social.pollux.casa

I don't want an 'AI assisted life'.

I want trees, forests, wild plants and animals. I want to eat good food produced locally, with minimal environmental impact. I want a free society that works for everyone but especially those in need, not just a few billionaires. I want a life full of magic and wonder at the natural world. I want to live a good life alongside every living thing on the planet.

I do not want AI slop.

#AI #environment #food #society #EatTheRich #anarchism #ecology #Slop

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

French weirdcore

Really struggling to be on Mastodon because everyone I follow is (very lovely and brilliant) very right on, very left wing, and very morally outraged. Obviously with very good cause, but I really miss the silliness of old school twitter when it wasn't just an echo chamber of doom every time I logged on. Who can I follow that just toots memes and daft shit to make me smile? Or has a lovely account that isn't frequently tweeting politics? Would love recommendations to try balance my feed out ❤️

@adele ˋgjˋ and ˋgkˋ allow you to move the cursor to the character in the next or previous display lines, even when lines wrap (see ˋ:help gjˋ and :help gkˋ).

It is not recommended to map that to ˋjˋ and ˋkˋ as it changes the way distances are computed in cursor movements, but you can bind this to the up/down arrows:

ˋˋˋ
nnoremap <Up> gk
nnoremap <Down> gj
xnoremap <Up> gk
xnoremap <Down> gj
inoremap <Up> <C-O>gk
inoremap <Down> <C-O>gj
ˋˋ
for normal, visual and insert modes.

1950s
The world of tomorrow! Computers and robots will make work unnecessary!

2020s
The world of today!
Computers and robots do so much but we also work people to death for maximum profit!

#randomness
#capitalism

@alexseifert https://distrochooser.de/ told me so! 😄

🚀 Voyager 1 isn’t done yet — not even close 🧠🔧📡

NASA just pulled off another miracle save:
🛰️ The spacecraft’s primary roll thrusters, offline since 2004, were believed permanently dead
🧯 With backup thrusters at risk of failure, JPL engineers gambled on a high-stakes heater reset
🔥 If wrong, it could’ve caused a small onboard explosion
📡 If right, it would restore control — 15.6 billion miles from Earth

They were right. The thrusters fired. Voyager 1 can still hold its course.

This wasn’t a reboot. It was old-school problem-solving, deep systems knowledge, and the audacity to trust an idea that might just work.

The most distant human object is still flying — because a team believed it could.

#Voyager1 #NASA #Space #Engineering #Resilience #DeepSpace
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/voyager_1_survives_with_thruster_fix/

Gajim 2.2.0 has been released 🥳

This release brings three new features:
message retraction ↩️ , blocking participants in group chats 🛡️, and updated support for modern group chat avatars 🖼️.

Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

https://gajim.org/post/2025-05-15-gajim-2.2.0-released/

Status used to mean money, title, prestige. Now it’s: Do you sleep well? Do your friends trust you? Do you know how to be alone?
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/unstatus-how-to-stop-playing-a-game-you-dont-want-to-win/

Did Luigi Mangione save lives as he killed Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare...the CEO of the health insurance company that denied his mother care so the CEO could increase their corporate profit?
Did Luigi save lives?
Yes....LUIGI DID SAVE LIVES!!!!

#Microsoft has blocked its services to the International Criminal Court by order of Donald #Trump. The #ICC prosecutor doesn’t have access to his #email. Source:AP

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

L'ONU teste la suite bureautique Open Source CryptPad en remplacement de la suite Google.

"The United Nations became the latest large organization to embrace CryptPad when it used it to replace Google Forms."

👉 https://fossforce.com/2025/04/un-drops-google-for-cryptpad-an-encrypted-open-source-office-suite/

Sometime, I'm thinking we should have a planet style site for #smoweb / #geminiprotocol / #gopher type of content^^
I could create and manage one, but I'm lazy to actually do the curation of links and feeds to do it.

Fantastic news! We've reached 1 million votes! But please keep sharing and voting in case some votes are invalid!

EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban so-called "conversion therapy" in the EU. It's a practice that's extremely harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.

The site is a little slow, but keep trying!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!

We now have eight countries past their thresholds, and we have at least 1,000,000 total votes.

So keep signing & voting!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

#lgbtqia #europe