Mastodawn

Brandt Kurowski 6d ago

Waterfox 6d ago

Happy 15th birthday Waterfox! 🎂

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/

15 Years of Forking - Waterfox Blog

Today marks 15 years of Waterfox!

Waterfox

Brandt Kurowski Mar 25

nixCraft 🐧Mar 24

curl > dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs `wget | dd` https://astrid.tech/2026/03/24/0/curl-to-dev-sda/

curl > /dev/sda

How I made a Linux distro that runs `wget | dd`

astrid dot tech

Brandt Kurowski Mar 6

“there had only been three female sailors to round Cape Horn on a multihull before, ever. And we made that number 11 by the eight of us going round.” https://www.ft.com/content/90a351d3-e9c3-4dfe-9b96-db8869a191a7

Client Challenge

Brandt Kurowski Mar 2

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116159602850585685

This is excellent news! I hope these get released in the US...

Brandt Kurowski Feb 27

rands Feb 25

Answer email/Slack/messages promptly, be unfailingly kind, and don’t be a jerk. The rest is details.

Brandt Kurowski Feb 25

F-Droid Feb 24

Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users

#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen

Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

An Open Letter Opposing Android Developer Verification | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requ...

Brandt Kurowski Feb 25

mhoye Feb 25

I love the good internet crazy: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

Ryan Moulton's Articles

Brandt Kurowski Feb 23

"How I learned to stop worrying and love polka-dotted French Canadian microtonal math rock"

Recommending _both_ Angine de Poitrine and Hearing Things

https://www.hearingthings.co/angine-de-poitrine-are-the-real-deal/

Angine de Poitrine Are the Real Deal

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love polka-dotted French Canadian microtonal math rock

Hearing Things

Brandt Kurowski Feb 21

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/116105406328164856

Reading this felt like a sick burn so I told my wife about it and she said "what's unix?!?". I've never felt older or nerdier than I do now.

Brandt Kurowski Feb 19

Ruth — of systems & design Feb 17

RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116043165221585791

“Water treatment plants are a physical instantiation of the idea that politics are the structures we create when we are in a sustained relationship with other people. They’re more than just the technological systems. They’re also a connection to the expertise, labour, and care of all the people that make sure that the water is safe to drink, and a recognition by the city’s residents that they are connected”

— @debcha 👇