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

Charity Auction for Kansas Trans Folks and/or Minneapolis ICE Relief.

Related to my 1 April Kickstarter.

https://mwl.io/archives/24580

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my hand, holding something that's blacked out

Paulaner Cola is just bisexual juice

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The cola color scheme being black purple pink

@linux_is_best No, that's not how it's going to be at all. GrapheneOS is going to have our own updates and we won't have to depend on the stock OS updates being released. We already provide security updates months before Pixels. You know we already had all of the March 2026 updates for a while before today's release, right? We have a lot of the June 2026 and later patches already. We're shipping them way earlier than anyone else and will continue it. We'll ship Qualcomm, etc. stuff on time.

Narrator voice: "A common initialism in gamer culture, GG is shorthand for 'good girl' and is widely used for praise"

I like the fediverse :-)

a detail you probably didn't know: nowhere in any #curl documentation do we use the word "very". It is a banned word enforced by a CI check. This rule encourages us to rewrite and instead use more appropriate words. Makes us write better English.

@purpleidea We no longer care much about getting improvements upstream or broadly adopted outside GrapheneOS. We'd happily start using GPLv2 for more code. We're not going to include GPLv3 code in the OS itself though. We have no problem with GPLv3 code in apps we can include in our app repository but packaging a bunch of stuff is not a focus and we prefer having a separate project handle most of it right now.

What is the problem with us choosing the licenses which are the best fit for us?

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.

This year counts as #curl 30 years, counting from the first httpget 0.1 release in November 1996.

I'm thinking we could fly a special logo for the occasion on the #curl front page throughout the year.

Maybe *you* can make one that looks festive and still confident and trustworthy?

To trigger some thoughts, here's my take:

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curl logo, 30 years, 1996 - 2026

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/

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The logo of the "Keep Android Open" campaign is an Android robot dressed as Darth Vader. Across the top it says "I AM ALTERING THE DEAL" in all caps, and below the robot it says "Pray I don't alter it further". This is a reference to how Android acquired a massive catalog of apps be making access open to the platform back in the day, and Google assuring it would remain open, as opposed to the iOS platform which was (and still is) very restricted. And, of course, Star Wars.

The Cards Against Humanity people know how to play the room.

https://www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com/

@kouhai to download firmware updates. because of security vulnerabilities found in its internet connectivity module.

My favourite piece of internet today is the theory that Jesus was actually a type of yeast.

Turns water into wine
Floats on water
Makes bread for 5000 people
Put in a cave for 3 days and lo - he has risen!
Jesus was a sourdough starter.

Also this would imply: We should be calling him 'Mother' not 'Father'

I will not verify my identity or age for any online service, other than clicking on an "I am over 18" button, ever. I will simply stop using the service, if it is required.

I encourage you to do the same. It's not "for the children". It's to harvest even more information from you so corporations can try to squeeze even more money out of you and to be able to track you and everything you do.

@dan
- "My dishwasher is on the internet!"
- "Why is on the internet?"
- "To download software updates!"
- "Why does it need software updates?"
- "To fix security vulnerabilities!"
- "Why would it have security vulnerabilities?"
- "Because it's on the internet!"

Fun fact: in the last three months, Continuwuity has gone from 300 to 900 publicly-discoverable deployments. 25% of all new Matrix deployments are Continuwuity.

It's only a 10-month old project! That's crazy. It's not what I expected to happen with a side project I picked up at the end of my second year at uni with a bunch of random internet people when I wanted my strange IRC/discord/whatsapp replacement to keep working.

Thanks so much for all the support! At this point, I should be taking a break - but I know that I'll sneak in a few features into the upcoming releases that the wonderful team & community we've built will be making. It's a project we built to be bigger than any one person from the start, because it's a part of so many people.

Got reminded today how awful DRM can be. Huge thanks to @mwl for selling ebooks without it — I’m happy to pay for books, just don’t make me wrestle with Adobe IDs. Thanks for keeping it simple, Michael!

It's Paczki Day!

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Scarface, surrounded by packi, face covered in white sugar.

RE: https://techhub.social/@theoasisbbs/116086098666934794

I've been idly thinking about porting UNIX to the Color Computer 3 or Commodore 64.

There's a lot of PDP-11 assembly in the early releases which would need to be ported to C, though several were later rewritten in C. The assembler was ported to C in V8 and with all the time I've spent reading all its versions, it wouldn't be difficult to adapt it for a different architecture. But all the peripherals would be different, so I'd need to write a bunch of drivers. UNIX V7 or later would probably be easiest, as it had been generalized for porting at that point.

#retrocomputing #unix

The Oasis BBS » 🌐 2026-02-17
@theoasisbbs@techhub.social

C64UX v0.7 Released: Unix-inspired Shell and RAM Filesystem for the C64
#Commodore64 #C64 #C64UX #RetroComputing #6502 #AssemblyLanguage #OpenSource #Homebrew #VintageComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64ux-v0-7-released-unix-inspired-shell-and-ram-filesystem-for-the-c64/?fsp_sid=2565

Plasma Setup has had its first release, as part of KDE's Plasma 6.6 release! I'm so excited for people to start using it 🎉 😁

https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/02/17/2026/_plasma-setup-release

#kde #plasma #plasmasetup #foss

i got fired 😕
#getfedihired
over 30% of devs got the boot.

hit me up for #frontend #wcag #accessibillity #css #semanticWeb #informationArchitecture #solutionArchitect #componentLibraries

😳any help and pointers much appreciated. Primarily Oslo hybrid.

We've just released Continuwuity v0.5.5. Continuwuity is a chat server for communities that speaks Matrix - and as you can probably guess we've exploded in popularity over the past week or two. The amount of people in our community rooms doubled!

This release is mostly about bugfixes, but there are two things to get excited about. The first is that the last blocker for calling in the Element X mobile apps has been squished! If you've set up the prerequisite service, you can now make calls from your phone.

The other is that we've greatly improved the first run experience - registering a first account is easier, and contexual help is presented where possible.

I would heavily encourage reading the changelog, and upgrading. Again, welcome to all of our new community members!

https://forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuation/continuwuity/releases/tag/v0.5.5

Today is I love Free Software day, a day to thank all the people behind Free Software <3

At // foss.events we like to send a big thank you to all the people who help organise and running FOSS events throughout the year because creating healthy communities is just as important and sustainable as developing software!

https://ilovefs.org/

Check out the map by @fsfe to find a #ilovefs event near you:
https://mapforge.org/m/11171656

And don't forget to connect via official hashtag(s): #ilovefs

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A Screenshot taken from https://mapforge.org/m/11171656?nomenu=true#3.07/46.1/5.8/0/30 showing IloveFS events in Europe on an interactive map

On #IloveFS day, "This week in Plasma" brings the news that...

Plasma 6.6 is nearly ready for shipping! Look out for it next Tuesday.

... And videos in Plasma 6.7's SDDM login screens can be previewed in System Settings, KWin dialogs have been overhauled and polished, and much more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/14/this-week-in-plasma-finalizing-6.6/

#Plasma6 #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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A screenshot of the new Plasma 6.6. On the background of abstract-looking evergreens, you can see three open windows, one showing Plasma's System Setting utility on the left, KDE's software management app Discover in the center, and the calendar widget open in the bottom right hand corner. Along the bottom you can see Plasma's classic floating panel.

It’s arrived @wendynather

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ChatGPT Magic 8 Ball, with box and badge ‘AI SLOP IS NOT ART CHATBOTS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS’

Wishing everyone a great time at I Love Free Software Day happening now in Warszawski Hackerspace in #Warsaw, #Poland

Find out more on
https://hackerspace.pl/

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe #ilovefs @fsfe

kde needs to expand its branding outside of just software. i suggest we start with produce. we need kogurt, kheese, frozen kizza, vegekables, etc. this is how we will get mass user adoption

RE: https://meow.social/@chirpbirb/116014711339837040

We might not have frozen kizza in the store, but we have a lot of fancy accessories and clocks 😍

https://www.cafepress.com/shop/KDE

acct-user/initra-mf[-sleep] 🔜 40C3 boosted

taco, cultist bird/cat » 🌐 2026-02-04
@chirpbirb@meow.social

kde needs to expand its branding outside of just software. i suggest we start with produce. we need kogurt, kheese, frozen kizza, vegekables, etc. this is how we will get mass user adoption

Hear @bagder , Founder of The cURL project, discuss the rise of AI Slop in open source on @redmonk 's MonkCast. As one of the most vocal #oss maintainers confronting this issue (curl recently ended its bug bounty program due to the surge of low-quality AI submissions), Daniel offers a candid perspective on what AI code generation means for maintainers, contributors, and the future of open source: "it's important to not get stuck on the AI part but on the abuse part." https://redmonk.com/videos/daniel-stenberg-ai-onslop/

a tip for neurodivergent people who are looking for a job: use codeswitching

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ryan-sometimes: As an autistic/adhd person going through the job search process I’ve learned to phrase my autistic/adhd traits as corporate friendly things. Here’s some examples: I have trouble reading between the lines and picking up on implicit information? Actually, I’ve learned the importance of giving and receiving precise, specific instructions in order to avoid time consuming miscommunications. I’m easily bored with only one task? Actually, I have a curious mind and thrive in places with a wide range of tasks as I prefer dynamic environments where I can contribute to many projects. I have trouble with white lies that are merely social niceties? Actually, I prioritize a transparent work environment where we can tackle issues head-on. This way I don’t have to lie, but rather just spin my truth in a way that’s palatable to them.

Anyone wants to run a web forum with me?

I'm thinking of somewhere where we could talk about our projects, get inspired by others' work and generally keep eachother sane.

It's probably a bad idea but...

Are you using #Codeberg to host your favorite AI-assisted and otherwise vibecoded project because your desire for dopamine has utterly destroyed your willingness to learn new things? Do you neither care about how you're "flooding the room" of the free software ecosystem nor about the greater societal implications, insisting that "it is what it is"?

Check out #GitHub, the world's most popular AI-first platform! Copilot, annoying maintainers with slop, you'll fit just right in!