Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kopptisch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kopptisch</span></a></span> if that alone isn't evidence <em>no <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Government</span></a> in the world should use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> products and services</em>, then IDK what will be!</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BanGAFAMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BanGAFAMs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GAFAMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GAFAMs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BanWindows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BanWindows</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Winfows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winfows</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BanCCSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BanCCSS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CCSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCSS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MandateOpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MandateOpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SaaS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaaS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a></p>
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manetta<p>Just posted my first post ever on a forum 👀 : [discuss] permapublishing </p><p><a href="https://bbs.permacomputing.net/thread/7/%5bdiscuss%5d-permapublishing-1/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bbs.permacomputing.net/thread/</span><span class="invisible">7/%5bdiscuss%5d-permapublishing-1/</span></a></p><p>The post is actually not really "mine", it emerged from a collective interest to think about <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> in <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> practices, which we discussed during the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@prepostprint" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>prepostprint</span></a></span> gathering in Paris today and yesterday.</p>
Orion Ussner kidder<p>Hey, quick note to Linux people and other computer techies: "ricing" a system is a SUPER racist term. It comes from "rice rockets," itself a SUPER racist term for motorcycles from Asia, specifically Japan. If you use it, people will assume you're a filthy, rotten racist.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
// foss.events<p>New on // foss.events: preCICE Workshop by preCICE team on 08-12 September 2025 in Helmut-Schmidt Universität Hamburg in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hamburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamburg</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> </p><p>Find out more on <a href="https://foss.events/2025/09-08-precice-workshop.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foss.events/2025/09-08-precice</span><span class="invisible">-workshop.html</span></a></p><p>Official account: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@precice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>precice</span></a></span> <br>Official hashtag(s): <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/preCICE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preCICE2025</span></a> </p><p>Call for participation is running until 31.05.2025</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>events</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a></p>
LibreQoS<p>Thank you very much Jon Ingi Ingimundarson & <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Lj%C3%B3slei%C3%B0arinn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ljósleiðarinn</span></a> 🇮🇸- <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ReykjavikFibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReykjavikFibre</span></a>, for your kind words. We will continue to carry Dave Täht's legacy further and we all together will improve the future of connectivity for everybody in the world <3</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7314060413615132673/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l</span><span class="invisible">i:activity:7314060413615132673/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RFC8290" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFC8290</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BandwidthIsALIE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BandwidthIsALIE</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DaveTaht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DaveTaht</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sch_CAKE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sch_CAKE</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FQ_CoDel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FQ_CoDel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LibreQoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreQoS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/schCAKE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schCAKE</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FQCoDel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FQCoDel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bufferbloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bufferbloat</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/latency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latency</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jitter</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenWrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenWrt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kernel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/schCAKE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schCAKE</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FQCoDel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FQCoDel</span></a></p>
LibreQoS<p>Thank you very much for honoring <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/mtaht" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mtaht</span></a></span>'s legacy, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@TheNewStack" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TheNewStack</span></a></span>! </p><p><a href="https://thenewstack.io/dave-taht-who-sped-up-networks-more-than-youll-ever-know-has-died/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thenewstack.io/dave-taht-who-s</span><span class="invisible">ped-up-networks-more-than-youll-ever-know-has-died/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sch_CAKE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sch_CAKE</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FQ_CoDel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FQ_CoDel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DaveTaht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DaveTaht</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LibreQoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreQoS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/schCAKE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schCAKE</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FQCoDel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FQCoDel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/latency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latency</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bufferbloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bufferbloat</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jitter</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WiFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WiFi</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kernel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LinuxKernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxKernel</span></a></p>
jack<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Freifunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freifunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/M%C3%BCnchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>München</span></a> bietet nun auch eine <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Hegdgedoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegdgedoc</span></a>-Instanz, um gemeinsam in Echtzeit an Dokumenten zu arbeiten:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ffmuc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ffmuc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unplugtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unplugtrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/digitaleselbstbestimmung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitaleselbstbestimmung</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a><br><a href="https://ffmuc.net/freifunkmuc/2025/04/04/hedgedoc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ffmuc.net/freifunkmuc/2025/04/</span><span class="invisible">04/hedgedoc/</span></a></p>
// foss.events<p>Wishing everyone a great time at Linuxwochen Eisenstadt starting today in Hochschule Burgenland in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Eisenstadt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eisenstadt</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Austria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austria</span></a> </p><p>Find out more on <a href="https://foss.events/2025/04-05-linuxwochen-eisenstadt.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foss.events/2025/04-05-linuxwo</span><span class="invisible">chen-eisenstadt.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>events</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a></p>
// foss.events<p>Wishing everyone a great time at 19 Sesja Linuksowa by Akademickie Stowarzyszenie Informatyczne starting today in Politechnika Wrocławska, budynek D-20, Centrum Kongresowe in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Wroc%C5%82aw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wrocław</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poland</span></a> </p><p>Find out more on <a href="https://foss.events/2025/04-05-19-sesja-linuksowa.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foss.events/2025/04-05-19-sesj</span><span class="invisible">a-linuksowa.html</span></a></p><p>Official account: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ASI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ASI</span></a></span> <br>Official hashtag(s): <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SesjaLinuksowa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SesjaLinuksowa</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>events</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a></p>
Orion Ussner kidder<p>Okay, I'm trying to set up a Brother printer on Debian. The open drivers don't allow me to use the scanner, so I have to use Brother's, and the process involves manually entering the printer's IP address.</p><p>I cannot figure out how to find a printer's IP address. I have searched, and the instructions are pretty baffling.</p><p>Any suggestions? Help very much appreciated. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
Yet another Josh :donor:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Thank you for delivering MULTIPLE talks here in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bloomingtonIN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloomingtonIN</span></a> and for signing our books!</p><p>As you signed <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> , "Disenshittify or die!"</p><p>So, a story about how I <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/disenshittify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disenshittify</span></a> ... by force!</p><p>This story starts when I was working at <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/IndianaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndianaUniversity</span></a> for <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UITS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UITS</span></a> in IT Client Services. My job was "Special Projects". I worked for a director and basically made magic happen.</p><p>Early November 2014, someone from a human interface robotics lab handed me a new piece of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> called the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ThalmicMyo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThalmicMyo</span></a> . It was an upper armband with 8 myoelectric sensors that could measure electrical muscle function, and do stuff on a computer with that data! The base idea was that you could do the following: hand wave outward, inward, spread out, fist, and thumbs up.</p><p>So, being CrankyLinuxUser, I wanted a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> toolchain to get and do my own thing with it. Whoops, only worked for <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MSWindows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSWindows</span></a> . </p><p>Forum requests were met with silence. "Sorry you cant get the data", was the refrain. Lies. </p><p>So I used my <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/IU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IU</span></a> account and requested academic access. They IMMEDIATELY chimed up and said that access could easily be granted at $5000/year . UH huh. </p><p>So, I made them a target. </p><p>Took a few weeks. BUT I eventually got a shitty BUT working toolchain on Linux to use really basic machine learning. This is just a linear regression k-nearest-neighbors. No LLM fuckery. Theirs could do 5 gestures. Mine could do 10.</p><p>I initially released it on <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> or YCombinator, not realizing that Thalmic Myo was VC funded by YC. And holy shit that was a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MartinHench" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MartinHench</span></a> moment where I fell into a WHOLE LOT OF SHIT. My article was auto-killed. My account on HN was shadowbanned. Ruh roh.</p><p>I had some contacts at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hackaday.social/@hackaday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hackaday</span></a></span> and I sent them my findings, my responses from HN, and my repo... and a really hostile Youtube video (one of my gestures was a middle finger to Thalmic).</p><p>On Nov 18, 2014, at 730am eastern, my phone blew up, figuratively speaking. Ping. Ping ping. PIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG until 12pm.</p><p>The page is still up on HaD, by the way. <a href="https://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-developer-access/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmi</span><span class="invisible">c-labs-shuts-down-free-developer-access/</span></a> </p><p>At 12pm or thereabouts, Thalmic Myo announced that they made an official decision to "allow raw data access"! I was not only successful for my hardware, but hardware freedom for <strong>EVERYONE</strong> with this platform.</p><p>Normally, the story would stop. I handed back the borrowed hardware to the lab that loaned it to me. I know they were able to do some cool prosthetic automation with it. But that's not my specialty. I made it so they could. My director permitted me to buy a few for our office to continue and loan them out as well.</p><p>...... 3 months later</p><p>I get a call on my office phone doing a customer survey. Told them that the hardware was great. "What about our API?" I told them that I made my own, and I was the one that forced your company to open source 3 months back. Ive never heard silence so LOUD. She asked me to stand by.</p><p>She transferred me to the CTO. We had a spirited conversation. I basically told him that I think ignoring the FLOSS and hacker community was your first and fatal mistake. You were a hardware business. You can do the VC thing and gatekeep, but that just angers people. And what you were in was a MASSIVE awesome piece of unique hardware nobody else had. He told me that their original idea was a powerpoint slide advance. I gave him perhaps 6 different major ideas to jump off on. </p><p>Nothing else happened, for a while. </p><p>3 more months later.......</p><p>I get a reddit DM out of the blue. Saw my name, and connected the dots. (S)He was an engineer at Thalmic during the time I released my Linux FLOSS code. They told me that I basically flip-turned the whole company upside down. I broke their business model of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Extraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extraction</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> and forced <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> on them without a choice. They thanked me for my contribution. </p><p>Later n, the company got acquired or died. I'm not sure. I moved on and no longer had any of the hardware. Although, the basic idea is actually pretty cheap to construct these days. The only hard part is the AgCl electrode plating.</p><p>So when people ask what they can do, there's a LOT we can do. And a SINGLE PERSON can change the course of history. Sure, sometimes being in the right place at the right time is a big part, but there's so many of these moments.</p><p>Just wanted to contribute back <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> to the movement you've founded.</p>
Orion Ussner kidder<p>Hey, Debian people: my Software app just downloaded Gnome 47 and 48, but Deb 12/Bookworm ("Stable"), so I don't *think* I can actually upgrade to those new Gnome versions. Anybody know what's going on? Is this in anticipation of Deb 13/Trixie?</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
Alexandre B A Villares<p>Hi folks! Some of you are generously offering recurring donations for which I'm extremely grateful. </p><p>It pains me to keep asking here, but things have been very hard economically for me lately, and are getting even harder in the next months as I'm teaching less classes while also being pressed for time trying to finish my PhD.</p><p>So, if you can, and would like to help me, please donate using:<br><a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5B4MZ78C9J724" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt</span><span class="invisible">on_id=5B4MZ78C9J724</span></a><br><a href="https://liberapay.com/Villares" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">liberapay.com/Villares</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://wise.com/pay/me/alexandrev562" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wise.com/pay/me/alexandrev562</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://pynews.com.br/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://pynews.com.br/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://pynews.com.br/tags/CreativeCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCoding</span></a></p>
Yann Trividic<p>Tonight, we have a <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@prepostprint" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>prepostprint</span></a></span> roundtable about PPPiracy at Césure, Paris! </p><p>With Marie Lechner, RYBN (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@NbYr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NbYr</span></a></span>) Benjamin Cadon (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@b01" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>b01</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@lalabomedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lalabomedia</span></a></span>) & Spideralex (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://systerserver.town/@spideralex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>spideralex</span></a></span>).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/print" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>print</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>piracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
LibreQoS<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://noc.social/@cloudflare" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cloudflare</span></a></span> Thank you very much for this lovely tribute to our beloved <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/mtaht" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mtaht</span></a></span>! <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BandwidthIsALIE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BandwidthIsALIE</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RFC8290" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFC8290</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FQ_CoDel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FQ_CoDel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sch_CAKE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sch_CAKE</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FQCoDel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FQCoDel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/schCAKE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schCAKE</span></a></p>
brume ⏚ 🤔 ⛵ 🐧 ☮️ 🇵🇸<p>The <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary <br><a href="https://kolektiva.media/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.media/w/ra7bfqXCyqBF</span><span class="invisible">n7dSFhneFy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a></p>
// foss.events<p>Wishing everyone a great time at Drupal Iberia Cáceres by Comunidad Drupal starting today in Complejo Cultural San Francisco in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/C%C3%A1ceres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cáceres</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a> </p><p>Find out more on <a href="https://foss.events/2025/04-04-drupal-iberia-caceres.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foss.events/2025/04-04-drupal-</span><span class="invisible">iberia-caceres.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>events</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a></p>
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱<p>My first W3C specification has been posted by the W3C. Super excited, cant wait to get the others in!</p><p><a href="https://www.w3.org/submissions/semantic-versioning/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">w3.org/submissions/semantic-ve</span><span class="invisible">rsioning/</span></a></p><p>Read more about it here: <a href="https://cleverthis.com/news/clever-semantic-versioning-w3c-submission/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cleverthis.com/news/clever-sem</span><span class="invisible">antic-versioning-w3c-submission/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/W3C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>W3C</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/CleverThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CleverThis</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SemVer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SemVer</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SemanticVersioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SemanticVersioning</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foss</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/CS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CS</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a></p>
Abnormal Human Being<p>Blenderdumbass, the developer of Dani's Race - a <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> - just dropped an amazing recap of the journey of developing it so far:</p><p><a href="https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/98qG82wEvE4voKHn6xmB1w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peer.madiator.cloud/w/98qG82wE</span><span class="invisible">vE4voKHn6xmB1w</span></a></p><p>Check it out, and give him some love! He is really doing a lot of work for advancing <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/libre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libre</span></a> culture!</p><p><a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GameDev</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dev</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/IndieGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieGame</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/indiegames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegames</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/Blender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blender</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/gta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gta</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/gtasanandreas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gtasanandreas</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/danisrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>danisrace</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/racing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racing</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/libregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libregame</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/libreculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libreculture</span></a> <a href="https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a></p>
kundu 🌱🔻🐧<p>Me acabo de enterar en plena migración a compose de mi app de rutas, que osmdroid ha sido descontinuado.<br>Es una pena porque era una libreria maravillosa para quitar a Google de en medio.<br>Conocéis alguna alternativa que tome el testigo?</p><p>🇬🇧 Do you know any viable alternative to osmdroid for map building in Android?</p><p><a href="https://masto.es/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/osmdroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osmdroid</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/AndroidDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndroidDev</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/Androiddevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Androiddevelopment</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/androidapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>androidapp</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/googlemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>googlemaps</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/mapstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapstodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>
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