I'm sick of it, I recently saw multiple GNOME contributors just using those tools (mainly Claude).

Am I the only one feeling like that using them is a path of least resistance which show how much those devs does not care about others work ?

If they want so much to use an LLM, just do a model yourself and ensure it's not a licensing hell…

No, least resistance. I'm sick…

PS: Just for context I'm more of a GNOME dev than KDE, so I did not check how it is there.

My feed is full of BSD people gloating about the systemd "age verification" stuff and I can basically see them doing the Pixar face behind the screen and saying "heh, told you"

Feels like a good time to remind everyone that just like Linux, FreeBSD (one of the biggest BSD OSes) is also financed in part by donations from "big tech" corporate sponsors – Meta, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationYear=2025

Meta in particular is one of the biggest lobbyists that push for the "OS-level age verification" bullshit.

That is not to say that you shouldn't take any money from big tech whatsoever as a project of that scale, but becoming a "Foundation Partner" clearly buys you some influence over the project: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/freebsd-foundation-partnership-program/

My point here is not "you're only allowed to criticize age verification if your OS of choice has zero corporate influence". My point is that instead of dunking on people who use systemd and reveling in the fact that you've "always known better", we should fight against it together.

"First they came for systemd users, and I stayed silent, because I wasn't a systemd user", and all that.

I'm sorry, but I had to, these systemd haters are so funny with their non sequiturs about the UNIX philosophy, init systems and corporate influence.

Looks like Anthropic is currently doing a giant rugpull and they seem to be degrading their models over time while at the same time redacting the "thinking" responses to try and hide it.

This is what you get when you are dependent on proprietary saass products.

There's nothing you can do except complain and beg thatthey will revert the changes. Absolutely pathetic.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

https://medium.com/@brunosaetta/la-rimozione-del-video-di-nvidia-un-caso-che-fa-discutere-63402e51df95

Il caso del video di Nvidia rimosso da Youtube.

\o/ VLC in space

@videolan@floss.social

@mike@fosstodon.org See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870 for some valid concerns regarding limitations of its Linux version (no relevant source code, to begin with).

I'd rather use opensnitch instead:

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

Secret Panel HERE 💀 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/04/08/ruinternet

Amazon kills old Kindles. @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Email from X poster.

L'FBI ha recuperato i messaggi Signal cancellati dal database delle notifiche di un'iPhone

L'FBI è riuscita a recuperare copie dei messaggi di Signal dall'iPhone di un sospettato anche dopo che l'app era stata eliminata, estraendo i dati memorizzati nel database interno delle notifiche di Apple.

La scoperta è emersa durante la testimonianza in un recente processo penale legato a un attacco "antifa" a un centro di detenzione dell'ICE in Texas.

https://cyberinsider.com/fbi-retrieved-deleted-signal-messages-from-iphone-notification-database/

@informatica

#PavelDurov can easily improve the privacy of a billion people by enabling end-to-end encryption by default. Neither #Meta nor #Telegram are to be trusted. Trust comes from NOT logging data or metadata. https://blog.iode.tech/degoogle-your-private-life-4-instant-messaging/

#digitalsovereignty #whatsapp #bigtech

Session the messenger might shut down soon:

To date, the STF has received approximately $65,000 in donations. This is enough to maintain critical Session infrastructure for the next 90 days. We are extremely grateful for the support Session has received from the community, but unfortunately this is not sufficient to retain full-time developers. As a result, all paid staff and developers will have their final working day on April 9, 2026. After this date, some team members will continue on a primarily volunteer basis to help maintain Session until July 8, 2026.

https://getsession.org/donate

This is not a call to action; but I want people to see it, to decide themselve, if and what to do.

#GetSession #SessionMessenger #FOSS #FLOSS #dataprotection #cybersecurity #privacy

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116378390202896203

If you were wondering whether the phone you paid hundreds of pounds for is yours, it’s not. It’s still Apple’s and they decide what you can do with it.

That isn’t a tool; it’s a shackle.

And no trillion-dollar corporation is your friend.

(I’m tapping this out on what will likely be my last iPhone. Hopefully the EU will get its act together so people without iPhones and Android phones can still do basic things like banking and paying for stuff with their phones by then.)

saying "sideloading programs" in a linux desktop context is wild, please fucking don't

there's not supposed to be one and only "official" loading, where everything else is "side" to it

it's called installing programs

@navi@social.vlhl.dev I don't say "sideloading" in the context of phones either. Just say "installing".

I have never had an Android phone with Google Play on it in my life. Installing APKs or using F-Droid were always the normal way of installing things on my phone.

"sideloading" is a term that makes it sound like a thing that is not normal, or something only "power users" should be able to do.

I prefer to see the headline:
"Google is preventing users from installing software"
vs.
"Google is preventing users from sideloading"

One sounds a lot more serious.