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

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@withaveeay It's a paradox. As a tech person, I don't use and refuse to use WhatsApp, but in poorer communities who get it zero rated (for actual completely selfish reasons by the companies) it is actually making a significant positive difference. But also, as they get locked in that eco-system, it eventually cuts them off from the people who are privileged enough not to be there. We really need something proper that's free and open and zero-rated.

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

"In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google." What this means for your rights, and how you can help: https://keepandroidopen.org

End Israeli Apartheid EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social

The Israeli army announced that a soldier in Rafah had been killed by gunfire on Tuesday.

Before the source of the gunfire could be confirmed, Netanyahu blamed it on Hamas, and gave the order for the army to launch “powerful strikes” on Gaza. The resumption of the Israeli bombing campaign killed over 100 people, 46 of whom were children, and 20 of whom were women, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health on Wednesday.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/israels-repeated-ceasefire-violations-are-part-of-its-strategy-to-keep-waging-war-on-gaza/

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️

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@debby Usually more rights for others means more rights for everyone as a total!

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.

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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.

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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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