Mastodawn

Eicky May 12

the input device is not a TTY May 12

Gitlab about to go to shit

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

GitLab Act 2

A letter to our customers and our investors.

GitLab

Eicky May 12

jacquelines 🌟May 12

rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

GitLab Act 2

A letter to our customers and our investors.

GitLab

Eicky Apr 4

AirlineNews Apr 4

Aviation24: tui fly tightens hand luggage policy with new fees for cabin bags: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/tui-aviation/tui-fly-tightens-hand-luggage-policy-with-new-fees-for-cabin-bags/ #airline #skynews #airlinenews #news

TUI fly tightens hand luggage policy with new fees for cabin bags

TUI fly is introducing stricter hand luggage rules for flights departing from May 1, 2026, or booked after March 30, 2026, significantly reducing what passengers can bring onboard for free. Under the new policy, only a small personal item (40×30×20 cm), such as a handbag or backpack fitting under the seat, is included in the

Aviation24.be

Eicky Apr 4

graste Apr 4

"How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one."
https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html

"A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things."

Eicky Apr 4

Nina Kalinina Apr 4

So, this weekend I'm playing with Fiwix. Fiwix (https://fiwix.org/) is a small hobbyist operating system for i386 that aims to be Linux 2.0 compatible while being small enough that a single human could understand it as a whole (it's ~30k SLOC, self-hosted, and can be built with tcc).

A couple of years ago Fiwix was used in a fun project of "let's bootstrap a Linux system with only tiny tools that can be understood by a single person": https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/parts.rst

My refreshed interest in it comes from multiple sources: first, there is now a TCP/IP stack (still WIP). Second, GNU/Linux is *gestures ambiguously* in a strange state, so it is interesting to see how far one could get with a completely non-BSD non-standard tiny, toy-like operating system.

The installation is quite straightforward. "Please keep in mind this kernel is not yet suited for production. Use at your own risk!" is, in itself, a proof of reliability.

This is a beginning of a slow-going🧵