“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”

—Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA

well, up until this week, China

(you can also check statuses at https://slrpnk.net/instances )

(don’t know how amenable they are to individuals versus corporations (or just affordability in general), but a recent news article mentions Ukraine is looking at Govsatcom, Eutelsat, and Iris2)

(one of the older tropes in Linux-land is giving new life to old hardware just by replacing Windows with Linux)

(one advantage of Flatpaks over AppImage is Flatpaks bundle their libraries – most AppImages won’t run on musl libc systems)

(there’s also an older, but still working, protocol called packet radio – does require a bit more technical expertise though)

an extreme option could be something like the Varvara / Uxn virtual machine by the Hundred Rabbits collective (created after having to deal with Adobe updates and Xcode updates over a barely functioning cell connection) – emulators are available for all sorts of hardware

blog: Weathering Software Winter | youtube: Weathering Software Winter

also [email protected] (most active) and [email protected] (less active)

announcing Discord Classic and Discord Immortal

Johnny Wander – Ananth (from MacHall) and Yuko Ota

(insert his rant about Adobe’s abusive practices.)

there’s also James Lee’s take

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

• “Law Firms Called Out for ‘Caving to Trump’ by Viral Student Spreadsheet”
• “Law Firms (That Were Called Out) Lobby for Better Designations”
• “Law Firms Want Better Designations Because Students are Declining Offers from Firms that Caved”

with the majority here, I just use distro default / automatic setup in installer

LONG ago, I did the whole hand-crafted thing, obsessing over exactly how large each partition had to be, but with increasing speed and lowering prices of storage, this attention to detail now seems pretty irrelevant:

• hda split into /boot, /tmp, (swap), /, /opt, /usr, /var
• hdb split into (swap) and /home

✅ I have not said mean things about Erdoğan

Pope loses will to live after meeting JD Vance

(kept reading that as “Eggs Bunny”)

The Latin American Los Angeles gang crisis is real.