This is the discussion thread for the draft FEP-baf5: Administrator Collection

> This FEP introduces a mechanism for discovering the administrators of an ActivityPub instance. It extends the "Group Moderator" pattern from [FEP 1b12][1b12] and the "Application Actor" concept from [FEP 2677][2677] by defining an OrderedCollection of administrators referenced from the instance's application actor.

The full draft can be read here.

Download Safing's Portmaster and take control of your network traffic: safing.io

Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux:tuxedocomputers.com/en#

👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits:

YouTube: youtube.com/@thelinuxexp/join
Patreon: patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment

Or, you can donate whatever you want: paypal.me/thelinuxexp

👕 GET TLE MERCH
Support the channel AND get cool new gear: the-linux-experiment.creator-s…

🎙️ LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE NEWS PODCAST:
Listen to the latest Linux and open source news, with more in depth coverage, and ad-free! podcast.thelinuxexp.com

🏆 FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE:
Mastodon: mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxE…
Pixelfed: pixelfed.social/TLENick

Twitter : twitter.com/thelinuxEXP
Instagram: instagram.com/nick_thelinuxexp…

I'm also on ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheLinuxExperiment:e
And on PEERTUBE: tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperime…

This video is distributed under the Creative Commons Share Alike license.

#elementaryos #linux #linuxdistro

00:00 Intro
00:32 Sponsor: Secure and monitor your internet connection with Safing
01:37 The basics
02:30 Installation and First Run Changes
03:57 Look & Feel Changes
05:50 AppCenter: looks good, but it's been surpassed
09:15 Sideloading Flathub, and app integration
10:40 Apps updates: evolutionary changes
15:07 Settings: power profiles and more configuration
16:31 Is it enough for me to switch back?
18:43 Sponsor: Get a device that runs Linux perfectly
19:38 Support the channel

First, the store now works better on small sizes. The headerbar was redone, with a permanent "updates" button, and a settings icon to enable auto updates.

In application pages, you now get bigger screenshots, and they're surrounded by bright accent colors, and even captions to describe what the app can do.

OS 7 adds a few mentions on app pages as well, like an "outdated" tag if an app hasn't been updated for OS 7, and you also get more update notes, with up to 5 versions.

Now, let's look at the updates to the applications!

First, you get GNOME Web, ported to GTK4, with a much faster webkit engine. It supports creating webapps, that will show up in your elementary OS Menu.

The mail client also received a refreshed UI, that should make its way to other elementary apps as well: the icons are now part of the content, and not split in a separate headerbar. Office 365 accounts will now also appear in the unified inbox. The app is also a lot more stable.

The tasks app is much improved. You can create new task lists offline, and they'll sync to your caldav account when you get back online, and tasks that reach their due date can now send notifications.

The file manager now lets you select folders by clicking on them, when before a single click would open them. You can turn that option on in the context menu.

The Music app is the one that changed the most. It's been rewritten, and it's no longer a music collection manager: it's just a player, with a queue. You just add songs, and they play, and that's it.

Code, the text editor / small IDE also got a few updates, with a full height project bar. It also now supports your system wide dark preference instead of only having manual options for light and dark theme, they added the find tools to the application's menu, and they now support regular expressions, and selecting some text in a file will pre-fill the find tool with that text.

Hiding and showing panels is also now done from the app's menu, and hidden folders will appear in your project tree automatically.

The Terminal also now can follow your system wide dark or light mode, but it lost its transparency by default, which I'm sad about, but it gained the ability to create custom color profiles, which is pretty great.

Now let's finish this with the settings! First, you now get power profiles, with a performance mode, powersave mode, and balanced. Hotcorners are also more configurable, in the multitasking preferences. You can now execute a custom command when activating one of these.

The keyboard shortcuts panel lets you reset something to the default easily. More importantly, though, you can now easily set the super key to open the multitasking view, instead of either the shortcuts or the application menu.

You also get cleaner printer settings with the ability to clear the print queue per printer, and it shows ink levels much more legibly.

You also get a new option in the security panel to prevent new USB devices from being mounted when the computer is locked.

What is a good option for making A5 flyers?

I'm looking for something with FOSS drivers, compact, reasonably affordable to run, and that doesn't mind being switched off for a week at a time.

Image quality is not paramount but should be respectable.

Do I have any decent options?

Seasoned UX designers have worked in an array of landscapes: physical products, website UIs, mobile applications, and more. Much of what we apply to one medium, we can apply to the next. Yet each presents its own unique challenges and opportunities. With the introduction of voice-based UX, we are facing a very new landscape that presents an abundance of unexplored territory.

In this session Mark will explore many of the elements of voice-based UX environments related to personalities, empathy, cognitive load, memory processes, accessibility, and Artificial Intelligence. He will share some of his related experiences working in wearable/ automotive spaces, outline some of his ideas about how we can apply what we know from other UX landscapes, and exhibit some real-world examples of successful and failed UX in the aural landscape. He will also share his experience as a father in a home abundant with new technologies, many with aural UX.

"Dark Horse" is a captivating track by Katy Perry featuring Juicy J, blending pop and hip-hop elements to create a unique sound. The official music video is visually stunning, showcasing a mystical theme that complements the song's intriguing lyrics. This hit has become a staple in Katy Perry's discography, celebrated for its catchy hook and powerful message.

Lyrics:
I knew you were
You were gonna come to me
And here you are
But you better choose carefully
'Cause I am capable of anything
Of anything and everything
Make me your Aphrodite
Make me your one and only
But don't make me your enemy
Your enemy, your enemy

(Pre-Chorus)
So you wanna play with magic
Boy, you should know what you're fallin' for
Baby, do you dare to do this
'Cause I'm coming atcha like a dark horse

(Chorus)
Are you ready for, ready for
A perfect storm, perfect storm
'Cause once you're mine, once you're mine
There's no going back

Mark my words
This love will make you levitate
Like a bird
Like a bird without a cage
But down to earth
If you choose to walk away
Don't walk away
It's in the palm of your hand now, baby
It's a yes or a no, no maybe
So just be sure
Before you give it all to me
All to me
Give it all to me

(Pre-Chorus)
So you wanna play with magic
Boy, you should know what you're fallin' for
Baby, do you dare to do this
'Cause I'm coming atcha like a dark horse

(Chorus)
Are you ready for, ready for
A perfect storm, perfect storm
'Cause once you're mine, once you're mine
There's no going back

(Juicy J)
She's a beast
I call her Karma
She'll eat your heart out
Like Jeffrey Dahmer

Be careful
Try not to lead her on
Shorty heart is on steroids
'Cause her love is so strong

You may fall in love when you meet her
If you get the chance, you better keep her
She's sweet as pie, but if you break her heart
She'll turn cold as a freezer

That fairy tale ending with a knight in shining armor
She can be my Sleeping Beauty
I'm gon' put her in a coma

Now I think I love her
Shorty so bad, sprung and I don't care
She ride me like a roller coaster
Turned the bedroom into a fair

Her love is like a drug
I was tryna hit it and quit it
But lil' mama so dope
I messed around and got addicted

(Pre-Chorus)
So you wanna play with magic
Boy, you should know what you're fallin' for
Baby, do you dare to do this
'Cause I'm coming atcha like a dark horse

(Chorus)
Are you ready for, ready for
A perfect storm, perfect storm
'Cause once you're mine, once you're mine
There's no going back

#katyperry #PRISM #GoogleFree #YoutubeFree #MusicVideo #PopMusic #Lyric

Music video by Katy Perry performing Dark Horse. (C) 2014 Capitol Records, LLC

Directed by Matthew Cullen & Produced by Dawn Rose, Danny Lockwood, Javier Jimenez, and Derek Johnson

Album Artist: #KatyPerry #JuicyJ
Album(s): Prism
Written by: Katy Perry, Juicy J, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Sarah Hudson
Music genre(s): #Pop #HipHop
Released: #2013
Decade for first release: #2010s
Meta tags: #DarkHorse #MysticalVibes

Thank you for watching! This video is brought to you by My Privacy DNS on PeerTube, dedicated to protecting your right to online privacy.

#katyperry #juicyj #prism #darkhorse #2010s #trap #hiphop #poprap #electropop #mysticalvibes

It is astonishing to think that I can take a full shower with less water than it takes to flush a toilet.

I consume around 4-5L of water for the shower, and to flush it takes 6-8L. One pee, one flush, and you consume more water than it takes me to have a 20 minutes shower.

In Spain, where I am, people use 128L of water per day, per person. As much as I use in almost 3 weeks.

Sources:

• ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/es/operac…
• statista.com/chart/19591/avera…

The other video we did about our shower videos.trom.tf/w/o7qh8y49JXELg…

Tio

2026-01-04 13:49:02

Water Heater broke so we Reinvented the Shower

When our water heater stopped working we felt like it was a big big deal. Of course not having hot running water is a very uncomfortable situation. But we reinvented our shower to have hot running water. A better system that is 100 times more reliable than the water heater.

Funny enough when we started to make the video about the new solution, our water heater came back from dead and started working. Even so I, Tio, still prefer our new shower solution that anyone can actually setup in any van probably.

It costs 50 Euros and you need a water pump, a collapsible bucket, and a kettle.

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

A Tennessee man who was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post he shared after the killing of Charlie Kirk has agreed to a $835,000 settlement with the sheriff who detained him, his lawyers said on Wednesday.

The fatal shooting of Mr. Kirk, the conservative activist, last September set off an avalanche of social media commentary across the country. With it came firings, resignations and a debate about the boundaries of free speech. But Larry Bushart, the man arrested in Tennessee, was perhaps the only person charged with a felony after his posts about Mr. Kirk’s death.

In the posts, he shared memes that accused Mr. Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA, of perpetrating hate and another that included past comments from President Trump about moving past a school shooting. The sheriff’s office in Perry County, Tenn., claimed that with those posts, he had threatened violence.

Hi! I made this post because of seeing the other post on asklemmy.

I exclusively have watched Dimension 20 (D20) because I started out listening to all of Not Another DND Podcast (NADDPod) and couldn't get enough. I don't really get the On A Bus variant except it is somebody DMing who is taking the piss out of Brennan and the other DMs? But who is the elf lady and how do they know her?

Also I heard that the latest Critical Roll has Brennan as the DM, is that approachable if you've never watched Critical Roll? I tried to get into it years ago but couldn't deal with the huge cast.

If you've never seen D20, this 6 minute overview is super entertaining and is also a great overview of the energy and talent Brennan brings to every episode. youtube.com/watch?v=4zZzsB0VBs…

Is there a video like this to help people get into the rest of Dropout?

What do you watch, and why?

I wanted a sanity check on my current rsync flags. Posts on Reddit seem to highlight the use of rsync -avz for most use cases, for some instances even for when someone asks for mirroring a drive: reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comme… This has not worked for me for the following case:

Drive #1:

file1.txt
file2.txt

file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt

Side note: it is interesting that rclone sync from rclone (rclone.org/commands/rclone_syn…) claims to delete by default, while with rsync it seems to be something you have to distinctly mention.

This is a follow up to: barthalion.blog/flathub-intern…

The blog was not loading for me earlier, so here's a copy:

It's probably not your fault.

On a cache miss, there are two things a reverse proxy (which Fastly is to us) can do. It can make the client wait until the proxy itself fetches the requested content and then serve it, with subsequent requests being served from the cache. From a user's perspective, it means staring at "hung" process, and people tend not to be understanding when a program is stuck seemingly doing nothing.

Instead, the proxy can stream the response from the origin, caching it at the end. This makes the client receive the data right away, although it's not without drawbacks.

In a streaming setup like Flathub's, an all-MISS path adds some upstream latency before the first byte, but also limits the download speed to what the slowest link can deliver. As we don't run servers in the same datacenter or on a single backbone network, the hop from Fastly through the caching proxy to the master server incurs a penalty that may affect how quickly the data gets back.

In order to cache files larger than 20MB, Fastly expects customers who use streaming misses to use segmented caching. Anything larger than that gets broken down into smaller chunks. When Fastly wants the data from us, it will add a Range header specifying which bytes we should respond with. Fastly will then serve the request after reconstructing the file from various chunks. Our caching proxies also use the value of the Range header in the caching key to avoid requesting the full file over and over again from the master server as well.

While great for caching, many concurrent range MISSes can turn what would be a sequential file read into scattered, random reads. It wouldn't matter with SSD or NVMe, but as the repository is stored on HDDs, when combined with streaming misses, it can turn cold transfer speed into min(network bottleneck, ZFS random-read bottleneck).

Counterintuitively, you may improve your download speeds by aborting the ongoing Flatpak operation and starting it again. While the initial request was slow, there's a non-zero chance it went through all the caching layers and it will become a cache hit in the meantime.
Flatpak

Let's talk Flatpak. When installing or upgrading applications, Flatpak will try to use delta files. A typical delta is an update file that contains only the difference between versions. There are also from-scratch deltas, which effectively are an archive with all files required to install an app from scratch, thus the name.

Flathub generates a single upgrade delta and a from-scratch delta for the latest version. Delta generation is an expensive process in terms of disk reads and writes, but also disk space. Because our ZFS setup isn't exactly the fastest, generating more delta files also affects how quickly we can publish an update. Yes, in theory we could be doing this out of band but we don't. In hindsight, Titanic wasn't unsinkable after all.

What happens if you are not updating often enough? A lot of suffering. Flatpak will download each missing file between the version you are on and the one you want to upgrade to, separately. This is an almost certain cache miss causing even more random seeks on the master server. At this point Flatpak would be better off downloading the from-scratch delta but it can't. The behaviour is controlled by OSTree, which doesn't offer any knobs to affect it. It is the right choice if the goal is to limit the bandwidth used by the client to fetch updates, but an incredibly bad one for anyone on a reliable connection; downloading a single large file is almost always faster than fetching multiple smaller ones.

What do? Some brave soul could fix OSTree to apply a better heuristic on when to use from-scratch deltas for upgrades, or at least make it expose an API that lets Flatpak choose. For the rest of us mere mortals, we can only update regularly or wait patiently for the update to finish.