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Mozilla has undeniably been an important influence on FOSS software. One thing that is often leveled against Mozilla is that they allegedly argued for internet censorship. In an infamous post, they said we needed more than de-platforming, as a bunch of people were kicked off popular social media sites for saying things that went against the terms of service.
Mozilla also has some other sticking points, notably their over reliance on Google's funding, and the fact that their executives are paid quite a lot of money for a non profit that is bleeding users and market share, at least in the browser space.
Another project that you're probably already aware of, is Snap, Ubuntu's solution for containerized apps. The main criticism levelled against snaps is its proprietary, centralized store.
Appimages are a relatively popular app distribution format, but all AppImages do rely on libfuse 2, which is deprecated and obsolete, and has been for a long while: its last version was in 2019, meaning it's been left for 5 years without any security update at all.
Other potential concerns about the AppImage projects are the fact that they're not sandboxed at all by default. There have also been some pretty harsh comments from one of AppImage's lead against apps that refuse to invest time to support the AppImage format.
Another project that has seen a fair few criticisms over the years is Manjaro. They've been known to package unstable versions of applications that weren't published as stable. Manjaro also has a pretty bad track record with security, failing to renew their certificates time and again.
Add to that the fact they partnered with a proprietary office suite and shipped it as the default, or the company behind Manjaro dropping their CFO when he refused to approve an expense for a new laptop, or their tool, Pamac, DDoSing the AUR by making too many requests, and you have a few issues that definitely tarnished the distro's reputation.
Another problematic issue we see more and more often is open source projects switching licenses to restrict what people can do, and open source projects being taken over entirely by certain companies.
A recent example is Red Hat, tacking on some license agreement to get access to the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, meaning that if you redistribute the source code you get access to as a customer, you won't be able to be a Red hat customer anymore.
Another example is Canonical, taking ownership of the LXD project, a project they had started, then gave to the Linux Containers Project, and then grabbed back again. They also removed maintainers that didn't work for Canonical but had been contributing to the project for a while.
Yet another example is Redis, moving to a source available license to try and stop giant cloud providers like AWS from making money off of Redis, but also limiting other user's rights in the process.
Finally, we have Hyprland.What some people have against Hyprland is mostly against the lead developer, not the project itself. He's been characterized as toxic, and the general community is often perceived as expressing hateful views in the form of what they call jokes. Stuff like endorsement of eugenics, calls for violence, or transphobia. The founder of Hyprland was recently banned from the Free Desktop.org community for this problematic behaviour, which went against the FDO's code of conduct. Hyprland's founder then basically doxxed the FDO member who banned him.
This sounds like it is about the flatpak runtimes. One possible reason for that failing is a lack of disk space (especially on 16GB PinePhone eMMC installs). Could this be (part of) the issue?
I suggest using the terminal and running `sudo flatpak update` and see if that gives you more info.
After seeing the latest oh so stupid propaganda bit by the BBC regarding North Korea had to revisit this great article from Red Sails.
And it remains true that the people who will read the article are likely not going to be those who benefit from the status quo and who would most need to read it. Which is most people in the West.
But sharing it anyway, because I agree that it is complicity, not brainwashing. Example: Silence on Gaza, outrage on China.
I’ve become very skeptical of the concept of “brainwashing.” Over the past few months this skepticism has boiled over into open and explicit disagreement with even well-meaning pushers within the Marxist-Leninist corner.
i do get some sick satisfaction from seeing video of fat immigrants getting arrested.
one thing i noticed about grocery stores- it's full of white people on sunday, because they have jobs. during the week, it's full of immigrants who don't have jobs and they're spending their free SNAP benefits.
every last one needs to get the hell out. i don't care how much they fake cry about it on video. good bye.
Progressive elites talk about saving the world like it’s a video game. They don’t realize the rest of us are just trying to survive the patch updates they keep forcing without asking.
A study from 2018 reported the detection of fluorescent nanoparticles in Coke and Pepsi beverages.
This information is listed on the official National Institutes of Health (NIH) government website.
Not to mention, last year Microsoft signed a $1.1 billion, five-year deal with Coca-Cola to do God knows what...
You can't even make this up anymore.
They always have to tell you in plain sight.
It's part of their rulebook.
"Foodborne nanoparticles (NPs) have drawn great attention due to human health concerns. This study reports the detection of the presence of fluorescent NPs, about 5 nm, in two of the most popular beverages, Coca-Cola (Coke) and Pepsi-Cola (Pepsi). The NPs contain H, C and O, three elements with a tunable emission and with a quantum yield of 3.3 and 4.3% for Coke and Pepsi, respectively. The presence of sp3-hybridized carbon atoms of alcohols and ethers bonds was confirmed by NMR analysis. The NPs can be taken up by living cells and accumulate within cell membrane and cytoplasm. Evaluation of the acute toxicity of the NPs revealed that the BALB/c mice appeared healthy after administration of a single dose of 2 g kg-1 body weight. Analysis of glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), urea and creatinine showed that there were statistically, but not biologically, significant differences in some of these biochemical parameters between the test and control groups. No obvious organ damage or apparent histopathological abnormality was observed in the tested mice. The biodistribution study in major organs indicated that the NPs were easily accumulated in the digestive tract, and they were able to cross the blood-brain barrier and dispersed in the brain. In vitro digestion of the NPs showed a sichgnificant fluorescence quenching of the NPs. This work represents the first report of foodborne fluorescent NPs present in Coke and Pepsi, and provides valuable insights into physicochemical properties of these NPs and their toxicity characteristics both in vitro and in vivo.”
Dans L’Europe sociale n’aura pas lieu (2009), François Denord et Antoine Schwartz montrent que, dès l’origine, les fondations néolibérales de l’Union européenne l’ont mené vers une pente qui, depuis, s’est raidie lentement, mais sûrement. Or, « dans les eaux glacées du grand marché, [les] chances de survie [d’une Europe sociale] sont minces », voire inexistantes.
The problem isn’t bigotry. It’s that your side plays predator when in power, then plays prey when challenged. And normies are tired of pretending not to notice.
When your movement sounds like “love wins” but moves like “comply or else,” don’t be shocked when the public sees through the vibe. You’re not misunderstood — you’re transparent.
Carrying out an attack with Western propaganda while he tries to talk in #Istanbul about peace with #Russia? Normal people don't do that. Just imagine Russia would do this? Would they report the same way about it?
Lord, send the power of your Holy Spirit upon us that we may remain faithful and do your will in our daily lives. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
The decision to dismiss Bournemouth officer PC Lorne Castle has prompted fury after he wa accused of gross misconduct - with critics calling a ruling 'perverse'.
The political fringes now touch via shared populism—mistrust of systems, love of autonomy, alt health, spirituality, and veganism. Less left vs right, more us vs them. FWIW, I commented on this 20w ago. archive.li/3oHHW
It’s a vibe shift, not a policy platform. When both sides feel betrayed by elites, they land on similar lifestyles—even if for different reasons. One seeks purity, the other sovereignty. Either way, it's decentralization dressed in patchouli or camo—sometimes both.
People say the Dems have a messaging problem. Nah. They have a cognition problem. They literally don’t understand how regular humans process trust, loyalty, and contradiction.
S’en prendre directement à un élément de la triade nucléaire russe est susceptible de provoquer une riposte nucléaire. Heureusement pour nous, les Russes, avec l’hypersonique, ont ajouté un étage non nucléaire à leur dissuasion. Zelensky doit avoir le nez dans la poudre et de grosses sueurs froides dans le bunker « secret » où lui et son entourage ont été mis à l’abri. Un Oreshnik sur la tête, ou pas ?
Il ne faut jamais armer des fanatiques. Il est temps d'arrêter toute aide à l'Ukraine, qui vient de durablement saper la sécurité nucléaire mutuelle mondiale.
I’m a Scribshifter, Pen-tongued drifter, Sliding syllables like vinyl scratch whispers— Midnight thinker with a sunrise mind, Plotline lifter, A dream-spitter, Bending scripts like clocks in a Dali time twister.
I’m a scene-changing Inchameleon, Color-coded soul in a technicolor rebellion. One inch at a time, I morph, I climb— From alleyway blues to underground punk rhymes. I blink — And the skyline blinks back. While Graffiti ghosts nod from concrete tracks.
Catch me slipping through metaphors, Wearing skins of what I might become, Tongue inked in Morse code, Heart beating like a bass drum. I don’t walk — I morph. Don’t talk — I transform. From dusk’s last whisper to lightning storms.
Every breath’s a costume change. Every thought — a page rearranged. No script too sacred, no frame too tight— I rewrite shadows with changing light.
So watch close— I’m here, I´m there & I’m gone, A shimmer in your peripheral song. I’m the Scribshifter, The truth drifter, The glitch in the mirror that makes your soul quiver.
And I’m not done yet. I never stay grey. Just a colorful scene-changing Inchameleon Shifting away on another scribblet pathway..
If one was to replace the front panels with glass and get the insides with latex paint, epoxy or something for real waterproofing, it would make for a cool cheap terrarium, no? 🤔
Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.
We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.
There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.
Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.
Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.
Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.
Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.
Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.
We offer the following federated services:
Friendica.Eskimo.Com Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.
Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.
Mastodon.Eskimo.Com Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.
NextCloud.Eskimo.Com If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.
Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.
Yacy.Eskimo.Com Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.
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Applications Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.
E-mail Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
Security Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.
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Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/02/25 -- Ukraine Hits Russian Airfields in Major Drone Attack, Hegseth: US Is Ready To Fight China, and More youtube.com/watch?v=O4KZWrAULF…
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In the final days of Ramadan, and just days before Eid al-Fitr, Sudan's de facto president and army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, knelt in prayer beside Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Dahlia Kurtz suffered two more blows in her bid to target critics of her genocidal Jewish supremacism. The Zionist influencer’s bid to reprimand the lawyer representing me and a senator who defended me failed.
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