Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

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

This is a hilarious commentary on the US/Israeli war with Iran:

"God is a comedian":

https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control

Congress had two years to negotiate real reforms to Section 702—it’s past time to get started. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/congress-dropping-ball-clean-extension-fisa

Goth squirrel of the day.

🔐 Introducing: Unified Attestation
An open-source project for verifying the integrity of Android apps—as an alternative to Google's Play Integrity.

The goal is to make apps such as banking and payment apps usable on independent Android systems without relying on Google services.

We invite developers, ROM projects, and app providers to get involved.

https://uattest.net/

#Volla #VollaOS #OpenSource #software #hardware #Privacy #Security #DeGoogle

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-financial-disclosures-steve-feinberg?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Government #USPolitics #Law #Finance #Data #Research

That's it!

#Antifa #Antifascism #Fascism