Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Rewriting the Windows section of Kitten’s installation instructions.

Update: it’s live now.

kitten.small-web.org/

Screenshot of web browser showing https://localhost. It’s a detail of the Kitten web site’s main page, with the Install section highlighted: Install Latest version released last Tuesday at 5:28 PM Europe/Dublin (view source). Tabs: Linux, macOS, Windows (selected) Tab contents of Windows tab: Sorry, no. Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. (link) Small Technology Foundation (link) stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement (link). Callout with exclamation mark: Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.
Screenshot of web browser showing https://localhost. It’s a detail of the Kitten web site’s main page, with the Install section highlighted: Install Latest version released last Tuesday at 5:28 PM Europe/Dublin (view source). Tabs: Linux, macOS, Windows (selected) Tab contents of Windows tab: Sorry, no. Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. (link) Small Technology Foundation (link) stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement (link). Callout with exclamation mark: Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.
Screenshot of web browser showing https://localhost. It’s a detail of the Kitten web site’s main page, with the Install section highlighted: Install Latest version released last Tuesday at 5:28 PM Europe/Dublin (view source). Tabs: Linux, macOS, Windows (selected) Tab contents of Windows tab: Sorry, no. Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. (link) Small Technology Foundation (link) stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement (link). Callout with exclamation mark: Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.
Alx 🐈
@alx@mastodon.design replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@aral out of ignorance: isn't Apple as involved as Microsoft with Israel

(without mentioning that e.g. Apple allowed for the Chinese Government to unleash a huge mass surveillance on Uyghurs through their phone and Tim Cook has just gave Trump a golden plate)

The comment is not for controversy, just to understand the rationale on boycotting one but not the other.
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@alx I don’t see them listed on Francesca Albanese’s list aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un or on the BDS web site, so, with the general caveat that no trillion-dollar corporation is your friend and there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, it doesn’t appear that they are involved in the way those other companies are.