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Debian is now officially compromised 100%, (if it wasn't already)

kakalak
https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2026/results.txt Anyone who works on this piece of shit or even publishes .deb installers is cucked. You're getting to watch a project being subverted in real time. She will just do whatever...
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System76 Laptop

Anonymous
I am considering purchasing a System76 laptop since it has supposedly found a way to undo Intel ME and stuff like that. I figured everyone here is more educated than...
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Website adoption issues

Anonymous
I've made websites and web apps for my whole life and making them isn't the hard part for me. The biggest roadblock especially today (unlike in the early 2000s) is...
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Digdeeper articles short analysis

sabremathia
I observed that digdeeper's articles sound ai generated, adding that why would a man like him waste countless time on schizo phrenic things no one gives a f- about Example 1:...
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I now understand why some people want absolute control over their computers

Aza
I used to think, “Haha, lol, imagine spending 100 hours just to get a working system,” but I have been using Linux Mint for a long time, and I'm just...
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Which websites are actually worth using?

Anonymous
The more I use major ones like social media and youtube, the more I feel like my brain is rotting It is starting to seem more and more like the only...
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Japan weighs age-based filtering on social media to combat addiction

blr
https://archive.ph/2D2wm They already relaxed privacy laws to prepare for this btw
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Linux as a whole is compromised

Anonymous
>Gentoo and Funtoo > >A new evolution of Funtoo's core ideas is being built from the ground up, unencumbered by legacy toolchains, with a target for an initial public release in...
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Why are we still using glibc?

blr
>New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros >Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security...
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New terrain generator just dropped

Anonymous
https://xandergos.github.io/terrain-diffusion/ https://github.com/xandergos/terrain-diffusion Say goodbye to perlin noise spam >For decades, procedural worlds have been built on procedural noise functions such as Perlin noise, which are fast and infinite, yet fundamentally limited in realism...
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Why does old technology seem better?

Anonymous
From houses to cast iron cooking to cars with features that would never be made today.. Why does it seem like old tech was just better?
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Actual problems with linux

Anonymous
I've been daily driving linux for years now and here are the things i can think of: - awful software distribution, especially for proprietary - corpo tranimals running every project, making it...
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All in one Android app development

Anonymous
google just "let us" have android a little longer but i was thinking of a app that could be a all in one. Its a empty shell you copy and...
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How do you plan to survive digital ID and government mandated enshittification?

Anonymous
Well I wrote the rest a few weeks ago and debated posting it in its current state, but now the very first site was named that'll be complying with upcoming...
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XLIBRE PAGE REMOVED FROM ARCH WIKI

Anonymoon
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2294792 Thread discussing this just got deleted, it should be obvious now that this is never getting fixed nor are they going to give a reason why it's not allowed other...
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How difficult would it be to do everything in a CLI/TTY?

Anonymous
Just wondering how hard it'd be to do this. I'm posting from Lynx in my TTY and it's a bit difficult to navigate this webpage but I figured it out....
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Digital Cargo Cult: How Zoomers Ruined Old Internet Nostalgia

rave + wirefaux
>+ wirefaux? Who's this? A reader of this article, who posted it around several "nostalgia" hivemind circles, only to be met with immense backlash and several bans from many tech circles...
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What websites should I sign up for with a burner phone?

iwctsua
I have a phone number Im about to disconnect. What websites should I sign up for while I still have it connected? I already have discord. Im thinking sites that...
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There's no such thing as a true breakthrough

iwakura
All technology allowed to be deployed has already been in development for decades. Such technology is not actually human, but technology left to the ones the Galactic Federation puts in...
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Free energy physics group!

Anonymous
Hello, free energy friends! If any one of you has become fed up with the current state of the free energy community, where practice has replaced theory and aimless tinkering...
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Cindy is well again

Anonymous
My retro box (Cindy) is finally up and running again. Three different operating systems (WinXP, Backtrack 3 and Ubuntu), with full-disk encryption on every partition except sda2, makes reinstalling everything...
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