If I ever received a vuln report from an AI, or other such glorified spreadsheet, I would promptly dismiss it then wait for a human to organically discover it on its own to consider that as proof of actual existence.

Fedora rejects something from systemd

date: April 1

source: Phoronix

Yeah no, good try tho. Had me hopeful for 6 seconds.

Congrats for your experience.

My use case is pretty much having a normal, usable, standard desktop environment where I can do workflows supported by features such as:

• using a screen recording program to, ya know, record the screen;
  • …without having to buy more into the so-called portals cartel (that is also adding age verification);
• opening programs with their windows being opened in the workspace, screen and at least approximate positioning where I last used then;
  • being able to drag-and-drop or relocate windows across screens, workspaces or any such entities;
• launch graphical applications as a different user and have them interact natively with the rest of the desktop (eg.: fullscreen correctly);
• have a fucking clipboard!;
  • with the Linux-classic middle-click alternate clipboard, too.
• assign a hotkey or keycombo for an application, that can be fired from anywhere else in the desktop;
• being able to manufacture input events for keyboard, mouse, joystick etc… for when there are issues;
• being able to launch the window of a program opened remotely;
• programs using the graphical theme I’ve assigned for window decoration, instead of inventing their own titlebars and min/maximize buttons;
• being able to drag-and-drop files from one window to another;
• and many others.

The last time I tried Wayland was in 2023-ish. The fucking thing could not even finish the startup for a desktop session in my machine. It’s honestly the worst vaporware I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been around since the '90s. I feel like these things will never ever be truly fixed, because from what I understand of the Wayland model, it is intrinsically about treating the user as an enemy:

“We’re treated like hostile threat actors on our own workstations” [1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

Which is, ultimately, worrying. Things like Pulseaudio, systemd, Wayland, …, feel like they are making Linux less for the user and more for corporations. It’s enshittification, and comes from a culture of enshittification (Potter-ing etc).

With all the crazy stuff going around in the world, “Wayland adds an actually useful feature that is basically core to a system tasked with managing windows” was not in my 2026 Bingo card. Kudos to them for finally doing it I guess.

Maybe by 2038 this thing will finally be usable, just in time to roll over the 32-bit grave.

It reduces the foothold available for AI-free projects, in particular once “big enough” projects like Firefox or Linux get infected. Since there is significant inertia to switching to, or even developing, an alternative (a web browser might have been casual dev in 1998; right now it almost requires a Corporation to coast the development). Also it normalizes the idea of having AI in development, which is in itself dangerous.

A fair warning when joining Piefed: they incorporate a number of CCP-style “Social Credit” underhanded measures, so any criticism of eg.: “tankies” from that side is if anything at least negligently myopic.

A local community also makes it much easier to check humanity vs botness. Just summon the members to an open meeting at the local cat café and exchange GPG keys or something, like in the good ol’ days.

chances are worse than not that there’s no activity in the community built for that one game.

Bold of you to assume there even is a community instead of just a random mention in !games@insta.nce !

Unfortunately AI has gotten ahold of several projects so it’s not as easy to ignore. And with Linux itself being on the list, it seems the time comes for the community to migrate to Haiko or BSD.

“Hashtags-as-a-service”? I can’t see why we’d need this. Hashtags already exist.

Fedora is literally the “the first dose is free” of Linux enshittification under corporate (RedHat), plus is legally tied to US jurisdiction. They’ve never been trusworthy.

Hahahaha! Wayland sucks so much you users can’t even turn the screen on or off.

Welp, time to return to physical switches I guess!

Oh glad to see there’s quite some representation around.

Now, we have to add to it.

(I should really adopt a non-photogenic cat sometime)

Thanks! I’m gonna try and find a USB-to-DP cat’o’tails I can buy for cheap to see what happens.

If your laptop has USB-C it most likely already has DP out.

For some reason I always miss this. I checked in software and at least arandr says I have 4 DP Outs. Presumably 2 per USB-C port? I don’t know how this actually works.

Unironically this. We need cute animals. Cats, owls, moths, capibaras, pangolins. If we’re not gonna have one of the two “true movers” of the internet (porn and correcting people who are wrong) we need something good to compensate.

It’s 2026. We’ve more than accepted that the people who simp for capitalism are the problem.

The trick is starting a community, but delegating moderation to someone else. Admin ≠ Mod.

We’ve always been ready. Ready for the drama. 🍿