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☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
🇿🇦 Cape Town 👼🏼 Pope 🤔 INTJ ⚡ Resistance is not futile 🔌 Survival is insufficient

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@maxleibman "Linux is *sometimes* the answer." - yeah people forget that FreeBSD and NetBSD is amazing too!

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It's weird the stuff that makes you feel old. Yesterday I was talking to a new sysadmin at work, and told him that I used to type lots of BASIC from magazines when I was little. And then he said "What's basic, is that like a programming language?" and I think I literally gasped.

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@dannycolin Apparently Debian Developers tend to be masochists ¯\_(ツ)_/

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Tonight I dared to listen to one of Celine Dion's earlier albums that's in French (Des mots qui sonnent). At times it's incredibly cheesy, but in a sweet and fun 1991 way. Overall much better than I expected, I don't understand all the lyrics, but will take another listen with translations another time.

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@phoronix I quite like this proposal. Definitely worth the build time for the result. The extra package space it will take on mirrors is less than what one big new commercial game takes these days.

Phoronix phoronix@masto.ai

Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages

A change proposal has been filed to build x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level packages alongside the existing x86_64-v1 packages for Fedora Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-x86-64-v3-Proposal

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@vandorb12 It is appalling that testing centers have started to required palm scans.

I'm glad you did, and very sorry it didn't help for you 😔, but everyone should look at their local legislation for this because it is illegal indeed some jurisdictions.

I myself encountered this situation for a certification, and finally, after investigation, the testing authorities did told me this was *not* mandatory, and I could ask to skip it.

But how many people will ask first? People caught off guard all stressed out on their testing day will likely just do it. Even if it's illegal.

Our governments should be protecting us against these predatory practices.

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I don't know what GNOME 50 did with animations, but it just feels *so* right. I usually disable animations on both my android and linux machines because I'd rather just have it feel snappy. But in GNOME 50, the animations are very subtle and fast enough that I barely notice it's there. It just feels great all-round. Good job to whomever has been working on this!

Christine Lemmer-Webber cwebber@social.coop

Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4

*deep breath in*

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA of fucking course lmao

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Konqi, the KDE dragon, says hello from inside a gear.

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Ah yes 2019. Wild times.
Article headline screenshot from 2019 where Sam Altman claims that GPT-2 is too dangerous to release.

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@kim Ah, free time. There was a time in my life where I had such a thing. If only I could be more efficient, planned better, learn to say no to things, stop having great new ideas and take better self care, then I could experience the wonder of free time again too!

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@kim Why not?

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Current feels.

Vintage painting of a woman rolling her eyes. Text overlayed reads: This too shall pass, but holy fuck

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@TheEddieShow Yeah mine was white, yellow and orange. I wanna catch them all and have them together in pots along my front door

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@TheEddieShow I had three different colours of Kalanchoe that all died in a recent drought :( (oh well, will replenish soon)

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@LucasWerkmeister @nyanbinary I use the same for both, because it could get confusing if I nest the other way around and then I have to keep track of which keys I use in which level of nesting. If I have tmuxes (tmuxi?) 4 levels deep, it's easy I just need to go ^B^B^B^B

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@tante Heh, just happened to read this, and at least I saw the complete opposite in my profile!

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