Just passing through.
They cooperate with Murena, so /e/OS is officially supported and you can buy new devices with /e/OS installed. I am running /e/OS on my Fairphone 5 and it works great.
They also seem to have given developer devices to the PostmarketOS folks, so that they hit the ground running with a working FP6 port already. I’m not sure exactly what is going on behind the scenes between Fairphone and PostmarketOS here - maybe @z3ntu@fosstodon.org can fill us in.
Ah, sorry - I wrote check boxes, so [x] indicates what is there, [ ] indicates what is not. The four last options are not listed on their website.
Maybe not the most obvious syntax - I was half hoping markdown rendering on here would support check lists. :)
Would kinda be nice to communicate with them though. Right now it feels more like FireFox is disappearing from the light.
And there are plenty of people on ActivityPub who are not open source or privacy enthusiasts. I’m not saying they shouldn’t communicate in other channels as well, but committing to web standards and open platforms would be a minimum degree of practising what they preach. In my opinion, anyway.
Is there a way on Mastodon to verify an account, like the blue hook on Twitter used to be?
Yeah. For example, @thunderbird@mastodon.online has verified their account: The link to thunderbird.net has a green background on their profile, indicating that the profile is run by whoever owns that domain.
It’s super easy. You add <link href="https://yourserver/@yourusername" rel="me"> in the header of your website, and include said website in your profile on Mastodon.
You can also include a link anywhere on your website including rel="me", as in <a href="https://yourserver/@yourusername" rel="me">Follow me on Mastodon</a>
Links provided on Mozilla’s website:
What’s not there:
True champions of the open web right here.
@mozillaofficial@mastodon.social was last active on February 2, when it live posted from FOSDEM. :)
That they went from running their own instance to not even managing to verify their account… well, no comment.
And as for the active account on Bluesky while ignoring Mastodon… Well, I guess the open source and privacy communities are just not among their target audiences any more. They haven’t even enabled Bridgy.
As one cannot view Twitter without an account there, I sort of tend to assume everybody have left it by now. It’s crazy to me that this is not the case.
Not to mention handling media requests, as it’s constantly in the news.
There’s no length they wouldn’t go to to prevent people from enjoying things. Next they’ll probably find the culprit and press terrorism charges on him.
I don’t think independent forums exist in the eyes of many legislators. The internet equals big tech.
If they accidentally kill off the independent web they won’t even notice. They’re probably still on X, thinking it’s still hip and unaware alternatives even exist. Never mind trying to explain them about independent forums.
This comment was brought to my attention as it was reported for being too dumb to exist.
As I’m not a moderator of this community, I’ll leave that judgment to others.
However, I will point out that the Online Safety Act was passed in 2023, towards the end of well over a decade of British politics being dominated by the Tories. Labour only won the election in 2024.
So, despite popular belief, the liberals are not the ones taking your rights away. Unless you consider Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak to be liberals, of course. Which you might, as nobody using the word “liberal” seems to have even the faintest idea what it means any more.
The Online Safety Act is not about regulating TikTok, it’s about surveillance underneath a thin veil of protecting children. And it is very much a Tory piece of work.
Sounds like you’ve had too much internet.
Either that, or you have a fascination for human suffering. Which you might want to see a therapist about if you can afford it.
In either case, signing off and doing something you enjoy offline might be a good idea. I’d take to the mountains, but that’s just me.
That policeman said Mr. Cool If you’re not drunk then you’re a fool I said if that’s against the law Tell me why I never saw A man locked in that jail of yours Who wasn’t just as lowdown poor as me
Later on in live version’s he’d change the last line to “who wasn’t either black or as poor as me”.
I mean… yeah, I do believe their bombing of Gaza is also extremely targeted.
It’s just a question of who you target.
Well, considering the ongoing genocide has been a “dangerous situation with a high risk of escalation” for almost a year now, it’s not very surprising their state-sponsored terrorist attack is merely a James Bond-esque intelligence strategy.
Amazing - I read skimmed through the Wikipedia site for Swatting and tried to search online for it happening other places, but I couldn’t watch a video while commenting so I didnt watch the source.
Fantastic case in point.
Still I struggle to understand how it’s possible.
How the fuck can Swatting be such a common thing in America. I have never heard about it in any other country.
(This is, of course, a rhetorical question. I know the answer is that American police is beyond incompetent.)
Edit: Oops, read comments below
I guess they would want some cybersecurity software like Crowdstrike in either case? If so, this could probably have happened on any system, as it’s a bug in third party software that crashes the computer.
Not that I know much about this, but if this leads to a push towards Linux it would be if companies already wanted to make the switch, but were unwilling because they thought they needed Crowdstrike specifically. This might lead them to consider alternative cybersecurity software.
Yeah, it runs like a charm on my T14s. No that I’ve tried much else.
The vikings got a bit of a bad reputation, probably in large part because they were not too popular amongst munks in England (who were avid writers). Sure, there was raping and plundering, but not necessarily so much worse than other peoples, and there was also trade and coexistence. We had particularly close relations to Scotland, and England is hardly in the position to accuse anyone else of plundering! ;)
Fun fact about the word viking: It literally means someone from a “vik”, which is contemporary Norwegian for a cove. More traditionally, it’s a dwelling by the coast, which explains the many -wich-towns in northern UK: The vikings would settle, usually for salt supplies, and name the place something ending with -vik.
So a Viking is not a job description as much as someone dwelling by the sea!
I installed it myself on my FP5 (bought with Android in a shop) using the online installer, which was pretty easy and obviously free of charge.