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Digital rights management (DRM) enjoys bizarre legal protections so that it's a felony for me to give you the tools you need to move the books I wrote out of an Amazon app and into a competitor's app:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/#world-turned-upside-down

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@kevinbowen People who are new to Linux and enjoying it can enjoy it. What's boring is highly subjective, if someone is enjoying sharing their experience, let them!

“It’s inevitable” often means “we’re doing this against your will and without requiring consent because we’re in a position of power”

"Ex-Microsoft Executive Joins Microsoft Competitor, Drives It Into A Wall" really is a whole genre of its own, isn't it.

@Skye @jacqueline That sounds about right, yes.

@tzafrir The $100 is to become part of the co-op. You can buy albums from the website without joining the co-op.

TIL subvert.fm - a co-op based music platform that has just launched. It looks really promising.

You still deserve privacy, even if you:

  • don't use Linux
  • use big social media sites
  • aren't "techie"
  • are just an average computer user

@rysiek

More than this, they also want it to be impossible to create software without renting all the tools from a capitalist.

They're trying to end the era of anyone being able to ship software using cheap commodity hardware and free tools.

@owen Wow. RIP GitLab.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

Gitlab started giving me bad vibes a few years back, and I abandoned my attempt to relocate my Github stuff over to it at that time.

This press release makes me _extraordinarily_ glad that I dodged the metaphorical bullet. The news itself is depressing, but the things it reveals about the company's leadership are inexcusable.

@daniel All US tech is now a serious liability, it sounds like hyperbole but it would take a lot these days to convince me otherwise.

The thing we actually need to get off github is not for more people to tell people to get off github, its for some of you with the technical expertise and tech company salary to pay for or volunteer to do the work to finish forgejo's federation so it's actually possible to compete with the kind of network and reputation effects needed to remain employed that are the actual thing github provides.

@zhenech GamePad!

Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!

Krita Maintainer Halla posting that reads: 

“Speaking as the Krita maintainer, I don’t want us to accept any LLM-generated code into Krita.

Some may say, as long as the contributor understands the code it’s fine, but that’s a fallacy.

No programmer really fully understands the code they are working with (otherwise bugzilla would be empty); but with LLM-generated code they haven’t even put any thought into it. That code will be unmaintainable.

And that’s even completely apart from the fact that using LLM’s to generate code lowers your cognitive capacity, burns up the planet, destroys water sources all over the world and takes away from people what fits them best: being creative together with other humans.

The right thing to do could be to, after you’ve experimented in this environmentally-disastrous way, to describe the feature you reached and wanted and make a wish item in bugzilla, or discuss it here, and then let people who can code implement it in a responsible way.”

@cwebber I'm all for it! The people who use this kind of shit deserves what they get, let it all burn!

@maryjane I think those were about the Logout button!

Oh no, is GNOME taking away the suspend button too now!? *rage*
Screenshot of GNOME menu with Reboot..., Powe Off... and Log Out... but no Suspend... option

Today I have spent way too much time handling the https://copy.fail situation

The persons who discovered it didn't notify the distribution security list, so no patched kernels was available for people to install when they released it.

But they did have time to write an exploit, and thought it was a good idea to distribute that on day one, before vendors had time to provide patches.

I'm not very impressed with xint.io, I guess it's the marketing department that runs the show.

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