KDE’s 2026–2028 goals include stronger enterprise support, consolidated documentation, and a unified styling system.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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20:19 Windows fails at being an OS
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Windows 11 is failing as an operating system
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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
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27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, Plasma 6.8 continues to pass through the bug-fixing process in preparation for its release on October 14th, including the release of a second beta version.KDE Blogs
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05:14 Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools
08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app
10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme
12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS
14:35 PostmarketOS changes name
16:11 Dev proposes that GNOME accepts Al contributions
18:10 Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops
19:33 New minimalist FOSS web browser
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Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools
blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/…
F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…
Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme
linuxiac.com/firefox-157-nova-…
Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS
phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-B…
PostmarketOS changes name
nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-…
Dev proposes that GNOME accepts Al contributions
arunraghavan.net/2026/09/on-ll…
Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu…
New minimalist FOSS web browser
Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation
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reuters.com/world/us/new-mexic…
The verdict could, "in theory," result in an award of about $219 billion in civil penalties, Attorney General Raul Torrez said in a news conference Friday.Santa Fe New Mexican
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08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app
10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme
12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS
14:35 PostmarketOS changes name
16:11 Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions
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19:33 New minimalist FOSS web browser
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Ubuntu 26.10 beta released
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu…Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu…Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools
blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/…F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme
linuxiac.com/firefox-157-nova-…Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS
phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-B…PostmarketOS changes name
nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-…Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions
arunraghavan.net/2026/09/on-ll…Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu…New minimalist FOSS web browser
blancbrowser.com/Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation
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reuters.com/world/us/new-mexic…
i just love to wiggle mouse in my free time when i am on my Manjaro kde VM. It just feels so good but them my GNOME based fedora 44 didnt have it because jiggle and wiggle are outdated...and weell wiggly...it just doent work with the similar physics of KDE with incremental size increase.
So , to give myself a break from my work I VibeCoded this.
Yes i openly am stating that this is a VIBECODED project and welll i made it for myself and am sharing it here. It was a break from my sullen work and also from testing and debuuging my main project which i have to do manually , ScreenGuard , which well some people here must know atleast by now after my vigourous campaign about what this is...but nevertheless getting into this topic, I can atleast assusre u one thing, I will continue updating it atleast once every month if i find any bugs or any issues are opened in the repo.
So please feel free to use it, or even contribute. I will be adding the contibuting.md after a few hours, its been a looong day.
Thank you all for co-operating and Please donot tag it as AI slop because yes i myself am stating its vibecoded a lot eventhough i ask people not to do it...So if you really want the kde-ish wiggle, u can try it out, if you dont feel good about the vibecode then dont , completely upto you .
The github repository: github.com/adityakrishnan005-a…
details on how to install is given in README.
Digital Wellbeing for Linux — Screen Time Tracking, Daily App Limits & Focus Mode (GNOME Wayland & X11) - adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuardGitHub
System76's COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to certify that pull requests contain no LLM-generated content. The new template also adds a Developer Certificate of Origin.linuxnation.social
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I had the same experience with cosmic. It was prone to crashes. I really like the idea of combining gnome with i3wm/hyprland though. I currently have one box using gnome with a tiling shell extension, but the issue there is extensions not being well supported between gnome versions.
I wouldn't be opposed to retrying cosmic now. It's been a few years.
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08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app
10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme
12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS
14:35 PostmarketOS changes name
16:11 Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions
18:10 Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops
19:33 New minimalist FOSS web browser
21:55 Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation
24:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
Ubuntu 26.10 beta released
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu…
Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu…
Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools
blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/…
F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…
Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme
linuxiac.com/firefox-157-nova-…
Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS
phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-B…
PostmarketOS changes name
nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-…
Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions
arunraghavan.net/2026/09/on-ll…
Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops
omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu…
New minimalist FOSS web browser
blancbrowser.com/
Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation
santafenewmexican.com/news/loc…
reuters.com/world/us/new-mexic…
for me pills and jetbrainsmono and borders around everything just screams to me "this was designed by Claude."
I don't like the look. I think it looks amateurish. doesn't look clean. looks slapped together at the last minute by an LLM. Also the corners of my monitor are not round, they're square. if I was back on a early 00 area Apple Cinema Display it would make sense. hell if I was using any screen from the early 00's it would make sense. to me pills on everything does not make sense.
Hey that's like the inversion of the flag i always dreamt of for earth when i was a kid
If you make the border the opaque part, then whatever you look at through the flag 'is' Earth. Very poetic imo, and an excellent picture frame
September's Patch Tuesday sets a record with nearly 1,000 fixes. Two vulnerabilities are already being exploited, so update your PC now.Frank Ziemann (PCWorld)
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Imagine thinking that's a large amount of patches.
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September's Patch Tuesday sets a record with nearly 1,000 fixes. Two vulnerabilities are already being exploited, so update your PC now.Frank Ziemann (PCWorld)
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.Tetyana Oliynyk (Ukrainska Pravda)
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.
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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"
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You're mistaking me I guess. I'm not blaming ai, I would even be fine with linux maintainers using ai tools, as assistant, not as vibe tools. Even though I know people dislike even just the idea.
I'm blaming cybersecurity people and corps to make a big deal out of every single CVE. They'll use AI tools to search breaches and no one will say anything. But dare a maintainer touch IA and then it's hell on earth.
Most of the time, the CVEs are irrelevant to any real life situation. It's not a bad thing these get fixed, but in the end stories get inflated that softwares are not protected, and cybersecurity gets into big success story talks, thinking they contributed to something when really they mostly waste people time.
Yeah, it's funny when people shit on Linux just because people care enough to disclose vulnerabilities. Trust me that any proprietary system has just as many; they just get silently patched in this month's security update.
Computers are finicky things; the amount of known CVEs is simply a measure of how many people pentest the software and how big the project is, rather than any statement about its security.
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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September's Patch Tuesday sets a record with nearly 1,000 fixes. Two vulnerabilities are already being exploited, so update your PC now.Frank Ziemann (PCWorld)
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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.
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Cladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.”Sasha Rogelberg (Fortune)
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.
yt-dlp version 2026.08.19
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"
solutions appreciated
Try the nightly build:
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yt-dlp nightly builds. Contribute to yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Someone else said you should try the most recent version. They’re right. You just copy the file into some place like ~/.local/bin/, set it executable with chmod +x and add its location to your $PATH. You will need to apt remove yt-dlp from your system to get rid of the old apt version. From that point forward using the -U flag when you invoke yt-dlp will first check for and install an update if needed before doing the thing you asked for.
Someone else said Reddit is closing off their api. This is so.
You’re getting 429 so try changing your vpn endpoint and see if that helps you out.
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.
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 refreshes the rolling distro with Linux kernel 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7, RPM 6.1, GCC 16, and updated installation images.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
"We don't do DEI (or DIE, as we prefer to call it)," says OpenMandriva President.Bryan Lunduke (The Lunduke Journal of Technology)
Surprisingly, it's LGPL v2.
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.
Ubuntu 26.10 adds a new Rust-based OpenPGP implementation called Sequoia (sq) alongside GnuPG tool, which it plans to 'phase out'.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu)
Surprisingly, it’s LGPL v2.
It's almost like Jon Seager just really likes Rust.
Manage your Proton Drive files from the CLI (command-line interface). Find out how to upload, download, organize, and share from the terminal.Proton
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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.
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(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 😭
WHAT NO WAY
(also thank YOU for actually helping me compared to some OTHER people heheh (reddit) eheheheh)
edit: the one in the discover store doesn't seem to work im actually gonna activate
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 😭
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::: 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.
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."
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.
"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.
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 #clouds #cloudporn #muz4now #twithaca #lake #cayuga #nature #water #sunrise #outdoors #outside #nofilterA post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on May 9, 2015 at 4:44am PDT
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Sep 12, 2015 at 8:52am PDT
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Oct 26, 2017 at 12:27am PDT
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.
Sundown #sunset #cayugalake #sky #clouds #muz4now #water #sun #lake #dock #nature #outside #outdoorsA post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Jun 30, 2016 at 6:01pm PDT
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Jun 25, 2016 at 6:55pm PDT
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Jul 24, 2016 at 12:47pm PDT
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.
See Beyond #sun #trees #sky #clouds #muz4now #see #beyond #nature #naturelovers #sunrise #sunset #skylovers #cloudlovers #outdoors #outside #openingA post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Jul 29, 2016 at 2:13am PDT
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Mar 17, 2016 at 5:41am PDT
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Feb 19, 2016 at 4:21am PST
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Aug 29, 2015 at 4:09am PDT
There are so many colors that join together to create the pallette of a sunrise. Do you find sunsets (or rises) to be inspiring?
Get Up: There’s Beauty Ahead #sunrise #sun #summer #clouds #cloudporn #nature #sky #muz4now #outside #outdoors #tree #trees #nofilterA post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Aug 20, 2015 at 4:20am PDT
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Aug 8, 2015 at 6:34pm PDT
I hope you enjoyed this photo series. Be sure to follow me on Instagram to see more like these.
“Tree Line on Fire” #sunsetA post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Apr 28, 2014 at 4:22am PDT
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.Stan Stewart (Stan Stewart - @muz4now)
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It is by Wine alone I set my .exe's in motion
It is by prefix creation that DLLs acquire form
The registry acquires keys
The keys hopefully don't cause warnings
It is by Wine alone I set my .exe's in motion
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~~It IS an emulation. Wine only allows us to run windows applications not windows itself~~
Wrong
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btw the joke is that Wine literally stands for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”
in their mind
Fake. Most windows applications are not open source.
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[Shameless self-promotion no.2]
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."
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 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.
Cross-platforms livestream player with clipping and recording. - tarzasai/clippitiGitHub
[Shameless self-promotion]
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."
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 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.
System tray app that monitors livestreams and launches them in your favorite player via Streamlink - tarzasai/LurkitiGitHub
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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
Does anybody else want the Linux community to remain small while still making progress byu/Artemis-Mystique inlinuxmasterraceArtemis-Mystique (reddit)
Or simply allow natural, full-fledged discourse occur, instead of attempting to simplify complex opinions into two numbers.
I don't like polls, much.
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.
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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.
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.
wdym, linux boxes ?
i totally agree that usage would come a lot easier if what gets pushed is a mindset
if you have more to say now, i'm all ears. i want to drive adoption in my circles
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.
No. I don't want it small. I just don't want it to welcome fascists.
There is also not "the Linux community" there is thousands of communities of varying sizes.
Then why not just talk about Linux adoption?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It hasnt been small since 98.
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?
What are you calling "the linux community"?
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.
We're well past "small".
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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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?
Just curious, but why?
Can you elaborate on what you are trying to achieve?
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.
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.
Lots of reasons.
there is no legal issue with ripping your own dvd and using it on a jellyfin server or even making dvd copies.
the only restriction is you cant distribute or sell access to them
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
Edit: dvd's can have copy protection so in that case it would depend on the specific dvd
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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:
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.
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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...GitHub
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:
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.
Github beta release link: github.com/adityakrishnan005-a…
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...GitHub
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
For more details, see the changelog.
Flatpak 1.18.4 is out with fixes for six security flaws affecting sandbox escapes, file access, process signaling, and OCI authentication.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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.
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open-slopware - Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use and/or support LLMs/AI, as well as tips for requesting better policies or forking.Codeberg.org
On one hand, many things that you think are "AI" are actually humans in another country pretending to be an AI chatbot
Since your target audience appears to be developers and software engineers, have there been any reported cases of human "AI" coding chat bots?
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it's really fascinating how one of the markers of such use is the speed at which new feature/capabilities are delivered.
in other words: if it seems too fast for a human to do, it's automatically labeled as ai.
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.
20-30% cheaper is really fighting against this argument
Still not remotely enough to be profitable
This is business.
So was the Opium trade.
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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.
Weird how the only reasons you see articulated are ones deeply rooted in liberalism though.
Ultimately, the most performative folks are those judging others without making something better themselves.
I guess we can agree on something. People screeching about AI without actually doing anything productive are the worst.
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
This is about banning AI contributions from specific open-sourced projects.
Do you even know what Codeberg did?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hm... FEP-c0e0: Emoji reactions details two ways to federate an Emoji reaction:
EmojiReact activityLike 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?
Perhaps I should federate out both at once.
EmojiReact is used by Pleroma.
Idk about others, I started with EmojiReact but then switched to Like - Mastodon users can see a "favorite" that way.
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.
Okay, NodeBB can now be configured to send out EmojiReact (default) or Like.
Of note, Misskey seems to assume it is :heart:, possibly missing support for EmojiReact.
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.
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local LLM I use walk me through the solution as an effective learning tool.
Which model do you use for that exactly?
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!
I personally have gone for Manjaro
Why would anyone intentionally do that?
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 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.
My Arch progression was like this:
Manjaro -> Arch -> endeavouros -> Garuda Linux
Garuda is awesome if you like Arch.
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
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 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.
Bootable BTRFS snapshots and a less fast update schedule are the biggest differences AFAIK.
I would probably have gone with Slowroll if it was ready to go when I installed Tumbleweed.
manjaro had a lot of issues with stuff as basic as their certificate.
i wouldn't trust them over endeavour or cachy and i've personally had a good experience on both of these.
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)
automatic hardware detection
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.
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.
I'm glad to announce v0.4.7 release!
Syncspirit is continuous peer-to-peer realtime syncrhonization tool. It implements BEP protocol and provides seamless interoperability with existing syncthing nodes and clients.
raw.githubusercontent.com/basi…
You can download ready-to-use binaries for Linux x86_64 (AppImage),
Windows 32 bit (WindowsXP is supported),
Windows 64 bit
and Mac OS X (Apple silicon).
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)
Syncspirt source code uses GPLv3 license.
Any feedback is welcome!
WBR, basiliscos.
continuous file synchronization program (BEP protocol implementation) - basiliscos/syncspiritGitHub
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I'm glad to announce v0.4.7 release!
Syncspirit is continuous peer-to-peer realtime syncrhonization tool. It implements BEP protocol and provides seamless interoperability with existing syncthing nodes and clients.
raw.githubusercontent.com/basi…
You can download ready-to-use binaries for Linux x86_64 (AppImage),
Windows 32 bit (WindowsXP is supported),
Windows 64 bit
and Mac OS X (Apple silicon).
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)
Syncspirt source code uses GPLv3 license.
Any feedback is welcome!
WBR, basiliscos.
continuous file synchronization program (BEP protocol implementation) - basiliscos/syncspiritGitHub
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?"
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..
Thanks for the explanation! Makes sense to me - although I do understand their marketing and pronociation concerns.
I'm not sure where I stand myself so your point of view is very appreciated 😀
Part of the problem with reading the article to explain it, is 99.999% of people will not read the article either.
Look at the other project names. They're technical and exciting.
Nura... sounds like a health bar, or a moisturizer, a cereal at best.
Postmarket was pretty bad, but it did kind of describe the point of the OS.
Nura, nature, nurture, maybe Neura would have been braincell adjacent.
Doesn't really matter, when it can drive a camera well and give me 18 hours of battery, i'll run it.
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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The company’s permanently free security platform for up to 25 machines is now available to enterprises running Debian, Ubuntu, and AlmaLinux.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
AI-powered security platform
mh...
removing the commercial barrier can dramatically accelerate the adoption
*starts projectile vomiting at this startup culture techbro bs
音声が流れるのに合わせて波形が動く動画、よく見ると思いますよね。あれをRubyで作ってみたいと思います。果たしてRubyにその道具は揃っているのか……？
素材はWikimedia Commonsで見付けた、槇原敬之の『ANSWER』にしてみましょう。このファイルはCC-BY 3.0で槇原敬之 Official Channelにより配布されています。
require "pathname"
require "open-uri"
src = URI("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/ANSWER_TIME_TRAVELING_TOUR_2nd_Season.wav")
audio_path = Pathname("answer.wav")
unless audio_path.exist?
audio_path.write src.read
endrequire "numo/narray/alt"
require "awaaz"
waveform, sample_rate = Awaaz.load(audio_path.to_path)
pp waveform # => Numo::DFloat#shape=[1,1287720]shape の最初が 1 なのでモノラル、そして1287720サンプルあるようです。AwaazはNumo::NArrayに依存しているのですが、今はNumo::NArrayその物はメンテされていなくて、Numo::NArray Alternativeを使いたいので、先に読み込んでおきます。
これを、動画の前に一旦画像にしてみましょう。 Numo::NArray の各要素をプロットすればそれっぽくなるはず。
1287720サンプルは多過ぎるので取り敢えず400サンプルぐらいにしておきます。また、冒頭だとあまり音がないので、適当に10000サンプル目ぐらいにしておきます。
w = 400
color = Numo::UInt8[255, 255, 0]
data = waveform[10000...(10000 + w)]
# DFloat -> UInt8
# そのまま画像にするとy座標が正の場合は下に、負の場合は上にプロットされるけど、逆になって欲しいので1.0 - dataにしている
q_data = Numo::UInt8.cast((1.0 - data) * (255.0 / 2).round)
# q_dataをone-hot化：
# [0, 5, 1, 4, 2, 3]みたいな配列から
# [
# [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
# [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
# [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
# [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
# [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
# [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
# ]
# と、対応箇所だけ1で他は0という配列の配列を作る
# これを画面に見立てて1の所をプロットすれば波形になる筈
eye = Numo::UInt8.eye(256)
image = eye[true, q_data]
# 1だった所を色を持ったピクセルにする
image = image.expand_dims(2) * colorrequire "magro"
Magro::IO.imsave "magro.png", image
線が荒いですが、一先ずそれっぽくはなったんではないでしょうか!?
上は一つのx座標に対して一つのyをプロットしているので、yが連続していない時に飛び飛びになって荒く見えてしまいます。この端の間を補完してみましょう。「吴小林のラインアルゴリズム」なる物を使ってみます。
詳細は各自調べてもらうとして、実装は次のようになります。
def line_brightness(x0, y0, x1, y1)
brightness = Numo::SFloat.zeros(256, x1.to_i - x0.to_i + 1)
x0, y0, x1, y1 = x0.to_f, y0.to_f, x1.to_f, y1.to_f
steep = (y1 - y0).abs > (x1 - x0).abs
if steep
x0, y0 = y0, x0
x1, y1 = y1, x1
end
if x0 > x1
x0, x1 = x1, x0
y0, y1 = y1, y0
end
dx = x1 - x0
dy = y1 - y0
grad = dx == 0 ? 0.0 : dy/dx
xend = x0.round
yend = y0 + grad * (xend - x0)
xgap = rfpart(x0 + 0.5)
xpxl1 = xend.to_i
ypxl1 = yend.floor.to_i
if steep
brightness[xpxl1, ypxl1] = rfpart(yend) * xgap
brightness[xpxl1 + 1, ypxl1] = fpart(yend) * xgap
else
brightness[ypxl1, xpxl1] = rfpart(yend) * xgap
brightness[ypxl1 + 1, xpxl1] = fpart(yend) * xgap
end
yi = yend + grad
xend = x1.round
yend = y1 + grad * (xend - x1)
xgap = fpart(x1 + 0.5)
xpxl2 = xend.to_i
ypxl2 = yend.floor.to_i
if steep
brightness[xpxl2, ypxl2] = rfpart(yend) * xgap
brightness[xpxl2 + 1, ypxl2] = fpart(yend) * xgap
else
brightness[ypxl2, xpxl2] = rfpart(yend) * xgap
brightness[ypxl2 + 1, xpxl2] = fpart(yend) * xgap
end
(xpxl1 + 1).upto xpxl2 - 1 do |x|
if steep
brightness[x, yi.floor.to_i] = rfpart(yi)
brightness[x, yi.floor.to_i + 1] = fpart(yi)
else
brightness[yi.floor.to_i, x] = rfpart(yi)
brightness[yi.floor.to_i + 1, x] = fpart(yi)
end
end
brightness
end
def fpart(x)
x - x.floor
end
def rfpart(x)
1.0 - fpart(x)
endy_data = (1.0 - data) * (255.to_f / 2)
coverage = Numo::SFloat.zeros(256, w)
(w - 1).times do |i|
segment = line_brightness(0, y_data[i], 1, y_data[i + 1])
coverage[true, i] += segment[true, 0]
coverage[true, i + 1] += segment[true, 1]
end
coverage[coverage > 1.0] = 1.0
image = coverage.expand_dims(2) * color
image = Numo::UInt8.cast(image.round)
Magro::IO.imsave "magro-lined.png", image
大分見易いですね！
RMagickに、複数の画像を登録してから保存すると動画にできる機能があるので、それを使います。 Magick::ImageList に画像を登録していって最後に #write を呼びます。
NDAV を使うと Numo::NArray から Magick::Image に変換できるので、上で作ったやり方で画像データを作り、変換して Magick::ImageList に登録します。
コードを書く前にちょっとチラ裏で計算しておきましょう。
一フレーム当たりの秒数 = 1 / fps = 0.04全秒数 = サンプル数 / サンプルレート全フレーム数 = 全秒数 * fps一フレーム当たりのサンプル数 = サンプルレート / fpsi フレーム目のサンプルは i * 一フレーム当たりのサンプル数 （オフセット）から 一フレーム当たりのサンプル数 - 1 まで一つ一つゆっくり確かめれば難しいことは無い筈です。頭の中だけで考えるより、コードを書きながらの方が理解しやすいかも。
require "rmagick"
require "ndav/magick/image"
require "ndav/numo/narray"
include NDAV::Converter
fps = 25
duration = waveform.shape[1].to_f / sample_rate
samples_per_frame = (sample_rate.to_f / fps).round
num_frames = (duration * fps).ceil
image_list = Magick::ImageList.new
num_frames.times do |i|
start_frame = i * samples_per_frame
end_frame = start_frame + samples_per_frame - 1
# linspaceはstart_frameからend_frameまで、w個になるように間引いた際のインデックスの列を作る関数
indices = Numo::Int32.cast(Numo::DFloat.linspace(start_frame, end_frame, w).round)
# Numo::NArrayではインデックスの列（配列）でアクセスすると、そのインデックスにある値をまとめて取って来た配列を返す
data = waveform[indices]
y_data = (1.0 - data) * (255.to_f / 2)
coverage = Numo::SFloat.zeros(256, w)
(w - 1).times do |i|
segment = line_brightness(0, y_data[i], 1, y_data[i + 1])
coverage[true, i] += segment[true, 0]
coverage[true, i + 1] += segment[true, 1]
end
coverage[coverage > 1.0] = 1.0
image = coverage.expand_dims(2) * color
image = Numo::UInt8.cast(image.round)
image_list << MagickImage(image)
end
image_list.write "rmagick.mp4"
それっぽくなったんではないでしょうか!?
では上の画のみ動画と元のオーディオデータを合成して完成……としたいところですがRubyでそれは難しくて結局 ffmpeg コマンドを呼び出すことになります。勿論実用的にはそれでいいのですが、できればRubyでやりたいところ……GStreamer gemを使ってやってみましょう。
GStreamerはマルチメディア用のパイプライン構築ができるライブラリーです。コードを見ながら説明します。
require "gstreamer"
fps = 30
duration = waveform.shape[1].to_f / sample_rate
samples_per_frame = (sample_rate.to_f / fps).round
num_frames = (duration * fps).ceil
pipeline = Gst.parse_launch(<<~EOP)
mp4mux name=mux ! filesink location=gstreamer.mp4
appsrc name=audiosrc format=time caps=audio/x-raw,format=F32LE,rate=#{sample_rate},channels=#{waveform.shape[0]},layout=interleaved
! audioconvert ! avenc_aac ! aacparse ! queue ! mux.
appsrc name=videosrc format=time caps=video/x-raw,format=RGB,width=#{w},height=256,framerate=#{fps}/1
! videoconvert ! x264enc ! h264parse ! queue ! mux.
EOPappsrc name=audiosrc format=time caps=audio/x-raw,format=F32LE,rate=#{sample_rate},channels=#{waveform.shape[0]},layout=interleaved
! audioconvert ! avenc_aac ! aacparse ! queue ! mux.appsrc という特別なソース（Rubyコードでデータを生成するソース）から出発して、 ! で繋げた audioconvert （オーディオ変換の調整役）、 avenc_aac （MP4で使うためのAACオーディオにエンコード）、 aacparse （AACオーディオのパース）、 queue (キューに積む)と繋げたパイプラインです。最後に mux. （最後の . が大事）と書くことで、一行目の mp4mux に繋げるという意味になります。因みに、オーディオファイルは元々あるのだから appsrc から流し込むのではなくてそのまま使えないのか？ と思われると思いますが（僕は思いました）、WAVEファイルはそのままではMP4に入れられないのでAACに変換するパイプラインはどうせ作らないといけません。だったらまあ、どうせRubyでオーディオデータの処理もするのだから、Rubyから流し込もうかなと思った次第です。どちらでもいけます。
動画も同様です。雰囲気で読んでください。
最後が
mp4mux name=mux ! filesink location=gstreamer.mp4gstreamer.mp4 という名前でファイルに保存しています。ごにょごにょとやってこのパイプラインを動かし、そこに appsrc からオーディオデータと画像データを流し込んでやれば動画にしてくれるというわけです。
GStreamerのパイプラインの動かし方です。Cライブラリーの薄いラッパーで、ちょっとRubyらしくないかも知れません。
# 開始状態にする
pipeline.set_state Gst::State::PLAYING
# オーディオと画像を流し込む処理
# EOSかエラーが届いたら……
pipeline.bus.timed_pop_filtered Gst::CLOCK_TIME_NONE, Gst::MessageType::EOS | Gst::MessageType::ERROR
# 終了状態にする
pipeline.set_state Gst::State::NULLaudio_src = pipeline.get_by_name("audiosrc")
video_src = pipeline.get_by_name("videosrc")
frame_duration = Gst::SECOND / fps
num_frames.times do |i|
start_frame = i * samples_per_frame
end_frame = start_frame + samples_per_frame - 1
indices = Numo::Int32.cast(Numo::DFloat.linspace(start_frame, end_frame, w).round)
data = Numo::SFloat.cast(waveform[indices])
y_data = (1.0 - data) * (255.to_f / 2)
coverage = Numo::SFloat.zeros(256, w)
(w - 1).times do |i|
segment = line_brightness(0, y_data[i], 1, y_data[i + 1])
coverage[true, i] += segment[true, 0]
coverage[true, i + 1] += segment[true, 1]
end
coverage[coverage > 1.0] = 1.0
image = coverage.expand_dims(2) * color
image = Numo::UInt8.cast(image.round)
pts = i * frame_duration
samples = Numo::SFloat.cast(waveform[0, start_frame..end_frame])
audio_buf = Gst::Buffer.new(nil, samples.byte_size, nil)
audio_buf.fill 0, samples.to_binary
audio_buf.pts = pts
audio_buf.duration = frame_duration
audio_src.push_buffer audio_buf
video_buf = Gst::Buffer.new(nil, image.byte_size, nil)
video_buf.fill 0, image.to_binary
video_buf.pts = pts
video_buf.duration = frame_duration
video_src.push_buffer video_buf
end
audio_src.end_of_stream
video_src.end_of_stream後半はオーディオと画像それぞれで Numo::NArray#to_binary で String にして、それを元にGStreamerのバッファーを組み立て、パイプラインに流し込んでいます。Numo::NArray -> GStreamerも簡単にできるといいのだけれど……。
これらをまとめるとこうなります。
require "gstreamer"
fps = 30
duration = waveform.shape[1].to_f / sample_rate
samples_per_frame = (sample_rate.to_f / fps).round
num_frames = (duration * fps).ceil
pipeline = Gst.parse_launch(<<~EOP)
mp4mux name=mux ! filesink location=gstreamer.mp4
appsrc name=audiosrc format=time caps=audio/x-raw,format=F32LE,rate=#{sample_rate},channels=#{waveform.shape[0]},layout=interleaved
! audioconvert ! avenc_aac ! aacparse ! queue ! mux.
appsrc name=videosrc format=time caps=video/x-raw,format=RGB,width=#{w},height=256,framerate=#{fps}/1
! videoconvert ! x264enc ! h264parse ! queue ! mux.
EOP
pipeline.set_state Gst::State::PLAYING
audio_src = pipeline.get_by_name("audiosrc")
video_src = pipeline.get_by_name("videosrc")
frame_duration = Gst::SECOND / fps
num_frames.times do |i|
start_frame = i * samples_per_frame
end_frame = start_frame + samples_per_frame - 1
indices = Numo::Int32.cast(Numo::DFloat.linspace(start_frame, end_frame, w).round)
data = Numo::SFloat.cast(waveform[indices])
y_data = (1.0 - data) * (255.to_f / 2)
coverage = Numo::SFloat.zeros(256, w)
(w - 1).times do |i|
segment = line_brightness(0, y_data[i], 1, y_data[i + 1])
coverage[true, i] += segment[true, 0]
coverage[true, i + 1] += segment[true, 1]
end
coverage[coverage > 1.0] = 1.0
image = coverage.expand_dims(2) * color
image = Numo::UInt8.cast(image.round)
pts = i * frame_duration
samples = Numo::SFloat.cast(waveform[0, start_frame..end_frame])
audio_buf = Gst::Buffer.new(nil, samples.byte_size, nil)
audio_buf.fill 0, samples.to_binary
audio_buf.pts = pts
audio_buf.duration = frame_duration
audio_src.push_buffer audio_buf
video_buf = Gst::Buffer.new(nil, image.byte_size, nil)
video_buf.fill 0, image.to_binary
video_buf.pts = pts
video_buf.duration = frame_duration
video_src.push_buffer video_buf
end
audio_src.end_of_stream
video_src.end_of_stream
pipeline.bus.timed_pop_filtered Gst::CLOCK_TIME_NONE, Gst::MessageType::EOS | Gst::MessageType::ERROR
pipeline.set_state Gst::State::NULLおお、それっぽい！
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. ®
A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhemLiam Proven (theregister)
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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?
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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.
questionable legal copyright status of produced code
So many projects have LLM generated content now that ruling content from common LLMs illegal would be catastrophic to the economy
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'm no luddite
You’re not a luddite. Because you’re a Luddite.
The actual Luddites weren’t opposed to technology. They were opposed to, in their words, “machinery hurtful to commonality”.
And well… You can’t spell “machinery hurtful to commonality” without AI.
“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…Z.M.L (LibrarianShipwreck)
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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...fallible
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.
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.You can now certify the machine you already own and check the public catalog to see what else is validated.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
I use river and pair it with kwm. Not sure about their LLM policy, but I don't see any gregarious signs of usage in the repo: github.com/kewuaa/kwm.
Would recommend to anyone coming from dwm.
A window manager based on River Wayland compositor. - kewuaa/kwmGitHub
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.”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.
Solus Linux now allows AI-assisted code contributions under strict disclosure, testing, and accountability requirements.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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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.
How would Solus compare to Void Linux?
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 agentswww.phoronix.com
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AGENTS.md are for LLMs. LLMs are pretty good at reading READMEs, but READMEs tend to be overly verbose and too focused on using the code.
Our ideas of fun might differ
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.
As long as my system stays stable, and it is properly noted in the code, idk.
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.
So was slavery
Damn zombies everywhere
The slavery reference was an example of people accepting things that clearly should not be accepted.
You are a deliberate waste of space.
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.
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..."
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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.
final edit: You want real logs instead? add this to your kernel command: drm.panic_screen=kmsg
Kinda funny, kinda neat.
I have no idea what the QR-code might reveal (I could not read it from this picture), so I pixelised it just to be sure.
FWIW I know exactly what happened and did not panic. To reproduce, boot your device with init=/bin/sh, then type exit.
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The picture above is generated by Drm panic which is part of the kernel itself, or maybe a separate module. The data in the QR code is the kmsg log.
Not systemd, which wasn't running when that happened.
And it's been around for years; I guess I haven't had a kernel panic in a long time.
"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 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.
On lemmy you'll allways find the weirdos and elitists that have been pushed out of the mainstream.
The linux equivalent of bsod has been introduced pretty recently, so it's normal for few people to have experienced it yet.
Also somewhat relevant xkcd: xkcd.com/1053/
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.
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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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Switching ttys wouldn't have done anything. The kernel logs are usually saved to efi_pstore (or sometimes erst) by default though.
Edit: you can also set drm.panic_screen=kmsg as a kernel parameter to print the logs instead of the QR.
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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"
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In other words, cat /sys/module/drm/parameters/panic_screen will show you what the current status is.
Hey, I happened to have a handful of smartphones that still have an ok battery and just collect dust in the shelf.
If you want me to ship one to you, pm your address.
Gonna help my linux buddies so that they can scan QR codes if their OS crashes.
(not sarcasm)
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.
So it's leaking information about your system to an external site?
That's just what we need.
The theory is that the site just hosts a small JS snippet that locally decodes and shows you your logs.
But yeah, now that you mention it, it would be trivial for the site to get and store the logs, and you wouldn't even notice.
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.
It's possible to use QR code reader apps that do not automatically go to the WWW.
But who's going to go to that effort on their slab of glass?
I agree that the whole concept of QR code scanning is problematic.
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.
it’s leaking information
No.
Scanning the QR code (on a different device presumably) might do that though.
It's kinda what QR codes do.
But I agree, it's not a good idea. Because people will scan that code and let their slabs of glass do their thing.
Thanks for the info, but this is not that.
The picture above is generated by Drm panic which is part of the kernel itself, or maybe a separate module. The data in the QR code is the kmsg log.
Not systemd, which makes sense considering systemd was not running when that happened.
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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?
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systemd-bsod.service produces? Can it be safely masked, or otherwise disabled?
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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:
<div>const types = [</div><div> 'application/activity+json',</div><div> 'application/ld+json; profile="<a href="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"&apos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">w3.org/ns/activitystreams"&apo</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a>;</div><div>]</div><div></div><div>const actorId = (await webfinger('user1@foo.example')).link('self', types)?.href</div>I think the dependencies are low enough that you can use this version of the library from browser apps, although I haven’t tried it yet.
Anyway, I published version 0.5.1 today. I hope it provides some value to other people working on Fediverse software.
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Attached: 1 image 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.David Gerard (GSV Sleeper Service)
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.
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.
Just removing the post without any punishment to the user, just means the user can do it again.
A ban is fairly harsh I admit, but usually bans only happen for repeat offenders. I don't know the full context here.
You can report people all you like. Just use proper channels to do so.
We should normalize due process.
Normalizing people making up their own rules and exacting their own justice is how you end up with lemmy.world/post/52260289
Remember that once you normalize this behavior, the fascists can use it too.
The fascists don't care. They'll work to normalize whatever they want regardless
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.
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Also, it's tainted:
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Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use and/or support LLMs/AI, as well as tips for requesting better policies or forking.Codeberg.org
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.KDE Discuss
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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.
Ridiculous anti-AI hysteria is pushed by the AI companies themselves to make the anti-AI side look insane.
And to weaken the FOSS communities I guess. Plain information warfare.
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 :/.
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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.
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 😁
everyone around here will tell you how basic that is and how much program versions lag behind sometimes
which mostly show people don't know they one can add a repository and fix that, my Firefox is 2 days old.
Try MX Linux. I've used lots of distros, but I always go back to MX as my daily driver.
Based on Debian. Good mix of non-invasive built-in utilities. Really good GUI package manager. And Yakuake terminal built in.
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 was in your same boat a few months back, I stopped at fedora.
However, if I didn't depend on glibc I would totally use alpine Linux.
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.
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@thelinuxexperiment But is KDE turning into a Nazi desktop? (Read: coming mask off)
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Lots of miscommunications happened around all that stuff this week
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These clear a lot up
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 …Nate (Adventures in Linux and KDE)
@thelinuxexperiment wow, nate just let the original message, only adding a "They made me say this instead" disclaimer?
Also no mention of the apologetics from the KDE account, which is what stirred most of the backlash on fedi
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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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feral_sh
in reply to SocialistVibes01 • • •It really is.
I’ve been a Unix maximalist since I can remember, but I’ve never convinced my peers to follow.
Since windows 11 has dropped, every single one of them now has a Linux machine for one purpose or another. Some are now considering a complete purge of MS products, as I have.
It’s happening.
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andyburke
in reply to feral_sh • • •Friend!
It's been a long road, getting from there to here.
It's glorious, isn't it?
oopsgodisdeadmybad
in reply to SocialistVibes01 • • •mynameisbob
in reply to SocialistVibes01 • • •laz
in reply to SocialistVibes01 • • •Yep don't believe me see what kids on windows are doing(fixing what should have been already fixed years back)
github.com/pagar-ani/native-to…
GitHub - pagar-ani/native-topmost: Ultra-lightweight native Win32 topmost enforcer. 20 KB binary, 2.5 MB RAM, zero dependencies. Fixes PowerToys Win+Ctrl+T failure over fullscreen apps, resolves MPO taskbar blackouts, and adds dynamic morph-back focus rec
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