt - das sind immerhin zwei Dritteln der Tage […]

Man könnte der #fckafd ja auch einfach mal die kaum umstrittenen Themen wegnehmen. Eine einzige Rentenkasse. Keine verdeckte Parteienfinanzierung. Weisungsfreie Staatsanwälte, unabhängige Richter. Steuerverschwendung als Straftatbestand. Pflege durch Angehörige aufwerten. Privatisiertes […]

"AI" still has no place in my life. Not that I don't use any chatbots or image/video/code generators, I don't seem to get any of the "AI Slop" people are talking about. Not even on YouTube. It's a non-issue for me, like online ads. I wonder what I am doing wrong. #ai #artificialintelligence

🇪🇺 EU diplomats discussed #chatcontrol today. Result: No majority, so the vote planned for next week will be called off. https://orf.at/stories/3407810/ A huge success in our fight for freedom!🎉💪 Next goal: No suspicionless scanning, not even on a voluntary basis!

In case you wonder why there are no more updates coming in: The nightly package builds mentioned in https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-nightly/ switched from being Debian Trixie based to Debian Forky. The new suite is called `forky-nightly`. #phosh

@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

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]