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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

You can see a white house wall on which "if you don't like graffiti then just look away like you do for human suffering......" is written in green.

Noisy Hacklab at DebConf is quite lively today!

Biblically accurate VLC player

@kilroy_was_here been listening to it since I was 8 years old, an album you can still listen from start to end

"spherical bastard"

Screenshot of a post from Bluesky, posted by Fiona Tribe, @fionatribe.bsky.social

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term "dark matter" which is impressive, but he also coined the term "spherical bastard" to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

@ThePlant don't hold your breath heh

@bremner you flatter me. There are many cases of this stuff, we won't finish it tonight.

Current activity @ DebConf

@bustikiller @jan gmail is increasingly becoming a walled garden

Well... is it completely wrong though?
Screenshot of Thunderbird's spell check, suggesting "dorky" as a replacement for "forky" (next Debian release codename)

If anyone is wondering how well ‘AI’ in hiring is going:

My partner just tried putting her CV through some ATS checkers that use LLMs. Her name can be turned into a male name by deleting one letter. Doing so caused her score to jump 10 points.

Anyone using these tools for hiring is going to have some massive discrimination lawsuits in their future.

@Edent People have using balcony solar and wind technology for years to do all kinds of awesome things! .. Like drying their clothes!

@wesdym Absolutely, we are all walking bags of compost in training.

@Zestryon What else can you do when the rest of our species are hell-bent on destroying the only inhabitable planet that we have?

"It looks like you're using an unsupported browser"

No, sorry, what you meant to say was:

"It looks like we've written an unsupported website"

@dpk I've never been in a polycule but in our househould we use Nextcloud!

@an0key Yikes! I've been on our city community network (CTWUG), on meshtastic and meshcore and this is one of my fears! Thankfully I've never fallen yet, glad to hear you're ok! That's a massive fall!

@okias Great work, congrats!

@PavelASamsonov I wanted to order pizza earlier this week and saw this on the local restaurant's site, so I just ordered somewhere else instead.

Colleague: My computer is broken! I had an NVidia error and typed this command that Claude said I must type!

Me: That doesn't look right. And before removing the packages, you should've been prompted with a "Yes, do what I say!" prompt to protect you.

Colleague: It did!

Me: So why did you do it?

Colleague: Because Claude said so!

I got >< this close to telling her "If Claude told you to jump off a cliff would you also do it!?", thankfully my self-control is slightly better these days.

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