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☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
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The internet in Iran has been disconnected for more than 135 consecutive hours, despite the Foreign Minister's promise yesterday that communication would be gradually restored.

In an age of blatant lies shouted by public figures and weaponized disinformation campaigns at scale...

...the role of citizen archivist is incredibly important.

Download everything. Save copies. Share them with each other. Let the records of truth stand the test of time and the attacks of liars.

@ComPod @bagder Ah those could be useful for people with rage anxiety

@bugaevc For one, there's been a major shift in priority. 40 years ago the focus was on usability and getting more computer users on board. Now the priority is to make you click on ads.

@bagder Beware of rage limiters, they appear to work well on initial outset, but results in rage build-up, which always ends in tears.

Interesting interview with @pluralistic and @Zitron which includes a bit around the 40m mark talking about using LLMs to cut out professional ethics - let the bosses fire the people who say no.

Which now makes me think every AI-first company is trying to be Boeing or Volkswagen.

Stay safe.

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Better Offline podcast - CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)

https://pca.st/episode/770caf98-2148-4852-84e2-630f2ce2107d

@revk They set it up so well for a reboot, and it's a show that deserves one!

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.

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

@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

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?

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