Notices by Thom, HP-UX™ evangelist (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)

@Strandjunker And since we're at it - the reason the nazis were so efficient at eradicating the Dutch Jewish community during the occupation of 40-45, is because The Netherlands had an incredibly efficient and detailed population register. The nazis immediately sought access to these registers after the invasion, and they received little to no pushback from Dutch officials.

...just in case someone reading this is not worried about Musk accessing demographic records.

The joys of using Fedora KDE: my operating system will never be trying to shove "AI" down my throat at every turn like proprietary trash operating systems like macOS and Windows.

I compute in bliss.

I don't think the EU should be negotiating with the Trump regime re:tariffs. You don't negotiate with terrorists.

Whelp. Bye Servo.

https://floss.social/@servo/114296977894869359

DisplayPort is better than HDMI in every way send toot mute toot

Am I alone in always hitting a little above the spacebar on my Android keyboard? Thus hitting especially b and n when I want to type a space?

It's infuriating,

Throwback to when @gruber was making fun of the EU for getting Apple Intelligence later than everyone else.

😂

Do not travel to the US. Under any circumstance. Think you're safe because your paperwork is in order? Fuck you, it does not matter.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

I guess Analogue needs to wait for some open source N64 emulation developer to steal code from. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://mastodon.social/@verge/114184775377782650

Controversial take: I don't give a fuck that "GIMP" has a sexual connotation as a name. What are we, the American Puritanical Police?

Another glorious day for free speech!!!!!!!!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/03/18/x-suspends-dropkick-murphys-after-viral-moment-shows-them-calling-out-concert-attendees-elon-musk-true-nazi-maga-hat/

The most brutal [citation needed] I've seen in a long time.

Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees, and then kills those trees by having an "AI" chatbot that is just ChatGPT in a trenchcoat.

🫠

"International Women's Day???? Well when's International Me—"

WebKitGTK (despite the GTK name?) seems to be the most optimal way forward for a future desktop Linux web browser. My position is still that the KDE and GNOME teams need to have a serious conversation about picking an engine together, optimising it for Linux/Wayland use, and build it in such a way that both KDE and GNOME can build their own UI on top.

This project should've started at least five years ago, but the next best time to start is today.

Okay so there's a Waterfox Flatpak, and I could make @TheEvilSkeleton really happy by using it, but considering the issues that I somehow always manage to experience with Flatpak, I'm not sure I want to try to use it for a browser.

Waterfox has a ton of nice KDE integration features. I just don't like dealing with tarballs.

We need a copr, Fedora friends.

I've been warning the Linux community about the dangers of relying on Firefox and its inevitable, predictable downfall for many, many years. I told them they should have a plan for what's happening right now. That they should perhaps come together to fork Firefox, or choose another engine and optimize it for Linux/Wayland. Perhaps have the GNOME and KDE people work together on this. Anything!

Everybody told me I was crazy.

I know I'm a silly idiot at times but when I'm serious, I'm not fucking around. Now everybody's panicking and acting all surprised Pikachu and I'm sitting here like 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒.

oh shit it can make dialog boxes now

We need to get Silicon Valley out of the EU. Trump's 25% tariffs on European products is a great excuse to slap 50% on everything Apple, Tesla, Google, etc. sell here.

Get them out, and create breathing room for European alternatives, beholden to pur laws, norms, and values.

Say no to fascist products - and anything American is fascist now.