Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Dear #software developers: once again, don't require people to have a GitHub account to report #bugs. Generally, you shouldn't have just one channel, but it goes double for GitHub.

Oh look, there's a cool new app that runs in the terminal! Let's check out the feature list:

"Written in Rust!"

That's not a feature. No-one cares.

"Uses Vi-like bindings!"

Sure, keep thinking that makes you more productive.

"Opinionated!"

Listen here, you little shit.

More and more apps from #FDroid are now broken on my aging #Android tablet. By changing APIs all the time, Google forces even open source developers into planned obsolescence.

@amoroso The company I worked for in the 80s/90s took the decision to move development of our software (CAD and engineering software) from Fortran to Ada around 1988ish. It was a disaster. The lack of good compilers (and inexpensive ones - Ada ones were around 10x more expensive than C or Fortran, a big issue when you're supporting 15+ different machine platforms and operating systems), particularly for non-UNIX computers, their general inefficiency and the way that everything operating system or graphics display dependent was thrown at non-standard pragma interfaces meant we spent more time porting software to our target hardware and debugging the vagaries of each machine than developing it or adding new functionality! (It used to take one of my engineers a couple of weeks to port and fully test our Fortran based code to new platforms - in some cases we spent months trying to get stuff to work reliably under Ada and failed completely in Microsoft PC environments). Needless to say our lunch was eaten by competitors including Autodesk and PTC, who had no such issues as they didn't adopt Ada! I think I detest the language because of that horrible experience more than I dislike Rust today, and that's saying something! My somewhat controversial view borne of experience is that the big problems in code were/are nearly always due to logic errors and differences between environments/language standards rather than the 'memory safety' bandwagon Ada and Rust adherents point to.

@amoroso Ada is not retrocomputing! 😆

Haiku Isn’t Just for X86 Anymore, Boots on ARM in QEMU

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/haiku-isnt-just-for-x86-anymore-boots-on-arm-in-qemu/

#OpenSource #HaikuOS #ARM

@TheCybermatron Just think of how nutritious the slop in the dumpster behind the grocery store must be. It has all the ingredients of food in it.

It's difficult for me to talk calmly about companies that are excited to spend hundreds of millions of dollars training stochastic models while the teachers in every public classroom in North America pay for their own chalk, some of their students' school supplies and some fraction of their students' lunches out of their own pockets. That those companies go on to say this will make the teachers "obsolete" is too much.

@aral The USA has been rampaging round the world bombing the shit out of people for no good reason for rather longer than 47 years, hasn't it?

Hubzilla 11.2 delivers improvements to maintainability and performance, along with the usual set of bug fixes. It also introduces the following two additions by @Harald Eilertsen, which were sponsored by @NGI Zero open source funding:

Superblock version 3
An almost complete rewrite of the Superblock addon for Hubzilla. It brings a refreshed UI, translations, improved performance and security, more consistent interaction, a comprehensive unit test suite, and the ability to add channels manually to the block list. It also fixes a long standing issue, and provides a solid foundation for further enhancements to come. For more details, check out Harald's blog post.

System status widget for site administrators
A new widget for the HQ dashboard showing some vital stats about the system. The information is updated periodically, and gives the admin a quick overview of the health of the system. This widget is only available to admins, and will be enhanced further in coming releases. For more details, check out Harald's blog post.

For a complete list of changes in this release, please see the changelog.

A big THANK YOU! to all contributors and everyone who supports Hubzilla and its development.

Update

Backup your data
Execute util/udall

Install

Please see the install instructions.

#Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.

https://hubzilla.org

I remember the days when a dumb terminal needed to connect to the network to function, whilst a smart computer could do everything locally.

Nowadays a smart fridge needs an internet connection and a dumb fridge can do everything locally.