m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

If you happen to get your hands on an older computer, say between 10 and 20 years old, do you

https://www.makeworld.space/2023/08/bye_gemini.html

Looks like Amfora won't be actively developed anymore.
It's a pity as it was one of my favourite Gemini browsers, and I'm sure not mine only. Although some of the reasons stated aren't ungrounded, TBH the whole post looks like a classic case of burnout, not real disappointment in technology, but I'm not judging in either case, I'm just sad

If websites were honest.

@freestyle ok

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@jonasvautherin
The infrastructure for it is already there and it's been there for over a decade, it's even mentioned in the article — Google Safe Browsing. And it's the first thing one should disable in Firefox. The question (for them) is how strictly it should be enforced. Right now it's only a warning — but IMO it's enough to prevent most from visiting your website. They are not even fighting censorship — they just want government agencies to use already existing Google thing instead of having their own 🤷

From the article:
"Rather than mandate browser based blocking, we think the legislation should focus on improving the existing mechanisms already utilized by browsers – services such as Safe Browsing and Smart Screen. The law should instead focus on establishing clear yet reasonable timelines under which major phishing protection systems should handle legitimate website inclusion requests from authorized government agencies"

@plumeros @LukaszOlejnik
@pixelcode

I've got defederated from the power grid yesterday. Again! For the fifth time in a week or so
Unfortunately this time was different — tiny ARM machine I am using as VPN box/proxy started having issues with built-in storage, it looks odd as I can even write to it, but after I've read about 3 gigabytes, the controller goes nuts, kernel log gets littered with messages like "Oh noes, we don't support UltraDMA anymore" — after that I can't even read anything from it.
Maybe it wasn't the outage, this machine is over 15 years old and might start showing its age, especially its storage.
Fortunately for me, unlike machines of this kind of today, Efika MX NetTop turned out very serviceable. It looks like the controller is located on the same daughter board as the flash chips. Got the ribbon cable re-seated — didn't help, the connector it gets plugged into is labelled 99FLB (fscking logic board? ). These machines are supposed to have eMMC for SSD — and it's likely what this interface is, shouldn't be something custom, but I don't know much about this stuff. Does this look familiar to anyone? Maybe I can just replace the whole board and be done with it.
I still need a dedicated VPN box/proxy as I don't want to use VPN on every individual device in my home and I don't want it on router either as I have a few things hosted like my Plenormer instance and those have to respond from my "real" external IP.
It already had very few moving parts on the root partition, its /var was on a separate SD card. I suspect that this problem started showing even earlier, but I didn't pay attention — it boots and works even in its current state. Anyway, I have moved the rest of volatile/mutable dirs to SD card and it works for now, but it might just bork at unpredictable moment so I will have to reboot it, but I might not even be at home when this happens, I'd really like to have a more proper, reliable fix for it.

@neglesaks@mstdn.io @Rezard

@m0xee кажется я нашел тебе классную идею для сетапа )

People on both sides of the coin take issue with my stance on FOSS and my insistence about daily driving Linux, BSD and a Linux phone.

Normies think I'm weird, stupid or insane, and militant autists think I'm not edgy enough because I don't care about their pet/rabbithole causes like wayland or GNU licenses or firmware disputes. I just want to be free man, and I want to be in control. I DJ, do audio, graphic design, video editing, learning, entertainment, social media, ebooks, all with free software and it's based. If you want to call me a poorfag for not shelling out $1000s of Federal Reserve funny bucks to Silicon Valley like a good little slave, then so be it.

Real wealth is in knowledge and wisdom, not in material, memey reddit coonsoomerism. Sure Macbooks have good resale value, but at the end of the day, I'd rather enjoy the freedoms that Stallman was originally all about.