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highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
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Matthew Garrett mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

The presumption that free software is sufficient or necessary to ensure all software you depend on is trustworthy is simultaneously naive and ignorant of what software is capable of. The only realistic way to develop trust in software is to trust the people who write it, and development processes associated with free software make that trust easier.

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I wish I wasn't too dumb to learn how to use vim properly.

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

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@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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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