Follows are "locked" just to minimize leeches like Threads/BSky. I approve most others (see below) Into #FOSS philosophy. #Environmentalist, #selfhosting #design/#ux #geek #Vegan #Karate #PetRats absurdist. Opinions aren't my own. Sqwark! 🦥 #NotNewHere Add an avatar, description + a (non boost) post or two or I ain't followin' or approvin' follows! I CW posts, but still boost independent creators, #FOSS/#privacy/#climate/#Subgenius/#MobileLinux/#Activism sometimes un CW'd. IO #Saturnalia! Sexual preference: Goddamn weird. Pronouns: Surprise me. Kink: Absurdism SSN: 822461
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Last Notes npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Uh... get me to bed on time? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I wonder if [@postmarketOS](https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS ) could pull off something like what @npub1kwa…e0nj is doing, where they get a phone maker to sell just one model of phone who's hardware is verified to work well with the operating system preinstalled. This way, they have a single reference platform to target and some support for getting hardware working, even if only in the form of documentation. They also get some funding from purchases. I mean, it's probably a bit "chicken and egg" as hardware makers need to see potential sales and potential sales come from users seeing a daily driveable end unit, but maybe, just maybe, something like this could be the next step after getting a single phone fully working. #PostmarketOS #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ @npub1d4a…n3jx is my own personal hero, even though we've barely ever even talked. Everyone working on Plasma Mobile has done an amazing job with so little beyond the string fundamentals from Plasma Desktop, though. #PlasmaMobile #KDE #Plasma npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Does Tuwunel work with ElementX (aka has sliding sync etc)? Does it work with video calls? Is it actively maintained? I love the idea of a lighter weight Matrix server, but am mainly worried that it wouldn't support the basic features we need (eg video calls) or that it would fall behind SYnapse on some necessary stuff (although we don't care about stuff like spaces, threads etc). #Synapse #Tuwunel #Matrix #Yunohost npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ @npub1nvf…cpws launch sponsorship tiers to help fund more rapid development: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Sponsorship-Tiers IMO Servo is still our best chance at a fast, modern alternative to Chrome's Blink renderer taking over the web. Tiers start at as little as $100, but if you don't have that to spare, consider sharing to try and reach potential sponsors who do! #Servo #FOSS #Chrome #Blink npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ "Spicy" is just an abbreviation of "neuro spicy" which is just a more fun way of saying neurodivergent. #Neurodivergent #Neurospicy npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ And people are still trying to figure out their correct pronunciation! npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I feel like I'm missing something really obvious in Home Assistant. Using the new "Ask a question" automation feature's GUI, it was really easy to get it to ask a question and define possible answers. I'm having trouble though figuring out how to get it to DO anything with those answers... (ie execute a conditional action) Does anyone have any (GUI) ideas how to trigger an action based on whether the answer was yes or no? Ideas / boosts appreciated! #HomeAssistant #HomeAssistantVoice #LazyWeb https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/115/120/406/541/171/945/original/50d5ec03c3394486.png npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ requires: libsisyphus >= infinite npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Please say it's easier than my long held practice of grouping everything, making a rectangle, selecting both and then using clip object. I've been doing that for years, but it always felt hacky. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Hmmm... I did an upgrade in @npub129e…3cyx via SSH. While I was waiting, it asked me to press Enter to continue and then the SSH connection timed out and closed. Now when I try to log in again and upgrade it tells me "Another YunoHost command is running right now"... ...So how do I "push enter" on a SSH session that's expired? Boosts appreciated! #Yunohost #Selfhosting #SSH https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/115/049/019/330/907/949/original/165a7837c16f65d3.png npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ If it were actual science, Trump would have banned it by now. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Here's the thing. I don't even begrudge Nextcloud posting videos to YouTube. The part I have a problem with is that they say they're promoting decentralization, yet after all these years they refuse to post to any alternative. Similarly, they provide no option to use @npub1j3k…7hwz , but *only* allow Googles Firebase for notifications. Using Google trackers on the website is pretty ridiculous though when such high quality alternatives exist, such as @npub1570…97av . They also never bother to explain WHY they continue to ignore all of these things that so obviously go against the values they supposedly stand for, Just crickets to any questions and more promotional videos / blog posts. #Nextcloud #Google #Privacy #Peertube #UnifiedPush #YouTube npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ releases a new video / blogpost for Nextcloud Talk for #DataControl. The blog post embeds Google trackers. The video can *only* be watched on a Google surveillance platform. The app depends on Google / Apple for notifications. Does anyone else see the problem here? None of these are necessary. #Nextcloud #Privacy #Google #Talk #YouTube npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I love how the literal biggest name on that lineup is Bernie Sanders with his hit single "Fighting Oligarchy" npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Dear Fedi, I'm trying to find the name of a song. The first line of the chorus is sung by a woman and goes "I won't be coming back here [no/any] more" It's slow, about 30-40 bpm and has a 70's melancholy maybe slightly country feel. It's acoustic with little backing. It's not Dorothy Yates or The Singing Cookies, who come up online. I'd be grateful for any ideas/boosts! Thanks! #Music #Lyrics #Song npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Might I suggest adding one extra behavior? Once an IP address follows a nofollow link, from then on *any* link serves up the /nonsense/ version, so they don't even get to learn from the real articles and AI isn't given a larger data sample to learn that the difference between the real articles and the fake ones is the /nonsense/ in the url. @npub1p09…m5vl npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Does anyone here self host Mastodon with @npub129e…3cyx ? I'm just curious how well it works given Masto's reputation for being tricky to upgrade without breaking? Please boost for a larger sample size! Tx! #Mastodon #Yunohost #SelfHost #Selfhosting #Fedi #Fediverse npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ ...and does he even OWN a chicken suit? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Object permanence is a scam by big neurotypical. #ADHD npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I remember watching the video put out by the Gimp UX designer stating their reasons for making Gimp export to no .xcf formats only, and while intellectually I agreed with many of his points... damn, it's convenient to be able to just save a .jpg / png. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I'd love to see closer integration with Peertube content. For example, when someone posts a link to a Peertube video, it shows a video player for Peertube. If you want to favorite or comment on the video, or to follow the channel, there's no one click way to do that. You end up having to copy the URL and search for it. #Peertube #Fedilab npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Thank you for working on Fedilab for so long. Fedilab and Tusky being so good has been a large part of what helped the Fediverse grow imo. Fedilab is also one of the few apps I use daily and is doing so very much to help keep an independent social media landscape alive and thriving in these hostile times. You personally have made a positive difference in my life and the lives of my family members. I can't buy you a beverage, but I threw some money at your Liberapay to say thanks again. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ So many people people are becoming so overwhelmed by the number of serious issues happening right now that they're just sitting deer in headlights and doing nothing. So just pick a single cause, it doesn't have to be *THE* "right" One. You can always change it tomorrow. But pick a single cause right now and go help out there. All of these causes tend to come together to throw sand in the gears of cruel people, pulling their resources from other plans. Just go help with something. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ "Hey ChatGPT, please read the following email and write a 15 thousand word reply that doesn't address any of their original points but meanders off into at least 16 unrelated topics. Do not separate into separate paragraphs. Do not use titles or chapters. Misspell words frequently. Use as many run-on sentences as possible. Frequently replace random words with unrelated emojis. Repeat for each reply." Finally something that plays to LLM's strength of being verbosely incoherent! #AI #LLM npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Sure. Wouldn't manual review and edit still be much easier? I mean, possibly not, but I imagine it would be... npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I thought there was a way to have Peertube generate the subtitles with Whisper? Not to say yours wouldn't be superior, but possibly auto-generated might be less effort... npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I guess that also goes back to that other old adage (paraphrased), "they who write the rules, win the game." npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ It's funny how much of financial institutions investing success, boils down to the old adage "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Eg banks charging account fees (bird in the hand) AND loaning multiple times the money out again (fractional reserve) to make fees off the mortgages (more birds in hand), while home "owners" gamble on property values (two in the bush). When the market crashes, or unemployment strikes, the property often goes back to the bank, too. #investing npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Wot? You DON'T want to take guaranteed losses (fees), for only a potential upside (gains in value minus fees taken) while we take no risk and guaranteed profits (fees)? Clearly you don't understand investment! npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ My timeline right now, starring @npub1jkd…33pv and that eternal, solo developer superstar @npub1xsv…q6he ! 😋 https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/114/023/866/465/750/057/original/bf7e16ea5c1d9493.png npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Remember reading about how the Nazis used to advocate judging people based on measurements of their face and head, and everyone agreed that was batshit crazy and just plain wrong? Ah, those were the good ol' days... npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Phrenology never died. It just became LLM training material. 🙄 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Personally I found that one of the biggest factors causing me problems was nearly invisible, and that was my servers IP address. I was using a cheap, popular host whose IP addresses had apparently been used by spammers in the past. No matter how much I corrected settings and tried different things, my email was always blocked. Then I moved to a more obscure (green energy!) host with clean IP's and... everything has just worked ever since. #SelfHosting #Email npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I love this although I do have to wonder what happens when they then want to follow someone from "any social network" and then have trouble following their favorite Instagram/Facebook/X accounts... npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ The difference between @npub1pl0…qn57 and @npub1qgm…yd0f ? One pays developers and has a working phone. The other does not. It's not too late to change. #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #FuriPhone #Pine64 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ It's funny, but almost all of the mobile Linux photos I see, only with some Librem5 stuff, all seem to have quite serious vignetting (ie bright in thr center, getting darker towards the corners/edges). Are these digitally removed in Android, or is there something else going on? #MobileLinux #Photography #Android #Librem5 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Does this still work now? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Would seriously love to see an article that went in to the options for virtual numbers outside of the US, especially beyond using Google (which kind of defeats the privacy benefits of using a virtual number in my book). #Privacy #International npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I'm guessing it's "Meta announces Nazi's/Maga are good and trans/LBTQ+ people bad moderation policy" related. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I'm probably the wrong person to listen too, then. 😜 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ > If you could share an opinion, resource or idea with a bunch of very dedicated teachers about AI what might it be? 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I am PUMPED for this one! https://organicmaps.app/ 🧵 6/6 #OrganicMaps #MobileLinux #NGI #NGI0 #LinuxMobile #OSM #PinePhone #Librem5 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ 2. Mox email management and automation A modern, easy to set up stack to help people more easily and reliably #SelfHost #Email. Email is critical and the common #SelfHosting narrative is that it's impossible, or at least you need to be a technical grey beard/ponytail ninja to pull it off. Anything that helps make this easy could be HUGE, and I'm all for it! https://nlnet.nl/project/Mox-Automation/ 🧵 5/6 #Mox #SelfHosted #Email npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ 3. Reaction As the saying goes, without security there is no privacy. "Reaction wants to provide a more modern and efficient approach to regex-based log scanning, allowing multiple reaction instances to communicate, sharing bans across an entire infrastructure as well as more intelligent and user-friendly soft bans." More intelligent detection and automated security across hosters? Yes please! https://nlnet.nl/project/Reaction/ 🧵 4/6 #Reaction #SelfHosting #InfoSec #NGI npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ 4. Spritely Oaken The @npub1zcx…p5f0 Institute, headed up by @npub1urx…v0z4 (OG #ActivityPub / #Fediverse cofounder) is working on making the next generation of FOSS, decentralized internet (beyond the web). Oaken is a vision to help make running untrusted code on this new frontier safe, opening up far more possibilities. It doesn't exist yet... but now there's funding to build it! https://spritelyproject.org/#oaken 🧵 3/6 #Spritely #Oaken #NGI #FOSS #SpritelyOaken https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/113/754/827/426/707/970/original/7e258cf7f4ff1e57.png npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ 5. Empowering Mobilizon Creating a governance structure to hit Mobilizon's most important goals and priorities. We really need an open, privacy respecting way to get people offline and building community now more than ever. Governance may not be sexy, but this will make a huge difference! to funding, planning and increasing the features and reach of Mobilizon! https://nlnet.nl/project/Empowering-Mobilizon/ #NGI #Mobilizon #FOSS #Fediverse 🧵 2/6 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ @npub1dk0…k0wd just dropped the list of funded projects, and there's some bangers this year!: https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html Here's 6 I'm super excited for in reverse order: 6. OpenStreetMap-NG "a more accessible, privacy-respecting, and developer-friendly mapping platform. By prioritizing both solid technical foundations and ease of use, OpenStreetMap-NG wants to make open-source mapping more approachable while pushing the boundaries of what's possible." https://OSM.ng #OSM #OSM-NG 🧵 1/? #NGI npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Pixel 6 Pro with v 2024123000. I'm just surprised I hadn't noticed it before, having installed Nextcloud and ELement, both of which I thought requested contacts. No biggie though. I may well have just seen the popup, not known what it was and dismissed it. Ironically I give almost no apps access to my contacts, precisely to limit privacy issues from apps - which I'm sure is exactly what Contact Scopes was developed to help with! npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ How do I find this feature? I've been using Graphene for about a year and hadn't noticed it... npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ So, this might seem small, but it's a really cool step forward for #Verso browser (using the next gen, #Rust based, #multithreaded, memory safe @npub1nvf…cpws engine rather than #Chrome's monopoly #Blink or #Mozilla's #Gecko engines). They got tabs! Doesn't *every* browser have tabs? Sure, but others are basically just GUI's slapped on a couple of pre-existing engines. Verso is rebuilding the browser from the ground up using #Servo and #FOSS, even for the #UI. Early shots fired, #Blink/#Webkit! https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/113/740/100/827/770/895/original/439715e4b7cfd3ba.mp4 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Merry Christmas Lety. Hope your captive gnome is released from his bondage soon (if he wants it 😉 ). npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I'm ready to hit that notification bell on your Peertube channel, mirroring your YouTube channel. Where is that again? #HomeAssistant #PeerTube #YouTube npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Thanks for putting this out. It was interesting reading up on what's happening with Matrix v2.0 and the PineCam. Cool that it's got IR LEDs and a speaker from under $30. Am I the only one concerned about the camera, on a primarily camera device, being only 2MP though? Also enjoyed hearing about the new release of Amazfish. Thanks again for keeping us updated! #Linmob #LinuxMobile #Matrix #PineCame #Amazfish npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Financing Peertube channels with Value For Value boosts / sat streaming: https://blog.getalby.com/value4value-on-peertube-an-open-source-video-streaming-platform/ The interesting part is that it seems that this already exists seems to just work(tm) right now in the Peertube interface with a Peertube server plugin that can integrate with viewers online wallets. Very cool to see! @npub1xt4…qzn0 @npub1tj2…th64 @npub1ggl…kevu @npub1mvj…r582 have you looked into this? #Peertube #ValueForValue #SatStreaming #Bitcoin #Lightning #Monetization #BoostOK npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Thanks for sharing these. There's some really interesting nuggets in there such as Mobile NixOS! I still haven't actually *tried* NIX yet, but it's interesting to read about, and I love the idea of it for the phone, with the ability to swap out different parts like the desktop environment with a clear, safe, easy path to rollback when things break. While it feels like #MobileLinux dev doesn't get as much press now, it also feels like we're slowly inching towards daily driver systems! npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Were... those painful to get off? 👀 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ #Element with #Matrix on #Yunohost for video calls has been such a stuttering, lagging mess for so long. Then I just tried turning off "Use TLS/DTLS on Audio/Video call" (advanced settings for Synapse). All of a sudden, all of my video calls connect, and they're silky smooth and sharp like something from a sci-fi movie. I don't know what this setting is, beyond something vaguely security related, but HOT DAMN, it flipped @npub1m9z…whzq on @npub129e…3cyx from being unusable for video calls to near perfect! https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/113/307/900/711/050/930/original/8b4940158add034f.png npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ HOW CAN THERE BE NO USERS REVIEWS FOR THIS?!?!?! npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Without having read the linked article, it seems very weird to define a "superfan" as someone who now hates something? Isn't a fan someone who, well, likes something? Like, a lot? 🤷 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ While I agree that this definitely should *not* have been handled this way, before anyone gets all fired up and dogpiles on, it's worth first reading how they intend to fix this: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/8199#issuecomment-2394519966 Personally I just hope that the first-run doesn't lump all permissions together and allows people to choose *which* data they opt-in to. Myself, I'm fine with them knowing my phone model, but do *not* want a client-ID. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Make of this what you will: https://www.psypost.org/new-study-links-brain-network-damage-to-increased-religious-fundamentalism/ #NeuroPsychology #Religion #Science npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ @npub1m9z…whzq ARe there any recordings of day 1 of the conference? The videos at: https://2024.matrix.org/watch/ Only seem to show Saturdays talks, not Fridays. Would be even more awesome to see them on #Peertube. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I tried this but using #NextPush instead of NTFY. Tapping on #UnifiedPush in the #Dav5X settings instantly picked up UnifiedPush and subscribed, showing my account in brackets. The NextPush Android app showed Davx5 as subscribed. It seems I had to turn the collection off and on a couple of times before it showed as subscribed, and it still takes about 30 seconds to update. Could that just be #GrapheneOS's default calendar app that I'm using? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ #Microsoft being Microsoft again. If there's a dollar to be made from environmental devastation, they'll take it. I really wish more #FOSS projects would stop feeding MS their code to profit off via #Copilot and encourage this beast of a company. Full #Fediverse integration of @npub1nwy…v47n / #Forjejo can't come soon enough. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I wonder if this will enable letting it be played with #Proton? EVery time I've tried before, the initial menu launches but launching the game itself just loads forever. Will have to try and see... npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ So... #Signal and #Wire, which both have issues, but not #Matrix / #XMPP? And for video, 2 #YouTube front ends and a proprietary YouTube clone, but no direct mention of #Peertube? And for Translation, the proprietary #Deepl, but no mention of the local and #Privacy respecting #Firefox #translate I appreciate the intent of this post, but the research s at best.ems... outdated at best. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I get that listening to the same song can be comforting, familiar and useful to certain nuerospicy people. How is the same thing on repeat free dopamine though? Isn't dopamine released by novelty and anticipation? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ RecycleABLE as a term has always been a joke. It doesn't matter if something theoretically could be recycled, only if it actually is. 95% of "recycleable" plastic is never recycled, but just makes people feel good about buying more plastic so others can make more money manufacturing and selling it. A more sane way of educating consumers would be to regularly print on each type of material what percentage of that material is *actually* recycled each year. #Recycling #Evironment npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Riot? Hasn't it been years since Riot became Element? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ What is this? Is it a way to integrate Waydroid apps more into the mobile Linux interface, or...? #Waydroid #Android #MobileLinux npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Ok, so this is very early stage but cool: #Verso is a project to build a full "#FOSS forever" web browser based on #Rust and #Servo rather than #Chromium/#Gecko. Even the interface is rendered with Servo. https://github.com/versotile-org/verso Currently there's 23 contributors and a non profit forming to oversee it. There are also nightly releases for testing (remember the "very early stage" bit though!). Here's their initial launch video (tech starts about 1/2 way through): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cqFfpeMGYk4?t=887 https://f2.tchncs.de/media_attachments/files/113/072/515/810/798/110/original/4fbd7338e980e40e.png npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Yum! What are they stuffed with? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Very disappointed to see that ComfortZone.com is just a "proving calming solutions for cats". I would so go premium on a dating site like this. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Please @npub1j3e…5635 ,put these on Peertube. You show environmental / social #activism being cracked down on, but only post videos on a platform doing exactly this. #Alphabet / #Google will remove your account in a heartbeat, or be more subtle, by quietly restricting your reach / recommendations. #YouTube are less likely to strike at all if it will be less effective, though. You don't have to leave, but please start protecting your important work by mirroring on #Peertube NOW. Thank you. ❤️ npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Kind of ironic that there's no #Peertube link there... npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ 5:15am bedtime for me last night. Ugh. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Delayed circadian rhythms are REAL. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ You can see what apps currently support Podcasting 2.0, and which features over here: https://podcastindex.org/apps EDIT: Wild! I just saw Peertube there and it already supports streaming sats! That could make an interesting business, setting up a host with Sat streaming by default, so creators would get paid by viewers and hosting could also automatically be paid from the BTC account.🤔 We just need SAT streaming added to the upcoming official #Peertube app, to make it more common here. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ It's a set of extensions for RSS. Some of them add features like transcripts, subtitles, livestreaming, episode comments and my personal fave, the ability for listeners/viewers to stream Sats (ie millionths of a Bitcoin) to content creators based on how long a listener/viewer listens/watches. It's reinvigorated some podcasting substantially, and there's potential to do the same for visual media like Peertube too. I'm curious if it could be extended to a more eco friendly alt coin. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Absolutely. Some form of non-advertising based monetization, really is crucial. A federated Patreon would be a fabulous step forward, especially if it could incorporate podcasting 2.0 style SAT streaming. High friction one off donations will only ever get a project so far. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I'd rather you flooded this space, actually. What happens on X stays on X, and has no bearing on my life (other than increasing the number of Nazi's floating around) npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ No idea what I'm looking at here, other than a Fedora log in screen... npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ You may need to provide a benefit to bandwidth providers if the network started getting saturated though. Non financial/vanity, so it didn't encourage fraud, but maybe something like badges when commenting, based on what percentile they were in for providing community bandwidth. Down the line it would also be great to see Podcasting 2.0 style streaming sats for viewed minutes, but that's probably better off offloaded to a Peertube plugin. #Peertube npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I'd love to see an official *Desktop* Peertube app, with video viewing, commenting and uploading functionality, but also with a single configuration click that let people automatically seed Peertube videos from their desktop. It could be taken one step further afterwards, by letting instances upload directly to the shared community storage rather than needing their own. You'd see an explosion of content, which would bring more viewers. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Agreed. I feel like a big part of the problem though is lack of content, mainly because of people not wanting to take on the cost of video hosting. That could be a solvable issue though if we make use of the opportunity of the many users who would happily help provide storage and bandwidth if it was dirt simple, easy. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ So... I'm confused... Are there *really* no cats in the images, or is that facetious, and there's actually always a cat hiding in there somewhere? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Likewise with Microsoft and Windows Phone 😂 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ This is true, although to be fair, most ideological groups seem to once they get a certain level of power and influence. npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Is anyone known to be working on @npub1vnu…8mqn support for the #Pixel2 / #Pixel2XL currently? I love mine and it's a completely decent phone, but right now it seems that only #LineageOS will suport it and even then it looks like it's next on the chopping block for being removed from security updates. Either way, great to see the work on the 3A continuing! npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Cool, thanks! Fascinating to see #postmarketOS continuing to make inroads towards fully mainlining hardware not specifically designed to run Linux (eg the Pixel3A) as well as what's happening with PlasmaMobile and Phosh! Glowup also looks really cool, although it would be nice to actually have it potentially do it's thing directly from one of the camera apps. Thanks for putting together this smorgasboard of #LinuxMobile news! npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Good to know! I haven't looked into it deeply, so I'm no expert. I am curious though what you would have wished to have seen in Forgejo? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ MAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Nice. Thank you! How did the talk at FrOSSCON go? npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Have you taken a look at @npub12r3…zz58 ? They've taken a strong pro-FOSS stance similar to that of postmarketOS and they're also actively working on bringing source management to the Fediverse (and vice versa). I believe they have a web interface for commenting etc, as pmOS was wanting from SourceHut. #Forgejo #postmarketOS #FOSS #SourceControl #Fediverse npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Would it help mobile Linux to have more apps? What about a FOSS Linux app in a popular category we have NOTHING for now? Well, @npub1kc4…txaw is a dev offering to develop the first FOSS, mobile Linux sleep tracking app for *peanuts*, and he's ONLY SHORT $425 of pledges in the next ~48 hours to make it real! That's only 17 people pledging $25! Or around 7 people donating $60! So LET'S DO THIS! pledge now, and boost: https://crowdfundr.com/sleep-journal-app #MobileLinux #FOSS #OpenSource #Sleep #PinePhone #Librem5 npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ I would gladly contribute to a crowdfunder to get the same UI on Linux as on Android for @npub1t2q…n4vh . On Android I love Organic Maps so much, but on Linux it's... more of a debugging tool. *sigh* The only alternative I've seen on Linux is Gnome Maps which is... very basic. #LinuxMobile #OrganicMaps #GnomeMaps #OSM npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Why don't you suggest they get the parents of the other students in your kids classes to vote on it? 😉 @npub1gpa…mf9t npub14a35d063w95nxz6hmt3fav8h7j7svxl5ckh0t2wewxs7ts7a7fdq0yhg6r Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Sure would be harder to block SIgnal if it wasn't centralized... #Signal #Decentralization