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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

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@hailey Wow, that's a nice piece of software engineering there! Doing anything on Windows 95 is generally such a pain, I'll try it out over the long weekend on my Pentium!

Hailey hailey@hails.org

With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!

Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

a screenshot of WSL9x running on Windows 95. Three MS-DOS prompts are open running WSL9x ptys. The focused one is running fastfetch, showing basic machine information and a nice ansi coloured penguin. Other windows show the output of ps, ls /dev, mount, uname -a, and tty.

Pirate Praveen 普拉文 praveen@social.masto.host

Free software enthusiast from Kerala elected Debian Project Leader

One of the oldest and widely used Linux-based operating systems, Debian has been developed by a community of volunteers from around the world

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/free-software-enthusiast-from-kerala-elected-debian-project-leader/article70892810.ece

https://ostechnix.com/sruthi-chandran-debian-project-leader-dpl-2026/

Happy to have voted for her in the election.

@srud

photo of the news on print edition

Neil Brown neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Google Play Integrity: what if Google dictated what software ran on your computer.

Open source implementations of attestation: what if a bunch of other people dictated what software ran on your computer.

Look, these handcuffs are permissively licensed!

No, thank you.

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It's frustrating how greed and exploitation is killing music. There's just more and more music that disappears from streaming services all the time. We need to work harder to seek physical media and archive it all.

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@susankayequinn @Talia I felt like that when watching the Handmaid's Tale because how the story started there is literally what's happening in places like the US right now... and somehow everyone is ok with that? WTF? We need more angry women in the world, I salute you!

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Excellent piece of journalism here where Ars Technica deep dives into the dark world of HEVC licensing:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/lawsuits-licensing-and-royalties-are-complicating-4k-video-support-in-gadgets/

Can Artuc canartuc@mastodon.social

The quiet milestone in the Rust for Linux 7.1 pull request is not the version bump. The minimum Rust compiler moves to 1.85. Bindgen moves to 0.71.1. Both match what stable Debian Trixie has shipped since August 2025. A vanilla Debian host can now compile a Rust-enabled kernel without backporting a toolchain. The most conservative distribution and the kernel toolchain are aligned. That is how a feature stops being a special build and becomes default infrastructure.

Debacle debacle@framapiaf.org

Congratulations, Sruthi!

Photo of Sruthi Chandran, probably giving a conference talk. Debian swirl in the background.

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@maxleibman "Linux is *sometimes* the answer." - yeah people forget that FreeBSD and NetBSD is amazing too!

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It's weird the stuff that makes you feel old. Yesterday I was talking to a new sysadmin at work, and told him that I used to type lots of BASIC from magazines when I was little. And then he said "What's basic, is that like a programming language?" and I think I literally gasped.

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@dannycolin Apparently Debian Developers tend to be masochists ¯\_(ツ)_/

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Tonight I dared to listen to one of Celine Dion's earlier albums that's in French (Des mots qui sonnent). At times it's incredibly cheesy, but in a sweet and fun 1991 way. Overall much better than I expected, I don't understand all the lyrics, but will take another listen with translations another time.

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@phoronix I quite like this proposal. Definitely worth the build time for the result. The extra package space it will take on mirrors is less than what one big new commercial game takes these days.

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I don't know what GNOME 50 did with animations, but it just feels *so* right. I usually disable animations on both my android and linux machines because I'd rather just have it feel snappy. But in GNOME 50, the animations are very subtle and fast enough that I barely notice it's there. It just feels great all-round. Good job to whomever has been working on this!

Christine Lemmer-Webber cwebber@social.coop

Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4

*deep breath in*

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA of fucking course lmao

KDE kde@floss.social

This October... KDE is turning 30! Join us for six months of celebrations, fun and activities🎉!

Contribute to our gallery of historic photos, tell us a story about that time KDE got you out of a pickle, or share a little-known KDE-related fact.

Become a supporting member and help guarantee the next 30 years of top-notch free software.

Or, most important of all, organize a KDE-themed event/party and we'll include it on our map!

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30

Konqi, the KDE dragon, says hello from inside a gear.

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Ah yes 2019. Wild times.
Article headline screenshot from 2019 where Sam Altman claims that GPT-2 is too dangerous to release.

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@kim Ah, free time. There was a time in my life where I had such a thing. If only I could be more efficient, planned better, learn to say no to things, stop having great new ideas and take better self care, then I could experience the wonder of free time again too!

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@kim Why not?

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