Hi @catsalad I heard you like cats so here's one I saw today

@benjojo are there at least shutters?

@esoteric_programmer I don't think it will be deleted (considering the previous nonsensical IPv6 replacement proposals weren't). They should just add a banner saying it's unofficial to the archive page (there's one on the datatracker already)

@janneke @synq @guix why is mastodon not bootstrappable? I thought the issue was just the massive amount of npm dependencies to package

@elly @frela How do you get Nuvoton to give you datasheets? I tried using the contact form on their website and they responded asking for a whole load of stuff I don't have (application, production schedule, quantity forecast, company name, ...) to which I responded saying I didn't have any of that and just wanted a datasheet, to which they didn't respond at all.

HEY YOU, QUICKLY, BOOST THIS POST I NEED TO STRESS THIS SHITTY SERVER

i’m fucking crying 😭 this guy installed a malware that keeps redirecting his queries through Yahoo, and vibe coded an extension that redirects Yahoo to Google, probably not understanding that he has malware 😭 😭

@meowmaxing is that showing actual boosts + boosts from relays or something? I wish akkoma had that, it just shows relay boosts as normal boosts in the timeline and then they disappear when you view a specific post (the lookup is too inefficient to exclude them when a specific post isn't being viewed)

@cwebber for some reason that link doesn't have an obvious way to actually view the file and I needed to click on "edit" then close the editor to actually view it

@xyla I can’t tell if she’s intentionally carrying that plant or if it just got stuck to her (it looks like that sticky weed, Galium aparine)

@meowmaxing It’s a proprietary obfuscated blob with full access to your computer, so it could be doing that, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it is malware (it’s still a security risk and I wouldn’t let proprietary software anywhere near my kernel). But I have a wider definition of “malware” and consider obfuscation intended to prevent you from understanding and modifying the code (i.e. attempting to take control over your own computer away from you) to be inherently malicious, and kernel level anticheat invariably does this.

@meowmaxing Kernel level anticheat literally is malware though. All DRM and software intended to prevent the owner of a computer from exercising their freedom is malware.

@kemona_halftau @nyx the next one will be H.267

@maddy @thing I’m not sure I’d trust PIA.

It was founded by Andrew Lee, the self-proclaimed “Crown Prince of Korea” and alleged habitual cocaine user, who took over freenode in 2021, called it “the digital territory of the Joseon Empire, the oldest nation in the world since 1392” and completely ran it into the ground.

He was also involved in the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange and likely stole a lot of money, but that can’t be proved because they destroyed the evidence.

It was sold to Kape Technologies in 2019 but I’m not sure they’re any more trustworthy.

@cwebber @LordCaramac @bkuhn @ossguy @richardfontana In a world without copyright (assuming no other changes), nothing would prevent people from withholding source code and attempting to restrict people’s freedom by technical means (DRM). On the other hand, it would also be entirely legal to reverse engineer everything and bypass the DRM.

Copyright should be removed, but DRM and providing binaries without source code should also be made illegal.

Also why is your post language set to de?

@zzt @losttourist @MrBerard what part of systemd verifies secure boot? systemd-boot isn't really part of systemd other than being maintained by the same people in the same repo, it's just a confusingly named bootloader

@solonovamax @meowmaxing You don’t need JS for a theme switcher: https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/#lunalover

:root {
  color-scheme: light dark;
  &:has(#theme-light:checked) {
    color-scheme: light;
  }
  &:has(#theme-dark:checked) {
    color-scheme: dark;
  }
}

@algernon @jak2k it does not give “all natural and legal persons” the listed rights, because it restricts the rights of anyone who “supports restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ people” from doing anything with the software

it could be also argued that the requirement to say “be gay, do crimes” restricts the right to use the content, especially since someone might be physically unable to say that phrase (if they can’t speak, for example). free software licenses are not EULAs, usually (arguably “providing the service over a network counts as distribution” clauses like the AGPL and EUPL are an exception to this) you do not have to agree to the license at all in order to merely use the software, only to distribute and modify it

maybe it would qualify as an exception though, you’d have to ask codeberg about that never mind, while I was writing this @jak2k replied and apparently it doesn’t qualify as an exception and isn’t allowed on codeberg

unrelated: I wish I had footnotes on akkoma, I'd like to use them instead of parenthesized text sometimes

@jak2k @algernon if you want something similar that would be allowed on codeberg, I would suggest a modified MIT/Expat license with the line:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

altered to say:

The above copyright notice, this permission notice, and the words "be gay, do crime" shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

it’s not exactly the same thing but it will likely still put off bigots from using it and doesn’t make it a nonfree license or violate codeberg’s terms of use

@jak2k @algernon that license isn't allowed by the codeberg terms of use by the way, because it isn't a free software license: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse.md#2-allowed-content-usage