Notices by Jason Self (jxself@mastodon.social), page 2

@blukunfando Are we really going to throw out the entire philosophy of software freedom over one person? How wonderfully short-sighted! We're fighting for our future, not running a fan club. The four freedoms of software are universal rights and the arguments for them stand entirely on their own merit. Are you going to let proprietary software win just to spite a single person, or are you going to fight for the actual principles? I'm doing the latter. #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

Oh, you want a world built on software freedom? How remarkably noble of you! Tell me, are you actually going to join the FSF fundraiser to support this or just cry inside your walled garden until the next ice age? It's $12 a month to become an associate member, you know. Or do you want me to manually click the button for you? https://www.fsf.org/appeal #Commit2Freedom #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU #Linux

Your fridge, pacemaker, and deluxe Wi-Fi toaster run more software than NASA in '69. Who writes that code? Tech overlords with more control over your life you have. Remember: owning the software means owning YOU. Support the FSF to build a better future: https://www.fsf.org/appeal #CodeIsPower #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

It feels as though the eyes of the world are on #Seattle today as we host Belgium vs Egypt for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 🌍 Let the games begin! ⚽ 🏆
#WorldCup2026 #FIFA #Soccer

Big Tech says we don't need #SoftwareFreedom - just keep clicking "Accept" until our fingerprints wear off. #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

♫♪ "Join us now and share the software..." ♪♫ #FreeSoftware #SofwareFreedom

@olivia_m11 I think I've read good things about it; please check the Trisquel forums for Ark.

Meanwhile, in an alternate reality, corporations applaud users for demanding source, cats assert their Affero rights, and Starfleet just passed the GPL Prime Directive: no proprietary blob shall meddle with a planet's freedom to tinker. If that universe can do it, ours can too - let's boldly fork where no one has forked before! https://www.fsf.org/about/ #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

@SuperDicq I remember that car! 😀

I got these little rubber feet to go on the bottom of my #ThinkPad X200 since one had fallen off.

#FreeSoftware is for everyone, including: Backyard chicken whisperers. Amateur radio operators. Knitters of tiny hats. Geocaching adventurers. Local library regulars. Scrapbook memory keepers. Upcycled fashion designers. Spicy hot sauce testers. Competitive stone skippers. Rooftop weather watchers. Jazz improvisation pianists. Community garden composters. Stop-motion animators. People who occasionally forget why they walked into a room. Everyone. https://fsf.org/about #SoftwareFreedom

Welcome to your computer. Now you just need to use the camera for age verification, and authorization to use the computer. #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

The PDP-10 computer's 60 years old. It shaped early computing culture, made multitaksing common and helped build the early internet. It ran the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS), an OS that pioneered modern features, some still unbeat to this day, and gave birth to #Emacs. Learn about the role that one PDP-10 at MIT played in sparking the free software movement by reading Free As In Freedom 2.0: https://sagitter.fedorapeople.org/faif-2.0.pdf #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU #Linux

#Linux version 27 has been released: https://jxself.org/linux-27.shtml #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU

The move to #Trisquel 12 seems to be a complete success! Took the opportunity to do a complete wipe and reinstall to transition all drives to #btrfs. The system is running flawlessly, and BorgBackup is currently restoring all my documents to the freshly formatted drives. #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

@jakob @andi
LVM definitely solves that, assuming it was set up a decade ago. Though since btrfs subvolumes dynamically share the same storage pool, it natively solves that issue without needing the extra layer of LVM.

@jakob @andi Just to clarify, Trisquel fully supports in-place upgrades. Wiping the drive is purely my own personal choice. I just prefer doing a clean install to clear out the cruft that may have been forgotten over the years. Plus, since I wanted to switch the root filesystem from ext4 to btrfs this time, a format was necessary anyway.

Trisquel 12 upgrade time. Since I normally do a full reformat and reinstall for major OS upgrades anyway I'm using this as the perfect excuse to migrate my root partitions from ext4 to btrfs. Slowly rolling this out across my fleet of machines so it'll take a while. Anyone else making the switch? #Trisquel #GNU #Linux #btrfs #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

Trisquel 12 is officially out. Windows is still on 11. 12>11 The math doesn't lie. Checkmate, proprietary software. https://trisquel.info/en/download #Trisquel #GNU #Linux #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

Oh yay: Trisquel 12 is out: https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-120-ecne-release-announcement

Don't forget to pay your free software "licensing fee" 😆 https://trisquel.info/en/donate #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom