Trafotin

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A cartoon character on YouTube who knows too much about tech. he/him 🌎 Website: https://trafotin.com ▶ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Trafotin?sub_confirmation=1 🩑 Peertube: https://spectra.video/c/trafotin 🐘 Mastodon: https://vt.social/@trafotin

A screenshot of macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
A photo of the Linux App Summit attendees. Among them is Sebastian Wick, Adrian Vovk, and Jorge Castro.
Ly-sec, one of KaOS's developers, comments on a video by Switched to Linux (AKA Tom Murosky) about KaOS.
Tom Warren writes "Most of the current and former Xbox employees I’ve spoken to in recent days are relieved that Bond is leaving Microsoft. I’ve heard from multiple sources that Bond has been tough to work with, and built a team structure that meant if you didn’t follow the vision or questioned it, you were out. Most have praised her ability to strike partnerships with companies and developers, though. I wrote in December 2024 that Bond had 'staked her career reputation on the idea of Xbox being everywhere, across multiple platforms and devices.' This also involved carefully managing her image both internally and externally, making her appear to be a gamer like Phil Spencer. In reality, she wasn’t. I understand that Bond’s strategy had been failing internally and been questioned multiple times. Bond had tried to push mobile and cloud over console, to reach potentially millions more Xbox customers, but the result has been a classic case of chasing tomorrow’s customers by neglecting today’s."
@distrowatch@mastodon.social: @kde@floss.social It's not really FUD though, is it? If someone wants to run a pure KDE/Plasma system then they're going to need to use PLM. PLM requires systemd. Therefore to run a pure KDE system the user needs PLM. The fact other login managers can be used is a workaround to the problem KDE is introducing. Pointing that out isn't FUD, it's fact. One which KDE is now trying to downplay. And is now engaged in personal attacks against developers for pointing it out. Not a good look, KDE.
The Google Labs page for Project Genie with the title: "Project Genie is an early research prototype that lets you create and explore infinitely diverse worlds." Below is a video depicting a woman's hands on an Apple Magic Keyboard with her left hand over WASD and her right hand over the arrow keys.
anon on YouTube writes "This is old but after checking a few of those vids I’m sure this guy has some sort of relationship with red hat. The GNOME flatpak Fedora propaganda is real."
Siri Shortcuts on macOS Tahoe with the shortcut's secondary menu showing "Open at Login"
GNOME Calculator launched using the fish shell.
~/.config/systemd/user/podman-restart.service ``` [Unit] Description=Podman Start All Containers StartLimitIntervalSec=0 Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=true #ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman start --all #ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop --all ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -d --name trafotin trafotin [Install] WantedBy=default.target ```
Me and KyloNeko looking over a laptop.
A collage featuring a GitHub issue from Prem Nirmal (premnirmal) reading "I'd recommend using the play store because updates are quicker. F-droid is not very good with updates, it is very slow on picking up changes. The latest version today is 825 so f-droid is already 3 versions behind." Below show the F-Droid build is outdated, its false claims the app's source code is no longer available despite being under a GPL3 license, and Nirmal removing support for F-Droid.
A Tweet by @TeamYouTube "Heard back and confirming the channel will remain terminated for {insert termination reason & link to specific policy's help center article}. You can also read through the email sent for more info on the policy. We know this wasn't the outcome you were hoping for, but really appreciate your understanding"
Tweets from ffmpeg's Michael Niedermayer (@michael__ni on Twitter): "I am the main developer fixing security issues in FFmpeg. I have fixed over 2700 google oss fuzz issues. I have fixed most of the BIGSLEEP issues. And i disagree with the comments @ffmpeg (Kieran) has made about google. From all companies, google has been the most helpfull & nice" below he Tweets an output of the ffmpeg git shortlog, showing he made more than 2700 fixes.
The Affinity Website proclaiming "Creative freedom (That's actually free). All the design and photo editing tools you need in one app - for free. Download Affinity now on macOS or Windows."
My supposedly wrong nginx configuration.
Me and Winward watching Apple's Awe Dropping Event
Me and Winward watching Made By Google 2025.
A Tweet by Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard): Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans' private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected. As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a "back door" that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.
Hi Trafotin, We’ll soon enable automatic dubbing on your channel. This means that YouTube will automatically generate translated audio tracks in different languages, making your content accessible to more viewers. No action is needed – we’ll enable this on your channel in the coming weeks. Once enabled, when you upload a new video, we’ll automatically add the dubbed audio to your video. Over time, we may also dub previously published videos. In some cases, we may be unable to generate the dubbed audio – you’ll be able to see the status of dubbed audio in YouTube Studio. Effective today, you can turn off automatic dubbing for your entire channel in your Channel settings > Upload defaults > Advanced settings > Automatic dubbing. Once auto dubbing is enabled for your channel, while uploading new videos, you’ll also have the option to turn off automatic dubbing for that video. Visit the link below to learn more about how to manage auto dubbing, including how to review dubs before publishing and which languages are currently supported.
Me and Winward reacting to Elon Musk showing up in Microsoft Build 2025 and his interview with CEO Satya Nadella.
macOS El Capitan System Information
A Reddit comment by anon: As a mod of another linux [sic] sub, Anti-linux comments have surged this year. I think it's a reaction to Linux becoming more mainstream on desktops. They call it "spreading the truth about Linux" when in reality they're acting like a growing Linux community somehow hurts them.
Me and Winward reacting to Satya Nadella scrolling through a GitHub issues page at Microsoft Build.
Me and Winward watching Google I/O with relevant footage from Microsoft's Copilot Consumer Event in 2023.
An image of me with Jordan Petridis and Jorge Castro with the Flathub and GNOME logos overhead.
A video of me and Winward watching Google I/O 2025. Audio tells it all.
A picture of Winward: he has long blue hair, blue eyes, and is wearing a sweater-vest with a suit and tie.
In a YouTube comment, anon writes "There is unnecessary praise of Flatpaks everywhere, from so many Youtube [sic] channels, websites, and FOSS developers themselves. There is a united push for Flatpak and opposition to distro packages + appimages [sic].”
A page of printer page with random alphanumeric characters filling the margins.
A picture of me crying with the Hugo, VS Code, and Inkscape logos.
Update: Local node and protocol support for IPFS was deprecated in Brave as of August 22, 2024, with version 1.69.153. Less than 0.1% of users made use of this feature, and the support and maintenance costs were too high for us to bear by ourselves. Basic ipfs:// redirecting to a gateway can be accomplished via build-time configuration. You can follow along and participate in longer term plans to support IPFS with WebExtensions.
A Tweet from @TimSweeneyEpic: "The video is deceptive. The license says that when you type stuff, the program can use the stuff you typed to do the thing you asked it to do. This is what programs ordinarily do, but nowadays lawyers tend to advise companies to say it explicitly."
Replacing balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows 2025-02-19 by the Tails team We replaced balenaEtcher with Rufus in our installation instructions for Windows to solve privacy concerns with balenaEtcher. Since January 2019, we had been recommending balenaEtcher to install Tails from Windows and macOS. We loved the simplicity of balenaEtcher, which was really easier to use and worked on macOS as well. Shortly after, balenaEtcher started displaying ads. Although we didn't like that, we initially didn't view it as a significant privacy risk and had no better alternative at the time. However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties. While we have not experienced or heard of any attacks against Tails users stemming from this change, we believe it introduces potential for abuse. To eliminate that risk altogether, we started looking again for alternatives. After evaluating 7 other tools, we finally chose Rufus. We had tested Rufus many years ago, even before recommending balenaEtcher, but it was much harder to use and modified the Tails image in ways that were risky. Congratulations to Akeo Consulting, the company behind Rufus, for really improving the usability and reliability of their tool! We have not yet replaced balenaEtcher in our installation instructions for macOS because Rufus doesn't work on macOS. Also, as Tails doesn't work on Apple M1 and M2 processors, people who install Tails from macOS represent less than 10% of installations nowadays. Still, we recommend 2 alternatives for macOS: installing Tails using dd on the command line or using Raspberry Pi Imager.
Jordan writes: The Fedora Project Leader is willfully ignorant about Flathub Today I woke up to a link of an interview from the current Fedora Project Leader, Matthew Miller. Brodie who conducted the interview mentioned that Miller was the one that reached out to him. The background of this video was the currently ongoing issue regarding OBS, Bottles and the Fedora project, which Niccollo made an excellent video explaining and summarizing the situation. You can also find the article over at thelibre.news. “Impressive” as this story is, it’s for another time. What I want to talk in this post, is the outrageous, smearing and straight up slanderous statements about Flathub that the Fedora Project Leader made during the interview.. I am not directly involved with the Flathub project (A lot of my friends are), however I am a maintainer of the GNOME Flatpak Runtime, and a contributor to the Freedesktop-sdk and ElementaryOS Runtimes. I also maintain applications that get published on Flathub directly. So you can say I am someone invested in the project and that has put a lot of time into it. It was extremely frustrating to hear what would only qualify as reddit-level completely made up arguments with no base in reality coming directly from Matthew Miller.
A terminal window containing the Ollama TTY interface running DeepSeek's initial model release with the prompt "Name a Chinese president in recent history who resembles the Winnie the Pooh." and the model responded "I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses."
Judgment of the General Court in Case T-354/22 | Bindl v Commission The General Court orders the Commission to pay damages to a visitor to its ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ website as a result of the transfer of personal data to the United States By means of the ‘Sign in with Facebook’ hyperlink displayed on the EU Login webpage, the Commission created the conditions for transmission of the IP address of the individual concerned to the US undertaking Meta Platforms A citizen living in Germany complained that the Commission had infringed his right to the protection of his personal data when, in 2021 and 2022, he visited the website of the Conference on the Future of Europe, ' which is managed by the Commission. Specifically, he had registered for the ‘GoGreen' event through that website using the Commission's EU Login authentication service, having selected the option of signing in using his Facebook account. According to the individual concerned, during his visits to that website his personal data, including his IP address and information about his browser and terminal, were transferred to recipients established in the United States. The data were, he claims, transferred to the US undertaking Amazon Web Services, in its capacity as operator of the content delivery network Amazon CloudFront, which was used by the website in question. Moreover, when he registered for the ‘GoGreen' event using his Facebook account...
Anniversary and Final Update¶ Notes from Tavi December marks 10 years of DivestOS! There were over 7,000 git commits created in this time. I believe the projects were highly successful in their goals, however this month will mark the end. DivestOS and its apps will not receive any further updates. Hypatia and Carrion will no longer receive database updates. The non-mobile Divested projects (eg. Brace, D-WRT, real-ucode, and DNS blocklists) will continue to be maintained. Most of our forum threads will be closed and the DivestOS XMPP chat rooms will also be turned off. Donations will no longer be accepted and all recurring donations will be cancelled. Thank you to all the users, contributors, and donors for this time. -Tavi
A post from The Evil Skeleton on Mastodon, they write: "Hmm... So, requiring a sandbox to run @usebottles is considered evil and proprietary software, but patching it to remove the donate button without updating support links is considered fine? Uh huh..." The post includes a link to a GitHub "issue."
A screenshot of my RSS feed in Newsflash on Linux.