Notices by Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (pojntfx@mastodon.social), page 3

For Europe, that's privacy and vague sense of European nationalism. For queer people, it's something to do with trust & safety. It's like someone who isn't part of any of those communities tries to reinvent what they care about from first principles.

Clean energy is cheaper & better, esp. the solar + batteries combination. Mass timber housing is just plain better than using concrete for everything. EVs are more fun to drive, and fast, electric transit allows you to work or research on your commute instead of having to actively steer a car. Linux is nicer to use and won't enshittify in the future.

The fact that all of these are great for the climate is awesome, but we don't need to make that argument the main reason/pull factor anymore.

The biggest takeaway of the failed climate movement of the late 2010s and early 2020s IMHO is that trying to regulate consumption fundamentally just doesn't work & is politically toxic. Instead of trying to get everyone to reduce their electricity use, we should be pushing for China-style mass renewable installations for example. Instead of trying to be NIMBYs about density, we should push for mass timber high-rises.

@dalias I don't know if I agree with this. Machine translation can never replace human translation for so many reasons, accountability probably being the biggest one. But for the cases where you speak both languages fluently - in my case, that's German, English and French - it's miles and miles ahead of anything pre-LLM. Biases are still there, yes, but if you're translating your own stuff into different languages (I mostly use it to speed up localization) it's very easy to spot

I feel like a broken record but I do actually think that there are at least three use cases for LLMs that are genuinely useful: Machine translation for most languages that's much better than anything before it, individualized language assistance while you're learning a new one and correction (which makes sense, it's essentially autocomplete!), and tool calling with natural language. Is there any money in those things? Hell no, open models already do that. Will this lead to "AGI"? Absolutely not.

Will I be buying a Framework next? I was seriously considering it for quite a while, but this has given me a bit of a pause. DHH etc. are not on that sponsorship list (anymore?), and at least personally I don't think there is much harm in sponsoring the people behind hyprland be they bad at governance or not. We'll see what happens next I guess. They are officially on the GNOME donations page now fwiw, and they do contribute more there than to hyprland which is great to see.

Glad to see Framework also supporting other Linux desktops now. Honestly, I think after the CEOs statement and this new level of transparency, I think it's all fine now: https://frame.work/bg/en/blog/framework-sponsorships

The only form of moderation on modern social media that seems to actually be working is the decentralized one that the Fediverse uses. I used to think that it's a thing that needs fixing or that it might genuinely be unfixable, but seeing how US-centric the alternatives are and how they fall in line on every single issue, even on stuff like age verification, is crazy. The Fediverse way of doing it might lead to drama too, but wow does it scale better than the alternative.

@migratory Look at the people they just funded. They are also in the US, so the CLOUD act applies to them. Doesn't matter if they are feds or not, the feds have pretty much unlimited power over them.

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

Mastodon now works on Servo 👀 That def. wasn't the case as of like a week ago!

If ActivityPub borrowed the nomadic identity from ATProto, and ATProto borrowed direct P2P sending of posts from ActivityPub for proper decentralization, you'd have the perfect protocol

I bet regulators will not understand that this completely neuters any 3rd-party app store

RMS was right about everything

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Absolutely insane

Google and Apple will say "well, you can distribute apps however you will" except now you need to upload your ID to Google or Apple to get your apps to install on any device in the first place without losing your ability to use government services or paying for your food

Running a `main` branch as a daily driver is so much fun. Every day things get better

@joojmachine Ooooh that looks like just what I need! No idea why I didn't find this before. Thank you!

Is there a way to get a better screenreader voice on GNOME OS? The built-in one is really hard to listen too ...

How long until GitHub just turns into SourceForge 2.0