Gemini Links 04/02/2026: Humanity and Animality, systemd (Controlled by Amutable, a Proxy of Microsoft) Moves on to "Extinguish" Phase
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Humanity and Animality
It has been some time since I have posted. This isn't due to any sort of dislike for Gemini itself, but rather a combination of things - an increasing distaste for computing and all its works, disgust for the new degrees of despicable behavior by the American government, and a lack of confidence in myself. Please bear with me. This post is an attempt to get back into a habit of posting.
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Christina's Feb questions
5. From whom would I like to receive a letter?
Anybody who reads my diary here on gopher, anybody who reads my fanzines in the real world. Especially I'd like an ongoing correspondence about the logistics of the future of Kentucky.
What transportation, warehousing, distribution infrastructure exists and what's missing to make West Kentucky transition from commodity soybeans and corn back to the row crops and orchards it grew in the 1930s? How do you keep them fresh in a more resource-constrained world?
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Alex Schroeder’s Diary — Jupiter
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Technology and Free Software
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Alex Schroeder’s Diary — The AI-bro curse
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KDE login manager systemd only [Ed: Amutable is to Microsoft what Techpaladin is to Valve]
A message in the FreeBSD forum [1] mentions another sad move from kDE. Recently I wrote about how KDE is going all-in on a Wayland future [2].
This time it is about a step towards a systemd-only system.
KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd, making it unusable on systemd-free Linux distributions and BSD systems.
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