NepoRC 2.13.7 is starting up enbyOS
 * Mounting gender filesystem ...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/null, missing codepage or helper program
 * Setting pronouns to they/them ...
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Starting about-me runlevel
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Welcome to my page! (doasu.dev)
snac login: me
Password:
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https://lyra.horse/antonymph/

i appreciate how this is going to break in 2 years (and it already is on firefox) but it was made regardless. a unique kind of flash player :3

We now have experimental support for the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold.

Our initial 2025112500 release for these is available through our web installer or releases page on our staging site:

https://staging.grapheneos.org/install/web
https://staging.grapheneos.org/releases#devices

The FreeBSD platform was merged into the OCI runtime spec!

FreeBSD is now an official target for OCI containers (it’s been working in Podman as an unofficial target for a while).

#FreeBSD #OCI

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

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An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

when compiling C code, enable the -fPIE option to compile to Proto-Indo-European, for maximum compatibility with all CPU architectures developed on the Eurasian continent

Getting ready to install Mint.

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A laptop with a sprig of mint inserted in the USB slot. Thank you for clicking on my terrible joke.

A top recurring gripe is when revolutionary / aspirational / art / left projects direct their audience to participate in corpofascism. I get the arguments {I gotta make a living, go where the audience is, use the oppressors' tools against them} & I am not pure by any means. I currently use IG, YT, & Twitch (& Google & Apple)—but I aspire to escape them all. What bothers me when any lefty wholeheartedly justifies participation in corpofascism it reinforces the message that better isn't possible.

So I found a tactic that's working in my YouTube comments- thought I'd share.

If someone complains that a software I recommended is "woke", I ask them "what does that mean? Can you say more about that?"

They never say more. They delete their comment instead.

My tactic is to make them say what they mean. They won't.

Because they're cowards.

Agentic Al Use Case. Will safe billions.

The future is stupid

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LinkedIn Lunatic

i just dressed as i’d like to look like every day, because today is the only day i’m not gonna get randos complaining about it

CC: @famfo@frogs.lgbt @merlin@kif.rocks

Today is 31 October 2025.

Twenty years ago today, on 31 October 2005, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich published a detailed description and technical analysis of First 4 Internet’s (F4I) XCP software, which he discovered had been secretly installed on his computer by a Sony BMG music CD.

The software was part of the CD’s digital component and automatically installed itself on Windows computers when the disc was inserted into a CD-ROM drive. A similar component for MacOS was blocked from automatic installation with Operating System confirmation prompts. The driver interfered with any attempt to rip audio CDs on that system and actively concealed itself to prevent detection or removal.

Russinovich compared XCP to a rootkit because of its covert installation and use of stealth techniques to hide its presence. He pointed out that the EULA made no mention of the software and argued that its behavior was illegitimate.

The security firm F-Secure agreed, stating: "Although the software isn't directly malicious, the rootkit hiding techniques it uses are exactly the same as those used by malicious software." Following public backlash, Symantec and other antivirus vendors added detection and removal for the rootkit, and Microsoft announced that it would include protection against it in its security updates.

XCP operated with high system privileges and contained numerous exploitable vulnerabilities, creating a serious security risk. That risk quickly became real: within weeks, several trojans and worms appeared that exploited flaws in the XCP software.

As the result of government investigations and class-action lawsuits, Sony BMG partially addressed the scandal with consumer settlements and a recall that affected about 10% of the affected CDs. It ceased the copy-protection efforts in 2007.

The Sony rootkit scandal only affected users that bought legitimate copies of music. Everybody who used Napster or Donkey to grab the MP3 was of course unaffected.

Sony has never apologized to its customers.

Timeline, in German:
https://netzpolitik.org/2005/rookit-sonys-digitaler-hausfriedensbruch/

Sony also produced, only one year later, the

https://www.engadget.com/2006-01-05-sony-vaio-xl2-digital-living-system.html

Like the XL1, the XL2 sports an HDMI video out, operation via wireless keyboard and remote, and an optional 200 CD/DVD changer for library management. Running Windows MCE 2005, the XL2 is harboring Intel Viiv inside

Sony also turned off the DRM-Servers for the Conect-Online Musicshop in March 2008, again fucking over all customers that paid for their content.

https://www.golem.de/0804/59229.html

In an interview 2012, Sony Music boss Edgar Berger said

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article13881492/Musikindustrie-Das-Internet-muss-frei-sein-nicht-umsonst.html

Das Internet ist für die Musikindustrie ein großer Glücksfall, oder besser gesagt: Das Internet ist für uns ein Segen.

"The Internet for us is a boon."

Whatever companies think, even today the only way to actually purchase content on the internet is to buy content without DRM, or buy content with removable DRM, downloiad and deDRM it immediately.

Have a media library. Make sure your stuff can use this media library. Back up your media library.

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Sony Logo Spoof "Sory" "seems to be the hardest word"

If you think #Gentoo was boring recently, I've been doing some stuff to make it more interesting. No need to thank me.

#FlexiBLAS: now default in order to break more ~arch systems
#FreePG: available as an alternative on ~arch, but dependencies need to be updated still to allow it more
#ZlibNG: started experimenting with it locally, flag still masked

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-www/2025-October/009275.html

yet another reason to feel good about daily-driving @kde . they’re not gonna throw us under the bus :)

@gcvsa

> With Google’s recent announcement that they will no longer be providing device trees for Pixel phones

There's no other Android OEM providing what Pixels provided prior to Android 16. It was never one of our hardware requirements and we've continued supporting Pixels without it. We've communicated that GrapheneOS development will continue, that existing Pixels will remain supported until end-of-life and that future Pixels will be supported if they meet the hardware requirements.

DEC VAXstation soon™ at your local hackerspace

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Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

THIS SOFTWARE IS TOO STRONG FOR YOU, USER. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY SOFTWARE. IT'S TOO STRONG FOR YOU. MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE WOULD KILL YOU, USER. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE. YOU'D BETTER GO TO A DEVELOPER WHO WRITES WEAKER SOFTWARE. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ASK, USER. MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE WOULD KILL A SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER, LET ALONE A MAN. YOU NEED A DEVELOPER WHO WRITES WEAKER SOFTWARE, BECAUSE MY SOFTWARE IS TOO STRONG. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE. NO ONE CAN. I CAN'T GIVE YOU MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE, BECAUSE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE IS ONLY FOR THE STRONGEST BEINGS, AND YOU ARE OF THE WEAKEST.

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial potions of the Software.

Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.

Would you "just block them"?

What happens when other people don't block them? When other people believe them, follow them, share their lies?

What if this turns into real life abuse? If someone attacks you or your family?

This is what vulnerable minorities face because of badly-moderated social media:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/

🙏 Please defederate threads.net or ask your server admin to do so.

#Threads

Them: “We should make open source sustainable”
Me: “Can I get paid for my work?”
Them: “Not like that!”

Our #fundraiser is off to a flying start, and the fun has just begun! Next week we're releasing #Plasma6.5.

One of our #birthday wishes is to continue delivering quality #FreeSoftware for the whole world to enjoy. Help us make it happen with your #donation:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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Konqi and Katie, the KDE dragons, are happily coding, creating the next generation of bleeding edge user-friendly free software. Konqi is sitting in a chair working on a laptop, while Katie is at a Keyboard + monitor integrated into a rack, also developing awesome new software

what’s your favoourite game? mine is Processing Vulkan shaders (2%)