Posts by ity@estradiol.city
(DIR) Post #B2D9HtfkvK8UqIo79c by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-12T14:07:12Z
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Warning to anyone traveling with trains in Germany, way more cops at Munich Hbf for some reason, like, 5x usual amount
(DIR) Post #B2Dhat9sSLrLBw7kAK by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-12T13:08:46Z
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@49016 did that one ever interact with any of their community chats, or their official fediThey are not even covert about it, but if the screenshot of them being transpbobic or the threads of them harassing and attempting to doxx this one are really necessary this one will go dig them up when it has timeThis one would never trust a project that does not understand the concept of "threat modeling" to design something secure.
(DIR) Post #B2K8GaB5BAiuF9zNSK by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-15T20:22:38Z
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Chat, I'm allosexual if I feel sexual attraction (aka, damn that entity is hot, I wanna nude cuddle them and make them emit cute sounds), right?RE: https://estradiol.city/@ity/115900955533111850
(DIR) Post #B2Nu2fJUfOSFOKETb6 by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-17T18:14:51Z
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Dirty talk in angry German imitating Hitler at German cutiesSomeone out there will certainly get horny from that
(DIR) Post #B2RV0aDKemrYVkeQ7c by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-19T09:26:49Z
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I'm just gonna return back to Czechia in a few weeks and then kill myselfWas a good shot, trying to move to Germany and seeing if literally anyone would give a fuck about me hereBut it failed, so. Suicide it is. I gave it 3 months of trying (well, it's gonna be 3 months when I return probably, depends on DHL and shit)
(DIR) Post #B2RV0btYPIELizPeZU by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-19T09:31:14Z
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Going to Berlin for 1-2 weeks, waiting for the things to ship, and then dying by ODing sounds good.
(DIR) Post #B2RV0dCjXTANmlOU6a by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-19T10:50:25Z
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Will try to find someone to keep me alive, dunno if I'll succeedI need cuddles. Cuddles make me forget wanting to die.
(DIR) Post #B2ZKtAxOicczsEhr0a by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-23T07:03:14Z
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Putting # usveteran on your bio at the current moment is like putting # deveteran in your bio if fedi was a thing during WW2And it's the most American straight neutotypical cis guy profile ever
(DIR) Post #B2b1kh5IOILY60YvnE by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T01:47:41Z
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@SuperDicq it doesn't matter where in the world free software is made, because it is always ethical and has no power over its users.that's untrue. Software which has a BDFL that has aligned itself with Nazis (like Linux) is just as unsafe to use. They intentionally control who can contribute & ban contributors for political reasons, can intentionally leave security vulns open, create new ones...
(DIR) Post #B2btNV6q8vAroufsKO by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T02:53:56Z
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@SuperDicq do you have the resources to maintain a fork of Linux? Go thru each and every commit? Maintain enough knowledge of all subsystems and drivers to avoid letting anything bad slip thru? I sure don't, and I'm a Linux kernel developer. The thing is huge. Now consider the effort needed to do that to all components of a running Linux system. Thing is, just because a thing is open source doesn't mean they don't have any power over you. They have a lot of power. It's just slightly easier to fight back against antifeatures, or make forks of smaller software that went bad.
(DIR) Post #B2btNWL3ZY8ldIKk7s by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T02:57:49Z
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@SuperDicq you can maintain softforks. Hard forks of things like Linux are practically impossible, the drivers are half the time written & maintained with knowledge under NDAs. The thing is full of security holes that are constantly being found and patched in a way that often only fixes a vulnerability if you apply the correct set of previous patches.
(DIR) Post #B2cFDSXF3ZwXvrdmT2 by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T14:49:03Z
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@SuperDicq Linux-Libre is a softfork from what I remember:you can maintain softforks.Which, yea, that's doable. I've been curious about what specifically Linux-Libre is removing since I didn't stumble on any blobs yet (but that doesn't mean there aren't any, I just wasn't looking that particularly hard)Doubt you go thru every commit though, which sidesteps the entire issue I was mentioning. If upstream decides to do something, like, say, dropping support for an architecture which you use, your work will get progressively harder and harder to maintain good support for the architecture in a fork.Malware can be sneaked into the codebase (see eg. xz), even if it's open source, esp. easier if upstream is on-board with it. How would you protect against malware sneaking in in a softfork?
(DIR) Post #B2cIg9JftHFoaQfOqm by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T17:17:14Z
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@SuperDicq Am I misreading the script or are you deleting the entirety of the i915 & xe drivers because they reference blobs from the linux-firmware project> You can if do it if you really want to, that's the point. Can't do it with proprietary software, it's not allowed.At projects of this scale, the difference between proprietary software and open-source software blurs. There's no such thing as "not allowed". There's only "it's illegal", which is a question of "is what I'm doing gonna annoy $COMPANY enough that they'll spend a lot of money suing me" rather than a binary "yes/no". But maybe this is a mindset I have from being primarily a hacker & activist x3 To be entirely clear, I go to pretty big lengths to avoid running proprietary blobs. But that's because of the practicality of debugging & modifying with access to source code. Software being free/open source will not prevent whoever runs it from fucking me over (see eg. Firefox, and unwanted stuff slipping thru LibreWolf, Visual Studio Code and unwanted stuff slipping thru VSCodium (I had to hand-write patches myself)), but will make it easier to fight back. However, someone still has to do the *work* of doing the fighting, and sometimes it's a lost battle (eg. catching malware when upstream is actively malicious), The reason why I named xz was to show that just because something is open source, doesn't automatically protect it from getting malware snuck into. Someone has to do the work to find it and remove it.Which is what is my entire point is: Something being open source does not automatically make it respect the user. All it means is that it's usually easier to fight certain forms of anti-user behavior. I want explicitly multi-national open source software, because if all of upstream & the BDFL of a project are aligned with Nazis, if the project is too big, they can and will fuck over the users, even if the project is open source. You need to find a large enough group to do the actual work. Work that often can be done on proprietary software, and is done on proprietary software (see eg. Discord mods to remove or fix a lot of the anti-user code).So, the deciding factor is not whether the software is open source or not, but rather how organized is upstream, how forkable is the project if it's open source, how many eyes are watching it, is there any group maintaining patchsets...
(DIR) Post #B2cIgHsi2u239P7UZM by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T17:25:08Z
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@SuperDicq also, re: i915 & xe, if you write a software job scheduler instead of using GuC like the current code does, Intel GPUs can run entirely blobless. Nobody tests this though, so you might hit hardware bugs. Same for Mali.
(DIR) Post #B2cKtxuHJ9EFA9VH6m by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T17:49:19Z
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@SuperDicq Basically all of the things that cannot be done to Discord also cannot be done to, say, Signal, because despite the Signal client being open source, it's a centralized platform. So whether something is open source or not doesn't exactly matter that much in this case.
(DIR) Post #B2cLFWdrMHW8yP6Xdg by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T17:53:23Z
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@SuperDicq Source? You should be able to trivially strip any dependencies on proprietary Google stuff if it is, say, FCM or other Play Services garbage. There's also 3rd party reimplementations of the client for both Discord and Signal
(DIR) Post #B2csJkzFGNXR6ojUoq by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-24T23:59:55Z
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@brettm holy cow
(DIR) Post #B2g3YSLsEESzwbxF5M by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-26T12:51:31Z
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Is there literally ANY sane way of buying cryptocurrency that:- Doesn't need insane impossible to pass KYC that's too dangerous to boot- Doesn't have a 30% or higher taxBoost plz :neobot_bottom:
(DIR) Post #B2g4k5NpYBTW8cylPs by ity@estradiol.city
2026-01-26T13:00:41Z
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@mkljczk Nobody has spare cryptocoin lying around, very few are able to buy without the insane tax
(DIR) Post #B2sFFqlwjw0jWnYzJo by ity@estradiol.city
2026-02-01T09:55:13Z
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@mkljczk @postmarketOS wish the hardware of my phones would last for 2 years, usually either the screen, battery, usb-c port, or all three fail within 6-12 months, and getting the parts would need probably another phone of the same model & a reflowing station + heat gun and whatever waterproof glue they useAs a bonus, any phone model that is older than a few years just becomes unobtanium in every shop I can find. The Pixel 6 is not even 5 years old :neobot_melt_sob: (I wanted one to see if I can get an fdo userspace running on it for fun, and slowly strip Android components from it. I know, I know, all of the work I can do is useless to pmos, that much was made quite clear to me when I asked, but I still wanna have fun.)