I don't like how Anubis is starting to become regarded as some sort of holy savior project with an annoying fandom that doesn't want listen to any criticisms pretending a piece of Javascript literally designed to waste CPU cycles is literally the only solution to the bot issue, while many other better options exist.
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SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 08:03:16 JST 
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 04:54:53 JST 
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now, if anyone still fails to realize that mandatory javascript is malware, this article does a pretty good job of fixing that, particularly between "DISABLE JAVASCRIPT" and "OPTIONS FOR PREVENTION": https://backlit.neocities.org/incapacitate-google-tag-manager
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 03:26:12 JST
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if the purpose of Wayland was to divide the community of users and of developers, and the efforts to develop and maintain windowing systems, it's working great, actually.
BTW, a system's purpose is what it does
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 03:18:23 JST
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most likely, but the attitude was a very realistic imitation -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 03:11:41 JST
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you think? it's already hurting me, as described in my initial response. sure, not like a slaughterhouse might, but the point of the slaughterhouse line is not so much the final destination, but the very real and palpable issue of being pushed to go to a place that's no good for you. don't get distracted from what really matters disputing a detail of no relevance.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 03:09:03 JST
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sure, I've even promoted jmp.chat myself, in my talk abut the 0G Project and elsewhere. the challenge is to get the voip provider that would take the +55 (Brazil) number I've been using for almost 30 years (desirable, not strictly needed). as I wrote upthread, unfortunately a foreign number won't do for some of the purposes that require me to receive SMS. do you have any useful recommendations of service providers that could do that? I used to have VoIP service at home some 15-20 years ago (without SMS), but the service was shut down when the provider was bought by the phone company, and I haven't found a replacement. the web is toxic and impenetrable to people like me who won't run alien JavaScript, which makes it hard to find all sorts of services, and they typically don't want me as a customer because their websites won't work for me, and I don't even have hardware to run their T.R.Apps. (and see above about autistic rigidity and PDA 🙂
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 17:56:10 JST
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now, the other issue with averting LLM overload is that, by blocking them, one now also blocks search engines, as michael mcmahon pointed out the other day, and not appearing in web searches isn't very appealing for organizations like the FSF. scissors, paper, rock, hard place, pick one 🙂 😞
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 17:51:22 JST
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me too! we've been campaigning for anubis to adopt other techniques to accomplish the same goal without imposing javascript on users, and the developers have listened! sourceware.org is already using a new version of anubis, configured to not behave like malware. I thank for anubis developers and sourceware.org operators for heeding our call, with hopefully many more to follow.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 17:35:22 JST
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oh no, slashdot effect? surely it's because my blog post attracted so much attention to it ;-P 😀
now, seriously, it's more likely to be because of https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2025/spring/defending-savannah-from-ddos-attacks, or https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots 😞
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 17:12:43 JST
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New blog post: FSF40 T-shirt message
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-07-07-FSF40-T-shirt-message
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 14:08:25 JST
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clearly you don't have a clue about PDA
but yeah, the problem is not the software, it's that attitude
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 13:58:41 JST
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I hate that hypothetical future in which people are trained to tolerate their master's forcing them into slaughterhouse lines, and even to complain that the line is moving too slow
that's why I support the FSF's drive to defy dystopia, and you all should, too
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 13:24:30 JST
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I have X configured just the way I like, with extensions and configurations to work with my screens, my TV, my VNC preferences, my scripts to switch between external and internal laptop displays, and last I tried Wayland, none of those configurations and scripts worked, and it was generally a step backward, while I was assured it was ready and great. now, there was no point in my wasting my time learning how to do something that I already knew how to do elsewhere, just because someone else expects me to get used to doing things their way, or to keep testing something whose primary interest was in rendering something I liked obsolete, and taking away the possibility of tunneling X through SSH and generally opening windows remotely; I've lived with that for decades, and taking that away is an unthinkable loss. the expectation and attitude that such loss, waste of time and imposing push for experimenting with software that is not even meant to bring me any advantage whatsoever to make up for the losses is just insulting and disrespectful, more so for someone who's neurodivergent (autistic traits such as cognitive rigidity, need for predictability, and fondness of regularity, plus pervasive desire for autonomy AKA pathological demand avoidance), but unfortunately they're all too common in the proprietary software scene. last thing we need in the free software scene is for the authoritarians and the clueless to import more of these horrible traits from their proprietary counterparts, or for people to get used to waste time learning how to get things back working the way they were before someone somewhere thought it was a great idea to push a breaking update onto them. https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2020-03-15-new-dawn is about this not-quite-new social problem we're inheriting but should resist much harder. -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 06:22:08 JST
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resisting while under an oppressor's power doesn't get you very far: unless the oppressor is really dumb, your resistance is noticed, and then you're sidelined to positions in which you may feel like you can still do a little, where you wear yourself out accomplishing little and self-censoring to avoid getting caught. defeating an oppressive system from the inside is probably no more than a nice illusion. operating from the outside deprives you from the little power the oppressor chooses to give you inside, but it's probably far more effective in the long run. -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 02:43:28 JST
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I wish there was some way to forward SMS sent to +55 phone numbers to XMPP, email, whatever. a +1 won't do for the sort of stuff that requires me to keep an SMS receiver going. the freerunner would be just an GPS receiver with shopping lists otherwise 😉
but hey, I can read my SMSs on the GNUbooted T400 computer by X forwarding over SSH, running GNU Emacs on the FreeRunner 🙂
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 02:30:27 JST
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my primary SMS-receiver is a freerunner. it was still easy to find compatible batteries for it last I looked for them. I got a couple of freerunners with an ancient install of the long-dead SHR, and somewhere in my mess hall there are a handful of brand new batteries for them. it's amazing how sturdy these devices have been, given the amount of abuse I've imposed on them,
as in the Debconf 2019 presentation of the 0G project: https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#0G/ 🙂
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 02:24:15 JST
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they gotta kill these paths to freedom before they grow into adults ;-(
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 02:07:27 JST
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 09:53:20 JST
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and indeed that appears to be the reason why The System (TM) has demonized devices, operating systems and applications that offer users any thin hope of privacy and freedom, and demanding unrootable, remotely-controlled devices for essential services -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 03:44:09 JST
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sorry for your troubles
therapy can be great, but it takes time, and it can make things feel worse before they feel better, as things that were dormant are brought under light so that they can be analyzed and dealt with.
my therapist of many years even suggested at times that I consult with a psychiatrist to get an antidepressant prescription so that I could face and deal with some of the stuff that was troubling me.
so don't lose hope. it can take a while. it's not anyone's fault; certainly not yours.
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