Posts by ebassi@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Avtz1P29ZLsfqcClpg by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-07-07T16:26:35Z
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I've said it before, but I have to say it again: my days of not taking the FSF seriously are certainly coming to a middle
(DIR) Post #Avtz1TTx1wUddzF1iS by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-07-07T16:28:53Z
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The amount of pretzeling logic in that paragraph is staggering; I'm surprised the entire page didn't collapse under its own weight straight into a singularity
(DIR) Post #Avtz1YC3Vu9KFvuJ16 by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-07-07T16:37:30Z
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"The calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs"—so it's TLS, used by your web server."A program which does calculations that user does not want done is a form of malware"—I assume the FSF is switching to bare HTTP or Gopher, then, because I certainly didn't ask my web browser to use encryption to read that bunch of crap."Proprietary software is often malware"—where the hell does that sentence come from?
(DIR) Post #Avtz1cfyqaSm9twGDQ by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-07-07T16:43:03Z
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"if we used Anubis, we would be pressuring users into running malware"—once again, where is that coming from?1. Anubis is using computations2. Other bad software is using similar computations3. Proprietary software is bad4. Some proprietary software is malware5. Anubis is malwareThis whole thing is intellectually bankrupt
(DIR) Post #Avtz1hKBZ304ZkmQRE by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-07-07T16:47:17Z
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I mean, the FSF is a morally bankrupt organisation without a reason to exist outside the maintenance of the quality of life that RMS is accustomed to, but I half expected obsessive rule lawyers with nothing better to do to *at least* get syllogisms right
(DIR) Post #Aw1uYwSNNZagYbK6CG by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-07-11T16:52:13Z
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GitLab, I beg you: add moderation roles, so you don't need to be an admin to nuke spam accounts
(DIR) Post #AwXO6B6H9Pb22N3ARs by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T20:36:29Z
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Happy 25th anniversary, GUADEC#gnome #guadec2025
(DIR) Post #AwZsuvDdcDgpqZFbUm by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-02-18T14:09:06Z
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@karebu take your meds, child, and fuck off back to 4chan
(DIR) Post #Ax61RKzEHgImMrI6KG by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-08-12T14:01:37Z
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- Hi Linux kernel, I'd like to use file monitoring using your interfaces- Sure, here's inotify; wait, no: fsnotify; wait, no: fanotify- Okay, that's weird. Anyway, I'd like to use whatever API you provide with a FUSE file system- You can't- But you support userspace file systems, right?- I do, but the API currently doesn't support events- Do other file systems support events?- No idea- Is there a list of file systems that support events?- Nope- Can I… can I check at run time?- No
(DIR) Post #Ax61RPxHoKibmHQ7UW by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-08-12T14:04:35Z
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Can you imagine writing software for a serious kernel? Not that the Linux kernel is anything to laugh at… most of the time, it manages to make me cry
(DIR) Post #AyeIW1ECTSPiZpkGG0 by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-09-27T09:52:07Z
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Channers be malding
(DIR) Post #AzFKFocexi09bb6Xqa by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-10-15T12:15:05Z
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Why the FSF has ceded all influence on the general conversation about software freedom, in two screenshots:
(DIR) Post #AzFKFqVdwlZrSPpyBk by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-10-15T13:57:09Z
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@yearofthebug I'm not talking about "idealism vs pragmatism": I am talking about leading the conversation when it comes to software freedom. The FSF is not talking to actual people: it's just a circlejerk that is not meant to convince anybody except the already initiated
(DIR) Post #AzFKFsXUOsF5kiiTLM by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-10-15T14:00:43Z
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@yearofthebug that's a great way to become completely useless. I want the FSF to be a leading voice, not the moral justification on the back end of the movement.
(DIR) Post #AzYSCv7Er41UVmmD8y by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-10-24T14:28:37Z
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Time for plumbing a whole new accessibility setting from desktop to toolkit: 3 hoursTime for knowing what to plumb: 20 yearsTime for bikeshedding on the type of the setting: Positive infinity
(DIR) Post #AzuGFbfUmxhkDtaS7k by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T11:50:15Z
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It's very kind, in these divisive times, of the Cheney family to provide a free, gender neutral public toilet
(DIR) Post #B18z4mu012AqaK9bKS by ebassi@mastodon.social
2025-12-11T16:02:04Z
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“Donate to open source projects to support their maintainers!”[project asks for donations with a notification]“How dare you?! What’s next, taking my pets hostage?! Shame on you for having the gall of asking me money!”
(DIR) Post #B344L0qlvlWMdIbBPk by ebassi@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T10:57:50Z
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@linuzzz on the CLI: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference.html#flatpak-permissionsAs a GUI: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal
(DIR) Post #B344L38vPFEJkB6hzE by ebassi@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T11:08:35Z
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@linuzzz the portal stores the permissions in the same database as flatpak, since flatpak needs to be able to know what is available before creating the sandbox. All permissions are identified by the application id.
(DIR) Post #B344L5AlrLtY2TzD8q by ebassi@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T11:27:53Z
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@linuzzz yeah, Flatseal will only work for flatpaks; use the CLI.