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Cake day: February 4th, 2026

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  • NGOs advertising themselves as offering legal help to vulnerable people promise help and later do nothing but saying in the media how helpful they are, or refuse said help. Playing bureaucratic football when the person is question is member of multiple vulnerable groups: why you go here for help, go there. Other NGOs trying to take control of grassroots youth movements after offering to help with some resources. More NGOs serving as PR vehicles of their solo leaders while pretending to advance human rights. Names: Insight, KyivPride, LGBT Military, EcoAction, many of them tbh, because it’s all the same “community”.

    Regarding government entities, there are constant attempts, for years, by state companies providing water, to write generated or fake values for previous month so that you can’t report correct lower values and have to pay more. Do we consider police a government entity? Haven’t helped a single time, but harassed more than once.

    About Reddit, I haven’t used it much and I can’t say anything about it besides it not very interesting. Lemmy developers are notorious assholes when it comes to anything about my country, so I’m not trying to promote it. I use other fedi tech because I like it and contribute.







  • Thought “behind the scenes” in the title, three authors with good credentials, and featured article category, would mean the article presents some interesting technical details about the bugs, from which a software engineer could learn to plan better programs. But the article is just a verbose, non-technical ad for Claude, same as “The zero-days are numbered” by Firefox CTO in the Mozilla blog.

    I’m still sure that direct monetary investments in work on software commons, from public budgets, without AI sellers in the middle, would result in similar or better fixes while producing public knowledge and new generations of specialists. Anthropic isn’t doing a public good by donating early access to an LLM API to Firefox developers, it’s doing extortion: we’ll sell this model to anyone who pays, including your enemies, so give us good PR if you don’t want them to get it first.







  • I agree that incompatibility of most Android devices with free OS development is a huge problem, and that Android devices taking up an increasing share of all computers is a problem for FOSS rather than a benefit, despite the use of the Linux kernel. In shops around me, none of the phones affordable for someone with a 400 EUR / month salary will ever have LineageOS support, meaning that after two years they’ll all end up running abandoned, outdated, proprietary operating system forks, despite nothing technically preventing these capable computers from running a secure, up-to-date free OS for a few more years. This isn’t because of any issue on the LineageOS side, but because the entire Android device ecosystem is fixated on producing planned obsolescence and locking the user in.