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Fabian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯5d ago

@nixCraft At the same time he probably also improved his infrastructure's CVSS score from a mere 5.4 to a perfect 10.0

jo the disgraced Mar 23

Thomas

Mar 23

In the late 90's, I chose to focus my home usage on Linux, as opposed to FreeBSD, because of the politics. The Free Software advocates back then, especially the GNOME group, were more aligned with my values. FreeBSD was what we used at work, and it was great, but it wasn't the focal point of principles in software.

It's absolutely mind boggling how things have changed. Today, I'm worried my Linux distro of choice is going to collaborate with censorious government and corporate initiatives, and as a parent I'm worried about my children's privacy using Linux in future.

NetBSD may not be able to resume from suspend on my thinkpad, but it I have no such worry about privacy and civil liberties using it.

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Thomas (@[email protected])

For years the awkward entente between civil libertarian Free Software types and illiberal Open Source advocates has more or less worked out. It's clear that this entente has broken down. These people advocating compliance with identity tracking and censorship regimes, where would they have stood in relation to PGP, GPG, the Clipper chip, DVDs, and all the other fights for civil liberties the Free Software movement engaged in decades ago? With their positions today, they'd have been on the other side. We must not accommodate them. This is not a time for compromise, it's a time for principled stands.

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jo the disgraced Mar 23

looking through old brony art and music is like sifting through the artefacts of an ancient, yet powerful civilization.

their ideals and values are alien to us. but yet, it is clear that they poured their hearts and souls into what they created.

jo the disgraced Mar 19

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116257042326885348

I never thought I'd become opinionated on init systems, but between this and AI usage on the project, I'd rather use OpenRC or something.

jo the disgraced Mar 19

Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™Mar 19

just saw a poorly translated manual call an extension cord a “line of prolonging” and I am totally using that now :P

jo the disgraced Mar 19

Rebane Mar 17

in linux you can use the evil bird emoticon (:>) to destroy files, eg `:> important_document.txt`

the bird will eat the file and leave it completely empty!

jo the disgraced Mar 17

when i talk to my cat and she meows back 🥺

jo the disgraced Mar 15

kleines Filmröllchen cutie

Mar 13

hello cuties!

please boost this post to make cuties.zip federate!

❤️

jo the disgraced Mar 15

dmi 💽 Mar 14

judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide

- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct

- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.

- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online

- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community

jo the disgraced Mar 11

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116207648749663738

this is literally the worst feature I have ever heard of, and it's not even close. another vile, unethical use of LLMs.

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