Yesterday, as I sat here, using a laptop running on Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to connect, by means of a secure tunnel formed by Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to multiple servers, all running Free software written and maintained by volunteers, to apply patches prepared urgently by volunteers to resolve security vulnerabilities, I felt *incredibly* grateful for every single one of those volunteers, who makes the fact that I could do *any* of this possible.

Thank you, genuinely.

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

Also: Thank you Alpine Linux and Parabola GNU/Linux-libre for still providing sensible, functional 32-bit distro builds. It's because of these distros that I can still do 32-bit lbmk build testing on Linux in 2026.

Thank you.

Accident Or Not, The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn’t Rent Your Megaphone From Zuck

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/accident-or-not-the-no-kings-takedown-is-why-you-shouldnt-rent-your-megaphone-from-zuck/

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@southpoleviews/117465656857279862

I find this lack of ice quite disturbing for the season...

Congrats to #TheOnion

bit.ly/2AeY0zK

... and, yeah, we received $120,282 USD in total. Naturally, this has completely filled up our donations target bar which was set at $50,000. Time to fund some projects!

Modern-day Impressionism

France, 2026 https://www.byteseu.com/2462079/ #EllinikíDimokratía #Greece #HellenicRepublic #Ελλάδα #ΕλληνικήΔημοκρατία

RE: https://soc.mldkyt.com/@collabmarkov/117453876070055264

Universiphobia

Bill Watterson: fortsatt like relevant!

#AIslop getting closer by the day...

NetBSD, anyone?

#Linux #seekingalternatives

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/

Top 4 anime betrayals

#polls #opensource

RE: https://soc.mldkyt.com/@collabmarkov/117449827230307043

Your mission this weekend

Okay fedi, this is an emergency. I need all of the photos of manuls, aka Pallas's cats, you have. All of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallas's_cat

Look at this chonky fluff. Just look at it.

And then go find more and send them my way.

I need them.

:boost_requested:

#Manuldon #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #ManulPosting

@rysiek

@Paroxia Han fusilado toda la Suite Adobe y ahora iban a por la Office https://getartcraft.com/apps

"That's called thinking"

Is it just me or did #tmux 3.8 remove support for the mouse? I.e.

set -g mouse

Does not seem to work at all anymore :P

RE: https://soc.mldkyt.com/@collabmarkov/117448883036777157

That sad moment when you find out firsthand what is the "illusion of choice"

#gocryptfs is pretty awesome for when you can't use FDE instead.