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BlakJak
@blakjak.bsky.social
Known as BlakJakNZ or BlakJak for a very, very long time. Public Sector Cybersecurity geek with Network/Telco and Internet/Systems and GRC leanings. Volunteer, ZL1VMF, he/him.
FWIW I don't think is graphic at all - except of course for the knowledge of what the result was.

I did find the audio censoring of the news broadcast version quite jarring.
January 8, 2026 at 7:08 AM
heh, I might be mixing up flatpak and snap. Same difference?
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I might be becoming a grumpy old man but I prefer my apps as packages, not in flatpak. I'm using flatpak's for stuff that gives me no other choice... I am not even sure I remember why flatpak put me off so much :D
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Found a copy of the .deb from the previous version and have installed it successfully.. back to working Spotify again.

I'll have to reminder to un-hold the version at some point in the future when they fix the problem :S

Again - why must Linux users be second-tier... !!
December 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
- looks like everyone running Ubuntu derivatives is now stuck if they upgrade to the current version (unless the switch to the flatpak). I of course, never had the old version...

Currently poking into whether I can install the previous update.
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Well, it ran after I installed it and appeared to work as I would expect.
Today it won't run.
It appears i've run into a glibc version issue that's being discussed on their support forum community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-L...
New version from Debian repo requires GLIBC_2.38
After updating spotify-client to the latest version 1.2.77.358.g4339a634 from https://repository.spotify.com stable/non-free application won't launch: ./spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: versi...
community.spotify.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It'd be really nice for dev shops - especially those who clearly have scale - to remember that Linux users are customers too.
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I confess to not knowing how the cover art is factored into scoring. Full disqualification seems harsh though.

I do think that comparing AI cover art to artwork produced by a person would not be fair though? Agreed it's very much a valid artform.
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We have Police in our embassies offshore. Why not expect reciprocal?
I suspect there's been FBI in NZ for a while. This is just increased.. stature.. for the role, instead of being subordinate to the LegAt in Canberra.
Liaison between law enforcement is how we deal with mulitnational crims.
July 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Exactly. Makes me twitch when people excuse a mistype as a 'typo'.
July 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM