social.pollux.casa

Thanks to @adele for opening the door to the Gemini Protocol again for me. I dabbled with Gemini back in 2021 but am returning to it now after a 4 year break and after seeing how our "normal" internet is rapidly disappearing into the "enshittification" mire (Mastodon excepted!).

Time again for a quiet place to connect with the interesting people of Gemini.

#geminiprotocol

gemini://elperronegro.pollux.casa/

Want to create a gemini capsule, but do not want to manage a server contact @adele

AWS Deleted all data despite redundancy, backup, dead man’s switch. This is why you need to keep all your data offline. The 3-2-1 backup rule is a good data protection strategy that states that you kee 3 copies of your data, storing them on 2 different types of storage media, and keeping 1 copy offsite under your bed or office. Don't trust your hosting company's backup service.

https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/

#cloud #aws #sysadmin #IT

Si tu as trouvé un sac à dos noir décathlon avec dedans une switch dans une pochette noire, des jeux de société (dont le sea salt and pepper, un uno flip, un gobit, un petit pois), une gourde noire, un casque anti bruit, une casquette et lunettes de soleil, un flacon d'airomir dans un RER A direction Cergy (je crois) tu peux me contacter en dm.

Sac à dos oublié dans le RER A à la station Auber mardi 5 août vers 11h50.

Il y a peut-être une étiquette avec mon nom et mon numéro de téléphone mais je n'en suis pas sûre.

Le repouet rend les enfants heureux.

Merci à ttes celleux qui ont déjà partagé. Toujours pas de news pr le moment.
#rerA #objetPerdu #merci

@adele the generality of the text editor (and unix text processing tools) is very nice, and when working within the current ecosystem i always choose them.

and yet i also find text formats harmful. the vast majority of programming languages, config files, and exchange formats reinforce english-supremacy. different people have different layout preferences - spacing habits, column widths, indentation styles, and in programming naming conventions - why must they compromise on those to collaborate? and those compromises inevitably favor the parties with more power.

so i am intrigued by the possibility of general self-describing binary formats that do not embed privileged perspectives. i suspect a similarly general ecosystem of tools could be built around something with more structure than text (which is, after all, also a binary format), and perhaps be even better.

I subscribe to newspaper not because I prefer reading paper version - it is because ad tech and survelliance capitalism made internet unbearable, therefore I do not subscribe to any online one 📰

It is not ok to put tracking pixels, capture location and calculate where and for how long my screen is focused at. It's not ok to broker peronal private data to "target" more ads towards me. And it is definitely not ok to build browsers that are intended to maximize tracking with different initiatives tried to be pushed as "standards". Screw content algorithms that restricts me from reading full comment feed supposedly giving me only the "relevant" ones.

Big techs think they can ignore EU GDPR because, you know, they are bringing "innovation". Screw that. That is not innovation - that is unethical business that should be declared illegal

#adtech #tracking #web #internet #newspaper #paper

🆕 blog! “I'm never going back to Matrix”

I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-never-going-back-to-matrix/
⸻
#foss #Matrix #OpenSource #rant

🎉 My photographs are featured in National Geographic!

NatGeo scoured my website, picking their favourites from my huge portfolio of beautiful #LostPlaces. They chose to feature places all from my home country of #England, amazing!

Thanks to #NationalGeographic for featuring my work, this is definitely a proud moment and a milestone for my journey as a #photographer.

The full feature now live, on their Dutch-language platform - https://www.nationalgeographic.nl/fotografie/a62133950/urbex-locaties-engeland

#Published #Photo #Explore #Photography

Windows market share in Germany drops to 69.78%, down nearly 10 points in a year 📉

Meanwhile, macOS rises to 19.59%, driven by user demand for privacy & seamless integration 🍏

Linux more than doubles to 5.49%, reflecting growing interest in open-source, secure, and flexible systems 🐧

#Linux #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #UserFreedom #Freedom #Tech #Technology #AI #OS #MacOS

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705240

Some ramblings on "The Small Web"
https://www.nfnitloop.com/blog/2025/07/smallweb/

#smallweb #smolweb

This self-hosted knowledge aggregator would have made my student days so much easier

https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosted-knowledge-aggregator-would-have-made-student-days-easier/

Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or topple the online pillars of capitalism - but it's making a political statement nonetheless. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations". I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today.

https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/

In case you missed it, there are lots of news and media accounts you can follow on the Fediverse:

➡️ https://fedi.directory/news-media

Before you follow, you might want to familiarise yourself with Mastodon's Lists feature. There's a complete guide to using Mastodon Lists at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon

Some of the news accounts post extremely frequently, and Mastodon's Lists feature provides a way of following such accounts without overwhelming your main timeline.

#News #Media

My game will be about the same price as a cheap lootbox but instead of a chance on an item you get a full game without micro-transactions 😁

If you don't know the universal hand signal for help, please check this out. I just learned myself, years after it was created. It could save a life. The fingers folding over the thumb is to represent being trapped. Please boost for everyone

#UniversalHandSignalForHelp
#Help

An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

The Document Foundation, which developers LibreOffice, is mad at Microsoft for the levels of complexity in the Microsoft 365 document format. They claim Microsoft intentionally makes this format's XML schema as complex and obtuse as possible to lock users into the Microsoft Office ecosystem.

This artificial complexity is charact

https://www.osnews.com/story/142851/an-artificially-complex-xml-schema-as-a-lock-in-tool/

#Office

Hello les mastonautes. J'ai 12 abonnés ici mais ça se tente ;)
Je cherche dans la région lyonnaise, une association promouvant le logiciel libre et qui pourrait intervenir dans le reconditionnement d'ordinateurs pour les envoyer à Cuba. Un ami a des machines en nombre, la logistique pour les expédier, et les contacts pour la distribution gratuite sur place. Le problème ce sont les licences, il y a beaucoup de Windows craqués, et ma suggestion est d'expédier des machines pré-installées avec une distribution Linux.
Est-ce que ça existe, comme objectif d'une association ? Et est-ce d'ailleurs une meilleure idée que d'envoyer les machines nues ?