Notices by ity [unit X-69] (ity@estradiol.city)

Actually kill yourself Google

@brettm Exactly what I did >:3

@dalias @Ember he also annoyed me enough with the stupid disappearing messages impl so now I have a patch sitting around for removing that.

Codebase is in Haskell, so yea.

I decided that I will write a replacement for SimpleX. Idk if anyone is interested, but yea.

@dalias @Ember I also briefly thought about working on a fork, but decided that it is not worth it.

Making a gay fork of Nazi software, yk.

@dalias @Ember I fucking called it when evgeny went on a rant about adding an IP logging backdoor for the sake of complying with possible future law enforcement requests

Or how he refused to fix a critical vulnerability in their proxy implementation

Or a myriad of the other things, lmao.

@elise: You're telling me there's a use for this 1¢ piece? What can I use it for then

@ity: Feed it to a vending machine bottie and have it dispense something fun
Like robotgirl piss,,,,

@elise: Ok if that was real I would actually use coins

@Fragglemuppet my policy is if anyone wants it CW'd, I CW it, since CWs aren't hiding, covering up or obscuring anything, they are creating a choice. It's a summary of a post. Literally - CWs go into the summary field of an ActivityPub object.

The reason why I would ask to CW the post is because you didn't discuss just alt text, but also CWs, which spawns discussions like those, which many folks do not like to see. Eg. when I am low on spoons I generally do not open posts that need a lot of energy, including any kinda *meta posts, including CW meta.

I'm also working on account-wide CWs in case someone asks me to CW technology posts x3

Nini fedi!

@Fragglemuppet I still scream at people for not using CWs or alt text and spend more time writing alt text than the actual posts sometimes, including writing alt text for other folks' posts. I also try to avoid boosting posts without alt text or sufficient CWs.

My timeline is also mostly like this, since I block anyone that does not CW stuff properly.

Fwiw normally I would ask you to CW this as "CW+alt text meta, mention of Twitter" but it is true that I have been less strict about CWs recently. Wonder if I should change that.

Just to make it clear, we seem to agree on the importance on CWs and ofc alt text, so this is friendly ramblings of a girlie that has not slept for the past 36 hours scrolling fedi before she passes out :)

@hellomiakoda so glad I keep it disabled and have the privilege of not having to go within 100 km of widevine or other DRM shit

The only DRM on my computer is from Steam games. I have a local fork of Firefox, and haven't bothered stripping widevine from it, so it pops up the annoying prompt. Should I & share a patch on fedi :neobot_think:

@lizzy @minekpo1 what is that

@lizzy So discount TERFs that pretend they are trans inclusive

@mischievoustomato @cross LMAO I just use flatpak and docker, and use Nix only for some stuff that's annoying to get to work with that.

@mischievoustomato @cross Yea... I am working on my own Nix-like distro, also experimenting with an Arch-based Nix distro, but not that much progress just yet

@mischievoustomato @cross Yea .-.

Breaking news: Chat, apparently I am a nazi.

Maybe I am such an unapologetically gay and queer anarchist that for some folks I wrap around to being a nazi :neobot_think:

Yk it's such an out-there accusation I can't help but laugh. Like, lmao.

@hellomiakoda @LapisPebble @Unlikelylass awawawa I will probably launch a kickstarter or smth once I have prototypes to show off >w<

Am glad at least some folks are interested in it !

I am gonna need a lot of prototyping for the main CPU, since I am doing RISC-V. Unsure if I can get away with using off-the-shelf displays, RAM, storage, cameras, and batteries, since displays and cameras are a mostly separate but related manufacturing tech, and competent storage + RAM is more difficult than a competent CPU. And batteries are a whole other beast entirely. Those I pray I can get away with using off-the-shelf since not like I can ever let myself ship some exploding thing (I am not Samsung or Xiaomi)

@LapisPebble @hellomiakoda @Unlikelylass ehehehehee :333

Fwiw I am working on an open baseband chip. It is illegal to use in regular networks yes, but if that gets fixed we will now have an open chip. Afaik it might be legal if you use it on your own premises (at home or if the organizers of a conference allow it - I might ask C3 folks)

Like the prototype is gonna consist of an SDR, which is quite expensive (think 800€ per baseband), but after I get the prototypes down I should be able to bring the cost down 1-2 orders of magnitude at least, by making my own ICs.

@hellomiakoda you can have free as in freedom hardware without it being free as in beer by making the manufacturing technology easy to access (that's what I am trying to do) and distribute it to hackerspaces so that it is about as easily available as 3D printing.

Best we can do in capitalism unfortunately. Mostly-free (if you have the money (or live next to a hackerspace (and have the money (but it's still several orders of magnitude less money and middle class can afford it now instead of only companies (which is the path towards free - trying to bring the cost down as much as possible while remaining free as in freedom)))))

To be more specific I am working on at-home manufacturing of integrated circuits at the cost of a 3D printer and the ease of use of a 3D printer. Not exactly perfect by any means, but certainly an improvement, imo. That way you can have open hardware modulo any legal issues that forbid open hardware (like the EU's directives banning open basebands)

@Unlikelylass @hellomiakoda FOSS firmware? In my EU? Never!

(Illegal to use under EU directives)