Mastodawn

King Harkinian May 27, 2025

Jenn Turner May 26, 2025

I recommend going notification-free in as many areas of your life as possible. Reclaim your own attention. 🩷

King Harkinian Apr 27, 2025

Rib

Apr 23, 2025

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

Melissa Lewis (@melissa.news)

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67480/piracy-it-s-a-crime-psa

Bluesky Social

King Harkinian Apr 3, 2025

Kelly's Shenanigans 🇨🇦Apr 2, 2025

Why I buy safety certified, integrated ebikes from local bike shops, a story:
I've had my Electra Townie for almost 8 years. I rode through the winter on it for all of those years. I expected to need to replace the battery soon. On it's latest tune up, there were some errors on the software update, and afterwards the temperature sensor on the battery failed, thinking it was 125C, it refused to turn on. 1/ #BikeTooter #ebike

King Harkinian Mar 8, 2025

Frankie ✅Mar 7, 2025

De-Google and De-Meta yourself. Free yourself from the algorithm.

#foss #degoogle #demeta

King Harkinian Mar 7, 2025

elementary Feb 26, 2025

Got our quarterly report from @starlabssystems this morning, and we got 5 StarLites sold with elementary OS! That’s not exactly a ton of computers 😅 but each sale helps fund development and it’s the model we’re current selling the most of. Excited to continue working on the tablet experience in elementary OS and looking forward to seeing more issue reports from StarLite owners https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

StarLite 12.5-inch

Its fanless design ensures your StarLite will never make more than a whisper - unless you want it to. The Mk V supports coreboot open source firmware which you can effortlessly configure to your preferences via our coreboot configurator.

Star Labs®

King Harkinian Mar 7, 2025

Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Nov 25, 2024

HAAAhahaha

King Harkinian Mar 6, 2025

Pavel A. Samsonov Mar 5, 2025

behave accordingly.

#tech #union #UnionStrong

King Harkinian Mar 2, 2025

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Feb 27, 2025

For those worried about what's going on with #Mozilla's new T&C for #Firefox and seeking alternatives to Blink-based browsers (aka Chrome-in-a-trenchcoat), consider helping @WebKitGTK (a port of @webkit), used by apps throughout the FreeDesktop.

#WebKit/WebKitGTK/WPE is effectively the only other mature/production-ready web engine you can use *today*, not many know that (see also https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues/6807).

I hedge my bets by simultaneously helping QA Firefox and Epiphany (WebKitGTK) for parity.

Add the "WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit" engine for not-exactly-WebKit browsers like Epiphany (GNOME Web) and embedded devices · Issue #6807 · Fyrd/caniuse

Summary / TLDR In current features matrix tables, CanIUse's browsers include Chrome (Blink), Edge (Blink), Safari, Firefox, Opera (Blink), IE (dead), and a long tail of somewhat niche mobile browse...

GitHub

King Harkinian Feb 19, 2025

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