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2026-08-13 13:34:37 UTC

Realizing, that if AI Slop Factory peddlers, get close to the future they are trying to sell. We will have invented neoplatonic demons that will be our intermediaries for all external information. #philosophy #antiAI

2026-08-12 14:54:14 UTC

Google has stopped publishing the GPLv2 source code for pixel phone device drivers publicly. To get it you now must apply, and wait up to two weeks; for a copy with git commit history scrubbed. #floss #android #google #smartphones https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-kernel-code-forms-3696441/

2026-07-25 15:47:17 UTC

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AH; so your major ethical concern is simply the quality of the code? Or you believe any others are solveable.

2026-07-25 15:41:17 UTC

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> My preferred reality doesn’t include slopcode. That has been taken from me. There’s no ethical difference anymore between using and not using, because no matter what I want I’m using slopcode. Fuck Linus Torvalds for that shit. Fuck him up the cloaca.
So, you seem to believe that the world is made worse the more slopcode is in it.
Why is the illusion of control over the slop (i.e. using LLM code generation yourself); a net positive (or morally equivalent), compared to the negatives involved in contributing to that problem?

2026-07-18 21:33:01 UTC

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Let me ask another question. Why Fiwix as the base, and not Minix or NetBSD ? Both of which already have X servers.

2026-07-16 18:28:16 UTC

Lets look at Microsoft's legacy software they have liberated.
1990 File Manager (Not explorer.)
2019 Windows Calculator
2022 3D Movie Maker
2024 MS-DOS 4
2026 Comic Chat
Not exactly a list of excitement right? In fact almost as if they were picking some of the least relevant things they could liberate at the time...

2026-07-16 17:52:00 UTC

You know; I realize these corporations, are fundamentally corporations; and their not going to liberate the source to anything that has a chance of actually competing with their that has a chance of competing with their modern offerings.
BUT like, DOS 4.0, and now... Comic Chat?
Instead of giving us the dregs, how about some stuff that ... would actually have some folks interested in toying around with the software? Like Windows 3.1 ? Xenix ? Early Visual C++ or Visual Basic ? Chip's Challenge
AND you too Apple. Like yeah the Lisa Source Code was kinda cool, but I'd like macOS 8 and 9 would be a whole lot cooler.
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source

2026-07-14 19:58:20 UTC

I think a lot about how the Ellison family has both destroyed all the good things created by Sun Microsystems AND canceled all modern Star Trek. Like the Ellison's are just an inter-generational set of bastards who will go out and squash the things I specifically enjoy. Is this connected in anyone else's brains? OR am I a weirdo? #capitalism #EatTheRich

2026-07-09 18:53:04 UTC

Speaking about flatpak, the wierd limbo most distros are in where users get to choose between their distros packages versus flathub flatpaks for the same app, is a wierd mess. Any system where it's possible to double install gimp, is actually bizarre when you stop and think about it. Your creating application installation issues, that most windows standalone setup.exe programs were avoiding in the 90s.
Flatpak really only makes a lick of sense on immutable distros, which puts package management behind glass at best, or at worst removes it entirely.

2026-07-09 01:26:25 UTC

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Tk ? Fltk?

2026-07-03 14:30:39 UTC

> The Callback flip phone debate comes down to focus. Is Commodore building a broader brand, or drifting from the audience that helped its return gain attention?
https://theoasisbbs.com/callback-flip-phone-raises-big-questions-for-the-new-commodore/?fsp_sid=9288
People afraid that Peri Fractic/Christian Simpson is going to drift away from the retrocomputer fandom; havent paid attention to who Peri Fractic is, and what he has spent the last decade of his life doing.
The #commodore #callback is clearly a play at a different audience, sure; AND you may think it's not for you.
However, lets not pretend anyone has any doubts that Christian/Peri isn't going to turn around and announce a more conventional retro-computer product in the not-so-distant future.
MAN obviously is a fan of retro computing and is in this game because of his love of the stuff. #Callback8020

2026-07-01 19:03:51 UTC

ME: My enthusiasm for gaming in modernity can't get lower can it?
SONY: We're announcing the sunset of physical media for gaming.
ME: I stand corrected. #videogames

2026-06-17 17:23:14 UTC

SO, with all the things I think the phone gets right (at least for me). I've been really startled by how many people in various circles have been really raging at the thing.
LIKE, I get it. The digital minimalism thing is a niche product category. Though, so is the C64 Ultimate?
AND yeah; it's kind of pricey compared to ACTUAL dumb phones. But it's not a dumb phone, and small runs of phones don't have the same economy of scale; and licensing that Android compatibility layer in SailfishOS isn't free. Plus the extra work Jolla has done to customize things has to be paid for. Etc, etc.
BUT it's coming in under a whole lot of other phones in this category.
IVE seen accusations its a scam, that it's just a cheap way of cashing in on the Commodore brand.
Which strikes me as odd as, ive got zero nostalgia for the brand, and it appeals to me? An awful lot of work was put into the software end of this thing, for a cash grab. #CommodoreCallback #Callback #Callback8020 #Commodore

2026-06-15 14:52:40 UTC

Does anyone have a solution yet for getting streaming services onto a TV, that sucks less than Roku/Apple/Android-Google/Amazon and could be done as a set-top box?
Maybe something like Kodi or Plasma Big Screen, but it actually works with streaming services, without the experience breaking every half year?
Needs to be something I can plunk family in front of for them to drive on their own.
#floss preferred, but id settle for proprietary crap at this point.
#tv #television #streaming #cordcutting #cordcutters

2026-06-14 17:03:57 UTC

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Some chatter about https://nextbsd.org was in my feed this morning.

2026-06-14 14:52:39 UTC

ME: Oh this FLOSS operating system project sounds neat lets take a closer look.
ALSO ME: AND the project's TEAM section just lists one dude and then proudly lists "Claude" as an "AI Contributor". Guess it's dead to me....

2026-06-11 14:34:25 UTC

I keep seeing folks around the web saying things like "I coded this thing in X-num time" about their slop-code projects.
AND my brain is like: No you didn't. You didn't actually do the same thing as someone who put in all the work to do that. Why do you behave like the satisfaction, pride and accomplishment from that is equal to having done it yourself?
Folks who enjoy paint-by-numbers do not conflate what they're doing with the labor of fully developed artists performing their craft. NOR do they go into the places where art is discussed, or viewed and present their works as something fascinating to behold.
YET folks will drop into a discussion board on a free/open source software project that has been running for decades and go: "Here is this bit of it, I had AI rewrite across a couple of days, hey everyone take a look. AND I MADE IT."
#AntiAI #LLM #GenAI #GenerativeAI

2026-06-04 19:25:06 UTC

MEANWHILE My Brain: You like Murder She Wrote, but don't want to watch Murdoch Mysteries With Me?

2026-05-20 22:55:40 UTC

A #FreeBSD security advisory every three minutes for the past half hour and counting. Most of which are credited to folks using LLMs.
Guess I should have subscribed to the digest version of FreeBSD-Security...

2026-05-04 13:12:16 UTC

Anybody know if any of the modern dreamcast emulators, actually can be used for online play? #dreamcast #emulation https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/05/23-years-after-it-shut-down-bomberman-on-dreamcast-is-online-once-more

2026-04-18 20:42:07 UTC

I often think of the free software definition as kind of post-scarcity philosophical definition of property rights.
Kind of in the tradition of other philosophical definitions of property, labor and value; but in a digital world where there is no resource scarcity.
From that point of view, the free software definition can be seen as the minimum prerequisites one needs to have in order for a recipient to truly own or possess a piece of software as property.
The problem is of course, while this is important foundational work. However, property rights are not the only ethical dimension of software. The FSF sometimes acknowledges this, which is why their work sometimes dips it's toes occasionally in other directions. (See their defective by design, anti-drm campaign.)
(multipart, continuing 1/2) #fsf #ethics #morality #philosophy #freesoftware

2026-04-18 20:14:20 UTC

AH, GhostBSD decided to go through with their planned switch to the racist anti-DEI XOrg fork by default.
I am becoming convinced that at some-point we've fucked up #FLOSS as a community. It may have been a mistake to believe ethical computing's primary and chief emphasis should be compliance with the free software definition. When ethics in computing is such a multi variable problem in actuality.
AND now we're just struggling with the problems born of that thinking, all the damn time.
There is more free software than ever, you can't throw a rock in some places without hitting something running the linux kernel. However, so much of this ecosystem is devoid of real ethical values.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-26.1-R15.0p2

2026-04-18 15:31:39 UTC

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116426152872895154
Christine Lemmer-Webber as per usual really articulated well, something ive been trying to say much less elegantly. (Conclusion quoted here beginning of the sub-thread here: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116426025287444979 )
My fear is with these few possible realistic outcomes:<li>The output of AI is a derivative work of the training data. LLM generated code containing near-verbatim copies of others code is legally unusable.</li><li>The output of AI code is effectively public-domain; and FLOSS and proprietary software face copyright mexican standoff. With LLMs able to scrub the copyright off code.</li>
We are in fact hurtling towards a third: <li>The output of AI code is effectively public-domain, but courts consistently side with big tech in protecting their products in a "let them have their cake and eat it too" style hypocrisy which eventually becomes normalized.</li>
#note1kum…dag6

2026-03-30 01:24:43 UTC

POPE LEO: Jesus cannot be ⁠used to justify any wars.
ME: Oh man; he is going to feel awkward about that one when he learns... like any history.

2026-03-16 12:22:58 UTC

So seriously.... when has the entirety of a linux distro's human labor ever gone on strike before? Or is this a first? #linux #floss #manjaro https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171

2026-02-28 19:08:50 UTC

It's been a hot second since ive ripped a CD. AS I usually get most of my jams off bandcamp these days. What #floss software do folks recommend for that these days? Extra credit if it's available in #FreeBSD ports. AND if it's a GUI app extra credit if it's qt.

2026-02-27 19:33:11 UTC

I wish there was a bounty or something I could contribute to getting #FreeBSD up and running w/ hardware support on some of the SOCs used by #MNT. I don't have the skills to contribute to such an effort myself, but desperately want to see it happen. #BSD #MNTReform #MNTPocketReform

2026-01-22 14:40:36 UTC

Do we have any extremely long running, serialized written space scifi in english? Sort of like how germany has Perry Rhodan?
Not like "The Foundation & Robot Books by Asimov make a long ass timeline of a couple of dozen books"
AND not-like "There are a lot of star trek/star wars novels."
But SciFi stories that are long running across decades, highly serialized, and sometimes multi-author. WHERE the primary continuity is the bound dead trees, and their not media tie-ins to TV or film ?
The closest ive seen is some planetary romance stuff like Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom (which is far far shorter.) AND the Dray Prescot books which ALSO happen to german originally interestingly enough, but more available to english speakers.
#scifi #books #pulpfiction #ebooks #PerryRhodan

2026-01-19 01:11:18 UTC

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You see a clear dichotomy between people's feelings in ART vs Code right now in "Generative AI in Videogame Development" discourse. Where machine generated art assets are controversial, but LLM generated code is getting largely ignored or getting a pass by the press, and platform holders.

2026-01-19 01:09:39 UTC

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One of the things, ive been trying to probe; is peoples feelings on this with art vs code.
AS I have a pet theory that the more folks think of code as a purely utilitarian thing; the less offensive LLM generative code is.
BUT the more one thinks of code as art, or even potentially political speech, the more LLM generated code seems to be inapropriate.

2026-01-19 00:52:24 UTC

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SO I think most folks in group 2 would likely agree that once you add human intentionality to the final output of a LLM or a generative AI algorithm, it could in fact elevate slop to art.
AND well group 1 would never not see slop as potential-art to begin with.

2026-01-19 00:50:46 UTC

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AT the risk of getting into a debate on the definition of art (which seems to me to be something of an open philisophical question.) MOST folks ive conversed with fall into two camps:<li>"Anything" can be art from the right point of view.</li><li>ART requires intentionality of some sort, from the artist.</li>

2026-01-19 00:48:52 UTC

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I polled a bunch of folks on the fediverse about their feelings of LLM generated art a week or two back. AND most folks it reached seem to feel that the presence of generative AI contributions within a work; decreased the work's artistic value if not negating it completely.
A couple people (correctly in my opinion) criticized my poll for pointing out it might be artistically valid to use generative AI as part of a larger work critiquing generative AI.
THOUGH I think that last one is probably a pretty narrow usage, if one is looking for a broad "temperature reading".

2026-01-18 20:50:23 UTC

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Oh I totally get it; I twist myself into moral philosophy pretzels over software all the damn time. I just could see you doing it, and sympathizing a bit but not quite getting WHY this time around.

2026-01-18 20:46:30 UTC

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OK that makes some sense to me. I tend to be a bit... more deontological about such things. SO utility doesn't factor a whole lot into my moral calculus. Which I guess is why ive been having a hard time, groking what is at stake for you in some of this.

2026-01-18 20:42:06 UTC

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I guess im having a hard time, understanding.
You dont seem to plan on making use of AI code long term yourself no matter the outcome of your experiments, if I understand correctly?
AND you find the trained-on other-peoples-code aspect of the code generation morally distasteful? Again if I understand this correctly?
So is this all to inform some abstract opinion on it, in which to advocate for or against it, based on it's utility vs that moral distaste?

2026-01-18 20:22:51 UTC

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So genuinely curious. Assuming we're talking about the narrowest definition of generativeAI, and not machine learning at large.
What are the best uses for generativeAI ? At a general consumer level?
Not looking to critique any kind of response, just wondering about the shape of your conundrum.

2026-01-18 18:50:32 UTC

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Im curious though, where in your life your finding LLM code generation unavoidable?
Like im genuinely scratching my head. BECAUSE you seem to have moral friction with it; but seem to think its unavoidable, but I don't see how it's destined to slot into your life.

2026-01-18 18:44:25 UTC

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Ill add there is a reason im quick to try and talk about abstaining from things or software "where one can".
There is a lot of software I use for work, I wouldnt touch with a 10 foot poll in my personal life. AND I definitely too dont enforce my choices on this stuff, onto my husband. (Though I try to steer his choices towards harm reduction on occasion.) We all have to figure out where these boundaries can be drawn in our own lives.

2026-01-18 17:12:29 UTC

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> I don't think there's a good way around this, even though I do think that the legal liability will be resolved by courts declaring training to be fair use. Which, of course, I think is harebrained nonsense, but it's the most probable course. Ethically, I think it's a bitter pill we'll have to swallow, much like the labour that made our phones.
What exactly is the downside of not swallowing this bitter pill? AND just refraining from using generative AI where one can ?
EDIT: Im using the phrase "generative AI" in its most narrow sense, and not the broad landscape of machine learning.

2026-01-17 22:28:57 UTC

I had tested it previously but was impressed again with #FreeBSD's linuxlator running discord video chat with my webcam for over an hour last night.

2026-01-17 01:28:56 UTC

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Reportedly, they are not. Unless something changed recently.

2026-01-17 01:27:49 UTC

Again if Microsoft truly believed LLM code generation wasn't theft of other people's code, then they would be training models against their in house proprietary code as training data. (Windows, MS Office, etc.) #llm #ai #sotchasticparrots #generativeAI #programming

2026-01-16 21:14:43 UTC

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> Capitalism is dead set on this whole LLM thing. We can’t stop them. All we can do is make the best of it. Find some way to take something positive from all this.
Replace, LLM in that scentence with cryptocurrency, or NFTs or the Metaverse or any other scam-claptrap.
Im also skeptical that there is anything positive to take away from this tech, thats worth the environmental and energy costs for the VAST majority of coding uses.

2026-01-13 22:02:33 UTC

Apparently while touring the Ford plant today, someone screamed "Pedophile Protector" at Trump, and definitely struck a nerve, eliciting a reaction.<li>More people need to do this in public to Trump.</li><li>Let us not forget Pedophile Protector, alliterates with his title as President. <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#uspol</a></li>

2025-12-07 18:20:53 UTC

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ALMOST Surprised the GNU project hasn't figured out a stance yet (for or against).
Debian last I heard was agnostic, not wanting to dictate tooling for Debian developers. Fedora seems firmly in the "embrace" camp.
Im KIND of waiting for Desktop Environments to stake out their positions publicly. ONLY one im aware of is the Pantheon Desktop which came down on a hard no.
I figure if KDE disappoints, ill switch to CDE or GNUStep. OR just a Windows Manager.

2025-12-07 18:10:38 UTC

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To my knowledge, NetBSD has a similar ban. AND the Gentoo project has banned it from their project code. (Though Gentoo will likely keep what tainted code gets injected into the linux-kernel.)
I doubt it will be welcomed in OpenBSD as well.

2025-12-07 18:08:26 UTC

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Official Linux Kernel Policy on LLM-Generated Code: Allowed, as long as it's documented and the developer of the patch takes full responsibility.
Official Draft FreeBSD Policy on LLM-Generated Code: Not allowed, due to copyright concerns.

2025-12-07 16:44:25 UTC

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The thing that kills me, is despite many FLOSS devs embracing this bullshit; is that LLM-generated code doesn't respect the software licenses it's trained on.
I try not to use products of folks who do things like blatant GPL violations.
ERGO im trying not to use projects that openly embrace LLM-generated code.
AND MAN it looks like I switched back to FreeBSD at the right time.

2025-12-04 03:53:21 UTC

In the early 2000s the ReactOS team paused development for years; to engage in a project wide audit, under accusations that a developer may have SEEN leaked windows sourcecode.
In the 2020s folks keep insisting it's cool for #FLOSS devs to use AI's trained on random other projects to generate code; when it is known that such AI assistants occasionally reproduce code verbatim, without regard to the original software license. #llm #AI #eliza #generativeAI

2025-12-02 00:59:41 UTC

Was looking up the community run AIM instant messenger server I remember tripping across a few years back. AND I see their fucking linking to infowars on the main project page.
*sigh*
We can't ever have nice things.

2025-10-22 20:38:36 UTC

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FreeBSD still has 32bit support until November 2028, but it requires an Intel Pentium Pro / Pentium II (i686) or better.
NetBSD will likely support 32bit for longer (mips is still a tier-I architecture over there). But it still requires a 486 or better.

2025-10-15 19:47:59 UTC

It's hard for me to express optimism about the #FSF's Librephone project. It strikes me like they're tackling the wrong end of the problem.
They have a complete FLOSS distro of Android under the GNU project already, called Replicant. It's basically stalled out because no modern phones meet it's freedom requirements.
AND any attempts by this Librephone project to reverse engineer all of the proprietary bits out of a modern phone, such that you could begin a modern Replicant.... will only be good for as long as that one single model of phone stays relevant?
I can't help but feel like the FSF's total lack of interest in open hardware has painted them into a corner on this one. #floss #smartphone #android

2025-10-12 21:40:52 UTC

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Im assuming folks will be able to follow along in software emulators if they havent committed to hardware yet?

2025-10-09 03:56:00 UTC

Response from #Framework in their forums. Can be summed up as "We don't care if we're funding a Nazi as long as it helps further open source."
With a dash of "Oh, I run the Nazi's distro at home."
https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/2
#frameworkLaptop #DHH #floss
https://media.tech.lgbt/media_attachments/files/115/342/177/235/178/039/original/cbaad8b2597f44d0.png

2025-10-08 19:37:55 UTC

#Plan9 feels a litt bit like an alternate take on Unix from a parallel world, a better world in many ways. However, somewhat impractical in this reality.

2025-10-08 18:28:43 UTC

THEM: Can you make this paragraph bold, and put it in a blue box for emphasis.
ME: Done.
THEM: But can you make it less busy somehow?
ME: Your going to have to tell me how you want to do that, while keeping it bold in a big blue box.

2025-10-08 16:53:07 UTC

WELP general chatter is that #Qualcom buying #Arduino is about as bad as it sounds.... *sigh*

2025-10-05 19:20:27 UTC

Playing around with plan9 via the #SDF #Plan9Bootcamp and the no "up" for history in the rc shell is maddening on my muscle memory.

2025-09-29 11:56:30 UTC

I kind of figured Google, would eventually make degoogled android unsustainable. BUT I didn't think they would attack the #floss app ecosystem like this. #android #smartphone https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

2025-09-21 19:25:01 UTC

We are used to saying things like "less choice is natural as ecosystems mature" because we're immersed in a capitalistic hellscapes where a few winners drive all the loosers out of business.
Biological ecosystems don't ACTUALLY loose diversity naturally overtime, unless they have an extinction level event thrust upon them. (Like humans).
Evolution isn't about unifying all species into a single winning organism. Progress isnt and shouldnt look like a straight line.

2025-09-21 18:42:04 UTC

As someone who really likes to "shop" operating systems, and as someone who deeply identifies with their tech choices. Watching #linux over the decades homogenize the floss ecosystem instead of being the foundation to a garden with a variety of delights; has been incredibly disappointing.

2025-09-04 17:01:09 UTC

Wielded out, that #XLibre doesn't seem to be vanishing. I mean, I know folks might have legit reasons to want an #X11 fork. BUT this one is explicitly anti-DEI; in the age of US fascism and bigotry on the subject. SO you are telegraphing shit about your values or your community when you include that project. #politics #floss #linux #bsd

2025-08-25 19:45:27 UTC

REALLY kinda want the #Commodore64Ultimate, but I also am totally afraid it would just collect dust if I put up the cash for it .https://www.commodore.net/

2025-08-21 11:54:39 UTC

It's a bit depressing and weird to read about Newsom's social media strategy of being like Trump, just screaming back at Trump working with the public. #uspol #Democrats #GavinNewsom

2025-08-15 11:47:14 UTC

Transphobic men who happen to be gay are still in fact still terrible people. ( Reading about the John Boyne stuff this morning. )

2025-08-01 11:47:13 UTC

<li>I think this episode was in bad need of a stronger 'B' plot. I think if the holodeck stuff was broken up by something more compelling than an extended Scotty panic attack, it would have helped a lot.</li><li>REALLY taken aback by how quickly the show moves from doubling down on Spock being so in love with Christine, he breaks out of 'Q' mind control to punch a competing suitor; then pivots to a new romance interest. I really think this new spock romantic arc could have used a few episodes of space before being introduced.</li><li>I have seen some folks claim this is kind of a not-real-Trek episode. BUT I kind of see it as fitting in with the spirit of some of the silliest TOS episodes. YEAH it's not "City on the Edge of Forever" but its also clearly in the same family as "Shore Leave".</li>#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds !fediexclusive

2025-07-20 15:05:09 UTC

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Or answering the question, they wish they asked.

2025-07-19 21:05:26 UTC

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There are distros, where if you change the default shell, flatpak's environmental variables will get unset; and apps won't even appear in your desktop environment's launcher of choice. Definitely happens in Ubuntu derivatives.

2025-07-19 20:56:20 UTC

In #linux is changing your user's command line shell from bash to another shell considered "tinkering" with the operating system?
I've been surprised at how flatpak breaks, on many distros, if a user does it.
Boosts would be welcome.
EDIT: I previously also mentioned how an immutable distro was foiling my attempts to do so. I read the docs.

2025-07-15 20:27:55 UTC

Thing I learned today. If your internet goes out, and your on hold with your ISP. Look down your road and see if you can spot a van from your ISP. Actually was able to walk up to the technician working on this street who accidentally fucked up our connection, and just brought it to his attention. He hooked me right back up.

2025-06-02 18:09:18 UTC

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So just C and ASM at launch I take it? OR is it just ASM ?

2025-06-02 17:44:09 UTC

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What is the likelyhood that pascal could be a possible target language for the system? It's something the Commander X16 has claimed to want to support, but also hasn't really materialized over there, from what I can tell.

2025-05-05 18:55:14 UTC

Asking fellow linux people on the fediverse for linux advice, is the fucking worst.
ME: Please do not recommend X.
THEM 30 SECONDS LATER: I recommend X.

2025-03-21 21:08:47 UTC

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yeah. Totally get battery level on my skullcandy bluetooth headphones w/ android.

2024-11-01 19:51:33 UTC

<li>Me in my mid 20s: MAN this OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner is almost daily drivable.</li><li>Me in my late 20s: This Nokia N900 is daily driveable! I hope we can get some momentum going here.</li><li>Me in my early 30s: This Firefox phone is daily drivable! I hope we can get some momentum going here.</li><li>Me in my late 30s: Maybe KDE Plasma Mobile and PostmaerketOS or Mobian will eventually become daily driveable?</li><li>Me in my early 40s: It's all shit isn't it? And even if it's not shit, its not going to be around for long.</li>#android #smartphones #ethicalphone #ethicalphones #linuxphones #degoogle

2024-10-28 13:57:33 UTC

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I've looked at it, but it's also not really .... well supported ? Like last I glanced there were a number of github issue that were like "Is this working on the latest build?"
It's there its cool. But its also clearly not central to the project.
AND current TIC-80 seems like 90% of the experience id want. Your ideas are more like a stand alone development environment capturing the retro programming ethos; as more of a complete entity, instead of a experience thats designed around being a toy beside a real computer.
Without the expense of custom runs of hardware, or retro hardware off ebay.

2024-10-28 13:50:39 UTC

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Honestly, if this thing existed, it would probably push me over the edge on buying a RPI 400 myself.

2024-10-08 13:38:35 UTC

Looking for a single provider that can provide email + nextcloud w/ onlyoffice or calibra office integration.<li>I would like them to run on green energy. </li><li>I would like to be able to use vanilla imap+smtp so no Tuta/Protonmail sugestions.</li><li>Not interested in self hosting, no matter your recommended self hosting solution.</li>
Recommendations please?
Boosts welcome.
#Nextcloud #Email #AskFedi #AskMastodon

2024-10-03 20:00:11 UTC

#Kobo Libra Colour arrived AND it's the best performing eInk device ive ever had in terms of speed rendering #ttrpg PDFs I have seen.
In fact flipping through the newest edition Basic Roleplaying, in landscape mode, with the PDF set to fit to width... and just scrolling each page up and down with my finger, and flipping actual pages with the hardware buttons is VERY usable...
AND maybe half a year back a lot of denizens of the #Fediverse helped me test this same PDF on a whole truck load of #eInk and #ePaper devices, and most crashed and burned hard on it. Might be good for some folks to know. Maybe of interest to [@libreture](https://mastodon.social/@libreture )
#eReader #eReaders #eBook #eBooks #KoboLibraColour #DriveThruRPG #ttrpgs

2024-09-29 21:39:45 UTC

Booted up the Evercade and played "Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen" for an hour. But then got side tracked by Soko Banana for the next hour.
https://evercade.co.uk/evercade-game-of-the-month-2024-6-soko-banana/
#LegacyOfKain #Evercade #sokoban #retrogaming #videogames

2024-09-29 17:58:51 UTC

#Kobo embracing the #rightToRepair, with the Kobo Libra Colour having repair parts available through #iFixIt, as well as it being 95% recycled and ocean bound plastic. Really helped me decide what to read digital comics on. #ebook #ebooks #eink #epaper

2024-09-27 12:39:44 UTC

Why has no one made an accessory for the steamdeck, which just mounts a retrode style cartridge reader to the back, and hooking it up to the USB-C port?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrode
Just slot SNES carts and Genesis carts in it and your ready to go...
Just a LITTLE wider than the Sega Nomad....
#Sega #Nintendo #Retrogaming #Retrode #Cartridges #SteamDeck #Emulation

2024-09-26 19:38:55 UTC

Dear #videogame players. Who are preferred medium or small sized devs who make 2d pixel art games in the vein of Inti-Creates (Megaman clones, Mega man battle network clones, metroidvanias).
But perhaps are not as pervy as Inti creates. With inserting moaning females into all of their games lately?
Kind of feel like im dont with Inti Creates after they decided to put underage breasts front in center of the menu system of their latest release.
#videogames #switch #steamdeck #megaman #megamanbattlenetwork

2024-09-26 13:02:43 UTC

Why Hilda has been flipping out all morning and ripped down the curtains in my office. 😂 #cats #catsOfMastodon
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2024-09-21 17:31:20 UTC

Service: Please provide feedback on why your unsubscribing from our service?
Me: You don't list ennui with modernity as an option.

2024-09-21 17:15:36 UTC

Kind of like "maybe ebooks and digital comics are a mistake" .... maybe I should just go back to print for everything.
Then im like "maybe I should just go back to physical media for everything"
Then im like "maybe I should just go back to analog for everything in my personal life"
And now im feeling the Douglas Adams bit
> "...some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

2024-09-02 16:36:26 UTC

Seems like someone was very seriously considering stealing the #evercade cartridge I ordered? Shipping envelope arrived like this. Luckily the game was untouched. Guess they were left wondering what the hell an evercade is. #Retrogaming
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2024-08-26 17:08:50 UTC

The last time your linux distro of choice got fucked up. Was it the actual OS's fault? Or were you doing something you knew was dangerous?
Boosts welcome.
#linux #floss

2024-08-23 14:19:42 UTC

I've never used Hypercard, but ive seen a lot of chatter and illustrations over the years.
And having spent a few years helping folks build webpages. I really think, a lot of folks think webpages ought to kinda work more closely to like hypercard did.
And it just struck me this morning, that it isn't too late to revisit that.

2024-08-15 20:53:03 UTC

Got a visit from the HOA about our reckless use of a bird feeder. And now im in a foul mood. This is exactly why we don't ever think about owning something here. I dont want to be shackled to this insanity.

2024-08-15 16:54:53 UTC

Husband and I were talking last night about how republicans get to have their cake and eat it too a lot of the time; by somehow getting to claim their the anti-establishment pro-freedom party; and ALSO being the ultimate authoritarian big brother.
Often doing this in the same breath.
Which lead to us talking about how its been amazingly simple for the Harris & Walz campaign to take back that rhetorically, with just some dead simple and straight forward messaging.
Its REALLY wierd in some ways watching the democrats message, in a way theyve very badly needed to... for over a decade now.
Like their suddenly waking up.
Just...
now.
#uspol #democrats

2024-08-15 14:42:45 UTC

Something that probably struck me as more rare than it actually is. But actual men's and lady's restrooms in a #Gameboy #JRPG.
Player's gender and sex is not select-able and are set to male. As was the industry norm back then.
Notice the game is responsive if you enter the incorrect restroom. Even though no signs were posted in the hallway.
#medabot #medabots #Retrogaming
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2024-08-15 14:27:37 UTC

Got through the first chapter of the #Gameboy Medarot 1 game. (English translation patch) last night. I really like the nostalgia hit from it being evocative of gen-1 Pokemon with the novelty of it being it's own unique thing. Screenshots taken w/ the #AnaloguePocket
Special thanks to GeekTech Creations on Etsy for the budget priced repro cartridge. https://www.etsy.com/shop/GeekTechCreations
#Medabot #Medabots #Retrogaming #JRPG
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2024-08-14 19:00:19 UTC

Cleaner doesn't have to mean more white space and less information.

2024-08-12 19:55:24 UTC

Really fucking hate it, when a #videogame looks fun from a gameplay perspective. But the level of sophomoric giant anime tit pandering is above my personal taste threshold. #videogames #sexism
Really on the fence about Inti Create's Card-en-Ciel.
I'd really like a #MegaManBattleNetwork successor series to get momentum. Just wish Inti Creates could veer more towards the first #Gunvolt and less to GalGun with these designs. #MegaMan

2024-08-10 20:18:15 UTC

Limited Run:
We cheaped out on pressing discs, and sent a bunch of customers CD-Rs which may not boot on some consoles.
Also Limited Run:
We made an improved clone of the SuperFX silicon.
WTF ?
#videogames #retrogaming

2024-08-10 19:41:14 UTC

Doing all these "ports" of classic doom but completely severed from the id Tech engine, is one of the weirder trends to me in #videogames
The id Tech engine became one of was one of the most ported engines in history; and has endlessly portable variants. There isn't a whole lot of technical reason to not use something descended from the original doom engine when porting doom to new platforms.
Except to avoid having to comply with the #GPL
#floss #doom #doom2

2024-08-09 18:01:51 UTC

The past decades of success of Google Docs, in enterprise. Really means all those times people claimed StarOffice / OpenOffice / LibreOffice wasn't feature complete enough for enterprise... was a lie.
AND I don't think we point that out enough.
EDIT: Not saying you should switch. Just that some enterprise organizations COULD have. Based purely on "features".

2024-08-09 13:17:45 UTC

Got a reproduction cart, which glitches on the #AnaloguePocket but not on actual #GBA hardware. Frustrating because I just got the analogue pocket dock, and was planning on rocking out with SuperGameboy borders.
Looks like it's failing to bank switch properly on the Pocket to me. Loads the wrong creature/robot sprite in the opening, and misloads a map, on the first map change. (Wrong NPC placements, which block entrance to the map.)
But shows no obvious signs of glitching. No corrupted sprites, or text, no read errors, etc.
Mulling a bit this morning, if I just want to play the rom on the AnaloguePocket, or the physical repro cartridge on the GBA or try to get another working cartridge.
Damn Nostalgia for physical media. #videogames #gameboy #emulation #medabots #retroGaming
https://medabots.github.io/