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Heres the thing. Its exceptionally easy to see where packets are going on most routers. IP to IP or otherwise. So yeah, things are going out when you plug in an LG tv. So dont buy it.

Its not 1-1 so this is going to fry some bash scripts and install scripts. At work we had to stop using Ubuntu because of a couple of bad installs via this change. Debian is just as good so its fine. I have no opinions on the rewrite, but I wish they made a flavor or something just for this.

Nice!

Just FYI, older Kobos are exceptionally easy to repair and modify. They used to have an SD card as the hd you could remove and do all sorts of cool things with. They also published the version of the linux kernel they used and any modifications they (Kobo) devs had to do to get things working. It was awesome for a time. Its more locked down now... :(

I used to play around with https://quill-os.org/ and it worked decently well on kobo until the newer versions started to crack down on the mod scene.

Nowadays im thinking the open book or Diptyx E-Reader might be a better bet for long term sustainability. Its great ifixit is working with kobo, but the software is still locked down.

For a bigger list take a look: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-ebook-readers-options/

Both seem like good machines :).

It also does some niceties around fonts when you do a conversion. Some ebook readers dont come with specific fonts so they just use the inbuilt one(s).

Im seeing more ads getting through ublock origin.

I hate ai in my kernel....

This is the best thread so far. Really enjoying seeing peoples setups! Thanks @northernlights@lemmy.today !

Hard-drives deserve to be free to their cases! Free the drives!

Projects that im running:

General Web server out of junk

Old system 76 machine from a while back. Its what is running a majority of my services for self hosting. Only one screw keeps the case together, since I get into the insides quite often.

Solar powered web server on a phone

Solar powered web server. Its going to be repurposed into a meshtastic node soon.

Ebook reader on a heltek v3

Somewhat jank setup of a heltek which is also an ebook reader. It runs a webserver to upload the book in txt format, then I can take it on the go. I still have to do some work on the text.

Nice, those are the fun ones. I wish people were kinder at times.

In my local city, people die every year getting ran over on a bike. I knew a dr who didnt make it. I got close-lined off my bike once around 2017. Its part of the gang initiation to send someone to the hospital. I have a dent in my nose because of it. Its MUCH more dangerous in my area than most places though.

Fantastic talk. Also on peertube :)

I notice a couple of people :) Rimu is awesome and I use piefed every day. Sunshine ans Blaze are nice and usually have insightful comments. Or memes. Theres pmjv with awsome comics and ART https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/on_the_frontier/

I remember it was a common problem between Mac is and Linux as well.

haha. Welp it only becomes an issue if your software doesn’t get audited. I worked in medical and government so it might be a different world where your at. We literally cant use certain software given licenses and such. It can get a bit loony. Im not defending it, just saying that MIT is one of those that you can get away with a lot more than other licenses. And that might be an issue to some.

One of the first things I do on brew is pop everything back in for scripting. That way WSL / Linux / Mac OS all scripting works mostly the same way. It gets about 90% of the way there for most standardization. And to be honest, if it starts getting out of control, other langs such as python are going to be better for the maintenance side.

Im not sure as well. A lot of popular stuff is on MIT. But if I were to guess, its one of the most permissive licenses, which is somewhat a bad thing when companies suction up solutions with AI and spit them out without attributing the coder involved.

oh neat! Thanks! I hope it goes far.

Ive played around with it. Its VERY hard to set up...but it actually does what it says better than other platforms in the lora space. Also its not being updated anymore unfortunately. Its a monumental achievement for any one person to make. Im hoping the community can take a look at some point. With HaLow coming together, it would be cool if we get integration at some point.

Waaat thats crazy.

Pokemon pinball with save state is sooooo much fun!

Agreed

Shadow bans. My wife tried to post a bunch on art related communities only to have her account banned without us knowing. She does oil paintings and other such art pieces. You had to have a history before you could post...which no one was willing to tell her. So her account got shadow banned. She gave up after a while on reddit. I dont blame her. I hope we never get so petty.

AGPL helps a bit more for commercial uses as its more strict. But its will not 100% of what people think of protection.

Ill be honest, I know of GPL but I know theres like 5 different versions of the GPL. Like AGPL is the most restrictive and has held up in court before because someone forked a project then stripped out everything, sold it again. And was deemed liable. MIT could potentially solve it…or make it even more messy. Ill believe you on videogames. If I were to guess, its probably moot in all cases unless it goes to court (or like my orgs not let you use software) and gets defended one way or another.

In december 2025, the author and activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr did a speech at the 39C3 called “post-American, enshittification-resistant internet”

He talks about AI, internet enshitification, anti-circumvention law. guilotine few technofascists…but he also talks about alliance and hope ! ✊

Here is the transcript : https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

You can watch other of video from the chaos congress communication event here : https://media.ccc.de/

Honestly it just looks a bit different. Same community and people (one of the benefits of the fediverse). I remember it was a fork of another project (I want to say Kbin but im not sure).

An old pop os system for everyday use. An old debian server for most self hosting. Onion os for my miyoo mini plus retro game console. And a mess of things all over the house.

Its kinda hard to extrapolate either way honestly. Its easy for me to say that 90+% of the traffic to my tiny home server is AI crawlers now. I have NO idea definitively for the others. When I made a python fix, it jailed quite a few IPs and now its not too much of an issue. But I did notice a couple of status servers like fedidb get incorrectly jailed. So yeah. Fun times for admins.

Personally I think with ai crawlers, instances are coming up with their own ways of combatting the issue and the trackers are getting stuck in the crossfire. I have a few fediverse servers so some show up, some dont depending on the tracker.

100R — permacomputing 101

Fediverse is Continuing, Growing, and Strong It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50 Total users are huge now. There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.

What has brought you joy?

Companion to the last question :)

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025) The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users. From 2025.

Theres a book series, a lit rpg called tunnel rat that goes over a “post internet” as part of its lore. Its an interesting thought experiment. And I can see localized meshnets becoming a bit more popular. With peertube and a city wide network, you stop having to worry about copyright as much.

Fediverse is Continuing, Growing, and Strong It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50 Total users are huge now. There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.

OK this really got me.

At work we have been slowly pushing into Linux instead of traditional IIS/windows servers. Its SO much easier to deploy images/docker containers. Licensing is sane. The costs are slowly going down.

Thanks! And yeah it sucks! Locally me and a couple of individuals are trying to create a real meshnet. Its going well and got DNS/speeds above 20mbps now haha. But its truely all human traffic. It doesn’t solve this particular issue for anyone else but it is fun to just….throw something up without bot traffic.

Joel :casio: :blobcatderpy: 🇲🇽 (@joel@fosstodon.org) Saw this on my Mastodon/GotoSocial: I just wanted to make some #pixelart and this little #88x31 button came out :blobcatderpy: Edit: You can now find it at my website’s footer if you wanna snatch it up!

Image slightly moves, entire document now fucked. FUUUU

Heck you can make your own instance (as others have) and do what you want!

…are you ok?

My favorite sorts are random sort (toss them up, see where they fall. are they sorted?) and bead sort (connect 4 sort). One is potentially O(1) sort and the other is potentially O(n). haha. But in practice they are terrible. Love it. This sort is neat too.

First ive heard of it. Also not trying to be rude but is this Technology or Technology news? Like I keep seeing people post things but if there not like the newest tech, they get downvoted. Im not saying thats incorrect but Id like to know in case I post what the distinction is.

An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

Found this on Mastodon My wife started making animations in the spirit of 2000s Flash clips and I couldn't be more proud. #noai #animation #gifhttps://social.cpp.org.pl/@btr/117241901693887146@btr@cpp.org.pl

Ah gotcha! Thanks. I dont know why I didnt make that connection then.