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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Jul 24, 2026

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Jul 02, 2026

Replying to @wesdym@mastodon.social

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Jun 29, 2026

Replying to @Zestryon@mastodon.social

@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?

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 21, 2026

Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @Skye@chaos.social

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @tzafrir@tooot.im

@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.

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 12, 2026

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 11, 2026

Replying to @daniel@gultsch.social

@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.

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @cwebber@social.coop

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @maryjane@social.coletivos.org

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · May 05, 2026

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 30, 2026

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/

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @soapdog@toot.cafe

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 24, 2026

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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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 20, 2026

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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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@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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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 20, 2026

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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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @maxleibman@beige.party

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 16, 2026

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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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @dannycolin@floss.social

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 15, 2026

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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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 14, 2026

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!

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Apr 14, 2026

Ah yes 2019. Wild times.

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social

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

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @fossdd@chaos.social

@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!

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highvoltage @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @ncopa@fosstodon.org

@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).

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