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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · May 22, 2026

Replying to @menel@snikket.de

@menel I'm back on snac2 ;-) it turns out I prefer it. https://social.wittamore.fr/philip

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · May 13, 2026

@june@nileane.fr

https://wittamore.fr/gopher/

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

If I write a post on my #gotosocial instance with a link in the text, when posted I see the link.
If I do the same on my #mastodon.social account, the post contains the link plus a description of the link and sometimes an image.
I'm guessing that mastodon retrieves ogg information, but gotosocial doesn't.
Is there a configuration parameter I'm missing?

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

Replying to @menel@snikket.de

@menel well the one I logged an issue for is here: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/608 But I also want to replace my home made blog, and #gotosocial is more tuned to this useage.

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

After the mastodon.social DDOS I thought it would be a good idea to have my own instance, so I installed #snac2. It is indeed light and fast, but unfortunately I found some operational bugs that stopped me from getting the most out of it. So now I'm trying #gotosocial. I'm giving my contacts a bit of a rollercoaster, but I guess you have to break eggs to make an omlette.

Anyway, my new account is @philip@gotosocial.wittamore.fr

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026

I've resurrected my minimalist #blog at https://wittamore.fr

It hasn't been touched in several months, as I've been playing with #gopher instead.

Taking a fresh look, it wasn't that bad. It lacks a fediverse connection and could do with a spring clean, but it isn't as hidden as my gopher hole: gopher://wittamore.fr

mastodon.social

Mastodon

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @veronica@explains.social

@veronica I flirted with Ubuntu years ago,but since then it's been Debian on servers, Arch (and now Artix) on laptops/desktops/ The problem with Debian on laptops/desktops is that you wind up compiling a lot of stuff from source, and IMHO rolling distros rule of course.

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @lfa@hostux.social

@lfa@hostux.social well that and the fact that you are probably chatting with a robot

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 27, 2026

@adele@social.pollux.casa

Just to add that installed fread on my phone this morning to test my snac2 instance, and it doesn't show the error I'm seeing with smolfedi. So it's definetly a smolfedi <> snac2 problem

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026

I got up this morning and everything hurts, but I made two baguettes from the dough I left in the fridge overnight and made myself some bread, salty butter, and marmalade breakfast, and suddenly the world looks better.

#breadbaking

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

@cocoricox@piaille.fr
👍 N'oubliez pas d'ajouter l'extension "ublock origin"

piaille.fr

Cocoricox (@cocoricox@piaille.fr) - Piaille

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026

Only in America

gopher://wittamore.com:70/0/phlog/2026/2026-04-20-09-09-Only-in-America---facepalm.txt

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @stfn@fedi.stfn.pl

@stfn Oops, fixed. Thanks!

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2026

After testing the demo I now have my own smolfedi instance up and running.

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

#smolfedi #smolweb

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @XLibreDev@mastodon.social

@XLibreDev@mastodon.social I jumped from Arch to Artix a while back.

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @heavyimage@mastodon.social

@heavyimage ah well you see, I'm not your guy at all. I hate extremism from both ends of the spectrum. I think systemd is a cancer so I use Artix. I prefer to use Dinit and Xlibre rather than accept a Redhat/IBM takeover, and I use dwm because it's lean, mean, and works the way I want. That said, I don't posess a Volkswagen, ride in rockets, or use the Autobahn, so I guess you can say I'm doing my bit.

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @heavyimage@mastodon.social

@heavyimage I found the torch hiking pic controversy strange as it's a common winter activity. In Xlibre there's over 50 developers contributing, and there's probably just as many different political views. Tainting an entire project because of one persons views is as dumb as the views in question.

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @adele@social.pollux.casa

@adele This is fast and enjoyable. I had to twig that you have to scroll to the bottom to reply. Fairphone+e/OS with Ironfox

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026

"Please upgrade to gopher"

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

https://wittamore.com

#gopher #gopherprotocol

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange

@beyondmachines1 But does it have age verification?

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Apr 06, 2026

Replying to @ilumium@eupolicy.social

@ilumium @fdroidorg @murena Maybe because it competes with the Bliss weather app?

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

Replying to @alnetloc@universeodon.com

@alnetloc @murena Answering myself: Pre-2026 Android versions are not affected, and as #eos is currently based on android 15 it shouldn't be affected by Google's sideload lockdown. Custom roms like e/os normally strip Google''s services and restrictions, it remains to be seen if future versions of AOSP can also be stripped. I guess the fight against corporate greed will never be over. Trying to turn Android into a walled garden might backfire.

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Feb 17, 2026

@murena@mastodon.social Hi, I'm wondering if Google's android application lockdown in september will affect e/OS and the AppLounge

#fairphone6 #eos

mastodon.social

Murena - choose freedom! (@murena@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Jan 29, 2026

Replying to @mage_of_dragons@mastodon.social

@mage_of_dragons @ailepet @xfce Yep, classic "embrace, extend, extinguish"

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Jan 29, 2026

Replying to @xfce@floss.social

@creepy_owlet @xfce two big fallacies there: 1) it isn't "depreciated" only corporations forcing their own agenda are calling it that, and tried to kill it. 2) currently there are 535 contributors to Xlibre, it certainly isn't a "one man show".

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026

Replying to @ailepet@peoplemaking.games

@ailepet @xfce Thats an understandable position. Any idea about the politics of the Xfce devs? The fact remains that the Xlibre fork was necessary because of Redhat piloting the suffocation of Xorg. Shame it happened to be some guy you don't like. There again he's not doing it alone.

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026

Replying to @ailepet@peoplemaking.games

@ailepet @xfce Absolutely, a swastika pops up everytime I launch it. /s I think you'll find that in all large projects of this nature you'll get a large cross section of political views. Personally I'm a centrist, which has absolutely nothing to do with my use of Linux where I'd rather not use wayland or systemd.

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Jan 28, 2026

Replying to @xfce@floss.social

@xfce Sorry, I'm sticking to Xlibre. Maybe you could team up with the Xlibre devs too?

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Philip Wittamore @venelles@mastodon.social · Jan 26, 2026

Replying to @jake4480@c.im

@jake4480@c.im @jbowen@mast.hpc.social @nantucketlit@mastodon.social @jhhl@toot.community @Larvitz@mastodon.bsd.cafe @ghalfacree@mastodon.social @ploum@mamot.fr @chrisod@social.lol @skullvalanche@gladtech.social FYI on the Gopher side of things I set up https://gopher.fr as a multilingual advocacy page for Gopher One thing that never crossed my mind is that http has an European origin. These days #digitalsovereignty is becoming an important subject now with the US leaving benevolence and moving towards autocracy.

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