pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

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

AMD Announces AITER For ROCm To Help Boost AI Performance

AMD has been on a software / container / documentation spree recently around ROCm and today are announcing another software addition to the ROCm portfolio: AITER...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AITER-AI-Performance-ROCm

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Please boost for awareness, reach and to public shame Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity and other such AI companies.

@mattl I just can't manage to understand why a nation can tolerate having health care linked to employment, it's just so nonsensical.

"We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it *is* security." - Signal President
@Mer__edith for the Financial Times on the war on encryption

https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0

🚀 GNOME 48 is here!
After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings exciting updates and improvements. 🎉

🔎 Check out what’s new in in the release notes: https://release.gnome.org/48

“How can an obscenity so documented, evidenced and confessed to – an obscenity facilitated by western weapons and diplomatic support – persist for so long? No one in western politics or media circles can plausibly say, “I did not know what was really happening.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/imagine-silent-terrible-evil-committed-gaza-inaction-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Screenshot of top of this article, showing Photo cut out of Owen Jones, title and subtitle

Opinion
Imagine if all those who are
silent about the terrible evil
being committed in Gaza
spoke up
Owen Jones
No crime in history has been so well documented
by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship
reign

@georgetakei They sign all their rights away willy nilly. And then bad things happen. There's a lesson to be learned there for everyone.

2 hrs after voting closed, candidates received email from
Initiative Elections Team — it asks us to sign Board
Agreement (w/ DocuSign) by WED 2025-03-19 17:00 UTC. — “For your name to be considered by the
board as we compute & review the outcomes of… polls”.

*But*, said at orientation that only seated Directors, not candidates, must sign this agreement.

Can anyone explain why OSI
now asks both winning & losing candidates to sign this urgently? 🤔

https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/03/17/sign-board-agreement-to-be-considered.html

Israel killed more than 400 people overnight as part of their genocide in Gaza. Absolutely disgusting.

First time I ever get a recall on a vehicle. Also, I'm surprised that anyone out there cares about the safety on a 19 year old car.

I guess since it's so life threatening, I should be thankful that my airbag hasn't killed me yet.
Notice about recall due to life threatening airbag problems.

@vkc I'm counting on it and ready to fight them. I'm not going to spend a single second making things more comfortable for those motherfuckers.

@bkuhn Eep this was from OSI!? Only saw this after my previous response lower in the thread. Well, I guess we all have our theories (and I think some hunches will be spot on)

@bkuhn @purpleidea @conservancy I'm stubborn like this too, and I'm often pleasantly surprised at how quick they go "ok, well then you can just do this then".

Many institutions are opportunistic in how they chip away at people's rights. People shouldn't give in so easily, there is still some choice.

@olasd @cwebber Sorry to crush your hopes, but there's no going back. It's only going to get more complicated from here on, and everyone needs to be aware and do whatever they can to prepare, resist and contribute wherever necessary.

Four hundred and nineteen Twitter accounts that posted on Brexit were localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency… About a third of the discussion of Brexit on Twitter was generated by bots—and more than 90% of the bots tweeting political material were not located in the United Kingdom. Britons…had no idea at the time…that the bots were part of a Russian foreign policy to weaken their country. The margin of the vote was 52% for leaving and 48% for staying. … Brexit was a triumph for Russian foreign policy, and a sign that a cyber campaign directed from Moscow could change reality.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
#russia #unitedkingdom #uk #brexit

re: Grumbling about Nedbank
@confluency @Zumbador This happened every time I went to FNB. So I was on hold for an hour just glaring at the staff member. Then they moved the phones away to a cubicle like area so you can't glare at staff anymore for not being able to help you. So I just closed my FNB accounts and moved on.

@mntmn I wish I had the capital to help people for things like this!

Sending you love because wow what a shit show

@Lapizistik Activists should take a leaf out of Steve Biko's page. Go en mass to police stations and demand to be arrested, effectively DoS'ing the police system.

»