They increasingly look like a project that is really getting their shit together.
Nice work!
https://www.freebsd.org/
TW: video depicting about 95% of white privileged people I've ever met
Original link: https://www.facebook.com/reel/26608103572149891
sensitive media
Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?
Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.
Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children.
Space colony building sim Space Haven 1.0 is finally here https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/space-colony-building-sim-space-haven-1-0-is-finally-here/
Long thread/22
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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“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.
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
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.
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.