Notices by Thom, a distro-agnostic tool (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)

My hobby: figuring out who owns which scrappy-looking website pretending to be independent and cool!

Hackaday.com is owned by Siemens.

To give you an idea of just how utterly overstated and exaggerated the asylum seeker "problem" really is - The Netherlands has a population of slightly over 18 million (in an area 1/15th the size of Ohio, so it's definitely cramped in some places), so you want to take a guess at how many asylum seekers are currently "in the process" and waiting on a decision?

...it's just 54000. That's it. It's basically a drop in the bucket. It's nothing. We could just accept all of them with a single stroke of the pen and nobody would notice a goddamn thing. Many of these people have already been here for years, speak the language, maybe even work, got kids, etc.

Just 54000. In an economy desperate for job applicants.

Fuck nazis.

Let's all talk about 54k brown people and blame everything on them so we don't notice the absolute batshit amount of wealth horded by a small group at the top of the country.

The average, normal Dutch person has no fucking clue just how stupendously, insanely, ridiculously wealthy The Netherlands is, and just how much of that they never get to experience or enjoy because a small group at the top distracts them with asylum seekers. Fuck.

This is so perfect.

"Cuck code"

(Source: https://suppo.fi/post/12608738)

I have this theory that Ladybird is effectively a grift for corpo donations.

The fash browser developed by "AI" hypeboys who are so "AI"-pilled they switched the entire project from Swift to Rust because Rust is easier to regurgitate with "AI" is now taking its first massive step to closing its source code because of all the "AI" slop PRs.

You can't make this shit up.

https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/

"I would donate to @osnews if Thom wasn't so rabidly anti-'AI'" sure is a vibe.

People genuinely think deeply-held morals and values can just be sold to the highest bidder like that. That's what our business leaders, politicians, and celebrities have taught people. It's depressing.

Wait, did someone add a secret instruction to their code so that any developer using "AI" with that code would be in for a bad time?

That's a type of chaotic good I can get behind.

https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708

@libreleah Thank you for the work you put in. It's appreciated.

Ah I see European leaders are shocked and dismayed at nazi Russia again without actually doing anything useful.

1. No-fly zone.
2. Heavy bombardment of any and all nazi Russia positions.
3. EU troops in eastern Ukraine.
4. Staggered advancement into western Ukraine, clearing any and all nazi stragglers.

Nazi Russia gets seven days to retreat before this campaign starts. We don't need the Americans to do any of this. If this makes Trump cry, ignore him. This is an EU effort, not a NATO effort. NATO is dead.

Trans women have been banned from women's darts.

Darts.

The ban is based on some English woman's "study". The woman in question is a known TERF.

Again, let me reiterate: darts.

Darts.

This deal would include making The Netherlands part of Indonesia for a while. I'm an equal opportunity geopolitical disaster.

"Hi I'm Thom and this is Geopolitical Jackass!"

Can we just pretend England doesn't exist and only deal with Wales and Scotland instead? The English always fuck it up for the entire island.

(NI is a colony and should be part of Ireland.)

Alternative solution: make England a colony of India.

...you may have deduced, I should never be given any form of power.

Whelp it seems like Fedora is going through with making a dedicated Fedora "AI" Desktop variant.

I AM RUNNING OUT OF LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS THAT ARENT DOING SHITTY STUFF.

I can't believe that the outcome of the US illegal war on Iran is going to be that the Iranian regime will still be in power, will get a quarter metric fuckton of money from the Americans, and will have all sanctions ended. Oh and it also depleted the US' military reserves, cost them a universal healthcare worth of money, and made them look like total dumbasses.

The Americans lost this war so hard it makes my head spin.

Oops.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/

@ryanc @catsalad omg it's the meowstarter!

@ryanc @catsalad She mentioned a few weeks/months ago only like two people went to the trouble of following them all.

I considered that a dare and well, let's just say I follow a lot of cat salad accounts now.