← Feed

Posts

• View post

  This is why American tech dominance needs to be broken. https://fraxoweb.social/@frank/116217802471196438

• View post

  TIL that GitHub has a contract with ICE. I guess it's time to start looking for a place to migrate my repos. https://share.google/nWttIjp2WAUDeyHbv

• View post

  I started migrating my GitHub repositories to Codeberg, as I'd rather not contribute my code to a company that does business with ICE. https://codeberg.org/antoniusmisfit

• View post

  The obeying in advance has begun. This "useful idiot with commit access" added a "birthdate" field to systemd, a Microsoft employee merged it, and Lennart Poettering himself blocked a revert... after the useful idiot himself admitted his change is "hilariously pointless" and argued it should be merged anyways.

• View post

  Another reason why I switched to Codeberg: They don't use your code to train AIs. https://share.google/mtDxxklAxFrITy7jW

• View post

  Someone installed a 3.5-inch floppy drive intp a Tesla... and IT WORKED! https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/engineer-installs-3-5-inch-floppy-drive-in-a-tesla-modern-ev-recognizes-and-runs-ancient-storage-device-even-plays-an-mp3-file-from-diskette

• View post

  RE: https://nerdculture.de/@bonkers/116394298067952671 I totally want one of these for my birthday next month.

• View post

  Yeah, "kudos to Microsoft" for doing something other operating systems have done for decades. They must feel that Windows has enough spyware and AI junk baked in that they can afford giving users update control. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/25/shutdown-restart-microsoft-changes-windows-on-1-billion-pcs/

• View post

  I *finally* got networking on FreeDOS within qemu under Termux on my Android phone working! All I need to do is install the FDNET package, then add "-nic user,model=ne2k_isa" to the qemu command to launch FreeDOS.

• View post

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@almalinux/116501093090997209 This is precisely the strategic advantage gained when a downstream distribution decides not be a "bug-for-bug" binary compatible distribution. If the patched kernels pass muster, I wouldn't be surprised if Red Hat quietly decides to use them. Well done, AlmaLinux developers!

• View post

  Okay, so while networking works on FreeDOS on my phone now, it's quite slow. Using the Links web browser is okay, but downloads and updates are like molasses. Still better than no networking at all, though.

• View post

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/116495106231293342 Yikes. I'm no IT security geek, but this sounds to me that the kernel developers need to do a serious review of their vulnerability processes and policies, particularly with major distribution maintainers.

• View post

  NetHack 5.0.0 released a couple days ago, and I'm happy to report that it *still* supports MS-DOS(and #FreeDOS) quite nicely. https://www.nethack.org/v500/ports/download-msdos.html