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@Rairii@labyrinth.zone
yeah, but where's the part where it nags you into installing Yahoo Toolbar?
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Moses Izumi (he/him)
@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org
akkoma 3.20.0-0-g98fcccc--stable-A man whose mind is a haze of swedish punk rock, fantasies about musclegirls, unhinged wordplay and strong opinions on portable electronics: along with slightly less stubborn views on software.
Type of person who thinks FirefoxOS could've found a foothold if it was built for phones with physical keyboards and shipped with a website creator: instead of effectively just being "iPhone but everything's a webapp" and kickstarting Mozilla's obsession with absurd side projects nobody really wants.
I also have a website, for when microblogging just doesn't cut it:
https://moses-izumi.neocities.org/
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Banner is from a collage I did of Noah Izumi from Moblie Police Patlabor (for a cop show it has pretty okay views on technology and gender norms).
[see https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3kS7d2BeERz3WC5Wi for more]
Profile picture is Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell drinking a can of beer almost as big as she is.
(real men aren't ashamed of putting girls as their profile pictures)
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As of 27 April 2026 I only boost posts that I've replied to.
I don't wish to have a profile full of reposts, but I still see the value in signal-boosting the work of others.
May ignore this when boosting questions and warnings/PSAs.
archive[dot]today and archive[dot]is are the ones that did a DDOS and altered their copies of webpages in response to an investigation
(putting this here because I keep forgetting the names)
(look this up yourself before acting)
Type of person who thinks FirefoxOS could've found a foothold if it was built for phones with physical keyboards and shipped with a website creator: instead of effectively just being "iPhone but everything's a webapp" and kickstarting Mozilla's obsession with absurd side projects nobody really wants.
I also have a website, for when microblogging just doesn't cut it:
https://moses-izumi.neocities.org/
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Banner is from a collage I did of Noah Izumi from Moblie Police Patlabor (for a cop show it has pretty okay views on technology and gender norms).
[see https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3kS7d2BeERz3WC5Wi for more]
Profile picture is Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell drinking a can of beer almost as big as she is.
(real men aren't ashamed of putting girls as their profile pictures)
_ _ _ _
As of 27 April 2026 I only boost posts that I've replied to.
I don't wish to have a profile full of reposts, but I still see the value in signal-boosting the work of others.
May ignore this when boosting questions and warnings/PSAs.
archive[dot]today and archive[dot]is are the ones that did a DDOS and altered their copies of webpages in response to an investigation
(putting this here because I keep forgetting the names)
(look this up yourself before acting)
70 Followers
150 Following
50 Posts
Website/Blog:
Languages:
English (usually), Swedish (whenever applicable)
"What would Jesus do?":
Make a biting analogy on the situation.
#2 (some neat Blog):
#3 (EULA/TOS in plain terms):
Boss Music:
Anders F. Rönnblom - Det är inte snön som faller
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shower thought, tangentially related to a post about text editors
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@prahou@merveilles.town
Plan9 of the Apes
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@ge0rg@chaos.social
my friend @ozzelot@mstdn.social has considered getting into plumbing, because it's less shitty than most technology
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange
all my tasks gone
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@zzt@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run
KDE media player/game launcher/etc. named Krokodil, that defaults to pulling from the dodgiest media repositories known to man
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@daemonspudguy @zzt@mas.to @pastelfluffyfox@meow.social
I think FirefoxOS could've found some success if they targeted writers and programmers (i.e by making a middling phone with a god-tier physical keyboard and shipping a website creator) instead of trying to be "Android but öhh everything's a webapp".
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@atax1a@infosec.exchange @amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu @kouett@soc.kouett.net.eu.org
they made a big game about reimplementing the AMD Zen initialization stuff and all the world got was an expensive, mildly overengineered server that only boots their own Solaris/Illumos fork
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@beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange
upscaling algorithms should be called PISS (Programmatically Interpolating Scaling System)
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @atax1a@infosec.exchange
I know a @Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net who made a decent list of search engines:
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
I usually use Startpage, but I prefer Marginalia when I have to narrow things down to the good stuff (it prefers independent and low-javascript websites).
SearxNG is useful if you ignore the official Belgian instance.
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@ltning@pleroma.anduin.net @ju@social.coop @cwebber@social.coop @opensourceopenmind@social.vivaldi.net
I hate how half of cybersecurity reports end with "our product can stop this :)"
(looking at you, Cisco Talos)
It's like if a company wrote a product recall article and the last paragraph was just an ad for the CEO's friend's life insurance company.
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @nixCraft@mastodon.social
I think they should've made a keyboard phone with 2-3 USB ports and dual SD card slots, instead of jumping face-first into the digital minimalism gutter (i.e the "no browser, no email" bollocks).
maybe even a full-size HDMI port.
basically any features that'd make a current smartphone (including the cheap ones) viable as a replacement for your laptop.
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@cstross
"The current genAI mania may have done more to drive people away from proprietary software than the FSF could ever hope to."
/me yesterday, while rambling about putting Inspect Element in non-browser software
https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B5zUZ2ZtDIfnDcLv5E
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@TerminalTilt@social.terminaltilt.com @970uts1d3@defcon.social
If Valve got into Linux for selfless reasons, SteamOS would've had the option of booting straight into Wine/Proton (allowing it to serve as a drop-in replacement for Windows, instead of just running Steam and Flathub).
[I'm surprised that the various SteamOS offshoots never tried this]
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange
Patlabor the Movie explored the concept of software supplychain attacks *decades* before the constant cascade of NPM and Wordpress scandals brought them to the mainstream.
(it's directed and written by the guys who made the first Ghost in the Shell movies, but not as gloomy)
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@TerminalTilt@social.terminaltilt.com
"MSI Z690-A"
isn't that one of those recent motherboards that can run Coreboot?
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@alexaltea@infosec.exchange @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social
yeah it'll be interesting to see what excuses Google will dredge up to try and keep their gatekeeping process going
cc @lumi@snug.moe @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @libreleah@mas.to
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@Jacob_Wren@mastodon.social
don't forget the trampoline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPoIs4cOqU
[or https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=rbPoIs4cOqU if you hate youtube like me]
fanten 2
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@prahou@merveilles.town
you're very welcome
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@mntmn@mastodon.social
LET'S FREAKING GO!
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@prahou@merveilles.town
it's a little sleepy and grimy for my tastes, but it's got something
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@prahou@merveilles.town
I like Akemi Takeda's tarot deck.
(the "lovers" card is Noa Izumi embracing her male doppelganger)
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run
(having separate screens also means 360 degree hinges)
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run
my impression is that that the folding screens still get damaged after a year (or two) of use.
The Surface Duo series sidestepped this issue by having two separate screens.
Microsoft stopped providing OS updates a couple years after release, but the community have made tailored versions of Android 14/15 and Windows 11.
Have low-key considered getting one of these just so I can have a virtual keyboard that's big enough to be usable.
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@networkexception@chaos.social
"you're gonna need a bigger case."
(I don't have a Framewack, but reseating the RAM and adding some foam pads to cushion the motherboard might solve the problems)
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@ozzelot@mstdn.social @Plumbert@thecanadian.social @thevhswizard@retro.pizza
never ask a Gentoo developer why they haven't made a window manager where you can right-click on a running program to look at it's source code /hj
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@domi@donotsta.re
heaven is a search engine that only indexes collaborative encyclopedias
(would be a great preset for the @marginalia@mastodon.social engine)
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@prahou@merveilles.town @j-g00da@donotsta.re
I've considered drawing a modern-day flip phone lampooning the "digital detox" trend (including the silly Commodore nugget), to accompany my Nokia N900 homage:
https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B7ZMI0uuIEYN2cWEOO
I'd say that "digital detox" phones are where hacker spirit goes to die, but there's a community hacking on KaiOS* phones called BananaHackers
*the dominant OS among ultra-cheap phones these days, nominally based on FirefoxOS
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@xgranade@wandering.shop == CHOOSE YOUR CLASS ==
- Last Guardian of Computeer Justice
- Mark Zuckerberg's Plumber, S/N 204569
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@Rairii@labyrinth.zone
never underestimate the Windows user's drive to hack on proprietary software ;)
(I used to fool around with unsigned Windows XP themes and Classic Shell)
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@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt @vale@fedi.vale.rocks
yearning for a world where *every* application lets you set arbitrary colors, instead of only offering 2 and a half presets.
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@TerminalTilt@social.terminaltilt.com
all I'll say about coreboot is that I find it disappointing that the community mostly consists of security nerds.
also people who liberate Chromebooks.
(they ship with a coreboot-based firmware from the factory, but you have to go into "Developer Mode" or replace it with MrChromeBox's version to boot an off-the-shelf x86 Linux/Windows/MacOS system)
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @thomzane@daedal.io
yeah this list is pretty useful in situations where you can't be bothered with looking at the router
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @hfaust@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world
i prefer women with huge eyebrows (i.e Noa Izumi)
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange
"Because I don't have the spoons to produce a list of affected apps, here are a bunch of INFOSEC boffins posting indicators of compromise"
Fair, but not that helpful.
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@TerminalTilt@social.terminaltilt.com
someone made a similarly small cube case for mini-ITX enjoyers, by mounting the motherboard diagonally:
https://www.printables.com/model/1493449-sff-mini-itx-steam-machine-case
(reduces the footprint while also making room for a GPU and power supply: man I love this formfactor and the people who build with it)
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@rose@pl.pinkro.se
arch is everything bad about the mainstream distros and everything uncomfortable about the funky indie distros, but with like 3 of the the good bits
[Void Linux paired with MX Linux's installer and GUI-based config tools could probably be one of the better options (Moid Linux, if you will)]
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@Npars01@mstdn.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Good to have in case I decide to continue my article about Ed Zitron's somewhat myopic view of the LLM bubble.
He's good with financials and has some fun guests, but the rest of his coverage is pretty meh.
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@prahou@merveilles.town Japanese Noah [Mobile Police Patlabor] is more transformative :)
- instead of building a winery she was raised in one
- destroys an Ark to incapacitate an OS-level botnet
- gives her coworker Kumagami the nickname of Ootake-san, basically calling her a reincarnation of Buddha)
- "neural network enhanced" exoskeletons portrayed as overcorrecting and difficult to repair (many other mecha anime treat every equipment upgrade as a unilateral improvement)
(the guys who did the anime adaptation went on to make the first couple Ghost in the Shell movies)
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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
wordpress is the load-bearing anal cancer of the internet
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@cstross@wandering.shop @jplebreton@mastodon.social @petealexharris@mastodon.scot
the genie is summoned through giant special-purpose GPUs that die like flies
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@barthalion@social.treehouse.systems
judging by the title I thought this was gonna be an article about FOSS reimplementations of old games (positive or otherwise)
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@liaizon@social.wake.st @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
>when your phone is dead because a magpie bounced too hard on the wire
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@shinmera@mastodon.tymoon.eu
I wouldn't go as far as to call compiled binaries an antipattern, but I still think that OSes where all the applications are written in interpreted languages (wherever practical) might be a good thing for the Free Software scene to strive toward.
like a media player where the GUI is expected to be rapidly hacked on, but is ultimately just another frontend for FFMPEG or some other library (admittedly one of the bigger, gnarlier codebases out there)
[just a thought really]
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social @TerminalTilt@social.terminaltilt.com
the Antix team would probably like to have a word with his claim that "Linux isn't a social warrior project"
(distro made by syndicalists targeting old laptops)
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@libreleah@mas.to
"It's your computer, nobody elses"
On that note, have you considered adding a guide for assembling your own laptop batteries?
Would also be interesting to see Libreboot ported to various small form factor desktops, especially the ones that are energy-efficient enough to be converted into DIY laptops (thin clients, high-end Chromeboxes, industrial/embedded machines).
Also massive thanks for re-arranging the list of supported devices (sorting by hardware generations and installation difficulty): frankly surprised that you didn't announce it on here.
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@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt @navi@social.vlhl.dev @fiore@brain.worm.pink
also: is there anything about P2Panda's protocols that might make it difficult for people to make their own clients, or run it on "born e-waste" devices? (i.e 2008 netbooks)
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@colinstu@birdbutt.com
Antix is surprisingly slow on this HP Chromebook 11A G8 EE (2016 netbook CPU, 4GB RAM, pulled from the e-wastes of my job), but I figure some of this might be because I enabled ZRAM and disk encryption.
will also mention that disabling compositing on the default IceWM environment bumped ExtremeTuxRacer's performance from "kinda unplayable" to "basically alright" (full 1366x768 resolution for both).
on my main laptop (early 2010s dualcore Thinkpad) I use it's cousin MX Linux instead
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@mntmn@mastodon.social
(could do without the GNOME part but we all have our preferences/vices)