Notices by Thom, absolute station wagon (thomholwerda@exquisite.social), page 3

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.

If you see a Tesla why not throw your iPhone at it? Two nazi products destroyed in one go!

There are some amazing Motif-like/CDE-like KDE themes. Sadly, they're all unusable because of QtQuikc/QML taking over KDE (can't be themed)

KDE's Union can't come soon enough.

Also this is why Chisel exists.

https://chisel-os.com/

As I've been saying for years, Tim Cook is a fascist. Every one of his actions regarding Trump and the nazi/'Republlican' party, his love and admiration for totalitarian regimes, and his hatred for the EU make it abundantly clear he is a fascist.

Making excuses for his fascism is getting more... Suspicious by the day.

https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/114024680575431574

Americans do not realise that the world economy entails more than iPhones and cars - much of it consists of money. Lots and lots of money. And guess what the EU (and the rest of Europe) has a lot of?

Imagine the shockwaves once the Norwegian pension fund starts to treat the US as the pariah that it is. That's the largest wealth fund in the world, over $1.7 trillion, owning 1.5% of all publicly listed shares in the world (!).

Americans have no idea what's about to hit them.

FreeBSD/X11 nerds: can I enable adaptive sync on an Intel iGPU connected to a G-Sync display? It doesn't do so out of the box but maybe there's some hackery?

The display is from 2017 so is G-Sync-only - it doesn't have Freesync.

clabretro is so dreamy 😍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1v32-b4UA

Dutch pension fund ABP - which manages €544 billion as of December 2024 - is ditching Tesla, Facebook, and Google. Why? You know why.

Again, Americans have no idea what's begun here. The Netherlands alone is one of the largest investors in the US, and as public sentiment here against president Musk and figurehead Trump deteriorates even further, those investments will shrink. The long-term effects will be crippling.

@xenotar HP-UX 11.11 (or 11i v1). I've got the last PA-RISC workstation they ever made, in 2004. Two dual-core 1Ghz PA-RISC processors.

If you're interested in operating systems, I cannot recommend it enough to get access to a classic UNIX system, like HP-UX or whatever. You have no idea how much I've been learning just through trying to make an outdated operating system do (modern) things.

I've learned more these past few weeks than I have in a decade before.

The less successful and critically panned nerd interpretation of the 1981 WWII classic film.