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 ...
 * Setting timezone to UTC+2 ...
Starting about-me runlevel
 * Greeting user ...
Welcome to my page! (doasu.dev)
snac login: me
Password:
Last login: this week (localhost)
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Every now and again I get asked why I use Gentoo, and I usually say that it's the perfect OS for me, or that does what I want it to do. (Though, sometimes I go on rambling for hours... )
I think that this article conveys the point of Gentoo really well ( much better than I do :p ), so if you're curious, give it a read!

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116650337504283427
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116554856666136859

Huge thank you to the Gentoo community for their exceptional work

CC: @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com @rose@snac.pinkro.se

unfortunately, afaik you don't get push notifs via the masto api, so you either have to poll, or get them via ntfy.sh/telegram/email

Trump administration undoes civil rights settlements that found discrimination against trans students

https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-trans-student-settlements-reversed

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!

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Krita Maintainer Halla posting that reads: “Speaking as the Krita maintainer, I don’t want us to accept any LLM-generated code into Krita. Some may say, as long as the contributor understands the code it’s fine, but that’s a fallacy. No programmer really fully understands the code they are working with (otherwise bugzilla would be empty); but with LLM-generated code they haven’t even put any thought into it. That code will be unmaintainable. And that’s even completely apart from the fact that using LLM’s to generate code lowers your cognitive capacity, burns up the planet, destroys water sources all over the world and takes away from people what fits them best: being creative together with other humans. The right thing to do could be to, after you’ve experimented in this environmentally-disastrous way, to describe the feature you reached and wanted and make a wish item in bugzilla, or discuss it here, and then let people who can code implement it in a responsible way.”

@circus_maximus @downey @Torx Android already has a hardware attestation system open to everyone unlike this centralized system. Volla, Murena and iodé made a centralized system on top of the Android hardware attestation API to permit their own products while forbidding others. They're not enabling anything which wasn't already possible and are fully dependent on standard Android hardware attestation. Unified Attestation is anti-competitive and it clearly isn't legal.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116239523775374959

GrapheneOS » 🌐 2026-03-16
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

Android provides a standard hardware attestation system with support for alternate operating systems via allowing their verified boot key fingerprints. It's mainly used with Google's root of trust and remote key provisioning service but the API supports alternative roots of trust.

Volla's Unified Attestation is fully built on Android's hardware attestation API. It solely exists to create a centralized authority and service determining what's allowed under their control.

https://mastodon.social/@volla/116238706890314617

Volla » 🌐 2026-03-16
@volla@mastodon.social

🔐 Introducing: Unified Attestation
An open-source project for verifying the integrity of Android apps—as an alternative to Google's Play Integrity.

The goal is to make apps such as banking and payment apps usable on independent Android systems without relying on Google services.

We invite developers, ROM projects, and app providers to get involved.

https://uattest.net/

#Volla #VollaOS #OpenSource #software #hardware #Privacy #Security #DeGoogle

helene started clickbaiting her followers here into Typst. When that did not work, she noticed the tremendous amount of note takers and is now exploring how #Typst could be their best solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Q7r7Y_wBg

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Helene pointing to "Notes for growth" with a very much larger sign in the background. Also has the Exhausted Ben Affleck meme in a screenshot of a Typst Bluesky post in reply to her

Three days left to get the Windows-free Defenestrated Edition of "Networking for System Administrators!" Get the skills you need while protecting your Unix purity!

Once the Kickstarter is over, it's gone forever.

https://mwl.io/ks

Alternate code forges be like:

1. Let's offer this alternate VCS, so all the #git haters come to us.
2. Oh no, there's not much money in git haters. Let's offer git as well.
3. This alternate VCS is too much effort. Let's discontinue hosting it and tell our users to switch to our git hosting.
4. Why did all our users to move back to #GitHub?

#Bitbucket #Launchpad

Every time you visit LinkedIn in Chrome, a hidden routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software characteristics about your device, encrypts the resulting fingerprint, and attaches it to every API request you make during your session.
https://thenextweb.com/news/linkedin-browsergate-extension-scanning-privacy-fingerprint

Anthropic lost a class action suit for scraping books. Writers can register with Anthropic to be compensated for their pillaging of our copyrights.

The compensation system was AI-coded.

Anthropic can't keep track of our submissions. They don't know who wrote what.

Their customer support is AI-driven. Send a mail! Log in to a nonexistent page! Resubmit and it'll be fine!

This will be fine.

Feel free to take a look.

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/snacwer/

Source code:
https://codeberg.org/fidiben/SnacWer

X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet.

Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet.

Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't.

(WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)

If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

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Excerpt from the linked document. It reads "The AI Guidance states that authors may claim copyright protection only “for their own contributions” to such works, and they must identify and disclaim AI-generated parts of the works"

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Excert from the linked document: Three copyright registration denials highlighted by the Copyright Office illustrate that, in general, the office will not find human authorship where an AI program generates works in response to user prompts: 1. Zarya of the Dawn: A February 2023 decision that AI-generated illustrations for a graphic novel were not copyrightable, although the human-authored text of the novel and overall selection and arrangement of the images and text in the novel could be copyrighted. 2. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial: A September 2023 decision that an artwork generated by AI and then modified by the applicant could not be copyrighted, since the applicant failed to identify and disclaim the AI-generated portions of the work as required by the AI Guidance. 3. SURYAST: A December 2023 decision that an artwork generated by an AI system combining a “base image” (an original photo taken by the applicant) and a “style image” the applicant selected (Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night) could not be copyrighted, since the AI system was “responsible for determining how to interpolate [i.e., combine] the base and style images.”

#psa

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DO NOT TALK TO COMPUTERS Should you ever find yourself in the company of a computer attempting to communicate, do not engage. Talk to computers damages your health. Educational poster

For all the Proton fans

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A screenshot saying Proton helped FBI unmask a protestor

for context, I opened a pull request with Arc<SyncRwLock<HashMap<TxnKey, Receiver<Option<Result<send_transaction_message::v1::Response>>>>>>

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.

Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500

This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

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A screenshot from thelocalstack.eu // THE 17 COMPANIES THAT TOUCH YOUR FACE Persona maintains a public list of subprocessors — third-party companies that process your personal data on their behalf. Here's the ful list: COMPANY WHAT THEY DO WITH YOUR DATA LocATION Anthropic Data Extraction and Analysis San Francisco, USA Openal Data Extraction and Analysis San Francisco, USA Grogeloud Data Extraction and Analysis San Jose, USA AWS Infrastructure, Image Processing Houston, USA Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure as a Service Mountain View, USA Resistant Al Document Analysis New York, USA FingerprintJs Device Analysis Chicago, USA MongoDB Database Services New York, USA Snowflake Database Services Bozeman, USA Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine Mountain View, USA Confluent ETL Services Mountain View, USA DBT ETL Services Philadelphia, USA Sigma Computing Data Analytics. San Francisco, USA Tableau Data Analytics. Seattle, USA Stripe Gredit Card Processing South San Francisco, USA Twilio Communication APs (Phone, SMS) Denver, USA Persona Identities Canada Gustomer Support & Development Toronto, Canada

people think LLMs are good at rubber duckying and dont write down their thought process or talk to a rubber ducky like bro you could save the tokens
save the planet buy a duck

Alright fedi, just got back from the Nix Store, ended up buying /etc/nixos#nixosConfigurations.Infini-FRAMEWORK.config.system.build.toplevel

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An extremely long receipt, starting with "Nix Store", "Everyone's favorite package store", "You were looking for: /etc/nixos#nixosConfigurations.Infini-FRAMEWORK.config.system.build.toplevel", "Your closure today:", Then the entire NixOS path closure for that flake output, totaling 5930 store paths

Tiredmoding rn

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A digital sketch of a girl leaning back in her chair with one leg up She's described as: - too lazy to use an agent - doesn't know what's OpenClaw - writes 2 months of code in one stimulant hyperfocus - attention span too short to read AI output - would rather sleep

who else

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A close-up of a piece of sheet music featuring the text "Suddenly very gay" above a musical staff with notes.

Three years ago I blogged about #nuget serving outdated #curl packages.

They then removed the packages I found.

I checked nuget again *today* and immediately found a nine year old curl package that is downloaded at the rate of 1,000 times/week from there... with **64** known vulnerabilities.

The blog post from back then: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/02/the-curl-nuget-story/