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In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles. 13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger. The law didn't change […]

Anti-Suffragette postcard ca. 1910s Happy International Women's Day, bicycle friends!

Just for shits and gigs, I've been doing some reading about the origins of Huawei's mobile platform #HarmonyOS; https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android (1/?) #HatTip to @billbennett#harmonyos#hattipor the Ars link, which I found here; /https://www […]

We will have a combined #XMPP and #UnifiedPush stand at #CLT2026 on March 28th and 29th. Come talk to us if you are curious about either! We will have merch for both, test devices, lots of advice, and I've even heard rumors about free Haribo. XMPP Standards […] [Original post on gultsch.social]

i was going to say something in a social media comment like "always expect the worst from people in power", but that's the wrong idea. This cynicism is part of why the world is the way it is; most don't expect anything from power, and so don't care when things go wrong

#meme #memes

Is there like a good resource on GUI programming, by which I mean not "how to use the latest framework which is running in electron btw" but actual fundamentals on the theory behind graphical user interfaces and flows and how it all works?

None of my current projects would be considered digital infrastructure, but if your project qualifies and needs someone to help it grow, please reach out. Maybe we can apply together! I've spent the last 10+ years freelancing as an open source developer, community manager and project manager […]

I guess #servo is now the only serious browser engine taking a stand against slop, even mentioning ethical issues? (Despite one bronze sponsor listed on the homepage being "somethingsomething AI" heh) We really need to get servo-gtk to a more serious state where epiphany could use it…

I say, let's not save time anymore. Let's spend it. All of it. With lovers. With books. With the burgeoning springtime plant and animal life. With old people. With the sunshine that is growing no matter what numbers we presume to assign to it. Spend time laughing. Spend it all.

It finally happened. There I was, minding my own business, and suddenly I was a guy thinking about the Roman Empire.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

When all else fails, microwave a sweet potato. Due to problems with interoception, people with ADHD can go for long periods without noticing we haven't eaten, especially when lost in hyperfocus. By the time we notice, we may not have the spoons to prepare a meal. Microwaving a sweet potato […]

For future reference: When I shit talk about #2fa, it's never about "more security = bad", but it's the hideous #ux that 2FA generators / 2FA via SMS bring. Good UX is inherent part of security. Remove good UX and people will *rightfully* find a way to do "stupid things" and it's only *you* to […]

[Iran social media] I am loving how peaceful the feeds are in xhs about the situation in Iran. Peaceful, meaning, people are not being awful degenerates wishing for the destruction of people and calling the deaths 100s children a "necessary evil". Instead the Chinese are sharing beautiful […]

[uspol, gbpol, Iran] Questions like “is Khamenei a bad person” or “is the Iranian government bad” are completely irrelevant. Having an authoritarian government doesn’t protect civilians from bombs. Nor does it make it any more likely that, should that government collapse, the replacement will […]

🇪🇺🎉🔥 BREAKING VICTORY! LIBE just REJECTED the extension of warrantless #chatcontrol 1.0 – no majority! 🛡️💪 Digital privacy of correspondence saved! Million thanks to everyone who raised their voices! ❤️🙏 Final battle ahead: Plenary vote! 🚀 #StopScanningMe

I intentionally say "Move slow and fix things" as the rejection of "Move fast and break things", as opposed to the more popular "Move deliberately and fix things". Because I want, very specifically, for *slow* to be seen as a virtue. Slow gives time for people whose entire life focus isn't […]

The future is nigh! https://liliputing.com/motorola-plans-to-ship-phones-with-grapheneos-google-free-security-hardened-android/

Actions speak louder than words. I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android. Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google. Stupid, no? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Mastodon.bd অবশেষে চালু হয়েছে! এটি ফেডিভার্সে বাংলাদেশে কেন্দ্রিক প্রথম ম্যাস্টোডন ইনস্ট্যান্স। অনেক দিন ধরেই এমন কিছু দেখতে চেয়েছিলাম, তাই অবশেষে এটি অনলাইনে আনতে পেরে সত্যিই ভালো লাগছে। যদিও এর মূল ফোকাস বাংলাদেশ, তবুও আপনি পৃথিবীর যেকোনো দেশ থেকে এসে এখানে যোগ দিতে পারেন। সবার জন্যই এটি […]

People need banking and payment apps to work on Linux mobile for it to work. Obviously to only real "fix" for this is a regulatory one that declares SafetyNet a monopolistic control mechanism, which it is.

New idea: Neobank specifically for digital sovereignty, from the app running on Linux/without SafetyNet and other nonsense to the servers running on local infrastructure

Mood for today...

Schoolgirls are being killed by nuclear armed aggressors but European leaders are still hung up about ending a nuclear weapons programme for the one party involved that doesn't even have one like what the fuck

Zionist propaganda mouthpiece: "We want to free the women and girls of Iran" Zionist armed militant unit: *massacres schoolgirls at an Iranian elementary school*

Mail from Spotify: # Spotify for Developers - Action required: Development Mode updates on March 9 * A Spotify Premium requirement * Updated endpoints and fields * 1 Client ID per developer * Max five authorized users This is the reaction to Anna's Archive.

You know what? HyperCard was a glorious moment in time that I dearly miss: an army of non-experts were bashing together and sharing weird and wonderful stacks that were part 'zine, part adventure game and part database. Instead of laughing at vibe-coders, maybe we should ask ourselves why the […]

We seem to have largely stopped innovating on trying to lower barriers to programming in favour of creating endless new frameworks and libraries for a vanishingly small number of near-identical languages. It is the mid-2020s and people are wringing their hands over Rust as if it was some […]

Is there a way to make an exception for #anubis installations when #javascript is disabled by #ublockorigin?

Wait, isn't this ocean *ours*? What are *they* doing in it?? https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2026/02/25/us-forces-seize-third-tanker-in-indian-ocean-defying-trumps-blockade/210350

Just misread a sentence but it got me thinking that #llms have created a whole new meaning for the term #ewaste Now, cyberspace is overflowing with garbage too 🧟

Isn't it high time the word "...aand" got included in the dictionary?

Fediverse hosting just got a whole lot more expensive 😱 (Thanks to LLMs, no doubt) https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment/

RE: https://liliputing.com/fedora-pocketblue-remix-is-an-atomic-linux-distro-for-mobile-devices-phones-and-tablets/ New mobile OS just dropped #fedora #pocketblue #mobilelinux

Where are the controls for this game? #photography

I need to make a "Save to #wallabag and also at the same time to #instapaper" button 🦘

Is there like a programmable #clock, like an analog one with servo-motor-controlled hands or something? Think Fossil smartwatch, but clock-sized (and cheaper!). Actually, just the hands are fine and I can take care of the microcontroller myself :arduino: When I search for "clock", all I find […]

Since the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation: "Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/

Are there any good open hardware #3dprinters out there? I heard bad things about #prusa

hey uhhh. I got fired yesterday. if anyone has rust positions in the Netherlands let me know!

PSA: If you're creating awesome content but only publishing it on Nazi/broligarch platforms like X (formerly known as Twitter), Spotify, or Substack, strange things will start to happen when it shows up in my feed: I'll look interestedly at first, but then draw back upon seeing the URL I might […]

If the common name for a thing is a company's name, it's effectively a monopoly.

Good thing #neuralink didn't take off before #llms did, or else they'd have been training off of and leaking our private thoughts too

I think I just had THE fediverse moment: Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video. "ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT […]

Maybe what we need is a "DNS for people" Enter their "number" (since a large number of people seem to be using that to identify themselves already) and get back their XMPP/email/whatever ID How would consent come in though? Maybe both sides have to mutually "look up" each other for this to […]

#meme #memes #palestine #freepalestine #israel

So I finally took the plunge and made my #LibreWolf more trackable than before. My only hope is that given how popular #DarkMode is this will actually make me blend in *more* rather than stand out. (Maybe not, because I'd stand out amongst all the other […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]