Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Congress could vote on the GUARD Act as soon as Thursday. This bill would force ID checks for everyone using AI tools and block teens from everyday internet use. Tell your reps to oppose it today: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-oppose-the-guard-act.

Too often, the maintainers who build, test, and operate open source software aren't part of standards development, even though these standards directly shape their work.

The result? A structural risk to our digital infrastructure, as standards can become more difficult to implement or misaligned with the public interest.

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As you see all of these articles and posts celebrating mRNA cancer vaccines, remember that Trump and his merry band of deathbringers have been holding up authorization for mRNA vaccines because of a toxic mixture of RFK Jr’s generalized antivaccine nonsense, and Trump’s resentment over COVID policies.

Literally killing people for internet points.

Pipeline version 4.0.0 was released, overhauling downloading videos completely, and adding a history page. There were also many other changes done, which you can read about in the changelog.
Note that this release contains a breaking change for users of external video players. By default, Pipeline does not ship with the required permissions to spawn external programs anymore. You need to manually grant those permissions, as detailed in the preferences dialog of Pipeline.

https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/pipeline/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads#400---2026-04-22

Was Clippy even a real one? 🫤

#clippy #privacy

Hubble vs. My Backyard's Scope!

First of all, happy B'day Hubble Space Telescope! Still the OG space-based telescope that changed our perspective of the Universe.

For the B'day, NASA/ESA released an image of a section of the Trifid Nebula (left). You can see a nodule from inside the nebula and a thin stellar jet formed by a young stellar object buried inside the cloud. That's about 0.75 light-years in length.

On the right is my 1-hour photo from my backyard - and the jet appears there too!

Unlike Hubble, my backyard rig only has a 20cm aperture and has a whole lot of atmosphere, as well as city lights, to deal with.

So it is really neat to be able to get that level of detail in 1 hour of observing.

See the original Hubble image here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_turns_36_with_a_dazzling_Trifid_Nebula_portrait

#TrifidNebula #Astrophotography #Science #Hubble #Astronomy #Astrodon

Seen in Hardcore Bikes (HCB), a bike shop in Edmonton Alberta 🚴‍♀️

The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney).

"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

#CanPoli #CanadianPolitics #CanadaPolitics

Record turnout, landslide victory for the people of Hungary!

Congratulations!

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt

#hungary #HungarianElections #elections #voting

ooh! ooh! something i wished for is happening!!

are you a driver, cyclist, or pedestrian who finds modern car headlights too bright?

Transport Canada wants to hear from you (by April 20th, 2026):-

https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night

#HeadlightGlare #TransportCanada

Little Snitch jetzt auch für Linux
https://linuxnews.de/little-snitch-jetzt-auch-fuer-linux/ #littlesnitch #firewall #linux #linuxnews

A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space program, standing next to not one single microsoft error message or bluetooth problem.

accidentally shot an album cover today

This Wayland fix was a long time coming.

https://itsfoss.com/news/wayland-session-management/

#linux #wayland

Zelensky says partners signaled Ukraine to reduce strikes on Russia’s energy sector after the global energy crisis, adding Kyiv is ready to halt attacks if Moscow stops targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure. #Ukraine

AMD Introduces GAIA Agent UI For Privacy-First Web App For Local AI Agents

AMD's GAIA AI agent framework (that previously stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome" albeit they seemed to have dropped promoting it as that name) for Ryzen AI hardware is out with a new version. AMD GAIA 0.17 introduces Agent UI as a new privacy-first web application for local AI agents...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.17-Agent-UI