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

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@deadsuperhero @deutrino Where do I find this Bandwagon?

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@foone Or even IP: 10.789265 port 8365

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@cas Same reason why you're drinking it, the high caffeine content!

Alex Haydock alexhaydock@infosec.exchange

Did you leave your Wii at the Swap Shop?

If so, it's now hosting my blog:

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/

Huge credit to @jmcwhatever for the effort porting NetBSD to the Wii!

Picture of someone holding up a fairly scruffy Nintendo Wii. It's at the EMF 2024 Swap Shop, so the image is taken in a field with a table behind with an assortment of various Swap Shop goodies on it, including tech books, an Oculus dev kit, and what appears to be a venus flytrap.

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@purism How bizarre.

Rib ms_red_panda Rib@fedi.rib.gay

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

A screenshot of FontForge opening a PDF brochure from the "Piracy is a Crime" campaign, showing that it is using the font XBAND Rough, an unlicensed clone of the font FF Confidential.

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@phoronix I've been using GNOME 48 with Wayland on Debian testing and it's been solid. I think it is time.

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How fucking petty must you be to deny funding to any university with any kind of DEI policy? Trump is trash and so is anyone who shows any support for him.

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@fanf Correct, but the only downside is that it's easy to misread arm64 as amd64.

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@jmtd @ttyS1 Nope, just plain GRUB. GRUB just needs less than 6MB so I thought I'd be fine. The problem is all the *huge* firmware updates that also need to fit there. UEFI is just such a huge mess on consumer hardware. On my ThinkPad, I tried to wireless netboot, but when I have WiFi enabled in my firmware setup, the keyboard doesn't work in the firmware setup program. At some point while trying to fix this I even somehow removed the BIOS setup program alltogether. Urgh!

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@Diziet I had to sign up to Codeberg just to do this! But done PR sent.

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"50MB of EFI should be enough for me"

Also me:

```
/boot/efi does not have sufficient space, required 45.1 MB, need additional 1.2 MB
```

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@dank I don't think you get to do much tax avoidance when you're poor.

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@DFWInfoStudent @aral it's in backports and actively updated there so you definitely want to install it from there

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Lol, on a default Windows install you can have 5 different MS apps with different size borders, title bars and controls. Even two different control panels, each with haphazard conflicting UI elements within them. I think it's kind of insulting to put "open source UI" in 4th position because I see a lot more effort and thought going into it that in many proprietary apps (jeesus just look at the average app on a mobile device)

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@CarbonCarrot @bagder Curlinator 2: When curl can download files from the past and the future?

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@bagder Sounds like a great premise for a scary movie!

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@magicalgirlsabrina We didn't know what we had.

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@juliank my feelings when watching it exactly. I mean, the shots are beautiful, so are the special effects, but they don't have Sisco, Dax and Odo so what's the point.

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We do know that the very large majority of proprietary software ends up with zero maintainers.

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