AI…
China…

Note to sell: keep my old car running as long as possible.

This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.

For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.

There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.

I’m a good 15 years younger than Steve Wozniak, but Steve Wozniak has always been a person I’ve aspired to become more like. He’s one of my personal heroes, and I hope to die a man as close to what the man he’s always been.

Hmm, what does that remind me of I wonder…

Exactly. This is a malicious PAM module. Of course something as sensitive as PAM running as root can do any nasty thing it wants.

But the trick is, someone has to convince the target to go root and install it. And I guarantee you, of all the Linux users out there, only a teeny tiny fracition knows what PAM even is, and those who know aren’t likely to install any old PAM module willy-nilly. Which leaves an unlikely supply chain attack - unlikely because, just like expert users who diddle with PAM, any maintainer of a distro that supplies PAM modules is going to be super-careful what they onboard. Because ya know… PAM. It’s like super-sensitve.

So yeah, I’m not very worried.

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This is suspiciously specific 🙂

I look forward to not installing it.

Zuckerberg can keep his dystopian digital world and shove it. My digital world is free of surveillance and doesn’t require AI anything - let alone glasses.

I’ve switched to Wayland a few weeks ago on my new laptop and it took me quite a while to figure things out, but mostly it’s functionally complete for me compared to X.

The main difference is that it’s really complicated to achieve simple things in Wayland, like nesting or remoting Wayland sessions, but that’s mostly because there aren’t convenient, ready-made, universal solutions to do these things in Wayland yet - which, I agree, after 16 years of existence of Wayland, is utterly stupid.

But after working on it for some time, it’s all there for me. The only thing that I really miss is a decent RDP server that works in Sway.

It’s Microsoft. Assume surveillance.

No: the waiting time is more like 9 months and fully-loaded, you’re looking at north of €1,800 :)

The point of MNT machines isn’t value for money, but openness and sovereignty over what you own. They’re not for everybody, but my kids are out of the house, the house is paid for and so I have the means to put my money where my convictions are.

But no matter: the point was that Linux ARM laptops really are nothing new.

I’m fascism-intolerant. Different disease, but one I’m proud to suffer from.

Well, Proton can move wherever they want and be as good as they what, I’ll never be a customer again because of what their fuckhead CEO Andy Yen said.

I don’t care that he’s backpedaled, I don’t care that Andy Yen isn’t Proton-the-company, and I’m even willing to accept it was a very unfortunate duh moment on his part. Here the thing: I don’t have many ways as a nobody to get back at Trump, but one way is to not give any of my money to anybody who enabled him, even by mistake.

So Proton is on my shitlist forever thanks to Yen.

A good 10 years. I’ve had zero issues, with my account or my family members’.

“Pave the way for ARM64 laptops?”

I have an ARM64 laptop as my daily driver right here on my desk and it’s happily running Debian 13. The road is quite paved already.

That’s why my email provider is in Norway and not Switzerland. Norway has much stronger privacy laws.

Youtube shorts - aka the Tiktokization of Youtube.

I can’t stand the format. Luckily, they can be filtered out in third party players.

Now would be a very satisfying time for the crypto bubble to collapse.

I won’t wear the Facebook body-reading wristband because I don’t want creepy Zuckerberg reading my body.