Notices by Liam Proven (lproven@social.vivaldi.net)

@Flick As Chris Tregenza put it on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/tregenza.bsky.social/post/3lykgsglofc24

@Flick Disclaimer: not read. Don't want to.

Nobody is dehumanising Kirk. He did that all to himself.

He spread, promoted and glorified hatred and violence, and he got what he endorsed.

@Tutanota I have tried several alternative phone OSes and de-Googled Androids, and written about some.

I do not know of anywhere that I can go and see a list of all of them.

Here is a nice easy non-coding project for anyone who is interested in this area.

* A list of FOSS phone OSes

* Better still, with strengths/weaknesses comparisons: what each one is good for

* Better still, some tool where you can enter your phone model and it tells you you could run.

The Baba Yaga licence

https://smallandnearlysilent.com/baba-yaga/LICENSE.txt

<- I like this. I like the style, the language, and the concept.

I wonder if it qualifies as a Free Software or open source licence?

Just fucking use HTML

https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

<- the language of the Web is HTML. Not Javascript. The best website is one with no JS at all. Let's make this a movement.

Do I Need Kubernetes?

https://doineedkubernetes.com/

Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/sad_end_of_bcachefs/

A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway

<- by me on @theregister

Please don't promote Wayland

An open letter from developers and users to the wider Linux community

https://stoppromotingwayland.netlify.app/

<- oh, _this_ is going to go down just great. I can't imagine any bad reaction at all, oh no.

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

…over the past few weeks – with the help of a growing group of rebels fighting to take back ownership and control over their digital lives – I did something radical: I built my own cloud.
[…]
self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape.

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/symbian_forgotten_foss_phone_os/

It did get sourced, but nobody cared

<- by me on @theregister

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

«
Most websites are awful… They load slowly, render erratically, and hide their content behind megabytes of JavaScript. They glitch on mobile. They frustrate users and confuse search engines. They’re impossible to maintain. And somehow, we’re calling this progress.

The tragedy is, none of this is necessary. Once upon a time, we had a fast, stable, resilient web. But we replaced it with a JavaScript cargo cult.
»

RT @tekbog

i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

@as400 Sadly, the world stock markets have always been largely driven by gossip and fear and hype.

I often think we should do away with them. Ban all derivatives, ban all trading: you can own shares in a company, but not buy or sell them. _Maybe_ inherit them but I'm not even sure about that.

@gamingonlinux @dvogel @davidgerard

I speak as I find. I am not being mean or nasty. I am being _honest_.

A lot of people are not used to that, especially younger ones, and especially Americans.

That is not my problem; it is theirs. In my world, honesty and openness are good things.

It is not just in FOSS: it's equally true of modern releases of MS Windows and MS Office, for instance.

@davidgerard I do not have any firmly-held position on this, but wow... aside from writing about Xlibre bringing out antivaxxers like pale squirming things after lifting a large rock...

*Sheesh* the personal abuse I've had from the GNOME and Wayland fans after _daring_ to point out problems in their babies.

I never had to start blocking people on the Fediverse before, but now I do.

Thou Shalt Not Criticise Wayland. It Is The Truth And The Light. Thou mayst Not Criticise GNOME Unless Thou Art One Of The KDE Tribe For That Is The Only Other Clean Tribe In The Eyes Of The Lord.

The Xlibre followers are often Not Nice People, but the folks that Wayland criticism uncovers are not that much less unpleasant to deal with.

@dvogel @davidgerard Could well be and that's a damned shame.

But I hope some alternative doses become available. Apart from the fact that there's nothing that runs via Wayland that I would be willing to use, frankly the Wayland people are alienating me fast.

It seems like a system designed by kids who don't know how to use mice or keyboards properly for other kids with keen eyes, almost with the goal of pissing off old timers.

@gamingonlinux @alatiera @theregister

I _strongly_ disagree.

Anything that hinders accessibility, removes or disables assistive tech, and so excludes people with disabilities is much, _much_ worse.

I deplore anything that does that, whatever the intentions. Even if the plan is to put it back later, that's not good enough.

Always remember the philosophy of Kaizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen

Continual advancement by small changes, _never going backwards_.

It is my _duty_ as a reporter to call this sort of thing out and criticise it.

It is _fifteen years_ since GNOME 3.0 and today MATE _still_ has better a11y than GNOME.

@alatiera @theregister I don't know what you're on about, but once you calm down, you can email me and *EXPLAIN* what you mean.

But if you continue with social-media name-calling, then I'm just going to ignore you or maybe block you if you go any more ad-hom.

It's fine; I'm talking with Steven Deobald about a11y issues, and he's actually responding like an adult, rather than swearing and telling me I make stuff up.

Not amused.

@dch @theregister

I sadly can't attend devconf.cz which is already happening in Brno. Last year, two blind Red Hat developers gave a presentation about the accessibility of GNOME $CURRENT and Wayland.

https://pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/speaker/CBQYXQ/

It is really, really bad, and one of them said to me privately afterwards that the best option at present is MATE on X.org.

One of the two is Red Hat's sole developer dedicated full-time to accessibility work.

https://news.itsfoss.com/red-hat-accessibility-gnome/

@feld @theregister @wpeckham I find it a little tricky to get through Bjorn's style of explanations, but the Arcan project is the single most exciting and interesting thing happening in xNix display server tech at the moment. 😁