ether+nick

This was an interesting poll! I think Mastodon is the best fit.

means that we all should honour the brave journalists doing their job in our local communities, crisis regions or under authoritarian regimes. But to me it also means that I call out those that do not take press freedom seriously and instead focus on themselves and their personal privileges. Looking at you, White House press corps. Many of you have become note takers that give up the right to ask in favour of being allowed there. That's not the press we celebrate today.

Yesterday at the hackerspace, a friend had forgotten the password to their (demo / showcase) computer.

Luckily, the convenient new sysadmin tool “copy.fail” saved the day! With one line, we could get a root shell and set a new password 😂

Way easier than rebooting into init=/bin/bash. So convenient! 2026 is truly the year of Linux on the desktop :P