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thomholwerda

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social

osnews.com managing editor. Dutchman living in Sweden. Dumb fuck.

You can support OSNews and my work through our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/osnews), Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda), and now also our merch store (https://www.bonfire.com/store/osnews/).

Trans rights are human rights. He/him. Also, praise be the catgirls, trans people, and twinks that keep Fedi running. 🏳️‍🌈

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thomholwerda, to random
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Mildly disappointed in Oliver's Musk piece?

Hmm.

thomholwerda, to random
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I'm still not sure how to feel about big, rich YouTubers ordering rare tech from Goodwill for some quick, easy views on YouTube. Retrotech and retrocomputing have already been entirely ruined by eBay and "collectors", and these Youtubers are really not helping.

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Fucking Apple bloggers lecturing us about the open web is so fucking hilarious. Y'all fucknuts would let Apple choose your toilet paper for you if you could but you're here telling us not letting nazis on our timelines is against the open web?

Go jack off over blue bubbles, simpletons.

aral, to meta
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Instead of asking people why they’re not welcoming a surveillance capitalist like Meta with open arms maybe ask yourself why you are.

thomholwerda,
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@aral Especially one that offers refuge to dangerous nazis like Libs of TikTok.

Being painted as the crazy ones for opposing Facebook feels like we're in the fucking Twilight Zone. Pure insanity.

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I don't want a nazi bar on my timeline. That's why Threads can fuck right off the Fediverse for me. Facebook's Threads willingly and knowingly hosts well-known nazis, and that makes the platform wholly incompatible with the Fediverse.

If you do not mind nazis, go fuck off to Threads and enjoy the nazi bar. Why are y'all trying so hard to invite the nazis?

me, to threads
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This whole anti- , thing is getting out-of-hand. The attached image is a post by the admin of Floss.social and it honestly blew my mind.

I run my own personal Mastodon instance so I can choose with what instances I defederate from, don't have to worry about getting banned for sharing content in non-English languages (namely Finnish), can customize it to my liking (add any sort of emojis) and of course have the freedom to post content on a wide range of topics rather being on an instance that encourages one specific dogma, ideology, viewpoint, or topic.

For (Buddies of Budgie, I chose the Floss.social instance after moving from Fosstodon since there was a restriction at the time on supported / allowed languages (strictly English) and problematic moderation. Instances were being blocked rather trivially and while it isn't clear that Floss.social is going to be blocking Threads, the language of the owner / admin is rather concerning.

It's concerning because it equates being excited for prospect of another alternative to X / Twitter and wanting to promote ActivityPub, not to mention sharing your thoughts, ideas, organization, etc. with a wider audience -- with the notion that one is being paid or otherwise financially incentivized to support Threads or ActivityPub.

For Buddies of Budgie, it gets all its donations (a generous 68 USD per month with many one-off contributions as well) from the community, in the public, via our OpenCollective. Not companies, not some masterminds at some secret underground cabal lead by Zzuck and Mosseri. Just other people that like open source and in our case, a desktop environment for Linux.

https://opencollective.com/buddies-of-budgie

The values of Buddies of Budgie are established at https://buddiesofbudgie.org/about/organization and focused around three pillars: Independence, Transparency, and being User-centric.

Folks from all walks of life and all sorts of viewpoints can use our software. They have a legal right under its license. I nor anyone else have to agree with those viewpoints for them to use the software. We aren't getting money for supporting anything but our own software and our own values.

Of course, I have personal views on how we should treat each other, what is / isn't acceptable, and moderation is applied in my community to make sure it is free of hate, repressive or other harmful language, etc.

From a leadership perspective, it is in my best interest to ensure the work that the organization and its members are doing is shared with the wider world. We're proud of that work.

So what's up with the shaming from folks about being excited about Threads? We get to reach more people, it's a fantastic opportunity! Folks need to stop asserting that others have a lack of values for simply wanting to connect with others.

thomholwerda,
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@me "Libs of TikTok", the actual nazi, is on Threads, freely and unhindered (among others). Any other Mastodon instance hosting people like that would be defederated.

Why treat Threads any different?

thomholwerda,
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@me If an instance repeatedly refuses to ban literal, self-professed nazis who get people killed, that instance will most certainly be defederated. M.S certainly does not host people like that knowingly and willingly, and will definitely remove those people.

And if they do not, they WILL be defederated.

Literal nazis who pride themselves on getting people killed are not "a few rotten apples". The full saying is "one bad apple spoils bunch", by the way, and it's quite telling people always conveniently leave out the second half of that idiom.

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Every time we give some nazi idiot "a chance", it ends in tears. Every single time.

Anyway let's give Threads a chance!

People are so fucking bad at pattern recognition. Fuck me, man.

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My target drive up order cart person customer service guy thing called me “sweetie” and I enjoyed that. There’s a lot to be said about infantilizing women and not being taken seriously etc but as someone transitioning in my 30s, being perceived as a young woman can be nice

thomholwerda,
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@danirabbit Maybe it's related to being called "hon" or "sweetie" by the older serving lady at a coffee place or restaurant in a small US town? As a European who loves to travel small town US, nothing feels more welcoming than the server walking up to take your order with a warm "what'll it be, hon?"

Maybe I'm wildly off, but it just feels nice, maybe regardless of gender?

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Libs of TikTok is on Threads. Unhindered.

That's the kind of nazis you bring in when you federate with Threads. Are you people really that hungry for line go up?

ThePlant, to mastodon
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If you’re a admin and you’re going to block : you don’t care about the open web.

I said what I said.

thomholwerda,
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@ThePlant There are more forms of relevance than "number go up".

thomholwerda,
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@vama85 @ThePlant If the instance's users voted in favour of kicking Facebook on the shins, that's actually 100% the spirit of the open web.

thomholwerda, to random
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I'm curious about the PC Engine (all of its models) and the X68000 (also all of its models). What are some of the best games on these machines?

thomholwerda, to random
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One day I'll have my Ultra 45.

thomholwerda, to random
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Arctic weirdness: the night here is warmer than the day.

thomholwerda, to random
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Did you know there are people who use wireless keyboards and mice??

like wtf is wrong with the world man

thomholwerda,
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@labellaragassa Haha it's just a mild shitpost - I just can't fathom dealing with charging my mouse and keyboard, so I've been wired since my very first computer back in like 1989.

To each their own! Wireless makes total sense for most people. 😃

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St. Lucia is weird as hell as a foreigner in Sweden. It's beautiful and all but it also has a very distinct "sacrifice the virgins!" kind of vibe.

thomholwerda, to random
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Holy shit those crazy fuckers did it! They fixed and patches Wine and made League on Linux work again!

Such an unexpected surprise!

thomholwerda, to random
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So my Retroid Pocket 3 just uh, exploded? I plugged in the charger and the USB-C receptacle sparked, and a terrible smell came out of the device. I unplugged it instantly, of course, and turned the device off. I dumped it in our empty bathtub, and will open it later to see wtf happened. Also put away the charger.

This fucking sucks.

thomholwerda,
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Retroid glued the battery to the delicate ribbon cables running under it.

What the fuck?

thomholwerda, to random
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iMessage is just multiplayer notepad where every "feature" is some variant of sending an image file. We did this shit back in the '90s, for fuck's sake.

Listening to some people talk about iMessage you'd think it's the second coming of Jesus. Fuck man.

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Congratulations, Poland! You crazy motherfuckers did it - no more PiS (for now)!

Please help us Dutch now, we're about to get a fascist-led government...

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Beeper Mini works again! Excellent response by Beeper's CEO, too.

Get fucked, Apple.

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back

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Following people like @stefano is really helping me find more BSD stories to post on @osnews. 👌

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