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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @rileytestut@mastodon.social
Building emulators and app stores for iPhone with shanegill.io
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 05 February 2026 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )
If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:
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#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
Since some folks seem to need the point made razor-fine: Making a copy-pasta collage in MS Paint using pictures you found in Google Image Search is more artistic and honest than anything you ask a generative model to construct on your behalf.
I promised to share a little process overview of how I build compositions. I am right now working on a commission piece that requires lots of details. I am not done with it yet, but maybe I can share some steps below while I progress if anyone is curious. So far, I spent almost 19 hours working on the sketch and I estimate it to take around 55 hours. I’ll share more screenshots in the comments.
uspol, negative
Something that's probably impossible to say on the "free speech platform":
Homan and Noem are monsters and Charlie Kirk had it coming.
Me: actually, this month is going to be ok even with dental expenses…
HMRC: 🎶 who’s ready to pay their taaaa-xes 🎵
"In a sick and twisted way, Republicans have proved President Donald Trump right when he said that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes."
~ Emily Singer
"In the wake of a masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shooting and killing an unarmed U.S. citizen during an immigration raid in Minneapolis, GOP lawmakers have all lined up behind Trump and the agent, all while making vile and defamatory statements about the victim. …
The United States’ descent into fascism is truly horrifying."
칼싸움놀이 하고 싶으시면 이런걸 사시면 좋습니다
https://www.woodenswords.com/Dussack_Leather_Version_D1_4_Pack_p/dussack1x4.htm
"On the Sunday shows, both immigration czar Tom Homan and [Kristi] Noem refused to acknowledge that ICE should not kill an unarmed civilian in her car."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #KristiNoem #TomHoman #fascism
/1
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/ices-reign-of-terror-and-violence
"The baseless attacks against Good are a coordinated, brazen and callous government propaganda effort. The goal is to convince Americans to believe an official narrative over objective evidence — including video of the incident.
It is an ongoing campaign to legitimize the homicide of an American based on misinformation."
~ Judd Legum
is abadidea farming rank points off small children who just got their first Mario Kart for Christmas? 🤫
"On the Sunday shows, both immigration czar Tom Homan and [Kristi] Noem refused to acknowledge that ICE should not kill an unarmed civilian in her car."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #KristiNoem #TomHoman #fascism
/1
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/ices-reign-of-terror-and-violence
RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/115883520001348775
Which is better, though?
Iraq war veteran Mark Hertling tells ICE to take the masks off, noting that
"ICE won’t even match the courage and professionalism of the Iraqi Police."
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #fascism
/15
"Over the weekend, in response to nationwide outrage over the brutal murder of Renee Good by an ICE agent, the Trump regime did not back down. It doubled down instead. … The walls are closing in on Trump, and he finds himself increasingly cornered."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #fascism
/16
RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/115883520001348775
Which is better, though?
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Obviously KNOME.
This was my test machine for getting Openstep 4.2 working, it's a Core 2 Duo. Getting it working on the Vortex86 box was difficult as it doesn't have a floppy drive or CD-ROM. I've installed Openstep a few times, but getting a colour Video driver working was the trickiest part.
is abadidea farming rank points off small children who just got their first Mario Kart for Christmas? 🤫
Wisst ihr, was die Krankenkassen enorm entlasten würde? Wenn wir das Diktat der Frühaufsteher beenden und die Leute gemäß ihres Rhythmuses leben lassen würden. Auch 30h Vollzeit statt 40h, faire Löhne, soziale Sicherheit für alle, kurz ein echter Sozialstaat, der die Menschen wie Menschen behandelt und nicht wie Verfügungsmasse.
Wir wären alle deutlich gesünder.
The frogs are already boiling.
Both KDE and GNOME provide a user experience that's so vastly superior to Windows and macOS that the tech media doesn't know what to do or say anymore. They're still holding on to their stale, early 2000s narratives about desktop Linux, incapable of adjusting their preconceived notions to the reality of today.
The reality that both Windows and macOS have become unusable trashfires while KDE and GNOME left them in the dust years ago and continue to improve by leaps and bounds every year just does not compute for these people.
RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/115883520001348775
Which is better, though?
Hey ihr Lieben, hier gibt's ne (Bundestags-)Petition für bessere Erforschung von ME/CFS, die zu scheitern droht:
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_17/Petition_184056.$$$.a.u.html
Ich freu mich, wenn ihr die zwei Minuten investieren könnt, sie mitzuzeichnen. Nur noch bis zum 15.01.!
Nein zu M365 in Bayern.
Keine Bürger-Daten in US-Clouds.
If the fate of Threema is not an argument for we need decentral and open source i do not know what is....
If the fate of Threema is not an argument for we need decentral and open source i do not know what is....
Nein zu M365 in Bayern.
Keine Bürger-Daten in US-Clouds.
ICYMI: NYC*BUG had a bonus video meeting over the weekend:
Video meeting - upcoming 4th edition of The Book of PF, CRA and more, by Peter Hansteen
Meeting Sldies
* https://www.nycbug.org/media/sbom.pdf
* https://www.nycbug.org/media/nycbug_20260110.pdf
Event Video
* Peertube / Toobnix.org:
https://toobnix.org/wbQPtKXKqJMdeYDbzhrrkEa
* Youtube:
https://youtu.be/HOCsvcCm1Ec
Please visit https://www.nycbug.org/ for more details.
#runbsd #pf #cra #informingthesuits
公式タブ譜付き動画あるんだ
Aooo スターサイン コード譜付き弾き語り動画🌠簡単アレンジver.なので真似して弾いてみてください ⸝⸝𖤐
https://youtube.com/shorts/zGpab9i1ABE
Spicy take:
The EU really needs to drop the cookie warning banner rule already. It's making the internet a less safe place by making everyone used to just mindlessly clicking accept constantly rather than actually reading when there's important messages
The cookie banner was intended to discourage companies from using 3rd party cookies. Instead they just all use cookie banners and the users waste billions of hours clicking approve on them all.
dear fingers, please stop typing butter when I mean buffer
@c0debabec0de entity I am going to quit tech and open a breakfast diner called butter overrun
*rubbing eyes* I checked out a git-lfs-using git repository on a machine which, unbeknowst to me, did not have git lfs installed. I then realized the lfs files were the placeholder stubs.
So I installed git lfs and did `git lfs install`. Now I have git lfs, but this checkout on disk has the lfs placeholder files. The repository is gig-sized and I'd rather not re-clone
How do I force git to correct the placeholder files to real files? Is this "git smudge something something"
EDIT: git lfs pull
@Npars01Nicole Parsons 
@DaveMWilburnDave Wilburn 
yeah, I've used the technical debt point many times. 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow is right
@dkDmytri @DaveMWilburnDave Wilburn @pluralisticCory Doctorow
How hard will billionaires work to impose the AI world view on the globe?
To the same degree as religious zealots?
Centuries of dispute over irrelevant issues like "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"
A worldview that says human expertise is dead.
The worldview that says "Democracy is dead. The CEO of Koch Industries & Palantir own you."
The world view of "might makes right" and "power & wealth has no goal, only its self-perpetuation".
1/
Statement from Federal Reserve Chair
Link: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm?mod=ANLink
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589489
New addition to the Ben Brown Society for the Preservation of Max Headroom:
"Max Headroom Incident" trading cards from "G.A.S." which makes trading cards of random pop culture things.
누르지마
난 누르지말라고 했어
Bon #help on peut les trouver où, les slides des présentations du CCC ?
je cherche tout particulièrement celles de https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-persist-resist-stitch 😎
Édit : c'est bon !
Bon #help on peut les trouver où, les slides des présentations du CCC ?
je cherche tout particulièrement celles de https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-persist-resist-stitch 😎
Édit : c'est bon !
對於許多被法院選中、列在陪審名單中的人來說──不誇張地說──這可能是他們一生中，能夠掌握到最大權力的一次機會了。陪審員不只能夠決定被告有罪還是無罪──也就是動用國家資源改變一個人的人生──他們還有超自然的能力，能夠在事情發生之後，重新決定歷史是什麼。
Have you measured your cat today?
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Yes, I measured Sprockles: 50% purr, 50% floof
engl. slam dunk
dt. Schlammtunke
Your honor, my client pleads cringe
Normal people don't walk out of a hardware store at 10am on a Monday and thing "you know, I could just implement a PS2 GPU in Javascript..."
Both KDE and GNOME provide a user experience that's so vastly superior to Windows and macOS that the tech media doesn't know what to do or say anymore. They're still holding on to their stale, early 2000s narratives about desktop Linux, incapable of adjusting their preconceived notions to the reality of today.
The reality that both Windows and macOS have become unusable trashfires while KDE and GNOME left them in the dust years ago and continue to improve by leaps and bounds every year just does not compute for these people.
nutzloses wissen, wort
#Etymologie: "Balkon" hat tatsächlich mit "Balken" zu tun.
Bug fixes and improvements (derogatory).
Es cruncht im Gebälk
dear fingers, please stop typing butter when I mean buffer
Quincy ⁂
Misty
Paul Cantrell
