RE: https://lifeiswoohoo.net/@mookie/115982440586817820

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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Using a free software stack, you could be an effective developer with a relatively low budget. A cheap or used laptop and an internet subscription.

LLM coding is changing that too. You either need a very powerful and expensive machine to run a local model, or (currently more likely) an LLM subscription. We are lead to believe you have to pay a monthly fee to be an effective developer.

The prospect of your output as a developer being tied to a proprietary service seems risky at best.

It's my birthday today! Woohoo!!! I'm 42 now but mentally still in 2006, hah!

This celebratory image is 4 of Wands from the Everyday Witch Tarot, illustrated by me, written by Deborah Blake, and published by Llewellyn Worldwide.

I'd be so grateful if you shared my art today!

My portfolio and original art shop is at http://www.albaillustration.com.

I also have signed decks, art prints, stickers, and more at http://albaillustration.etsy.com!

every time I see this graph

it reminds me that the status quo thinkers and talkers and powers are an oil slick in our minds

telling us things can never change

what they really mean: STOP THE CHANGE

our answer: no
#SolarIsRadical

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399

This is, in fact, exactly how I computing today.

And that's how I ended up on mastodon

Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:

In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".

When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".

Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".

In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".

#offtopic

Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire burden of self-protection shifted to humans alone at their endpoints in systems and communities entirely, foundationally built on mutual trust and trustworthiness.

Even Charles Darwin had bad days. Also I'll put good money that he'd have used Tumblr were he around today.

That feeling while scrolling though my morning RSS feed, and suddenly my own name appears in one of the headlines 🤩

@lwn #RSS #Linux

RE: https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116161406237207111

Høiland-Jørgensen: The inner workings of TCP zero-copy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060953/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)

Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.

More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.

More here: www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Enjoy this short film!

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

New blog post: "The inner workings of TCP zero-copy"

Did some investigation into how exactly TCP zero-copy works under the hood, and figured I'd share my findings in a (more or less) digestible format.

https://blog.tohojo.dk/2026/02/the-inner-workings-of-tcp-zero-copy.html

#tcp #zerocopy #linux #networking

I switched to Magit last month, and just did a magit-commit-instant-fixup for the first time. Magit has completely solved the 'git problem'!

https://docs.magit.vc/magit/Editing-any-reachable-commit-and-rebasing-immediately.html

#Magit #Emacs

Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users

#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen

Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

The call for papers for the eBPF'26 workshop is open: https://ebpf.github.io/2026/cfp.html. This year, the workshop will be hosted by @sospconf, the top academic conference in OS research, happening in Prague in late September! The deadline for submissions is June 19th, in just over 4 months.

Following a decision by the Codeberg e. V.'s Presidium, Codeberg e. V. has joined the ranks of many organizations as a co-signatory of the draft letter of the "Keep Android Open" initiative: https://keepandroidopen.org/draft-letter/

Apart from the impact on the many independent developers hosting their source code on https://codeberg.org, we are concerned by the greater societal implications the Android ecosystem's current trajectory will cause. For more information, see: https://keepandroidopen.org