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@nixCraft enshitification was a warning not a playbook!
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And bsd date here in British Summer Time:
# date -j -r 1777777777
Sun 3 May 2026 04:09:37 BST
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116442227925756143
Not without a generous support agreement.
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@csk/116162797629337132
Craig has brought XKCD #2347 "Dependency" to life with an excellent animation
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@joshbressers@infosec.exchange knowing you're one of those developers and not alone isn't much comfort.
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@Patricia I fear you are right 😢
Project 2025 appears to have started and there's not enough awareness let alone resistance. Depressing
https://bsky.app/profile/emmynawjoopinga.bsky.social/post/3lgglst7rek2m
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@Patricia and yet this is pretty much all we have to protect ourselves from Trump's new found Brownshirts.
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@Patricia Piketty (I know, I know) offers a ray of hope in European democracy
https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/01/21/democracy-vs-oligarchy-the-fight-of-the-century/?s=09
Artemis is most welcome after a very long absence of space travel, I'm a little bit spoilt having grown up with James Burke...
https://youtu.be/cCJh5D0FCZk?si=oSpgxWqLFzBkQdpd
Sad but alas inevitable 😢
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115960204565067176
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The Sovereign Tech Agency is an EU grant organisation that supports essential tech
https://www.sovereign.tech/
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@darth@silversword.online solid, reliable, easy to use, runs everything I need including YouTube. As DBMail maintainer I also run Ubuntu and Docker for various Linux distros though still prefer FreeBSD.