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โ˜ฎ๏ธ Secular humanist โ˜€๏ธ Solarpunk ๐Ÿ‘ฆ Free Software Geek ๐Ÿฅ Debian Developer
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Cape Town ๐Ÿ‘ผ๐Ÿผ Pope ๐Ÿค” INTJ โšก Resistance is not futile ๐Ÿ”Œ Survival is insufficient

Andrew Abdalian abdalian@lingo.lol
Armenian Genocide

Today is Remembrance Day, marking the arrest and deportation of hundreds of Armenian leaders and intellectuals in Constantinople on April 24th, 1915. Most were eventually killed.

Deportations and massacres of Armenians had already begun in other parts of the Ottoman Empire and would continue. One million Armenians were killed, many in concentration camps or on death marches.

I'm a descendent of Genocide survivors. Let their histories not be forgotten.

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I find it amusing that people are only freaking out about Open Source Software when it comes to Claude Mythos. You do realise that LLMs can just as easily read binary files as source code, right? Sure, they'll be missing out on a few helpful things like comments, and some logic might be obfuscated/optimised, but I'd even go as far as to bet that this is going to be significantly more of a negative impact on proprietary software than it will to free software.

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@nuintari @fellmoon Although, I suspect that perl doesn't have many (or any?) proper web frameworks and you use CGI? That probably opens you to a world of injection attacks that you won't get on for example, a flask app that runs on wsgi. I'd still recommend Python for something like this for various reasons, but if it works, it works!

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@nuintari @fellmoon I won't! Perl is still quite sane compared to many new shits like nodejs!

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@nuintari @fellmoon This is still the best kind of software you can write today, and it *is* possible with modern html, postgres, python, etc. I even through some htmx in the mix for some nice ajaxness.

Irenes (many) ireneista@irenes.space

oh holy shit this is such an amazing tactic. well done to everyone involved.

https://www.404media.co/community-votes-to-deny-water-to-nuclear-weapons-data-center/

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@david_chisnall If you think that's bad. I use one Outlook account for work about once a year. I had a page of read mails and literally couldn't figure out how to get to my unread mails. Even logging in was a nightmare full of dialogs that asked questions that made no sense. It's just slop all the way through.

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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 ๆ™ฎๆ‹‰ๆ–‡ 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 ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/

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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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