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cassidy, (edited ) to Brussels
@cassidy@blaede.family avatar

You would never know there is a statue of a little boy peeing behind me in my new profile photo, but you are reading this so… now you know!

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2024 #GNOME #Brussels #Belgium #FOSDEM24

popey,

@cassidy There's even a section of museum around the corner, all about the little fella!

popey, to random

Ditching 'Inbox Zero' for 'Telegram Ten-Thousand'

popey, to random

When BBC News shows a screen recording of a browser on the news, they might want to pre-install an ad-blocker.

jimblimey, to zxspectrum
@jimblimey@retrochat.online avatar

games I might have played number 4811

Star Blade

Released: 1995
Arcade Game: Shoot-em-up

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=4811

popey,

@jimblimey Is that a Uridium "inspired" game?

popey, to random

This is a good news follow-up to yesterday's blog post about that Exodus scammy app in the Snap store.

https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-follow-up/

video/mp4

popey,

@cwayne @cassidy null was, yes :)
Also, it has 144 installs in 41 countries!
Most successful empty package ever!

Edent, (edited ) to random
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

Hello friends! I'm still testing out my personal ActivityPub server - and I need your help 🙂

If you click this link → @example ←

Do you see the user's account or a page of JSON code?

If you do see the code, could you please let me know which platform / app you're using?

THANKS GANG!

popey,

@Edent @example JSON - clicking link in the Advanced web interface of mastodon in a browser (Microsoft Edge)

popey, to random
etchedpixels, to 8bit
@etchedpixels@mastodon.social avatar

Progress on the . The Z8 now passes the test suite and the build coverage test. The test suite is pretty basic so there are probably plenty of bugs left. Code density is not great on the Z8 though. Also added register keywords for arguments to the compiler and split I/D to the linker.
The bytecode output for the also works with a bytecode engine in C, but the 1802 part is a long way off. Might have to stop putting off debugging the 65C816 now and carry on with

popey,

@etchedpixels I love hearing about these escapades! Keep it up! :D

popey, to random

"Look ma! I was on the front page of hackernews"
"That's nice, dear."

Very happy that my aged little Ubuntu 18.04 (32-bit) VPS at @bitfolk coped perfectly under load. Also, annual reminder to myself that I should probably upgrade it...

A graph of unique visitors per day, showing a spike yesterday, with a flatline mostly before.

popey,

@jugmac00 @bitfolk Way ahead of you..

popey, to linux

A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time; if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.

This is a rather long blog post to accompany @linuxmatters episode 23.

https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/

#linux #ubuntu #snapcraft

The scam Exodus Bitcoin Wallet as presented in the Ubuntu graphical desktop storefront.

popey,

In a previous version of this blog I pointed the finger at a service called exchangerate-api. After some online comments and thinking about this, I have removed that section and screenshot. I drew a direct line between a scam app and a third-party legitimate service. I didn't deeply investigate what APIs were used by the scam app, so it was unfair to draw that line.

rooster, to random
@rooster@chaosfem.tw avatar
popey,

@rooster Sad face

popey, to random

😬

popey, to random

After using a service, how do you feel about being told you'll get a survey and being explicitly asked to give a "9 or 10 out of 10"? What if someone phoned you a few days later and told you this again?

popey,

@darkling For me, the first one was to my face! The second was a phone call. I said I'd be unlikely to be giving them 9 or 10. They asked why. I explained, "Because you're the second person to ask me to give you 9 or 10, which immediately gets my back up and makes me not want to".

ninokadic, to linux
@ninokadic@mastodon.social avatar

One thing that always made no sense to me in the #Linux community is people recommending Ubuntu as a "beginner distro" – and also the concept of beginner distros overall.

After you install #Ubuntu, you have to install an additional settings app to make it behave as you'd expect, run a script at startup to adjust scroll speed, and likely set up EasyEffects to get your laptop speaker to sound decent... etc.

Just recommend Linux Mint. It solves so many problems out of the box.

#foss #tech #IT

popey,

@ninokadic Weird take. I've been using Ubuntu for nearly 20 years, and have never changed the scroll speed, nor even heard of EasyEffects! :D

popey,

@ninokadic Ahh! That'll be it. I mostly use ThinkPads and turn the touchpad off. TouchPoint forever! :D

popey, to random

A group of aliens just landed and you get into a conversation about Open Source.
They ask "Why should we care about that?".
What's your answer?
Humo{u}r me.

popey,

@justin maybe it’s in the far future after we terraform it

popey, (edited ) to random

When answering polls:

admin, to mastodon

The mastospam is getting a bit relentless, so I have set limits on all these instances for now:

idic.social
netcup.social
airwaves.social
mstdn.funil.de
social.nofftopia.com
mastodon.london
batchats.net
ellis.social
witten.social
social.boom.army
selfhosted.cafe
meow.lgbt
dindon.one
mastodon.joaoleitao.org
social.uggs.io
k18plus.social
xreality.social
dindon.one
social.uggs.io
k18plus.social
onlybsds.com
mastdn.social

#mastodon #spam

popey,

@D4D3MURPHY You're not quite fully informed as to what's going on. People are mass-creating accounts and flooding the federated timeline with spam. Some of those are tagging people too. They're also causing a tremendous amount of traffic for instance admins.

ajsadauskas, to fuckcars
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

popey,

@ajsadauskas Based in a town in the UK. I can get to all except a University and Sports Arena. But I have two train stations within 15 mins which can take me to pretty much anything.

bentsukun, to random
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life goals: I demonstrated my Fedora Asahi Linux installation on the MacBook Air to the folks at the Fedora booth, and they seemed genuinely excited!

popey,

@bentsukun Hah! I happened to walk by while you were doing that very demo! :D

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