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

highvoltage highvoltage
@Edent Your example doesn't work outside of the box? I *think* this would've worked the last time I used PHP? Could it be that the problem is rather on the browser side and that it's waiting for the </head> closure?

Today I learned todayilearned@noc.social

TIL about Illegal Primes, which are prime numbers that contain digital information that is illegal to possess or distribute under laws like the DMCA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number#Illegal_primes

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1rloybf/til_about_illegal_primes_which_are_prime_numbers/

highvoltage highvoltage
@Free_Press None of these fuckshits even like each other

highvoltage highvoltage
I see so many claims that LLMs are now at the point where they can do the job of an intermediate software developer. If that's true, who would that benefit the most? Surely, if it lives up to its promises it should help free software the most, enabling millions of kids and hobiest all over the world to just press tab until their vision materializes.

But if that were true, there's like a Fermi paradox, because where is all this software? Where's all the good new exciting things being developed?

noyb.eu noybeu@mastodon.social

⚖️ Companies are trying to use to get out of GDPR compliance. This could soon be made easier – at least if the EU Commission's passes. Watch now to learn more!

👤 featuring data protection lawyer Levan Lobzhanidze

Design Thinking! Comic designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud

It's nice and quiet back here...

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt FranceskAlbs@mastox.eu

RT: @adequatehousing I have issued this press release with other UN experts. Gaza needs a reparative, rights-based approach to reconstruction. Not the colonial Board of Peace-led real estate fantasies.

NLnet nlnet@nlnet.nl

We want to thank the Proton community for giving a large donation to NLnet and 9 other organizations that promote digital freedom. Each year the Proton Foundation organizes a fundraiser for online freedom and invites its community to participate. This year over 50.000 people joined & raised $1,273,800!
The fellow online freedom proponents are: @edri @digiges @hackclub@social.dino.icu WITNESS humanetech Transparency International, Lighthouse reports, Open Markets Institute & The Insider.
https://proton.me/blog/2025-lifetime-fundraiser-results

highvoltage highvoltage
"OpenAI Showed Up At My Door"

How OpenAI is trying to shut down its critics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOmUWd-OII

highvoltage highvoltage
@classicweb This was the golden era of the web, when most web people figured out how to use CSS properly, and web pages looked good and were fast.

GrapheneOS GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Xfce xfce@floss.social

If you would like to help financially support the development of a new Wayland compositor for Xfce, you can do so by contributing funds via our accounts.

For US contributions:
https://opencollective.com/xfce

For EU contributions:
https://opencollective.com/xfce-eu

These contributions will help pay for the funding of longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.

Thank you for your support!

highvoltage highvoltage
Somehow I'm still not out of fucks to give, so here's one of my largest handouts ever.

1. Fuck Trump.
2. Fuck everyone who ever supported him.
3. Fuck everyone who ever tolerated his supporters.

That is all for now.
You're welcome.

Phoronix phoronix@masto.ai

GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support "Soon"

After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is "almost there" with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline "The 64-bit Hurd is Here!" GNU Hurd 64-bit support is now said to be ready but SMP support for multiple processor cores and the like remain still in development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-64-bit-2026

highvoltage highvoltage
Germany makes major progress in dumping Microsoft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_bTm_yF71E

joey castillo joeycastillo@mastodon.social

true HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment this morning: over the holidays, my sticker guys were having a special on red octagons, so I designed and ordered 250 "Slop Sign" stickers — but while I was in China, someone stole them out of my mailbox. Bummer, I figured; they probably trashed them as worthless. anyway while walking to the subway I FOUND ONE OF MY STICKERS STUCK TO A MAILBOX! Whoever swiped my stickers is sticking them up around the neighborhood! This is the best thing that could have happened!

Sticker, red octagon in the shape of a US stop sign, stick to a mailbox. Sticker reads “SLOP” in Highway Gothic. Close up of the red octagonal sticker: “SLOP” in Highway Gothic.

Gardiner Bryant gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online

California just put FOSS devs on the financial hook for your kids "safety"

So California finally did it. They passed Assembly Bill 1043. And now your OS is legally required to collect your birthdate and report it to every app developer... so they can verify you're not a baby....

https://gardinerbryant.com/california-just-put-foss-devs-on-the-financial-hook-for-your-kids-safety/?utm_campaign=brsharewidget&utm_source=mastodon

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@stuartl Being 44, I've made peace with this, I keep my expenses low, and plan to transition to paid for maintenance of a few pieces of software. Relying on a day job just doesn't seem sustainable anymore. I think the people who are my age who hope to work at the same company until they're 65 have some hard realities that will hit them.

highvoltage highvoltage
Veritasium covers the XZ backdoor in the detail that any person can understand, just as well as they do on many other topics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

KDE kde@floss.social

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

will cut off independent developers to if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

The logo of the "Keep Android Open" campaign is an Android robot dressed as Darth Vader. Across the top it says "I AM ALTERING THE DEAL" in all caps, and below the robot it says "Pray I don't alter it further". This is a reference to how Android acquired a massive catalog of apps be making access open to the platform back in the day, and Google assuring it would remain open, as opposed to the iOS platform which was (and still is) very restricted. And, of course, Star Wars.

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