mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06System administrator ninja and automation magician with a chronic Free Software passion and specialization. Actor. Apolitical anarchist, [not so] slightly left libertarian.
Hey, GNOME people... or Fedora people, whoever did that, the message is for you both: I understand Windows people have no idea what middle-click paste is for, or what purpose does it satisfy, but it's incredibly (for you) very useful for all those who know about it and use it daily, several, several times. So changing that parameter to off by default on an upgrade... That's no Good™ Not angry, it's just very annoying. I thought the mousepad was broken until it failed with the mouse too. kthnxby
Dear #FreeSoftware developers...
These governmental attestation requirements popping up all over the world are nothing but a visible escalation step in the war on generic computing.
@pluralistic@mamot.fr spoke about it in 2011 and here's a nice transcript for you https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
I'm not modest enough to not say I was also looking at those writings in the wall, but he's a much better speaker.
Go read that, and please, please, please...
Stop collaborating with the authoritarians.
As autoridades querem os meta dados dos cidadãos todos para a eventualidade de terem cometido um crime.
O Primeiro Ministro que infringe a lei num vídeo: ah e tal, não sabemos o dia e a hora por isso não podemos fazer nada.
Que podem obter com ordem judicial...
Não entendam o que eles querem, não ...