Ah, yes. The OS with an innit system, UKUI (United Kingdom User Interface) or MATE (you wot m8‽), and british (bloody ridiculous interactive terminal input shell).

(InfoSec vs. PrivSec, perhaps?)

Goddamn, that's a dense meme!

ковер плесень means "carpet mold"

I have several machines, a few of which I plan to reinstall sooner or later, so:

# System
Distro: Devuan GNU+Linux, Void Linux, NetBSD, Alpine Linux (near future), Guix (near future)
Init System: OpenRC, SysVinit, Shepherd (near future)
Window Manager: cwm, Fluxbox, Xfce, river-classic (near future), *TBD* (near future)
Shell: ksh93
Terminal: Alacritty, Sakura, foot, Xfce Terminal
Terminal Multiplexer: dvtm
Application Launcher: (WM builtin), rofi
Notification: dunst, Xfce Notifier
Compositor: Picom, XCompMgr, wlroots, Xfwm
Panel: Polybar, fbpanel, Xfce Panel, *TBD* (near future)
Audio: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS

# The Web
Web Browser: Tor Browser, Librewolf
Chat: Discord, Signal
VPN: IVPN

# File Management
File Browser: Midnight Commander, Nemo, PCManFM, Thunar
File Sharing: Syncthing, netcat, (physical disks)
Torrent: KTorrent, Deluge
Git CLI: Game Of Trees, Git

# File Creation/Modification
Text Editor: nano
Code Editor: nano
LaTeX Editor: TeXStudio
Image Editor: GIMP, GraphicsMagick
Video Editor: OpenShot, ffmpeg, blind
Audio Editor: Tenacity, KWave, ffmpeg
Document Editor: OpenOffice, nano

# File Viewing
Music Player: qmmp
Media Player: MPlayer
Image Viewer: imv
Document Viewer: Zathura

# Utility
Screenshotter: scrot, grim
Video Recorder: SSR, wf-recorder
Color Picker: gpick, GIMP, (custom script I keep losing)
Default Apps: XDG
Dotfile Manager: `cp -r ~/.* /path/to/disk`
Network TUI: nano, nmtui, nyx
Bluetooth TUI: bluetoothctl
Volume TUI: pactl, alsamixer, mixerctl
Disk Analyzer: Baobab
Wallpaper: Nitrogen, swaybg
Markdown Renderer: glow

# Gaming
Game Launcher: Steam, PrismLauncher

# Productivity
Flashcard: (physical cards)

I also plan to run Haiku on one of my older machines, but I can't write down its components (e.g. init system, audio server), as it's more monolithic than NetBSD or GNU/Linux.

To transfer files using netcat, it's:

# Replace 1337 with any port number you like
nc -vl 1337 > file   # On recipient
nc -N 192.168.X.X 1337 < file   # On sender

Of course, things like compression and encryption need to be done beforehand; but one would hopefully use other means to transfer such files.

Wtf is up with Lemmy right now‽ It's suddenly become rather xenophobic.

Depending on your drivers, you could give Guix a go. It's not for everyone; but it's decent, solid, and I used to run it on a 32-bit machine with 3GB of RAM.

If you do require nonfree drivers, there are guides to set it up using Nonguix; but I don't know how well that works (I am yet to try it).

"Whistleblower Says Big Bad Wolf Is Only Pretending to Care About Little Pig Safety"

Sir, this is a Wendy's

What is this, The Day Today?

You probably want something like [email protected] for this. ![email protected] is for toots, tweets, twtxts, blogs, and other social media shite.

Fuck the pro-state!

Zoophiles are, quite rightly, ostracised and despised by nearly all furries, just as in non-furry communities.

I'm aware. It's fun to respond, sometimes.

Fun fact: this is from an anti-pollution PSA by Friends Of The Earth or Greenpeace or some other activist charity.

Space Invaders. Looks like I'm shooting some spaceships!

Reading the article, it seems that the Co-op are trying their best, in light of the government's shitfuckery.

The updated policy instead says that, wherever possible, the retailer will provide individual, lockable gender-neutral facilities, with decisions about access to gendered spaces made “sensitively and on a case-by-case basis,” as reported by The Sunday Times.

The change follows the UK Supreme Court’s April 2025 ruling on the legal meaning of “woman” and “man”, as well as new guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) stating that single-sex spaces should be provided based on biological sex.

A spokesperson for the Co-op, which has been a vocal supporter of trans rights, said it updated the policy following legal advice and consultation with its staff networks “to ensure compliance with our legal obligations and to support our trans, non-binary and intersex colleagues”, in a statement to The Sunday Times.

Shit it's real

This is so on-the-nose it hurts.

It is. They are complying with the law to the letter with the sole aim of pissing off the lawmakers, and succeeding.