Move to a different area if your current area it’s not pleasurable to you. Find a higher quality group of friends or become someone that can enjoy their own company. I could keep listening, but I’m not going to make this thread too long.

I guess a lot of people people don’t have this opportunity because they need to work boring jobs in order to feed themselves. They should be plotting a revolution, but instead are exhausted by work and get pacified by brainless entertainment the few hours they are not either working or sleeping.

For whoever can afford freedom there’s plenty of things to do in the world, yet a bunch of them end up bored anyway. I agree that they could often escape their boredom if they were braver.

I have tried to buy good laptops in the past (ThinkPads) and have been profoundly disappointed, part of the appeal of the Framework for me was that I could choose myself exactly what I wanted from my laptop. And I really couldn’t be happier with the hardware - build quality and everything is really great, and a completely different league from machines I have wasted money on in the past even though I tried my best to do my research.

It’s possible I should have tried System76 or Tuxedo, but I am really very happy with my Framework. Don’t think it makes sense to say it’s worse than the competition. But of course, a small company + repairability is reflected in the price.

For fucks sake. A big tent is nice and all, but I am not entering any tent that has fucking fascists in it.

Very happy with my Framework 13. I hope I can keep recommending it to people without feeling it’s at odds with my values.

It’s not like other producers are realistically better, but I kinda expect Framework to be good.

I write scientific articles with inline R code in Latex (using knitr), so I need syntax highlighting that jumps between two different languages within the document as well as spell checking and advanced (non AI) grammar tools for the text documents. Also I want something that looks kinda minimalistic and neat as a writing interface - there is more writing than coding involved.

I’m sure there’s some wizard somewhere who can do everything I need in Emacs, but I’m not terribly sophisticated. I just want something that works. Sadly, as much as I try to avoid anything Microsoft, VS Codium is the only thing I’ve found that fits my needs in a good way.

I guess in a way that’s what it offers, just that instead of an algorithm it’s human curated. Mastodon is a lot about boosts, so following someone doesn’t mean just following them, but also being subjected to whatever they boost (unless you silence their boosts of course). So if you’re interested in pottery and you follow a pottery starter pack, chances are that feed will end up a curated channel of pottery content.

The great thing is that it has quality control and cannot be abused the same way algorithmic feeds always end up being. The funky thing is, of course, that you also end up being exposed to everything else those people are interested in. But I think that’s part of what makes Mastodon feels so nice.

There’s a similar weird thing going on just north of Trondheim in the middle of Norway (and the middle of nowhere, really). I have no idea what it’s about. @beacondb@mapstodon.space (not sure if Mastodon mentions work from PieFed)

Remains to be seen if it made it to Gaza or if it was intercepted after getting this close. In either case it’s heroic as fuck.

… /etc/X11/xorg.conf…

Evil stuff.

You mean https://cam-xxx.live/etc/kernel/prerm.d/index/var/lib/flatpak/appstream/deadlock/etc/ipsec.d/crls/variable/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/mutex/remote_access_tool.exe?cache=exploit&certificate=revoke&content=inject&cookiejar=inject&id=6ac8692206901bf1&parameter=tamper&payload=(function(){+return+Math.ceil(4.1)%3B+})()%3B&proxy=bypass&referer=inject&subdomain=inject ?

I’m using Qobuz for music streaming. It’s alright.

Last time I checked they pay artists more than the competition, they curate playlists and editorial content rather than pushing AI left and right, and my experience is generally good.

Minus points for lacking API and native Linux client. On desktop Linux the web app works well.

Naturally the Berlin police responded by doing what the Berlin police does best. Al Jazeera has some nice pictures.

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/9/28/tens-of-thousands-rally-in-berlin-against-german-support-for-israel

Times of Israel also reported on it, in case you don’t trust Al Jazeera for whatever reason.

I understand the sentiment, and there are certainly more than a few people in the Kremlin I would not mourn for, but it is still war.

I’ll save the popcorn for the ICC trials.

More seriously from a technical side, I’m also not a huge fan of the browser and the engine being the same thing. To me they should be kept separate. So personally I’m cheering on Servo.

He now also celebrates Charlie Kirk hoping that others will pick up his great work, and whines about white men being discriminated against in tech.

Let’s just say he’s certainly not anti fascist.

At the very least, someone celebrating Charlie Kirk and whining about white men being discriminated against is not someone I’m interested in supporting, and if the future of the open web is in their hands I’ll just stick to lynx.

This is not a tech critic, it’s a culture critic.

Did you read the piece?

So now viewers have a choice between Russian and Israeli propaganda. What a time to be alive.

Same, except I kinda just cut off a bit here and there as adjustments every now and then. So I never really have a new haircut, it stays somewhat stable.