I love licensing my personal things as (A)GPL because the people that complain about that choice make for a great blocklist

Canadian re-entry kiosks take a picture of you when you get in, and every single time, without fail, I look like the sleepiest person on the planet

In 2021, I’ve tabled amendments to the @EUCommission’s proposal of the Digital Markets Act, one of which introduced mandatory messaging interoperability for the gatekeepers. Now, more than 4 years later, real effects on the market are starting to appear […]

> "Anti-fascist software license" > Looks inside > It's a proprietary software license It's incredible to me that after like 40 years people are still talking about removing the freedom to run software for whatever purpose. And it's almost always by people that don't themselves contribute or […]

I want to buy the GabeCube so badly

Do any of my followers here speak Mandarin? I had classes for ~1h until COVID hit and I'm signing up again starting early next year, and I'm wondering what apps and tools and IMEs people use these daya

🇪🇺Today, EU gov'ts rejected changes to mandatory backdoor #ChatControl & anonymity-destroying age checks. EU ambassadors are set to approve this soon. ℹ️https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#councilpositions 📢Our protest isn't loud […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

The Steam Frame uses FEX? Gosh I just love Valve

The best way to relax after a long day at a conference.

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115525877312603323 Horizon Europe has gained yet another member today 🥳

TIL someone wrote a TrackMania integration for Nextcloud. Because of course that exists!

Anyone at #kubecon in Atlanta this year? 👀

Is it just me or has HN's view on LLMs been shifting quite a bit lately

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

Aaaaand my flight to Atlanta got cancelled. No more flights out of EWR today

Cory Doctorow versus Big Tech: 'Is the juice worth the squeeze?' https://nationalpost.com/news/cory-doctorow-versus-big-tech I only wish @pluralistic had been able to explain to the interviewer that having the ability to install whatever software you want on a device you own is very different […]

The new Bazaar search is so incredibly nice

Why does the LF keep on scheduling KubeCon NA to like the most deeply red states in the US

NY/NJ is really growing on me

Group shot! With @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social of @thewaroncars.bsky.social. What an all star team 🤩

Recently I've been running into more vibecoded systems tools (package managers, TUIs etc.) and holy shit is this stuff terrible

💫 New panelist alert! We're thrilled to have @tomflood.bsky.social joining @lucymaloney.bsky.social & @thewaroncars.bsky.social THIS SATURDAY for Life After Cars in downtown Vancouver, hosted by the incredible @uytaelee.bsky.social. A few tix still available! visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...

GNOME X11 is over party https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4505

OpenCloud is so nice

The star counter integration in Bazaar might be it's single best feature. Would be nice if it supported Forgejo and GitLab instances too (although there would probably need to be some kind of allowlist since otherwise people that host on their own Git instances can just lie about the star […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joeycastillo/115493503836080482 Gosh I can't wait to get my hands on an Open Book

signal 50m dollars a year zero flatpaks 🤷

#yvr ✈️ #ewr Already miss you, Vancouver!

6 months until the SpacemiT K3 chip and thus probably the first RV23-compliant chip arrives. I'm so damn excited for this

T-6 months until the SpacemiT K3 chip and thus probably the first RV23-compliant chip arrives. I'm so damn excited for this

I feel like a broken record but I do actually think that there are at least three use cases for LLMs that are genuinely useful: Machine translation for most languages that's much better than anything before it, individualized language assistance while you're learning a new one and correction […]

https://github.com/pojntfx/multiplex/commit/942c6c513ad4f6620cb5ac967496e1a0a10b825f And another Go GTK app is ported to #puregotk! Not with subclassing yet, but it will get there eventually. Build time is down from ~25 minutes to 20s 🤯

i have understood for over a decade now that community led open source isn't a _development_ strategy or _maintenance_ strategy. it is a survival strategy in an adversarial environment dominated by capital. this is why, in long term, it is superior to any other type of software/hardware development

RV23 phone wen

I'm getting the feeling that one of my 2026 resolutions should be to finally try and actually contribute to C-based projects aside from the kernel more. Maybe that will finally give me a similar level of confidence in that language to Go/Rust.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.17 Flatpak now supports OCI registries! Hell yeah. Now the only thing missing is systemd-sysupdate support for fetching updates from there, and then every single piece of software I run is vendored through the same registry format.

Oakridge-41st has some of the most beautiful buildings in North America right next to the world's shittiest condo building. It already looks 20 years out of date right after construction with those weird boxy floors

Permanent winter/standard time is the only right answer in the time debate from a northern perspective

New opinion that's growing on me: If software freedom on iOS and Android is essentially dead, then maybe it's ok if you make the iOS and Android apps proprietary as long as you vendor a proper, libre Linux app as the alternative

The Outer Worlds is such a fun game. Haven't had this much fun since playing Stray!

Municipalism is one of those late 2000s/early 2010s movements I'd love to see become popular again

The Joyce-Collingwood towers look so damn cool with SkyTrain running through them

The elevated SkyTrain link from Langley to Surrey is going to be so damn cool. Already looks like it's from 2035 (Via https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/54892959209/in/album-72177720298782138/)

There are two good libre licenses out there that are fit for the modern world, the AGPL and the EUPL

🇪🇺German Federal Justice Minister welcomes Danish proposal to scrap mandatory #chatcontrol and continue voluntary Chat Control 1.0 as a "decisive step" towards Council agreement. https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2025/1031_CSA-VO.html Ambassadors will discuss it on Wednesday […]

My nostalgia for the early 2010s is hitting an all-time high today

Slayyyter literally can not make a bad song

I wonder what's going to happen with all of those GPUs when the bubble pops.

Sometimes there are days where you just can't get something to work and you bang your head against a wall for 12 hours straight. I had one of those today. But that's ok. All of those little details you learn while debugging, all of the small tweaks and prototypes you try out, all of them will be […]

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