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@nuintari Heh, just checked out your profile and noticed your dog's name. My dog's name is Curzon Dax!

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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.

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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.

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/

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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!

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

Kori, the KDE pet dragon, with the 30th anniversary logo

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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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