Mike Trotz @mtrotz@librem.one

just in case nobody has done it before

"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"

Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

https://putty.software/

At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.

But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.

I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.

If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!

I think man pages are awesome.

#Adobe just raised its prices, some are over US$100 a month 😬

Stop paying rent on your tools, switch to #FOSS alternatives:

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @ardour - Digital audio workstation

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing

➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social (main) & @blender@video.blender.org (videos) - 3D animation & video effects

➡️ @Krita@mastodon.art (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos) - Painting & illustration

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @darktable - Organise & develop raw photos

➡️ @www.scribus.net.news - Desktop publishing (feed)

Totally scientific, flawless poll.

If you use Linux, pick your *only* desktop environment. You only get one option. There are no other options you can choose from in this poll. Yes I probably ignored your specific favorite but that's not the point. You only get one option and it's one of these. Do not comment with what you want to see, only select one of these. Only one- no other options. There are no other options in this poll for you to choose or tell me about.

Choose one (1):

#Switch to #opensource solutions:

Windows: #Linux
Photoshop: #Gimp 3.0-rc
Illustrator: #Inkscape
PremierePro: #Kdenlive, #Shotcut
Office/Acrobat: #OnlyOffice, #LibreOffice
Maya: #Blender
Media: #VLC
Unity: #Godot
ToonBoom: #SynfigStudio, #Pencil2D
InDesign: #Scribus
Nuke: #Natron
Procreate: #Krita
After Effects: #Friction
Mathematica: #SageMath, #SymPy
MatLab: #GnuOctave
Audition: #Audacity
Autocad: #FreeCAD, #QCad
Ableton: #Ardour, #LMMS (daily build)
Lightroom: #DarkTable, #RawTherapee

#foss

Hey! You! With the computing device!

Good job this week.

How many women are on Mastodon's team which builds moderation features?

Serious question. Boosts welcome.

By age 30, you should be able to use whatever text editor or operating system you want and not get upset about those flamewars.

[sighs, takes deep breath]

OK, on my recent critiques of Mastodon, lots of you are replying with "you're talking about *people* and not *the platform*".

As if the *platforms design* isn't influencing the way *people* can abuse us here.

This place is designed in a way that encourages abuse.

What is a common factor between the following lists?
* Traffic lights
* Parking meters
* Nuclear submarines
* Spacecrafts
* Smart appliances (refrigerators)
* Air traffic control systems
* Stock exchange
* Supercomputers
They all are powered by #Linux 🐧

Responding to my Linux posts with "Linux doesn't work because [insert your specific bug with it]" is just as caustic as the "You should use Linux because [insert reason]".

Linux and FOSS isn't the source of the caustic environment. It's the enthusiast-grade caffeine-addled malcontents on all sides that make discourse unbearable.

I will not be taking questions on this.

who here remembers this special disk?

Poll: Are your non-tech friends and family members using #ChatGPT instead of search engines? Please boost for reach. 🙏

Who thought this was a good move apart from OpenAI? 😂 All this, because they didn't want to give humans money and keep everything to top 1%. #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT

I saw a developer today.

No company swag hoodie.
No stickers on their laptop.
No mechanical keyboard.
No Windows or macOS.
No ChatGPT or Copilot.

He just sat there. He was typing code away in vim running on Arch Linux and an older ThinkPad, like a psychopath.

CP/M is now actually open source! Finally you can put a good OS on your computer.
http://www.cpm.z80.de/license.html

We should bring back the <blink> tag. I mean, what fucking difference does it make at this point?