Mastodawn

randomly, i would like to thank @Mer__edith
and @signalapp for existing, for meaningfully protecting people and their connections with people

i've been teaching people about TextSecure, RedPhone and the Axolotyl protocol since before Signal was combined from all of those things

i still remember a time before Open Whisper Systems existed, when there was no easy-win tool for E2EE comms for non-techie folx

thank you for all of your hard work and dedication 🫶🏻

Alex 22h ago

Taggart

23h ago

I'm coming to the conclusion that community-owned and operated small clouds (co-ops) with easy onramps for self-hosting open source services like mail, storage, and VPN are the only way forward. Every corpo service is eventually going to make you ashamed to use it.

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Alex 2d ago

And I know the Coreboot port isn’t finished yet but with the way the tech industry is going I might as well grab one now before motherboards are the next thing to triple in price

Alex 2d ago

RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116689164548291086

Hmm… only £140 and I can get Coreboot on my current-gen system?

(MSI PRO B850-P WiFi by the way, as it’s not in the original toot)

Alex 2d ago

If you ever have imposter syndrome about your projects not being good enough, simply open a document in Word Online with dark mode enabled

Alex 2d ago

ellie 3d ago

github doesn't support ipv6, but judging by their uptime they're at least doing their best to also not support ipv4

Alex 5d ago

Ret 5d ago

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

Alex 6d ago

My Subvert membership zine has arrived!

It says to share on Instagram, but I don’t have that, so you lovely Mastodon folk get to see it instead.

For those not familiar, they’re essentially aiming to build a co-op version of Bandcamp. Really looking forward to seeing what it becomes!

@subvertworld

Alex Jun 21

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

only amateurs "pay for tokens," i'm out here using the free models, aka putting a prompt in any issue in any github repository and labeling it with "good first issue" and waiting for the people with full-auto openclaw agents to randomly open pull requests against it

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Alex Jun 20

Current upstream spec file suggests curl built for Fedora 44 ought to support HTTP/3

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/curl/blob/f44/f/curl.spec#_10

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