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Third Foundation boosted

[?]Electronic Frontier Foundation » 🌐
@eff@mastodon.social

New Yorkers, it's not too late to demand your representatives drop state-mandated censorship and surveillance from the proposed budget. eff.org/3DPrintNY

    dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: boosted

    [?]Bhaskar Chowdhury » 🌐
    @unixbhaskar@mastodon.social

    Ah, Split-tab is bloody good, if you are not using any tiling Window Manager. Very useful.

    How to open? Put your cursor on any damn link and right-click, and it should show you the option for split-view, select that.

    How to close? Look at the address bar(where you type the url), on the right, there is a split symbol. Click on it, and it will show the options for closing.

      [?]jbz » 🌐
      @jbz@indieweb.social

      🐧 WSL9x
      Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux.

      ｢ WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the same time, including paging, memory protection, and pre-emptive scheduling. Run all your favourite applications side by side - no rebooting required! ｣

      codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

        [?]Matt Wynne » 🌐
        @mattwynne@cosocial.ca

        Hello!

        I just migrated from hachyderm.io/@mattwynne which was 👍🏻, but I have been meaning to move over here for some time because I love the initiative to democratically run our social media!

        I'm from the UK originally, now based in Nelson, BC.

        I'm a generalist/polyglot programmer. I lead the github.com/cucumber project and I'm known for coaching teams in technical practices like /#BDD and .

        Also and generally

          Mark Levison boosted

          [?]Em :official_verified: » 🌐
          @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

          Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:

          1. Federates
          2. Allows to collect donations
          3. Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service

            Mason Loring Bliss boosted

            [?]Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he) » 🌐
            @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems

            Gentoo, FLOSS, LLMs, depressing [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

            is still one of the bright outposts in where human work is valued and contributions are banned. However, sometimes I feel that this matters very little.

            After all, Gentoo is a distribution. While it has its own value, it cannot exist without all the software it is shipping. It makes no sense in isolation.

            And let's be honest, I don't think you can avoid slop today. We are trying our best to sieve out the worst: the copywashing chardet, the vibecoded NIH Perl crypto packages… but it's just that.

            As someone who bumps Python packages, let me tell you this: LLMs are omnipresent. I notice Claude in commit logs, I notice the blasphemy of agent instructions all over the place… and there's probably much more than I don't notice. With many core components giving in, you can't avoid it without literally freezing on old, vulnerable versions, or spending hours looking for alternatives or creating them.

            FLOSS is dead. People don't care. They don't have conscience. All they care about is the sick idea of "productivity", i.e. generating more slop.

            The few of us who do care can do very little. We will continue doing our best until they kill us (as they're literally slowly killing the whole humankind). But that's it. Maybe it will pass once the bubble pops, maybe it won't. Either way, the damage is beyond repair. We will never be able to trust one another like we did. We will never again be a community building a better world.

            It's just like everything nowadays. It's hard to find a good washing machine (one that will actually be repairable), good shoes (that won't fall apart shortly after the warranty expires), good food. You need lots of money, and even then you have to sieve through all the scammers who just sell the same shit with higher profit margin. is just another branch of business where people are trying to "sell" you shit, and don't care anymore if it explodes in your face. They don't even care if they're actually making a profit.

              /home/rqm boosted

              [?]Joe Brockmeier [He/Him/His] » 🌐
              @jzb@hachyderm.io

              I wonder if anyone I know could recommend a reliable, open source tool for posting either from an RSS feed or some other automated fashion to Mastodon, Bluesky, and any other relevant social networks...

              Basically, a Hootsuite or something but open source and *preferably* not a project that has jumped on the AI bandwagon.

              Please boost for reach if you would. Thanks!

                [?]Peter B. » 🌐
                @p3ter@mastodon.social

                @nixCraft Since you mention "sell everyone kids data" - this came out just last week:

                "Hugh Grant, Jonathan Haidt and Sophie Winkleman discuss BigTech addicting our children to screens"

                youtu.be/x_MATOD7Axs

                I can confirm 100% of what they're saying, as us people have seen that (and more) coming for 20+ years now.

                It's time.

                  Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                  [?]Chris Hanson » 🌐
                  @eschaton@mastodon.social

                  ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                  And I’ve posted my patch to the tech-kern list!

                    Cosima (she/her) boosted

                    [?]⚓💾 Tueddelmors 💾⚓ » 🌐
                    @reeeen@norden.social

                    Heute wieder mal einen alten Laptop mit Linux wiederbelebt. 🐧

                    Das Ding wäre sonst im Elektroschrott gelandet – jetzt läuft es schneller als vorher mit Windows.

                    Manchmal ist die beste Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie einfach: frische Software drauf, neues Leben drin.

                    Danke an alle, die freie Software bauen, damit wir Hardware nicht wegwerfen müssen. 💚

                      dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: boosted

                      [?]Rosanna Sibora [she / her] » 🌐
                      @RosannaSibora@fosstodon.org

                      Any product people looking for a new job?

                      Boosts welcome. 🙏 🧡

                      In case you would like to shape the future of @openproject, apply now.

                      We collaborate in a product trio to build the right product & build the product right.

                      As a PM, your goal is to understand users and their needs. You guide this process from a product perspective, from early discovery, through delivery to continuous discovery.

                      More details: openproject-gmbh.jobs.personio

                      A graphic promoting a job opening for a Senior Product Manager at OpenProject. It features a purple background with the text "Join our team as Senior Product Manager! Apply now," and an illustration of three people collaborating over a project plan.

                      Alt...A graphic promoting a job opening for a Senior Product Manager at OpenProject. It features a purple background with the text "Join our team as Senior Product Manager! Apply now," and an illustration of three people collaborating over a project plan.

                        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                        [?]Chris Hanson » 🌐
                        @eschaton@mastodon.social

                        ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                        I’ve implemented posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np for NetBSD, and I’ve even written a test for it using NetBSD’s testing framework! Now to see about actually running that test and writing a man page, so I can submit the patch next week.

                          Mason Loring Bliss boosted

                          [?]Larvitz :fedora: » 🌐
                          @Larvitz@burningboard.net

                          Shipped two releases of ansible-jailexec today. An Ansible connection plugin that runs tasks inside FreeBSD jails via jexec over SSH, without needing direct SSH into the jail.

                          v1.1.0: ground-up refactor. Now subclasses the built-in ssh plugin and merges its options at import time, so ControlPersist, jump hosts, private keys, password_mechanism. About a quarter of the old code.

                          v1.2.0: adds ansible_jail_root to override the jls probe for nested / VNET jail setups.

                          github.com/chofstede/ansible_j

                            [?]Bradley M. Kühn » 🌐
                            @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org

                            @cwebber

                            Re: “polluting”, my reply is: fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/11642 (elsewhere in thread).

                            Re: “copyleft-only ”: I didn't propose that. I proposed copylefting the human-modified output of LLMs.

                            Re: “two scenarios”: IMO you propose a false dichotomy.

                            I hope you come to one of 's public sessions on this, as I'd be glad to talk more about it, & this discussion doesn't lend itself to online debate because it's so complex.

                            cc: @ossguy @richardfontana
                            @jedbrown

                            [?]Bradley M. Kühn » 🌐
                            @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org

                            @cwebber

                            I agree with @ossguy in particular because if *we* are copylefting our code (even if assisted by -backed gen-), we won't face a copyleft claim later.

                            Furthermore, it is highly unlikely these LLMs are (a) trained on proprietary software, and (b) any proprietary software company that so-trained would later claim infringement.

                            has all but admitted they refuse to train Copilot on their own code anyway.

                            Cc: @LordCaramac @richardfontana

                                [?]Greg Wilson » 🌐
                                @gvwilson@mastodon.social

                                asimpy Performance Benchmarking: third-bit.com/2026/04/18/asimp This is the library used in third-bit.com/dsdx/ - suggestions for improving performance on simple operations without hurting complex ones would be greatly appreciated.

                                  Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: boosted

                                  [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: » 🌐
                                  @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                  NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

                                  To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

                                  Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

                                  Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

                                  netbsd.org/donations/

                                    Dawn Ahukanna boosted

                                    [?]Blue Ghost » 🌐
                                    @blueghost@mastodon.online

                                    Rhythmbox is a multimedia application that supports ripping a audio CD to FLAC, Opus, and Vorbis formats.

                                    FLAC: mastodon.online/@blueghost/112
                                    Opus: mastodon.online/@blueghost/115
                                    Vorbis: mastodon.online/@blueghost/115

                                    Rhythmbox is included in Debian and Fedora software package repositories, a convenient and secure method of installation.

                                    Website: github.com/GNOME/rhythmbox

                                    Rhythmbox logo.

                                    Alt...Rhythmbox logo.

                                      [?]jbz » 🌐
                                      @jbz@indieweb.social

                                      🛂 Is there a list of distros refusing to comply with age verification/attestation laws?

                                        [?]jbz » 🌐
                                        @jbz@indieweb.social

                                        Not debating whether the law is wrong or not.

                                        - Projects that will refuse any age verification/attestation.

                                        - Projects that'll preemptively comply using some simplistic age bracket eval.

                                        - Projects that are still deciding what to do.

                                          [?]TinDrum » 🌐
                                          @oscarjiminy@aus.social

                                          ‘the most valuable software infrastructure in the world continues to be maintained by people working for free, while the companies building fortunes on top of it never had to pay for its upkeep. Now a powerful new capability has arrived — and as we’ve seen repeatedly in tech, there’s the risk that organizations with resources will receive it first and learn to protect themselves, while others are left vulnerable’

                                          nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion

                                            [?]Bradley M. Kühn » 🌐
                                            @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org

                                            (1/5) [ Meta-info to start the thread. Here and the posts that follow reply to lots of people's comments (from various threads) together here. Can we consolidate this conversation into this single thread to discuss sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/ap ? ]

                                            Cc: @wwahammy @silverwizard @mjw @cwebber @josh @jamey @mason @spencer @rootwyrm @drwho @mmu_man @mathieui @beeoproblem

                                              #agile boosted

                                              [?]InfoQ » 🌐
                                              @infoq@techhub.social

                                              In this , Sam Bhagwat, co-founder & CEO of Mastra, shares insights on building and sustaining communities, the emerging discipline of engineering and evals, and why cross-functional Tiger Teams are key to shipping agentic applications.

                                              🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/4tQpH7w

                                              📄 included

                                                [?]Bradley M. Kühn » 🌐
                                                @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org

                                                👀 … sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/ap …my colleague Denver Gingerich writes: newcomers' extensive reliance on LLM-backed generative AI is comparable to the Eternal September onslaught to USENET in 1993. I was on USENET extensively then; I confirm the disruption was indeed similar. I urge you to read his essay, think about it, & join Denver, me, & others at the following datetimes…
                                                $ date -d '2026-04-21 15:00 UTC'
                                                $ date -d '2026-04-28 23:00 UTC'
                                                …in bbb-new.sfconservancy.org/room

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