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  @zzt@mas.to @nate@coxenheim.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe I was using XEmacs for a very long time, switched over to GNU Emacs briefly when the project went dormant for a while, and switched back again when it revived. Also never have I wanted to punch someone so fast as RMS when he started talking down to a woman at a Drupal conference and making her feel bad for just saying "Linux" and not his insistent terminology of "Guhnoo slash lihnux hurr durr...

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  Sad fact: When Be, Inc. was purchased by Palm in 2001, it seemed like #BeOS technology would live on in #PalmOS, and Palm OS 6 would incorporate portions of BeOS into it. Instead, PalmSource (who was developing Palm OS 6, got acquired by ACCESS Co, a Japanese software house, who proceeded to... simply sit on BeOS and Palm OS. While we have #Haiku continuing the BeOS spirit, nothing is continuing the Palm OS spirit. We need that mobile diversity back. A modern Palm OS would rock so hard.

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  Sony: Physical discs are obsolete. The future is digital only. Me: Okay, then here's my 22 year old PlayStation 2, a modded Network Adaptor with SATA, a 500GB SSD, a FreeMCBoot memory card, and a bunch of PS2 ISOs I grabbed off Myrient before they closed up shop. Oh, and here's my PS3 with PS3HEN installed, and I have a bunch of games on the 1TB SSD I installed in it... Sony: NO WAIT NOT LIKE THAT

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  Rainy day activities: running the magic that is Tiny Core Linux on a 2007 Asus Eee PC 701! #HackThePlanet

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  All right, Linus, I think maybe you should step back for a bit. You're REALLY unable to read rooms now. And thanks for giving me more reasons to consider switching to Haiku and/or OpenBSD. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/ #NoAI #FuckAI #Linux

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  The one country whose politicians are even dumber than ours in the US. EXACTLY HOW DO THEY EXPECT THIS TO WORK?? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c982857nlrlo

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  New Jersey, the ball's in your court! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/new-york-is-the-first-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium/ #FuckAI

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  The New White House Android app is a whole bundle of trackers and fingerprinting libraries and is super snitch-y. It feels like the White House took a page from North Korea's playbook with Red Star OS! https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

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  Finally joined @Tutanota! Another major step in de-Googling my life!

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  EDIT: Still in need of food money! Ahoy, Chooms! I need to buy some groceries and toiletries and my funds are running short. I also need to get dishes and cutlery. Goal is $250 for food and to buy some plates and silverware for my pad. Currently at $70/$250 https://ko-fi.com/lambdacalculus Every little bit counts! Thanks for everything, friends! :cyber_heart_sparkle: #MutualAid #HackThePlanet

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  Our voices have been heard. @Blender has kicked Anthropic to the curb in a case of "take the money and run". Never underestimate the power of your voices and the powers a community holds. ✊ https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/ #FuckAI

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  Rescuing old hardware and giving it a new chance at life is always a great thing to do! This iPod Video was given to me by a friend at my local hackerspace, and as the old iTunes ecosystem it was once tied to is no longer a thing in 2026, I threw Rockbox onto it and it lives once more! All my music, offline and in my hands? Almost every audio codec supported? Yes please! Keep old tech alive! Hack the planet!! :hacker: https://www.rockbox.org #HardwareHacking #TechReclaimers #HackThePlanet

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  Know what, class? It's been long fucking overdue. Wanna fight back? Get angry. Unleash your inner punk energy. Be chaos in a trenchcoat. Be three screaming punks in a trenchcoat. You're hackers; use that fucking energy! Drive fascists completely batshit! Raise fucking hell! Cut the head off the devil and throw it at them! Do all the shit they hate, and do it in overwhelming numbers! But most important... ALWAYS. PUNCH. NAZIS. IN. THE FACE. It's so cathartic! #StayPun...

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  You know, I'm something of a prompt engineer myself. #CPM86 #RetroComputing

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  Hayao Miyazaki had some blunt, to the point thoughts on AI in creative fields, and how it destroys the human aspect of creativity. #FuckAI #MiyazakiWasRight

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  So @Blender has decided that money is more important than their users and their community, and has begun accepting money from Anthropic. Yes, the same Anthropic that has an LLM that STEALS WORK from artists. The same Anthropic that had to pay OVER A BILLION DOLLARS back to artists for stealing their work. The same Anthropic that works for shady government agencies and was responsible for the bombing of a school. That Anthropic. Money over F/OSS and our communities. They can eat shit.

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  Doesn't really need saying but fuck Microslop and fuck their entire twisted, retched operation. The DOJ giving Microslop only a little slap on the wrist and a "that was very naughty don't do it again" back in 1998 was a major mistake. TL;DR don't use Chrome. Don't let friends use Chrome. Fuck Microsoft and fuck Google. Reading one's files without consent is extreme invasion of privacy. Burn Big Tech to the fucking GROUND. 🔥 https://br...

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  I did more cursed shit to a computer! This is a Lenovo ThinkPad T530, and it's running Windows 98. WINDOWS. FUCKING. 98. That is not a typo. This is extremely cursed and made possible by a madman who put together a package of drivers for modern hardware, SATA and NVMe support, support for more RAM, newer CPUs, and more. As in, hardware Windows 98 loses its shit over! Check out the Win98 Quickinstall project here! https://github.com/oerg866/win98-quickinstall #CursedComputing

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  Spotify sued Anna's Archive and won a $322 million default judgment against them, but here's the thing... How are you gonna get that money when you don't even know who the fuck you're suing?? Anna isn't a person or an entity or anything! You idiots might as well sue a dead grandma like you tired doing in the 2000s! https://archive.ph/I5VTL #RecordCompaniesAreIdiots #FuckSpotify #FuckTheRecordIndustry

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  I've done 6502 assembly before, but here's where the fun begins... Doing 6502 assembly and fighting every single constraint the Atari 2600 is gonna have and try and throw at me. 128 bytes of RAM. No frame buffer. Racing the beam. Just 5 dedicated sprites (2 players, 2 missiles, 1 ball) and a playfield. 2 channels of mono sound. It was fiendishly difficult to code for even back in the 70s and early 80s. Sounds like fun. Let's see where it goes. #HackThePlanet #AtariHa...

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  Guess who just made his first attempt at making a Nintendo 3DS theme?? THIS HACKER!! Enjoy my first Hackers theme with Phantom Phreak, and I'll be making more with all the Hackers crew (one each!) over time! Grab here! https://themeplaza.art/item/130024 You'll need a modded 3DS, natch, and you can install it either via Anemone directly or drop the .zip file into the /Themes folder of your 3DS's SD card! HACK THE PLANET!! :hacker: :hackers_town: #Nintendo3DS #HackThePl...

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  🎶 I'm the Wizard of Speed and Time 🎶 I've got magic to help you shine! 🎶 Just watch for the Wizard in the robe of green! 🎶 I will help you find your dream!

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  Random shower thoughts: A talk called "The Modern Web Sucks! Let's Take Back the Web!" Discuss building small, personal sites. Discuss the old days when we had Angelfire, GeoCities, and other hosting services. Talk about NeoCities. Talk about BBSes, IRC, Gopher, FIDOnet. Talk about webrings. Show people how dead easy it is to set up any of these and how to do it even from small, portable devices. Whatcha all think?

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  These took a little while to get to me (they went to my sister's place instead), but big shout out to fellow Choom and Townie @X00001 for making me these stickers! HACK THE PLANET!! :hackers_town: :hacker:

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  The Pirate Box got a mention in El Reg! :pirate_flag: :hackers_town: :hacker: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/def_con_jake_braun_fed_up_govt/

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  @SiteRelEnby Web traffic got bonked It is always DNS Dammit DNS