I am taking down the paywall for this one, as I believe it remains relevant as a reflection on the limits of the authoritarian assault โ and the need to push back against the idea that America is inevitably and irresistibly marching towards a Trump dictatorship.
This weekโs piece:
steady.page/en/democracyamericโฆ
The Limits of Violent Authoritarianism
Trumpโs authoritarian desires are boundless. But the past year proves that his ability to impose them on America is not.Steady
traditional mathematical proofs can be hard to reason about. i propose a new method of proof: proof by compiler optimisation.
consider this proof that n * 1 = n and n ^ 0 = 1 for all reasonable values of n.
![compiler explorer screenshot.
the left pane displays the following rust source code:
#[unsafe(no_mangle)]
pub fn main() -> u8 {
for i in 0..=u32::MAX {
if i * 1 != i {
panic!("oh dear!");
}
if i.pow(0) != 1 {
panic!("oh no!");
}
}
0
}
the right pane displays the following compiler/assembler output:
main:
xor eax, eax
ret](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1402398 "compiler explorer screenshot.
the left pane displays the following rust source code:
#[unsafe(no_mangle)]
pub fn main() -> u8 {
for i in 0..=u32::MAX {
if i * 1 != i {
panic!(\"oh dear!\");
}
if i.pow(0) != 1 {
panic!(\"oh no!\");
}
}
0
}
the right pane displays the following compiler/assembler output:
main:
xor eax, eax
ret")
Compiler Explorer - Rust (rustc 1.92.0)
#[unsafe(no_mangle)] pub fn main() -> u8 { for i in 0..=u32::MAX { if i * 1 != i { panic!("oh dear!"); } if i.pow(0) != 1 { panic!("oh no!"); } } 0 }godbolt.org
Well, this is a fascinating rant.
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Linux freedom is great, unless you hate freedom.
itsfoss.com/signs-linux-is-notโฆ
15 Signs Linux Is Not For You
If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesnโt mean Linux isnโt for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means youโve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
Choosing the VPN That's Right for You
VPN stands for โVirtual Private Network.โ When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP).ssd.eff.org
Beyond Cute: All Animals Can Become Social Media Sensations
In the age of cutesy #mammal sensations like pygmy hippo #MooDeng the chubby, pink-cheeked pygmy #hippo baby โ many people believe that social media shares are correlated to cuteness. They arโฆPalm Oil Detectives
With jet black plumage ๐ค and bright green ๐ wattles, male Western Parotia #birds ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ of paradise gleam like scaly armour when they dance ๐ถ Resist against their #extinction in #WestPapua when you #Boycottpalmoil ๐ด๐ซ #Boycott4Wildlife
palmoildetectives.com/2026/01/โฆ
Western Parotia Parotia sefilata
Western Parotias AKA Arfak Parotias are stunning bird-of-paradise of West Papua known for their mesmerising dances. Palm oil and mining ecocide are threatsPalm Oil Detectives
Sumatran Tiger Panthera tigris sondaica
The Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris sondaica is a critically endangered big cat, with less than 600 of their species alive in the wild today. Once living in Java and Bali, they are now only found inโฆPalm Oil Detectives
ARC Raiders has a new content-filled roadmap for early 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/arc-โฆ
#Proton #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS #ARCRaiders
ARC Raiders has a new content-filled roadmap for early 2026
Embark Studios have released a fresh roadmap for ARC Raiders covering the next few months, and it sounds like it's adding a whole lot to the game.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Protecting Indiaโs Tigers Saves One Million Tonnes of CO2
#Indiaโs fifty year long Project #Tiger has been a successful conservation project. A new research study finds that protecting tigers and their rainforest home has additional benefits to #carโฆPalm Oil Detectives
Get some Sid Meier greats like Civilization VI in a big Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/get-โฆ
#Civilization #SidMeier #GameBundle #PCGaming
Get some Sid Meier greats like Civilization VI in a big Humble Bundle
The Best of Humble Bundle: The Sid Meier Collection is live with a bunch of great strategy games that you can get for a great price.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Civ is one of those games that appeals to me, but the actual experience of playing it leaves me cold.
Bit like the Football Manager series.
Steam Deck hits 25,000 games Valve have rated Playable or Verified gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/steaโฆ
#Steam #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming
Steam Deck hits 25,000 games Valve have rated Playable or Verified
With over 100,000 games on Steam - verifying all of that takes a long time but the Steam Deck now has over 25,000 that are Steam Deck Playable or Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
There are quite a few games one can easily play on #steamdeck without verification.
Like the BATMAN Arkham games. They run perfectly on my deck.
Sometimes it is hit and miss, though ...
These Linux distros impressed us last year.
itsfoss.com/news/new-distros-2โฆ
5 New Linux Distributions We Discovered in 2025
No, this is not a list of all the new distros that came up in 2025. We are listing the ones we covered throughout this year.Pulkit Chandak (It's FOSS)
Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans
JAKARTA โ Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the worldโs rarest great ape population, now faces the prospect of losing more of its already constricted habitat.Philip Jacobson (Mongabay)
Moxie knows I had a hard day today. She's sitting with me.
#catsofMastodon #CatsofBluesky #Caturday #Cats #rescuekitties #aww
โZeitpunkt ist definitiv gekommenโ: St. Pauli-Boss Gรถttlich regt WM-Boykott an
St. Pauli-Prรคsident Oke Gรถttlich spricht im groรen MOPO-Interview รผber den Verein, das Derby gegen den HSV und einen WM-Boykott.Frederik Ahrens (Mopo.de)
Fair play to Minneapolis. This is the fight back the whole US needs.
#Minneapolis #generalStrike #fuckICE #MinneapolisProtests
Unboxed my #Plushtodon Mastodon plushies this morning. Their larger sibling is at home as it shipped last week. These two had to hop the pond and be signed for at the post office this morning.
My review: 15/10 โญ๏ธ
They are so soft, squishy and best of all no odd smell. Plushies sometimes smell and need to be aired out. Wherever/however these are manufactured, they are scent free which added the extra 5 โญ๏ธ
Not pictured are two awesome sticker sheets from #Mastodon #MastodonMerch
We made good progress on automated hardware testing in postmarketOS, resulting in being able to run pmaports changes on a real OP6T! Thanks to everybody who donated to postmarketOS or contributed their time to make this possible! โค๏ธ
More about this and future plans:
postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/โฆ
Hardware testing automation: a minimum viable product
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
New #Textures album sounds decent. I like it more than what I heard from them before.
youtube.com/watch?v=v8xJv-WGZgโฆ
#NP #NowPlaying
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
If you want to know a little something about Australian snakes, this is a fun video. This snake wrangler is demonstrating why certain snake repellants do not work.
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Software update, meeting reminder, or office party? ๐ฃ
Place banners across all Nextcloud pages for team-wide announcements with the Announcement Banner app!
Discover more! ๐ apps.nextcloud.com/apps/announโฆ
And join #NextcloudHub 26 Winter for more app updates! ๐ nextcloud.com/special-event-wiโฆ
Nextcloud Special Event Winter 2026 edition
Be the first to experience the new must-watch Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter launch keynote, press conference and businesses-oriented key updates.Nextcloud
![FOSS Community: Linux is very user friendly.
Linux:
[rootfs ]# exit
ERROR: Failed to mount the real real root device. Bailing out, your are your own. Good luck.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1402144 "FOSS Community: Linux is very user friendly.
Linux:
[rootfs ]# exit
ERROR: Failed to mount the real real root device. Bailing out, your are your own. Good luck.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off")
The mimics among us โ birds pirate songs for personalย profit
From Roman classics to British tabloids, humans have long celebrated the curious and remarkable ability of #birds and other #animals to imitate the sounds of humans and other animals. A recent surgโฆPalm Oil Detectives
Fable, Forza Horizon 6 and more from Xbox Developer Direct 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/fablโฆ
#Fable #ForzaHorizon6 #PCGaming #Gaming
Fable, Forza Horizon 6 and more from Xbox Developer Direct 2026
Microsoft recently did their latest Xbox Developer_Direct event with the 2026 edition giving us a new look at multiple games and new release dates.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
AMD confirm the Ryzen 7 9850X3D launch date and pricing gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/amd-โฆ
AMD confirm the Ryzen 7 9850X3D launch date and pricing
AMD's powerful new gaming processor the Ryzen 7 9850X3D now actually has an official release date and pricing.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Also still rocking the 5800X. I don't see myself upgrading anytime soon since that'd require a new Mainboardโฆ and, more crucially, new RAM.
It's powerful enough for anything I throw at it, including modern games.
Valve's in-development game Deadlock just got a massive upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valvโฆ
#Deadlock #Valve #MOBA #PCGaming #Gaming
Valve's in-development game Deadlock just got a massive upgrade
Deadlock is an online-only third-person MOBA currently in development by Valve, and they just released a massive upgrade for the game.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Get the Just Cause Complete Collection in a new Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/get-โฆ
Get the Just Cause Complete Collection in a new Humble Bundle
The Just Cause Complete Collection Humble Bundle launched with a whole lot of action that you can grab for a decent price.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gpd-โฆ
#GPD #Bazzite #Linux #Gaming #HandheldGaming
GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise
GPD are being weird again - making a claim that the GPD WIN 5 is getting an "official" adaptation with Bazzite Linux but the Bazzite team say otherwise.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Vulkan 1.4.340 released with new extension to improve DirectX performance on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/vulkโฆ
#Vulkan #Linux #LinuxGaming #SteamOS #DirectX
Vulkan 1.4.340 released with new extension to improve DirectX performance on Linux
We're seeing excitement build up from the Vulkan API release 1.4.340, with a new extension that should eventually improve DirectX performance on Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nexus Mods say they are committed to supporting Vortex on SteamOS Linux gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/nexuโฆ
#Linux #SteamOS #Modding #Vortex #SteamDeck #Gaming #NexusMods
Nexus Mods say they are committed to supporting Vortex on SteamOS Linux
After cancelling the newer Nexus Mods app that had Linux support to refocus on the older Vortex, the Nexus Mods team now say Vortex will support SteamOS.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/ubisโฆ
Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios
Ubisoft are implementing various cost-cutting measures and have announced they've cancelled 6 games, while also closing studios in a big shift.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Thomas Zimmer
in reply to Thomas Zimmer • • •The idea that protests and public opinion are meaningless in the face of the Trumpist assault, that authoritarian regimes are impervious to public pressure, is still widespread.
But it is wrong. And it perpetuates the regime's assertion of inevitability.