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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

My therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.

I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display.

Little did I expect that it's now being seen by anywhere from 200 to 600 people at any given time with 130,000 people having looked at it in the last 24 hours. People are even building projects around my API.

Yesterday, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone working in Mission Control in Houston... and they're using my dashboard! He even sent me a photo, but I can't share it until after the crew has splashed down.

Mind blown, and an absolute pick-me-up. The best part? It's being served from my basement.

https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/

I WORK IN TECH and over the last 5 years, my general level of confidence in software to function as intended has...

@neil #1, but It's also a brand of vacuum cleaner and high pressure hose

@tinker The world is big enough for everyone to have a slice and to make profit, they can all only benefit from working with each other. The important part is that dependency on MS Office is reduced or entirely eliminated.

@JamesWNeal I like that even though the photo contains a modern TV and bright flooring, it still has a 70's feel to it.

Just got this from Microslop GitHub:

> We're updating how GitHub uses data to improve AI-powered coding tools. From April 24 onward, your interactions with GitHub Copilot—including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—may be used to train and enhance AI models unless you opt out.

I barely ever use GitHub. When I do, it's when I am forced to because some project I rely on only uses GitHub.

If your project is only using GitHub, please consider migrating.

Germany makes Open Document Format mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure (along with PDF/UA - accessible PDF) https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/

Regarding that WW3 everyone's been talking about...

@bagder People do this so much, I'm surprised there's not a burl alias like wcurl

Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine"

Qt 6.11 is out as the latest version of this cross-platform toolkit used by the KDE desktop and widely by both open-source and closed-source applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.11-Toolkit

@mntmn Same here. I think I even have some boards that come close. Just a time issue /o\

@susankayequinn Take a look at the new Atto 3, it's an amazing EV that the US won't get, at least not any time soon.

US carmakers, backing away from EVs and basically only making SUVs + MASSIVE trucks, so they can force Americans to pay outrageous amounts for new cars, are going to destroy their industry (and the planet).

Meanwhile in Europe...
https://electrek.co/guides/kia-ev2/

https://electrek.co/2025/07/22/hyundai-ioniq-2-affordable-ioniq-5-sibling-images/

Ioniq 2 EV2

@nwalfield Some boards have jumpers you have to set whether it's an M.2 or nvme drive

Bernie Sanders talks to Claude

(yes, that sounds like a parody, it isn't even!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AtWdeu_G0

What the absolute fuck is Stefano Maffulli (one of the people who ruined OSI) smoking when he writes crap like:

The  modern  AI  world  is  the  fulfillment  of the Stallmanite dream. We are transitioning   from   Software-as-a-Product,  a  black  box  we  receive,  to Software-as-a-Specification,  a  fluid  intent  that  users  with little to no programming   skills  can  control.

He’s going full-in on the fashtech propaganda:

By  democratizing  the  ability  to  write,  refactor, and understand code

If you’ve bought enough tokens from the corpos is something he forgot.

And all this… in order to attempt to legitimise the chardet copyright violations by its maintainer? 🤦

going hard at .
It's hard to pick, but I think this is my favorite line:
"Why did you decide to devote your life to AI?
I just saw so much suffering in the world that needed to be automated."

https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

@aral @klausi As a South African, while sadly I have to admit that we still have to deal with some of the legacies of Apartheid, I can assure you that we have a fully democratic government for decades now and that we certainly don't have an Apartheid government. In fact we have one of the most robust bill of rights in the world that protects the rights of all citizens.

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