Notices by Thom, absolute station wagon (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)

A YouTube "application" that:

1. Imports your subscriptions
2. Fetches links to new videos posted with metadata (titles, descriptions, etc.)
3. When clicked, plays them in mpv/vlc/whatever native video player

Would be nice.

"Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

The Americans:

The Dutch version of the BBC (very simply put) has started consistently stating in every article about Trump that he has a history of lying and saying nonsense. It's really satisfying.

"President Trump, who often lies, said that..."

It's a small thing, but it cheers me up.

EDIT: see replies. They're "AI". 🫠

These are such good phone wallpapers. Hope they're not "AI".

https://www.wallpaperize.cc/2025/05/cool-phone-wallpapers-for-amazing.html

These here:

https://imgur.com/a/4k-pixel-art-selection-7lRQO

Nine years old. No "AI".

"But does it really matter if something you like turns out to be vomited up by "AI"?"

Imagine going on a first date with someone. They are great. Some decent chemistry, some mutual awkwardness of course, good jokes, but also deep (but not too deep) conversation, and yeah some quirks but don't we all? It feels good, you sense it's mutual, there's laughing, some emotional moments as you carefully share hints about each others' pasts, some gentle giggling at mildly suggestive jokes. You make arrangements to meet again for some nice coffee a few days from now, not at some chain of course because you've both got taste. Anyway, the date's coming to an end, you split the bill with zero awkwardness because it's 20-fucking-26, time to part ways, you know you're both on the same page, you both go in for a romantic and slightly sensual hug [ed. note: I'm sorry, I'm a massive prude, that's all for a first date horny Fedi], but then-- fuck.

Turns out they're made of nothing but Lego bricks, twigs, and razor blades and they explode in your arms. Now you're lying in a puddle of your own blood with razor blades embedded in your skin, covered in twigs and Lego bricks. It starts raining.

Anyway, if you now ever come across another story where someone's date explodes in a flurry of Lego bricks, twigs, and razor blades, you know it's been plagiarised, because only a human can come up with this. Fuck you and fuck your capitalist, planet-destroying bullshit.

Yeah so unless you're running x86 Flathub is effectively useless.

Why are we even going to the World Cup if it's held in enemy territory?

BREAKING: GNOME and KDE agree to remove letter X from desktop Linu

middle-click to paste is now *checks notes* part of the culture war

I mean, Fedora's Flatpak repo has ppc64le binaries.

Flathub does not.

It's not all bad to have Fedora run its own remote, I guess.

im not crying

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o

Reject ethnicity. It's a colonialist, racist concept invented to divide, rule, and kill.

After I'm done writing about the HP c8000, anyone interested in a similar UNIX workstation writeup about my dual POWER9 machine? I've been itching to set it up as a FreeBSD machine for that real UNIX workstation feel.

And no, x86 workstations are not UNIX workstations. They just aren't. I don't make the rules.

@cks @mos_8502 I've got an Ultra 45. Sun was phoning it in hardware-wise, and spent everything else on the case design. 😄

I wrote a long article about the thing a few weeks ago:

https://www.osnews.com/story/143570/living-my-best-sun-microsystems-ecosystem-life-in-2025/

I love it when right-wing extremists claim the EU is trash compared to the US. Here's some numbers.

- Homicide rate in US is 5 times as high as in the EU.
- Traffic death rate in the US is 30 times as high as in the EU.
- Poverty rates are higher in the US than in the EU.
- Life expectancy in the US is several years shorter than in the EU.
- Medical bankruptcy is effectively a US-only phenomenon, and extremely common there.
- Health outcomes in the US are trash compared to the EU.
- Number of overdose deaths in the US is substantially higher than in the EU.
- Americans are far less happy than Europeans.

And this is just a small selection. The US is a third-world country with a small number of ultra-wealthy individuals tricking dumb fucks that they're better off than the rest of the world.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/international-crime-rates-0
https://www.wardsauto.com/news/what-europe-can-teach-america-on-road-safety-killing-by-design-part-1/798798/
https://confrontingpoverty.org/poverty-facts-and-myths/americas-poor-are-worse-off-than-elsewhere/
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality-u-s-healthcare-system-compare-countries/
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2025/us-overdose-deaths-remain-higher-other-countries-trend-tracking-and-harm-reduction
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/03/21/finland-us-happiest-country/7114106001/

Enjoying the sounds of my Ultrium 2 tape drive making an HP-UX backup. 🥵

bites lip

"You use FreeBSD? Oh aha, you mean Linux with more steps."

I chose violence today.

The Linux world should do this more. Fucking rainbow that shit up. Default KDE colour scheme? Trans flag colours. Default GNOME wallpaper? Pride parade. Force the unsavoury individuals in the Linux world to get mad at it every time. Smoke them out. Make them out themselves for the hateful bigots that they are.

https://transfem.social/notes/afi6d5v2r4ux064s