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Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/

systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd

Sometimes you end up typing gail.com (typo) instead of gmail.com and you get this nice little website. Hah!

URL: https://gail.com/

AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/

Look on the bright side in a few years there will be good demand for "artisanal" software engineers and specialized IT folks who can fix this AI slop generated code at 1000$ per hour.

RE: @signalapp@mastodon.world

be ware of this new threat ...

Damn 😱 imaging not being able to download your OS because of where you live right now ...

After committing one of the greatest thefts of all information known to mankind, ChatGPT started showing Ads to everyone while killing all independent websites,wikis, forums, journalism sites, artists' work, songs, and blogs. The circle of life is complete. All this talk of a "changing world" ends with selling your data to the highest bidder while destroying human creators and environments. What innovation.

https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/

Linus, the creator of Linux and Git, is so savage 🤣. He doesn't hold back.

Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/

Freshly installed Debian 13 Linux on a server just uses 270MB of RAM. Of course, once I install PgSQL, Redis, Apache 2/Nginx or Lighttpd, Python/PHP/Docker, etc., it will eat up 10GB. It is amazing how much good Debian is as compared to other bloated OSes out there, and it is all free. I can't believe that. Thank you all Debian devs for keeping it real.

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla https://manualdousuario.net/en/mozilla-firefox-window-ai/

Does anyone wants AI in anything? Microsoft went batshit crazy about AI and so the others are following them. Google felt like they will lose to OpenAI in search biz and again they went crazy like Microsoft. AI in current format is a huge waste of resources and copyright theft.