Hi! I'll be moving this account to a new home: https://mstdn.games/@eibriel

See you there!! 🛄

Google asks what we think of their plans to block Android app installs outside of Google Play (unless the developers let Google verify their identity and pay a fee).

Want to tell them your opinion, just submit this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3UQeNspQsZCO2ITkdzMxv81rJDEGGjO-UIDDY28Rz_GEVA/viewform?usp=dialog

In light of recent (again and again) shenanigans with Apple iOS and Google Android, I'm looking into Linux native smart phones yet again.

Linux phone operating systems have come a loooong way. Examples like PostmarketOS ( @postmarketOS ), PureOS ( @purism ) and Ubuntu Touch / UBPorts ( @ubports ) offering a solid choice, the big issue is linux native apps, but those have come a long way as well.

First, many apps have fully functional mobile web sites and web apps that are, by nature, cross platform and available on linux through web browsers or as a Progressive Web App (PWA).

Second there are many native linux apps that work well on a mobile screen as well or apps specific to phones, etc.

Lastly, there are - for lack of a better word - emulators that let you load and run android apps, for example.

Linux Phones are not as polished as iOS or Android phones, but the control and privacy is there.

Ironically the biggest thing that've needed is Signal Messenger (@signalapp ) on Linux. Almost everything else I need is there, including GPS maps and web app / PWA versions of transit apps and banking apps. Even Signal, I might break with as most of my chat groups might hop over to another end to end encrypted messaging service that runs on Linux.

What would you need to use a Linux Phone as your daily driver?

#linux #FOSS #solarPunk #iOS #android #Google #Apple

Actividades divertidas para pasar momentos felices con la gente de tu trabajo

#trabajo #chamba #laburo #curro #tortura

@joojmachine
Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
I can't believe my ears! :psyduck:

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years. :blobmiou:

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca #SpeechDispatcher #accessibility #Pied #Linux #texttospeech

TR1X y TRX2 son una implementación software libre de los motores de Tomb Raider 1 y Tomb Raider 2. Dicho de manera simple, pueden ejecutar de forma nativa los dos primeros juegos de la saga. Tiene incluso mejoras como un modo foto y un renderizado gráfico a 60 FPS.

Hace un par de días han sacado una nueva versión con infinitud de mejoras. El listado al completo lo podéis ver en

https://github.com/LostArtefacts/TRX/releases

#TRX #linuxgaming #tombraider #retrogaming #blogjugandoenlinux

#GameDev #SoloDev #Godot #Train #Points #Switches #Curves

https://youtu.be/EjjDilVNi5k

I finally rounded-off the right-angle turns that my track had previously...

And then I thought I would quickly add clicking points to change them, but that meant working out where the target should be (not quite as obvious as you'd think) and also handling crossovers correctly...

...because each of those crossovers which swaps the track from ===== to ==x== is actually four sets of points, which have to be ganged together and switch as one, needing a whole additional layer of logic to say "OK, these N items act together..." which I had planned and roughed-out, but not actually written...

...and also remembering how C# delegates work, since I'd got very used to UE C++ delegates these last years, and those have a similar intent, but just different enough to cause turbulence.

A random thought from testing all this, currently my train sits on top of the track, but there's no reason that has to be the case...

@IanBadcoe Super satisfactory to watch!

Amigas y amigos de mastodon y el fediverso interplanetario, me enorgullezco en presentarles mi nuevo centro de operaciones en internet «La bitácora de un Eterno Aprendiz», mi regreso a los blogs. Está federado, así que pueden comentar con su cuenta del fediverso.

Lo pueden seguir en @blog.

Estoy emocionado 🥹

#OrgulloFriki #EternoAprendiz #Fediblog #Blog #Fediverso #nx

https://altgr.xyz/2025/08/24/y-aqui-vamos-de-nuevo/

"La paradoja de la tolerancia desaparece si miras la tolerancia, NO como un estándar moral, sino como un contrato social.
Si alguien no cumple con los términos del contrato, entonces
no está cubierto por él.
En otras palabras: Los intolerantes no están siguiendo las reglas del contrato social de tolerancia mutua.
Dado que han roto los términos del contrato, ya no están cubiertos por el contrato, y su intolerancia no debe ser tolerada."

Inspirado por "La tolerancia no es un precepto moral" de Yonatan Zunger.

@Velveteen

The other thread about Computerworld is upsetting, so here's a new one.

Slightly used IBM 1402 for $13,000 ($125,737 inflation-adjusted). Sounds like a good deal to me

(Edit: not 1401!)

🎉 ¡Encuentro Debian Argentina en Santa Fe!

El 29 de agosto a las 18:00 hs, nos reunimos para compartir experiencias, hablar sobre Debian, gestión de basura electrónica y los preparativos de la DebConf26.

📍 ATE – San Luis 2854 (SUM - 1er piso), Santa Fe

¡Sumate y sé parte de la comunidad que hará posible la DebConf26!

#Debian #DebianAr #DebConf26 #SoftwareLibre #OpenSource

A moment of gratitude for the amazing @vkc - whose video tutorials are simply illuminating.

As a clueless self-hosting newbie I often ask for advice here on the Fediverse… and get really helpful feedback but most of the time it reads like a foreign language to me (a non-dev).

Well, Veronica has perfected a way to talk to newbies.

Thank you Veronica for making me understand OpenSSH - at long last 🙌

I highly recommend her #PeerTube channel: https://tinkerbetter.tube/c/veronicaexplains/videos ❤️✨

I was watching a fairly recent action movie last week, but I turned it off before the third act finished.

The movie was one of those "marginalized group cannot save themselves so white people have to shoot many non-whites dead to save the day"...

Please recommend the best action movie you remember watching that does not fall into this trope.

@nina_kali_nina Would be amazing to be able to run that software today and see what they actually meant by each selling point

New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: A bit of historical context for the past week's news that, gee, "AI" isn't all it's cracked up to be

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/ai-skepticism-went-mainstream-this-week/

w/@alex and @deccamuldowney

PSA: The excellent #murderbot series by Martha Wells is available as a Humble Bundle right now, all 7 books in the series + 7 short stories and other novels. DRM-free epub files. Highly recommended.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books

"Despite being a powerful and lethal security unit, Murderbot is an extreme introvert. Its primary goal is to be left alone so it can spend its time watching hours of its favorite soap operas and other media. It's highly cynical, sarcastic, and finds human interaction to be awkward and tedious. However, it also finds itself unexpectedly forming bonds with the humans it's supposed to protect, which leads to a lot of internal conflict and reluctant heroism."

#SciFi #bookstodon #books

@accentedcinema Interesting, recently saw a YouTube video and someone from chine was claiming that flateathers and anti-vaccers weren't a thing in china. Seems that you can find them if you know where to look.

Common Voice 下一個版本的釋出 deadline 是九月五號，這段時間內有空的朋友，請到這邊幫忙聽聽錄音協助驗證：

- 台語 http://commonvoice.mozilla.org/nan-tw/listen

- 國語 https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/zh-TW/listen

現在聽個五分鐘，你就可以幫上忙，一起擴增台灣唯一一組自由開放的台語語音資料庫，幫助AI 學台語（跟國語、跟族語！）