Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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@lanodan @mametsuko about as weird as yaki soba pan
Mastodon Migration
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Darth Hideout 🏳️🌈
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If I'm on #Fedora, should I actively select for the #Fedora #flatpaks? As in, are they extra compatible, or is it just branding?
I searched a little and couldn't find an answer to that question, so if you have any insight, I'd be grateful.
#Linux #Gnome #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Computers #tech #technology
scops
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Loving the news coming out of #MorphOS community. New OS release and both a new native spreadsheet and word processor apps. That is huge. Also, props on updating their web browser to a more recent version.
I just wish their beautiful pages for their apps (Basic Works and Wayfarer) included screenshots. MorphOS is probably one of the prettiest OS out there and it deserves to be seen.
IFTAS
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The news for the #fediverse for October, with the impact of all the security vulnerabilities on server operators, @iftas yearly report on the state of the fediverse, how Brazilian organisations are thinking about political organising on the fediverse, and a whole lot of cool fediverse projects!
https://connectedplaces.online/fediverse-report-october-2026/
Eli Pariser
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What would it take for newcomers to actually join and use cooperative tools online? Lucas Brown is spending the next 12 weeks finding out as a New_ Public Entrepreneur in Residence, backed by a stipend, expert advice, and our research on platform design.
Give Lucas a warm welcome and learn more about them here: https://lucasbrown.co/
Guinness: Forever
/2 My friend made this fundraising request while they were out banging in signs in rural #Saskatchewan
/3 And it goes without saying that I've already kicked in to buy a few coffees. :)
@ben I was just looking for different simplex implementations when I saw this, so maybe rossetta code?
@efi some of these are impressively bad at trying to save 256 bytes of integers
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mrmaplebar
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There used to be a fairly active linguistics community here, but the science-themed instance it was hosted on went dark over a month ago. Hopefully it comes back.
I can’t imagine there’s not a chess sub here, surely it’s big enough?
Music wise there are some communities, maybe !obscuremusic@piefed.social fits the bill for now?
@dantheclamman yep, parents "helping" with projects is a whole thing.
I've seen 3yos enter Easter Bonnet competitions with hats more precisely and perfectly decorated than I could have managed. Definitely not made by 3yos!
@jetlagjen my dad (an engineer) did help me when I built a circuit for my fourth grade science fair. But I found that cool and he didn't think up the project, I wanted to do it.
scops
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25 years ago today, Apple released the iPod.
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If the EU has a future as a political project, it will have to be as a living, breathing repudiation of Ronald Reagan's maxim that "The nine most terrifying words are 'I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'"
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/10/worst-of-all-worlds/#show-trials
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@pluralistic Dublin City centre has been locked down for a visit by our betters from the EU.
The EU has decided its own shit doesn’t smell and has jumped 27 sharks
Dr. Quadragon ❌
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Huh, I wonder where all the “keep politics out of technology” people are on this one.
I wonder if they even realize this is politics.
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my first bamischijf who came up with this...
@mametsuko how can you live in holland for years and never eat bamishijf
@klord Yeah. I do get the sentiment that they should have done better, and they were well funded, they should have found another way etc. But hindsight is great and all vs when you're in the shit spin cycle - I simultaneously disapprove and think they should get a bruised rep over this, but also sympathise at the same time.
@sinbad tricky. If the dates locked in, doesn’t matter how much cash you have. I’ve been in that situation a few times, and it’s fucking horrible.
Hamish The PolarBear
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RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/117592622978754900
Bill Gates is a monster.
it’s about fucking time a lot of y’all in #tech say it loudly and with the chest. he has prove right those of us who’ve been saying it since the 1990s.
all that bullshit about vaccines? he uses his foundation to push the stock up of his pharma companies. one of the points of program was so he could develop a new generation of wage slaves; to work as curators of the vile & violent content techbros use for their aislop grift.
Bill Gates is a monster.
Hamish The PolarBear
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RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/117592622978754900
Bill Gates is a monster.
it’s about fucking time a lot of y’all in #tech say it loudly and with the chest. he has prove right those of us who’ve been saying it since the 1990s.
all that bullshit about vaccines? he uses his foundation to push the stock up of his pharma companies. one of the points of program was so he could develop a new generation of wage slaves; to work as curators of the vile & violent content techbros use for their aislop grift.
Bill Gates is a monster.
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mrmaplebar
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Niche communities built around specific interests, from chess variants to linguistics projects like constructed languages. And occasionally something else, like a niche heavy music genre or something along those lines.
But I’m pretty burned out on Reddit, especially the way things are run over there
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mrmaplebar
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What are your usual corners?
