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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

TIL NetBSD is getting jails support, even has a nifty website with instructions:

https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/

@gregkh @musicmatze Nuclear winters aren't great for solar power though. Although I hear I'm in one of the best spots for it so I'm not complaining.

TIL: @NetworkManager 's `nmcli dev wifi` shows available networks nicely, is colored and even has a small graph:

Screenshot of nmcli's dev wifi with bars for for network strength.

@Edent Ah I understand better what's happening now, but don't have a solution, sorry :)

@Edent and if you pass your URL to curl -i -s, what do you get?

@Edent Your example doesn't work outside of the box? I *think* this would've worked the last time I used PHP? Could it be that the problem is rather on the browser side and that it's waiting for the </head> closure?

TIL about Illegal Primes, which are prime numbers that contain digital information that is illegal to possess or distribute under laws like the DMCA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number#Illegal_primes

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rloybf/til_about_illegal_primes_which_are_prime_numbers/

@Free_Press None of these fuckshits even like each other

I see so many claims that LLMs are now at the point where they can do the job of an intermediate software developer. If that's true, who would that benefit the most? Surely, if it lives up to its promises it should help free software the most, enabling millions of kids and hobiest all over the world to just press tab until their vision materializes.

But if that were true, there's like a Fermi paradox, because where is all this software? Where's all the good new exciting things being developed?

⚖️ Companies are trying to use to get out of GDPR compliance. This could soon be made easier – at least if the EU Commission's passes. Watch now to learn more!

👤 featuring data protection lawyer Levan Lobzhanidze

It's nice and quiet back here...

RT: @adequatehousing I have issued this press release with other UN experts. Gaza needs a reparative, rights-based approach to reconstruction. Not the colonial Board of Peace-led real estate fantasies.

We want to thank the Proton community for giving a large donation to NLnet and 9 other organizations that promote digital freedom. Each year the Proton Foundation organizes a fundraiser for online freedom and invites its community to participate. This year over 50.000 people joined & raised $1,273,800!
The fellow online freedom proponents are: @edri @digiges @hackclub@social.dino.icu WITNESS humanetech Transparency International, Lighthouse reports, Open Markets Institute & The Insider.
https://proton.me/blog/2025-lifetime-fundraiser-results

"OpenAI Showed Up At My Door"

How OpenAI is trying to shut down its critics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOmUWd-OII

@classicweb This was the golden era of the web, when most web people figured out how to use CSS properly, and web pages looked good and were fast.

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

If you would like to help financially support the development of a new Wayland compositor for Xfce, you can do so by contributing funds via our accounts.

For US contributions:
https://opencollective.com/xfce

For EU contributions:
https://opencollective.com/xfce-eu

These contributions will help pay for the funding of longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.

Thank you for your support!

Somehow I'm still not out of fucks to give, so here's one of my largest handouts ever.

1. Fuck Trump.
2. Fuck everyone who ever supported him.
3. Fuck everyone who ever tolerated his supporters.

That is all for now.
You're welcome.

GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support "Soon"

After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is "almost there" with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline "The 64-bit Hurd is Here!" GNU Hurd 64-bit support is now said to be ready but SMP support for multiple processor cores and the like remain still in development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-64-bit-2026

Germany makes major progress in dumping Microsoft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_bTm_yF71E

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