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Finally achieved something I've been wanting to do since the 80s!! I have always wanted to recreate this fantastic display, and today I've achieved it after fixing my poorly Micro vision.
ZX81
16K RAM Pack
Microvision 1B
Absolutely lovely.
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A nice view of Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, between Venus & the city lights of Mannheim on this early spring evening 🌚
As seen from 566m elevation atop the Teltschikturm on the Schriesheimer Kopf above Wilhelmsfeld in the Odenwald 🌲🌲🌲
Despite the murk, I was able to follow it down to <1° above the horizon.
Better DSLR photos to follow 🙂👍
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If you live and breathe the terminal, then you are no doubt using a terminal multiplexer like GNU screen or tmux. But why not replace it with 100% all-natural Emacs? It can do everything your favorite multiplexer can do --- it can even edit text.Mickey Petersen (Mastering Emacs)
Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug in our recent 136.0-1 release; the LW settings page does not properly reflect the state of the settings. While this does not seem to be a very "consequential" bug (eg. not negatively influencing hardening, etc.), it's certainly not great - we are sorry about that!
We are looking into it and will try to get it addressed swiftly, and update this post with the progress.
/edit: the build process for a fixed version 136.0-2 has started 😀
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Why Women Turn Into “Cat Ladies”
"Old and alone" are two connotations no one wants to have any associations with. It's negative and hints thats you're washed up and no longer useful to anyone. And no other horrible term defines that as the phrase "cat lady", carrying the stigma that you're "old" because you have no friends but cats and they're the only ones who can fulfill your loneliness.
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From the Free Software Foundation Europe.
and sooo many stickers, way more than those few I included in the picture!!!
@Free Software Foundation Europe, thanks!
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How my Firefox became a LibreWolf
New blog-post: davidrevoy.com/article1065/how…
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I'm hooked on the Wolf, been using it for over a year.
Once in a while I use furryfox for some fussy-ass site that I have to do one thing on once in a blueish moon.
LOL Yeah, I get too cute sometimes.
It's good to have a few different browsers for website testing. I have an assortment of different browser profiles too. I use dedicated profiles mostly to keep Gahoogle and Zuckland noses out of my business.
@protonprivacy also flounced off Mastodon after they received well deserved criticism.
Is @mozillaofficial doing the same? 🫤🤷♂️
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@simonzerafa @protonprivacy @mozillaofficial I'm not sure how official the account you linked here is, the branding feels off and it's not really noted in the bio this is their official new account.
Before December, Mozilla had their instance, and decided to remove it ( src. techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozi… )
Proton also really manage their PR like rotten potatoes imo ( theintercept.com/2025/01/28/pr… )
... both company also abuse marketing bs wording and praise AI. Not surprising they are criticized here.
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)
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Thank you! Putting the Firefox dilemma in pictures makes it less academic and more approachable issue. I hope many people realize how empowering it is to use free software that can be replaced easily.
It is not always so easy:
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@mray Thanks! Oh yes it's not easy to find the time and do a change and walk the path of frustration of changing habit and studying settings.
Thanks for the video, I'm already subscribed to this animator artist, James Lee.
He recently announced moving to GNU/Linux. It's not the best period to do this for artists, with Wayland, all container war etc...I don't remember I saw an update of them about how they succeed to make it. Certainly hard time ^ ^ I hope he found my blog post about it.
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@BluesHarp Unfortunately, what fork of Chromium do you recommend then? Brave is a shady crypto project run by a less than nice person, Chrome & Edge I hope I don't have to explain, and Opera? I really hope I don't have to go any further.
Also, when Mozilla eventually goes, so does Librewolf, Waterfox, and the rest. There's no way that the Firefox forks will be able to pick up the pieces in time.
Unfortunately, I am stuck on Vivaldi because it has PWAs and isn't going to die.
@rejzor Yes, changing web browser can be difficult. My first hours with LibreWolf was a real maze. 
I'm really lucky I could speak about my issue on the Pepper&Carrot matrix room and received assistance from a more experienced user.
I updated on their bug tracker the thread that I found with the information I needed, for future users in the same situation as me.
@ibrahim_cris For sure, yes, this is something I want to see in the long run: how quick LibreWolf get patched and released to security vulnerabilities.
But so far, this was really educative: I now better understand many Firefox privacy options not activated by default and that I never knew of existence. If I go back to Firefox, I'll be a more advanced user knowing the settings and the about:config options.
Might we worth mentioning Epiphany (WebKitGTK) in the article for those who may be satisfied with a simpler browser that is still not based on Blink 
Playing DRMed content with it isn't really an option, though.
@nekohayo Yes, I really like Gnome Web/Epiphany. I had also a look at the Plasma side, the Falkon browser.
And the more I think about my web browsing usage, the more I wonder why I want to keep all my browsing inside a single web browser.
Probably a habit I developed with the early web.
I might start to install more browsers and split up my web browsing habit depending on activities and the level of privacy and security I need for certain website.
I still use Firefox, but I disabled sending any data to Mozilla.
Thanks for not contributing to Chromium monopoly. 😀
Zen Browser is built for speed, security, and true privacy. Download now to enjoy a beautifully-designed, distraction-free web experience packed with features.Zen Browser
@technikhil I just gave #Librewolf and #Zenbrowser a try. Both seem to work perfectly fine, and reimporting my date from #Firefox was easy (which seems logical since they're both based on Firefox).
I'm not switching now though. I took a minute to check my Firefox settings and opt out from everything that seemed not to be data privacy friendly.
I'm wondering if those forks are actually viable if Firefox dies one day... So for now I'd rather not cut the branch I've been sitting on for 2 decades, wait and see.
I like the look of Zen browser though, looks like arc!
@technikhil @louischance Yes, Zen Browser was on my list when I tested, beautiful interface and screenshot on their website.
> I'm wondering if those forks are actually viable if Firefox dies one day...
Louis: yes, this THE central real question about all these forks. I personally don't think any forks around could survive that.
forks can survive if the maintainer team is 'for the people'. Look at "Jellyfin", a fork of " emby". Still surviving.
For me, it is, honestly, sad. I've been using Firefox since... it was Firebird. Twenty+ years.
Great art, as always!
@marnic Oui 😁 Mais faudrait commencer cette fondation avec un sacré budget pour avoir déjà une grosse poignée de dev à plein temps dessus.
Je verrai bien la Wikipedia fondation dessus. Il me semble que leur trésorerie et leur moyen technique et leur familiarité avec le publique ferait que si ils entraient dans ce game, ça ferait un acteur de poids très rapidement.
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Thank you, but don't worry, I'm making many errors too, and I'll keep doing them as I often experiment with many new things.
The artwork and the alt text describing it are both poignant and touching.
I'm about to migrate from Firefox (which I've been using since it was Netscape 3.04) to Librewolf as well. It's nice to feel welcomed.
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
@nicolagaffe Merci, je vais essayer par là : celui que j'ai téléchargéi via le site de #librewolf ne voulait pas s'installer 😶
J'éspère que l’installation sera facile sous Ubuntu. Ici aucune idée de comment ça se passe sous les système 'buntu-based. Pour moi sous Debian 12 KDE avec la doc c'était vraiment trois lignes de commandes à copier/coller et c'était fait.
Pour comparaison: déloger le Firefox-ESR de Debian stable et le remplacer par la repo officielle de Firefox au moment de mon install avait été un processus plus complex.
@batistecarpinetty librewolf.net/installation/deb… a marché pour moi, mais je suis debian, pas ubuntu:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y
sudo extrepo enable librewolf
sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
yes, LibreWolf is a great fork of Firefox. I also use it (and I haven't used the “main” version of Firefox in a long time now), and it took a little configuring before being usable the way I wanted.
Its strong privacy defaults remind me somewhat of Firefox Focus on mobile devices.
@rony4102 isn't ladybird's main dev crazy about pronouns and wokism or smth?
tbh im more interested in servo
@SRAZKVT @rony4102 And of course, Lunduke made a post about it, Ladybird getting attacked by "unhinged, dishonest activists"
lunduke.locals.com/post/582366…
Note that Lunduke's a horrible person, so this article of his is from a heavily biased anti-trans perspective, plus the article and his journal as a whole is from Rumble.
@praveen @darkbeth Thank you Elizabeth.
LibreWolf is just a layer of community reviewing in case Mozilla pushes something bad to their audience. My metaphor about the layer of ash on top of a fox works for this reason.
I also worry for the future of Firefox. I hope their executives will see larger community forming around forks, and it will make them find back their focus to privacy, and security. I'll be back to Firefox if they do that.
@zulo @yalle @ilumium Yalle: librewolf.net/docs/settings/#e… pour l'avoir en permanent (ou dans about:config , identity.fxaccounts.enabled to true )
Zulo: La partie "vulnerabilities" ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox… ) m'a refroidi lors de mes recherches, et j'ai trouver pas ouf leur business modèle basé sur les revenues de la vente de data pour les recherches.
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
Attaché : 1 image Another bad derivative of my art: - Reusing my Creative Commons artwork without attribution - Putting it on top of AI gen I wonder how they managed to sell 568 of them... 😤 Revolting.Framapiaf
@Yingwu That's exactly where I found it educative to have to be personally facing this dilemma and having to choose.
Here I decided to allow fingerprinting, because mainly I really like when a blog or website switch to dark mode automatically. Without that, all website were in light theme, and it felt very difficult to me to browse the web like that now...
Even though selecting the dark theme would give a whole 1 bit of fingerprinting, browsers that serve the users really allow optionally keeping dark themes even with fingerprinting resistance enabled.
There is one extension that will set a dark theme regardless min you; addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Download Dark Background and Light Text for Firefox. Make every web page (or just the pages you want) display light text on dark backgrounds. All color variations are fully customizable.addons.mozilla.org
well, it's Manjaro, not the distro most concerned about FLOSS, imo )
@scaro Merci. Sur mobile jusque là c'était Firefox sur un Android dégooglisé... enfin au mieu possible car c'est quasi impossible de faire un 100%.
Mais là je teste la semaine prochaine iode.tech/ , c'est du lineageos.org/ mélangé avec de la revente de matos reconditionné. Je donnerai des news sur le blog si ça fait bien le taf, surtout si au niveau photo/video ça arrive à suivre. ☺️
Combine Open Source, Security, and Sustainability, right in your hands.iodé
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
From the blog post...
You won't be pampered with a one-click installation for all. Instead, you'll need to take the time to review the documentation and set up the security and privacy features that you're willing to trade off for comfort and convenience.
Yeah, ouch, thats not going to sell with the Plebs, and limit buy-in from them, and market share.
They really should try to fix that, and not just hand wave it away as a problem.
Market share is the lifeblood of the browser wars.
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@CosmicCleric "[...] not going to sell with the Plebs"
😆 I don't think LibreWolf has view for market share and plebs. As far as I know it's a community initiative, not a company. Yes, it require time to install and setup, and understand the implication of what security and privacy setting one decide to lower. But I'm happy I took this time, I feel I understand even more how the web of 2025 is broken and how web browser interacts with it to try to ease the experience.
I've gone through this process myself today. I have some comments not found in your blog post:
~/.mozilla/firefox to ~/.librewolf works.
@fasnix @peterainbow @ferran4 I'm glad they state that, and yes, you have to "trust" them.
In a post-truth era, what companies state worth unfortunately nothing to me, personally. Only legal documents like a license can protect us as a end user.
At least they state:
"We don't want your data and we don't care how you use our browser."
Mike Kuketz (Data Security Specialist) did an analysis of most browsers and Vivaldi opens nearly no connections to their servers (except e.g. to check for updates).
Still, it's based on Chromium ... so I guess we can only trust them.
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AI's potential is immense, yet clunky user interfaces and a lack of discoverability are holding it back from seamless adoption.Scott Logic
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<sarcasm> could you please redo it so it would be less ambiguous...
maybe draw them like two sisters, so it won't shock the kids of some parents 😛
</sarcasm>
(good job david, let the biggots rot in their own hell of intolerance)
I wanted to take a moment with this artwork to express my gratitude to everyone who commented and showed support after I reposted last week the email asking me to erase the relation between these two characters from my comic for homophobic reasons ( framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1140… ).
I was overwhelmed by your amount of responses, but in a good way.
Thanks for all this support against hate and intolerance. This only strengthens my motivation to continue in this way with more artworks like that. 💜
An email I received left me speechless. Obviously, they don't respect my creative choices. I will not 'fix' this panel under any circumstances.
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All good. I've been enjoying reading your comic from the beginning as a result of the bozo complaining.
Loving your artwork and general vibe for the characters so far.
How many episodes do I have to look forward to until I've caught up?
l'amor mai va contra ningú, l'amor sempre guanya l'odi
(Love is never against nobody, love wins always hate)
eh ben voilà, là c'est un vrai "masterpiece accessible" pour tout les "differents culture family" toussa toussa 😋
Plus sérieusement, c'est juste doux, beau, vrai ... Le genre qui rend ce monde de m*** supportable et c'est bien. Merci 😉
What!? You got a reader from the 1400's 😄
Nah, is crazy when people blame other for their own lack of understanding of love and then they expect everyone else to comply.
Awesome artistry as usual David!!🙌🏼
The fake niceness always gets to me, it’s so hollow.
I’d like to add some feedback to your artistic choices too. Do what you want, you are doing just fine.
📦 The high resolution and the source layered Krita file is available here: peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/art…
License 
📽️ I filmed the making of while testing on 
Linux the XpPen Deco 01v3, a budget medium sized screenless tablet, I drew this one with that. The timelapse will be part of the hardware review on the channel (soon, stay tuned!).
Here are two early WIP; the sketch and a pass with better line weight:
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For me his statement was better to read than the statements wrote by "everyone who commented and showed support". And no, not because of the attitude to homosexual relationship but by the way how they refer to another person.
He asked you directly. You could say no and that would be it. Instead he was pelted with insults in the name of tolerance? 😞 This "support against hate" became hate itself 😞
If we demand respect, let us show it ourselves.
@roadriverrail Thank you! And don't hesitate to give a feedback (public or PM here, as you want) about the print quality.
The service I use is 'print on demand', so they use the same file for printing as when I submitted it years ago and checked, and I hope their process is still the same. They are literally printing the books one by one.
You can quickly browse all the efforts I had to do to make a file without using any proprietary software: davidrevoy.com/article757/the-…
@Rob26 I received maybe two emails about it, but that was a sensible topic around 2015 and 2016 and what really triggered them was the incantation circles of Pepper on the episode 8:
peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/e…
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
@Rob26 True, magic or potion was accepted. It's really the incantation circles and demons that put on the table the "satanic" theme for them.
On the bright side, no one ever complained about Pepper being left handed ( peppercarrot.com/0_sources/ep0… ) , or I never had a single comment of racism against any characters. These representations looks totally mainstream now and that's very good.
! Found it just now after your boost of your timelapse video.
"I read this book to my 6-year old child who was drawn by the beautiful illustrations and couldn’t wait to hear the story. It’s been the start of a much-needed conversation on out-of-the-box thinking, digital freedom, and contesting power in the age of surveillance."
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Here you find additional information and resources about the book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" by Matthias ...FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe
Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump’s selective approach to immigration
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So we're at the next hurdle in keeping Friendica.World stable.
We now hit an issue where a cleanup job hangs the database. The database query it fires takes too long, and after a while this starts locking other processes in the database. Then the database connections fill up to the maximum, and the site becomes available.
I've raised an issue for this : github.com/friendica/friendica… and someone proposed a workaround they are using, we might try that as well until a fix has been created.
I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates Bug Description There's a query that runs for a very long time (> 30 minutes) and causes all other sessions in MariaDB to go into Waiting for t...GitHub
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Thank you for all the hard work that you do!
I know I keep Tooting that it's offline every now and then (although yesterday, it seemed more off than on when I tried to use it). But I am really grateful for all the hard work. And I wish I was a Fedi wizzkid, so I could jump in and try to help out...
The next few months I am having some more expensive bits that need to be done and paid for. But after that, I'll do my best to send a little cup of Ko-fi coffee your way (I'll check how I can donate when I have some funds). I also wish I had more funds, so I could easily support the Fedi bits that provide me with a home for my social media needs... Alas...
Anywhoo.... Thanks so much for your hard work and I hope that the temporary fix will help to resolve (some of) the issues!
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Remember these? Yes you do! The blanked out fields with an actual aztec code.
With some amazing wor j of a bunch of nerds we decoded that this is a real ticket issued by SNCB from Brussel-Centaal to Brussels Airport Zaventem on March 23, 2023 second class to a person named HE*** EV***
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Considering to post Is advising people to switch to LibreOffice, and the vulnerability is because OO is not being maintained while LO is.
One would assume that LO is safe
Wow, for CVE-2021-33035 beyond just the difference in time when it was fixed, the differing commit messages and implementations speak volumes to the overall code quality and amount of care being put in.
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Apache should just take down open office, or redirect the site to libre office.
For some reason people still seem to remember the open office name as an alternative to MS Office, and then download and install it. I had to direct a few people to use libre office instead.
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macOS includes a technology called Gatekeeper, that's designed to ensure that only trusted software runs on your Mac.Apple Support
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I once got an email to "remove the gay" stuff from the @neomojimixer .
they also argued with Christian family values.
what's wrong with those people?
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@cyrus I /love/ when creators do that
"Ew, these characters are too gay. Fix it!"
"Sure I'll fix it for you! *doubles down on gay* 😀"
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@GinevraCat to ease that: here’s the wonderful episode 36:
peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/e…
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Wow, but really, wow.
You keeping to your creative choices makes me want to share/buy your products even more!
💪
"😇 Could you please please please be a little bit more bigoted for me, yes? With extra sugar on top please? That would be grrrrrreat."
WTF?! 😡
I applaud you for your stance. Maybe you could give In and come up with some EXTRA content for that person 😉
heu 🤔
Ben justement, c'est bien parce "to make masterpiece accessible across different culture" toussa toussa y compris gay culture family que voilà "they kiss episode 36" et puis c'est tout.
Et si ça expose tes "children" tu leurs explique et tu nous break pas les nuts!
Oh mais c'est bon à la fin 😡
(edit: ça s'adresse bien sur à Avid Reader hein, pas à David Revoy. J'chuis colère, un peu)
Just change Torreya's sex to male in text of "more accessible" version, like in the Russian translation of Sailor Moon on TV when I was a kid. Man in female school clothes? Who cares.
Actually, I did, but tried not to think too much about it. 
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just 3 letters for the mail: WTF?
Love your reaction with "another panel to worry about" 😍
@vamp898
I disagree only because if it is silently ignored they will assume it might be because you didn’t see it.
Saying no publicly lets them know you read their complaint and are explicitly disagreeing with their bigoted agenda.
@unixorn I just noticed i was very unclear. I meant delete/archive after replying, but not doing it in a public way. I was sure i wrote that but obviously i did not.
I meant only the part about making it public
@pteryx @unixorn His Email did not portray him as a fascism
He can not censor anything
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorsh…
What does a public roasting cause? Virtual clap on the shoulder from people who support you anyway (nothing changes) + more hate and anger from people who do not support you (negative).
imho he asked question politely enough, that i don't think this Twitter-like-style of public slaughter is necessary. Again, my personal opinion, nothing more.
@vamp898 @pteryx @unixorn Hey 白川間瀬流, the politeness of the message is an illusion.
It's full of manipulation tactics such as flattery and seduction ('masterpiece/wonderful/beautiful/magical') , a call to social norm (eg. "many conservative parents worlwide", "different cultures"), playing the victim (eg. "more accessible", also a 'mirroring' tactic using a vocabulary used by people caring about other humans).
Showing it publicly might prepare and help more vulnerable authors receiving this.
@pteryx @unixorn I do not disagree with that. Either he is very clever or naive.
Either way, especially when he is actually clever, he archived what he wanted. spreading anger. I 100% understand your urge to call him out, but i fear that maybe is exactly what he wanted so he can say "I wrote a nice mail and got roasted, those people are bad, they prevent free speach".
How about using this Mail as inspiration for something good? Short Spin-off focusing on the relationship?^^
well, if bigots like this are "concerned" by your work, then you're definitely doing it right.
Also, so many positive comments, I'm gonna hand out some stars.
we propose adding "respect your creative choices" to spam filter.
can't think of any legitimate use of that phrase.
trying to mask hatred as inclusive is disgusting to me.
Hi. You dont like gay people? Great, you just chose to exclude yourself from my art. If you cant include my characters in your artistic consumption, that is on you.
Tolerance and inclusivity must logically be intolerant of intolerance and exclude those who loath inclusivity.
I always try to view things from both sides. So, as a parent, you may think that "cis heterosexual" is the path of least resistance and it may prevent difficulties for your child in the future. I have some understanding for this view.
However, apart from what they may think is right for the child, it won't change the reality that same-sex relationships exist and should be accepted as normal. Less common perhaps, but normal.
Instead, they attempt to warp reality for their children.
> Tracker protection prevented some images from loading. Load them if you trust the sender.
@davidrevoy ooh, the plot thickens! Is this something their email client just does automatically? Possibly, but not very likely! 
these bigots don't even understand the comic is released under an opensource licence and they could jist modify that page.
Not that I am encouraging them obviously.
"interpret naturally."
They believe your creation to be sub or super natural?
You're in good company. Charles M. Schulz got similar mail when Franklin, the black kid, first appeared in Peanuts. 1968.
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People.
People can express their opinion, but at times we do so without being thoughtful or considerate.
How long do they plan on their children living with them so as to "avoid exposing" them to reality?
Have they reflected on how they are "exposing" their children to their devaluation of some people over others and the long-term effect that will have in their interactions with others?
Also, them asking YOU to change to accommodate them, ugh - Rude, no matter the sweetness.
"many conservative parents worldwide prefer…"
− It's not about me and my opinions, hope you understand. But, you know… parents… sometimes… But not me of course. I swear.
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"allow readers to interpret their relationship naturally" as if lesbian relationships aren't natural?
Let the door hit them on the way out.
Right, because kids can only see a man and a woman kissing on the lips. As if same-sex, same-gender kisses are heretical and utterly forbidden, it'll turn your kids gay and trans!
As if children would even care about this distinction in the first place, without their parents intervening and feeding them religious or bigoted slop through indoctrination.
I for one, never had an issue with this, ever since I was young. I managed to stay away from deep religious beliefs despite having an Orthodox upbringing up until I was 12.
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Fix it by render the scene even more sexually explicit!
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the correct answer to this is
'fuck off bigot'
"made them closet gays so I can feel comfortable!"
The audacity...
y tho(?)
I think you should write back and recommend they don't read your comic at all, lest they start believing magic is real, or something...
@anathem @valkyrie Well spotted, it's indeed a small 1px 1px tracking gif image for the mail service 163.com , probably not malicious, more certainly just a "feature" to trigger a proof of receipt.
Well, I'm glad it was blocked.
Let's be frank, they're always US people. 🙄 There's hardly another culture this entitled.
Miriam Bonastre Tur recently had to age her main characters three years up because US people couldn't tolerate 18 and 19 year old characters drinking at a party. m.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/mari…
TBH, I always thought it's already a compromise that they're 18 and not 16. It would fit the world building much more for them to be younger. But apparently, people can't accept fiction as fiction anymore. 🙄
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Oh my goodness. A narcissistic case of 'Would you be so kind as to tailor your creativity to pander to my narrow world view based on mythology and denialism'.
It deserved a definite no.
What is it with these people and their need to deny and warp reality rather than realise that the world isn't only how they specifically were brought up, or their choice of book, and that is okay. What a pointlessly scared way to live, divide and hate.
If a same sex kiss is THAT concerning to a person, then maybe don't read the comic?
Great job on standing your ground! Don't listen to those pinheads!
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>tracking gif image >probably not malicious
A tracking image is only ever added out of malice, as the intention is to spy on you.
There is many other acceptable ways to get confirmation of receipt.
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May I suggest your lawyer identify the mailing address of this individual and perhaps respond as the lawyer of the Cleveland Browns did to differently stupid correspondence.
snopes.com/fact-check/clevelan…
A lawyer received a caustic response after complaining to the Cleveland Browns about fans' throwing paper airplanes during the team's home NFL games.David Mikkelson (Snopes.com)
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Write back:
Your children are most likely more grown up than you, because they have no stereotypes and prejudices. You might want to take yourself an example on them, unless you want to project your smallminded perspectives on them and narrow their view on the world for the rest of their lives. Let them find their own place without bias.
And David:
don't you dare change a thing on the story! Nobody cares if she does not like it, a thousand others do, very much.
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Funny. If they wanted to share it with their children, you'd think they'd have done so already by Episode 36.
One one might almost suspect they _aren't_ such an avid reader as they proclaim.
(It also reads like a form letter.)
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i have never seen any of your work before but now i wanna check it out because its angering the bigots so it must be based as hell
also im a lesbian i love lesbians yes yes yes
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Oh dear God why haven't these people died off yet!?
...You should respond by adding tongue or something.
"Hi, I hate Queer people and want to turn my child against them too, could you do as you are told please?"
The entitlement of the Bigot, expecting the world to move for them because "they asked nicely"
They should learn that not everything is meant for everyone.
this whole "To make your masterpiece (hello emotional manipulation) more accessible to families across diffrent cultures"
actually means "Hey can you just do what i want you to?"
Good for you for standing your ground...
<snark>
This demand makes more sense if you take it under the context of the maintainer of a FLOSS type project.
Unreasonable demands to change your work because of them.
</snark>
The more time I spend with the letter, the more I see nuances.
Firstly, to their credit, the author isn't admonishing you directly, and they are saying their perspective out loud, which I think is positive. They aren't saying "This is immoral", etc. only that for her and people like her, this isn't acceptable, but he names who those people are, which is good.
...which is what it is. The work isn't for her.
What I think is interesting is how invisible culture is to people.
What might she think of the bisou. People kissing each other's faces all the time would probably freak her out.
But what if she was a Haredi Orthodox Jew, and you had two non-married people of the opposite sex holding hands?
Or what if she was a conservative Muslim offended by Pepper not covering her head?
Like I said, at least she acknowledges her specific perspective.
And anyway, they're free to modify P&C as per the license. 😀
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Kudos for not faltering! 
Of course, P&C is CC By. It's not like they couldn't make a revised version, if they want it that badly. 🤔
This just makes me 🤬
"Thanks for your comment reminding me I need to give my readers more of this wonderful couple's story."
How about sending the characters to a conversion camp where they get tortured until they renounce their true feelings and spend the rest of their life in psychological agony caused by denying their true feelings?
Would you be willing to do that to satisfy this concerned parent?
It would serve as a warning to their children as to what parents like this are willing to do to them.
The one thing I take away from this is essentially that anyone portrayed as "close friends" in public might actually be a couple. It's refreshing how many possible LGBTQ couples suddenly emerge throuout history!
Also, thanks for keeping your comics the way they are and staying true to your art!
"Dear reader,
I don't want to.
With all my good wishes, etc."
Somehow toots like this make me find the support page 
peppercarrot.com/en/support/in… 
Stay strong and keep up the good work! 🌈💪
#homophobia #censorship #gay #Christian
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Good for you.
Indirectly, I suppose I should thank the bigots. Now I've found a new web comic to read. Just a few episodes in, and it is charming.
I find the "I'm just trying to help you get seen by more people" tone strongly indicative of AI slop messaging.
Such folks have trouble even feigning concern for someone else. The writing is soulless, presumably like the prompter.
Keep in exactly as much gay as you think your story warrants.
I love seeing folks be creative.
😳 Smallmindedness knows no boundaries.
On a positive note: they did help me discover Pepper & Carrot! (but please don't change the scene 😉)
Reply to the email, with a note saying "I hope you find this more to your liking" and attach a copy of that particular scene with the kiss circled in red marker and notes penned over the picture like "100% lesbian" "this is how girls kiss, kids!" "plot twist!!♥" or "prettiest love kiss 4 happy futures."
(also don't forget to add Goku)
An appropriate reply could be "Request for Adjustment to Views Regarding LGBTQ+ Presence".
Their argument, that their suggestion would be accommodating of different cultures, is quite erasive of the presence of LGBTQ+ people everywhere.
It's an example of misappropriating the language of inclusion towards oppression; i.e. it's another form of "tolerating the intolerant", where they want their intolerance of historically marginalized communities to be the dominant and only visible view.
@nboynorge ☺️
You can scroll episode 36 here: peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/e… to find the panel in the context of the episode.
The comic page in English with the panel in high resolution is here: peppercarrot.com/0_sources/ep3…
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
Thanks! Reading this episode out of context, I didn't immediately realise which pair was supposedly being too gay, because the kissing couple's assumed genders aren't obvious to me.
What *is* very obvious is the "make love not war" message. If one misses that, they're clearly not trying to propagate the message of the comic.
I wonder if your books are about to be banned in some libraries across the pond.
lccn.loc.gov/2019202002
The LC Catalog is a database of records describing the Library's vast collections of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources.lccn.loc.gov
Dearest Warm Regards,
Perhaps you are unaware, but people exist that are not like you that also deserve representation. Kindly go fucketh thyself.
Good luck in hell,
your friend
wait no no point changing the scene, but you could make them roommates! or cousins! the possibilities are endless! (very very /s)
btw is that the comic on the preview for okular pdf viewer? /srs
@piku Thank you, yes okular.kde.org/ has a thumbnail with this episode on it: peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/e…
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Thanks for revealing your true self @SP! Before I block you with pleasure, consider this:
Although you as an IT guy are apparently deeply invested in "natural behaviour" (??) so are LHBTIQ. If you would ever take the trouble of experiencing nature, you would know that animals are just like people, and a large minority of them is gay.
On the other hand, did you ever see an animal that tried to stay virgin until marriage?
What puzzles me the most about Christian bigots like you is this:
If you believe in an omnipotent God that created man in His image, where do you get the audacity to claim that He made a mistake when creating gays?
I'm sure things went very different. When god created men like you, she was only kidding.
I'm sorry David but ... isn't it libre ? I mean, they can fork's it if they want, isn't it ?
I don't want to give them bad idea, they clearly want to "invisibilise" gay people (or worst !). But still, they could have do it and respect others.
No, they want to impose their religion.
@ache Thank you.
Yes, it's libre as in under Creative Commons Attribution. I still have my moral right, and can refuse to have a derivation mentioning my name. Also, all derivations are required to not do as if I endorsed what they did.
That's not much , but legally I have some possibilities if something really bad happens.
> I still have my moral right, and can refuse to have a derivation mentioning my name.
So such a project would need an accompanying license notice separate from the work itself but bundled?
> Also, all derivations are required to not do as if I endorsed what they did.
Sounds reasonable.
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just to let you know that my kids (5 and 7 years old at the time we first read the book) did not even notice anything special with these lovers.
And that Pepper and Carrot series is one of the most frequent I read before bed time (they chose)
Love is love and should not be hidden to kids
I showed your smiley to my kids and they are being jealous I had a smiley from you
But they asked for autographs on their copies of the books, do you plan on being in Lyon soon ?
@arthru ☺️
Alors pour Lyon, rien de prévu mais la semaine dernière une médiathèque à fait un appel à auteurs et un copain m'a fait postulé après m'avoir demandé si ça m’intéressait. Donc, affaire à suivre, si ça ce fait, ça sera sur le blog.
Sinon, en date prochainement: j'ai Paris début Mars, Limoge fin Mars, et Saint-Brieuc en début Juillet. Idem, je posterai deux semaines avant les événements des billets sur mon blog.
what I love most about this is that they didn't even consider that as 'conservative parents' they might not be the target audience.
Not for one second do they imagine there might be things out there that are not made specifically for *them*.
@tanteju5 the whole concept of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent god is absurd and paradoxical on many layers.
But that is why it's "belief" and why "belief" is a virtue. You ought to believe it to be true despite the lack of plausibility. It's fundamentally not rational and therefore it's hard to reason people out of it.
I don't wish to take religion and spirituality from those who practice it purely for themselves. But successful major religions by design have built-in mechanisms through which they spread (missionaries etc.) as otherwise they would have never gotten their large following in the first place. And that by definition means trying to impose their religious values on other "non-believing" people. -Vox
If there is any silver lining to this, then I suppose it's that at least they tried to ask rather than send hate and rage.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that they don't seem to respect your choices. But in this polarized world, I'll admit that it was... somehow a relief to see someone with a world view I fundamentally disagree with try make a polite request rather than a hateful demand.
I bet you there are some that would do this without being religious.
Yeah, no, I'm not saying that it's impossible, just not likely.
Sometimes I'm just contrarian for the sake of it.
So am I, no hard feelings anyway 😀
"indecency" is not showing a loving kiss.
"Indecency" is taking tome to write an email asking an artistes not to show love.
Thanks for showing us the true face of indecency 💖
@That_username @f4grx Hey, That_username, no the respectfulness of the message is an illusion.
It's full of manipulation tactics such as flattery, charm and seduction ('masterpiece/wonderful/beautiful/magical') , a call to social norm (eg. "many conservative parents worlwide", "different cultures"), playing the victim (eg. "more accessible", also a 'mirroring' tactic using a vocabulary used by people caring about other humans).
Respectfulness in surface but not at core is not respectfulness.
this is an incredible email to write ! How can people feel so much fear/hate toward a representation that :
- Is literally a display of love
- Is not about them or impact them in any way
- Is a work of *fiction*
(- and of course respect consent)
Wanting to impose your life choices on others, about absolutly harmless choices, is something I just don't understand. I feel so sad for the children raised by parents with this kind of consideration in mind 😞
what does that even mean
edit: k, I've reread the comment and now I can confirm this is a good take
What a bloody cheek! As we say here in the UK. I get the feeling that this might be part of a bigger campaign by not just this person but others too. I hope they get LOADS of pushback.
Not that you have to but I would be so tempted to write back along the lines of, yes, isn't it wonderful that there are many couples, same-sex, opposite-sex, etc, who love each other and it is such a joy to write about them all! With your encouragement I'll write even more about same-sex couples!!
@RadicalEdward I will never understand the parents who think that they’re doing a good thing by “not exposing kids to” things they’d prefer didn’t exist.
I’d be doing such a huge disservice towards my kids if I tried to keep them from hearing about things like fundamentalism, for example. Instead of keeping it from them, why would you not want to simply discuss your values when such things come up?
In which...
"Some parents" means "me."
"Exposing children" means "if they even noticed, which most probably didn't."
"Pepper's magical world" means "there are some things even magic can't fix."
honestly, having been told that queer people exist and that queer love is valid and good at a younger age would have been life-changing for teenage me
Queer kids deserve representation and role models.
That is so unbelievable.
My kids and me found it really nice, that you have included gay characters.
It has made my day 👍
US movies are often subtly edited in just the way this letter suggests, so they can be sold in markets like China where the existence of same-sex relationships is denied.
@kims
Shoo, shoo, back in the closet you go.
Gross! Interpret their relationship naturally? Ugh XP. This is so skin crawlingly self righteous and supremacist. So gross!
@f4grx @Lulukaros @napierge there's a youtuber named Evidenc3 who did a series of videos describing how he lost his faith and they're a good watch. In particular he frames God as a "mega belief" that's propped up by many smaller ones, so even if one smaller belief falls the overall belief structure remains
La meilleur reponse que j'imagine (a lire avec la voix "Jedi Trick" de Starwars):
David: - "Those are not the Pepper & Carrot you are looking for"
Soldier from the dark side: - "These are not the Pepper & Carrot we are looking for. Let's move on."
Non mais sans rire...
Soutien complet, M.Revoy !
I guess kindly asking them to make small adjustments to their faith would make some sense.
It would allow more people to live in peace, and not expose a whole population to repressive behaviours.
Good luck with this crowd; you’re doing great!
What I find most offensive about this "request" is the idea that somehow it's a good thing for you to compromise your creative vision so that it's palatable for an audience you have no interest in catering to in the first place.
I'd be inclined to say something like "Thank you for your email, but I fear you are mistaken about the nature of your relationship to Pepper & Carrot. It is not intended for people who aren't comfortable sharing same-sex relationships with their children."
@f4grx @Lulukaros @napierge hm, idk, I used to be a Christian as a kid (raised in an Orthodox Christian family) and then throughout high school I just gradually believed less and less until by the end I kinda just didn't at all
It didn't require any active effort from me or anyone else, it just happened, believing just gradually made less and less sense to me as time went on
J’ai pas lu les 300+ réponses, mais si je pouvais proposer trois réponses possibles :
1. “Bonjour. Non. Ciao et 🖕”
2. Lui envoyer une image du couple en question en train de se rouler une pelle bien baveuse.
3. Lui envoyer une ou plusieurs de ces images (chopées chez @sebsauvage) :
The key is patience not aggression.
I'm no homophobe, at least I think I'm not. I have gay friends, hell a very good gay friend was the best man at my wedding. With older folks, genZ and below Media did not portray homosexuality often.
It's like making a vegetarian consume meat or vica versa.
Not everybody can deal with a quick change like that.
Be patient a little more informative. Aggression won't f
"Christian Values" have little to do with it. It is a cultural response.
I am a christian. - just know that Jesus himself chilled not with the "those who upheld the Law" but with those outside of the normal "the law" who are not only the sinners but also tax collectors etc.
The issue is media exposure from a cultural perspective. Homo/bi/etc sexuality was never a common thing in media over the ages.
Media is consumed. Ask a veggie to suddenly eat meat and vica versa..WWJD?
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!Friendica Support I have a bookmark in firefox pointing to friendica.world/profile/gargle… My browser remembers that I am already logged in. Clicking on the bookmark gives me my profile all localised in the language settings of my browser, which is Dutch on my work computer. My language in my profile however is set to English (UK).
The search box says 'zoeken' which is Dutch for 'search'.
I have to refresh the page (F5) to get everything in english:
The search box now says 'search'.
This does not happen when I change my shortcut to friendica.world/. Opening up friendica.world/ shows everything in English. The url however changes to friendica.world/network:
Note that if I open up Friendica with friendica.world/network instead of friendica.world/ then I get everything in Dutch:
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We are still celebrating #ilovefs ❤️ day with some events in Italy and Albania today!
While we gather all the pictures from the different events, we wanted to share with you an amazing video we received from the mother (and singer) of our colleague @sofiaritz
🎶 media.fsfe.org/w/gs8ZDniL6DHyV…
There are so many ways to say #thankyou to your favourite #FreeSoftware projects, what is yours?
"Being the flip side of a coin still makes you part of the coin."
- Scott M Stoltz, scott@loves.tech
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@Michael Vogel I now can see your reply on Friendica. It only appeared 57 minutes ago while you posted it 11 hours ago. The instanse was acting up.
About the mutuals, can it be that Friendica only shows a person as a mutual if that person is on friendica as well? I have one mutual here on Friendica, and that happens to be another Friendica user. I also follow my mastodon account on floss.social (and on floss.social I follow my Friendica account. Mastodon sees my Friendica account as a mutual).
My mastodon account on Friendica, listed as just a follower:
My Friendica account on mastodon, listed as a mutual:
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It took a couple of tries and there were a couple of 'user not found' messages when following and unfollowing my mastodon account. A final "re-fetch contact data" turned my mastodon account in a mutual. All is well now.
Now back to fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…, the presentation that lead me into this adventure 😁
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!New To Friendica I have this empty photo album that I want to delete. How do I get rid of it? When I click the name I get an url that ends with a long hex number. Friendica asks for a confirmation when I add /drop to the url and hit enter. After clicking 'Delete Album' Friendica tells me that the album cannot be found.
This album was created in the default language of my webbrowser. I changed to British English somewhat later, before deciding on adding a profile picture. My profile picture got created in a new album called 'Profile photos'. I want to get rid of the older non english album.
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I actually found a way! w00t! I added a picture to the empty photo album. All of a sudden there was a button to drop the album. I clicked, and it's gone now.
When the album was empty there was nothing shown and no possible actions to take.
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some say amusing, some say classic
circular is well-rounded
I've been troubleshooting the issues we keep having with Friendica.world.
The site gets unresponsive at nights (CET) around 3AM, and stays that way for a couple of hours. I've been trying to find the reason for that, but no luck yet.
It's not the backup (that runs at a different time), nor are the resources at 100%.
I did just change a setting for pm.max_children which defines the number of php-fpm processes which handle the web traffic, because I saw some errors about it having reached the max. This will fix some issues, but not sure if it fixes the freezing of the site.. We'll see I guess..
If there are people with some technical skills, wanting to help out running this thing (or any other instance we run), please send me a DM or mail info@friendica.world.
It's all volunteer work, and we can use some extra hands.
You can use this instance for free, but if you would like to and are able, you could help us funding the running costs by making a donation: ko-fi.com/fhfworld
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So are you saying Friendica simply wasn’t written to anticipate this many users on one server, or is this a horizontal scaling problem? I mean, so far a I understand, PHP scales more horizontally than vertically, and you recently threw more resources at it when you moved to the new server, but is Friendica even written to scale horizontally? I seem to recall running across a GitHub issue raised about it not being able to do that because it does everything by hostname or something.
Every night around 8PM my time (~3AM your time) I start getting a “504 Gateway Timeout” and that pretty much persists the rest of my evening I can’t access the site. The status on Fedihosting Foundation never seems to show it’s down during this lengthy period of inaccessibility and will show only previous outages of like “4 minutes” that were resolved. So I’m never sure if it’s just me or on my end or what? Sometimes I’ll still be getting new follow or comment emails from Friendica.world in the midst of my not being able to access the site. So I guess it’s not down for everyone else? If it a traffic spike? The server firewall rules? DNS config? Is there no CDN?
It certainly seems strange if the server resources aren’t maxed out but something is mysteriously happening every night around the same time that persists in making it inaccessible for hours.😵💫
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Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse -- the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPubSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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!New To Friendica I'm on Friendica.world and floss.social. I feel a bit puzzled by having two seperate fediverse accounts. What's the best practice? Keep both, and syncing the follows and followers? Dropping one or the other?
I really like my mastodon server and I believe it's impossible to see its timeline on my Friendica instance. Am I correct in believing this?
I also like my Friendica instance. My mastodon is specialising in floss, my Friendica is more general. I like the news items that appear on Friendica's local timeline.
So, I am thinking of making Friendica my main instance on the fediverse. I will read my news and all the toots from my follows and followers on Friendica and I will regularly check my mastodon instance for the local floss timeline.
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in reply to Boris Kretzinger • • •@Datassette_User small b&w CRTs don't really have a problem with sharpness. See the miniscule CRTs used in viewfinders that were much tinier and pin sharp.
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