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highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

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

"“It’s extremely hurtful, frankly,” said Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang...OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has concurred, lamenting pushback... “Looking at what’s possible, it does feel sort of surprisingly slow"

We're making the AI broligarchs sad, friends, but we can do better.
MOAR SADDNESS FOR SAM AND JENSEN
:hammer:
https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-ceo-ai-hate

"A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered" (via Techmeme)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

@fossdd @ncopa Ah. Well might as well go all the way then. In my experience users are more forgiving of newer software with new bugs than older versions with fixed issues upstream that they have to wait for. YMMV etc :) - I'm a little curious what you end up deciding and why!

@ncopa Not sure if it's a useful datapoint for you. In Debian there was the same question for the next release, and IIRC the decision was to go for Python 3.14, but first upgrade to 3.13 as a step in between to help the transition (currently 3.13 is in unstable / 3.14 in experimental).

@zhenech Good. You didn't need that feature anyway. *ducks*

@Jyoti People who use Medium are bad people.

We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

First page of the open letter opposing the Google Android Developer Verification program.

Spotted around .

A red utility box with a sticker warning about ring camera surveillance.

The sticker says:

Did you know?
Your
Ring
camera
is selling
your
neighbors
to ICE.
Smash it now.

@reverseics hmm that seems to be 6 months off

@felix For BeOS this was one of it's famous aspects even back in the 90's on a real Pentium!

@juliank Life is like chocolate. Or something like that.

In 2024, France counted 13,335 millionaires who paid ZERO income tax.

This is yet another example of why we need a UN Tax Convention to fix global tax rules and finally make the super-rich pay their fair share, so there is real money for public services, climate action, and a green transition, instead of more loopholes for extreme wealth.

Liza Simpson meme with a presentation slide saying: "In 2024, 13,335 millionaires paid no income tax in France. There is enough money for hospitals, schools, and climate solutions, it is just in the wrong hands."

@littlealex *cough*

No, I don’t want an AI assisted experience

I want clean air, forests, and a future for the next generation

Voor wie doe jij het veilig?

Of je vandaag een Valentijn hebt of niet, met ons stappenplan zal in ieder geval je instant-messaging-dienst je geheimen bewaren…

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/12/11/weg-van-big-tech-stap-7-instant-messaging/

Gele achtergrond met daarop de tekst: Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF. I would switch to Signal for you. Daaronder een rode roos en het Bits of Freedom logo.

Congrats to "THE REALITY ENGINEER" by Konstantin, an Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅

A comedic short about a scientist who attempts to improve human life by altering reality, only to find that each well-intentioned fix deepens the chaos.

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-reality-engineer

@ariadne Yep, I don't know the full history either, but from the context I got in this thread, things sound fixable so I hope it goes into that direction from the Debian side so that it stops causing problems upstream and for users of the package in Debian.

@ariadne That post now walks into conspiracy theory territory there. I know Andrej personally and I think you're assuming a lot more bad faith here than he deserves.

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor — who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race."

Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

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