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It's a great way to have a "Smart" TV in a way that matters (streaming YouTube, Spotify etc.) while still having access to all the great HTPC features (Jellyfin, local media, heck even DVDs!) :) npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @nprofile…3cqg @nprofile…3g4a @nprofile…tdn6 @nprofile…j4s6 @nprofile…qf5h I'm always so incredibly possibly surprised whenever I read an article on Heise. Almost feels like old-school magazines some times with proper sourcing etc. ... npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 You can't sign a rental contract because eIDAS requires "mobile device security validation systems" and that's the only remaining way to sign documents, and once again the server uses attestation. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 You can't view social media posts because your mandatory eID app for age verification attests your OS image against an allowlist of certs the govt controls, a gate that you can't ever pass. You can't text your friends because WhatsApp requires SafetyNet to "keep bots out". You can't call your doctor because SIM cards don't exist anymore and the eSIM app won't work if you unlock the bootloader, and attests that server-side before unlocking the eSIM. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 There is a real chance that in 5-10 years, there will be laptops and smartphones running open processors and operating systems with UX and and an OS comparable or better than the proprietary equivalent, but which are effectively useless to the average consumer because it is cryptographically impossible to use them for anything due to remote attestation proliferating more and more npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967 npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 I'm not sure if we've ever been at a point in history before where competence was an active hindrance to your professional success in the way it is now npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 You will own something and be happy npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Please, for the love of god, stop calling mass surveillance bills "lawful access". There is no such thing as "lawful access" - once the backdoor is there, it will be used without oversight the second it's in place. There is literally not one example in all of (recent) history of "lawful access" bills leading to anything other than this. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1tawg70/europe_could_soon_get_new_platform_to_book_train/ npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @nprofile…6jqn It's so well written it even got my nonexistant attention span to respawn npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Nothing to see here, just a MacBook Neo and a GNOME OS laptop talking to each other via the #p2panda #GObject bindings for #Go. They even found each other via mDNS! npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Published an initial version of the #puregotk bindings for #p2panda to Codeberg! Obvious disclaimers regarding stability and some rough edges around the callback syntax handling but hey, it works well enough to build a chat app with it and package it with Flatpak! npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://cartes.app/ keeps on surprising me with better and better updates npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Doesn't work without a Google/Apple-tied device btw. There is absolutely no story for how this would work on a desktop, anything without a Google/Apple account, or open source OS at all either. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Managed to get an initial prototype of #Go bindings for #p2panda to work! It's using the new GObject bindings and some new #puregotk improvements I've been hacking on these past few nights. Can't wait to actually build something with this! #GNOME npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345725515845020 npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 I've said it before an I'll say it again: This entire project of identity verification with Apple/Google-account bound mobile devices is going to lead the continent down a dark, dark path into full technological submission to the US npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 If a German citizen gets sanctioned by the US government, once this is implemented (later this year), that means they will no longer be able to be a participating member of German society, e.g. to show their (digital) driver's license to traffic police npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/ npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @nprofile…65q8 I'm constantly torn because I suspect that with the UK in still in the Union we would now have far worse protections for trans people and our own, worse version of the OSA npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 I want more Euro-prefixed things again. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 They should be sued into oblivion for this shit npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @nprofile…gr74 Putting my new personal projects on Codeberg instead has been such a joy npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @nprofile…re2d I mean one of them is an autocomplete engine with more training data that includes tool calling syntax and the other one is a sentient being with a family that you're forcing to do work for you. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 The next steps these people will push for is a system where everyone's ID name will need to be visible and used on the internet, everywhere, or the platform itself will need to assume liability - there are already countries out there today with laws like this, it's not unprecedented. And it doesn't just suck for trans people - this will also make it so that every single time you sign up for a service, your full legal identity will be a) recorded and can b) be used to deny you said service npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 > could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 New idea: Neobank specifically for digital sovereignty, from the app running on Linux/without SafetyNet and other nonsense to the servers running on local infrastructure npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Matrix (specifically Element with Spaces) is the only platform that will one day provide an experience similar to what Discord provides today on an open, federated, secure protocol. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Honestly at this point you can pretty much trust in every call you take from anywhere is being recorded by the Americans npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Finally in 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 The new GNOME Papers hand-drawn annotation feature is really great. Until now, the only way I've found to do that on Linux (& saving the changes) was to use MS Edge from Flathub of all things ... npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 The urge to buy a 2008 Audi R8 npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Sleep is great and we should all have more of it npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 The biggest generational leap that LLMs have enabled IMHO are three things: Machine translation that's an order of magnitude better than previous options, TTS and VTT (e.g. auto-dubbing of foreign language content), and tool calling based on natural language. Those things will stick I think. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Some updates on the #Framework situation. I'm glad that they are being explicit about these kinds of things. Probably still shouldn't give money to someone like DHH or boost them (which, yk, if you're in support of queer people and immigrants, why pay people that want no immigrants or queer people to exist?). That being said, this seems honest and tracks with Framework's history before the whole DHH stuff IMHO. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 The amount of people that refer to deprecated tech as "mature" is wild to me. npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Running a `main` branch as a daily driver is so much fun. Every day things get better npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44802916 npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @nprofile…r0jr That looks beautiful, thank you! How usable do you find the trackball for daily use? I'm used to trackpoints, touchpads and mice, but I've never used a trackball! npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Does anyone here have recommendations for off-the-shelf, portable vertical keyboards? The type that you can put your hands into a neutral position with! npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @nprofile…d2ln I'd love to know if they have any plans of shipping a version of their phone that runs mainline Linux (like postmarketOS), kind of like how Framework ships Windows & Linux versions! npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 I'm not sure which PR actually was the one that did it, but GNOME software is so much faster now on GNOME OS, esp. when opening a .flatpakref etc. - so happy to see it npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Talked to IRL friends about the Liquid Glass stuff, they really love it, esp. the transparent icons. I've seen lots of people here complain about it feeling "dated", but honestly if I were to guess I'd say that's because a lot of designers on here got into design when Flat/Material started replacing Skeumorphism. So I guess I'm in a bubble here 🤷♀️ npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 The #GNOME pride wallpapers look really great! npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 I wish I could fund a mail client for modern #GNOME. Geary is going to be stuck in GTK3 for the foreseeable future, Evolution, while nice, is in the same position due to it's custom widgets, and Thunderbird doesn't use GOA ... npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 I miss morning newspapers npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Can US media stop pretending that the tarrifs are "reciprocal"? Or that the numbers Trump shows for what e.g. the EU charges on US imports is anywhere close to what it actually charges? There just simply is no 39% tarrif that the EU charges on US goods, it's completely made up npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 While RCS is a good way to get Apple users to communicate with Android users, it's also still a terrible communications standard and we really shouldn't be pretending it's E2E encrypted in any meaningful way atm npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @nprofile…xt5t Just use the browser! You're running 1:1 the same source code in both cases, plus you're using 1/10th the RAM npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 I really love the Light Phone 3's UX. I kind of want to create a GTK version of it - maybe one that works on a single-app Wayland compositor like cage, and with postmarketOS? npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp7K8Al-0lU npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @npub1s7y…u8ak https://twitter.com/_alex_cote/status/1694865498863698156 npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @npub1t7d…pqpp @npub127d…wc4n Haha yeah! Its not technically a BlackBerru, but pretty close: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/110995959599752497 ^^ npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 Honestly, I don't think there is a better way to read your morning news than in Links on a memory LCD. This is how the internet is meant to be consumed npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @npub16ur…mx4u Can't wait to pick up mine 👀 Does the trackpad work as a cursor? npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @npub188q…3jlx Do we know if there is stylus support? npub1kjgen43622dn2a4knhva7n793khafjr85pxw3flh6acljv02yh2qc9v8qy Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 I think #GNOME should have a new logo. Like maybe anything other than a foot
