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

LibrePhone will be usable when The Hurd is.

WHO'S YOUR GOD NOW?????

Well. That's not encouraging.

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986

Yeah @frameworkcomputer is a no-go from now on. You're free to take sides. I'm free to tell you to fuck off because of your choice.

Ask your doctor if you are POSIX-compliant.

Moldova showing the way.

Can we now please send like six guys and a dog to Transnistria and kick out the nazi Russian occupiers there? Transnistria is Moldovan territory, and the illegal occupation must end.

im still seething

https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

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Fuck you, this is our anthem now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYG7-d_Q9zU

We're told that after the war
The Nazis vanished without a trace
But battalions of fascists
Still dream of a master race
The history books they tell
Of their defeat at '45
But they all came out of the woodwork
On the day the Nazi died
They say the prisoner at Spandau
Was a symbol of defeat
Whilst Hess remained imprisoned
And the fascists, they were beat
So the promise of an Aryan world
Would never materialize
So why did they all come out of the woodwork
On the day the Nazi died
The world is riddled with maggots
The maggots are getting fat
They're making a tasty meal of all
The bosses and bureaucrats
They're taking over the boardrooms
And they're fat and full of pride
And they all came out of the woodwork
On the day the Nazi died
So if you meet with these historians
I'll tell you what to say
Tell them that the Nazis
Never really went away
They're out there burning houses down
And peddling racist lies
And we'll never rest again
Until every Nazi dies

Conversion therapy - for gay, trans, etc. people - has officially been made illegal in The Netherlands today.

Tiny ray of progress in the utter dysfunction that is my country of birth.

Long shot, but do I have any Faroese followers, or followers who live on the Faroe Islands?

I'm going down an odd rabbit hole relating to finding a job over there and I have... Questions.

Look, we all know Fahrenheit is the most nonsensical and most arbitrary measurement in the US (sorry @caseyliss), but I would like to posit that American Wire Gauge gives it a run for its money.

What in the fuck is even happening here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge

Szelensky is playing this whole negotiations thing the best way he possibly can. He's going along with Trump's delusions without truly giving anything up, and continuously reiterates he wants to sit down and negotiate with Putin directly. He's really forcing Putin's hand, and Putin is walking right into the trap. If Putin refuses, Szelensky definitely wins support among Americans and Trump. If Putin sits down at the table, Szelensky already won.

The ball is in Putin's court. Also, the ball is Trump.

80 years ago, as the Japanese surrender and the "Dutch Indies" revert back to Dutch control after years of brutal Japanese occupation that killed 4 million Indonesians, they declare independence from The Netherlands.

Despite the absolute horror The Netherlands had just faced under the nazi occupation, we decide to try and fight Indonesian independence. We go to war. A ravaged Netherlands thinks it can brutally supress independence of an island chain larger than Europe. Our violence is extreme. The war lasts four years. Pressure from the United States to cut off post-WWII aid to The Netherlands finally forces our hand, and we recognise Indonesian independence in 1949.

Thank fuck for that, because what we did to the people of Indonesia in the roughly 400 years we colonised them is inexcusable. A crime against humanity of unimaginable proportions. One upon which much of our wealth and prosperity is built. The Netherlands has this cuddly, cute, and tolerant international image now, but all of that is built on the broken backs of untold millions that we murdered, enslaved, and exploited.

I don't know if I have any Indonesian followers, but if I do, I hope your independence celebrations on the 17th are awesome.

Bhinneka tunggal ika.

Power outage in town.

Cool.

Power's been back for a while, but internet service still out.

Weird.

After hours of troubleshooting, increasing irritation, irrational desperation ("maybe the power outage damaged my Ubiquiti equipment, it's PoE after all"), and building anger as to why my Ubiquiti network did properly connect to our ISP and reported everything as working while none of the clients had internet access, it finally dawned on me.

...my Proxmox PC hosting our Pi-Hole container doesn't autoboot after a power failure.

[INCIDENT REPORT]

CONCLUSION

Network admin is a fucking idiot.

LEARNINGS

Punch him in the dick and fire him.

Take it from someone who's already been through this.

https://www.osnews.com/story/142956/vibe-coding-yourself-into-irrelevance/

The KiCad people are definitely on my... Suspicion list. An entire Wayland-bashing post that fails to mention KiCad works just fine under Xwayland and that there's absolutely no need to "use X11" to use KiCad.

Yeah, recent events have made me suspicious of shit like that. Cancel me if you want.

I can have such an amazing desktop environment because a bunch of people just make it for free. Kinda wild, right.

@vkc I wonder if a white-list approach could work? As in, you can mark specific users as "allowed to reply", and anyone not marked as such cannot. This way, you could cultivate your own circle of people you trust, so people like you, who get way more abuse than most of us can imagine, could still get some of the benefits of having a social presence and interaction online.

Of course, the downside is that it puts the onus of being safe online on the vicitim. Certainly not a perfect solution.