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โ˜ฎ๏ธ Secular humanist โ˜€๏ธ Solarpunk ๐Ÿ‘ฆ Free Software Geek ๐Ÿฅ Debian Developer
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Cape Town ๐Ÿ‘ผ๐Ÿผ Pope ๐Ÿค” INTJ โšก Resistance is not futile ๐Ÿ”Œ Survival is insufficient

What Israel has violated hundreds of times in a month, killing nearly 300 Palestinians in Gaza, letting survivors starving but also drown in flooded tents, does not deserve to be called CEASEFIRE.

The hypocrisy of current diplomacy is second only to state complicity.

@mbbrutman I had one blow on my XT motherboard a few weeks back. Fortunately it just works fine without it.

Two posts: 

TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com
Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by Al
29 Apr 2025 - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company's repositories was "written by software" โ€” meaning...


Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com
Microsoft admits almost all major
Windows 11 core features are broken
1 day ago - Except it's not totally terrible. What makes it terrible is the privacy invasions and the consent issues Microsoft has with its users, along ...

@brouhaha @Lydie I'm kind of amazed how long some older SSDs retain their memory. I have some early SSDs that haven't been turned on in 10-20 years and they still have all their data. And from my understanding after 10 years of not having them powered up, you shouldn't be surprised if they are dead.

@hetzner Which will also be available to existing clients, right? Right?

@GrapheneOS As a French citizen I absolutely can confirm the way GrapheneOS and every privacy enhancing tools are being criminalized here.
We have a few groups such as @LaQuadrature trying to defend our rights but it's not enough...

@gamingonlinux gnome-web is kind of cool though

@olasd @luj 100% DNS will be blamed despite the facts

@juliank I'm up for a rewatch too after a discussion with a friend last weekend on whether Breaking Bad or Sons of Anarchy was better.

the steam machine thing is a big tech milestone: a major tech company in 2025 launched a product and never mentioned AI

"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"

Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.

I don't understand why, but at my old age there's still a small child in me that wants to throw a tantrum because I can't get a Steam Machine *right now*. Which is especially odd since it's just another Linux machine, which I already have more than a 100 of and some I haven't had a chance to properly play with or set up for its intended purpose.

This is my new favorite .

A slide from a Thomson Reuters presentation. At left, a large orange circle with the words Trust, Partnership, Innovation, Performance (one word per line)

At right, a small yellow circle with the words OUR VALUES. 

There is a very small overlap between the circles, making it appear to be a Venn diagram with very little overlap between the words at left and the values at right.

To my shame, the almost quarter century I've been using wikipedia I think this is only the second time I've donated.

They are only asking ยฃ2.75, but they ask for 35p to cover transaction charge. I changed donation to ยฃ2.76 because +35p = 311 pence which is a prime number.

Wiki could add a few more pence to make it 3.14 (ฯ€).

Honestly think are missing a trick in not pointing these out or having a "round up your donation to the nearest prime" button to encourage the

But on a serious note; is the best thing about the web and many powerful and rich people actively work against it. It needs protecting so if you use it and you can donate, think about doing so.

Screen shot from wikipedia email thanking for donation.

If I had a penny for every time I heard something like

"We're going to track increases in productivity that we gain by adopting GenAI"

1. So you're assuming it's an increase
2. Against what control group
3. With no acknowledgement of confounding variables or experiment design
4. Around the...famously open problem of measuring software engineering productivity?

@KimPerales Somehow it feels like a good time to experiment with shorting stocks

@polygonalhorse So as always, fuck Instagram!

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

@purpleidea Quรฉbec is really insane like this. I've literally had tellers at the bank tell me in fluent English that sorry they can't help me in English.

FOSS software is not free as in beer or free as in freedom, it's free as in free kittens. You have to take care of them forever.

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