@be Nope. NetBSD has one too1, elementaryOS, postmarketOS, and a handful of other Linux distros also have anti-slop policies.

None of them are pure "no slop, ever, anywhere" (kinda impossible when third party software is in play), but they're not slopping in the distro spaces at least.

1. With caveats, but still stronger than most. ↩︎

@TheEddieShow Me too

@Lazarou @CORVUSPHERE

@jonny This feels like not liking the colour of the scaffolding the builders were setting up, so you dismiss them, build your own scaffolds and then eventually decide to make them part of your house foundations.

@cwebber ... kitten

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A/I's mission has always been clear, and for more than twenty years it has inspired generations of hackers and activists in Italy and around the world: "Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri." Sharing knowledge without establishing power.

That is what the US is attacking, and that is what is at stake today.

The premise of these sanctions, that whoever provides communications infrastructure answers for whatever anyone does with it, would criminalise and shut down most Big Tech platforms tomorrow if applied equally.

Instead it is aimed at grassroots services who refuse to surveil their users.

We condemn these sanctions, and we stand firmly with solidarity tech like A/I. Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism.

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RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117203582171106570

We're all firmly on the corvids' side, we were rude not ask for their permission

In solidarity with #AutisticiInventati.

Please join us in signing the open letter and send it to your representatives: inventati.org/campaign/open_...

A/I's mission has always been clear, and for more than twenty years it has inspired generations of hackers and activists in Italy and around the world: "Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri." Sharing knowledge without establishing power.

That is what the US is attacking, and that is what is at stake today.

The premise of these sanctions, that whoever provides communications infrastructure answers for whatever anyone does with it, would criminalise and shut down most Big Tech platforms tomorrow if applied equally.

Instead it is aimed at grassroots services who refuse to surveil their users.

We condemn these sanctions, and we stand firmly with solidarity tech like A/I. Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism.

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@redcrew I have a patch of #CheloneLyonii in my garden, left by a previous owner. They're not native in Quebec, where I live, but they're from this continent, so they get a pass. They're beautiful and the bumblebees go crazy for them. I think C. glabra are similar pollinator pleasers.

@sebsauvage
Ça compte encore Adaway ou c'est obsolète ?

I was wondering, is there an alternative to #JavaScript for browsers, besides of going without? There's CSS for minor aesthetic details, and then there's #WASM I guess? Well, there's now a framework based on WASM (besides of 10 KB of JS polyfill) called #Nectar . buildnectar.com/

@mattsheffield Yeah, I'm also very curious about what the hell is going on. Never has anyone put so much money into Linux, but why? If they just wanted to support a fellow fash, there's plenty of people to choose between. Why this, why now?

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this 3 Raccoons in a Trenchcoat Pin. These little rascals are trying to sneak into a movie theater. Not to see a free movie, but to eat all the garbage people selfishly throw onto the floor in the theater.
https://collabs.shop/sum8an

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117204006282020374

Please consider signing this petition to save the New Horizons spacecraft.

The multi-stage Dockerfile gotcha that bites people: the pg gem compiles against libpq-dev but needs libpq5 at runtime. Leave it out of the final stage and production crashes on boot. Nice side effect once the stages are split: Docker caches them independently, so an unchanged Gemfile skips the builder entirely. https://go.fastruby.io/zdn #Docker #RubyOnRails #DevOps

Amazing how quick a widely respected company can absolutely nuke their own reputation.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/post/3mukrd5orus24

The petition for the NASA New Horizons funding request collected -

- 500 signatures over the past 5 weeks.
- 155 signatures in the last 5 hours.

That's progress, but still a small number.

There are others on Bluesky and X as well who are adding their names and sharing with others.

https://www.change.org/p/heliophysics-community-support-for-continued-measurements-by-nasa-s-new-horizons-mission
4/n

A couple of weeks ago I showed a preview of a new mode for Mines, in my puzzle collection. I'm pleased to say that the new Mines is now completed and live! You can now play Minesweeper on a wide range of tilings in your browser
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mines.html
or download a desktop version from the parent page which supports the same set of grids.

As well as the support for lots of grid types, there's also a new user preference (off by default) to make it easier to play on them. When you click on a clue square to potentially clear around it, the existing flags adjacent to the square light up, to make it easier to count them and work out how many more mines you're still expecting. Particularly useful in the hat tiling, where it's easy to mistake exactly what is adjacent to what!

I expect different people will prefer different grids. Personally I think the triangular grid is particularly tricky and puzzly; the hexagonal honeycomb makes a gentle introduction; the Cairo, Floret and Kites tilings are a nice set in between those extremes; and of course the aperiodic tilings are there to keep you on your toes and ready for anything.

Many thanks to Anders Höglund for this excellent piece of work.

Is Gentoo currently the only OS with an explicit anti-slop policy?

@0x47df yep, like the yagi-shaped object that claimed a 30dBi gain and delivered about -2dBi