David Arnold

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Technology, bikes, books, music. He/him. Living on Gadigal land.
I suspect I am going to get a lot of use out of this new sticker design.

"We have been incredibly naïve in entrusting our democratic space to […] social networks, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
Emmanuel Macron, President of France

#leaveX

I still can't even that my now nearly 80 year old mom has been on Fedora on a thinkpad e520 (2011) for a decade and it all just works.

I checked her laptop just now and it's fully up to date on fedora 43, so she's done like 20 version upgrades autonomously too. The battery has degraded a little but the whole thing still works fine and she's very happy with it.

This is how things should be, this is peak computing tbh.

#Fedora #Linux

Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
So, thinking ahead … anyone know what Project 2026 might bring?
Mitch Benn’s latest song “Where’s the NRA?” https://youtu.be/jSQ5fsW-MbE doesn’t quite match his “Everyone in America is Female”, but it’s still pretty funny.
Where's The NRA?

YouTube
Perhaps it’s Australia’s failure to reckon with its own colonial genocide that makes it so willing do nothing in the face of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people?