Cory Doctorow regularly writes in his own blog, without any cookie banners: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/

What “childlike view”? Do you remember which jobs were considered “essential” during COVID-19 or were you too young?

Can you put a tl;dw here? Are they scams?

AppRaven is quite nice

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

It’s a long article but absolutely worth it. I don’t want to put an tl;dr here because every word there is worth reading.

I saw it due to the IGN article and thinking of getting one for a 5yo. I wouldn’t think about it for someone above 8 though, if they can hold a controller there are very high quality games.

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/common-objections-debunked/

Wallhaven?

Prophets being from planet vegeta would make religions much more sensible

I bought a second hand gameboy micro and just looking at it makes me happy. Ez flash omega came with it!

Depending on Core’s dialogue from now on, I’m cancelling my preorder. Pebble is either FOSS or it’s dead.

I’m in a similar boat. I have both PS5 and series X. Consoles are getting enshittified at an increasing pace. I welcome valve improving Linux compatibility as they invest more in their devices. I don’t think I’ll be getting Sony or Microsoft’s next consoles.

This is horrible, did you try reaching out to them on mastodon? Their account is pretty active there

Instance block lemmynsfw and ani.social, and community block nsfw communities in other instances as you see them. They don’t pop up that often

Run your own modal locally, gpt-oss-20b is good for most tasks. If it’s hosted on someone else’s server, most likely it won’t respect your privacy, since these things are costly to run

Language is a living thing, it evolves as time progresses.

“Oversea” is currently synonymous with “abroad”. When it was first came to use, geography wasn’t as much advanced as it is today.

See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oversea

Let’s see what iPhone fold will cost….

I don’t think Apple is “premium” since 5-10 years. Google pixel and Samsung galaxy series caught up

I want to have a smart frame (calendar and photos, maybe some home controls) with my zero, I’m just too lazy to actually do it. There are also cool “smart mirror”s I’ve seen. Zero can also become a WiFi pwner (https://pwnagotchi.ai/) and gameboy sized emulator

The richest man on earth did a nazi salute, lets not forget. Far right shifted closer to center already…