Nitter is back, baby

Photos: a proposed replacement for Gwenview

pointieststick.com/2026/09/06/photos-a-proposed-replacement-for-gwenview

Gwenview has been KDE’s flagship image viewer for over 25 years. It works, it’s feature-packed, and it’s been modernized repeatedly. Gwenview has served generations of KDE users faithfully and well.
So… why build a replacement?
Well, over the years…

This affects the Fediverse.

This affects the Internet.

This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.

All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.

You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.

Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry@infosec.exchange to shut off infosec.exchange servers.

Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)

You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.

#AutisticiInventati #fediverse

https://sabot.media/post/ai-shuts-down

This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago.

The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely staggering. And it gets worse if you use their apps, particularly the LG TV "network":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

Having an old set DOES NOT HELP YOU; they've been adding these spying functions in firmware updates.

So DO NOT BUY ANYTHING LG. Certainly not anything "smart."

#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus

i recently wrote that I become anti-AI, having previously been neutral towards it - critical in some aspects, positive in others.

when you use AI, you stop thinking. you don't reason about anything. google search really annoys me, because it's so seductive when the bot tells you what you want, regardless of whether it's true... and you're enticed to *not* click links anymore

anyway, i don't want to further articulate or intellectualise, but OpenBSD pretty much predicted this 17 years ago:

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#46

OpenBSD predicted chatgpt.

This is really insidious. Even really smart people get sucked into it. My friend is one such person, but lots of really smart people I know seem to be taken by it.

None of us are immune. When you have a sycophant whispering in your ear and tell you all the answers (whether they're right or not, more often they are wrong), you stop thinking.

It's called: deskilling

I say think for yourself. It's OK even to be wrong, or slow. Think for yourself!

Il post che stavate tutti aspettando. Come fare backup dei vostri dati per i vari servizi di A/I https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/09/10099 #AutisticiInventati #KeepITFree

Here comes the post you've all been waiting for: how to make backups of your A/I services data https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/09/10099 #AutisticiInventati #KeepITFree

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

Meanwhile DigitalOcean couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.

happy 9/9

I got 9/9 problems but a bun ain't one

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #9front #plan9 #art #fediart #comic

I keep seeing big amounts of criticism in my own little #Linux bubble, so I decided to talk about the projects that seem to receive most of it, and why this criticism is valid in some cases, and way overblown in others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dLIKBeuNo

Plasma 6.8 #Beta 1 is here! Testers, ready your machines!
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.90/
Help us find all the #bugs and squash them before the final release on October 14th, KDE's 30th #birthday.
Report bugs to: https://bugs.kde.org
--
Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!:
https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/?mtm_campaign

#LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus

#privacy #IoT #SmartTV

Kdenlive just got a new timeline for keyframes, and it comes with a bonus performance boost!

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/dopesheet-status-9-26/

#kdenlive #videoediting #floss #kde

Despite major outrage from users when they initially rolled out age verification systems, Discord plans to make all accounts teen by default GLOBALLY & you have to scan your face or upload an ID to prove you aren't one.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-bringing-back-age-verification-for-millions-of-users

Test animation made with #Friction2D.

#DoctorDoom Thanked #Seattle for All the #Surveillance Cameras

https://www.404media.co/doctor-doom-thanked-seattle-for-all-the-surveillance-cameras/

#privacy #Flock #police #Marvel

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1wdqum6/outside_ray_ban_covent_garden/

#pervertglasses