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@UncleDuke1969 Are you unporkgiven II?

@alienghic @majorlinux I want to switch to EV too because my home has plenty of solar power, so then I can eliminate my fuel bill, which would be great! But extending the life of a petrol vehicle is better for the environment since such a big part of a car's lifetime emmissions occure during manufacturing (no matter what type of vehicle it is). So when this one ever become unrepairable, I'll probably get some BYD (probably the Dolphin Surf).

@alienghic @majorlinux I have an old A3 that turns 20 years old in a few months. It still runs like a new car and I'll admit I've had lots of fixes done, but still significanlty cheaper by factors than buying a new car. If you have a decent old car and take care of it, it will take care of you financially!

We're gonna need a bigger Hague

‚Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists

'Artists have long complained about paltry payouts, but this summer the criticism became personal, targeting Spotify’s billionaire co-founder Daniel Ek for his investment in Helsing, a German firm developing AI for military tech. Groups including Massive Attack, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof and Hotline TNT pulled their music from the service in protest....'

@juliank my experience was the same. Beautiful visuals and landscapes... But what's the point again?

For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.

Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.

Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

@marcprux @fdroidorg

@EricLawton finding a way to fund the free press is one of the pressing issues of our time

@bonaventuresoft

OpenZL https://openzl.org/ looks like baby steps towards a generic "compress data into code that generates the data" system.

@ben Aliexpress

@simple_sabotage does this manual try to sabotage the saboteur? Have you ever tried catching a dozen moths when you actually need a moth!?

The year is 2025

There are five browser cores:
- webkit
- chromium
- gecko
- servo
- youtube-dl, which ended up implementing a full-fledged browser in python to keep successfully downloading videos

My wife's leaving note said I had "the worst case of LinkedIn brain" she'd ever seen.

Here's what that taught me about B2B sales...

@jlecour I use the zfs-dkms package, and I don't use zfs for /

Sometimes it looks like people really want to demonize raidz2 in favour of using sets of mirrors when you have 4 or 6 disks. At home I use raidz2 on my machines because I care a bit more about any 2 disks being able to fail rather than it being Russian Roulette after the first disk fails, and I haven't ran into any performance issues whatsoever, even when moving large amounts of data around, installing to multiple VMs on those filesystems or deleting huge amounts of files.

@mirabilos @freexian So, that means you got around another ~3 years of trixie for your armel devices? That's not too terrible.

@mirabilos @freexian Even rpi 3+4 is something often sent to e-waste... if you rescue one of them and upgrade to arm64 then at least you're e-waste neutral. Then again it's small fry compared to the massive amount of Windows 10 hardware that's about the become "obsolete" soon. I do think it makes sense to stop supporting really old architectures which don't have any fast method to build packages for them. Those hold us back and I think do more harm than good.

@mirabilos @freexian NetBSD is probably also still a good option if someone has those boards and really want to make use of them?

@foone Would've been such a nice easter egg if it was a fibonacci sequence

Visit the booth at in Dornbirn (Austria)!

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