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Started by chainpuncher
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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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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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Do not visit archive.today/archive.ph/archive.is/etc with javascript enabled

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https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/ https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/ >Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal blog >All users...
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SystemD adding age verification (deeper question/rant)

Anonymous
Hello anons, I wanted to ask a deeper question and just rant/get some stuff of my mind regarding this topic rather than just pile on information that you may or...
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Institutional Parasitism in Open Technology Communities: 79-page paper on how people who can't code took over the projects built by people who can

Anonymous
https://files.catbox.moe/uezu4x.pdf Debian 2026 DPL election. One candidate. Diversity platform. Nobody else showed up. That's where the oldest community distro is now. GNOME hired a literal shaman who sold flavored water as Executive...
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The smartphone is the most sophisticated surveillance device.

Anonymous
How did the powers that be convince everyone they need one on the at all times? These devices are essentially a microphone, a camera, a GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, fingerprint monitor, heart...
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Worst Programming Languages

LostintheCycle
Share one (1) programming language and giver some reason for why you hate it so passionately. Mine is **MATLAB**. I've had to use it too much in the past few years...
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Creating a older pc experience

MudMixie
I remember the days of the early 2000s pages took ages to load now everything feels too quick I just wish there was a way to limit the speed of...
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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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SystemDisease removal

Anonymous
Slackware>Void>Gentoo>Devuan>Artix pkgtools>xbps>portage>apt>pacman the best init you can use on Artix is OpenRC. It's neat enough for you to rc-update delete udev, elogind and dbus Devuan lets you use SysVinit which is ideal, you...
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Anonymous Decentral Comment-System for Static Websites

iwakura
One of my pages was hacked. Badly. So badly that I had to kill it. I decided to only use static pages for future projects: Unhackable (with a well-maintained host), Fast,...
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