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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Okay okay rant over. Sorry I went extra hard on this. It's all just so disappointing.

You can leave corporate tech only to realize the alternative platforms aren't really fighting the good fight. It's all marketing by pacifists pretending to be revolutionaries.

The openness gang pretends they're fighting wall gardens. The privacy gang pretends they're fighting ad-tech. But it's all just a market position play. And all the founders are fascist-flirting centrists.

It sucks. They're all the same

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's not *just* that Proton complied with the order (which is still unclear if they could've fought it).

It's that in Proton's defense of their actions, they implied that anyone who protests Cop City is automatically part of some terrorist group that shoots cops and blows things up with explosives.

It's Proton's very obvious politics of it all. It bends towards fascist-y sensibilities. Yuck. I'm so tired of giving money to these types of techno-conservatives pretending to be revolutionaries.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Now we know that there is another reason for nations to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels: security. In a dangerous world, it’s infinitely safer to rely on the sun and the wind than to depend on fossil fuels that must be transported long distances, from nations that are untrustworthy, often exploitative and located in regions that frequently devolve into war zones."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Iran #war #economy #gasoline #energy #OilandGas
/7

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/renewable-energy-and-national-security

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org ("Mike :nixos:") wrote:

Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.

I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!

Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Contact is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movies. It’s tries hard, and often succeeds at tackling difficult themes of religion and science.

And I love it despite me not believing for a second that Jodie Foster was attracted to Matthew McConaughey. https://boxd.it/dpZccp

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

personal brand,
personal brand,
trying to hype his personal brand,
what's he like,
it's not important,
personal brand

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

The game of cat-and-mouse continues! In Episode 2 of Filibus, Detective Hardy is closing in, but Filibus is about to get closer. Watch as our gender-fluid sky pirate dons their most dangerous disguise yet to infiltrate the enemy’s camp. Will Hardy catch the thief, or is he about to be outsmarted again?

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFCqzoMIw18&list=PLlI5J2ty2IkVg24mUeR9GAOsxE3xxnGeu&index=2

Peertube: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/vBiHE1Kd1iCbzzzSys9N2u

Blog: https://www.communitybroadcasting.network/2026/03/06/filibus-the-mysterious-air-pirate-new-score-and-translation-episode-2/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/filibus-air-2-152410579

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

This, plus account portability, were things I had in mind while developing #diskuto

See: https://github.com/diskuto/diskuto-api/issues/42

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@fromjason “But what do you mean centralizing the full names and contact info of protest attendees is a bad idea? It’s not like it’s publicly posted information!” /s

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/116103545853411360

This thread talks about going back to an #ActivityPub users's home server to validate a user's content, because you can't trust that the event you got for it is unmodified.

But you can't trust what the home server tells you the content of the message is either! There's nothing stopping a home server from serving a modified version of your content every time it's requested, say, to inject ads into it, or censor bits it doesn't like.

Or to just completely fabricate new content from you.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party ("'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_") wrote:

Been working on publishing the various text editors and word processors I unearthed in my digital archeological dig.

All written in different BASIC flavours, each of them takes a different approach. Each of them comes in the form of a type in program. The years the pieces of software was released spans 1977 to 1983.

The people's permacomputer project will be updated here:

https://permacomputer.solarpunk.au/

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #solarpunk

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

I've been experimenting with Owncast recently (after having last tried it a couple of years ago), and it's *super* nice these days. The Fediverse integration is wonderful (it posts to its own "instance" whenever streams begin, and you can follow that if you'd like, and you can also authenticate to the chat with a Fediverse account). And the S3 object storage makes global streaming really efficient.

I'm actually live right now!
https://social.lol/@neatnik@tv.neatnik.net/116184513330655775

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Patients used to sit here for fresh air as treatment for tuberculosis. I suppose antibiotics made fresh air unnecessary for patients because this area is clearly no longer in use.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #windows #concrete #history #tuberculosis

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

My great-grandmother caught tuberculosis before the advent of antibiotics. According to the family lore, a ghost cured her while she was seeing a psychic healer. Whether that's true or not, she did live to be 98 years old.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #windows #concrete

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

My great-grandmother referred to her time at Vífilsstaðir with tuberculosis as her stay at Hotel Vífilsstaðir, which I admit does sound a little nicer.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #windows #concrete #history #tuberculosis

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neatnik@tv.neatnik.net ("Neatnik TV") wrote:

Neatnik is live!

Playing Pokémon Pokopia!

#web #programming #chat #fun

https://tv.neatnik.net

Attachments:

• gifv: Live stream preview

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
GayDeceiver@mstdn.social wrote:

"Is this what I think it is? Yes! It's the Appalachian Feather Duster! You see these three notches that seem to squiggle if you try to focus on them? That's the magical symbol from the Bog Witch, and guarantees not only its authenticity, but its effectiveness. How long have you had it?"
"It's been in my family for six generations. If we try to get rid of it or destroy it, someone dies, so we just leave alone in its little case."
"Fascinating!"

#AntiquesRoadShowCursedObjects

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

There's a bunch of weird tics like this that make me mute / block someone.

"There are legitimate concerns about trans people" is another one.

And it's interesting in context, as I've watched a bunch of formerly bog standard Democratic boosters turn to loathing the party over the past several years as their fecklessness and complicity becomes ever more apparent.

So somebody who's still singing from the Chuck Schumer hymnbook stands out as deeply, deeply out of touch.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
frenck@fosstodon.org ("Franck Nijhof") wrote:

🚀 I've just opened 2 new roles in my department at the Open Home Foundation to work full-time on #HomeAssistant!

🖥️ Frontend Engineer
🔐 Security Engineer

Fully remote. Full-time. #OpenSource every day.

Best job in the world. Working on open source for a non-profit, building the biggest smart home platform on the planet. It changed my life; your chance to change yours.

Boosts appreciated! 🙏

🔗 https://www.openhomefoundation.org/jobs

#SmartHome #Hiring #RemoteWork #FOSS #InfoSec
https://www.openhomefoundation.org/jobs

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

Falsehoods programmers believe about copyright

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'll also never ever understand the impulse to blame the party with the least amount of power.

When something like the Proton scandal makes its rounds on the internet, the discourse inevitably devolves into this debate over whether the victim is to blame.

Like, what's to be gained?! Why defend a system that would happily devour you if it meant someone is making money? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The wackiness of the Californian Ideology aside, the Proton scandal is a great example of why we shouldn't judge people too hard for the tools they use.

We have literal privacy advocates defending Proton's actions, presumably just because they don't want to stop using Proton, but want to continue judging others for the software they use.

If you place too heavy a burden on the morality of software usage, you'll turn yourself into a hypocrite everytime.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I will never understand the large swaths of the FOSS community who believe social justice has nothing to do with their advocacy.

The Californian Ideology is littered with contradictions like this and it blows my mind. It's like they go out of their way to make sure they don't accidentally help someone who actually needs help.

Obviously, not everyone in the community is like this. But its enough to make your head spin.

https://monoskop.org/images/d/dc/Barbrook%5FRichard%5FCameron%5FAndy%5F1996%5FThe%5FCalifornian%5FIdeology.pdf

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bulbagarden ("Bulbagarden") wrote:

The Pokémon Company International disapproves of recent Pokopia meme from the White House https://bulbagarden.net/threads/the-pokemon-company-international-disapproves-of-recent-pokopia-meme-from-the-white-house.310003/ #pokémon

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

(I usually avoid such crimes since it tends to make for inscrutable messes, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do...)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Why use a language with proper support for generics when you can commit crimes with the C preprocessor instead? :/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brian.gawalt.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Brian Gawalt") wrote:

Alright. I see it.youraislopbores.me

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

I'm launching "**Terminal Tuesdays**" 🖥️

🐁 A biweekly meetup where someone from the community showcases their terminal setup.

💯 Configs, TUIs, scripts, weird hacks

📡 Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/6EUERBrAMs

▶️ Going to be recorded & published: https://youtube.com/@terminalcollectiveorg

#terminal #collective #meetup #setup #linux #dotfiles

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

Hey, free shipping on JavaScript for Everyone merch today by using FREESHIPPINGFRIDAY at checkout. Rep the `#${!+[]+![]}` programming language in the world* — and a pretty good course, if I do say so myself.

https://cottonbureau.com/p/NHCZJK/shirt/javascript-for-everyone
https://cottonbureau.com/p/BE2DSA/shirt/javascript-is-for-everyone

* For some values of `1`

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

Just got word from @patrickbrosset that the Edge Top Developer Needs dashboard has been updated for 2026:

https://microsoftedge.github.io/TopDeveloperNeeds/

This follows from the launch of Interop '26, and plugs gaps the selection process leaves due to silent, unaccountable vetoes.

It goes without saying that this shouldn't be necessary. No web developer should have to guess who is on their side, and who demands secrecy while holding the web back. @owa's 2024 piece remains sadly relevant:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/interop-2025-must-drop-secret-vetos/