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@sam@chven.us
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@sam@chven.us
@sam@chven.us to the surprise of fucking noone.
@murena has launched its first tablet running the /e/OS operating system: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=19949
@sam @distrowatch @murena Murena typically ads €50 to €100 on top of the manufacturer's price.
I am not sure about this, but I believe they buy the devices from the manufacturer with their normal Android version, convert them to /e/OS, and only then sell them on to third parties, which of courses tacks on the price of the device.
At least that makes the most sense, since Google would never allow for a third party to get their hands on devices without their firmware, and Murena's sale volumes are likely not high enough to order a custom batch of devices (exceptions being of course the Murena-branded phone that seems to have been discontinued, and possibly the Fairphone derivatives, since Murena announced a partnership a while ago).
@distrowatch There *might* be a typo there... 🤣
@nanianmichaels There was and it brought a little laughter into the world. :)
It gives a daily report of those asteroids with a reasonable probability of crashing into Earth, in case you are not already afraid enough of the future. Of course, using #snac, what else.
It takes its data from a very cool NASA site, so (again) in these days of uncertanty, I'm not sure how long will it work.
Everyone, take care, and have a great week.
If you are not watching, what is going on in #Georgia, you should start! and get all the information you can. This is a literal fight for #freedom and #democracy by Georgian people. This is the showdown of this Generation against the #Russianimperialism and #authoritarianism. #History is unfolding.
What do you make of her apology, folks? https://www.comicsands.com/jewel-apologizes-rfk-inauguration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
@georgetakei fuck her
@georgetakei aw man, someone else I will never listen to again. No apology
@georgetakei
Isn't the US renowned for being an ask-for-forgiveness-instead-of-permission country?
@georgetakei What I make of it is that I'm absolutely shocked by the apparent number of fellow travelers in America.
@georgetakei an apology as empty as any MAGA lie.
@georgetakei That's not an apology. Her actions betrayed their trust. She took the money from a monster, then told people he's literally hurting "I'm sorry you feel that way."
@georgetakei Yeah, no, not ok. And that wasn't actually an apology. 🙄
She also doesn't give any indication that she gets why what she did is wrong.
I am so tired of listening to airheaded musicians telling me how I have to look for common ground with people trying to kill folks I care about. You do not stop your declared enemies from hurting you by "reaching out" to them.
And this guy? He made a recording of himself selling his soul to the biggest enemy of decency and freedom since Adolf. He's not just a vicious evil scumbag, he's corrupt and dumb.
Oh, Jewel? So are you.
@georgetakei removed from the artist I liked on spotify. Simple answer.
@georgetakei
Weak apology after the fact.
@georgetakei
Nice try, but too little too late.
It was clear what kind of people they are and what they were planning to, way before they came to power.
And I can’t believe she is thàt stupid.
@georgetakei Don't know who she is but I for one will never forgive anyone collaborating with anyone from the fascistic #TruSk regime.
US Gov website purge underway. CDC right now. NIH Office of Women's Health is already gone. Happening quick.
https://github.com/end-of-term/eot2024
End of Term archive backed up everything. ~260TB. If you can seed/ share, please do so
@tomasino And it comes even worse: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/ "The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said."
@tomasino I'm downloading some of these to my NAS with dubya-get (wget).
#GCompris 25.0 Open-Source Educational Suite Released with Five New Activities, Now Ported to Qt 6 https://9to5linux.com/gcompris-25-0-open-source-educational-suite-released-with-five-new-activities
@gcompris #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #education #Linux
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Screenshot of GCompris showing the main window with the activities and application menu.
"I really wish there were something around now like IRC so we didn't need to use discord"
amazing
I believe, and forgive me for saying this, but the alternative you may be looking for is a thing called IRC.
@babe Best things last forever 🧡
@babe i wonder what IRC clients look like now, is there shiny embed stuff and new things like threads or whatever, or is it still like in the 90s?
@barbapoilu IRCCloud has imbed stuff and profile photos but mostly it's still as it ever was
@babe ooouh, profile pics, noice!
@babe is IRC like IRC? 
@babe Matrix! Nice mobile clients too (Element X)
(and then install an IRC bridge on the server)
((yes I do this))
@babe Well, after Discord bought IRC, they shut it down, so that's what we have now.
I've had a lot of people ask how BlueSky compares to Mastodon and the Fediverse. I've tried to make the answer as simple and easy to understand as possible:
🦋 BlueSky is designed to give corporations and wealthy people full control of the network. All of its traffic has to flow through expensive-to-run corporate relays.
The Fediverse is designed to give ordinary people control of the network. All of its traffic flows directly from one cheap-to-run server to another.
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Diagrams of how BlueSky and its AT Protocol functions, compared to how The Fediverse and its ActivityPub protocol functions.
BlueSky's traffic flows from servers to corporate-owned relays, and these relays communicate with each other before allowing traffic to flow to servers. The servers cannot communicate with each other at all.
The Fediverse's traffic flows directly between cheap-to-run servers, with no need for any corporate involvement.
While technically these are both forms of decentralisation, the BlueSky interpretation puts corporations, rich people and wealthy organisations in full control of the network. The Fediverse interpretation puts ordinary people in full control of the betwork.
☝️ This is a great explainer of the difference between Mastodon and Bluesky, with one correction. At present there is only ONE corporate node, and the technology to create more has not been proven.
@FediTips great job with the visual 💯
@FediTips It would be quite easy for me to trust BlueSky’s intentions if the flagship instance had been set up as an independent non-profit.
The green dots on the bottom image could be labelled "just an everyday person", "a small group", "a non profit organisation", "a media that has a vision", "an enthousiast hobbyist", "not a billionnaire", "a cooperative", #GeorgeTakei, "an association", " "just regular folks like you", "just an other everyday person" and so on.
@FediTips Yup!
Been saying this for a while
People flee from one centralized place to another making endless accounts in the menanwhile
But ofc the Fedi is certainly too much work 
Every so often, I wonder about not having a smartphone.
Something which could do cellular calls, XMPP and Signal, basic PIM (email, calDAV, cardDAV), and have a decent enough camera.
Which, sadly, is enough to push it into "need a smartphone" territory, AFAIK.
Could any #privacy , #infosec people weigh in on whether the you tube guy Rob Braxman is legit. The usual searches don't lead to much.
https://www.youtube.com/@robbraxmantech
@Asbestos He's not an actual privacy or security expert. He's a serial fabricator and charlatan who pushes endless unsubstantiated and outrageously false claims about privacy and security topics. His focus is convincing people to buy his insecure products and services. Look into what actual privacy and security professionals have to say about his content. He has also repeatedly engaged in libel and harassment towards privacy and security engineers/researchers who debunk his endless false claims.
The only way to stop a bad guy with an exploding cybertruck is a good guy with another exploding cybertruck
The fedi experience
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Girl walking down a road with her hands over her ears with the words "mentioning any minor software issue" next to her. Following her down the road is a boy obnoxiously playing a trumpet at her, the words overlayed "The problem here is that you're using proprietary software and just giving your data away to corporations, what you need to do is adopt free open source..."
You think your home network is friendly? Oh, really. You really trust every device on it? Media players? Tablets? Televisions? The kids' toys? Your networked stove would stab you in the back as soon as look at you.
Wow what a view captured by Perseverance just 8 hours ago. This is probably her new science site: Witch Hazel Hill.
#Mars Dec. 16, 2024 (Sol 1359)
📷 https://areo.info/mars20/ecams/1359
#Perseverance #rover #Sol1359 #WitchHazelHill #PerseveranceRover #NorthernRimCampaign #space #science #research #news #STEM #Mars2020 #geology #planetaryscience #Martian #landscape #photography #news #Astrodon
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A photography of a Martian landscape, captured by the Perseverance rover on the west side of the rim of Jezero Crater.
The long-running Fedi server mstdn.social (not to be confused with mastodon.social 🙂 ) has just received a takedown request from the Russian government for hosting @Bellingcat, a news site which has long been critical of Putin:
https://mstdn.social/@stux/113652461647125214
Thankfully mstdn.social isn't in Russia so Putin has no power over it.
If anyone wants to turn this into a Streisand Effect kind of thing, you might want to follow @Bellingcat and slip a donation to @stux at https://mstdn.social/@stux/113623791580168625
“The Earth is not dying,
it is being killed.
And the people
who are killing it
have names
and addresses.”
- #UtahPhillips
#ClimateCrisis #Ecocide #WaterIsLife #WorldOceansDay #Wildfires #AirPollution #Corporations #Capitalism
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“The Earth is not dying,
it is being killed.
And the people
who are killing it
have names
and addresses.” - Utah Phillips
The fourteenth evening of anti-government protests has begun in Georgia.
Mastodon isn't perfect.
But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use
has no venture capital investors
has no shareholders to answer to
has no growth targets
with a web interface with zero tracking cookies
and mobile apps with zero trackers at all
with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety
is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.
As many users have asked for it, there is now an option to make the number of followed and following accounts public (still disabled by default). These are only the numbers; the lists themselves are never published.
Some fixes to blocked instances code (posts from them were sometimes shown).
Fixed non-appearing buttons Approve and Discard if the account requesting a follow were being followed.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
This release has been inspired by the songs All Is Lost by #KatieGarfield and All Is Not Lost by #TonyAnderson.
#RaspberryPi 500 Computer Launches with the Official Raspberry Pi Monitor, Based on #RaspberryPi5 https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-500-computer-launches-with-the-official-raspberry-pi-monitor
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Photo of the Raspberry Pi 500 computer with the RaspberryPi Monitor and Mouse.
The rebels in Syria might inadvertently be doing more to help Ukraine than we are.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha walked out of the OSCE plenary hall in Malta as Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov began his speech.
Earlier, in his speech, he had called Lavrov a "war criminal."
In addition to Sybiha, the foreign ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, and several other foreign ministers and diplomats also left the hall.
Just to add, this is not a "you do you" situation.
The danger from #Meta is they allow hatred to spread, and that puts people in danger who don't even use Meta's networks. The hatred radicalises people who then do nasty stuff in real life against innocent victims. Radicalised people don't block Meta, they keep being fed more hate.
This cycle leads to real life violence of the worst kind:
This is not an isolated case.
Please defederate #Threads 🙏
Students from dozens of schools across Georgia are refusing to start the school week.
They are protesting against police violence and expressing support for the demonstrators.
#Georgia #Georgiaelections #Tbilisi #Protests #EU
Students of Batumi State University have halted the educational process and declared a strike.
They are calling for an end to violence against protesters, freedom of assembly, and a return to European integration.
#Georgia #GeorgiaProtests #Batumi #Protests #EU #EuropeanUnion
that's funny, because I've always thought a lot of apps behave pretty much like a website and the app is unnecessary.
This is a very good and informative piece done by PBS. Explains everything you need to know about #Georgia and #protest there.
#Tbilisi #georgiaprotests #freedom #democracy #politics #worldpolitics
Georgia's ruling party, the Russian puppet regime "Georgian Dream", is showing who they truly are. Openly cutting ties with the West, specifically the EU, so they can once again make Georgia an autocratic Russian colony. The people of Georgia are having none of it and the regime is beating them to a pulp. The regime is also targeting journalists because they are embarrassed and afraid of the world and the Georgian people seeing who they really are. But we see. #Tbilisi #Georgia #EU
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Young woman facing a police line in Tbilisi at night with smoke, wrapped in an EU flag waving a Georgian flag.
Libreboot T480 and Libreboot M920 coming soon, on https://minifree.org/
If anyone still wants Haswell (4th gen) T440p, W541, 9020 etc, order now. It'll be gone soon (won't be deleted from Libreboot, only minifree).
Libreboot replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. I run the project; Minifree sales fund the work.
I'm doing a new Libreboot release soon, with ThinkPad T480 and ThinkCentre M920q support. Intel 8th gen. They'll replace the Intel 4th gen (Haswell) machines that I currently sell.
edit: my move isn't about politics. Looks like things are not going to be much better where I'm going.
I watched live on TV as #Georgian #journalist Guram Rogava, was assaulted by one of the unmarked "police" operatives, while he was reporting on brutality against protesters in #Tbilisi #Georgia
Politicians and activists are targeted explicitly, what seems to be a clear punitive operation.
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