+1 for the GIMP3 excitement, and ×1,000,000 for the YouTube gripe.

I'd really recommend giving Syncthing a second chance, twist a few knobs in the settings until it works. I've used it for years with barely a hitch.

Person. We're talking about a person in a precarious situation who was basically doxxed by Vice, and more or less shrugged off by the general online public.

It's not like you deciding you're not into vaporwave anymore.

That's a chilling read. Wu was only ever on the periphery of my attention — some tech advice here, the odd flash of TMI there — so I thought nothing of it when she fell off the radar.

Realising that she had gotten so relatively big, despite her circumstances, that government agencies were only waiting for fickle Western users like myself showing signs of indifference, before doing ...whatever they've done to her... serves as a constant reminder that not everone online is here on an equal footing with, say, the average North American or European.

I'd love if some of the terminally online keyboard warriors (that didn't rally to support her last year) might at least do an investigation into her current situation.

Edited for clarity.

Whoever decided that a logo should be standardised as Unicode? That is the worst criterion for picking a symbol that has and will have hundreds of other uses than inline text. If it's so important — work to have the current, pentacle fediverse symbol included in Unicode.

Registering a domain to introduce your dumb idea with a lot of empty bravado leaves you with ... an annual bill and a dumb idea. The pentacle symbol is so much more recognisable.

That sounds absolutely delightful. No new features, no intention of scaling or attracting bigger clients, just... Hobbit SAAS. 🙂

So, car factories have used custom built robots on assembly lines for decades, I want to say close to a half century? Why on earth would anybody want to replace those with humanoid robots other than, I dunno, having severed ties with reality to live out his days in a deluded fantasy?

This is as great example of Musk's """genius""" as that time he decided to move a Twitter data centre with the help of his own incapable hands, a cousin and some homeless people.

There's another reason I don't share "It's FOSS" links anywhere: this should have been a github issue but it's turned into a clickbaity headline. Every othe article coming out of "It's FOSS" is either low effort, sensationalist, or both.

What can possibly go wrong?

Ooh, good one! I'll try to stick to the very basics that I've installed, different strokes for different use cases and all.

• MicroG — a non-Google framework to circumvent annoying GSF dependencies.
• DAVx5 — will sync calendars and contacts from your own cal/cardDAV instance.
• ICSx5 — helps add external ICS calendars into your calendar.
• Syncthing — keeps documents, pictures, etc synced between devices.
• KISS launcher — search based launcher. No bloat, no muss, no fuss. Everything else seems to try too hard after KISS.
• Fossify apps. There's a whole suite but I only use
  • Fossify calendar,
  • Fossify contacts,
  • Fossify SMS messenger.
• Fennec — a Firefox that passes F-droid privacy muster.
• K-9 mail — um, is this top grade email app named after the robot dog in Doctor Who? Affirmative.
• Open camera — so much better than a basic Android camera app.
• Authenticator Pro — 2-factor authetication (dunno why it's called "Pro", it's not like there's a paid tier)
• Obtainium — another app manager, for the fringe cases where an app isn't on F-droid but you trust its source enough to download it from there.

Edited to add:

• NewPipe! — third party YouTube player that puts a stick in Google's tracking and profiling.

Additional repositories

F-droid is great and all but its best feature really is that you can add other app repositories alongside the flagship one. IMO you absolutely need to add the following repos for the best selection (ie., adapted to my list above 😉)

• IzzyOnDroid
• MicroG
• NewPipe

Suggestions for more repos?

LOL, you maniac. You did it, you finally did it!

The sinful tools with occult names work. I think that should be a big pointer here.