Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@glyph Jesus, I do not think this aged well at all. So much software today is condescendingly unconfigurable and outright hostile to any power users.

@federicomena TIL @havocp a) co-founded tidelift and b) is on here, very exciting stuff

We are here!

#HaikuOS #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

- F-Droid Client & Basic 1.22.0 are out (dare to update!)
- #webxdc is spreading its tentacles
- #dolphinemulator has a huge update
- #newpipe brings one fix, one still missing
- Catshare unifies device-to-device sharing

All these and news about 154 more apps at https://f-droid.org/2025/01/30/twif.html

OpenAI accusing DeepSeek, another AI model, of stealing their outputs to train their own model is the funniest thing I’ve read this year.

« This thing is stealing our work that we built by stealing other people’s work and paraphrasing it incorrectly ». Peak 2025.

Sometimes i believed in the legend of "convergence": one device to rule them all and forever bind them.

Since i use a #pinephone and reposessed a personal computing environment that is frugal and tailored to my needs, i am completely re-considering.

Got myself a "modern" device to run #Rockbox on (https://www.rockbox.org/). and OH MY! 1/ how much it progressed since the last 15y i didnt use it! 2/ how amazing to have dedicated, reliable top-notch audio sw+hw!

Sometimes i leave "phone" at home.

It seems that Facebook is banning as SPAM all posts that mention #Pixelfed. Does anybody know how can I get that priviledge for #snac?

@sjolsen It's the naming that matters. As someone who helped write a system often tagged with the 'everything is a file' meme, I would like to push back a bit, as the point of Plan 9 is not that everything is a file, but that most things can be named and managed through a file system interface, and that general interface model has great power.

So yes, it's about naming, it's always about naming and the access it provides.

wouldn't this thing that corporations have come to call artificial intelligence be better labeled artificial dementia?

Hey all! I'm due for an (re-)introduction: I'm Jack, an engineer in the NYC area from a firmware & cybersecurity background, currently working in something like hardware-software co-design.

Technical work is often with #rust #kicad #python #verilog #c, and in all-too-rare moments stuff like #haskell #forth #agda and #prolog

I've never been much for social media, usually preferring to keep interests local: a better-detailed #introduction to follow as I figure this out 🙂

I see people around me "migrating" to #deltachat from other messengers that they start mistrusting and stop associating themselves with those platforms. It gives me a very warm feeling. Of course it is a pleasure to know that a project you've been committed to for almost 8 years finds its unique place in a very complex, competitive messaging apps galaxy.

But I also feel like we've been here all this time not because we were waiting for "the heyday". But just because we like what we do at Delta Chat, technically, socially, symbolically.

However, when new waves of people do come to us, I am glad that they find a welcoming, usable, cosy and friendly environment. We've been trying to make it a home for ourselves, and it means that it can also be home for others.

@delta

🖤

@WiteWulf My friend, I have been here nearly from mastodon's beginnings -- the Pixelfed team has been soliciting money for its future development nearly that entire time, and it's still v0 software.

To me, Pixelfed is like the Aptera Motors (https://aptera.us/) of the software world -- soliciting money for years from people who desperately want the dream of what it represents to be true (in this case, an instagram free of Zuck control).

Where we stand as a project:

- delivering usable decentralized and secure super-apps across all platforms with many friendly forks and alternative, complementary community developments.

- thinking/prototyping several "next big things" (tm) and working on delivering them for real.

Delta Chat is a realist R&D endeavour involving many contributing world-class experts in their fields. Because real expertise is needed to cut through all the crap in specs and softwares.

Idealism is not enough.

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068

"The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines"

Insane is a word that comes to my mind.

That's about 33 times the size of curl - for a set of drivers.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Kernel-GPU-5.8-Million

yeah crazy how some people actually know how to program

@corbet So, what's the downside to going login-only? Most social media and news sites are like that these days. Pure nostalgia for the wide-open Internet is not a good enough reason. We used to have http: at one point too, but we moved on. Do you reap anything from that openness?

today I learned about Transclusion (https://tiddlywiki.com/#Transclusion)

So this is something I did not understand when I started using tiddlywiki: the tiddlers are meant to be quite short. But, I thought, sometimes I need all the information at a glance in one tiddler.

So it was only today that I learned that you can cut up a big tiddler into smaller ones (ctrl+e / "excise") and use transclusion. which means the content of the new tiddler is shown in the old, as if it was one big text.