Mastodawn

Trump would not have been possible if the entire US political system, on a bipartisan basis, had not become a game of elite impunity, if it had not nullified any accountability for political actors, and if it had not repeatedly encouraged imperial military violence under multiple administrations, shrugging off any sense of moral responsibility for the death, chaos, and misery the country unleashed each time. This is the result of a political culture that whines about "purity tests."

MartinF Mar 27

Mike

Mar 26

For many people, the #Linux vs #Windows vs #Mac debate is a privilege — it assumes you can choose. But working with the Computer Upcycle Project, I've seen the real choice is often Linux vs no computer at all.

~95% of donated computers are "too old" for Windows 11 or macOS. Linux installs on them anyway, adding 10+ years of life to machines #Microsoft and #Apple called trash.

This isn't Linux vs Windows. It's Linux vs e-waste.

MartinF Mar 26

monumental-movement-records Mar 25

In this episode you’ll learn

• How music functions as a form of memory and archive
• The relationship between time, sound, and perception
• How composers encode historical experience into music

#MusicAndTime
#MusicAndMemory
#SoundArt

https://youtu.be/xY8nuVm3xT8

How Music Archives Time: The Symphony of Remembrance

YouTube

MartinF Mar 14

ZeMarmot

Mar 14

RE: https://floss.social/@GIMP/116229009692048437

We released #GIMP 3.2.0 today! Quite an exhausting week with usual last-minute issues!
E.g. the CI infra suddenly failed yesterday! Fortunately admins were prompt to fix as always (still I went to bed at 1AM)!
Then issues in Windows packaging, which testers didn't notice with early test packages (of course, only noticed by someone just after the tagging! 😱).

Yet all in all, first time I end the release around 7PM after having started the release day at 9AM! The procedure gets better! 😄

MartinF Mar 12

Ars Technica Mar 12

Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar
The Inca Empire's system of roads were built on centuries-old trade routes.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/centuries-before-the-inca-perus-wealthy-imported-parrots-from-afar/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

MartinF Mar 9

JA Westenberg Mar 9

I don't want to work smarter or harder and I have zero fucking interest in either The Hustle or The Grind. I want to work the exact amount I need to afford a normal life, which used to be possible, and now apparently requires a podcast??

MartinF Feb 25

Cory Doctorow Nov 5

CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation)
https://www.instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARDboard-Illustrative-Aid-to-Computation-/

MartinF Feb 25

Jeff Geerling Feb 24

re @claudeai

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more.

These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

MartinF Feb 18

Chris 🦑Feb 17

So, I started to volunteer in our local community centre to help (mostly) elder people with their computer and smartphone problems.

It's fascinating. We have people there up to their 90s and they are all every open for change.

We remove ad ID's from phones, change default browsers, switch from MS Office to #Libreoffice.

And for next time I already have a date with an elder lady to switch her old Windows 10 laptop to Linux Mint.
And she is not the only one!

What a time to be alive.

MartinF Jan 30

Molly White Jan 29

As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-100/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for

As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it

Citation Needed