Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

It's incredible how often on social media people complain about public replies to their public posts.

🇬🇧In response to my complaint, Europol admits mistakes when employees switched to #ChatControl surveillance tech provider Thorn. Internal rules were disregarded without consequences. Europol promises reforms. However, the checks for conflicts of interest would need a fundamental overhaul to exclude pro-surveillance lobbying by ex-employees.

Report: https://balkaninsight.com/2024/10/11/europol-revising-conflict-of-interest-screening-after-birn-investigation/

Audit report: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/doc/inspection-report/en/192216

If you don't already know, make sure you read the scandalous original stories on the #ChatControl file and how commercial interests are entangled with state security and political actors to push for destroying the secrecy on correspondence online:
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

i love how the jellyfin metadata for nichijou episodes that aren't google translated read like an intro for top gear

Did groundwork for ship vs ship combat, next up gotta get buff/debuff system working for complex ships.

Yes, humans will have own unique hull designs, 100%, they wont steal from you that much.

#Precursor #pixelart #indiegame #gamedev

Announcing: Frog Protocols for Wayland 🐸

Let's create Wayland Protocols but much more iterative.

Wayland Protocols has long had a problem with new protocols sitting for months, to years at a time for even basic functionality.

This is hugely problematic when some protocols implement very primitive and basic functionality such as frog-fifo-v1, which is needed for VSync to not cause GPU starvation under Wayland and also fix the dreaded application freezing when windows are occluded with FIFO/VSync enabled.

We need to get protocols into end-users hands quicker! The main reason many users are still using X11 is because of missing functionality that we can be shipping today, but is blocked for one reason or another.

Check out the repo here! https://github.com/misyltoad/frog-protocols

and the Mesa MR that adds support for frog-fifo-v1 to fix these issues and goes into much more detail: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/31329/

@tauon@possum.city The Minecraft movie should instead just be an extented version of whatever this is and I would actually want to watch it I think.

gcc -Wno-statements-dreamt-up-by-the-utterly-deranged

top ten reasons to use linux
number 1:

Normalize not having an opinion on things you don’t understand.

You're allowed to say, “I don't know enough about this to have an opinion on it.”

No Samsung. Just no. Nobody asked for this.

#IFA2024

I got asked over on Tumblr to explain how EPROMs work/are used, so I ended up explaining the whole basic timeline of mask ROMs to flash memory, in an attempted accessible-to-non-techie fashion. It's here if you'd like to read it or fact check me:

https://foone.tumblr.com/post/760820423089930241/sure-basically-computers-and-any-other

I have done The Thing.

https://catfox.life/2024/09/05/porting-systemd-to-musl-libc-powered-linux/

I have ported #systemd to #musl. Properly. Passing all tests, properly. Booting my 2012 Ivy Bridge in 3.2 seconds, properly.

I'm aware of how unpopular this will be in some circles. But change does not happen without competition, and musl environments deserve more than what they have right now. systemd isn't a panacea, it isn't even that great, but it's here, it solves real issues people have, and it's now an option. Not a requirement, but an option.