Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@ilumium The evidence is very clear: social media is addictive, and indeed, was designed from the beginning to be addictive:

https://stanfordreview.org/how-stanford-profits-tech-addiction-social-media/

It is also clear that there is immense harm, especially to young people. Other addictive activities like gambling, alcohol, drugs, etc. are also regulated, including age restrictions.

We need a better response than "no bans". We need to rally behind effective regulation. Otherwise totalitarian-minded politician will get onerous bans into law

@neil Palm Tungsten devices were really great. I missed mine so much, I got Linux running on it in like 2007. Palm in its hayday was really good at making devices that augmented us, without taking over our lifes. I loved being able to write without looking at the device, I used to have an idea while biking, then take out the Palm, and write it down while still biking. Or in a concert or theatre or any where. I could write a note or TODO while holding the device under the table.

@ton it is up to 688 responses!

@th here's one entry from me, on my trusty old Bakfiets shorty

Unsurprisingly, the British BBC has a much more sympathic view of Pahlavi. The UK did help with the coup that put his father into power, after all.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62wx1gr8y4o

Is it crazy to think that the Iranians are protesting and dying to bring about something better than bringing back the son of the #Shah? He was brutal and repressive like the current regime.

"#Pahlavi asked supporters to hoist the pre-1979 'Lion and Sun' flag, a symbol of his father’s rule"

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/12/who-is-reza-pahlavi-the-exiled-prince-urging-iranians-to-seize

#Iran #protest

@webmink @fdroidorg Interesting, it seems they announced it: https://sonoff.tech/en-de/blogs/news/f-droid-new-features-bring-unlimited-possibilities-your-nspanel-pro-more-than-just-a-control-panel

I wonder whether they are using our binary releases. Hopefully...

A classic example of the #toxicity of modern society: It turns out that exercise is as effective against #depression as #pharma, but exercise isn't controlled by a big corporation for #profit. #BigPharma spends huge amounts on #marketing, no one is spending anywhere close to that on marketing simple yet effective things like taking a walk with friends or family every day

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/12/nx-s1-5667599/exercise-is-as-effective-as-medication-in-treating-depression-study-finds

"It's much easier for a primary care physician to prescribe medication to a patient [than exercise]"

@lucasmz e.g. which WebDAV or Nextcloud service, via an app or directly, how did you use a USB Thumb Drive, or was it an SDCard?

@lucasmz Have you seen a documented known good configuration? Or have you posted one?

@iron_bug @pluralistic Free Software does provide Digital Sovereignity and lots of governments are jumping on free software exactly for that reason. And the more they build around free software, the more they will also want adversarial interoperability.

@trashpanda most interesting of all: "Countries where resistance campaigns were nonviolent were 10 times as likely to transition to democracy compared to countries where resistance turned violent—regardless of whether the campaign succeeded or failed in the short term. Even when nonviolent campaigns were not immediately successful, Chenoweth/Stephan found, they still tended to empower moderates or reformers within the ruling elites who would gradually initiate changes."
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/advocacy-social-movements/paths-resistance-erica-chenoweths-research