I just started reading the blog of @gilles. #HatTip to @mayel for the link to Gilles' homepage.
Anyway, I read this blog post;
https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2025/03/the-pain-in-mansplaining/
... and saw "fediverse reactions" at the bottom. So I tried putting that URL into the @Mastodon search bar. No dice.
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#Listening to Skip That Shit by Raiden Freeman, from the 2023 album DF2;
https://bankruptworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/df2
This is some funny shit. I dare you to listen to it. I double dog dare ya!
#HatTip to Chris Cudby of the Freak the Sheep kiwi music shop on 95bFM, for introducing me to this crackup track.
#music #comedy #electronica #RaidenFreeman #95bFM #FreakTheSheep
14 track album
#HatTip to the @fdroid threadiverse community, and others, for offering such rapid and thorough clarifications. Many thanks to @lnxw37a2 @hildegarde @alienghic @plm00 @Axolotl_cpp.
Thanks also to @tootbrute @kurikai for offering suggestions for other soft keyboard apps, and to @snek_boi for reminding me to format the first sentence of my Mastodon post so it becomes a good title in the threadiverse post.
Like a lot of people over the last few years, I've been getting really into the idea of regressing to a simpler phone that's just a phone, and demoting my touchscreen to being a pocket tablet. I've posted a few times on the #DumbPhone tag (#HatTip to @Mastodon for the feature that allows me to filter posts with a tag from a particular account). The first time in 2023, asking for device recommendations;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110149459018648853
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#Listening to One Million Pines, from from the 6 track mock rock mini-album Measure Twice, Cut Once. Released in 2022 by Ōtepoti band by Night Lunch;
https://nightlunch666.bandcamp.com/album/measure-twice-cut-once
Bogans rock on steroids, making Deja Voodoo look sedate and sensible by comparison, and raising the ghost of Darcy Clay in the best possible way.
#HatTip to Freak the Sheep on bFM for introducing me to Night Lunch via their song Scary Car, from the 2021 record Table for Two
6 track album
Just for shits and gigs, I've been reading about the origins of Huawei's proprietary mobile OS; #HarmonyOS;
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android
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#HatTip to @billbennett for the Ars link, which I found here; /https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2106/S00013/huaweis-i-dont-believe-its-not-android-harmonyos.htm.
FYI Bill I tried to find a copy of this article on your own site to link to, but although search seemed to find one;
https://billbennett.co.nz/huaweis-i-dont-believe-its-not-android-harmonyos/
...clicking it currently redirects here;
https://billbennett.co.nz/oppo-find-x8-pro/
A bug in #Ghost or a misconfiguration? (CC @johnonolan)?
#TIL about the #NivenlyFoundation;
"We set the precedent for member-controlled and democratically-governed technical organizations. We support open-source services and projects around the world. We believe in balancing power between our contributors and maintainer(s) that sustain our projects with the corporations that use them."
#HatTip to Nivenly projects @pachli and @hachyderm
I presume you're familiar with this @ntnsndr?=
Nivenly Foundation The Nivenly Foundation brings sustainability, autonomy, and control to open source projects and communities around the globe. Learn More Donate What is Nivenly? We set the precedent for member-controlled and democratically-governed technical organizations. We support open-source services and projects around the world. We believe in balancing power between our contributors and maintainer(s) that sustain our projects with the corporations that use them.
"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."
https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works
#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks who are a partner in this project, and referenced it in their retrospective on 2025;
"... since 2010, New Zealand had incurred $64b in costs from natural hazards, at least $19b of which came from central government.
The research showed that 97% of the central government expenditure was on responding to and recovering from natural disasters, with only 3% spent on risk reduction and resilience."
#MartySharpe, 2026
#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link (see the post above for a link to the post referencing this)
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