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

myrmepropagandist futurebird@sauropods.win

I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire

I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
reanimate and puppet the faces of your dead ancestors
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams

I will ask grok
I will fall silent and never speak to you
I will talk only to myself lost in a maze of my own fantasies
I will forget all who cannot compliment me
I will decouple my soul from this world.

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

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@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.

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

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@gamingonlinux gnome-web is kind of cool though

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

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@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.

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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.

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

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@polygonalhorse So as always, fuck Instagram!

Rob Ricci ricci@discuss.systems

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)"

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@purpleidea Québec 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.

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@withaveeay It's a paradox. As a tech person, I don't use and refuse to use WhatsApp, but in poorer communities who get it zero rated (for actual completely selfish reasons by the companies) it is actually making a significant positive difference. But also, as they get locked in that eco-system, it eventually cuts them off from the people who are privileged enough not to be there. We really need something proper that's free and open and zero-rated.

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@debby Usually more rights for others means more rights for everyone as a total!

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@begasus @kde @kde Amazing, it looks like a full-on native Haiku app!

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@demoographics There are even mirrors, forks and various off-line distributions, so it takes a lot to take out Wikipedia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks

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From the nokings protests.

Someone really needs a branding update.
Sign from nokings protest that says "Can't spell HATRED without REDHAT"

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@UncleDuke1969 Are you unporkgiven II?

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@alienghic @majorlinux I want to switch to EV too because my home has plenty of solar power, so then I can eliminate my fuel bill, which would be great! But extending the life of a petrol vehicle is better for the environment since such a big part of a car's lifetime emmissions occure during manufacturing (no matter what type of vehicle it is). So when this one ever become unrepairable, I'll probably get some BYD (probably the Dolphin Surf).

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@alienghic @majorlinux I have an old A3 that turns 20 years old in a few months. It still runs like a new car and I'll admit I've had lots of fixes done, but still significanlty cheaper by factors than buying a new car. If you have a decent old car and take care of it, it will take care of you financially!

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