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Debian Logo drawn with lights at UNL ATE hotel during DebConf26!

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!

Ah yes 2019. Wild times.

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.

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/

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

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.

@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!

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

Oh no, is GNOME taking away the suspend button too now!? *rage*

Daily Maverick: "New data centres set to swallow 34% of Cape Town’s current electricity supply"

I'm really annoyed at the arrogance of the companies who are deploying these, treating the city's bylaws as "mere formalities" that can be skirted sideways, while everyone else has to abide by it. I hope it gets shut down fast.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-04-28-new-data-centres-set-to-swallow-34-of-cape-towns-current-electricity-supply/

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @i0null@infosec.exchange Why? Everything already effectively runs as root there.

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

@nuintari Dax at the ocean, he's happy when he's a wet dog.

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.

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

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

@fossdd@chaos.social @ncopa@fosstodon.org Ah. Well might as well go all the way then. In my experience users are more forgiving of newer software with new bugs than older versions with fixed issues upstream that they have to wait for. YMMV etc :) - I'm a little curious what you end up deciding and why!

@ncopa@fosstodon.org Not sure if it's a useful datapoint for you. In Debian there was the same question for the next release, and IIRC the decision was to go for Python 3.14, but first upgrade to 3.13 as a step in between to help the transition (currently 3.13 is in unstable / 3.14 in experimental).

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

@maryjane@social.coletivos.org I think those were about the Logout button!

@nuintari Where does the "Hazard" come from? That's not one of the canonical Daxes?

@tzafrir@tooot.im The $100 is to become part of the co-op. You can buy albums from the website without joining the co-op.

The more information emerges about the health hazards after 9/11 in New York City, the worse it gets. Democracy Now hosts a roundtable talking to people who has attempted to speak up about this over the last 25 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzrR0AlU-1Y

@Skye@chaos.social @jacqueline@chaos.social That sounds about right, yes.

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.

When I was little, people told me that as I get older I'll get more conservative in my views. I'm not sure if it's out of stubbornness or just generally trying to be a good human being, but I believe they were proved wrong.

What surprises me the most recently, though, is how much I suddenly care about pronouns (I didn't see that one coming).

PLEASE. For the love of all that's good in the world, stop referring to AIs as she/her/he/him. They are not people and don't have genders. It's an it.

@soapdog@toot.cafe And then they have the gal to complain when the Chinese use their models to train their models

@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net Wow. RIP GitLab.

@cwebber I'm all for it! The people who use this kind of shit deserves what they get, let it all burn!

TIL subvert.fm - a co-op based music platform that has just launched. It looks really promising.

@daniel@gultsch.social All US tech is now a serious liability, it sounds like hyperbole but it would take a lot these days to convince me otherwise.