Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@pid_eins what the hell are you talking about https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/ this is 2011 right after secure boot came out, and also there's tons of early motherboards that made user key enrollment impossible and to this day Microsoft have an unfair control over the whole thing. why else would you need to get shims signed by them?

Getting some replies about Telegram vs, Signal.

There is a difference between providing E2EE and consciously, deliberately building a platform knowingly architected in ways that enable criminal conduct for fun and profit. Telegram did this; Signal does not.

It is worth noting I’m a vocal and monetary supporter of Signal.

The Encryption Wars are critically defined by deep nuance; swinging around broad cudgels helps no one.

@typeswitch Honestly I rather have this than some doxygen badly rendering on mobile, saying things like "Factory for ElementManager" for classes named "ElementManagerFactory" as documentation to figure out why my application segfaults again

@are0h there are existing forks (eg, glitch, which is mentioned in the blog post). Why not work with one of those, instead of starting another project?

To put it another way, what problems do those forks have that make that impractical, and how will you address them?

In surveillance capitalism, web browses you.

@mcc I find it funny that modern computers (and tablets and phones) have all this GPU power and they end up with UIs that look like they were designed in Applesoft BASIC.

@sundogplanets Also just the orbital decay leading to however many of them burning up in the atmophere daily is going to completely destroy the ozone layer in a couple of years/decades. So that's nice also.

@sundogplanets Because dipshits want to have uninterrupted, high-speed, low-latency internet at all times rather than working on software that do not need that.

@cnes 👆 The French space agency CNES has the official account @cnes Here on Mastodon. Not Blueskly, Threads, or elsewhere.

Can we help them grow and reach for the stars?

My employer added a clause in my last NDA stating that I was prohibited from saying anything "disparaging" about the company. Now when anyone asks about job postings I tell them, "I'm contractually obligated not to say anything disparaging about them." None have ever applied.

Have been handed a Windows 11 device for the first time after ~32 years using Apple devices.

May I just say: if this is how the majority of the world is treated by their computers, I don’t know why there haven’t been more Unabombers.

@paninid all downhill after Nicea, eh?

@RickiTarr

Today I learned that the Alien franchise is owned by Disney, which means that every xenomorph egg that hatches, being a daughter of the xenomorph queen, is technically a Disney princess

Êñglišḥ rēạlly nēēdṡ dīacritics.

I think I need to find a job with a company that isn't big enough to have its own Wikipedia article.

Happy 31st birthday, #Debian!

It was not my first distribution, but it was definitely my go-to distro after all those years in my #freesoftware adventure. Here's for 31 more!

Whenever I see a headline like “Cyber attacks against XYZ industry increase by 2000%” I think, “Oh, they finally started monitoring their networks, huh?”

@tetrislife It was more of social/economic, in the large, question.

you see people used to do efforts together, to create useful things.. and I feel that now we're all bored by bad jobs, and trying to use our bodies aimlessly.

seems like a waste