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highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

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

@mntmn Same here. I think I even have some boards that come close. Just a time issue /o\

@susankayequinn Take a look at the new Atto 3, it's an amazing EV that the US won't get, at least not any time soon.

US carmakers, backing away from EVs and basically only making SUVs + MASSIVE trucks, so they can force Americans to pay outrageous amounts for new cars, are going to destroy their industry (and the planet).

Meanwhile in Europe...
https://electrek.co/guides/kia-ev2/

https://electrek.co/2025/07/22/hyundai-ioniq-2-affordable-ioniq-5-sibling-images/

Ioniq 2 EV2

@nwalfield Some boards have jumpers you have to set whether it's an M.2 or nvme drive

Bernie Sanders talks to Claude

(yes, that sounds like a parody, it isn't even!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0

What the absolute fuck is Stefano Maffulli (one of the people who ruined OSI) smoking when he writes crap like:

The  modern  AI  world  is  the  fulfillment  of the Stallmanite dream. We are transitioning   from   Software-as-a-Product,  a  black  box  we  receive,  to Software-as-a-Specification,  a  fluid  intent  that  users  with little to no programming   skills  can  control.

He’s going full-in on the fashtech propaganda:

By  democratizing  the  ability  to  write,  refactor, and understand code

If you’ve bought enough tokens from the corpos is something he forgot.

And all this… in order to attempt to legitimise the chardet copyright violations by its maintainer? 🤦

going hard at .
It's hard to pick, but I think this is my favorite line:
"Why did you decide to devote your life to AI?
I just saw so much suffering in the world that needed to be automated."

https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

@aral @klausi As a South African, while sadly I have to admit that we still have to deal with some of the legacies of Apartheid, I can assure you that we have a fully democratic government for decades now and that we certainly don't have an Apartheid government. In fact we have one of the most robust bill of rights in the world that protects the rights of all citizens.

“due to bad experiences, I don’t work with scammers. I don’t want scammers to contact me.”

“but how do you know they’re scammers? what if the scammer does good work?”

every discussion right now.

1960's documentary on learning disabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEBjDQEDOHs

Israel’s accelerating crackdown on the West Bank over the past two years has reached the point of feeling like the new normal. Palestinians say that the strangulation of their daily lives is here to stay, with many describing the regime of closures and land seizures as “irreversible.”

But this crackdown also runs contrary to the longstanding Israeli policy of avoiding “friction” in the West Bank.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/why-is-israel-trying-to-cause-an-explosion-in-the-west-bank/

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"""
We've aleady been repeadetly DDoSed by these companies. Spending hundreds of
volunteers hours keeping our services running while the companies extract the
labour to sell back to the FOSS community, using their standing in the Linux
Foundation to further cement their usage in our communities.

Then the FOSS communities use these models without any care of the ethical considerations.

Is this depressing? Yes.
"""

Full context, from LWNDQoTW:

https://lwn.net/ml/all/aawYbre5_xvhfwKA@framework/

@mjg59 If both were still made these days... he probably wouldn't be wrong either

@nivex That is very cool!

AmneziaVPN is a self-hosted VPN that works in countries where WireGuard gets blocked

“It’s also worth noting that AmneziaVPN has been security audited as recently as January 2025. While the auditors found a few risks categorized as critical and high, the platform has resolved all identified issues. Amnezia runs its servers as RAM-on ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/amneziavpn-is-a-self-hosted-vpn-that-works-in-countries-where-wireguard-gets-blocked/

Well this changes the tone

Picture of the opening page of the The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice. The text says “THE Vampire Testat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me. It begins in Miami, in the year 1990, and I really want to start
right there. But it's important that I tell you about the dreams I'd
been having before that time, for they are very much part of the
tale too. I'm talking now about dreams of a child vampire with a
woman's mind and an angel's face, and a dream of my mortal
friend David Talbot”

However above the first line somebody has written in pencil 

“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel”

Ars Technica: "AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?"

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/ai-can-rewrite-open-source-code-but-can-it-rewrite-the-license-too/

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