I've emailed CCHQ, resigning my membership of the UK conservative party. I have observed an increase in racism, transphobia, other bigotry, even fascist ideology, in the national party, that must not be ignored. Just the other week, one Tory MP in parliament was obsessing over so-called "biological males" in women's prisons; nobody challenged her. As a proud anti-fascist, I do not merely choose to disassociate myself from such fascism; I also promise that I will strongly oppose it. Good day.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

I signed this petition ages ago, and wrote to my MP. I got an email today, informing me that it will be debated in the UK parliament on 15 December 2025. Specifically, the petition demands that the Online Safety Act be abolished. I don't expect much will happen. The government seems pretty hell-bent on destroying the internet. But hey, maybe hell will freeze over in the best way possible, and they start respecting civil liberties again. Crazier things have happened.

I saw the post by @npub17tda...apfk at

Mastodon

It's FOSS (@itsfoss@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image A true workhorse, I tell you. 💪🔥 #linux

...and I decided to make my own. Good day.

if someone wants to sell me their unwanted #39c3 ticket, please contact me. i failed again on 2nd sale, to get a 39c3 ticket. however, i would very much like to attend that conference.

I recently discussed the topic of Autism on IRC, and clarified that I consider autism to be the default state, at least from my own perspective; I am autistic. I once had a good laugh with two other fellow autists. We were sitting at a table, eating our dinner, and a group of so-called "neurotypicals" were wining and dining near us; they were speaking Dutch, but it didn't matter. We knew what they were saying: nothing. We tried to emulate smalltalk amongst ourselves and couldn't stop laughing.

anyway. i submitted/proposed a libreboot talk for fosdem 2026:

Libreboot: Free Your BIOS Today! FOSDEM 2026

Libreboot is a coreboot distribution — just as Debian is a Linux distribution — providing fully free (libre) boot firmware for x86 and ARM syst...

no idea if they'll accept. but i hope they do. i've got a big new release planned for december, lots of chromebooks and more thinkpads and more - and lots more work planned in the new year too. no worries if they don't though, they rejected my 2025 talk too, i'm still going to brussels :) i really enjoyed fosdem 2025. i'm sure 2026 will be excellent as well.

this is how i'm learning german btw. pretty much doing this all day.

i heard a sentence in german today that i understood, without having to look up any words: "dass sie lachen, das ist voellig klar" - literally translated, it is "it's obvious that they are laughing" (that they laugh, is fully clear". the speaker/context is irrelevant. i laughed too. i wrote it down and stuck it on my monitor. i'm still learning german - at unhuman speed. native germans who wish to help me practise, would be greatly appreciated. talk to me about whatever you want (in german).

If there are any German speakers following me, and I know that there are German speakers following me: I would like to speak to real German people. Any topic. I'm learning German. I'm still passively listening to German, reading German, and teaching myself words, but to really learn quickly, I need to speak it. I'm also using ChatGPT (yes, I know it's non-free). Come to #librespeech on libera IRC. I'm "leah" there. i'll make a german chatroom on jitsi. Looking forward to meeting you all!

I'd like to mention a *really amazing* browser plugin, namely: libredirect. See:

libredirect.github.io

LibRedirect - Privacy-friendly Redirector

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. requests to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

It redirects various sites e.g. youtube, to more privacy-friendly frontend sites/alternatives. I configured mine in LibreWolf, to automatically redirect all YouTube videos to my own Invidious instance. The two other screenshots show what youtube.com looks like for me. I don't want to run YouTube's probably malicious javascript. My Invidious server, not my workstation, handles streaming.