Hmm, I disagree, somebody could inherit that money and they don’t necessarily have to share the political opinions of their parents. Famously Elongated Musketeer’s children all hate him.

But also what about the non billionaires?

Why don’t all the billions of left leaning people worldwide donate 1$ each to a fund that serves their agenda in politics and tech?

I know it’s happening on a smaller scale, but why can it not be a strong and concentrated push like what is happening with the fascists?

If there was a push of all of us doing it, I would eagerly donate hundreds of $ per month to a left leaning, anti AI linux distro and the same amount for an organization like “WEF but not fascist”.

But every time I donate to something like that it has no tangible effect, because the couple of people that do it with me are not enough.

Seems like it.

Not sure if they are verified but it seems there are more models here then on llama garden.

But I knew of neither project before this post so thanks

I keep wondering where all the left leaning billionaires are. Why can’t they use their money for political and project influence, like the far right ones do?

I’m a gui pleb, so I do all my selfhosting through dokploy, which uses traefik under the hood and I’m quite happy with it so far.

Very interesting talk, thanks for sharing!

Environmental concerns should be a topic that is dealt by politics.

The state dictates what is allowed and what is forbidden for any legal entity.

For example: It would be meaningless for a local kebab shop to debate whether they should use cucumbers with pesticides or without to protect the bees. If the law would say, all pesticides are forbidden, bee deaths due to pesticides would be gone. Ofc such a decision would have impact on food prices etc. so if asingle kebab shop would do it, they’d just become uncompetitive compared to the rest while making no change in bee deaths. Kind of a virtue signaling shot in the foot.

Same here, the environmental impact is not something that KDE can meaningfully influence with their decision.

from the top of my head there is a file ~/.config/dontaskagainrc that you can manually edit. I’m sure it’s somewhere in the settings gui as well but no idea

https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer

not sure about the security tbh. but it’s very discord like

Funny thing is, I have 2 keyboards and a standalone numpad and one mouse, but one of the keyboards registers itself in the system as keyboard and mouse, because it has mouse moving hotkeys.

So my system literally thinks I have 3 keyboards and 2 mice.

• I use a split ergo keyboard for typing. (this one has the mouse stuff)
• A 65% keyboard for gaming (so I have lots of room for the mouse and don’t have to change the keybindings for the split one)
• A numpad off to the left so it doesn’t block mouse space, need it for some games and spreadsheets.

After a work day is over I shove the split keyboard under the monitor and pull out the gaming one and place the mouse differently.

People that visit always comment on how weird that is, but it works for me.

https://www.borgbackup.org/

Not only does borg have strong encryption, it also has git-like incrimental versioning and insanely good compression and de-duplication.

For example, I backup my whole 700GB OS drive (personal data + the whole linux OS install with all my tweaks and configs) - I set it to keep the last 15 “snapshots” (7 daily, 4 weekly, 3 monthly, 1 yearly) and all it takes on the borg server is 800GB.

I like using borgmatic for automatic borg backups, but it’s optional.

Self-Host Weekly (11 September 2026)

Daniel Brendel released a virtual pet game that’s a cross between Minecraft and Tamagotchi

pixelated, adorable virtual pet game © 2025 by Daniel Brendel

last commit on Nov 30, 2025

huh?

https://api.github.com/repos/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game/events

aah.

I don’t think this is the case here, but now I wonder whether rewriting git history dates to be more spread out and go further back before uploading an AI slop project to github is a viable way to appear more legitimate.

I didn’t jump to it. It’s the primary reason for age verification.

Calling it “information” to avoid talking about it is intellectually disingenuous.

Hence why I wrote specifically about the open Internet. You are right: there are ways to give people access to only a selected part of the Internet. If parents decide to do that, fine; doesn’t have to concern any website operators, or any adults.

Like I said, I agree. But your initial argument is no good. You toss everything into one box to make your claim appear stronger but in doing so you actually make it dismissable. Stay differentiated.

You keep speaking in extremes and absolutes. There is also pornographic content walking outside on the street in the city if you so wish to classify it (and some people certainly do to they point where they get turned on by seing a bare ankle).

Certainly the pictures and videos on wikipedia which you chose to consider pornographic rather than neutrally informative have a different set of qualities then what you would find in the extreme sections of porn-serving websites.

There is a middle ground. You can give partial access. And age verification is one more tool for that (we already have parental controls for routers and mobile internet simcards and smart devices)

I don’t like nor want age verification btw. I just don’t agree with your arguments against it, because I find them weak.

Do you know what de-anonymization online can do?

Exactly, de-anonymize you, based on your behaviour patterns collected over years and decades and any data they can lay their hands on. It doesn’t matter if you switch accounts or phones or both every week or even type of device.

If every one of your new accounts/devices is at the same place, is awake at the same time, uses the same apps, has the same typing rhythm, browses the same websites at the same time of day and logs in with the same accounts and sings the pokemon theme song in the shower every morning and walks in the park twice a day with dog barking and “good boi” sounds happening in closest proximity to the tracking device you carry in your pocket - they’ll be pretty sure it’s the same person.

Wasn’t there a scandal just last week about Samsung smart tv’s recoding audio nonstop and sending it to their servers, even when they are “turned off”?

And even if you are a hermit that cut off all their devices and access to the internet altogether, other peoples devices will collect data about you, enumerate you as a seperate entity from the device holder and keep collecting and patternmatching.

Using the neutral term “information” here is doing a lot of heavy lifting for your argument.

Nobody is banning the youth from accessing wikipedia or a library or minecraft.

And if a young person really wants to watch at porn, torrenting/piracy will always be there without age verification.

Speaking of minecraft and circumvention, do you remember the uncensored library map? https://www.techdirt.com/2020/03/19/routing-around-damage-censored-reporting-hosted-custom-built-minecraft-library/

I bet someone inclined to do so could host a pornhub mirror/proxy inside of a modded minecraft map.

But also, if the parents decide that it’s part of growing up they can just give their kids access to porn.

Oh uuuh I mean, not porn, iNfOrMaTiOn.

Idea: if we run two servers, we could count as 199.9998% !!! /s

Why not just give hours/minutes per year/month??

I have no intuitive feeling for what 0.078% is, but if it says: “average downtime of 44 minutes per month” or “7h per year” it’s clear as day.

ok, clearly I don’t understand the federation protocol then, because I thought if you can see/interact with the instance (like in the @ after the username), you can find out who they federate with.

Can you leave comments from your non public isntance on communities from other instances ?