mastodon 4.7.3Digital activist & cultural shepard from Bergen, Norway. I spend my time shaking my fist towards the Silicon Valley barons while pushing free software and web social (previously known as the fediverse, or "Allheimen" in Norwegian). I also don't mind commercial software, as long as it runs on a libre operating system, as I do like me some modeled audio software and video games on Steam.
Have you noticed how many more accounts have been shilling for #Putin lately? Even on the #fediverse.
They say that Putin is not your enemy - but #European leaders. They say #Ukraine is #antidemocratic for not holding #elections when under #invasion and #MartialLaw. Memes upon memes of how "evil" #Zelensky is.
The #Kremlin is scared and dolling out the bot accounts apparently.
This one goes out to the #systemd haters.
En avsluttende melding til en politisk aktivist som takket meg for data råd på Signal i fjor:
«Inget problem 🫡 og husk: krypter eposten din, drikk masse vann og vær sikker der ute 🙂»
Dette rådet gjelder for alle.
People be like "noooo, we don't need a military defense complex." Please listen:
We need to make anti drone defenses part of our economy - and it's too expensive to be done through the private sector.
We can't put the genie back in the bottle. What we need is to secure every country from possible drone incursions.
That means military spending and industry.
Being Assassinated in Your Home by a Killer Robot Sent by a Fascist State Is No Longer Science Fiction
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/killer-robots-science-fiction
#Burnout is normalized in the #neoliberal race to the bottom. It's a societal design that capsizies society under the "designer state v manufacturing state" dichotomy.
Work that cannot be done by AI will be the only option - and it'll be back breaking #labour that will be added on top of the mind warping labour.
We're digging our own productive grave.
I swear to god. Some people shouldn't be #developers. If you can't secure your keys or manage credentials properly, please uninstall your #IDE. I mean it's for the best...
You're probably using #VSCode and have some nefarious extensions installed already - ffs.
A #hacker group is poisoning #OpenSource code at an unprecedented scale
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/a-hacker-group-is-poisoning-open-source-code-at-an-unprecedented-scale/
It for me? 🥺👉👈
Honestly, that it took this long ^^; We all know about #Wolfi & #ChainGuard bringing secure, #distroless container images to the masses - as they've been doing that for a couple of years now.
But #Fedora upping the ante by giving you a slim container base WITH all the solid RPMs they package is great! It adds competition and gives alternatives to the user - so yay!
Fedora Hummingbird Introduces a Container-Native Rolling Linux Variant
https://linuxiac.com/fedora-hummingbird-introduces-a-container-native-rolling-linux-variant/
Eg e så glad at #Norges #nazister ikkje er like gjennomført, like subtile og likt finansiert som hvite nasjonalister i andre land.
AfD i Tyskland er en mye mer seriøs organisasjon, MAGA har så og si tatt over republikanerne og at det sannsynligvis baron partiet #FrP som mottar den utenlandske finansiering for å fostre alt-right bevegelse i #Norge.
At Charter Svein ble lei i musen halvveis inn i "protesten" og gikk sin vei burde si sitt.
https://filternyheter.no/skulle-samle-tusener-i-landsdekkende-demonstrasjon-tidligere-nynazist-fikk-med-seg-50-personer-og-charter-svein/
#NorskTut
Also in the news: the sky is blue, water makes things wet and you don't appreciate your closest enough.
But yeah, #AI - as a service created by the #SiliconValley barons - is the evolution of #tracking. It's basically being packaged as "#SurveillanceState as a Service" at this point.
Do you want #SharpEyes in the west? Because this is how we get sharp eyes in the west.
You'd think that a market for #DataBrokerage was a dead giveaway, but nooooo!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-worker-control-surveillance
«The #iPhone 17e comes with an A19 chip, full support for #Apple Intelligence and a new cellular modem developed in #Israel»
Hell to the no. We're talking about a country that not only has been instrumental in helping to build mass surveillance, but who also have put trackers - even bombs inside of phones.
I will not trust their hardware, their firmware or their software in any way, shape or form
Apple announced the iPhone 17e with an Israelli chip | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/consumerism/article-888680
Bare enda en grunn til at #Norge ikkje burde bli med i #EU. Altså ingen veto rett for oss betyr at vi kan skysse vår suverenitet farvel. Lurer på hva #MDG tenker om dette.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/eu-could-deny-new-member-states-veto-rights-as-bloc-pushes-for-enlargement
#NorskTut #Politikk
Let us unearth the #neoliberal "designer state vs fabrication state" - i.e #neocolonialism - and how it will be used against us.
The idea is simple: one state holds the patents, holds the rights, holds the money. The other state holds the workers in check to serve the former.
But, with the neo-liberal #RaceToTheBottom, those seats can definitely be switched. We'd go from being the exploiter - to being the exploited.
This is what the neo-liberal is doing to the west.
#Europe is tired of foreign nation states thinking sovereignty is an optional.
Wether it's the #US, #Russia or #China, #Europeans have to roll our eyes at each of them, as each of them tries to curry more favour, tries to influence elections, tries to intervene politically, and even intervene with policing.
The US will airdrop special forces and extract someone forcefully, bypassing habius corpus. The Chinese will just have their agents lurk in the alleys and offices.
In a time of #disinformation, I need you to eat this like it's vegetables and fruits. The #HantaVirus is common, it has different genomes and is one of many common viruses.
Also: the #CruiseShip industry needs to take a dive, because it is a net negative on society - let alone being a barge of germs, farts and spit shared between (statistically speaking) elderly immune compromised people. Contagions have happened and will continue to happen on cruise ships. Full stop.
"Useless eaters", "undesirables", alle slags ord som har blitt funnet fra Discord og Signal screencaps sagt av visse politiske interesser i USA og i Europa. Frempeket er mot fascisme, der man etterfølger noen for å eventuelt etterfølge alle - som er hva rasisme har blitt brukt til mange ganger i historien. Man skaper frykt, for å få makt via forakt, for å så herske med sikkerhet. Det samme mønsteret, igjen og igjen.
#Apple finally gave people what they need instead of high specs - and boy did it work.
Not to mention that their close tie-in deals, architecture and cohesive supply chain gives them a leg up from competition.
Plus there's this seething hatred for #Windows11 - despite #WindowsK2 - which is a drag.
It's time for #PC hardware vendors to take a good look at the #Linux Desktop - because #Windows sucks.
Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's 'Off the Charts' Demand
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/01/apple-was-caught-off-guard-by-macbook-neo/
The amount of times I've had to say "country/continent X has always been rich, but it's people have been poor" is too damned high.
But hey, that's just a theory - a #WealthExtraction theory.
Either everyone is free or #WhiteSupremacists die... no wait, either everyone is free, or rifle go pew pew.. no, that's not it. Either everyone is free, or no one is free... from shooting a #confederate in his stupid face-GODDAMNIT!!
Reality is stranger than fiction - because you can't make this stuff up.
Imagine telling an author "okay, so the story is that these immigrants votes for someone who wants to deport immigrants, who falsely claims that the ballots are stacked with illegal votes, only to win with the votes of those immigrants, some of which are illegal."
Joe Ceballos: #ICE arrests former #Kansas mayor who illegally voted for #Trump in the 2024 election | #US
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-05-14/ice-arrests-former-kansas-mayor-who-illegally-voted-for-trump-in-the-2024-election.html#%3Frel=lom
Plz notice me, @futurebird@sauropods.win 🥺
Now I know you may have me on mute, @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social ...
But let me repeat again: #Snap packages rely on a centralized repository. Let me repeat:
#Cannonical is trying to do a #VendorLockin situation with snaps, whereby they become the gatekeeper to your software.
Juxtapose that with #flatpak, which is designed from the get go to be repo agnostic. Sure, you need the #FreeDesktop runtimes for most flatpak repos, but it isn't actually a hard dependency.
A judicial ball and cup game by the #authoritarian #British regime to try and hide their kangaroo courts. Of course the British brand of #authoritarianism is sponsored by the #zionist via the #neoliberal purse.
#Neoliberalism: buy policy, buy judges, buy law, buy the courts. Politicians are standing by to receive your "donations".
Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public | Novara Media
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/12/palestine-action-activists-to-be-sentenced-as-terrorists-in-move-kept-secret-from-jury-and-public/
#Putin leans heavy on the "it's not the tzar, but the boyars" sentiment that Russian influencers have been talking about the last month or so.
This is because the digital pulse of #Russia has increased in intensity, showing that people are not happy.
This is evident by the latest statements from Putin during a meeting of the #duma, where he said the #censorship needs to be reigned back.
He of course signed it all into law, but again tries to lean on the boyars.
The #UK claiming immigrants and Muslims are the chief reasons for #rape is laughable. No, you have rape apologists in fancy wigs and garbs that handwave not only #GangRape, but the filming of it.
"The sweet boy" syndrom has to die in a fire, because I can't see no other way than dads giving into vigilante justice before anything gets done.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/24/uk-judge-decision-rape-girls-hampshire
You know what pisses me off? We knew this already from #crypto.
Once the #ASIC took over for the #GPU, much less - albeit still an insane amount - of energy was wasted in the process.
Now that hardware is catching up to software, consider all the unnecessary disruption and destruction caused by the #SiliconValley #AI agenda - how many businesses, communities and economies suffered needlessly.
Anthropic in early talks to buy DRAM-less AI inference chips from UK startup
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-in-early-talks-to-buy-inference-chips-from-uk-startup-fractile
So I dual boot into #Linux once in a while. If it weren't for #Ableton live, I'd never leave Linux.
As it stands, once or twice a month, I reboot, run "paru -Syu" and wonder why I ever left.
The UI and UX is smoother, snappier and quite frankly easier to use. But then, I reboot again and just won't bother rebooting once more.
But I've also been working a lot lately to get better at sound design and mixing again, so it just is what it is.
And no, Ableton through Wine/Yabridge is not enough.
Listen, here's the #SiliconValley agenda for #AI:
* Race to #MonopolyByDefault (everyone wants to usurp #Google's throne)
* Increase #DataCollection, #Tracking, #Profiling tenfold by having users WILLINGLY give away their financial information
* Sell said data, manipulate markets with it and generally do a bit of mass- AND targeted psychological manipulation
* Sell the systems to #authoritarian states to form a #SurveillanceState
* Eventually build the same at home
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/923684/musk-brockman-altman-openai-trial
One wonders what ghosts will be in attendance. Will Emmett Till be stalking the local playground? Will Sammy Younge Jr be seen in the mirrors of the restrooms? Will Harry Tyson Moore imbue the podium?
Will their souls ever get to rest when systemic persecution and subversion are still the order of the day in 2026?
#Mississippi house to hold #redistricting session at site of #JimCrow era capitol | Mississippi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/mississippi-redistricting-old-capitol
To be this blind and repressive takes effort. Of course they can't talk bad about their donors, because as we all know the #Democrats is the party of #Schumer.
Having their heads in their purses cost them the election and if the DNC doesn't wake up to this fact, they might lose again.
Here's hoping the #progressives manage to aust the establishment Democrats.
DNC Autopsy Doesn’t Mention #Gaza or #Israel At All
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/21/dnc-autopsy-democratsgaza-israel/
When the polar ice caps melt, not only will it release tons of carbon, but viruses frozen in time get released back into the wild.
Then there's fish farms, cow farms, general #meat production, which keeps animals in unsanitary conditions and dumps insane amounts of antibiotics into organic systems.
Then there's the hate for #WHO, a mouth piece for the world's health professionals - an actual #meritocracy - being dragged in the dirt by #conspiracy theorists.
A #VPN is basically a secure tunnel for network traffic from point A to point B. It's used in organizations, businesses, industry, military, government, etc.
The bigger judicial question is: what constitutes a "bypassing of age restrictions"? Does it mean any use of VPNs? Will state governments subpoena VPN services for their logs?
And if the US tries to coax those logs from #European providers, how far into hell do we tell them to go?