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

What happened to Renee Nicole Good is not an anomaly or a rare phenomenon.

The only unusual factor is that she was white.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot & killed by ICE on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. She survived but has a hole in her arm forever.

Silverio Villegas González was shot dead in Franklin Park Illinois when he panicked and tried to run.

Then there’s the more than 30 people who’ve died in the camps.

No accountability. No punishment.

Keep speaking out. Let’s make sure this officer is held responsible.

@gamingonlinux I tried the beta. I think they made the right choice to delay it.

The treaty for global cooperation on climate change serves the survival interests of everyone on this planet.

Every country in the world has agreed to it.

Trump withdrawing the US because it “no longer serves American interests” is not just ‘embarrassing’, it’s dangerous.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/trump-international-groups-un

Working on partitioning tools on my main desktop. What could possibly go wrong?

THIS IS A MAN-MADE FAMINE.

Forced starvation is an act of genocide.

@glyph the story in four acts we are about to see (just one example, but could be Wikipedia, or anything else as well)

The Gru's Plan meme template. The plan unfolds:
1. LLMs steal data from StackOverflow
2. People use LLMs instead of StackOverflow, it dies
3. LLMs have no more data source, they become useless
4. Now we can't use neither LLMs, nor StackOverflow

RE: https://aoir.social/@rwg/115850257889327061

"It's no wonder students are increasingly leaning on these tools to do writing and so much else. Their own universities are telling them to do so by contracting with companies like Microsoft.

...

And along the way, students are ceding the capacity to think to corporations."

The frustrating experience of getting a Microsoft product to do what you actually want it to do, one that many people (myself included) are acutely familiar with

RT: https://aoir.social/users/rwg/statuses/115850257889327061

How can it be 2026 and there's *still* no Signal client in Debian. (BTW Happy new year!)

Lmao. This is funny.

A screenshot of a social media thread from Threaeds where user adambarta asks, "Why is Wikipedia still a thing? Doesn’t ChatGPT just render it completely irrelevant?" Below it, user bridget.clinch replies to that user, "You're the people in the floaty chairs at the start of Wall E."

Source https://www.threads.com/@bridget.clinch/post/DSbTZDRkhEt

It's a good day to have air conditioning that runs from solar power!

I just created a new account on a website. I don't know how long it's been since I last did this, but it feels like years.

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

@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?

@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.

"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.

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3k boost edit: everyone who said a variant of "why should I pay" is right, but the world is wrong.

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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