For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don’t. Please don’t make assumptions. Thank you.

I’m safe physically, but I’ll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

Also potentially relevant: https://bsky.app/profile/lina.yt/post/3lkjo6jomok2v (scroll up)

It’s not from scratch; every piece of old data is public. I’ve sent a link somewhere else here.

They do let other people host; it’s just that they’re not going to be federated and one has to clone quite a lot of data. And there’s people mirroring Bluesky’s servers.

That’s exactly what Bluesky was designed for: so that anyone can clone their qubibytes of data and start a new central platform anytime without any account loss (though this mechanism relies on user domain owners staying the same). You can read more at https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ from the ‘Bluesky is centralized, but “credible exit” is a worthy pursuit’ section on.

You mean the Dorsey-endorsed crypto platform that has spam waves conducted against Bluesky and ActivityPub?

NYT publishes a ton of opinion pieces, especially since back then not everybody could own a press. They just published whatever opinion pieces that fit the page and they found moderately interesting. It could’ve just been a slow month. Plus the writer was chief of the Washington Bureau.

one side already controls the electricity, water EVERYTHING of the other

They cut that off a long time ago, so not anymore. They’re just willfully letting the Gazan ruling class stockpile and hold the Gazans hostage instead of actually helping Gazan lives and self-determination.

tbf, they did put “LEADER A REACTIONARY Is Anti Red and Anti-Semitic” and “Blackjacks Silence Opposition”, but at the same time “But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idca that Hitler’s unti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semfitie propaganda as a bait to catch mesges of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his orgzanlzation {s porfected and sufficiently powerful to be emiployed effectively for political pur- poses,”

Taiwan isn’t the only Taiwanese land

1. that’s just ageism gatekeeping /hj
2. Assuming you mean video chat: I think it’s very reasonable for someone to turn down a PII (personally-identifiable information) reveal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_199#c-Dilettante-20241204211400-EEng-20241204232600

By that point you may as well be an LLM. ChatGPT is pretty good at emulating writing styles.

username checks out

that’s a very normal bio

Finally, Linux is popular enough to get targeted by malware!

The only really non-free thing is Jawg.io, which does not take your data and only renders OSM’s map data into maps. The westnordost.de (developer’s website) photo service is open source at https://github.com/streetcomplete/sc-photo-service and the only other thing westnordost.de is used for is an email server to receive bug reports and (as mentioned in the app’s “privacy” page) is checking against https://www.westnordost.de/streetcomplete/banned_versions.txt, which is technically non-free I guess? but that’s just a list of versions.

Also, the F-Droid screenshots seem rather outdated.

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421

left bluesky and endorsed X b/c bluesky decided to do moderation

You do realize there’s way more people in tech than those types of people?

okay

My radio news this morning said he was quite possibly far enough gone.