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☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
🇿🇦 Cape Town 👼🏼 Pope 🤔 INTJ ⚡ Resistance is not futile 🔌 Survival is insufficient

V Martín sharponlooker@mastodon.social

@MostlyTato @mothninja

A signpost in the woods with an idyllic view of a lake, an a superimposed text that reads "Just Do It, Nothing is Impossible" or "Just Do Nothing, It Is Impossible" depending on your day.

Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ brucelawson@vivaldi.net

Yesterday, Apple took the EU to court, to argue that it's "really mean" and "totally, like, not fair" to expect it to allow "stinky competitors" to access APIs on iOS. @fsfe intervened on behalf of "users" to argue why DMA 6(7) applies even to a small startup like Apple. Their hearing is at https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251021-01.en.html

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@begasus @kde @kde Amazing, it looks like a full-on native Haiku app!

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@demoographics There are even mirrors, forks and various off-line distributions, so it takes a lot to take out Wikipedia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks

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From the nokings protests.

Someone really needs a branding update.
Sign from nokings protest that says "Can't spell HATRED without REDHAT"

daniel:// stenberg:// bagder@mastodon.social

Now is another great moment to ponder if making your business rely on Amazon is a great idea.

@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE NovaNaturalist@mstdn.ca

My favourite poster so far (from New York)

A poster in the style of Barrack Obama's iconic "Hope" poster. The figure in the poster is Kermit the Frog. The word at the bottom is "resist".

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@UncleDuke1969 Are you unporkgiven II?

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@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).

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@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!

Autonomie und Solidarität autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

‚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....'

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

gofoss don_atoms@hostux.social

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

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@ben Aliexpress

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

violet spark in the twilit dark artemis@mst3k.interlinked.me

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

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

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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.

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

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@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.

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