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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

@gabrielesvelto@mas.to alright folks, I'll be moving to my new account (@gabrielesvelto@mas.to) today. Hopefully everything goes smoothly. If you get a follow request from the new account it's because I'm importing all my data. I've put this off for too long and it's high time.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025

I moved all the articles I saved in Pocket to a self-hosted @readeck installation and I'm really satisfied with the result. Readeck has the most useful functionality Pocket lost in the last few years and is very pleasant to use. If I find some free time I'll whip my #Gentoo ebuild into shape […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 02/06/2025

An extremely welcome initiative from the 🇪🇺 #eu: 🔋Phone Batteries must retain 80% capacity after 800 cycles. 📱Phone makers must provide 5 years of updates, 🪛 are banned from discriminating against repair shops, 🔧 and must provide parts for 7 years after EOL #EUpol #sustainability #tech […]

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Gender: Colleen @colleensmangarecs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

happy pride!!!! support a queer youtuber if you must!!!!

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

I'll never get tired of seeing the Ukrainians humiliate Putin and his goons

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 01/06/2025

Reminds me of the localization efforts on Mozilla's Firefox OS several years ago. "Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); “timeout” became a […]

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j-r conlin @jrconlin.mindof.jrconlin.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

By the way... Folk know that the Pocket source code is published, right? (Well, most of it. There are a few deployment things that have private info that they're never going to publish because Security Keys and what-not, but that's different. No, you can't just spin up a Docker image with this […]

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

I just bought my tickets for the #Amiga40 anniversary in Germany! Yay! Amigaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #Amiga #Commodore

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

@abesamma on the topic: www.wheresyoured.at/measures > He's teamed up with Sam Altman, a guy who has categorically failed to build any new consumer-facing product outside of the launch of ChatGPT, a product that loses OpenAI billions of dollars a year, to do the only other thing that […]

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025

I recently had an interaction with the Italian embassy in the Netherlands which was... surprisingly helpful and kind. For a lifetime I've lived Italian bureaucracy as both a huge obstacle and an enormous time sink. Seeing it actually work on my behalf without having to spend hours on the phone […]

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

@plwt yeah, I suppose imaging the entire disk would still be faster than this

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

Also this is like 1,3 KiB/s. IIRC a floppy disk was faster than this.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

OK, it's done now. But seriously, think about this for a sec. It took like 90 minutes to install a piece of software which is listed as taking 7,04 MB of storage... and what are Microsoft's executive doing? LeT's pUT AI iNto nOtEpad

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

I'm going out to get some pizza. I swear that if it's not done by the time I come back I'll throw this thing out of the Window. I'd wipe it and install Linux instead but I need it to test Firefox ARM/Windows builds so I can't do that.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

Now the bar's full. It's been full for like 5 minutes and it's not finished yet. It's fucking with me right? This can't be real.

A screenshot of the Windows system settings application installing the OpenSSH Client component

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

The process called "Windows Modules Installer" could be mining Bitcoin or training an LLM for what I know. What the fuck could be taking so long?

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

It's been 50 minutes friends. FIFTY FUCKING MINUTES. And it's not done yet. Installing it is taking forever. The CPU has been between 30 and 50% load for the entire time. It's done several gigabytes worth of I/O. I have no idea what tf it's doing but it's not installed yet. This is a few […]

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

I have a Lenovo ARM Windows machine and I needed an SSH client on it. Since OpenSSH has been available as a Windows component for years I figured I'd just install that. After all, why not? It will be auto-updated and is already integrated with the rest of the OS, what could go wrong. Hah.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

I just realized that Almost Human made Legend of Grimrock - which was fantastic - then one-upped themselves with Legend of Grimrock 2... and then disappeared? I guess it's better to go out with a bang than with a whimper. That being said I'd be very happy if we'd ever get a Legend of Grimrock 3

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

From the article: > This enables them [...] to buy fish from their own subsidiaries at artificially low prices to reduce the wages paid to crews (who are often paid a share of the catch) and to transfer profits to tax havens […]

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

Today I've biked through the city and visited five different libraries to find a book and three comics I was looking for. I didn't call in advance to check if they had them, and I could have ordered them online, but I wanted to enjoy the search itself. Biking through unknown neighborhoods […]

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

The seven deadly sins: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and slop

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

Thanks everybody for the suggestions and invites, I've opened a new account to which I will migrate soon(ish) @gabrielesvelto@mas.to I'll be migrating this account when I do, so you should follow the new account automatically. You can also follow it right away to speed up the process, but I […]

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Dale Harvey @dale.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2025

The Menstrual Cramps supporting Soapbox. Always love it when the support hits hard

Singer holding middle finger up with back turned

Singer on all fours in front of guitarist

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2025

I think we should use the term "machine generated" more and more when referring to the outputs of generative AI. Given how tech companies try present "AI" into some kind of magic tool, and how they try to humanize the bots, I believe it's important to ground any discussion by pointing out that […]

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

@wesley a couple high-effort, a couple low-effort but fantastic

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

I accidentally stumbled upon She-Ra and the Princesses of Power shitposting & memes and they're on another level. Super-high-effort, absolutely hilarious stuff. Much respect.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

@fasterthanlime if it makes you feel any better over the years a lot of people have called Max Weber's thesis on Protestant work ethics to be complete bs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestan…

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 20/05/2025

Dude, I got a Dell! (Latitude 7455) Gonna be putting Linux on it, no one worked on this one before (though it sorta boots with the XPS device tree). > > > patreon.com/valpackett <<< ^ help me cover my cuestionable financial decisions and […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

I'm sure this applies to other countries too and I'm 100% not surprised, especially when it comes to the relationship between motonormativity and toxic masculinity www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/14/r…

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

Circling back to this, the chaos in my life receded a bit so I may have time to finally migrate this week. After reviewing some of the suggestions I got in this thread (thank you all!) mas.to seemed like a good option, but their registrations are currently closed. infosec.exchange also seems […]

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j-r conlin @jrconlin.mindof.jrconlin.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2025

_LOOK OUT!_ IT'S THE

A plywood cover, on a sidewalk, spray painted

DANGER HOLE

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

Just got followed by a couple of accounts that have all the hallmarks of being bots. The accounts themselves are plausible-looking, with a handful of generic posts... However there's no way a person follows 6K different people within three weeks of joining the fedi.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

OK, these are junction points and something happened to them. I managed to restore them and the data is still there. I am very puzzled.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

OK, this gets stranger. The folders are still there, they're just not visible (in the shell) and seem to be read-only. What could have possibly happened? This is so weird.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

Wife's PC was acting up this morning. Turns out the AppData/Local and AppData/Roaming folders are gone from here profile. Magically disappeared. What the fuck Microsoft. I've got nightly backups, but this would be devastating for the vast majority of users.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

Yesterday night I forgot my Nitrokey in the backpocket of my pants, and this morning it promptly went into the washing machine. I'm happy to report that it's still working perfectly fine. Sturdy little thing.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

Windows has been running an update for three hours now, on my laptop. I swear upgrading Gentoo on that same box is a lot faster than this

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

@hsivonen I find It remarkable that CPU vendors are now chasing diminishing returns and features that will see minuscule usage but will happily ship devices with major issues *to the most fundament functionality of the core*

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Henri Sivonen @hsivonen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

Idea for an economics paper: Estimation of the negative externalities on software developers, in $, of CPU vendors saving $ on verification/QA prior to shipping a CPU model.

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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

> Russia appears to be increasingly persecuting women in occupied Crimea. Ukrainian human rights organization KrymSOS warned in March 2025 that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has escalated enforced disappearances, particularly against women, in Crimea since 2022. The Crimean Process […]

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