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highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
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6.14 is now out!
Comes with some nice improvements to our backup and snapshot handling, VM live migrations and more!
This also fixes a couple of security issues affecting a small subset of users on Incus 6.12 and 6.13.
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-14-has-been-released/24092

Gajim 2.3 has been released 🥳

A fresh new look for Gajim arrived! 😎
With this release Gajim introduces Adwaita, a library providing styles, nicely designed user interface elements, animations and more. Many dialogs, including Preferences and Plugin management have been redesigned.

This release is available on Windows again - finally!

Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

https://gajim.org/posts/2025-06-29-gajim-2.3.0-released/

Main window of Gajim 2.3, showing chats and a conversation

@bagder Wow all higher than I would expect.

Why am I in such a good mood? Has my brain forgotten that tomorrow is Monday!?

If you're a giver, remember to learn your limits because the takers don't have any.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-migration-faq.md - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)

Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?

The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.

Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.

Still didn't get that?

Trans rights are human rights.

You're welcome!

@bagder "I'm an owner of an Opel Astra" <- ouch I can see where they went terribly wrong already. Usually after buying an Opel, most owners say "never again".

@revk Well, they're not supposed to go up there.

@frankdeboosere hier is dit die langste nag van die jaar

@pwaring A lot of problems could be solved if we could invent a heat pump that works between England and South Africa!

@sahil I also thought that that was waaay to generous. But still, getting some free public IPs as a ham is a nice perk.

TIL 44net - if you're a radio amateur, you can get up to a whole /24 of real public internet addresses! Not sure when I'm doing my exam, still sorting life out, but this is a little bit of a motivator.

https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Main_Page

Seen on Bluesky:

Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.

Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering".

More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"

@fluor There are different motives, but for many, the idea is that many contribute to a collective that everyone can benefit of. With proprietary software, it's more and more the case that the consumer is seen as something that just has to be exploited for the benefit of the owner of the software. So, as long as there are people who believe, work for, and benefit from the collective work, there will be open source in some form.

@DLink @lzg

If you're feeling cautious, you might consider putting your phone into airplane mode, turning it off, or leaving it at home.

There's a lot of location tracking that's done via phones.

The EFF has a a guide on phone security and protests
https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

Denmark’s government is replacing Windows with Linux and Office 365 with LibreOffice to boost digital sovereignty and reduce reliance on US 'big tech' firms.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/denmark-government-replaces-microsoft-with-linux-libreoffice

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed 103 Palestinians and wounded 427 others in 24 hours, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported, as the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave deepens.

Emergency crews continue to face severe obstacles in reaching victims, with many bodies still trapped under rubble or lying in the streets, inaccessible due to ongoing bombardment and destroyed infrastructure.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--killed-103-palestinians-in-24-hours--hospital-out-o

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