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Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
FirefoxDevTools wrote:

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

https://interop-rank.jakearchibald.com/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

.@pluralistic sees it so clearly; "rogue capitalist" is 🎯:

https://doctorow.medium.com/apples-unlawful-evil-3183b254445d

/cc @owa
/via @phae

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

“It is always more complicated. Reality doesn't yield to simple formulations. But they're not trying to understand complexity. They're wielding it like a weapon.”

https://mgx.me/the-watchers

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.

Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:

Boosted by jwz:
junoryleejournalism.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Juno Rylee Schultz") wrote:

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This is too fucking much racism in one giant mega-dose. Stephen Miller ought to be ostracized and sequestered in a hole far, far away from other human beings.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/09/i-already-hated-stephen-miller-but/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlKDQ3fwI5w

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

oh it's "fOsS ShOuLd nOt bE PoLiTiCaL" asshats day again.

one day, those clowns will realize that the mere existence of FOSS is political. evidently, today is not that day, tho

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye ("mhoye (temporarily spooky)") wrote:

Software is a collection of ideas and decisions that a person has turned into a machine.

When it turns out that person has repulsive, noxious and dehumanizing ideas, it is entirely reasonable to not want the machines they've made in your life, or the decisions they've made affecting your life.

It is entirely reasonable to object to their being part of communities you care about, and to object to their ideas and decisions being normalized or valorized.

Nothing about this is complicated.

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

having read the actual discussion thread, Framework have made their decision, and I believe they are who they are saying they are. Purchase accordingly.

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/31

Boosted by jwz:
lucydev@wetdry.world ("Red Lucy") wrote:

I paid a fuckton of money for my @frameworkcomputer laptop parts. I paid extra for the parts I could've saved money on elsewhere because I wanted to support the company and what they stand for. I even ported Debian to the RISC-V Motherboard for the product that made Framework Framework: The Framework 13.

Now Framework decided to sponsor Omarchy and Hyprland, the leaderships of which are not just "politically of a different opinion", they are actively toxic, hostile and highly discriminatory, to phrase it euphemistically.

Nirav Patel responded to this in the community forum, essentially doubling down on the decision to take a "big tent approach".

I want to reiterate: __This isn't about "political differences", because the political difference are actively harmful to democracy itself, and the physical safety of marginalised communities.

Someone I supported in good faith with both code and money turned around and gave this money to multiple people who'd rather see me dead for existing.

Needless to say, I feel quite betrayed and I'm really torn on wether or not I should even continue and proceed with the port for the second RISC-V mainboard, because I don't want to end up supporting the hate towards me, my wife or other people in the same situation as me.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels betrayed by this decision.

Boosted by jwz:
scammo@chaos.social ("Scammo") wrote:

Oh wow, the @frameworkcomputer team's reply to them supporting far-right racists is terrible: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/2.

I don't want to spend money with a company that has a "big tent" policy and allows people to piss in it. I never want to be in a tent with people pissing in it. OSS does not need it.

Speaking as a German - this 'big tent' approach just doesn't work.

Today is a good day to write to support@frame.work using your shop email address. I will.

#framework #noBigTentPiss

Boosted by jwz:
ianb@well.com ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

Would someone smarter than me mind repackaging the ICEblock app as "AntifaBlock" and seeing if Apple refuses it?

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Oh, I nearly forgot that the cruelty is the point.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

The Transportation Secretary says he might fire air traffic controllers who are calling out sick. Because *that* will surely help travel quickly return to normal once the government shutdown ends. 🙄

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

life is hard

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

“King Donald The First. F*ck that.”

Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 18 to show the world that America has no kings, and power still belongs to the people: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF%5FSOURCE=indivisible #NoKings

Attachments:

• video: eb9be5de101e90b8.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

The war is not over, however. Now we move to the European Council, where the issue is unresolved. We expect closed-door negotiations to engage in rhetorical arbitrage--claiming to support privacy by using word games and bespoke definitions--while in practice undermining it. Tedious and dangerous 3/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

Defending privacy isn't easy. Those in power always want more access +more info. It's especially hard when emotionally charged args are used to advance surveillance

❤️ to those doing the work!

https://social.bau-ha.us/@CCC
https://d-64.social/@d64eV
https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol
And many others <3 2/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

There are already solutions right here on Earth to many of the problems “sunlight as a service” purports to solve. This approach is simply a reckless and inefficient use of Earth orbit, a precious and finite resource.

This list of facts was developed by me and a bunch of very concerned astronomers. If you're a journalist interested in writing a news article about this, please look up my university email and contact me, and I'll be happy to chat.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
sluttymayo@jorts.horse ("spookymayo") wrote:

elephants aren't afraid of mice. they just think the command line is faster

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Mecrisp@chaos.social wrote:

I am happy to announce the FemtoMSP430, a processor designed with the instruction set of the classic #MSP430, but with a flexible bus interface similar to @BrunoLevy01 #FemtoRV32 including memory busy signaling. The playground contains a phantasy "microcontroller" design for the #ULX3S #FPGA board, interactively running the original #Mecrisp #Forth image for MSP430G2755, enhanced with a text mode on 800x600 video, USB-CDC terminal and a lot of GPIO wires: https://codeberg.org/Mecrisp/FemtoMSP430

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
lurnoise@mastodon.art ("Lur Noise") wrote:

Thus begins the story of the Shepherdess, one of the protagonists of my new comic, Ekphrasis.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

important reminder

this is the official song of #thinktober

accept no thunkstitutes

https://danreeder.bandcamp.com/track/born-a-worm-2

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Encinitas California. I wrote about it here, back when my prose was far too purple.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/travel/encinitas-california/

#travel #photography #ios #ioslockscreen

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

I disagree with a lot of people here, and that's fine. We can disagree on what tax rates should be. We can disagree on the best mix of public and private ownership. We can disagree on the amount of government involvement in markets. We can disagree on what privacy rights need to be protected by governments versus which need to treat the government as the adversary. We can disagree on which OS is best. We can disagree on the best way to build a Free Software ecosystem (we can even disagree on whether that's a desirable goal).

But we can't disagree on which people are people. If your perspective is that some people are not people, there is no way that we can still have a meaningful conversation. That's not a 'there are two sides' kind of debate. That's a 'no, this isn't a debate and we can't build a functioning society if you disagree' kind of debate.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Björk calls for release of childhood friend, musician Magga Stína, detained by Israeli forces”

https://mixmag.net/read/bj%C3%B6rk-calls-release-friend-musician-magga-st%C3%ADna-kidnapped-israeli-forces-gaza-news

Björk is usually on the right side of things.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
scruss@xoxo.zone ("Stewart Russell") wrote:

Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer - YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubkrBd3-gg

(via mefi)

#RetroComputing

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, the Ugly Reykjavík Bluesky account should now be bridged over to the fediverse via: @uglyreykjavik.bsky.social

You can see some of the earlier posts over on the Bluesky profile page.

https://bsky.app/profile/uglyreykjavik.bsky.social

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

should I blog a guide to Linux? 🤔