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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the military has outlined near-term long-range priorities and that strikes on Russia’s oil industry are continuing to have an impact.
Ok. There is much work left to do. Oil refineries results are below satisfactory level. Looks like those 100-200 kg charges are incapable to cause really serious damages. So, methodical toil it is...
Well now. Oil refineries tend to be made out of thick steel pipework and vessels, to contain unpleasant chemicals at high temperatures, and they're designed with blast panels and pressure release systems as they're somewhat likely to go boom without external assistance. But the whole site isn't like that
The control room tends to be just a plain old brick building somewhat removed from the main site - you don't want to incinerate your ops team if there's a fire.
The Motor Control Centres (MCCs) tend to get warm due to all the switchgear that they contain, which means they're kept aside, generally in quite thin-walled structures.
Hit either of those, the plant is going to be down for a long time.
If you're looking to render the refinery unusable, you either need enough boom to wreck inch-thick steel to the extent you can't just weld it up again, or enough precision to hit something irreplaceable.
or enough precision to hit something irreplaceable.
Haven't they been doing that? I can't remember where I heard it. But I heard they were mostly targeting storage tanks until they talked to a petrochemical engineer. They told Ukraine that there's some critical bit that Russia can't manufacture and they've been targeting those as much as possible since.
More like vibe security engineer spamming their claud subscriptions to discover breaches not even hackers cared about.
And then they'll make a story about how ai agent breached out of human control when they specifically prompted "breach this by any means necessary, no I don't care about safeguards you're a security pentester"
Any insight into the most severe ones, eg is remote exploitation possible and likely?
The Linux project request CVEs for any memory safety bug just in case some turn out to be vulnerabilities, in which case they may be exploited given enough effort. Many are likely not exploitable or unlikely to be, and/or low severity.
There are some higher severity ones given the following message. But this doesn't mean all CVEs listed are severe issues.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
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Drunk salesman battles hundreds of beavers to become North America's greatest 19th century trapper.
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C'est probablement un des sujets qui obsède le plus les médias mainstream français : le voile. Les femmes qui portent le voile, la signification du port du voile, les raisons cachées du port du voile... Tous ces débats polluent notre espace médiatique depuis maintenant plus de 40 ans. Dans cet épisode nous allons essayer de comprendre les raisons de cette obsession, les raisons historiques qui ont poussé le débat public français à se concentrer sur la question du voile. Nous allons aussi nous intéresser aux violences et discriminations auxquelles sont exposées les femmes qui font le choix de le porter.
Ostpolitik et Modiie sont de retour pour une saison 3 de Contraste(s).
Chroniqueurs : Ostpolitik, Modiie Réalisation et montage : Camille Chastrusse Son : Baptiste Veilhan, Théo Duchesne Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon Production : Hicham Tragha Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert
So maybe people don’t want to hear this but as a hunter I have to say this area is likely to become a wildlife disaster.
If humans are a regular predator and the predator is removed the fight for food resources among the prey species is going to result in a lot of animal deaths and suffering. This will cause ecological devastation to the area, waste meat that humans would have used, and potentially cause other shifts in wildlife that are harder to predict.
The government, in addition to taxing this land heavily, should procure an easement for hunters to maintain ecological stability.
If this guy is planning to tear everything down and install data centers out there we should build a rocket and yeet him into the sun.
redlib is an interface you may use if you want to read content from reddit but without ads, bloat, tracking and java. You cannot post but you can read.
I found some videos I'd like to download but I don't know how.
To download videos from elsewhere I run yt-dlp and that works fine, but pasting the redlib url where the video is posted returns "Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests"
To get the best quality version, I had to copy the video address from the default reddit site and feed that address to yt-dlp. The alternative is to inspect the redlib page source, get the video link source and give that to yt-dlp.
OpenMandriva has published refreshed installation images for ROME, its rolling-release edition, combining the distro’s current software stack in the new 26.09 snapshot.
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 ships with Linux kernel 7.2 by default, while kernel 7.3-rc4 is also available for users who want to test the upcoming series. The distro also provides kernels in both Clang-compiled and GCC-compiled variants.
On the desktop side, KDE Plasma has been updated to 6.7.5, accompanied by KDE Gear 26.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.29. GNOME users get version 50.3, while LXQt moves to 2.4. Xfce remains on the 4.20 series, and MATE 1.28 now includes an experimental Wayland session.
The repositories also contain newer releases of Hyprland, COSMIC Desktop, Niri, Sway, i3, IceWM, Qtile, and several other window managers and desktop environments.
Under the hood, a significant change is the move to RPM 6.1. OpenMandriva has extended it with an optional %pgo section for spec files to simplify Profile-Guided Optimization when building packages. Several packages already use this feature alongside broader Link-Time Optimization.
The development toolchain has also moved forward. LLVM/Clang 23.1.2 is now the default compiler, GCC has been updated to 16.2, and the distribution ships glibc 2.44.
Graphics support comes with Mesa 26.2.3 and ROCm 10.0, including patches aimed at extending ROCm support to older Radeon GPUs. For NVIDIA hardware, the open NVIDIA kernel module has been moved directly into the kernel, avoiding situations where it becomes out of sync after kernel updates. The proprietary driver has meanwhile been updated to version 610.57.
Interestingly, another notable addition is Snap support. OpenMandriva already supports Flatpak with Flathub enabled and AppImage, but users can now install snapd from the repositories. The project stresses that native RPM packages remain its preferred format due to tighter system integration and reduced duplication.
The Plasma and LXQt editions have a new default browser. Helium 0.17.2 replaces ungoogled-chromium and is based on that project, restoring selected Chromium functionality without reintroducing Google services. OpenMandriva has adapted Chromium Embedded Framework to use Helium, allowing OBS Studio to use a CEF plugin based on the browser.
For gaming, ROME 26.09 includes Wine 11.18 with WoW64 support, Proton 11, DXVK 3.0.2, vkd3d 2.0, and vkd3d-proton. The Steam installer available through the non-free repository has also been updated to version 1.0.0.86.
Moreover, the release brings Qt 6.11.2, GTK 4.22.5, PipeWire 1.6.9, FFmpeg 9.0, GStreamer 1.28.6, Firefox 156, Thunderbird 155, LibreOffice 26.8, GIMP 3.2.4, Blender 5.2.2, and Krita 6.0.4, which has now moved to Qt 6.
OpenMandriva has also expanded the selection of local AI software available from its repositories, including Ollama, llama.cpp, Whisper.cpp, Stable Diffusion.cpp, ComfyUI, KoboldCpp, Aider, and several other tools. Many use the system-wide GGML library with GPU acceleration through ROCm, Vulkan, or OpenCL.
For additional details, see the announcement.
The refreshed ROME 26.09 images are available in Plasma X11, Plasma Wayland, and GNOME Wayland editions, with community-maintained LXQt, MATE, and Xfce spins also offered. Plasma and LXQt images are available for regular x86_64 systems as well as optimized znver builds for AMD Ryzen processors. An AArch64 server image is available too.
One exception is COSMIC Desktop: a ROME 26.09 COSMIC installation image was held back because of an issue with the login manager. Existing COSMIC users can continue updating normally, while new users can install it from the repositories.
The Sequoia PGP is part of the default seed, with the sq package in the main repo and officially supported. It’s said to provide a “modern, and memory-safe OpenPGP implementation”.
Ubuntu isn’t making Sequoia the distribution’s default OpenPGP toolchain. It ships preinstalled, but lives alongside the standard implementation.
However, the goal is to make Sequoia PGP Ubuntu’s default in the near future, with sq and sqv replacing gpg and gpgv.
For now, gpg will still invoke GnuPG, while sq (or an app configured to use Sequoia’s libraries) calls on Sequoia. Users can run e.g., sq sign or sq verify instead of gpg from the command line to try it too.
Canonical says adopting Sequoia will enable Ubuntu to maintain OpenPGP interoperability while benefiting from a “more maintainable and memory-safe foundation”.
It’s not the only Rust-related change in the new Ubuntu release, either. Ubuntu 26.10 ships a full set of Rust-based core utilities out-of-the-box, completing work that began in 25.10. GNU-versions of cp, mv, and rm are now provided by uutils.
Canonical’s engineers plan to ‘oxidise’ more foundational packages in future releases. A Rust rewrite of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) being eyed for inclusion as the default time sync client in Ubuntu 27.04.
The company is also a gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, paying €40,000 a year to help fund work on Rust software.
Η ΕΕ υπόσχεται διαφάνεια για τα data centers, αλλά κρατά μυστικά τα στοιχεία για την κατανάλωση ενέργειας και νερού. Μετά από έναν χρόνο έρευνας και αιτημάτων πρόσβασης σε στοιχεία και στα 27 κράτη-μέλη, αποκαλύπτουμε πώς διαμορφώθηκε αυτό το καθεστώς μυστικότητας — και μια πρωτοφανή νομική προσφυγή που το αμφισβητεί.
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar 02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now 05:20 What's the job of an OS? 06:51 Updates break systems. Often. 10:53 You have to adapt to it 15:14 It's highly intrusive 17:44 Debloating tools don't make it good 20:19 Windows fails at being an OS 21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect 27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS
seriously I still have an old laptop running windows 10 for convenience and it amazes me how right clicking a file will then take like a min for the drop down to appear. its absolutely nuts how messed up and slow it is even compared to early versions much less compared to linux.
I'm using Manjaro KDE Plasma. I have currently 3 installations, 1 testing used by me, 2 stable - 1 stable install is a File Server, using the SbK Server spin, the other is used by my partner. I have had zero issues after updates, in 4 years.
Prior to Manjaro I was using Linux Mint, which borked on an Version upgrade.
Manjaro has been incredibly stable (the testing version as well). Oddly it reminds me of Mandrake which I began using in 2000.
I'm using Manjaro KDE Plasma. I have currently 3 installations, 1 testing used by me, 2 stable - 1 stable install is a File Server, using the SbK Server spin, the other is used by my partner. I have had zero issues after updates, in 4 years.
(I'm gonna seem like an asshole but yea eya eya eya ye true like yea)
I basically have no idea what I want (that's mainly why I'm making you do it instead), but I basically want something that's funny/weird/meme-ish(???) rice lowkey. An example could maybe be the wobbly windows built-in to kde?? I'm also on kde plasma wayland btw
I had a hard time understanding, so I asked a local Ai bot. I think a low effort reply for a low effort question is appropriate. This is the answer:
::: spoiler Question In a Linux forum, someone made a post. I have a hard time understanding, so help me out here to help him.
Post Title: (asshole post but oh well) help making a funny/weird/meme(???) rice cause I lowkey don't know what to do
Post Body: (I’m gonna seem like an asshole but yea eya eya eya ye true like yea)
I basically have no idea what I want (that’s mainly why I’m making you do it instead), but I basically want something that’s funny/weird/meme-ish(???) rice lowkey. An example could maybe be the wobbly windows built-in to kde?? I’m also on kde plasma wayland btw
I honestly don’t know send help 😭 :::
::: spoiler Thinking (worked for 1m 2s) * Context: A Linux forum post. * Tone: Casual, self-deprecating, slightly chaotic, internet slang-heavy ("lowkey," "rice," "eya eya eya," "meme-ish"). * Goal of the user: Help the poster by explaining what they want and how to achieve it. * The Poster's Request: Wants a "funny/weird/meme-ish" desktop "rice" (customization) on KDE Plasma (Wayland). They mentioned "wobbly windows" as an example.
* *Rice:* In the Linux community, "ricing" refers to customizing the appearance and workflow of your desktop environment (themes, icons, fonts, window managers, etc.).
* *KDE Plasma:* A highly customizable desktop environment (DE).
* *Wayland:* The modern display protocol (important because some old customization tools only work on X11).
* *Wobbly Windows:* A specific desktop effect where windows stretch/jiggle when moved.
* *Funny/Weird/Meme-ish:* The user wants a desktop that looks ridiculous, non-standard, or humorous rather than "clean" or "minimalist."
* *Step 1: Explain the terminology.* The user needs to know what "rice" and "KDE Plasma Wayland" mean in this context.
* *Step 2: Interpret the request.* What is the person *actually* asking for? (A chaotic, fun, non-serious desktop setup).
* *Step 3: Provide actionable advice/suggestions.* How can someone make a "meme" rice on KDE?
* Desktop Effects (Wobbly windows, magic lamp, etc.).
* Themes (Obnoxious colors, weird icons).
* Widgets/Plasmoids (Funny clocks, weird system monitors).
* Wallpapers (Memes).
* Cursor/Fonts (Comic Sans, etc.).
* *Introduction:* Acknowledge the difficulty of reading internet slang.
* *Glossary:*
* "Rice": Desktop customization.
* "KDE Plasma": The software they use.
* "Wayland": The technical backend.
* *The "Translation":* "I want a desktop that looks silly, chaotic, or funny. I don't have a specific vision, so I'm looking for ideas that make my computer look non-serious."
* *Actionable Suggestions (The "Help"):*
* *Visual Effects:* Mention "Desktop Effects" in KDE settings. (Wobbly windows, Magic Lamp, Desktop Cube).
* *Themes:* Suggest looking for "Retro," "90s," or "Bright/Neon" themes.
* *Fonts:* Suggest "Comic Sans" (the ultimate meme font).
* *Icons:* Suggest something weird (e.g., hand-drawn icons).
* *Wallpapers:* Obviously memes or surreal art.
* *Widgets:* Suggest adding weird widgets to the desktop.
* *User's Goal:* Help him.
* *Tone of Response:* Informative and helpful.
:::
::: spoiler Answer To help this person, you first need to understand the "slang" they are using. Linux forum culture has its own vocabulary.
Here is a breakdown of what the post actually means, followed by some actual advice you can give them to help them achieve their goal.
Part 1: Translation of the Post
"Rice" (or Ricing): This is the most important term. In the Linux community, "ricing" means customizing the visual appearance of your desktop (changing themes, icons, fonts, colors, and window behaviors) to make it look unique.
"KDE Plasma": This is the name of the Desktop Environment (the software that provides the taskbar, menus, and windows) they are using. KDE is famous for being the most customizable desktop in existence.
"Wayland": This is the modern "display protocol" (the engine that draws things on the screen). It’s important because some old customization tools only work on the older protocol (X11), so they are specifying that they need things that work on Wayland.
"Wobbly Windows": A specific visual effect where windows act like jelly or rubber when you move them. It’s a classic "fun" effect.
The Summary of their request: "I want my computer to look silly, chaotic, or funny instead of the usual 'cool/minimalist' look. I don't have a specific theme in mind, but I want it to feel like a meme. I use KDE Plasma on Wayland. Help me find ideas."
Part 2: How to help them (The Advice)
Since the user is asking for "funny/weird/meme" ideas, you can suggest the following specific directions for their "rice." You can copy and paste these suggestions to them:
1. Lean into "Chaos" with Desktop Effects Since they mentioned wobbly windows, tell them to go to System Settings > Desktop Effects and enable: * Wobbly Windows: (The "jelly" effect they asked for). * Magic Lamp: Makes windows shrink into the taskbar like a genie lamp. * Desktop Cube: If they have multiple workspaces, they can make their screens rotate like a 3D cube. * Blur/Translucency: Set everything to be extremely see-through or extremely bright/neon.
2. The "Meme" Aesthetic (Theme Ideas) * The "Windows 95/98" Look: Suggest they look for "Retro" or "Classic" themes. It’s a huge meme in the Linux community to make a modern computer look like a computer from 1995. * The "Comic Sans" Special: Suggest they change their system font to Comic Sans MS. There is nothing more "meme-ish" than a high-tech Linux machine using the world's most mocked font. * High-Saturation/Neon: Suggest "Cyberpunk" or "Vaporwave" themes with bright pinks, purples, and blues.
3. Weird Widgets (Plasmoids) In KDE, you can add "Widgets" to your desktop. Suggest they find: * A giant, obnoxious digital clock. * A system monitor that shows weird stats. * Funny/weird "Sticky Notes" scattered everywhere.
4. The "Meme" Wallpaper The easiest way to make a rice "funny" is the wallpaper. Suggest they find a high-resolution version of a classic meme (like a distorted cat, a deep-fried image, or something surreal) and set that as the background.
5. Icon Packs Suggest they look for icon packs that aren't "clean." They could look for hand-drawn icon packs or even icons that look like emojis.
A suggested reply you can give them:
"Since you want a 'meme' rice on KDE Plasma (Wayland), stop trying to make it look 'clean' and lean into the chaos.
Effects: Go to System Settings > Desktop Effects and turn on Wobbly Windows and Magic Lamp. It makes the UI feel less serious.
Fonts: If you want to be truly cursed, change your system font to Comic Sans.
Theme: Look for a 'Retro' or 'Windows 95' theme to give it that old-school meme vibe, or go full 'Vaporwave' with bright pinks and blues.
Widgets: Add some weird, oversized widgets to your desktop so it looks cluttered and funny.
Wallpaper: Just find a high-res deep-fried meme or a surreal image. That does 90% of the work." :::
Sunsets are beautiful. So are sunrises. Every sunset and sunrise in this photo series is on my Instagram feed. Please follow me there for lots more beautiful nature photos. The Changing Light Since I moved to upstate New York, one of my favorite things to see and photograph is the changing light. Sunlight here changes throughout the day and between the seasons in such dramatic ways. Especially in Autumn, the changing light catches my eye and draws me to my camera. Shining Through #sun #sky […]
Since I moved to upstate New York, one of my favorite things to see and photograph is the changing light. Sunlight here changes throughout the day and between the seasons in such dramatic ways. Especially in Autumn, the changing light catches my eye and draws me to my camera.
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Lake Sunrise & Sunset Views
In the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, we have wonderful views of the rising and setting sun against water. The reflections add loveliness to the natural beauty.
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Jul 24, 2016 at 12:47pm PDT
Does It Matter If It’s a Sunrise or Sunset?
Though I try to be careful to tag photos as specifically a sunrise or sunset, when it comes to loveliness, I’m not sure that it matters which one it is. Certainly, in upstate New York there are very frequent marvels when the sun is first rising above the horizon and when it is sinking out of sight.
Stan Stewart is a poet, musician, and human being who enjoys connecting with people and nature. Since his focus is on improvisational music, the inspiration he gets from these connections is often the source of his music.
I wrote this PyQt6 desktop app that plays livestreams via Streamlink and lets you clip them.
It opens a stream, keeps a rolling local buffer, and lets you grab a clip of something that already happened — not just from the moment you hit record. No browser, no login, no telemetry, no "engagement."
Plays live streams through Streamlink + mpv (libmpv), not an embedded Chromium
Rolling HLS buffer, so you can clip past moments off the timeline
Clip export, snapshots, and recording with optional auto-remux to MP4
Python 3.12+, needs mpv/libmpv and ffmpeg from your package manager (Streamlink tags along as a Python lib). Runs on Linux (and Windows/macOS if you must). Source is on GitHub, pip install clippiti-player and you're done.
Not a startup, not a product, no roadmap deck. Just a small tool that does one thing. Patches and complaints welcome.
AI disclaimer
AI is a tool. I use it to generate unit tests, or to rename/refactor something, or other trivial/menial tasks. I've been writing code for 30+ years so I think I know when and for what to use it.
Months ago I made this PyQt6 tray app that watches livestreams via Streamlink.
It sits in your system tray, polls the streams you care about, and when one comes online you click it and it opens in your player of choice. That's it. No browser, no login, no telemetry, no "engagement."
Works with Twitch, YouTube, and anything else Streamlink handles
Opens streams in mpv / VLC / whatever you already use
Per-stream overrides for quality, player, and Streamlink args
Tray icons show status; tracks last-online / last-watched
Launch straight from a URL in your clipboard
Python 3.12+, runs on Linux (and Windows/macOS if you must). MIT licensed, source is on GitHub, pip install lurkiti and you're done.
Not a startup, not a product, no roadmap deck. Just a small tool that does one thing. Patches and complaints welcome.
AI disclaimer
AI is a tool. I use it to generate unit tests, or to rename/refactor something, or other trivial/menial tasks. I've been writing code for 30+ years so I think I know when and for what to use it.
::: spoiler spoiler I am personally against gatekeeping anything Including linux , but young naive me from 6 years ago felt this way, and I wanted to see if opinions had changed from back then
:::
I asked this same question 6 years ago on Reddit just wanted to see if general opinion has changed now as Linux has arguably gotten way more mainstream
Edit: Progress meant 3rd party hardware and software support, innovation etc. I decided to rerun this question because of the new discourse surrounding LLM use in the kernel; the pretext being a smaller community would have easily taken a binary decision regarding the matter, for better or worse
Well said. And I found computer stuff rarely to be a yes/no thing in the first place. It's almost always a ...well, depends... where are we going with this?... there's ten puzzle pieces which fit here and they all come with consequences and side-effects and form a different bigger picture.
I get the questions, though. And the desire for there to be simple answers to things like, should I install CachyOS? Should I buy 32GB of RAM, put a web application firewall infront of my webserver... There's also a lot of opinions out there regarding those things.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 9:18 AM)
I would be happy for linux to flatten microslop, it's just a question of whether it would then turn into it in some respects (2026 has already seem some not some awesome changes).
Somewhat along the lines of: If lemmy becomes as large as reddit, lemmy will become trash like reddit.
The world belongs to those who do the work. Capitalism sucks, but it's always capitalists who drive the production of things. It doesn't have to be that way but it is because we are lazy. SteamOS exists because Valve put in the work. Any of us here could have made SteamOS. We didn't because we are lazy.
I don't want usage adoption; I want philosophical adoption which will lead to usage adoption.
I want users to appreciate that they own their software. I want them to realize the importance of being able to inspect and use your software as you see fit (within reason).
I want people to realize the dangers of walled gardens, and opaque black boxes that are doing who knows what.
I hope that makes sense; I get confused and worried when people just push adoption. I'd rather people migrate because they believe in FOSS, and then setup linux boxes for their non-tech family members as a means of protecting them.
I have a lot to say on this...but the words just aren't coming out right now. I guess I need to get in the right frame of mind.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 9:26 AM)
by boxes I just mean, linux computers for those who just use a browser to go on the internet. Those users, they don't have to adopt the Linux philosophy.
But for people who are actively coming to linux, I wish they would come with an appreciation for the ethos of FOSS.
I'm flattered you think I have something of value to say, but what I've learned in life is that you can't convince people of anything unless they want to be convinced. And ego plays a big role in that.
If you go and even imply to someone, "you're using computers wrong," or "there is a better way," depending on their relationship with you, their ego will kick in: what is this guy talking about, I've been using computers for x years and I have it do everything I want it to. Just nod along
I adopted Linux on my home PC about 12 years ago, but I could never get the "Linux box" in a state where I could replace my wife's until Win11 came out. At the time, I noticed a lot of improvements that allowed a seamless transition and I was finally able to replace her Win10 install with a KDE setup. She barely noticed the difference. The only real challenge was her migration from Outlook to Thunderbird.
But I think the reality is that, apart from Linux enthusiasts, no one really cares for using FOSS or not. Most simply want their PC to work and not be a nuisance. And it seems that more and more, that is the case for Linux.
"Linux community" is a similar term in its dimensions like the term "Gaming community" or "Programmers community". It's more of a "meta community" (and I don't mean the company). In a sense all of Linux brings us together with similar shared interests rooted in Linux. So it is no unreasonable to talk about "Linux community", but it depends in what context. If its about supporting Linux compared to other operating systems, then it makes sense to talk about a unified meta community like "Linux".
It bothers me because there is often little understanding or communication and sometimes even an antagonistic relationship between contributor communities and user communities. Users because they see themselves as presentative of THE COMMUNITY often think they get to tell contributora how they run the project.
With Linux as a whole it's even more abstract since the Linux kernel development and distro development is so disconnected and most people don't have a strong connection with the kernel or it's development really.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 10:02 AM)
Linux adoption is more of technical side of things in my personal opinion. It makes a huge difference to talk about Linux community versus Linux adoption. In example Linux is adopted a lot in webservers, maybe in professional fields and so on. I think the person asking the question is more interested in the effects on and for the community from a user perspective (as we are in a Linux community ourselves right now, context is everything). I do not think the term "Linux community" is precise or the best choice in most cases, but I can understand the context in which way it is meant.
Overall I do not have a better suggestion for the term. The entire question is borked anyway. If you change the term "Linux adoption" then people might think in terms of percentages of adoption, and less about the social impact on a personal level. Overall it would just be the same question actually and everyone interprets it differently anyway. "adoption" or "community", it's the whole Linux. I'm not against any of them, so don't care about it. My problem with the actual question is more about the "making progress" part.
Linux adoption is real. THE linux community isn't real. You can break down Linux adoption into more detailed metrics like Linux desktop adoption, Linux adoption among gamers, etc and those are all real things that we may or may not be able to put numbers on and may or may not desire to grow.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 10:38 AM)
Adoption and community are separate things. The guy asking seems to be concerned what the community things and what effects it has to them. As for me, I don't care which term you or anyone uses, as long as it is clear from context. I don't know why you say the Linux community isn't real though. As I explained earlier, its just a meta word for collection of communities related to everything Linux.
OP uses community instead of explaining what they mean. They also oppose the growth of said community presumably because of some unexplained concerns which would likely be immediately clear if they would explain what they mean.
And the linked reddit thread actually suggests that OP is opposed to wider adoption because they want to be part of some Linux elite.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:13 AM)
OP uses community instead of explaining what they mean.
I agree its vague title and the body text should have been used to clear things up. The question in this form is not satisfying to me either, and leaves too much for interpretation. I am not arguing against that. I'm just saying that I think I know how to understand the first part of the question and don't have an issue myself, because there is context to it. But its not optimal.
want to be part of some Linux elite.
This is why the term "Linux community" makes sense, if we talk about being part of and 'Elite'. That is what I thought, its about the community and its effects and how to deal with the grows, rather than the growing numbers alone. Either way, both terms "Community vs Adoption" are unclear what the intend of the question is for most people. But the distinction makes only sense when discussing, because both terms are about adoption in this context and its doesn't really matter.
Sorry, but I'm not asking for your permission if something makes sense for me. It's fine if it doesn't for you. The question is vague enough that it is a problem and should have been clarified in the body text, but I understand what it is meant to be from the context. Only the part "making progress" is problematic to me.
The question is too vague to give a direct answer. About growing: Yes, I want the community and entire eco system around Linux to grow. Why? That means more people using, bigger communities, more help, more developers, more money, more support by companies. That's good. However, there is a little bit dark side of this aspect too. More popular also means it will attract bad actors. But that's part of growing up.
About "making progress", I'm unsure what that actually means. What does "making no progress" in example mean? Wish your question was formulated a bit better in the body text, than this vague headline title.
Everything already works, Linux support is ootb for almost every new piece of equipment that comes out nowadays. Literally what is missing?
Your pretext seems flawed too since the kernel llm decision is in keeping with the way it’s been for years and there wasn’t really an alternative to llm use with the number of patches flying in from llm sources.
Just generally what do you think is happening in the world regarding Linux? Are you referring to c/linux on .ml?
Linux is the primary OS supported on all of the major cloud platforms and has effectively replaced nearly all commercial Unix systems in new deployments.
I wouldn't say I really care if the "community" is big or small (it's also a bit unclear what you mean exactly, do you just mean user adoption?)... but I care about Linux (and in general, open source alternatives) being real options when it comes to hardware support, compatibility with services I might want to use, etc.
I don't think you can have proper "progress" in those areas without having Linux be a recognized mainstream system. Like say.. banks are unlikely to make an authenticator app for non-Android Linux phones if non-Android Linux phones are not mainstream, for example.
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Dr. Prashant Sharma, Air Force veteran and psychiatrist, joins Popp & Dwarf for some education on the amygdala, fight or flight responses, and more. This should be a particularly informative show!
I want to create a bit-by-bit backup of my DVD and a Blu-ray disc without removing its encryption. Is dd be the best method, and if so, what flags or settings should I use? Also, is comparing the SHA-256 hash of the generated ISO file with the hash of the original disc’s raw data (read from /dev/sr0) the best method for verifying the backup’s integrity?
If so this is clever. In the wild event they get into some sort of trouble with copying, they have a bit-for-bit copy proving they own/owned the BluRay instead of a ripped copy.
A digital or physical copy of a receipt. But then how would they know the receipt is theirs? Well, they don't. There are a subset of users who have bit for but copies. I think if they came into some legal trouble having that vs a rip would be better since the data is in tact the same way it was when purchased. Can I easily be called a backup.
I'm not your lawyer and I'm definitely not a lawyer anyway. Just playing Devis Advocate.
There are layers below the bits. Writable CDs are made from different chemicals, so it's obvious they are copies. Heck, some of them are obviously different colours, like blue.
Not OP, but DVD and BlueRays have a shelf life of 3-5 years. Þey will probably be fine for 10, maybe longer, but mass market products tend to be printed wiþout concern for longevity. I've had CDs delaminate; storage conditions definitely play a factor.
Þere is a BD-compatible archival standard called alternatively M-DISC or BDXL which uses different materials and processes and is guarateed for 100 year, with a reasonable expectation of usability wiþin a millenium.
So: OP could be wanting backups in case of accident or loss; or þey want to migrate media from 5y DVD to 100y M-DISC; or maybe every 5y þey reclone þeir entire library, buying þemselves anoþer guaranteed 5ys. Lots of reasons.
Why not strip þe DRM? Scared of the US paramilitary enforcing capitalism? Or þey believe þey'll have perpetual access to it and it's too hard. I dunno.
@Sxan@piefed.zip nailed the main point. I’m making a legal backup copy of the content to store on DVD/Blu-ray discs in case something goes wrong or the disk get corrupted
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In Belgium at least it is illegal to circumvent copy protection. This isn't even exclusive to the US, so I'm not sure where you got that idea from. So it is perfectly legal here to rip a cd from the public library but not necessarily for a Blu-Ray you bought
Een lezer vroeg me: Ik ben bezig mijn oude filmcollectie te digitaliseren naar een home media player. Dus ik converteer nu elke dvd naar een modern formaat, en daarna kunnen die weg. Maar ik zie veel dvd’s met kopieerbeveiliging.
Creating a (usable) backup of a soon failing data carrier should be legal either way. Yeah, a lot of countries have stupid laws there, but as long as you don't share the data on the internet, you should be fine.
Also to note: to legally watch a DVD, you require either Windows or MacOS, with a supported (proprietary) player software, in most jurisdictions. So, there, no legal DVD for Linux, laws are stupid. And instead of cracking it on each watch, better to just do it once.
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I would look at the tools that the preservation groups use for doing this. The optical media layouts are funky and IIRC using dd on the block device is not enough to archive a bit-for-bit copy. There are details about the track layout and so on that need to be recorded separately. This is why formats like BIN/CUE exist.
i was going to extol dd_rescue's virtues, but my own efforts to do what OP is trying to accomplish proves that they'll have limited success thanks to drm.
dd is neither the best nor a suitable method (dd is a scalpel not a shovel, use cp or cat). But optical media are tricky either way, with purposedly placed reading errors and stuff. redumper was made for a disc preservation initiative. Does a good job so far for me, but best to use old SATA drives with it. Those between 2010 and 2015 (pre-DRM-crackdown) also don't need libredrive.
Thanks for mentioning redumper. I’ll check it out. In your experience, after completing the disk dump with redumper, did you have a method to verify the copied data matched the original exactly?
Optical media don't even have a bitstream. When you dd from something other than a CD-ROM, it's not clear what you're getting. You might just get an error saying it's not a CD-ROM. Different kinds of CDs use completely different encoding layers in between "the bitstream" and the actual pattern of dots engraved on the disk. Obviously a CD-ROM has "a bitstream" because it's designed purely for computer use and the computer wants to see it as a bitstream, but for other kinds it's not so clear.
You can't fast-forward or rewind an audio CD in a CD player is that the CD player has no idea which sector it's on. At most it can just count how many seconds of audio it's played so far. It just keeps the laser locked on to the spiral, and keeps playing as long as the data keeps coming. And there's some kind of skip code for tracks so you can skip to a track number, but only for tracks. If it accidentally skipped over a bit of audio it would have absolutely no way to know, that's why programs like cdparanoia employ so many heuristics to know they got it right. A CD-ROM by contrast has a sector number on every sector, because that's non-negotiable for computers.
This is silly. You're approaching this with wrong-headed thinking. Just use makemkv.
What you will have if you used hacked firmware to bypass physical anti-copying methods present on BluRay discs to actually get a bit for bit copy of your disc is a useless blob of encrypted data that you have no way of verifying for accuracy (that it was copied correct or that the disc itself didn't have subtle physical damage which gave you something damaged because you can't play it to verify) and which you have no way of using. You'll have no way of ripping it or turning it into usable data in future if your disc does go bad because no one else uses this method so there's no software that will allow you to turn this encrypted blob easily back into a playable movie and to burn it to a new BluRay writable disc would break laws anyway because you're engaging in duplication and secondly all BluRay authoring (burning) programs are built around building and burning unencrypted video files to a disc not around burning an encrypted blob to a disc (often specific sectors containing specific data must be written to specific parts of the disc to make it playable, something no public program will help you with when trying to bit for bit copy in reverse and which blindly bit for bit copying at low level isn't likely to achieve).
Everyone else breaks the encryption and dumps a copy of the disc including the AACS keys and certs to prove ownership and you should do the same rather than thinking you're particularly special or vulnerable. If you're that much an enemy of the state or media companies they'll do you just as much for having the encrypted copies and state you had INTENT to break it (and indeed defeated DRM mechanisms on the drive firmware itself first which may be a violation of law in order to get that copy) if they're trying to make an example out of you because you've pissed them off.
In practice no media company is likely to go after someone breaking the encryption while retaining the discs and keeping the copies only for themselves. There's simply no incentive to harassing paying customers in that way if you're not uploading the contents or hosting a for-profit Plex or Jellyfin server of the contents or burning bootleg copies of the films. You'd have to go around publicly bragging in your own name about breaking the encryption and pretty much dare them to get you for them to know or care enough to do anything about it short of you otherwise breaking the law as I outlined above.
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After reading your comment and others', I realize I was wrong about this. I dove into the datahoarding rabbit hole and considered niche use cases. Thanks for the detailed post.
There's no such thing as a bit-for-bit copy of anything, you are always deciding what to copy and what not to copy. When you copy a file you might or might not copy the last modified time.
Optical disks use error-checking codes. You usually don't want to copy those. Even on a non-encrypted disk you don't want to copy a scratch on your disk onto a new disk with a scratch, you want to decode it and then encode it again to one with the scratch patched over. And it would make your file bigger for no reason when copying to a medium that can't scratch.
ISO format is designed for computer disks. It doesn't work for audio disks or other types of things you can put on a CD. ISO has the bitstream as a computer reads the filesystem, which is already after several layers of decoding. Audio CDs don't use that decoding so they can fit more data, so they just can't fit in an ISO file.
Encryption is like this too. If you could just copy an encrypted disk as an ISO and it would still work, that'd be shitty encryption so they wouldn't bother with it. They use tricks to put data outside of the normal copied areas. A really old form of copy protection was to mess up the lower layers - write a sector that would look so scratched it was unreadable, and if you can read it, it must be a copied disk. Or write the same sector several times, so the drive will find a different version of it depending on where it started from. The PS1 wrote the track a bit wobbly, like the CD writer was drunk, but not so wobbly the PS1 couldn't read it, then used the shape of the wobble to encode a signature that said it was a genuine disk. Don't ask me how Bluray DRM works, I don't know it, but it must be using similar kinds of tricks. Storing data in the disk's barcode was another trick some consoles did.
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Other companies. We like to think that companies need end consumers to have at least some money to buy their stuff but that's not true. Theoretically, an economy could self-sustain entirely with businesses and no end consumers.
a small update to this digital wellbeing software since my last post. This is a prerelease version which i have tagged to be stable and slated for future release and add to main branch from the beta branch.
This highlight is less about asking you guys to try out the beta release but more in the honor of over 3+ months of development. What makes me happy the most is that the project which i started even without a repository just to monitor my own system and usage has now come this far with over 50+ downloads 🎉☺️
This beta release now polishes on various little things which are actually necessary for a first time set up and proper user control as Now you can:
carries forward the settings screen from previous beta release
replaces notifications and sounds tab with general which now includes appearance settings
you can now Stop , restart or RESET the Daemon and its preferences in settings
Pomodoro settings which were half baked in the first release have now been added to settings to enable a looping focus mode for people at work with CUSTOM BREAK TIME
Most Importantly (i feel) FIRST time setup issues have been fixed and in an attempt the first time ScreenGuard daemon setup pop up dialog (1st image) has been made
The Release v0.1.1 releases this October by second week, and I will continue testing the beta version to look for sectors that need polishing if any.
This is still limited to GNOME on wayland and x11 for other environments systems and primarily developed by me on my fedora 44 system and the project ScreenGuard still has a very Long way to go;
But working on it alone has given me much exposure to project sharing on platforms and most importantly a lot of invaluable experience and the true zeal of development instead of the boredom of being a 9 to 5 dev at a corporate who don't care for you.
The code for this is visible on the beta branch to keep the main working tree clean for new features additions.
Feedback from other desktop environments is widely appreciated, u can try the application out by switching to x11 session temporarily if you are using any DE which is not GNOME wayland or if u are on a DE which is primarily x11 based (Cinnamon, i3, etc) then u are good to go as they ARE FULLY SUPPORTED.
thank you everyone for your supports, criticisms and feedbacks ever since the project came online on github.
WarningThis is a pre-release / beta build for testing purposes. It will NOT be pushed to the stable APT, Arch, or Copr repositories. The stable v0.1.0 remains unchanged for regular users.
🛠️ Issu...
a small update to this digital wellbeing software since my last post. This is a prerelease version which i have tagged to be stable and slated for future release and add to main branch from the beta branch.
This highlight is less about asking you guys to try out the beta release but more in the honor of over 3+ months of development. What makes me happy the most is that the project which i started even without a repository just to monitor my own system and usage has now come this far with over 50+ downloads 🎉☺️
This beta release now polishes on various little things which are actually necessary for a first time set up and proper user control as Now you can:
carries forward the settings screen from previous beta release
replaces notifications and sounds tab with general which now includes appearance settings
you can now Stop , restart or RESET the Daemon and its preferences in settings
Pomodoro settings which were half baked in the first release have now been added to settings to enable a looping focus mode for people at work with CUSTOM BREAK TIME
Most Importantly (i feel) FIRST time setup issues have been fixed and in an attempt the first time ScreenGuard daemon setup pop up dialog (1st image) has been made
The Release v0.1.1 releases this October by second week, and I will continue testing the beta version to look for sectors that need polishing if any.
This is still limited to GNOME on wayland and x11 for other environments systems and primarily developed by me on my fedora 44 system and the project ScreenGuard still has a very Long way to go;
But working on it alone has given me much exposure to project sharing on platforms and most importantly a lot of invaluable experience and the true zeal of development instead of the boredom of being a 9 to 5 dev at a corporate who don't care for you.
The code for this is visible on the beta branch to keep the main working tree clean for new features additions.
Feedback from other desktop environments is widely appreciated, u can try the application out by switching to x11 session temporarily if you are using any DE which is not GNOME wayland or if u are on a DE which is primarily x11 based (Cinnamon, i3, etc) then u are good to go as they ARE FULLY SUPPORTED.
thank you everyone for your supports, criticisms and feedbacks ever since the project came online on github.
WarningThis is a pre-release / beta build for testing purposes. It will NOT be pushed to the stable APT, Arch, or Copr repositories. The stable v0.1.0 remains unchanged for regular users.
🛠️ Issu...
Infrastructure development can reshape the market for concrete equipment in ways that are not immediately visible from a machine specification sheet. In Ghana, roads, drainage systems, bridges, housing developments, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and public infrastructure projects create different patterns of concrete demand. A contractor working on a short urban drainage project may need a very different mixing arrangement from a company supplying concrete for a long highway project. These differences influence equipment configuration, production capacity, mobility, transportation, and ultimately the concrete mixer machine price in Ghana.
Price is therefore not determined by machine size alone. Import costs, shipping arrangements, project duration, concrete volume, site accessibility, equipment utilization, and the required level of automation can all affect the purchasing decision. When infrastructure activity increases, demand for certain equipment configurations may also change. Understanding this relationship helps contractors distinguish between a higher purchase price caused by additional capability and a higher price that does not provide practical value for the project.
Infrastructure Project Types Create Different Concrete Demand Patterns
Road Projects Require Mobility Across Multiple Work Areas
Road construction rarely concentrates all concrete work at one permanent location. Culverts, drainage channels, bridge approaches, kerbs, foundations, and roadside structures can appear at different points along the alignment. Equipment that can move between these work fronts may therefore have greater practical value than a machine designed solely for fixed-site production.
Urban Infrastructure Creates Space and Access Constraints
Market infrastructure projects in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, and other growing urban areas can involve congested roads and restricted construction compounds. Concrete equipment must often operate within a limited footprint while avoiding interference with traffic and other trades. Compact machinery, flexible discharge arrangements, and easier relocation can consequently influence purchasing decisions and market prices.
Large Projects Can Favor Higher Utilization
A machine with a higher acquisition price may become more economical to operate when it remains productive throughout a long construction program. Large road, bridge, industrial, or housing projects can provide enough concrete demand to justify greater production capacity. The relevant comparison is therefore not simply purchase price, but the relationship between equipment cost and expected utilization over the project period.
Concrete Equipment Demand Changes With Project Scale
Small Projects Often Need Flexible Concrete Production
Smaller infrastructure contractors may not require a large stationary concrete production system. Their projects can involve foundations, drainage works, small bridges, residential developments, or localized road improvements where concrete demand fluctuates from day to day. In these conditions, a self loading concrete mixer for sale can provide an alternative by combining aggregate loading, weighing, mixing, and concrete transport within one machine.
Larger Projects May Justify Higher-Capacity Systems
When a project requires substantial quantities of concrete over an extended period, production capacity becomes more influential. Contractors may consider batching plants, multiple mixers, or other centralized production arrangements. These systems can require greater initial investment, site preparation, aggregate storage, and transportation planning, but their suitability depends on whether the project can sustain the required production rate.
Equipment Configuration Influences the Final Price
Two machines with similar mixing capacities can have noticeably different prices because their configurations are not identical. Engine selection, hydraulic components, weighing systems, drive configuration, discharge design, cabin equipment, and optional automation can all alter the equipment package. Contractors should therefore compare the complete configuration rather than using capacity as the only purchasing benchmark.
Project Location Can Influence the Delivered Equipment Cost
Transport Distance Adds More Than the Basic Machine Price
Equipment purchased for a Ghanaian infrastructure project may involve inland transportation, port handling, customs procedures, local delivery, and commissioning. A machine that appears inexpensive at the factory can have a different delivered cost once logistics are included. Project location therefore matters, especially when construction sites are far from major transport corridors.
Site Mobility Can Reduce Secondary Equipment Requirements
Some projects need concrete production at several locations rather than at one permanent plant. A self loading mini concrete mixer for sale in Ghana may attract contractors who want to move production between work areas without establishing a conventional batching site at every location. The machine's mobility can become part of the economic calculation because it may reduce dependence on additional material-handling equipment and repeated concrete transportation.
Remote Projects Put Greater Weight on Equipment Independence
Infrastructure projects outside major urban centers can face longer material-supply routes and less predictable access to ready-mixed concrete. Producing concrete closer to the work area can change the logistics equation. However, the contractor still needs to account for aggregate supply, cement storage, water availability, fuel, operator requirements, maintenance, and movement between sites.
How Infrastructure Demand Shapes Mixer Purchasing Decisions
Contractors Should Compare Price With Expected Utilization
Infrastructure activity can make equipment demand more project-specific. A contractor with several upcoming projects may evaluate a machine according to its expected working hours across multiple contracts rather than the requirements of a single job. Higher utilization can make a more capable machine easier to justify, while irregular project schedules may favor a simpler and more mobile configuration.
Market Demand Does Not Make Every Expensive Machine Suitable
Growing infrastructure investment can increase demand for concrete machinery, but market activity should not be treated as a reason to purchase the largest available model. A machine that exceeds the project's concrete requirement may spend substantial time idle. Conversely, an undersized machine can constrain production and create delays. Capacity should remain connected to actual concrete volume, working hours, site conditions, and future project opportunities.
Future Projects Can Change the Calculation
For contractors operating across multiple infrastructure contracts, equipment selection can include anticipated future workloads. A machine capable of handling several project types may have greater utility than one optimized for a single application. This is particularly relevant when projects vary between road construction, drainage, housing, commercial development, and small public works.
The relationship between Ghana's infrastructure market and concrete mixer prices is therefore shaped by several interacting variables. Project scale affects required capacity; project location affects logistics; site conditions affect mobility; and expected utilization affects the value of different configurations. Instead of treating concrete mixer machine price in Ghana as an isolated figure, contractors can evaluate the machine against the concrete demand, operating environment, transportation requirements, and workload it is expected to serve. That approach provides a clearer basis for comparing equipment packages as Ghana's infrastructure construction market continues to evolve.
Flatpak 1.18.4 has been released as a security-focused update to the popular application sandboxing and distribution framework for Linux, addressing six newly disclosed vulnerabilities along with several related hardening improvements.
Among the most important fixes is CVE-2026-97024, which could allow a malicious Flatpak application during installation to overwrite arbitrary files with either an empty file or a symlink. A related issue, CVE-2026-97023, could be abused to delete arbitrary files with elevated privileges.
The release also fixes CVE-2026-97025, an issue affecting authenticated OCI repositories. Flatpak now ensures authentication tokens used when downloading applications or runtimes are not exposed to other local users. CVE-2026-97026 is addressed by restricting permissions on temporary repository directories under /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-*.
Another fix, tracked as CVE-2026-97027, introduces stricter filtering of .desktop and D-Bus .service files against an allowlist of permitted fields. According to the developers, this prevents denial-of-service scenarios as well as unintended interactions with services running on the host system.
Flatpak 1.18.4 also resolves CVE-2026-97029, which could allow an application to send signals to a process group containing a parent process outside its sandbox. In certain circumstances, this could result in denial of service by terminating the user’s desktop environment.
Beyond those six vulnerabilities, the update refreshes the bundled xdg-dbus-proxy fallback to version 0.1.9, fixing CVE-2026-93676 and CVE-2026-94422. Flatpak also received additional protection against symlink traversal related to CVE-2026-97023 and CVE-2026-97024.
Finally, given the number and nature of the security fixes included, users are advised to install the update as soon as it becomes available through their Linux distribution’s repositories.
As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls.
NVIDIA engineer Austin Shafer presented this morning at XDC 2026 Toronto around Linux on next-generation display walls: complex display setups appearing in TV production, theaters, and more. Many of these complex display walls today run on Microsoft Windows while NVIDIA is looking to improve Linux usage for such video/media walls.
The display walls running Linux today are typically on the X.Org Server still and making use of NVIDIA Mosaic display features. Using Wayland on its own for such display walls becomes more challenging due to the different compositors and other complexities. There is a path forward though using Vulkan Direct 2 Display "D2D" with the VK_KHR_display extension to let the Vulkan swapchain drive a physical display without any windowing system.
NVIDIA decided to engineer the Display Config Server to improve the Vulkan direct-to-display model by "owning" the displays and then leasing them out to Vulkan clients to avoid the need for every application to contain logic for handling display calibration and configuration. Display Config Server makes for centralized configuration, seamless handoff between clients, and making it easier for applications to implement.
The XDC 2026 presentation shared that NVIDIA is working to support the Display Config Server to run nested with a Wayland compositor. They are also working to improve how the Vulkan direct-to-display API can present on display walls.
The Display Config Server code is to be open-source via this GitHub repository but as of writing doesn't appear to be yet publicly available.
Those wishing to learn more can see this PDF slide deck and the video embedded above.
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Wonder what kind if cost we're looking at, when "washing" a library like chardet. And whether that's something available to robin-hood stuff from the rich, or if it's just the other way around.
Wow, I didn't know. Are there any bigger projects out there doing this? Most I find when googling it, is a few YouTubers and people who do it small scale as some sort of tech demo.
It is lacking the "money problem": the high cost is adsorbed by big capitalist organizations (at the cost of the hardware price inflating) that hope to get everyone addicted/dependent on the tool to then surge the prices.
This is not open tech, this is not for everyone, this is not to make a better world. This is business.
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Recent experience, developing in Opus 5.5. Spin up an agent to review the security aspects of the project, write a report. Pass the report to another Opus 5.5 agent and tell it to implement mitigations for confirmed problems found in the report. Implementation agent proceeds to make tests for the described exploits and gets shut down by the guardrails: Opus 5.5 is not permitted to "do that kind of work" had to scale back to Opus 4.8 for the implementation, though 5.5 was still happy to describe the chained attack scenarios, apparently it's not allowed to develop demonstration code as it was trying to do for the test cases.
This is a pretty solid list, besides Code Quality. Most of the links there are user error. It's akin to blaming a Junior dev for breaking production imo and undermines the entire page.
Can the blind anti LLM jerk stop already it's the same 2024 2025 arguments. Agentic coding has massively improved this year even local open source LLM's are getting good
Do tankies tend to put "liberal" on anything they don't like?
I'm sorry, comrade, but that's not how it works. There are many valid reasons people of all political backgrounds stand against using LLMs in (open-source) coding.
Platforms and projects taking direct action on the matter is exactly what communists usually claim to support. They make change where they can, and rally for a bigger one.
Ultimately, the most performative folks are those judging others without making something better themselves.
We'll stop when the AI evangelists finally learn the idea of consent and quit trying to force AI down everyone's throats nonstop.
You want to shrivel up your brain with AI? Go ahead, you're an adult (presumably) and I'm not your mom. Go access it through a browser or separate app. Quit trying to force it into my face by integrating it into the OS or DE. And while you're at it, quit continually going "BuT dId YoU cOnSiDeR tHiS???1?" like a door-to-door salesman that jams their foot in the door so you can't close it
This is the exact opposite. Trying to ban AI from everything despite its use cases.
Many people don't know this but even Luddites didn't oppose machinery. They simply opposed the ownership structure of it. So instead of saying "no LLM" you could say "Open-source/weight LLM's allowed only".
This is the exact opposite. Trying to ban AI from everything despite its use cases.
This is a pure, bold-faced lie. But this is nothing new from AI evangelists.
This is about banning AI contributions from specific open-sourced projects. This is due to a number of legitimate concerns that are still not solved, such as maintainability and how AI development legally interacts with licenses such as the GPL
You want to go and start an open sourced project that uses AI from the start? Go ahead, nothing is stopping you. You want to install AI programs on your OS? Go ahead, nobody is stopping you
But don't cram that bullshit into the OS itself. Doing so then forces AI onto everybody whether they want it or not, and that's bullshit
A single repo hub doesn't want to host LLM-generated code. It's not like there aren't others that are friendly to LLM-code, including the largest one: GitHub. And GitHub will never ban LLM code, they're too integrated with it. And Codeberg is just a specific Forgejo instance. Nothing is stopping you from hosting your own if you really want to.
You're taking a single instance of a provider adding an extra stipulation to their TOS and equating it to governments banning the use of LLM's. It's not, and the government isn't going to be taking away your LLM. Quit acting like it is.
You talk about it being "blind" right under exhaustive list of reasons why.
The fact that these arguments appeared before doesn't make them less true. Yes, the coding quality of LLMs has increased, and, notably, it stopped producing as many bugs all over the place, and even got to review bugs made by humans.
But it doesn't remove all other issues from the table, namely: - Issues of licensing and stolen code, potentially causing copyright problems which most open-source projects are poorly fit to resolve and may go down because of them - Environmental impact of model training, huge data centers threatening water supplies, producing tons of e-waste, creating noise pollution, increasing power demand, including one from unclean sources at the critical point when we should reduce it as much as possible - Deterioration in skill level of human coders and lack of avenues for juniors to learn to code properly, which is likely to stay as an essential thing to have - Outside coding, there are many ethical issues around companies producing LLM models, as many have ties to the military and police, and are heavily misused to fuel fascist regimes - And more.
Issues of licensing and stolen code, potentially causing copyright problems which most open-source projects are poorly fit to resolve and may go down because of them
What, we care about licenses and copyright now?
Big tech has stolen all code and now everything it "open source". You're not going to get into legal trouble for using LLM generated code there's no precedent for that. The only ones getting sued are the big tech companies who stole the code.
Environmental impact of model training, huge data centers threatening water supplies, producing tons of e-waste, creating noise pollution, increasing power demand, including one from unclean sources at the critical point when we should reduce it as much as possible
Sure but that's mostly them training a gazillion new models. You could ban models from providers that are doing all these things and thus promote more efficient models.
Deterioration in skill level of human coders and lack of avenues for juniors to learn to code properly, which is likely to stay as an essential thing to have
Valid but understanding architecture and delegating writing the code and especially tests is becoming much more important than just artisan writing it these days.
Outside coding, there are many ethical issues around companies producing LLM models, as many have ties to the military and police, and are heavily misused to fuel fascist regimes
Like I said there's local models as well. China puts out plenty of great open weight stuff like GLM5.3 which will likely have to run in the cloud but it's still open weight.
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I see your point. I don't think China-made local models are panacea by any means though, even through it's good they try to make it more efficient instead of just throwing gazillions and watching the world burn. It is still a very massive, very problematic operation.
Running LLMs locally, especially considering the pace of development, is just going to distribute the e-waste issue and make parts availability even worse, as I doubt your average hardware would be busy around the clock as it is in data centers (and so we'll need much more of it). It is better for some things (like privacy or reliability or screwing with incentives of those turning the economy and the world upside down for a quick grift), but it doesn't solve the others.
As per legal aspects, time will be our judge. I'd love not to give a damn about copyright, but it still exists.
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LLM's can save tremendous time now. You see projects like C&C Generals running on a tablet, or Lego Racers on web which would require tonnes of manual labour and now they're just a few LLM prompts. It's gotten to the point these kind of projects which would have been multi-year undertakings in the past have become "unimpressive"
Yes they're not perfect and they do make mistakes. That's why understanding architecture is more important than ever. But manual coding is really becoming a thing of the past. Agentic coding progress over the last year has pretty much solidified that. It's still not perfect but it's really good now.
Any industry that throws billions of dollars into something will make progress and now that progress has been made there's not much of a point in just resisting the tech itself. Therefore instead of pleading against all AI I believe it's much better to plead for open weight or open source and efficient AI.
The problem is like with the Luddites that you don't own the machine (AI) and the largest companies want to keep full control over them. It's a problem with the system ruling you not with the technology itself.
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The technology is undoubtedly good. All technologies are, if you ask me. The problem is about externalities, but they do matter and cannot be viewed separately.
Currently, as things stand, the development and, notably, use of the technology comes with a massive threat to several important areas. This is why many pieces of software that ban LLM contributions make a for now caveat.
Relying on it now, under current circumstances, is dangerous and damaging, even if sometimes it is a tremendous help. It may get better once we have truly efficient models and training, do not reinvent the wheel from scratch 20 times over, do not screw entire economy over it, put guardrails on the use of technology against people, and have a cheap, resource-efficient, and long-relevant hardware to run it. But we're not there yet. We're going to space with a gunpowder barrel here. Workable? I guess. Reasonable? No.
If the goal isn't to oppose the technology but instead steer towards better use of the technology then that should be promoted. This blanket opposition means that we get fascists like DHH being the only ones to adopt LLM's because for some reason the left has a hate boner for it.
Hm... [url=https://w3id.org/fep/c0e0]FEP-c0e0: Emoji reactions[/url] details two ways to federate an Emoji reaction:
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[li][code]EmojiReact[/code] activity[/li]
[li][code]Like[/code] with [code]content[/code] (as opposed to a regular [code]Like[/code], which has no content)[/li]
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In testing, I noticed that misskey (or at least, the site I was testing with, [code]birb.space[/code]) sends the latter. I don't know what sends the former, and if NodeBB were to start federating out [code]Em
Like with content (as opposed to a regular Like, which has no content)
In testing, I noticed that misskey (or at least, the site I was testing with, birb.space) sends the latter. I don't know what sends the former, and if NodeBB were to start federating out EmojiReact, would it be broadly understood?
Like at least has got the advantage to use the existing vocabulary. At Friendica we currently process both but we can't send - exactly because of the problem that we're still undecided which way to go.
A problem is that you could send a negative emoji - that would be received as a like (which is normally interpretet as positive) for example on Mastodon. And this can be confusing.
it makes no sense to me to turn emoji reactions into likes. They are inherently different things. If one wants to support emoji reactions in their software, go look at how people are actually using them in everyday life. There are a totally different form of communication then a like. You can look at a popular user on Misskey to see how they are being used in reality
The most portable solution we've found is to send a Note with InReplyTo containing nothing but a single emoji (which might be a composite emoji) after removing whitespace. The same algorithm on the receiving side also works for Like activities with single-emoji content. We treat these as emoji reactions internally. You can add one or more of the various 'EmojiReact' platform specific cohorts if you want. Just like punycode usernames - it federates with all the things. Unlike all the other solutions we've seen...
So, few days ago I asked the thread which distro they'd recommend and one of the most recommended was debian and debian based. But I for myself(Even though the post says otherwise) now chose to use an arch based distro, because of the better supported and newer nvidia drivers as well as automatic hardware detection. So I wanted to hear some experiences of you, that you may have had in the past considering EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro and Arch itself. I personally have gone for Manjaro now, kind of hoping that it won't break on the attempt to cut themselves of the company side of Manjaro and becomming they're own non-profit.
Made the switch from Windows to Cachy back in February because Microslop is getting way too invanse and creepy for my liking, and I don't see why I should be connected to the internet for programs as simple as Notepad. Its been a learning curve as someone who's never used Linux before but I actually find great satisfaction in figuring out the challenges that arise, and I can usually have a local LLM I use walk me through the solution as an effective learning tool. As someone who uses their PC for a decent amount of gaming on a regular basis, it's treated me well, and I find that it actually let's my system run better without all the unnecessary fluff of modern iterations of Windows.
I used Arch for a couple years and enjoyed it. Occasionally an update would break the system but there was always a fix on the Arch forum. I found it quite easy to install and use, but I'm a long time Linux user, wouldn't recommend it to a beginner.
Installing arch with the arch install script is the hardest step, but it's quite managable if you've got decent computer literacy, but no linux knowledge (and it becomes a trivial step if you use an arch based distro that uses calamares).
And once you're up and running, it's easy.
As I said, that's how I started with linux a few years back, and I came in to it with no linux knowledge. I moved from Arch to CachyOS at some point, but Arch was easy enough. I can speak to this scenario from first hand experience!
The whole Manjaro concept of delaying Arch updates by two weeks is bullshit, because they don't actually use that time for additional tests or include fixes. They just ship exactly the same bugs 2 weeks later.
On top of this where Arch explicitly warns users about the AUR as unvetted community content and only lets you install AUR helpers manually (increasing the chance that people see the warning and think twice) Manjaro comes with their own AUR helper pre-installed. No warning, no nothing. Oh, and they use the unmodified AUR which is running under the assumption that you have an updated Arch system, not one weeks out-of-date. So welcome to breakages and dependency hell.
Said Manjaro-specific AUR helper also has ddos'ed the AUR on multiple occasions because they don't seem to believe in testing.
Have I mentioned the –by now meme-worthy– fact that they are too stupid to not let their SSL certificates expire and unironically proposed setting your PC's clock/date back as a solution?
I've been running Garuda for over a year and had a great experience. They include a toolbox app that collects and really simplifies lots of core functions like updating mirror lists or cleaning up orphaned packages, but you don't have to use it (I rarely do). It's been rock solid for me, no broken packages or updates the whole time I've used it. I'm running the dr460nized gaming spin, which adds several gaming-specific tweaks. The community is great, and I really have had no complaints. It is a little "opinionated," so you might fell like it's got stuff you don't need, but apart from that, it's definitely worth looking into.
I ran Manjaro for a few years. It worked mostly but I ran into issues sometimes on updates. Got tired of that so I moved to Fedoraworkstation and it’s been rock solid.
I used to use Arch. On x86 it was alright, the AUR was nice and the wiki is really good. When I switched to an ARM laptop they didn't have an official ARM version and at that time Arch Linux ARM was way behind on updates, so the Asahi Linux project switched to Fedora Workstation and I did the same. Now I use NixOS which I like much better than both Arch and Fedora.
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I've used Manjaro daily for 8 years ans I haven't been able to fault them. I now also have an EndeavourOS system and it's also brilliant even though i don't like having updates that frequently.
They're both really good, pick one and don't look back.
MX Linux (debian-based), pre-install software to help you tedious things (installing nv drivers, disk manager, conky, etc), lot's of regular updates, the only downside is you have to reinstall the all OS when a new version gets out (it follows the debian release cycle with a 4-6 month delay).
I love Garuda. I tried Bazzite and CachyOS, but I just keep ending up back on Garuda. I feel like it is the only one that really lets me just use my computer and not think about the OS when I don't want to.
as a longtime fan of looking at other people dotfiles and trying different setups, NixOS speaks to me on a spiritual level. Its dotfiles for your hardware AND software, all contained beuatifully in one place 99% of the time, and thats by choice even! You dont even have to do that much declaratively if you dont want to. Tons of automation tools have been developed, theres appimage support, etc.
can get annoying the first time you have to setup your own flake for a small project that doesnt have one, but once you learn it it goes from a real roadblock to an occational annoyance that i can personally totally live with.
woulsnt reccommend it ti a first timer unless theyre a special breed. Enough fundamentals dont follow most other linux systems that its definitely an added struggle if youre also trying to learn those.
if your idea of FUN is heavily insipired by Dwarf Fortress as mine is tho, its the best thing since sliced bread
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I've been daily driving linux-based OS for about a year and a half now. I started with NixOS per the recommendation of a friend. It's great for stability and the config-based setup is super cool. I found the software to be a bit behind in updates and the way the nix store worked caused some hiccups with certain things I wanted to do. I still use it for my servers, but switched to CachyOS for my clients.
CachyOS has been great. I use the Shelly GUI to install all of the software. I have Nvidia (RTX 3080) and have had a really smooth experience. The one issue that sticks out to me is there seems to be an issue with switching from a single monitor setup (for sunshine streaming) back to my triple monitor setup including my 32:9 240hz monitor - this became an issue recently after some updates. Could be a KDE thing rather than CachyOS thing, though.
FWIW I know nothing about how to get regular arch working - I've heard it's a bit complex, but CachyOS has been anything but that.
I've been using cachyos for a couple years and had no issues with it. For me it has enough 'out of the box' functionality to jump in, but also allows you do do whatever you want to customize it. I will always recommend it to people who have at least a bit of tech knowledge and just want to get started and not have to build everything from scratch.
I switched from EndeavourOS to OpenSUSE tumbleweed.
Not because EOS is bad, the contrary, i had a really good and smooth experience and probably only had one big issue, but my fault for not searching through EOS' forum xD, that caused a total wipe and fresh install.
EOS beeing arch based, you need to keep regularly your system up to date and keep your system clean ! Beeing bleeding edge is a double sword... That's why I switched to openSUSE TW, cause I needed something close to bleeding endge but also very stable for a hybrid server-gaming system.
This is also doable with EOS, but there's way more personal investement to keep it stable.
Would totally recommend EOS to someone who want to tinker and customize his/her system and learning a bit more about how UNIX system works on a deeper level.
I first dove into Linux March 2020 with Mint. The next day the pandemic lockdowns started. I hadn't heard about the pandemic at that point.
My internet was shut off a couple weeks later which made learning how to use Linux significantly more difficult. I had downloaded a wide variety of distro's though and had plenty of time to try them out but only had the man pages to learn from, which don't really make a lot of the connections I needed to get things working right on my computer, a Frankenstein's monster which had a lot of quirks and was made from parts salvaged from the trash or donated out of pity by friends. Oh and the CPU was partially delidded by a tornado and still works like a champ to this day.
I went from Mint to various Ubuntu's, played with a bunch of Puppy's, didn't care for Zorin or Fedora for unrelated reasons, almost settled on MX but messed something up, and long story short, I started using Manjaro KDE since September 2021 and have stuck with it. For my use case and equipment at the time, it just worked.
I've tried a few other distros, breifly, mostly in VM's and almost changed to Open SUSE Tumbleweed but ultimately stuck with the Manjaro. There have been a few frustrations along the way but the issues stemmed more from my low-budget equipment, corrupt and incompetant internet service providers and incompetant and corrupt monitor and cable manufacturers, than anything Manjaro did and some of those problems were solved by their (mostly) friendly forum people.
I got lucky and managed to find a way to build a new computer since then, a fairly decent one for a home desktop in my opinion. I don't foresee myself changing anytime soon. (New PC: AMD 7950XT; ASRock Taichi mobo; ASRock Radeon 6950 GPU; 128GB RAM)
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I don't understand that point at all. How is Arch different in that regard & I'm asking this as an experienced Linux user managing multiple Debian & Arch boxes.
So I wanted to hear some experiences of you, that you may have had in the past considering EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro and Arch itself.
If you want to go down this road & are confident in your technical ability & mental fortitude to maintain such a system long term, then just go with vanilla Arch & go through the installation process once. The real difficulty of Arch is dealing with the every day minor & major breakages that come with updates. Learning something from the install procedure is actually helpful with that. The main point is that not only is the real difficulty maintenance, but none of the popular Arch flavors do anything meaningful to help with that. It's just you and the terminal at the end of the day. Saving a couple hours on the install process is not going to help you at all.
Manjaro is conceptually garbage ran by incompetent people so it's not even worth considering.
I personally have gone for Manjaro now, kind of hoping that it won’t break on the attempt to cut themselves of the company side of Manjaro and becomming they’re own non-profit.
Oh okay, oof. Let me explain then. Their concept of holding back packages by one week & still having / advertising the AUR means additional instability. This or that library or dependency gets an update & then the updated AUR package will break with your one week old stuff. Furthermore far more often than not they still push the broken package, because they would need a similar contributor base to main Arch to actually vet & test everything which they'll never have no matter what they do. What they call an additional safety net is almost never one. Sure if Arch pushed a broken grub update, that's like the one thing you could a avoid with Manjaro, but if you cannot fix / research such a problem (chroot or refind & reinstall grub), then you have no business using such a distro to begin with.
CachyOS is in a weird spot, but I cannot really recommend them, because they push new kernels too soon, to the point of ridiculousness.
EoS is vanilla Arch with a gui installer basically. It's barely a distro, but their community forums are great for new users to ask "dumb" questions. I can fully recommend every noob Arch user this community, they'll help you even if you are not using EoS, they've certainly helped & taught me a lot back then.
Garuda is the same as EoS, but there is some added graphical flare, which you can add yourself to any Linux system if you wanted to.
If you are a new user who is worried about old packages, then you should be using Fedora, that's pretty much it. Arch can be good too, but it's for a technical user who is really interested in Linux beyond just using their computer.
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I'll advice you to go with Fedora, because rolling release distro often cause issues, but Fedora has not too old packages like Debian and gets major updates 2x a year, don't worry about driver and app updates you'll get them as you would on amy distro.
Ill put it this way; me and a mate switched to Linux as our main drivers at roughly the same time. Both of us have a background in development (him more), I switched to Fedora, he to Cachy.
It is now roughly two years later. He has switched his distro multiple more times. Im still on Fedora because it just works.
Arch based distros are for tinkerers and customisers. Sure it can just work too, but if you dont tinker then theres no real point/ advantage.
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MX is also solid for older Nvidia cards. The installer tool picks patched drivers for you in case they are needed. This is mostly up to preference, I don't like CachyOS as much as I don't like the rolling release model.
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Syncspirit is continuous peer-to-peer realtime syncrhonization tool. It implements BEP protocol and provides seamless interoperability with existing syncthing nodes and clients.
Notable changes (since previous v0.4.5 announce): - [core, fltk] allow to use file patterns (PCRE-syntax) accept or ignore local files into cluster - [core] add start offline option - [fltk, win32, os x] add system tray icon - [fltk] use menu instead of toolbar - [core] introduce services layer (allow stop/start/restart of networking) - [core] dns resolver actor: randomly choose ip address of resolver server - [core, fix] more reliably connect to relays.syncthing.net - [core, win32, bugfix] use utf8 for displaying error messages - [core, win32, bugfix] allow to use long file paths (260+ symbols)
Syncspirit is continuous peer-to-peer realtime syncrhonization tool. It implements BEP protocol and provides seamless interoperability with existing syncthing nodes and clients.
Notable changes (since previous v0.4.5 announce): - [core, fltk] allow to use file patterns (PCRE-syntax) accept or ignore local files into cluster - [core] add start offline option - [fltk, win32, os x] add system tray icon - [fltk] use menu instead of toolbar - [core] introduce services layer (allow stop/start/restart of networking) - [core] dns resolver actor: randomly choose ip address of resolver server - [core, fix] more reliably connect to relays.syncthing.net - [core, win32, bugfix] use utf8 for displaying error messages - [core, win32, bugfix] allow to use long file paths (260+ symbols)
i'm really digging how people are making ui's look like they predate windows xp and mac os 10 -- sometimes, it makes me feel like in in my 20's again. lol
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Have you read the article? If yes which aspects so you disagree with?
Edit: I don't want to change the original, but I didn't mean "did you read the article" as smart assert but as "is that a taste statement or something in relation to what they wrote?"
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yes i did read it. the original name had pretty good recognition among linux nerds already, it's kinda long but usually shortened as pmOS so i don't see how problematic that is.
and the new name just seems too generic/unmemorable.. imagine you hear "postmarketOS running on Galaxy S10" and you instantly know its some alternate OS ported to that phone unlike "Nura on Galaxy S10". It doesn't even have "OS" in the name..
No? It wasn't? "The OS for your e-waste" isn't a good name for an OS this good. Also the old name was long, and with Google riling up FOSS advocates and annoying a good portion of normal users with their recent decisions, this is the perfect wave of criticism of Android and endorsement of alternatives to ride with some marketing.
I'd say the logo needs a redesign too.
edit: after reading the article, I think "Nurag" or "Nuragh" would've been better, but anything is better than the old name IMO.
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Great call. I'm not sure if they should focus so heavily on the recycling theme. In the end, the goal is a superior Linux operating system for all phones, not just recyclable hardware. But the logo still looks pretty sleek.
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It is better, because postmarket seemed to suggest that the only goal is to make old devices usable again, while in fact its main goal is to provide a good alternative OS in general.
Graham sounds more and more like a grifter. Is KDE slowly doing the walk towards evil?
A proposal to make KDE an "AI-native" desktop has gone down like a house on fire: screams, flames, people running for safety. There may be no survivors.*
Last weekend was KDE's annual Akademy conference and it included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE. We noted that it seemed likely to polarize the audience. It looks like this was a considerable understatement.
In the days since, a debate over proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions descended into bans and a deleted thread. An outside campaign called for KDE to prohibit AI altogether, a GNOME developer proposed a similar policy for that project, and KDE developer Nate Graham apologized for his role in the uproar.
The Akademy talk was titled "A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE" and the slide deck [PDF] is now available. It ends by saying: "The question is not whether AI. It is how. You choose how much AI – and which."
It seems almost calculated to provoke an argument rather than invite discussion. We do not know if the authors intended this – we attempted to contact both of them, but they have not yet responded.
Graham opened a discussion on Invent, KDE's GitLab instance, about proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions. Although we are not a member, we watched this with some interest over the weekend. It rapidly became heated. Moderators issued warnings, restricted further comments, and eventually removed the thread.
There is an archive of the discussion, but we warn you, it contains some highly offensive language, albeit censored by the member who quoted another member's tweets on X. As events unfolded, the participant who drew attention to the posts was banned first. The author of the offensive material was banned later after their identity was verified.
The discussion is gone, but the argument continues.
One response was an outside initiative called KDE for People, which called on the KDE project to adopt a No-AI policy. Around 250 people signed it before its organizers closed it to further signatures.
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis has also published The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want, proposing that LLMs be barred from creating or modifying anything submitted to GNOME or hosted on its infrastructure.
This mentions the recent ballot on AI usage in Debian. We reported on the developer referendum about a month ago, noting that the broad spread of anti-AI options in the ballot was likely to split the vote. (This likelihood was dismissed in the comments.) Well, as The Register's Asia-Pacific desk reported a few days later, Debian did not ban AI contributions.
Graham subsequently explained his involvement in a post titled KDE and AI, and you, and me. He opens by saying: "So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE. Sorry about that."
He notes that the Akademy talk met "what I'm told was a fairly chilly reception" and that "the next day, a workshop was held about the topic, also receiving a chilly reception."
Every couple of years, the KDE project sets three goals for the next two years. Earlier this week, after Akademy, it chose its latest three: you can see them in the last column of the goal-setting Kanban board. The ones chosen are:
KDE for Enterprise and Deployments (Issue #5)
Better documentation (Issue #2)
Next Generation Styling for KDE (Issue #3)
We see no mention of AI in there. In context, that may come as a relief to parts of the community.
Bootnote
*A tip of the black Borsalino to the late great Terry Pratchett, for two different "house on fire" references we combined. ®
I'm no luddite, have used it (not quite voluntary) at work. Gotta say has its use use cases but I don't think any of them are in FOSS right now. It seems hell bent on producing unmaintainable slop.
It would be fine for proofs of concepts and/or commercial code, where the time you get for tasks hardly ever is sufficient and most customers want a working solution and don't care what's under the hood. If there weren't the 3 giant red flags of environmental impact, cognitive offloading and dependence on big tech.
So why the fuck would you even consider using it in a FREE and OPEN source project, if it's none of those things?
Heck, that guy who set up a camera in such a way to encourage a monkey to take a selfie didn't win his copyright case.
He likely cropped the pic afterwards and touched it up.
I don't see how that's fundamentally all that different than going back and forth with an AI and then tweaking it's output.
That's even before taking into account the copyrights of the original "training materials".
The camera guy did a lot more to earn the copyright than vibecoders, imo. Had the guy just started a video himself and then grabbed a still frame from when the monkey pressed the button again (or set up the camera to take pics every 1/4 second or whatever), he'd have a 100% valid copyrighted photo unlike the viber who'd at best have some pseudocode.
The main reason open source projects are pushing to formally adopt a policy around (allowing) llm use is that they’re already using it.
If there was a unified front between the contributors and the community against llm use, how much code would have to be reverted and rewritten? Most likely a bunch. How long would that take? Most likely a while.
Now perhaps they handle it quickly or truly didn’t have any llm work in their code base, how will they handle the flood of legitimate bug reports from llm testing?
If you’ve ever worked in a trade where your role is split up in an assembly line you know that the person behind you getting access to a new tool that makes them faster necessitates you get a new tool that lets you keep up.
“I have a reputation as being anti-technology; in fact, as being something of a neo-Luddite. People who have labeled me as such usually know nothing about the Luddites. If they did, they woul…
This post, like all my posts, was written by me. It came out of a lot of conversation and reflection with many people. It is long. I promise you there's valu...
Aside: Are "AI Boosters" the Real Disadvantaged-Marginalised-Subaltern Party?
No, and this is an extremely suspicious framing. The largest structural and monetary support ever leveraged is being put behind "AI" rollout. [...] Pushing back against it is what involves sticking out your neck.
Great article. Still working through it, but full of excellent, clearheaded points like this.
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This is my opinion as a casual and probably more mainstream linux user: I switched to linux primarily because it's not windows, and what is windows? Bloated, adware, spyware, AI infested, and buggy. I'm starting to worry about the direction some projects are going. We need a whole distro with the core value of being anti- these things.
There's a lot that can be done already with CLI tools and D-Bus APIs, which OpenCode makes easy for LLMs to interface with. And if it needs to look at your screen it can use the D-Bus APIs to take a screenshot and look at it. Security isn't great but it's a problem with Linux in general.
I don't think that it's really surprising that the desktop that always saw indexing all your data as an essential task of your desktop environment would think making your desktop AI first is a good idea.
The gitlab discussion was opened by graham in order to implement some restrictions on AI use to help the maintainers with low-effort slop PRs. Unfortunately it completely derailed.
For the first time, there's a way to carry out software certification on AlmaLinux, and the hardware suite has been rewritten alongside it, with test results from either certification path landing in the same public catalog.
Don't worry about the cost to validate or the uptime of the machine itself. Certifications are free, and the hardware checks no longer require you to install the distro on your setup. Validating, how?
In this particular situation, software certification is basically a listing plus the confirmations that follow it. A publisher adds the product and picks which major versions of AlmaLinux it runs on.
The confirmations come from the people running software on their own hardware across various AlmaLinux releases, though they will need to sign up for an account if they want to post their findings.
Hardware certification is the other half that got some attention.
The alma-certify tool has been rewritten, with the developers claiming it can now achieve sub-10 minute certification runs on most hardware.
Another improvement is that alma-certify doesn't require an AlmaLinux installation anymore because it can work off live media or from an installation already on the machine. There's also a new machine registration flow that makes use of QR codes.
If you didn't know, this tool records what's in the machine, all the way down to drivers and firmware, then starts up a bunch of short checks that decide whether it passes.
Those checks cover a lot of ground, starting from computation and memory errors, storage health, networking drivers, to kernel state, virtualization, GPU, and peripherals.
Tracking results
Everything ends up in the catalog, and each entry is a result anyone can analyze. It holds the systems, components, and software that have been validated, alongside the benchmark figures from the published test runs.
Every major AlmaLinux release is tracked on its own, so provenance can be proved, and everything in the catalog is easily searchable. You can even make use of the free, read-only API to collect data in bulk.
Jonathan Wright, the Infrastructure Lead for AlmaLinux, directed his attention toward potential testers, saying that:
Two things would make all of this worth it. A lot of people and organizations want proof that AlmaLinux runs on the hardware they already own before they’ll give it a try, and now they can get that proof themselves.
Every result that gets submitted makes the case to hardware and software vendors that supporting AlmaLinux officially is a low-effort thing to do.
So if you have hardware sitting in front of you, or software you rely on every day, go tell us that it works. Validations stack, so adding yours to something already listed helps just as much as being the first.
In the end, this will only work if vendors and individual users take the effort to run tests and manually post them on the portal.
according to the open-slopware repo (codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open…), beansprout and rhine which are WMs for river are the only WMs for now that are anti-ai, but there is little to no stuff about them. Has anyone tried them?
A public engagement video explaining my process in making new colors of light and inviting the public to submit drawings for me to make with the new colors of neon tubing made during the residency. You can see my fiance Ali and I blow glass with Leckie Gassman and pull tubes with Ali and Leckie. You can hear me voiceover explaining the process as well as scenes of me mixing phosphor powder and a bit about that process. I end the video talking about neon bending and have some scenes from that process, using the hand pulled tubing to make a "SUBMIT DRAWING HERE" in new colors divided by syllables. The neon made is used as a color sample for a public submission box on view at the Urbanglass gallery/ store (Agnes Varis Arts Center) in downtown Brooklyn. One lucky drawing will be chosen on August 20th, to be turned into neon using the new colors made during the residency. Submit your drawings in person at Urbanglass, or digitally here color.cccfl.co
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Solus Linux has announced a new policy on using AI and large language model tools in project contributions, explaining where these tools can and cannot be used.
The Solus team says developers can use AI to help with contributions, but they must take full responsibility for their work. Anyone submitting code or package changes needs to test them first. If AI was used, the commit should include an ‘Assisted-by LLM’ note. Only developers, not automated bots, can submit contributions.
“Contributions to Solus that were made with AI/LLM tools are allowed, as long as they follow our policy.”
Solus explains that the policy helps keep the operating system high-quality and easy to maintain. Since many people use Solus every day, contributors need to check and understand their submissions, not just share code made by AI.
However, the rules are stricter for written content. Solus does not allow any AI-generated or partly AI-generated material in its blog or official communications.
The team warns contributors not to hide their use of AI tools. If someone tries to cover up AI involvement, their work could be rejected, and they might be blocked from future contributions. Solus adds that the goal is to encourage open teamwork, not to watch every detail of how people work.
Solus says its new rules are based on the Budgie Desktop AI policy, which itself takes ideas from projects like the Linux kernel and Fedora. Still, they’re leaving the door open as the team also points out that this policy may change as AI tools become more common in software development.
For more details, see the official Solus announcement.
I installed solus (along with a handful of other distros) during the last week, it seems decent enough, better than a lot of other distros, although were I to do it again I would probably forgo budgie for kde plasma. That being said, budgie does now seem like a very viable option.
But... my reason for distrohopping again was looking for viable alternatives to my main distro, ones that would (hopefully soon) come out with anti ai statements. Solus chose not to do that, so has now been deleted.
Solus mostly has just a skeleton crew left after the creater, Ikey Doherty, abandoned it suddenly. I personally didn't think it'd be around long-term even before this new policy.
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The "skeleton" crew has managed just fine in recent years. Tooling development is still going strong. New contributors keep coming every year. It looks fine to me.
Meet the TeamThe Solus project is made up of several teams that are focused on more specific aspects of running and delivering a Linux distribution. Because of our smaller size, everyone is a part of multiple teams.
The last time I investigated Solus, there seemed to be difficulty getting a new ISO out (which admittedly was quite a while ago). However your AI policy announcement even says to bear in mind Solus is a "small team" (I assume to justify the use of AI?).
It's definitely a small community. I haven't used it in years, but it was one of the most stable and pleasant OOB experiences I've had on Linux. The Budgie version was very polished.
One of the most interesting characteristics Void Linux has is "stable rolling release". The only large distribution which does this is IIRC SuSE Tumbleweed/ Slowroll.
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents
the project is going to receive ai generated issues/PRs one way or the other, i think this could help maintainers deal with that without being such a burden.
READMEs are for humans. AGENTS.mdare for LLMs. LLMs are pretty good at reading READMEs, but READMEs tend to be overly verbose and too focused on using the code.
BSDs are a whole other rabbit hole on their own. If you like Linux I would at least recommend reading about OpenBSD and FreeBSD, or BSD as a whole. Spin up a VM if you want, pretty fun thing to do.
I already have a few partitions set aside for testing other linux distros. What I have seen so far of bsd doesn't make me want to install it, but I have only had a cursory look so far. I am getting bored of continuously chasing privacy and decency for digital devices, it might be time to go back to reading books again instead, assuming they still exist and are legal.
OK, other coments are valid, but this borders on rage bait.
To answer your wuestion, one has 0 uses beside causing harm to people, other has geniue, valid uses that help humanity. There is a saying "if you cant beat it, join it" and how I see it AI is forced on us, or will be soon enough, and I see no way to fight it in long term (though some people aparently do, so kudos to them). I will embrace AI on my term, by selfhosting European open-source models, and educate my family about dangers of AI, and how to use it safely. Telling them AI is satan while their conpany forces them at every step of their job, if they don't know how to safetly use it, might end up with more problems than solutions.
In a way I am fighting AI as in "corporate AI" but embracing "lesser of the two evils AI". Thus embracing it on my terms.
To use your example, I am not forcing AIDS on my family, but educating them about it and giving them shots agains other lesser diseases like HPV.
Ah, yes, "I don't like it so I'll call it ragebait." There is no lesser of two evils, it all has the same source. The models that are usable in any capacity are trained by the same companies on the same stolen data. You may have given up yourself and it's your business, but go fuck yourself for telling others that they must embrace it and there is no alternative.
If at this point every major codebase is using AI for development, and AI is unavoidable, might as well embrace it on your own terms.
Why? People use linux even though windows seems unavoidable, people use privacy respecting messaging services when everyone says to contact them on whatsapp, so many people use reddit, barely anybody uses lemmy
If you cant completely avoid something, should you just give up on trying at all?
Why are people giving something that is ruining the internet, politics, learning, the environment, jobs, art, mental health so much leniency
What this feels like to me is documentation that should have always been present for all the developers on "the team", but now that the developers are AI agents they have the bandwidth to be able to write that documentation instead of just shipping the pull request with a terse "it works, check the tests." note.
As a human developer, I never had the patience to write really good documenation AND keep it in sync with the project as the code evolved through development. I have written good prospective documentation, I have written decent retrospective documentation, but keeping either in sync with the implementation as the implementation evolves during maintenance is a heavy burden - one that LLM agents do without complaint. Yeah, they're less than perfect, so are the humans on the teams. As long as additional passes invested in making things self consistent are consistently improving the state of things, I'm fine with telling the agent "take another pass at making the documentation consistent with the implementation while I go to this meeting..."
This week about 200 KDE contributors and enthusiasts attended Akademy, but somehow people still found the time to be productive! Plasma contributors released the second beta of Plasma 6.
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My next phone will be running PostMarketOS. These things Google is doing like requiring app developers to register with them if you are using Google Play services in order to install their apps and only releasing security patches in a quarterly timeframe instead of monthly like they used to makes me think that eventually Google is going to stop publishing AOSP entirely.
I'm not just going to wait around for that to happen. I'm going to be working on using the alternative and hopefully getting developers to start moving their apps over to PostMarketOS.
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"This just in - running commands that induce a kernel panic causes a kernel panic, we'll have more at 11."
The QR code is pretty dense , probably plenty of space to include the panic reason and stack trace.
Edit: For those of you that don't know, exiting or crashing the init process (PID 1) causes the kernel to panic. Essentially it's the, "Well what the hell do I do now if I have no processes to serve?" response.
Still, a QR code is a marked improvement on the "Something went wrong 🙁" message of recent Windows releases.
This entry was edited (Saturday, September 26, 2026, 8:20 PM)
“This just in - running commands that induce a kernel panic causes a kernel panic, we’ll have more at 11.”
What's with the snark? I'm just sharing what is funny (to me): that somebody gave a Linux kernel panic this aesthetic, referencing a familiar "feature" of a less loved OS.
This entry was edited (Saturday, September 26, 2026, 8:35 AM)
I get what you mean but this is not fediverse-specific.
I have meanwhile found out that the screen above was not produced by systemd but rather by the drm_panic kernel module. Makes sense since systemd wasn't running when it happened.
Next time it happens (hopefully not) I'll try to switch ttys, maybe the logs are still visible, white on black.
It's a subculture phenomenon, and lemmy linux is a subculture of a subculture, so it's more intense.
I've been a moderator on some linux reddits in the past. And the less users there were in the sub, the more negativity, rudeness, gatekeeping and other toxicity was there. But ofc what I say is just an opinion based on my subjective experience so idk.
The linux kernel bsod is even younger than that, august 2024 iirc.
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systemd version the issue has been seen with 257.7-1 Used distribution Arch Linux Linux kernel version used 6.15.4-arch2-1 CPU architectures issue was seen on x86_64 Component systemd Expected beha...
My picture looks like that (on one monitor of course) and it wasn't created by systemd, which wasn't even running when that happened, but by the drm_panic kernel module. I've edited the OP.
This entry was edited (Sunday, September 27, 2026, 6:57 AM)
Drm panic provides different panic screens. The default is "user" which will display a simple friendly message telling the user to reboot the computer. But for kernel developers, you can also set it to "kmsg", to see the last kmsg lines (so this is equivalent to the current fbcon). You can select the panic screen in Kconfig, or as a module parameter (drm.panic_screen=user) or at runtime with "echo -n kmsg > /sys/module/drm/parameters/panic_screen"
The QR code contains the panic stack trace text, directly encoded into a URL and a parameter. When you scan it, it goes to the website, which takes the parameter, decodes it and displays it as plain text.
Personally, I think it's a terrible idea compared to just showing the logs, because now you need internet and a phone with a camera to read a kernel panic log.
Edit: yes, it was Systemd who implemented it.
This entry was edited (Saturday, September 26, 2026, 9:47 AM)
Oh I see. If the URL puts the sensitive information after the anchor, like https://example.com/bsod#sensitive-info-goes-here then the browser would never send that part to the server. Everything after the anchor is just used locally by the browser to scroll the page to a specific place (or in this case for the javascript to read and process).
You'd need to check every time you scan a QR code though that the # is in the URL and it's not malformed. Trivially replacing the # with a ? would turn the private URL into one that sends all the data in the GET request. It's training users to do something risky.
Oh and it also assumes that the javascript hasn't been tampered with to upload the data somewhere.
I don't like it.
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But who's going to go to that effort on their slab of glass?
Those who would like to make extra sure their data stays private. On an unrelated note, what kinds of data could be considered confidential in said log?
Those who would like to make extra sure their data stays private.
Yes, well, exactly. You know not every question is a literal question, right?
what kinds of data could be considered confidential in said log?
I was wondering that myself. It's "the kmsg log", something to do with kernel mode switching or "graphics". My guess: the log itself is not problematic, but there might be some metadata added. Or then one creates that metadata by submitting the QR code.
That QR code could be helpful, but why can’t we have both? Show me the backtrace and logs, and stick a code in the corner in case I need the Internet’s help.
The QR stacktrace allows a method of copying the information off the machine, which may now be unable to function any longer.
If this error meant you can no longer boot to retrieve the error it’s goin to take you a lot longer to fix it because you have to now find the problem with no clues.
I get it. It’s more descriptive than an error message, and the few kilobytes you can cram into a QR code is great for that.
It sounded like other people were worried about data exfiltration, or disclosure to a third party. I haven’t had a chance to test this. Where does the QR code go?
I disagree. The logs typically do not fit on the screen in text form, especially on low resolutions (like if the system has to fall back on an alternative graphics mode, which tends to happen more frequently in the event of a crash). Granted, a website is not the best possible solution and has the risk of leaking data but at least it is "a" solution. The data is encoded sure, but not in an obfuscated way. If you wanted, you could decode it with other means (for example a dedicated app that scans it).
I never scan, just check the journal for errors from previous boot after restart. Most recent was my pcie low power shenanigans with my onboard WiFi. Simple fix and now its working /no bsod since.
when your boot doesn't get far enough to use termbin this is the next next best thing . remember, nobody wants a smartphone picture of a monitor with logs on it
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About 14 years ago, I created a webfinger package for NodeJS. At the time, NodeJS was only a few years old. I had created pump.io as a new social networking engine and the successor to StatusNet. I needed a client for webfinger lookup — the process of converting a user@domain.tld handle to a API endpoint for processing messages — and there wasn’t one for NodeJS, so I made it.
It is kind of an antique — very old callback-style code that has its own HTTP processing system. It supported the older version of Webfinger, RFC 6415, using XML for the data format. It also supported the (at that time) new Webfinger specification, RFC 7033.
Since its last release in 2013, version 0.4.2, I hadn’t touched the project. It’s just been languishing in the npm repository, squatting on the “webfinger” package name, and collecting dust. The Webfinger RFC was published, ActivityPub was standardized, and the Fediverse grew and grew, without a single change to the package.
I realized I was sitting on this package a couple of years, ago, and I’ve been wanting to get a new version out. This week, I just did it. I ripped out all the legacy support for RFC 6415, upgraded the tests to use the Node test runner, switched from callback style to async/await, changed to ESM modules, and changed the format to StandardJS.
I also added a little utility method, so it’s easier to look up links in the JRD file that is returned. Now, to get an ActivityPub actor, you just do this:
This specification describes a method for locating host metadata as well as information about individual resources controlled by the host. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
L'IA va-t-elle résoudre tous nos problèmes ? C'est ce qu'essaient de nous faire croire les dirigeants des grosses entreprises tech qui la développent. Pourtant, entre les bouleversements du marché du travail, le coût écologique des data centers, ou les manipulations politiques et la diffusion de fausses interventions, la réalité est beaucoup moins rose que les publicités qu'on nous vend.
Alors dans cette émission, Lou Welgryn et Théo Alves Da Costa, les dirigeants de l'association Data for Good, démontent quelques uns des mythes autour de l'intelligence artificielle, afin de garder le regard le plus lucide possible sur ces transformations majeures déjà en cours. Quels sont les enjeux de pouvoir qui se cachent derrière la course à l'intelligence artificielle ? Éléments de réponse dans cette émission pour Blast.
Avertissement : cette émission ne traite pas tous les enjeux autour de l'IA, il y en a beaucoup trop, qui seront très bientôt traités dans d'autres formats à Blast.
Journaliste : Salomé Saqué Montage : Émilie Fortun, Sandra Perrin Son : Baptiste Veilhan, Théo Duchesne Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon Production : Hicham Tragha Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert
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While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents
After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest a...
The focus on discoverability is a very good decision imo, if we ever want the average person to be using FOSS Android apps and Google Play to have a stronger competition then the repository should be able to recommend apps to people who don't know about them and aren't nerds enough to go looking for alternatives when their adware from Google Play kinda gets the job done
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare 01:46 KDE's AI policy 06:42 Existing AI policies 10:06 Going further on AI 12:58 My stance on AI 17:05 FOSS projects: yes or no to AI? 28:02 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
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hm, i thought KDE was trying to make up for platforming the nazi. lots of people today saying "let's give KDE a chance!"
nope, they're now doubling down further.
Bringing an on-going discussion from outside into a thread with which it bore no relationship, The correct way to proceed is to alert mods, sysadmins or another participant in the discussion privately. What happened is akin to someone walking into a restaurant and seemingly randomly punching another patron. They're going to get thrown out.
Damn what a completely out of touch response. Many people point out that this was basically a badly handled abuse report that a user brought to a main thread instead of reporting, however that does not and never did justify the original and continued ban of the first person to report on it.
I am especially galled by the "and ad hominem attacks on another user (even if it turned out they deserved it)." bit. Dude, maybe someone's motivations matter. Acting like attacking someone's motivations are always out of place is part of what lets this kind of shit fester and grow. Everyone has motivations, and a lot of people's motivations are deeply unsavory.
Bruh my Kubuntu minimal install. Welp. *sigh que sera sera, we all move on sometime.
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defeats the point of a CoC (making sure everyone feels safe, particularly minorities who are targeted by fascism)
I'd argue that if we normalize people barging into random threads and accusing others of facism, that would make everybody feel unsafe. Remember that once you normalize this behavior, the fascists can use it too.
... ends up creating a scandal ...Very visibly, I might add.
The person who barged in making public accusations, is the one that created a visible scandal. That's why there's a proper channel for reports. Precisely to prevent this sort of mess.
Why not ban person A? Being a nazi is a rule violation, but reporting people by barging in on unrelated threads (instead of simply contacting the mods) is also a rule violation.
Somebody else can report the nazi via proper channels, and person A learns the proper way to report people.
your comment seems to imply that i'm a marxist because i'm on lemmy.ml -- i'm not (as most arent), but i do understand material dialectics & history well enough to know that hysteria like this never has and never will stop change from happening.
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Might not be user-facing AI slop tools, but the code sure seems to be more and more AI LLM stuff:
discuss.kde.org/t/sorry-to-bri… (At least that's what the pushback from multiple contributors against the notion that perhaps LLM code shouldn't be fed into KDE, seems to suggest.)
My apologies that I’m asking, but does KDE have an LLM code contributions policy? Because I’ve seen this clip and it concerns me: There seem to be studies suggesting a 2-5% plagiarism rate for LLMs even when not baited: https://dl.acm.
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the hysteria is taking on a new life of its own and i guess it makes sense considering how people's materials conditions are being diminished on our education system as well as our media doesn't enable us to understand why or how.
and to the point that sane takes like your are downvoted to oblivion as a result.
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Hello everyone, I need help to decide on a Linux Distribution to settle and finally stop distro hopping. I have quite some experience with Linux(1year Mint, a quarter year Arch, nixos, debian, manjaro, fedora, suse tumbleweed and kalpa...)I have been experimenting for now almost 3 years. Now I finally want to setlle but I just don't know where. I like Nix's shell but don't like installing everything in five steps(with git because my brain can stand neither the dirty tree warning nor leaving out on the git push) and I don't need the reproducibility. I like rolling so I don't need to reinstall or do any major update, but even more appealing is low maintenance and stability in the sense of nothing unexpectedly breaking. I'll use the computer as an daily driver mostly for programming & 3d design, university related work, streaming and also some gaming. Thank you for your answers. #linux #distrohopping. EDIT: I don't want to have a company behind my distribution. And my specs: Nvidia RTX 4070, Amd Radeon 7 7840HS, 16GB of RAM
Conclusion: Thanks a lot for all of that feedback, I decided to go for Debian 13 Stable and might check out MX once.
The final conclusion 😛: I will now install LMDE and either try to install KDE Plasma or just stick with Cinnamon. Its not as uncustomizable after all. And the flashbacks I got during the installation from me first stepping into Linux... ...definetly the rabbit hole I should have fallen into, even though I can now never live a normal life again :/.
Honestly, I'm not really sure if anyone can help you here. Sounds like you're already quite experienced with linux and know what you're looking for and what you need.
Most people seeing your requirements would probably say Fedora, as it's pretty up to date but still stable. I might recommend debian testing if you want slightly more cutting edge.
Frankly, I think you know best what you need and you should see what fits you 😀
I had a similar journey and at some point settled for Debian.
I know, everyone around here will tell you how basic that is and how much program versions lag behind sometimes, but I have come to the conclusion that this really doesn't bother me on daily use.
The main wow moment was, when the I noticed my system was running for 5 years and nothing ever broke.
Sure, I sometimes miss the AUR or some of the bells and whistles off bleeding edge distros, but in the end I want my main daily driver as a tool to other stuff, not a project to constantly put effort in.
The beauty of Debian is, its reliable AF, everything you got working once stays working, in 99,99% of cases even with a major version change, its the best documented and tested system and it does everything I need and more.
Plus with KDE plasma and all the native programs, like kdeconnect, kdenlive, kget etc I dont miss out on convinience. (Sure I could still use them on other distros, but I like how it is integrated into a good user experience with the option to tweak everything but without the need to do so)
The main down site imho is that some advanced things which may work in a hacky and time consuming way on arch just will not work on Debian at all, but I seldom have such moments and its a small price to pay for a system that's just won't brake from where I stand.
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I did enjoy debian a lot when I used it, I then left it for hyprland and the rolling release though. But debian is definitely something up top of my list right now. Especially because I am now back to KDE Plasma and I'm not planning to change anything about that soon. The only picky point was that it does not support BTRFS with custom subvolumes for timeshift out of the box. But the stability would be a blessing.
This entry was edited (Thursday, September 24, 2026, 2:29 PM)
I have the same feeling regarding Debian and btrfs (or zfs). Would be a blast having either on Debian.
But on the other hand, I've been running Debian unstable for two years now (initially installed unstable for Star Citizen) and haven't had major issues with it. But be warned, it being unstable you're obviously only one update away from it being unstable 😁
I meant literally the repository wiki.debian.org/Firefox#From_M… not an alternative method. One can add the official source of built packages my Mozilla, keep their Debian distribution otherwise untouched and get the latest.
I've settled on CachyOS, using Bazaar for flatpaks (I avoid the AUR). I get a rolling os with frequent updates and more or less secure and verified apps. It's been a year, no problem so far.
It's best to think of the AUR as an arch-specific build instruction wiki, not a package manager repo. It's just that the build instructions are formally specified, so it's possible for the former to be used like the latter. But that's how you get yourself in trouble.
This entry was edited (Friday, September 25, 2026, 1:10 AM)
I like Arch for this. Ten years ago I wouldn't have recommended it, but it's been a great decade for me. Rolling distro means not many big changes at any one time. Don't have to reimage to cleanly install newer release. Arch maintainers are excellent, updates rarely cause problems. Not perfect of course, but you get up-to-date software and an amazing community.
My main conflict point with Arch is the maintenance factor. Whilst my priorities have been the bleeding edge for a long time, by now my thinking has been shifting more towards stability and being able to just use it. That's what I loved about openSUSE Slowroll, but I don't want to have a company behind it. And it had a KPM version mismatch resulting in broken nvidia driver.
I've used Ununtu and then Debian for a long time. I was playing with the live distro of the latest SparkyLinux and could imagine using it. Does anyone have opinions about Sparky?
I always vote for boredom, which means I vote for Debian. It's a well rounded, reliable and solid OS. It can be a bit dated on some packages but it rewards with very low maintenance. It works. It does what it is supposed to do, which is allowing us to run and use our computer as we see fit.
You want something a bit more up to date? Move to Mint. If Debian still appeals to you, move to LMDE.
I can only tell you that I'm using CachyOS (Arch) with Wayland and the latest Noctalia, which is extremely customizable. I'm very content. My compositor is Hyprland, but Niri or Mango work, too. Noctalia even technically works with KDE, which I also used for quite some time, but I wouldn't recommend using it on top of it. Noctalia (Hyprland) has been a standard installation option in the CachyOS .iso ever since August 2026.
This entry was edited (Friday, September 25, 2026, 5:23 AM)
Ah too bad you didn't like nix. I was just about to propose a simple home-manager repo which could at least declare your tooling across any distro.
while I don't understand the git problem, since versioning your OS/tooling is a major feature not a headache, you seem too have found a place with debian so go ahead.
I go into distro-hop frenzies every 3 to 6 months. Last run Included EndeavourOS and CachyOS. I did stay in CachyOS for a couple of months, and used it to give some windows managers a chance, turns out I'm a DE kind of guy. Ended up back on Fedora, as it invariably happens, only this time I went with KDE. I'm a sucker for the GNOME workflow, but KDE is infinitely lighter on resources and way more customizable, so I now have a Plasma desktop that looks and behaves like Gnome.
In terms of cutting edge and almost never breaking, and if it does break, just reboot and choose the previous good kernel, Fedora has never let me down. They did fuck up horribly last week with kernel 7.2.5, lol.
I used to be a Fedora guy until IBM bought them and they killed CentOS. I first used Red Hat in middle school back in the nineties, so it broke my heart to leave, but I settled on OpenSUSE. It's non-US based, and it feels just as polished, if not more than Fedora. I use Tumbleweed, which is their rolling release distro.
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Personnaly CachyOS has been the one to stop my distro hopping, though I must say, I 'm an arch linux fan, so Cachy did it for me. All of the Fedora based distros I've tried were good at the beginning but felt limited at some point, though this is specific to my use cases. But one that I really liked, and I'm not much of a debian person usually was PikaOS, so I'd recommend trying it out if not already done.
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I’d definitely give PikaOS a try. I’ve been using it and honestly really like it so far. I’ve bounced around between a few different distros, but PikaOS has been one of the easiest to just install and start using.
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare 01:46 KDE's AI policy 06:42 Existing AI policies 10:06 Going further on AI 12:58 My stance on AI 17:05 FOSS projects: yes or no to AI? 28:02 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
I compare the AI usage to digital photography: where a professional photographer learned how to develop a photo years ago, I assume this is just theoretical knowledge toady. Probably you will learn it in some kind of education but maybe 1 of 100 or even less will do so in practice today. Code might go a similar way - and my question is, whether it is important that humans understand code in a way they do today? In 50 years from now only 1 of 100 developers might be capable to write code, some more might be able to actually read it. But will it matter? Is it really necessary to write code by yourself if the machine eventually is better in most coding disciplines? If the models keep on getting better at coding, my assumption is: yes. Coding is an art not worth investing anymore because it is slow and imprecisecompared to anything what an AI agent will be capable of in the next decades.
among photographers, those who do it professionally are required to use digital cameras for all or almost all of their work. among artists and hobbyists, there is much more of a split between digital and analog methods (film has grown dramatically since almost disappearing in 2012). I think the need to produce at scale, for capitalist economic reasons, is what drives much of the digital photography choice. does this hold for ai usage? remains to be seen.
@alex the models do not keep getting better. The law of diminishing returns applies; that means every improvement is harder than the one before. The companies that sell the LLMs use many tricks to make them seem miraculous, but it's all hype, or worse.
Yes it matters for many reasons. First, neuronal networks degenerate without new input. And once they are trained on 99% LLM output, it just takes 10 generations to get garbage out on the level of a child's first words. That is especially true if future models are bound to one or two companies, because nobody else can pay the costs of development or the hardware to run on. That also causes heavily democratic issues. Furthermore the models will be manipulated more and more over time -> enshittification. How can you be sure that it creates the program you want without build-in tracking? And do we have 100% green energy in 50 years (which we require much earlier) or is LLM one of the reasons we could not reach it? In best case it is a bet that "everything will just go right", but the experience in tech with super scaled companies is more that everything will go wrong that goes wrong. What if one of the companies becomes so big, that one or two produce 95% of all software in the world via LLM? It is a highly political topic, not just for "is LLM output still FOSS compatible or not?" (which is not as far as the LLM itself is not 100% FOSS, which is far more than "open weight").
Yes it matters for many reasons. First, neuronal networks degenerate without new input. And once they are trained on 99% LLM output, it just takes 10 generations to get garbage out on the level of a child's first words. That is especially true if future models are bound to one or two companies, because nobody else can pay the costs of development or the hardware to run on. That also causes heavily democratic issues. Furthermore the models will be manipulated more and more over time -> enshittification. How can you be sure that it creates the program you want without build-in tracking? And do we have 100% green energy in 50 years (which we require much earlier) or is LLM one of the reasons we could not reach it? In best case it is a bet that "everything will just go right", but the experience in tech with super scaled companies is more that everything will go wrong that could go wrong. What if one of the companies becomes so big, that one or two produce 95% of all software in the world via LLM? It is a highly political topic, not just for "is LLM output still FOSS compatible or not?" (which is not as far as the LLM itself is not 100% FOSS, which is far more than "open weight").
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hm, i thought KDE was trying to make up for platforming the nazi. lots of people today saying "let's give KDE a chance!"
nope, they're now doubling down further.
So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE. Sorry about that. :/ I’m going to leave the comments …
Gewalt gegen Frauen ist in Deutschland kein Randphänomen, sondern erschreckender Alltag: Laut der aktuellen Dunkelfeldstudie von Familienministerium, BKA und Innenministerium hat jede fünfte Frau, die Gewalt durch ihren Partner erlebt, Angst um ihr Leben jede sechste Frau erlebt sexualisierte Gewalt. In diesem Video schauen wir uns an, wie es um häusliche Gewalt, Femizide und geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt in Deutschland wirklich steht und warum die offizielle Kriminalstatistik nur einen Bruchteil der Fälle erfasst. Wir werfen außerdem einen Blick auf die Frauenhausstatistik der Frauenhauskoordinierung e.V.: Bundesweit fehlen rund 12.000 Frauenhausplätze, um den Vorgaben der Istanbul-Konvention zu entsprechen mit dramatischen Folgen für betroffene Frauen und ihre Kinder. Wir erklären, was das neue Gewalthilfegesetz und die verschärfte Fußfessel-Regelung für Täter tatsächlich bringen, warum Deutschland beim Sexualstrafrecht noch immer beim Grundsatz „Nein heißt Nein" steht und wie der Bundesrat sich inzwischen für „Nur Ja heißt Ja" ausgesprochen hat. Zum Vergleich zeigen wir, wie Spanien, Irland und Schweden Frauen vor Gewalt schützen und was Deutschland von diesen Ländern lernen kann. Das Thema betrifft Millionen Menschen in Deutschland und braucht mehr politische Aufmerksamkeit, mehr Schutzangebote und mehr finanzielle Unterstützung für Frauenhäuser und Gewaltschutzinitiativen.
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We compared the top instant messengers (and the ones not quite there yet) to find out how they stack up. Let us know where your favorite choice fell, or if we missed anything in the comments!
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Signal has rolled out registration without a phone number on Android in beta, Revolut breached customer data through fake law enforcement requests, X Chat has mysteriously disappeared from the App Store and more. Join us for This Week In Privacy #71!
0:00 Intro 0:38 Start of podcast 1:19 Signal registration without a phone number now available in Android beta 28:08 ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral 36:59 Forum Updates: Petition to not require tech manufacturers to detect nudity content on devices 41:40 Site updates 50:34 Meta's Copyright System Is Being Weaponized Against Albanian Protesters 1:02:00 Forum Updates: What messenger you use for people who won't use E2EE messengers? 1:12:19 How TikTok and Google ended up with information about doctors' appointments around the world 1:24:53 Forum Updates: How to preserve your anonymity under camera surveillance? 1:30:00 Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight 1:40:31 Q&A 1:42:24 Outro
19 days ago I announced my plans here on Lemmy and after four weeks and ~300 hours in total, I can finally share the first ISO of my project with this community. ~~"sometime next week" yeah that was optimistic lmao~~ I want to thank you again for the feedback on the initial announcement and I can say I tried my best to address and implement a lot of your suggestions!
For the people that haven't read the last post, this is the basic gist of it:
Unlike immutable distributions that lock you out of the native package manager and force you into sandboxes, Plutonium-239 keeps the core Arch experience intact. You still get the bleeding-edge Arch repositories and the power of the AUR but all of that with a 5-20% performance boost from a heavily optimized kernel and the peace of mind of an unbreakable safety net underneath.
For the ISO and the in-depth technical documentation, please visit my website at the link in the title!
The 0.0.1 version is a pre-release/in-development version meant for experienced people interested in this project. I tested it extensively and I'm running it for a few days now on my Thinkpad myself, however I can IN NO WAY guarantee that this is 100% viable to daily-drive just yet.
I'm very thankful for every person that considers testing this distro in a VM or on a secondary PC to contribute to the development of this project. Any feedback is appreciated and I hope my work can be of value to you!
Edit: from the feedback that was pm'd to me so far it seems like it's working fine when it's running but two people had issues with the hardware detection during the install. If you are experiencing a similar issue, please send me your hardware specs and the output of the log where it failed and I'll be able to make it more robust!
I'm in the process of making a distro that combines the way SteamOS makes Arch Linux stable and user-friendly WITH the performance optimizations of CachyOS
As the title and the website say, I'm currently making a distro with the goal that you don't have to compromise between ease of use + safety and bleeding-edge + performance optimizations.
As I will likely be able to publish the 0.0.1 source code to the GitHub link and the ISO to the website sometime next week, I would like people to be aware of my project so I can have some feedback for further improvements when I release the first version. I have not posted this anywhere else yet, as I value the opinion of this community more than Reddit or whatever.
If you have any questions or any criticism, please voice it, I would love to hear it, good or bad, in the end I want to make a proper OS. (I'll go to bed now so expect replies to take a few hours from posting.)
Pu-239 is an atomic Arch Linux distribution: sealed read-only root, ostree A/B deployments with automatic rollback, and the 1000 Hz linux-cachyos kernel.
There are a lot of benchmarks for the CachyOS kernel and it's mostly single digit performance increases for "normal" tasks but a noticeably more snappy feeling. The mayor increases come in compiling or rendering workloads, there it can easily get into double digits. For example on my 270K, compiling this kernel takes 23 min with the stock linux kernel, 20 minutes with the linux-cachyos kernel in -v3.
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Thank you! In a perfect world I would have loved to name it "Arch Atomic", but I'm not affiliated with them so I went for a wordplay on atomic with my favorite isotope!
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 4:24 PM)
Well, it were four 80 hour weeks and I "only" reverse-engineered the way Fedora makes their distro atomic with ostree but adapted to Arch. I did try to stay true to the Arch philosophy of keeping it minimal otherwise so it wasn't that big of a project!
Edit: Sometimes I had to spin up Qwen 3.8 27B because the error codes the installer threw out were literally humanly unreadable so I had no clue what even went wrong but other than that it was by hand lmao
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I don't like black and white thinking and while I fucking hate LLMs in general, as 95% of times they are used for all the wrong reasons, I do have an Intel B70 for cases like these where current search engines just lead to nothing.
Yes, it does come preinstalled with KDE as implementing a proper desktop selection is planned but would take even more time. This is Arch however, you can uninstall everything you want. Throw KDE out and install whatever desktop enviornment you want, you still keep the kernel and the ostree update model, that's what's so cool about it!
Haha, I feel honored to hear that! It's still rough around the edges, so only use it if this isn't your only PC. That said, I already use it on my Thinkpad and the only issue I myself encountered so far is that I had to use vscodium-electron-bin instead of vscodium-bin since it wanted to make a systemlink that caused the install to interrupt, otherwise it's been smooth sailing so far.
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not that anything stands a chance anymore but lol, another project that doesn't care about ever being found by search engine. right up there with "matrix" and "riot"
I was just finishing this quarter's distro-hop frenzy, but seeing as you are apparently using Lemmy as your network platform as opposed to fucking discord or similar crap, I think I'll give this a shot for sure. Thanks, we need more devs with this train of thought.
Yeah, Linux distros using something like Discord always seemed very odd to me. I mean okay, if you cater to gamers then I guess it makes sense, but you won't catch me doing that. Lemmy is the only social media I have anymore, the rest is just braindead and bot-infested.
I finally finished reading the whole page at pu-239.org/
Pretty awesome. I wanted to do it earlier, but life happens. Now that the weekend is coming up, I want to give it a shot.
After reading the page, I could not find any mention of the home directory.
Since I do distro-hop quite a bit, I have a disk just for my home partition that I (almost) never format so that I can keep my files there and move around distros without a worry.
How would you suggest I partition the root/boot/EFI disk for installing your distro? I usually keep a 1GB ext4 boot partition, a 2GB EFI partition and then the rest is a BTRFS partition for root (the disk for home is a single BTRFS partition). I know it sounds like overkill, but that disk is 1TB so I'm not worried about that and like to leave room for any potential storage weirdness.
Would you make any changes to that logic if you were in my shoes?
Pu-239 is an atomic Arch Linux distribution: sealed read-only root, ostree A/B deployments with automatic rollback, and the 1000 Hz linux-cachyos kernel.
I was just about to go to bed so apologies for the short answer, I can elaborate tomorrow if you wish. The home folder, including your settings/configs will survive, there's no difference in the way you organize files to a regular Arch install. The partitioning is preset and non-customizable (for now at least). So no need to worry, you simply install it with the hardcoded presets and use it like you would use your current install! I will likely set up a kind of wiki page to make this more sorted and readable than the current bloated drop-down menu so I can cover this in more detail in the future.
Edit: aah, I overread the first time that you have a home folder that you keep. In your case I would back it up on another drive/cloud first and then try one of the installer options that fit you the most. I should get the option for manual partitioning up and running, but if you don't do it it exactly like the installer expects, it will fail, which is why I only defined three pre-set options.
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Oh, cool. Thanks for replying. I did install it in a VM for now. Now that I know what my options are, I can take it from there.
I won't be able to back up all my data from home in a way that males sense right now outside of my laptop, so Barr metal won't be happening until next weekend.
It feels pretty solid right now. I'm going to replicate my KDE configuration from the laptop onto the P-239 VM see how it behaves.
That's nice to hear! My personal feedback and the feedback from people that have tried it so far seems way better than I anticipated, noone seems to have any big issues. A little more choice during the install, a little less weird messages during updates (nothing critical, just looks odd) and some AUR packages that don't install in a way that conform to the Arch guidelines (which is more on them than on the OS) and that's about all the negatives.
I'll be on vacation for a week and only take my underpowered Thinkpad with me so I'll be working on some little qol changes here and there to bring a more polished version in a few short weeks. If noone finds anything big that needs fixing I might even be able to justify bumping the version number of the next release to 0.1.0 instead of 0.0.2 since it's way more stable than I dared to expect.
I like what I'm seeing here, since you are actually covering a niche that nobody else seems to be covering (maybe they are and I just haven't seen it).
I find value in all this. I am certainly no Dev, but have enough experience with many different Linux distros to at least serve as a guinea-pig for good projects. Enjoy your vacation, I'll be trying to break your distro while you're away.
One thing I believe this could benefit from, if possible, is a way to discuss the project in real time, Matrix, IRC, anything really. Just a thought.
I appreciate it! I'd be especially interested in knowing if there are any locations/directories that the user expects to be carried through deployments or to be writeable that get deleted/overwritten during updates or are read-only in the first place. Finding that would perhaps also fix the issues with some AUR packages not wanting to install. Ideally you can e-mail me your findings to the address on my Codeberg profile and I could write on the code during the vacation and actually test in a VM on my main PC once I get back.
Regarding the platform to discuss on, someone else asked a similar thing today so I'm just pasting my reply here "Hmm, I’m undecided. Me personally, I couldn’t handle running a forum due to my autism, that would burn me out instantly. Having one entirely community run with me occasionally lurking in like I do here would probably be the only realistic option."
My plan is to have it on par, if not better than them. Currently I "only" (this is the biggest factor by far) provide the CachyOS kernel compiled by myself but I already differenciate myself by also compiling it for -v2 CPUs. All five microarchitectures have their dedicated repos up and working and I plan to ship all the packages that will boost speed by being compiled microarchitecture-specific.
I'm already building the server needed for that so compiling them automatically will be possible even while I'm on vacation next week.
Lots of people with Thinkpads, I respect it haha. Yes, code can be contributed via Codeberg, donations via Liberapay, both are greatly apprechiated! Both links are on the website, but I'll put them here for your convenience: codeberg.org/cantosun/pu-239liberapay.com/Pu-239/donate
I have a shitty X13 Gen 1 myself, which was the first machine (well apart from the probably 50 VMs I spun up during testing) to run this distro! I think the first 5 PCs (that I know of) were Thinkpads, I love it.
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i tried it today on my T480 😀 Installation was easy but then I got looking for the declerative file to edit my installation. Do you consider creating a forum for discussions and stuff for cooperation?
Either pu-239-update for the gui or /var/lib/pu-239/packages.list manual!
Hmm, I'm undecided. Me personally, I couldn't handle running a forum due to my autism, that would burn me out instantly. Having one entirely community run with me occasionally lurking in like I do here would probably be the only realistic option.
lenovo. replaced my old dell precision laptop with a T480 and I'm loving it.
dell pros: - fast - solid gpu for the time - clean look - came with linux.
dell cons: - battery swelled up, made the trackpad and keyboard not work. replaced the battery a lot. - keyboard wore out well before lenovo - chassis screws fell out and then the hinge broke as a result. this is not a thing with lenovo. - front edge was too sharp and slightly cut into my wrists. not a show stopper but annoyed me the whole time I owned it.
For your situation 16G may be adequate. But 24 is better.
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T490. i personally had issues with dell laptops a few times. (hinge problem, coating on palmrest/trackpad peeling) also, i don't like dell laptops' keyboard layout but this is just personal preference.
and 8gb more ram for $60 seems decent in todays prices. (afaik it's soldered so not even upgradable?)
I wrote some niche commandline Python script to rename filenames. I know there are many tools to do this already. It's in the vein of something like Perl rename command. Maybe someone is interested, I don't know.
name --append "_v2" -- *.py
name --glob --replace " (*" -- *.sfc
Manual installation only:
git clone https://github.com/thingsiplay/nameplate
cd nameplate
mv name.py name
# The path below is just a suggestion. This depends on your system.
install --verbose -t ~/.local/bin/ name
BTW, use option -n (--dry-run) to test commands without applying any changes on the filesystem. The README got some more examples.
I also don't like Martin's writing style. But I love the lore. I just can't do another series. What's one book that has the kind of worldbuilding that made us all love (and then hate the unfinished state of) A Song of Ice and Fire?
If you only want single book entries, you probably need to go back to classic literature. Anything that's good will be the victim of its own success and get more installments.
I know good classic ones. Not anything from this century, because: capitalism.
Edit here is some amazing ones: The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas Anything not just: Las Miserables from Victor Hugo War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (this technically was published as several books) it is really fun! The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky The Red and the Black — Stendhal I do love this tho it has a second one. The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov Enjoy!
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 12:32 AM)
hahahhhhhh nice pun in all fairness, the book is called Les Miserables. the play is my favorite of all time, so i thought id like the book as well. we live in miserable times, so it's relatable
While it does technically have a sequel (which is a prequel, if I remember correctly) set in the same universe, the first book is a complete story unto itself.
The world feels vast and detailed, and the characters are satisfying. Samantha Shannon's prose is great as well. Highly enjoyable book!
The first mistborn book is great. While the rest of the series is also quite good, imo it just does not quite reach the level of the first book. Fortunately, that one can be read standalone.
Okay it's 3 books but they're short and it has an ending lol
The silo series (wool, shift, dust)
Also I would check out the Mistborn series. It's more books, but many of them (like mistborn) can stand alone and be a great story. Insanely good world building, some of the most unique out there I think
As AI rises, more and more companies, labs, universities, and governments attempt to build science fiction into reality. The whole thing is starting to look more and more like a mashup of CyberPunk, Blade Runner, and Idiocracy.
Artigo sobre candidates não-bináries e suas pautas no ano de 2026. Menciona cissexismo, capacitismo, exilinguismo, racismo, mascunormatividade linguística e uso de LLMs
A análise e seu motivo
A plataforma VoteLGBT permite que candidates registrem suas identidades e um perfil resumido para facilitar que pessoas LGBTQIAPN+ que buscam ser representadas na política achem candidates que gostam.
Mas aí pensei: se existem candidates não-bináries e pautas não-binárias, será que há algume candidate que as defende explicitamente?
Os partidos analisados para achar candidaturas não-binárias no site VoteLGBT em 2026 são: UP, PSTU, PSOL, PCdoB, PT, PV, PDT, PSB, MDB e PSDB. Não só partidos de direita (especialmente menores) têm menos chances de acolherem pessoas não-binárias como eu teria que verificar cada página de candidatura do AVANTE ou seja lá o que for o que for para saber se cada pessoa ali é não-binária. O PCB seria incluso se algume candidate LGBTQIAPN+ tivesse se registrado na plataforma.
Lembro vagamente de já poder ter filtrado por pessoas autoidentificadas como não-binárias em eleições passadas, então só poder usar os filtros "trans" e "mulher", ambos os quais aparentam excluir pessoas que se disseram não-binárias desses filtros nas pesquisas, foi um empecilho a mais em coletar esta lista.
Além disso, só incluí pessoas autoidentificadas como não-binárias. Não sei quantes des candidates que escolheram "outro" o fizeram por estarem questionando suas identidades de gênero (um processo que não necessariamente inclui a não-binaridade) ou mesmo por não saberem o que significa o termo cis. Também existem travestis que não se colocam dentro da não-binaridade, então decidi não incluir a categoria travesti por si só.
Tentei dar uma lida nessas marcações diferentes de homem/mulher para ver se alguma descrição explicava melhor a situação de gênero da pessoa, mas, quase sempre, todas as informações extras que poderiam ser relevantes eram que colocaram ou só ela ou só ele como tratamento e que quase todes tinham gay, lésbica ou heterossexual como orientação. Menções honrosas vão para a Senhora Mar, que é travesti pansexual concorrendo como deputada federal pelo PSOL na Bahia e citou infância sem gênero como uma de suas pautas, e para a Bancada Transformar do PSOL no Pará, que defende a pauta de acesso de "travestis, transsexuais (sic), transmasculinos e não-binarios (sic)" ao ensino superior; o líder da chapa se coloca como transmasculino ou homem trans, dependendo da divulgação, mas não achei algum local com qualquer ume des participantes sendo descrite como não-binárie de forma explícita, então também estou excluindo tal candidatura da análise.
Análise inicial
7 candidaturas foram encontradas: 3 do PSOL, 2 do PT, 1 da UP e 1 do PSB;
4 candidaturas são da região Sudeste (3 SP e 1 RJ), 2 são da região Sul (RS e SC) e 1 é da região Norte (AM);
4 concorrem para deputades federais e 3 para deputades estaduais;
Nenhuma das pessoas declarou de uma orientação específica a pessoas não-binárias (embora exista a possibilidade do cadastro não ter sido 100% livre): 3 pessoas se declararam gays, 2 pessoas se declararam pansexuais, 1 pessoa se declarou bissexual e 1 pessoa se declarou heterossexual;
Apenas Indianarae Siqueira exige tratamento não normativo, ainda que de forma vaga ("neutro"; parte de seu material indica a flexão e). 4 pessoas marcaram "tanto faz" no campo de "pronomes" (porque aparentemente exigir marcações para além de pronomes seria exigência demais de quem quer ter cargo na política), 1 marcou "ele/dele" e 1 marcou "ela/dela";
4 das pessoas marcaram ser brancas, 2 marcaram ser pretas, 1 marcou ser indígena;
Ninguém marcou ser intersexo;
1 pessoa marcou que possui deficiência ("TEA", sigla para Transtorno do Espectro Autista);
Todes possuem Instagram, 3 possuem Facebook, 2 possuem sites próprios e canais de WhatsApp próprios.
Agora eu vou entrar nos links de cada candidate e ver 1) quais são suas pautas e 2) se há pautas específicas para a população não-binária. Pessoas não-binárias acabam precisando de mais auxílios quando a saúde, educação e emprego (como pessoas de quaisquer outros grupos marginalizados) em comparação com seus pares cis, e minha intenção aqui não é tratar a população não-binária como alienígenas que só precisam de quem defenda nossa hormonização, retificação e linguagem (ou outras pautas do tipo), mas o ponto desta postagem é especificamente ver se esta representatividade não-binária está só nas fichas ou se há uma perspectiva não-binária dentro das propostas também.
As candidaturas
Lucas Penteado (Federal por SP, 1303)
Lucas Penteado só tem um Instagram como referência (o qual não tem link para mais nada), o que dificulta achar qualquer projeto ou proposta. O perfil em si não tem nenhuma menção à não-binaridade, e a maioria das postagens parece se tratar de falar a favor do Lula e contra o Flávio Bolsonaro. Também tem algumas postagens junto com pessoas que estão concorrendo para serem deputadas estaduais.
O "link para Instagram" do Felipe Menino na verdade vai para o Threads. Dito isso, já há algumas informações sobre ele na própria página do VoteLGBT:
Sou advogado há 13 anos do Conselho Regional de Óptica e Optometria do Estado de São Paulo (associação civil), lutando pelo acesso à saúde visual na atenção primária e no combate à cegueira evitável; pesquisador e mestrando em história e crítica de arte pela UFRJ; budista e casado.
Ok, quanto a pautas, temos aí acesso à saúde visual.
Dito isso, não encontrei nenhuma menção específica da não-binaridade dele nos perfis, ou mesmo menções específicas a pessoas trans ou não-binárias fora da sigla LGBTQIAPN+ em si.
Santo Legaliza (Federal por SP, 5042)
Como já deve ser óbvio para muitas pessoas, a pauta principal que Santo traz é a legalização da maconha. Seu site também menciona que o candidato também quer o fim da violência policial contra o povo periférico.
Eu não conheço o histórico dos candidatos anteriores desta lista, mas pelo menos eu sei que esta não é a primeira eleição onde Santo se declara uma pessoa não-binária. Dito isso, não há nenhuma menção à sua não-binaridade em seus perfis, e seus materiais contém o uso constante do artigo e da flexão o.
O Filipe Menino já publicou pelo menos um cartaz onde o uso de LLMs foi óbvio, mas o Santo faz uso desta tecnologia de forma mais descarada ainda: várias de suas publicações no Instagram e no YouTube possuem aquele visual genérico associado com LLMs, assim como a própria moldura para ícone que oferece em seu site para sues apoiadóries.
Álex Souza (Federal pelo AM, 5050)
A última candidata da lista de concorrentes a deputade federal é a única que não está concorrendo em São Paulo. Ela também é a única até agora com um documento inteiro onde apresenta suas propostas e que diz ser não-binária em seu perfil no Instagram. O programa tem 34 páginas, design simples mas relativamente bem feito e é para uma candidata com número fácil (5050), então imagino que haja bastante foco nesta candidatura. (É apenas minha impressão, mas não sou do Amazonas.)
O programa tem 8 eixos: 1. População LGBTQIAPN+; 2. Povos originários; 3. Juventude; 4. Para o povo; 5. Saúde e inclusão; 6. Meio ambiente; 7. Direitos humanos; 8. Cuidados essenciais.
Algumas das pautas que posso citar de forma positiva são: criar um incentivo para cidades manterem transporte público à noite, criar pensão para pessoas que não podem trabalhar por ficarem o dia inteiro cuidando de outres, criar programas de ensino superior em estabelecimentos penitenciários e defender a proteção a terras indígenas demarcadas além da demarcação de terras indígenas ainda não reconhecidas. Em relação à população LGBTQIAPN+, Álex propõe a criação de uma rede de casas de acolhimento para pessoas LGBTQIAPN+ em situação de violência, abandono ou falta de moradia, preparo maior para o recebimento de pessoas LGBTQIAPN+ no SUS e criação de banheiros sem gênero em espaços públicos, como alguns destaques.
Pessoas não-binárias são mencionadas múltiplas vezes (no caso, Álex não usa o hífen), especialmente quanto à inclusão de pessoas não-binárias dentro do atendimento do SUS (inclusive nos documentos e no respeito a tratamento, embora aqui esta questão esteja sendo referida como "pronomes") e uma vez na questão de banheiros neutros. Há algumas menções a "pessoas trans e travestis" e outras menções a "pessoas trans", enquanto outras vezes a menção é aos três grupos (pessoas trans, travestis e não-binárias). Eu vou presumir que tais incoerências sejam por falta de vontade de repetir tudo, e não exclusões propositais de travestis ou de pessoas não-binárias de determinadas propostas ou da modalidade trans (não há motivo para reservar vagas de trabalho para pessoas trans sem incluir travestis, por exemplo).
Indianarae Alves Siqueira é uma das principais lideranças do movimento de pessoas trans, travestis e não binárias no Brasil. Nascida em 18 de maio de 1971, em Paranaguá (PR), é ativista de direitos humanos, fundadora da CasaNem, do PreparaNem e presidente do grupo TransRevolução. Sua trajetória é marcada pela luta por cidadania, saúde, educação e moradia para pessoas LGBTQIAPN+ em situação de vulnerabilidade.
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do Grupo TransRevolução
Não há em nenhum momento uma indicação de pronome ou artigo, mas há indicações das flexões a e e. Também não há indicação explícita acerca de identidade de gênero e o perfil no Threads (que requer mais cliques no VoteLGBT) é o único que usa somente a flexão e.
O financiamento coletivo aponta a história de Indianarae Siqueira, a qual sem dúvida traz um currículo impressionante:
Fundou em 1995 o Grupo Filadélfia De Travestis e Liberados em Santos (SP) pra atuar na luta por prevenção e tratamento pras pessoas vivendo com HIV/Aids. A organização foi pioneira no Brasil ao conquistar a obrigatoriedade do nome social nos prontuários médicos para travestis e transexuais, internação em ala separada ou feminina de hospitais e também o reconhecimento de casais lgbtqiapn+ como cônjuges, na conferência de saúde de Santos em 1996 . O que foi um escândalo sem precedentes pra época.
A sua ação performatica dos seios de fora pelo Rio de Janeiro e em alguns lugares do Brasil através da Marcha Das Vadias, fez que o nome social chegasse aos tribunais superiores, já que sua documentação de identidade não continha o gênero com o qual se identificava o que a liberava em andar sem camiseta na rua.
Em 2015 fundou o pré-vestibular PreparaNem, focado na inserção de transvestigeneres nas universidades através do ENEM. O projeto colocou mais de 5 alunas em universidades já no seu primeiro ano, o que colaborou com a criação da CasaNem (Primeira casa de acolhimento para pessoas LGBTQIAPN+, no Brasil).
Em relação a pautas e propostas para o futuro, porém, só há isto:
Sua vida é o alicerce da Transrevolução, um movimento que não pede permissão para existir, mas exige o direito ao afeto, à educação e à vida plena para todas as identidades trans, travestis e dissidentes de sexo/gênero.
Suas propostas parecem estar concentradas em suas publicações de Instagram. Esta "cola" contém o seguinte parágrafo dentro de sua descrição:
Para avançar nas pautas de trabalho digno nas ruas; acolhimento e direitos para a população LGBT; valorização dos feirantes, produtores e da economia popular; enfrentamento às violações de direitos humanos e animais e direito à cidade para todas as pessoas...
Já esta publicação contém uma série de propostas para auxiliar pessoas que protegem animais, oferecer saúde pública a animais e combater violências contra animais. Esta aqui traz 20 propostas para a cultura, entre elas piso salarial maior para artistas e técniques de arte contratades pelo Estado e agenda 50% gratuita para coletivos independentes em teatros e centros culturais. Há também esta postagem onde as seguintes propostas são citadas:
1️⃣ Cenário político 2026: PL da Dosimetria, escala 6x1 e retrocessos
2️⃣ Cota Trans Já: a urgência de ação afirmativa em editais de cultura e trabalho
3️⃣ Piso salarial de R$ 2.000 para toda a população renda mínima e dignidade para todos os trabalhadores e trabalhadoras
4️⃣ Transporte gratuito para toda a população de baixa renda passe livre como direito de ir e vir para trabalho, saúde, educação e cultura
5️⃣ 4 refeições diárias já política de segurança alimentar, acesso à alimentação digna como direito básico
6️⃣ Organização do território: segurança, renda e direitos da população trans/travesti negra e favelada
Não acho que Indianarae Siqueira seja o tipo de pessoa não-binária apática à causa não-binária, levando em consideração seu histórico de vida. Mas acho relevante para o propósito deste texto apontar que pessoas não-binárias não são mencionadas de forma específica em nenhum lugar, embora suas propostas sejam tão espalhadas que podem existir propostas mais específicas a este grupo que simplesmente não encontrei.
Sou o Douglas Meriz, e a minha história não foi escrita em gabinetes ou na política tradicional.
Ela começou desde o início nas ruas, no trabalho diário e nas lutas de quem vive com o peso da desigualdade e do preconceito.
A força pra encarar essas batalhas vem da minha identidade e da fé que eu encontrei nas religiões de matriz africana.
(Qual identidade? Qual ou quais religiões de matriz africana? Existe um peso racial quando uma pessoa generaliza um aspecto de um continente inteiro, como em "culinária asiática", "tradições ameríndias" ou "religiões de matrizes africanas", o que inclusive faz parte das discussões sobre orientalismo. Por isso, é importante saber especificar para além disso, como em culinária coreana ou vodu haitiano. Faz sentido usar um termo mais amplo quando se trata de uma questão mais ampla, mas o contexto é de uma pessoa autodeclarada branca falando sobre a própria fé "nas religiões de matriz africana", dando a entender a ideia de totalidade, quando seria possível falar sobre ter encontrado fé em algumas ou múltiplas religiões de matriz africana, ou ter nomeado caso se tratem de apenas algumas.)
Eu defendo com orgulho os direitos da comunidade LGBTQIA+, a liberdade religiosa, o combate ao racismo e à corrupção.
Como parte da população LGBTQIA+, defendo que ninguém deveria ser obrigado a esconder quem é pra existir.
Eu também acredito na urgência de cuidar da saúde mental dos trabalhadores.
Enfrentar jornadas exaustivas e ter uma vida digna parece quase impossível, e eu sei disso porque essa também é a minha realidade.
Também há outra postagem onde elu lista uma série de "propostas" (que estão mais para pautas em muitos casos, por não serem concretas), separadas em temas:
Trabalhador não é máquina (como fim da escala 6x1 e defesa de salários dignos);
Protetor independente não pode carregar o Estado nas costas (como hospitais públicos veterinários e combate firme aos maus-tratos e ao abandono);
Direitos LGBTQIA+ são direitos humanos (como casas de acolhimento para pessoas em situação de violência e vulnerabilidade e programas de empregabilidade e inclusão para pessoas LGBTQIA+);
Respeito à fé. Combate ao racismo religioso (como preservação da memória e do patrimônio cultural dos terreiros e educação para combater o preconceito religioso);
Saúde mental é direito (como políticas de prevenção ao suicídio e ampliação do acesso ao atendimento psicológico).
Como em tantos outros casos da lista, não há nenhuma menção à não-binaridade ou ao fato de Douglas Meriz aparentemente não se importar com tratamento gramatical. Todos os materiais utilizam artigo e flexão o tanto para sua linguagem pessoal quanto para linguagem genérica, mesmo em casos onde seria fácil evitar marcações (seria fácil substituir dos trabalhadores por do povo trabalhador no espaço disponível na imagem, por exemplo).
Depois de ver que uma das imagens de fundo tinha um símbolo de estrela de 4 pontas mostrando que era uma imagem feita usando LLMs, não pude deixar de perceber que vários dos textos contém listas de 3 itens que são relativamente arbitrários (como nas frases de efeito "quero construir um mandato que tenha lado: o lado de quem trabalha, de quem luta e de quem muitas vezes é obrigado a resistir para ter seus direitos respeitados" e "existir com liberdade, segurança e dignidade é um direito"). Eu não acho que todo o texto das imagens linkadas foi escrito por um gerador de lero-lero, ou que todos os designs das imagens (os quais são em sua maioria bastante simples e consistentes) foram feitos com LLMs, mas acho provável que os textos tenham passado por um ChatGPT da vida em algum momento do processo de escrita.
Pessoas trans são mencionadas em especial uma vez (na suposta proposta "políticas de inclusão e proteção para pessoas trans"). Pessoas não-binárias não foram mencionadas de forma específica nenhuma vez, nem na sigla utilizada (já que não há N em LGBTQIA+).
No VoteLGBT, a não-binaridade de Everaldo é mencionada, ainda que de forma resumida ("NB") que usa a sigla como substantivo ao invés de adjetivo:
Iniciou sua militância no movimento estudantil onde foi o primeiro NB Coordenador-Geral do DCE da UFRGS, e foi diretor da UNE.
Porém, esta questão é completamente omitida no perfil da página da UP:
Foi coordenador-geral do DCE da UFRGS, diretor da UNE e integrante da Coordenação Nacional do Movimento Correnteza.
Em seu Instagram, elu também tem "NB" ao lado de uma bandeira arco-íris.
Quanto a questões defendidas, elas são bem resumidas nas duas descrições mencionadas:
Organizou a luta da juventude contra as opressões na Universidade e lutou em defesa da educação , pelo fim da escala 6X1 e pela prisão de Bolsonaro e os golpistas.Defende uma sociedade livre da exploração, o socialismo!
Atualmente segue mobilizado na defesa da educação pública, contra as privatizações e pela organização da juventude e da classe trabalhadora.
Porém, uma publicação de Instagram dá mais detalhes: são 25 pautas, algumas das quais são propostas relativamente diretas ("passe livre nos ônibus e na Trensurb", "Delegacias da Mulher 24 horas em todo o RS", "prioridade de investimento para prevenção de desastres ambientais") enquanto outras estão mais para ideais abstratos ("combate ao racismo e à violência de Estado", "combate ao feminicídio e aos estupros", "valorização dos aposentados"). Um dos itens é "anulação da Reforma Trabalhista e da Reforma da Previdência", sendo que estas são questões federais.
É até possível que Everaldo Oliveira tenha planos concretos para todos os seus pontos, mas, infelizmente, o documento mais completo oferecido sobre o que ile faria na Assembleia Legislativa foi um carrossel de Instagram. Tentei procurar no site da UP, presumindo a possibilidade de que o programa fosse igual a todes do partido, mas não achei menções a vários dos itens citados no carrossel.
Nenhum dos itens, porém, menciona ou teria como público-alvo principal pessoas não-binárias, ou mesmo pessoas cisdissidentes ou heterodissidentes num geral. Novamente, não acho que isso por si só é necessariamente um problema, especialmente pelo quanto há de pautas relacionadas com combate à violência, acesso à moradia e valorização de estruturas públicas (SUS, escolas públicas, fim de terceirizações, etc.), mas é uma questão perceptível quando outros grupos específicos e outras opressões específicas foram mencionades.
O veredito
Há mais pessoas não-binárias que não se declaram não-binárias fora da plataforma VoteLGBT (4) do que indicam não-binaridade em seus perfis fora da plataforma (3), sendo que, no caso de Indianarae Siqueira (contade como alguém que explicita sua não-binaridade), a não-binaridade apenas pode ser inferida a partir do uso da flexão e em combinação com a ausência de especificações acerca de gênero ou expressão de gênero.
A representação não-binária também não aparece de forma centralizada ou positiva em nenhuma campanha. Váries candidates se orgulham em, por exemplo, representar uma determinada região, profissão ou pauta, e parte des candidates listades se incluem nisso (como Filipe Menino e seu foco em saúde visual); mas, se a não-binaridade aparece, é como uma linha no perfil ou uma menção em "ser LGBTQIAPN+" no material de campanha. A não-binaridade é, aparentemente, algo a ser escondido do eleitorado geral: algo que não só não ajuda na campanha, como também poderia prejudicar o quanto cada candidate é aceite.
Em relação às pautas, 4 das candidaturas mencionam questões LGBTQIAPN+, com 3 destas oferecendo pelo menos uma menção específica a pessoas trans e apenas Álex Souza mencionando pessoas não-binárias como uma categoria específica. Sem perfis mais completos, porém, é difícil saber quantas das outras 6 pessoas votariam contra a implementação obrigatória de banheiros neutros ou da reformulação da "política de linguagem simples" de forma que a abra para reconhecer a diversidade de gêneros gramaticais para tratar pessoas específicas, ou a favor da inclusão explícita de pessoas não-binárias não trans (como isogênero ou absgênero) dentro de políticas voltadas para a população trans, por exemplo.
Eu consideraria votar em Álex Souza, Indianarae Siqueira ou Everaldo Oliveira, mas não voto em tais estados. Enquanto isso, prefiro candidates com propostas concretas e que não aparentam estar usando LLMs constantemente, algo que pra mim é um sinal de que parte da reflexão da pessoa está sendo terceirizada para uma máquina treinada para gerar textos que a média da internet faria. Já temos problemas suficientes com a classe política ignorando (ou mesmo suprimindo) pautas consideradas "nichadas demais" em busca de ter um eleitorado amplo para também termos que lidar com a eleição de mensageires de carne.
E de resto, temos aliades?
O VoteLGBT não tem filtros para questões mais específicas, apenas para "principais pautas". Porém, mesmo filtrando para quem tem como prioridade "Cidadania LGBT+" (a categoria mais próxima de "contra o avanço das pautas antitrans" ou "a favor de avanços para o respeito à não-binaridade"), há muites candidates que não facilitam para que suas opiniões ou pautas sejam encontradas. Inclusive há candidates na lista que mal citam questões "LGBT+" mesmo listando tal prioridade.
O Instagram limita bastante acesso sem login, por exemplo, e a maioria des candidates usa somente o Instagram para comunicarem suas ideias. Mesmo que eu não seja contra candidates manterem contas em redes sociais onde há mais gente, não acho que o formato de rede social seja ideal para acompanhar as posições de ume candidate. Outres candidates querem inscrições em suas listas de e-mail ou canais de WhatsApp, ao invés de explicarem suas propostas publicamente, e eu não acho que este deveria ser um requerimento para entender que tipo de propostas alguém tem.
Mesmo quem tem site próprio muitas vezes não elabora muito nele. Por exemplo, Prof. Marcelo Yoshida (PT-SP) tem vários depoimentos e várias fotos, mas apenas 4 caixas pequenas para dizer "o que defendemos" que estão mais para ideais do que para propostas. Enquanto isso, Ruth Venceremos (PT-DF) oferece propostas mais concretas e Fe Miranda (PSOL-RS) tem tanto parágrafos explicando sua posição quanto propostas derivadas de cada eixo.
Mesmo assim, é muito difícil saber o que boa parte das pessoas listadas no VoteLGBT fariam ou não fariam pela população não-binária, especialmente em pontos que podem não ser necessariamente benéficos a pessoas trans binárias ou binarizadas (por exemplo, já vi pessoas defendendo a não criação de banheiros neutros porque o que deveria ser feito é deixar pessoas trans entrarem nos banheiros que correspondem com seus gêneros, sendo que apenas duas identidades de gênero são representadas nesses banheiros, e a questão da neolinguagem mal é defendida pelas próprias comunidades não-binárias mesmo sendo necessidade para um grupo cada vez maior de pessoas). Quando o assunto é a inclusão de pessoas trans por estarem em situação de vulnerabilidade, esta é outra questão que deixa pessoas binárias defensivas, dando a entender que somos pessoas cis que decidimos ser irritantes em relação a como somos tratades e podemos parar a qualquer momento, quando muites de nós sofrem com as mesmas questões de exclusão social, vontades de transição física, violências com base em nossas aparências e disforia de gênero não aceita pela família do que mulheres e homens trans. As novas casas de acolhimento vão incluir pessoas não-binárias? E vão ter um espaço que não seja designado para homens ou para mulheres? E as cotas trans para empregos e universidades? O pessoal que defende inclusão LGBTQIAPN+ em empregos sequer parou para pensar que a maioria das vagas repassadas por aí são para "estagiários(as)"/"engenheiros(as)"/etc.?
Com as informações que consegui ver, admito que não encontrei outras menções a pessoas não-binárias. Raramente vi menções a pessoas trans, embora tenha visto uma ou outra menção a questões trans, como defesa do uso do nome social.
No final, mesmo depois de toda esta pesquisa, ainda acho que (aqui em São Paulo) vou votar na Neon Cunha, como fiz em outras eleições (desta vez ela está com o número 13913), e no Guilherme Cortez (5005), de quem recebi santinho perto de onde moro e gostei do que vi no site. De qualquer forma, peço para que todes que estejam lendo procurem ir atrás dos programas completos de sues candidates, não apenas de uma combinação de representatividade e partido ou de frases de efeito engraçadas.
Vi vários convites para eventos onde o objetivo é fazer propaganda para candidates. Não tive vontade de ir em nenhum.
Não vejo motivos pra isso: vou perder meu tempo fazendo propaganda pra alguém que nem sabe que eu existo e que talvez nem vá defender causas importantes pra mim, em um ambiente onde argumentar contra alguém que vier me maldenominar ou cometer outra violência vai prejudicar a campanha de quem eu deveria estar ajudando? Vou ter que defender partidos enquanto fico remoendo na minha cabeça toda vez que seus programas faltaram com segmentos da população NHINCQ+?
E aí eu fiquei pensando além disso.
Não há motivo lógico para defender neolinguagem ou não-binaridade - ou mesmo cisdissidência em geral, embora defender pessoas trans binárias seja uma posição relativamente popular na esquerda atual - como parte de um programa de governo. Nossa população é uma minoria numérica e é muitas vezes colocada como piada e frescura mesmo entre pessoas "LGBT". Isso não aumenta tanto os votos que ume candidate pode ganhar quanto os votos que podem perder.
Acredito que pensar nas questões de grupos marginalizados minoritários seja uma questão de ética. Acredito que deixar de usar o/ele/o como linguagem genérica seja uma questão de ética. Mas ética não ganha votos: se ganhasse, PSTU e UP teriam bem mais presença na política, enquanto figuras conhecidas por corrupção não continuariam por aí sendo eleitas e reeleitas.
Quem ganha mais votos em territórios grandes são quase sempre figuras genéricas e familiares. Lula e Boulos tiveram que moderar o tom pra conseguir mais votos do que em eleições anteriores. Mulheres, pessoas racializadas, pessoas NHINCQ+ e pessoas de outros grupos minorizados, embora possam ganhar eleições de vez em quando, possuem a desvantagem inerente a serem considerades "fora do normal". Alguém usando neolinguagem corretamente, defendendo pessoas não-binárias e se recusando a usar linguagem capacitista para falar de sues oponentes não conseguiria ser tão popular com um povo que ou tem orgulho de seus preconceitos ou não quer examiná-los quanto alguém que deixa essas questões éticas de lado pra se mostrar "junto com o povo" (majoritariamente cis, majoritariamente perissexo, majoritariamente alista, majoritariamente sem alergias alimentares, majoritariamente despreocupado com as consequências negativas da supremacia cristã, majoritariamente desinteressado em buscar alternativas a se render a grandes empresas para espaços de socialização e assim por diante).
As próprias referências a "eleitoras e eleitores", só para depois cair em o/ele/o para descrever os dois grupos, já indica: só os blocos grandes importam. Só quem é padrão importa.
Pessoas cisdissidentes, de modo geral, acabam tendo suas próprias comunidades alternativas: há ocupações cisdissidentes para não ter que lidar com o cissexismo de outras ocupações, há grupos onde se trocam dicas de hormonização pra evitar lidar com médiques cis, há comunidades online e offline específicas a pessoas não-binárias que muitas vezes podem ser os únicos lugares onde a interação social pode não vir agregada de um grande risco de disforia social. Quando precisamos acessar algum serviço que não podemos ou conseguimos fazer sozinhes, como de depilação com laser ou de terapia, a gente tende a perguntar entre si por lugares onde vão nos desrespeitar menos.
Colocar questões trans, desde a maldenominação por conta de documentação ou aparência até a situação precária de viver na rua porque a pessoa não consegue emprego e nem a família e nem abrigos públicos aceitam a pessoa, como frescuras que acontecem "porque a pessoa decidiu ser assim", como se pra todes ou muites de nós a mutilação de nossas identidades cisdissidentes fosse simples e fácil, é não só ignorância como outra forma de marginalização.
(E a política eleitoral não tem espaço pra ensinar pessoas, porque só tem tempo e espaço pra sinalizar o quanto os valores de cada candidate são alinhados com o que algum grupo pensa.)
O CR POP TT, lugar em São Paulo onde é possível marcar consultas em diversas especialidades do SUS desde que você seja trans, travesti, não-binárie e/ou intersexo e residente da capital, é maravilhoso, mas é uma exceção: a maior parte das cidades não conta com tal serviço, mesmo tendo múltiplos postos de saúde. E não é algo do que o [prefeito atual concorrente à reeleição] Ricardo Nunes vai se gabar (não que tenha sido iniciativa dele, mas é sob a SMS do governo dele que o centro foi inaugurado), a não ser como um número a mais, porque mesmo que ele tenha o reconhecido como demanda da população, a prioridade dele é agradar a um público cis, o qual frequentemente é antitrans também.
Eu entendo que, na maioria das eleições, as opções oferecidas não são todas igualmente danosas. Meu ponto aqui não é um pedido pelo voto nulo ou uma falsa equivalência entre todos os partidos existentes.
Porém, como alguém não-binárie, como alguém que dedicou anos falando de e defendendo a diversidade de linguagem pessoal, identidades não-binárias, modalidades de gênero e orientações e como alguém que ainda é constantemente maldenominade na maior parte dos eventos que não organiza, não importa o quão supostamente inclusivos sejam, eu não me sinto bem-vinde nas falas da grande maioria da classe política, incluindo mesmo as das pessoas que juram que são as únicas opções elegíveis que vão defender meus direitos. E não consigo confiar que qualquer reconhecimento positivo de pessoas como eu não é negociável em troca de votos e fundos das "famílias tradicionais" cristãs.
A maioria das pessoas cis podem sair na rua ou se inscrever em atividades que envolvem convivência com estranhes sem correr o risco de serem bombardeadas com maldenominação. A maioria das pessoas cis podem ir atrás de relacionamentos sem ter que se preocupar com ter que revelar que ou suas identidades de gênero ou suas genitálias talvez não seja as esperadas. A maioria das pessoas cis que vivem com outras pessoas cis não precisam se preocupar em ser expulsas de casa ou ter roupas e objetos jogades fora por não condizerem com a imposição da cisgeneridade (embora questões como heterodissidência ou inconformismo de gênero também possam gerar tais consequências por também serem transgressões relacionadas a não cumprir os papéis de gênero esperados).
Mas ativistas de partidos de esquerda também deviam se tocar de que é esse o motivo de tantas pessoas cisdissidentes - especialmente não-binárias - estarem ocupadas demais com nossas próprias pautas pra somar em suas organizações majoritariamente cis e em seus eventos com falas e atitudes cissexistas. Especialmente quando o trabalho de educação que fazemos em relação às nossas pautas - algo que tendemos a fazer pra ter uma parcela do respeito garantido a pessoas dentro das normas - é visto como fútil, egoísta ou como coisas que não merecem adentrar espaços "do povo".
Replies were bombarded with harassment and enbyphobia, trotting out the usual, "Why did you say their? Is she a group?" talking point, like a wall of Buzz Lightyear toys repeating their stock phrase. Others ask how to un-back the project, some describe the announcement as a "threat," and then come the usual buzzwords: Erika Ishii is a "toxic activist," a "woke idiot," "Antifa terrorist," and a few blatantly racist descriptors we obviously won't repeat here. Understandably, Double Fine turned off the comments.
Voice actor for Atysu in ghosts of Yotei I believe. They identify as gender fluid and a believe has partner. Asian, LGBTQ, the two capital troglodyte chud capital "G" Gamers nerve popping trigger points...or at least that's what they're told should be their trigger.
They were also Ana Bray in Destiny 2
Because Jin Sakai is dead (it's centuries after Tsushima) and Suckerpunch chose to have a gasp WOOMEAHN be the main lead this time, chuds were told to be angry and threaten her because Erika represents the "woke" movement that their God emperor wants to erase permanently.
Cause they're all fucking goostepping Nazis
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you can tell none of these dumbos have ever consumed any of erika's content. they're just a fucking gremlin. an amazingly talented gremlin but a gremlin nonetheless. i don't understand how you can not love erika.
Man, I fucking love Erika. They play a character on Hello From The Magic Tavern nicknamed "Sword Bro" who's a dude who's really into swords, but also low-key but high-key appropriates dragon culture and constantly wants to become a dragon lmao
I mean, I tried to watch some of L.A. By Night and didn't really love her there, to be honest. Didn't make me dislike her as a person or anything though, or as a voice actor. I think she's talented. Just made me stop watching the show.
Yup. Noticed this with plenty of "fans" opening thread after thread of hateful drivel on Steam forums, e.g. for Paralives. These people are clearly not interested in the game. Some even confessed to having been incited by alt-right streamers.
Yeah, zero chance people like that were actually going to play paralives to begin with.
Not too long ago, I ended up randomly on one of those "curator" lists where they review basically everything in terms of wokeness. You know, so you can buy responsibly or something. That shit is hilarious.
Like half of the "nope" have no reason but "there's gay marriage in it", but wait, Skyrim has that too... "Err yeah, but we like that one so, it's okay. For... reasons."
And I remember one game getting a "Not Recommended" with the only line in the whole review being "In the trailer, you can see a man who's knitting".
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Stop fucking using Twitter to announce anything. "We go where the people are" is no longer an acceptable excuse for your business keeping any presence on Twitter.
Once you know how it works, managing containers manually with crun is pretty easy. But if you don't want to do everything manually, the next best thing is podman. But podman pulls already around 500 MB in dependencies on Alpine, while half of it's features don't work without Systemd and the other half duplicates system-interfaces on a local website.
Which is why, before i create my own scripts, anything that let's you with a single command * create container from template * add sub-uid:gid * add respective default nftable rule * same for deleting container * list contianers by status
Once you know how it works, managing containers manually with crun is pretty easy. But if you don't want to do everything manually, the next best thing is podman. But podman pulls already around 500 MB in dependencies on Alpine, while half of it's features don't work without Systemd and the other half duplicates system-interfaces on a local website.
Which is why, before i create my own scripts, anything that let's you with a single command * create container from template * add sub-uid:gid * add respective default nftable rule * same for deleting container * list contianers by status
now no vms work i get this error "failed to start logical volume “vm-sys-usb-volatile” already exist in volume group “qubes dom0” (vm sys usb volatile is just an example)
also gui is buggy (slow and not appearing where it should be) and clicking doesnt register (not a external mouse) and logging in/out is super long but this happened before cpu pinning and just happens after updating it works fine on fresh install before updating
Learn linux like everybody first, install an easier distro like debian or mint, play with that. After a few months delete everything and reinstall domething else. Keep data on external disk to not loose it. This is the way to learn. Do not learn to unicycle before knowing how to walk.
Hey I see you are trying out Qubes! But I think you got sucked down a bit of a rabbit hole here. CPU pinning is a very deep customization, it is absolutely not necessary, and is a case of the author of the guide wondering "can I do this?" and finding out that yes, there is a way. But I would suggest that you not worry about it, as the difference in performance may not even be noticeable to you.
The best way to approach qubes as a new user is to do almost nothing to modify dom0, and do all your playing around in the qubes.
Also, for in depth tech support like this I would always post to the Qubes forums. Its a niche OS, so posting on a general Linux forum is probably going to not get you a ton of help.
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i did it because i was having problems with it. it was crazy slow and unresponsive (gui doesnt appear when/where its supposed to, clicks dont register (its not an external mouse) only after an update though. without updating (and logging out and back in) it work just fine. i pinned the cpu and that seemed to fix it but then it had problems only after i logged out and back in
Have you checked the hardware compatibility list, and the hardware requirements? What are your PC specs? Qubes relies heavily on virtualization and your hardware must support certain features (and those features must be turned on in the BIOS) for good performance.
So confirm that you have turned on all the recommended hardware features, which should be on BEFORE install, you may need to reinstall if they weren't turned on as I'm not sure what Qubes does at install time if those features are off.
Minimum: CPU: 64-bit Intel or AMD processor (also known as x86_64, x64, and AMD64)- Intel VT-x with EPT or AMD-V with RVI, Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi (also known as AMD IOMMU)., Memory: 6 GB RAM, Storage...
You probably shouldn’t be running qubes, either because your hardware isn’t up to it or because you aren’t up to it.
Nothing wrong with not being up to it. That’s a weird operating system that’s basically a research project. It’s just about like saying you daily drive 9front.
I vouch for Breezy. Been using it for years. It's very easy to use and clear and I think more accurate than a lot of my friends phones. Though that depends on your weather source.
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in reply to username_1 • • •Well now. Oil refineries tend to be made out of thick steel pipework and vessels, to contain unpleasant chemicals at high temperatures, and they're designed with blast panels and pressure release systems as they're somewhat likely to go boom without external assistance. But the whole site isn't like that
The control room tends to be just a plain old brick building somewhat removed from the main site - you don't want to incinerate your ops team if there's a fire.
The Motor Control Centres (MCCs) tend to get warm due to all the switchgear that they contain, which means they're kept aside, generally in quite thin-walled structures.
Hit either of those, the plant is going to be down for a long time.
If you're looking to render the refinery unusable, you either need enough boom to wreck inch-thick steel to the extent you can't just weld it up again, or enough precision to hit something irreplaceable.
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in reply to addie • • •Haven't they been doing that? I can't remember where I heard it. But I heard they were mostly targeting storage tanks until they talked to a petrochemical engineer. They told Ukraine that there's some critical bit that Russia can't manufacture and they've been targeting those as much as possible since.