Noctalia 5 reaches stable status with calendar sync support, improved theming, MRU window switching, and a long list of fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Grml 2026.09 is now available with Linux kernel 7.1.8, a Debian Forky base, exFAT boot support, and updated system administration tools.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Grml 2026.09 is now available with Linux kernel 7.1.8, a Debian Forky base, exFAT boot support, and updated system administration tools.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Οι «γκρίζες ζώνες» στην νομοθεσία της Ε.Ε. για την προστασία των ανηλίκων γίνονται κερκόπορτα για ολοκληρωτική άλωση της ιδιωτικότητας των επικοινωνιών. Πως ψήφισε η κάθε χώρα – Η στάση της Ελλάδας
- Έρευνα των Data Journalists: Πώς η ΕΕ θα σκανάρει το WhatsApp μας και πώς θα λειτουργεί το Chat Control στις μεγάλες πλατφόρμες. Το «κλειδί», η κρυπτογράφηση και το Dark Web.
- Γιώργος Πλειός στους Data Journalists: «Οι μεγάλες πλατφόρμες εμπορεύονται προσωπικά δεδομένα. Τα μέτρα είναι μέρος μιας παγκόσμιας τάσης καταστολής ελευθεριών».
- Ο ρόλος της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης: Όταν ανιχνεύει ένα αρχείο που θα κρίνει ως ύποπτο, θα το αναφέρει στο Κέντρο Δεδομένων κι Αξιολόγησης συμβάντων, το οποίο θα κρίνει αν θα παραπέμψει την υπόθεση στις Αρχές των χωρών της ΕΕ.
- Το περιεχόμενο των επικοινωνιών θα σκανάρεται στις συσκευές των χρηστών (client-side scanning), πριν κρυπτογραφηθεί και αποσταλεί, και θα αφορά ακόμη και τις κρυπτογραφημένες συνομιλίες (end-to-end encryption). Άρα κρυπτογράφηση δεν θα υπάρχει…
- Πως φτάσαμε ως εδώ: Οι ψηφοφορίες και τα στάδια στην μακροχρόνια προσπάθεια επιβολής του μέτρου.
- Κωστής Πιερίδης στους Data Journalists: «Υπάρχουν γκρίζες ζώνες και ζητήματα νομιμότητας. Μετά την 11η Σεπτεμβρίου, η Ασφάλεια υπερίσχυσε της Ελευθερίας».
- Σε ιδιώτες η επιβολή του νόμου – Το SOS των ειδικών κρυπτογράφων.
Έρευνα των Data Journalists: Πώς η ΕΕ θα σκανάρει το WhatsApp μας και πώς θα λειτουργεί το Chat Control στιςDATA JOURNALISTS (Data Journalists)
I have been testing a few different photo touch-up tools this month.
One that stood out is qualityenhancer.org — it does a good job sharpening up old scanned photos without much manual work.
Sharing in case anyone else is looking for something similar.
Enhance, upscale, denoise, and sharpen images and videos online with Quality Enhancer. Built for creators, marketers, and teams.Quality Enhancer
Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human
Just like society, the web moves forward when people think, compare, and discover for themselves. Vivaldi believes the act of browsing is an active one. It is about seeking, questioning, and making up your own mind.
Across the industry, artificial assistants are being embedded directly into browsers, and pitched as a quicker path to answers. Google is bringing Gemini into Chrome to summarize pages and, in future, work across tabs and navigate sites on a user’s behalf. Microsoft is promoting Edge as an AI browser, including new modes that scan what is on screen and anticipate actions.
These moves are reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.
This shift has major consequences for the web as we know it. Independent research shows users are less likely to click through to original sources when an AI summary is present, which means fewer visits for publishers, creators, and communities that keep the web vibrant. A recent study by PewResearch found users clicked traditional results roughly half as often when AI summaries appeared. Publishers warn of dramatic traffic losses when AI overviews sit above links.
The stakes are high. New AI-native browsers and agent platforms are arriving, while regulators debate remedies that could reshape how people reach information online. The next phase of the browser wars is not about tab speed, it is about who intermediates knowledge, who benefits from attention, who controls the pathway to information, and who gets to monetize you.
Today, as other browsers race to build AI that controls how you experience the web, we are making a clear promise:
We’re taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies.
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Vivaldi
The field of machine learning in general remains an exciting one and may lead to features that are actually useful.
But right now, there is enough misinformation going around to risk adding more to the pile. We will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available.
Vivaldi is the haven for people who still want to explore. We will continue building a browser for curious minds, power users, researchers, and anyone who values autonomy. If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.
We will stay true to our identity, giving users control and enabling people to use the browser in combination with whatever tools they want to use. Our focus is on building a powerful personal and private browser for you to explore the web on your own terms. We will not turn exploration into passive consumption.
We’re fighting for a better web.
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In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.Athena Chapekis (Pew Research Center)
Right? 100 years of “progress” have been thrown out the window in the pursuit of no accountability. Let’s drink to the insanity!
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This is what computer programming means for me. You can build your own tools. You can share them with others. When you build and share such tools, you meet other people that perceive and interact with the world in the same way as you do. You make new friends. I guess this is what I've been trying to do in my life. Get people to understand this process. With computers, you can make your own tools, and so you can augment yourself, and others, to accomplish more things. This is something special about computer and especially open source tools. It costs no money at all to try this.This idea isn't really new, either. Steve Jobs called the Macintosh "a bicycle for the mind", referring to the fact that the human on a bicycle is the most efficient animal on the planet. And before Jobs, you can see similar ideas in Douglas Engelbart's Mother of All Demos, where a whole section is about the human-computer interaction loop, and how their hardware (the mouse, the keyset, the realtime display) was designed to improve this loop and make the tool as transparent as possible (update: actually the segment I was thinking about is in a later talk from Douglas Engelbart in 1986). Just like when you ride a bicycle, and you're not particularly thinking about pedalling and braking and shifting gears and keeping your balance. It's as natural as walking.
But then, there is a limitation on that as soon as you're not the one building the tool. Say you buy a Macintosh or a Windows machine. Someone has designed it to work a certain way. And their design will shape how you perceive and interact with the world.
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I've got a refurb laptop coming to me soon and I've been wanting to mess with immutable distros for a while... I have no idea what sort of specs the laptop has.
Anyone have any opinions on good immutable distro(s) to try out and why?
Only distros on my list so far are Bluefin and Vanilla (Gnome isn't a favorite these days though).
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Fascism Arch Linux gets more funding.
Omarchy has been on something of a roll now. Funding for its foundation has been climbing fast, from an $8 million launch to $10 million a few weeks later, and now crossing $13 million with the most recent pledge.What's drawn my attention are the first two Corporate Patrons, 1Password and 37signals, both of whom have decided to pitch $100,000 a year for the next three years. Now, 37signals I get; DHH is heavily involved there, but 1Password was a surprise entry.
Naturally, not everyone's onboard with their pledge.
Signs of disagreement
This has not gone well with employees working at 1Password, with company leadership having to take certain damage control measures to assure their staff.
An internal Slack message has surfaced (courtesy of The Verge), which shows cofounder Roustem Karimov downplaying the criticism, telling team members that:
people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind.
However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you. There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked.
CEO David Faugno responded on a different note, telling employees the company doesn't endorse DHH's views, while also noting that Omarchy is the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password's own users.
Why the backlash?DHH is known to be someone who firmly falls on the "right" side of the political spectrum, someone who doesn't shy away from putting his opinions in public view.
He regularly posts blogs that show where he stands on certain societal issues, and some of his recent writeups are what's fueling this particular backlash.
His recent July post, titled "Wolves, sheep, and gypsies," compares Denmark's wolf population with the Romani people camping in Copenhagen parks, where he argues: "When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them."
Then there's "As I remember London" from September 2025, where he laments about London losing its native Brit majority and a nod of approval for a Tommy Robinson march.
Of course, these aren't the only factors behind his disapproval, but you get the gist of it, right?
Users could jump ship
If you search for the terms "1Password" and "Omarchy" right now, you are bound to run into the many comments made by disgruntled 1Password users on Reddit and Hacker News.
They are calling the choice tone-deaf, given how many smaller open source projects could've benefited from the money. Some are already jumping to alternatives like Bitwarden, while others suggest self-hosting Vaultwarden or going with KeePass and its forks instead.
I see the issue compounding too. Back in February, 1Password raised subscription prices, taking effect at renewals from March 27. Individual plans went up 33 percent from $35.88 to $47.88 a year, and family plans went up 20 percent from $59.88 to $71.88.
Its community forum already has a long thread full of longtime users saying they were leaving over it. If 1Password continues playing with its users' trust like this, who knows what kind of exodus it will see next?
Internal Slack messages show the CEO and cofounder gave staff two very different explanations for the decision.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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Uuuuhhhh... those prices... kinda have a, um, theme.
I see the issue compounding too. Back in February, 1Password raised subscription prices, taking effect at renewals from March 27. Individual plans went up 33 percent from $35.88 to $47.88 a year, and family plans went up 20 percent from $59.88 to $71.88
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I'm glad to be aware of FOSS alternatives nowadays for pretty much any service I use/require.
I would never pay these prices for a password manager (not even the initial price), specially considering my sensitive data would be sent to a 3rd party company through a closed source project which no one can verify.
Even using Bitwarden free (which admittedly I use for convenience) is not exactly comfortable to me, even being mostly open source. I'm constantly considering moving back to KeePass as I used to do some years ago.
Any subscription whose monthly price ends in .99 will have an annual price that ends in .88.
Did no one in these comments pass grade school math?!
I'm guessing it's more of a critical thinking issue.
"Huh, that's a weird number. I wonder why that is..." is harder than "That number is associated with Nazis!"
That being said... Maybe 1Password should offer an annual subscription discount. Both because buying in bulk often comes with a discount, but also to avoid the number that's associated with Nazis.
Netflix do not sell a product that costs $107.88. There is no option to spend that amount on their website. No sniggering 4Chan gremlin set the price of Netflix to a number that is used as a call sign of Nazis.
These cunts have a whole menu of products that all have fixed prices that they specifically decided should end in 88. They could have rounded up or down to the nearest dollar, or use the same .99 price as everyone else, but they didn't and, the more I read of these people, the less I'm thinking it's accidental. And you're defending them.
You want to criticise other people for their maths skills, maybe brush up on your reasoning skills first.
Sounds bad...until you realize that this is how math works. Any subscription whose monthly price ends in .99 will have an annual price that ends in .88.
Only people who are bad at math and committed to finding Nazis, real or imaginary, hiding in every nook and cranny even think about this.
If that that's not enough consider that prices ending .99 have been a sales tactic since forever. It's sometimes called "Charm Pricing" or "The 99 Effect".
Part 1 - Unlocking the Power of Perceived Savings: The Psychological Impact of the 99 Effect on Consumer BehaviorMy PM Interview (My PM Interview® - Preparation for Success)
I just looked at their website, there isn't a .88 price anywhere. If you select annual payment, it shows the price as "$3.99 per month, billed annually", which turns out to be the 47.88 from the article if you multiply it with 12.
ETA: I don't want to defend 1password, but we should criticize them for things they actually do. Like funding facists.
This is the first time I see a conspiracy theory gain traction like that on Lemmy.
Please, do not fall for that bullshit.
I refuse!
I use KeepassXC instead.
You have two phones!!
Guys, this one has the money. Let's get davel!! 😀
I had to redo was my passkeys
phew Glad I don't use passkeys.
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They don't. DHH is a rich guy with rich friends. This is just friend's donating to a friend's project to show support.
And that also means that the CEO of 1Password really has no problems with DHH as a person, those who talk about Omarchy being revolutionary/special or anything like that at best have rose-tinted glasses.
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88 can absolutely be a fascist dog whistle. (It may or may not be here, hard to tell.)
Here's the explanation of they dog whistle: the phrase "Heil Hitler" becomes just the pair of letters "HH", which then becomes "88" since H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
88 by itself is kind of rare, you'll usually see it paired with 14, most often as 1488. The number 14 is a reference to the 14 words which is a fascist saying that I can never remember but can always recognize. To paraphrase, it's something about securing the future for white children. It's pretty easy to find if you just search "14 words"
I have been using keepassXC on Linux and keepass2android offline on Android for the last years too!
I started with syncthing as a method of syncing the KeePass file, but now that I have all my files in nextcloud, I'm just using that.
Works flawlessly! Especially for me, as I am the only user.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shopwww.phoronix.com
The key reason for doing this, as stated in the article:
ultimately they say "the straw that broke the camel's back" to abandon Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their industrial accelerator-control computers was the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.
From what I understand, the v2 option requires relatively newer CPU instruction sets, making it incompatible with some older CPUs, even 64 bit ones. I don't know what is gained by using the v2 flag, but I would imagine that it may be something performance-related, by more fully utilizing those newer instruction sets.
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I would imagine that it may be something performance-related, by more fully utilizing those newer instruction sets.
Or they're deprecating shit just because, the mantainer must be just a late zoomer that drank the cool aid saying that removing old hw support is the way to go.
-march=native*
Here is the explanation from redhat
developers.redhat.com/blog/202…
It's worth noting that the archlinux devs found very little benefit for switching to v2 in their benchmarks (not that a benchmark ever covers every usecase) lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/… v3 has significantly more notable benefits but you loose even more hardware support.
Find out why Red Hat recommends building Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for x86-64-v2 and what you can expect from this new, optional microarchitecture levelFlorian Weimer (Red Hat Developer)
Two hundred thousand Quattro ISOs in under 19 days, downloads from 215 countries and territories, and a date for the first million.DHH (Omarchy News)
This is just hyprland + quickshell.
Why are people saying this guy built all this?
I too have hyprland installed and looking nice... so that means I made hyprland. It's mine. I created it.
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but I get constant video recommendations on YouTube from Tech Bros telling me to install this thing, and then 90% of Lemmy hate it,
It's run by a fascist. That's why the techbros like it and Lemmy hates it.
It’s preconfigured arch that’s ai-forward.
At a time when a massive fraction of the open source world is thrashing around trying to figure out how to align themselves to ai that stands out.
E: people on lemmy hate it because the creator has incoherent European migration politics that come to the opposite conclusion of their own incoherent migration politics.
Tech Bros want you to install it because DHH is a fellow tech bro and a millionaire
90% of Lemmy hates it because of DHH's post about how he used to idolize London as a kid but now stays the fuck away because not enough white people.
What makes it special is that it comes preinstalled with hyprland so you don't have to pacman it. What makes hyprland special is that it's a tiling wm for wayland made by someone who, judging by their behaviour on discord and github, is 13 years old. You can just install it on Arch. You also get it as an option in the installer for CachyOS, meaning you can get it preinstalled on Arch without using Omarchy.
Also you can just use Sway, which is also a tiling wm for Wayland. Less eye candy, but probably more stable and less likely to have significant security issues.
The U.S. State Department’s latest report on Cuba revives allegations against U.S. solidarity activists that were made by the FBI and CIA in the 1960s and 1970s — claims historian Teishan Latner says were never proven.
In this interview with Belly of the Beast journalist Yohan Rodríguez, Latner discusses the history of U.S.-Cuba solidarity, the Venceremos Brigade, the Black Panther Party and growing pressure on people in the U.S. who oppose Washington’s policy toward Cuba.
He also examines whether the report is helping lay the groundwork for military action against Cuba.
#cuba
@peter_link I am more a liquidarity person, solids are stagnant, dead, don't move, liquids flow, I flow.
On a serious note, I feel US policy towards Cuba and the world in general is stupid, it treats the world as a zero sum game, but that's not the reality, and with respect to Cuba we have a situation where we don't want something 90 miles form our territory in the Russian sphere of influence.
But I would ask this, if I were a small nation next to a large belligerent nation, and that nation were keeping me in abject poverty, would I want to be like them? Or would I be more likely to want to be like them if they allowed me self determinism but provided good standard of living and freedoms for their citizens? I think the latter which is why in my view our treatment of Cuba is not only unreasonable, it is foolish.
What does it mean for a file to live somewhere?This question is less trivial than it appears. This video walks down through the filesystem, covering paths, d...Ryan Baker (YouTube)
Parents live far away, so I sent them a qr code generated by my local SimpleX per email.
All they have to do is open their local SimpleX, go to one-time link and scan the qr code, right?
Once our devices have been connected, connection details remains saved in our local SimpleX and I don't need to send a new qr code before I want to talk to them again, right?
Please don't send people a QR code, those are for in-person sharing, and it just greatly complicates the process. It generates a link as well that you can send.
But to answer your question, yes, that's how it works.
I'm working on a window switching tool for Wayland that's kinda like Alt-Tab. However, it seems like there's no compositor agnostic way to do things like:
Therefore, if I want my tool to support multiple compositors, I have to re-implement this logic for each compositor.
Is the motivation security through program isolation? That doesn't quite make sense to me since programs still can do the above things, they just have to do it compositor specifically: hyprctl clients on Hyprland, niri msg windows for Niri, etc. Also, you could just have a Wayland API that requires elevated privileges for doing these things, which the user would have to opt-in to for a specific program.
I feel like this design of Wayland causes a lot of fragmentation. There are a lot of tools that are for example Hyprland-only.
Could you please enlighten me on why Wayland has this design?
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Some design choices if Wayland are really weird.
That said do you know of the wlr foreign toplevel management protocol? A lot of the smaller compositors support it. But yes a lot like e.g. Mutter and I think kwin do not.
Because Wayland sucks. It was designed to suck.
E: Lol at the 1:1 ratio atm.
The design of it is not compatible with the old paradigm of graphical interfaces which were the ones created by teams of researchers trying to figure out how to most effectively open a dialogue between computer and user. There is no reference implementation. It’s broken in a million little ways. No xscreensaver.
But if I had to name just one main thing: the whole point of wayland is to make it easier for the programmers of x to handle a large complex codebase, which they accomplished by throwing everything out and starting over from scratch instead of migrating to tools, process and even languages that make that precise problem easier to manage and at the time of waylands conception we had forty fucking years of history showing vast improvement in the tools, processes and languages aimed at big complex shit.
The fact that anyone will defend the decision to abandon x for the absolute slop delivery tube that wayland became in an age where we have access to, like it or not, the ultimate programming tool in the form of cheap and fast large language models is insane.
All time L.
I don’t want to fix wayland. Wayland is bad.
Even if my heartfelt love for the op overcame my revulsion for wayland I would not put any effort into fixing this issue because the structural problems with wayland make it a battle with an entrenched system of powerful organizations with skin in the game and outspoken users looking for a fight as opposed to a simple pr.
Think for a second about the context of what you are aligning yourself with in these replies to me: wayland, a collection of protocols and apis in a trenchcoat, doesn’t have a standardized one for alt tab. That’s not because of a cabal of stereotypes rubbing their hands together and laughing over a meeting table shaped like the Mercator projection, but because the wayland devs abdicated responsibility by not making a reference implementation and that left space open for anyone who wanted to to stake their claim.
Now rather than looking at the design and deciding that we need 12 foot posts to support the back side of the building as the land slopes off we are at the mercy of whatever the supplier brings to the site today.
Why would I volunteer my time to that? Why would anyone?
Because you’re fine with wayland.
The op is flailing, trying to use the system you’re at the very least fine with but I now suspect you feel a certain affinity towards but they can’t. They can’t use wayland unless you help. Their various windows are shuffled on top of one another and require the use of a mouse to switch between. You could be helping the op instead of trolling. But you’re not.
Why are you not helping the op, umbrella?
So people trying to use it could more easily do so.
Because you believe in the principles behind it and want to bring them in harmony with the ops problem.
As an action in support of the open source principles you espouse, improving the commons for no other reason than your empathy and love for the human spirit!
What are you trying to say here?
It clearly has a serious problem that the op is experiencing. Why not help the op instead of dismissing their concerns? It really seems like you’re trolling or at least engaging in bad faith here…
I do whenever possible. If you’ll remember, I replied to the ops query about why wayland is the way it is.
A better question is why are you replying to me over and over again asking circular questions?
Best option right now are to use the following protocol extensions
wayland.app/protocols/xdg-acti… this extension covers your setting focus needs, but getting a list of other wayland clients is a bit trickier.
wayland.app/protocols/ext-fore… this extension can list clients in theory, but its missing support for both gnome and kde.
Some of the unstable extensions have wide adoption, so perhaps take a look at each of them to see if they provide the functionality you want. Good luck!
Edit: was curious and did some more digging. KDE has their own protocol extension for this wayland.app/protocols/kde-plas…
As for gnome, I couldn’t find anything that seemed suitable, other than writing a gnome extension specifically to support this. I imagine that doesn’t fit within your vision for your project though.
Anyway, I had fun looking into this. Once again good luck!
A better way to read Wayland documentationwayland.app
This is the text I wrote for my part of the talk “Liberating the Social Web Using *BSD“, presented together with the great Jeroen (@h3artbl33d) at EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb. It’s not a transcript – it’s the base I worked from, the thoughts I organized before stepping on stage. What I actually said may have been slightly different in places, as it always is when you speak from the heart rather than read from a page. But these are the words, and the spirit is exactly the same.
Today, I’m not just here to talk about technology, but about how the principles of BSD systems can help us build healthier and more resilient online communities. And I’ll do this by telling you the story of the bar I founded, the BSD Cafe.
The idea for the BSD Cafe was born long before its launch but, as I often do, I thought carefully about whether to proceed. On 27 December 2022, I decided to register the domain. The name came from careful reflection with my wife. The idea was to create a virtual space that resembled not so much the cafes scattered around the world, but the Italian “Cafe” (which are called “Bar”).
For many years (and in many contexts, still today), Italian bars have been at the center of people’s recreational social lives. The Barista, the manager of the establishment, is not just a keeper but a point of reference: they don’t just serve coffee, but they listen and, if asked, offer advice with the wisdom of someone who sees many people and many things, even just out of the corner of their eye, and hears many stories. It used to be said that the best advisors were priests and bartenders, but that the latter certainly gave more entertaining advice.
And the bar is precisely the place where people go to relax. There are often televisions, tables for playing cards, and recreational rooms. The bartender ensures that everything runs smoothly, but also that everyone feels comfortable: that the person passing through gets directions to their destination, that the person who just walked in gets their coffee at their preferred temperature, and that the person who entered a little earlier, who needs some rest today, has a table in a more private area.
The spirit of the BSD Cafe is the same: to try to create a serene, open, friendly, positive, and welcoming environment for all who want to be a part of it. Those who just want to read can do so. Those who post a lot are welcome. Everyone should have the experience that makes them most comfortable and at ease. No one should ever feel forced to do something they don’t want to do; no one should ever feel uncomfortable. Therefore, everyone can choose a noisy and active table, or a more reserved and quiet one.
We can therefore assume that the BSD Cafe has an infinite number of available tables. We can thus call it a Turing cafe. 🙂
In Italian bars, people used to go (and in some areas, still do) to find their “bar friends”. These are people you meet at the bar without an appointment. You go to the bar freely, when you have the time and inclination, and you find the people who regularly frequent that place. And the choice of the bar often aligns with the theme of the bar itself. For example, in Italy, there are many “Bar Sports” where people meet to catch up, watch games together, and read and comment on sports news. The idea of the BSD Cafe is the same – a bar where enthusiasts of BSD systems, Open Source, and technology can be found. And for me, although I might occasionally talk about users (out of technical habit), at the BSD Cafe, there are only “bar friends”.
The BSD Cafe is a place where we are “for”, not “against”. Supporters, not haters. Bar friends, not opponents. This doesn’t mean that opinions on other software can’t be expressed, even extremely negative ones (I do it myself from time to time), but the general spirit is that of open source: to build, to discuss, to understand. Wars against other solutions, especially if they are open source, are not part of the atmosphere of the BSD Cafe. We have our preferences – we support our ideas and solutions, but we are not here to “destroy” others. Among our users, there are people who develop Linux distributions – and for me, that is extremely positive!
When people are at ease and in a serene environment, they are often encouraged to be serene themselves. Some are negative and aggressive because they absorb it from their environment. Some users of the BSD Cafe have told me exactly this: the civil, friendly, relaxed, positive, and constructive level of the BSD Cafe is good for their mental health. Conversely, there are unfortunately people who find pleasure in causing trouble, in muddying the atmosphere. For these people, unfortunately, there is no solution, but the Cafe is not the place for them.
Political discussions can be part of our lives and daily routines, but the BSD Cafe is not a political group. In recent years, politics has become a topic not of discussion but of conflict. It has always been so to some extent, but commercial social media platforms have understood that hatred and conflict generate engagement, and engagement means selling advertising – a lot of advertising. Therefore, at the BSD Cafe, you might occasionally hear talk of politics or the political repercussions of technical decisions and choices. And that is perfectly okay. But it is not a place from which political conflicts should arise. We are for – supporters, not haters. We are here to build, not to destroy.
The BSD Cafe is therefore a place centered on the BSDs, and all services are, therefore, based on BSD operating systems.
All technologies used must be able to run “from my garage”. I am a professional – so this is not a hobby project – but it must not depend on any proprietary solution or “Cloud” solution. Today, there is a tendency to standardize (too much?) everything related to technical choices. If it’s pro, it’s Kubernetes/cloud/serverless/etc. – if it’s not, it’s “old” or “not pro”. I am, and have always been, a proponent of OwnYourData. And this is a mantra at the BSD Cafe. All services are based on Open Source solutions, outside the dynamics and centralized management of the usual companies. We must be free and maintain our technological autonomy; we cannot create a system where our communications and our data depend exclusively on third-party companies. I have enough experience to understand that, sooner or later, even the most solid companies can fail or change their business model. The BSD Cafe is therefore always in favor of self-hosting. Sometimes this means losing users, but not bar friends. It happens, in fact, that at a certain point, friends decide to try the BSDs and start self-hosting their own services. For me, that is a success: one less number in the statistics, but one more success on a technical and ideological level. And for all intents and purposes, they remain bar friends, even if their “handle” is different from “bsd.cafe” – it is the spirit, not an extension, that unites us.
From time to time, I have migrated the main VM of the BSD Cafe. Sometimes I have given notice, other times not (the downtime is minimal). In some cases, the system has run from my home desk, from the Mini PC I used as a home server and now use daily as a workstation. At the core of the technical choices, in fact, is the decision not to depend (strictly) on any specific technology or hardware. For this reason, the structure of the BSD Cafe is replicable and malleable, as well as described in its Wiki: it is a community of technology enthusiasts, and I want them to judge the choices transparently and autonomously, without hiding anything.
The BSD Cafe was not created to be just a Fediverse instance but, from the beginning, to provide a series of services powered by the BSDs for enthusiasts and friends of the BSDs. To date, the main services are:
Let’s get into the technical details:
The BSD Cafe is not “cloud ready”. The BSD Cafe was not created to be serverless. We love our servers, and we don’t need the “cloud” to run our services.
The BSD Cafe started with a FreeBSD VM on Hetzner in Finland for €3.29 per month. It is still active and is the primary for the entire infrastructure and is named “bsdcafevm”. It hosts the reverse proxy, in a jail, which routes all incoming connections, and is the “router” for the larger VM. This VM also hosts a “ns2” jail, which is the secondary DNS, and the “backup” instance of Mastodon, which helps with queue management and becomes primary when I shut down the other one during updates. For IPv6, Hetzner assigns a routed /64 block. I have divided it into /72 subnets so that I can route to other VPSs, services, etc., and provide an IPv6 address to any jail.
The main VPS, which hosts the services, called “bc01”, connects to this VM via Wireguard. bc01 has some particular characteristics, including:
A small VM (for one euro per month) based on FreeBSD that, within a jail, has the ns1 nameserver, which is the primary authoritative one. This VM also serves other purposes from time to time, such as monitoring the rest, etc.
A jail within one of my FreeBSD hosts in Poland, on OVH, contains the media files for the Mastodon instance. This is the most voluminous part of the entire hosting setup because Mastodon downloads and reprocesses all the multimedia content it encounters. This is for two main purposes: to clean it, in order to possibly remove malicious content, and to ensure that users of one’s own instance only have contact with their own media repository, not with that of the original instance – both for performance and privacy reasons. This server has spinning disks. Initially, I used Minio, but over time, performance plummeted. A few months ago, I migrated to SeaweedFS, and I am very satisfied with it. The outgoing bandwidth of this machine is not very wide, and I have other services on it. For this reason, I applied a solution that I described in an article on my blog.
I have used some VMs or physical hosts (spread across Europe and the USA) to act as a CDN. The BSD Cafe’s DNS will return the IP (both v4 and v6) closest to the caller, among those available, and this host will connect directly to the media server, then caching the content. The problem, in fact, does not arise when a user scrolls through their timeline, but as soon as they publish multimedia content: all known instances will connect to download and reprocess that file, generating a spike. This has little impact if it is a normal post, but it is extremely voluminous if it is content of a considerable size, like an image or a video. In this way, the various CDN nodes will download the content only once and serve it to all instances in their area of competence. These CDN nodes also do other things, can be activated or deactivated based on my needs, and are based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD (one of them is on OpenBSD Amsterdam).
Another FreeBSD VPS (which I use for other things) contains “status.bsd.cafe“, which is the jail with Uptime Kuma that shows the status of the services or any of my communications about them. I do not receive notifications from this host, but from another monitoring system, so it is only to show the status of the situation.
In practice, the BSD Cafe mainly needs the “endpoint” VPS, the VPS with the services, and the jail with the media, which could be condensed into a single system if desired. Everything else is optional and I keep it active as I have resources available on external hardware.
Many of the technical choices have been documented in articles on my blog or in the BSD Cafe Wiki.
But all of this requires backups. And the BSD Cafe has a clear and defined backup procedure.
The main VPSs – namely bsdcafevm and bc01 – are based on FreeBSD and, therefore, ZFS. Both have the same type of backup, defined as follows:
Last but not least, the physical FreeBSD host on which bc01 currently rests is also backed up every 15 minutes to another external backup server, so the entire disk image. An additional layer of redundancy, to help me sleep better at night.
From a technical standpoint, therefore, I have tried to create a simple but secure infrastructure, with the most granular separation possible (for example: the main Mastodon instance has a jail for Mastodon, one for the Redis for the queues, etc., one for the Redis for the timeline caches (only in RAM, does not write to disk), and one for the database (PostgreSQL).
Then there are the common service jails (unbound for DNS resolutions, smtp for sending and receiving emails, etc.).
Being the Barista of the BSD Cafe is a privilege and an honor. The success of the project has exceeded my expectations, and this has filled me with joy. The BSD community is fantastic, mature, intelligent, and positive. The friends who approach the BSDs absorb all of this and transmit it to others, creating a virtuous circle. But it’s not always roses. There are problems, from time to time, that need to be solved. And, to quote my previous talk: “The main challenge is often ideological, not technical“.
Apart from the problems with blendit – Lemmy – which accumulates all the media it sees in a frenzied way and never deletes it, as well as having created serious update problems – all the software is on average stable and reliable.
The most complex part of my role as a barista, in fact, is not technical, but human: moderation. The techniques of scams and disturbances are constantly improving, and it is increasingly difficult to distinguish a new friend of the bar from a troublemaker. But the biggest challenge is maintaining balance.
Our philosophy is clear: to be for, not against. Supporters, not haters. This principle is a conscious choice, in stark contrast to the dominant model of commercial social media. These platforms are often designed around an engagement economy, where algorithms optimized to generate conflict and outrage maximize the time spent on the site and, consequently, advertising profits. The BSD Cafe rejects this model. We are not here to capitalize on anger, but to build a refuge from the toxicity of the internet.
This approach manifests itself in the way we handle controversial topics. Recently, a technical theme with strong political implications has begun to appear in discussions. My line is not to censor the topic itself. I firmly believe in open discussion. I only intervene when the discussion ceases to be a critical analysis and becomes a personal attack. For some, this is not enough: they would like a total ban on certain topics and the immediate exclusion of those who introduce them. My experience, however, has shown me that a more patient approach is often more constructive. I have seen people support controversial software solutions simply because they did not know their background. Thanks to civil and informative discussions, they have understood the context, thanked the community, and made more informed choices. Banning them instantly would have been unfair and would have denied everyone an opportunity for growth.
However, this philosophy of constructive positivity has attracted a specific criticism: that of promoting “Toxic Positivity”. The accusation is that, in our desire to maintain a serene environment, we end up excluding those who are suffering, invalidating their negative experiences because they “clash” with the atmosphere of the bar.
This is a criticism that I take very seriously, because it touches the heart of the project. And my answer is that it is a fundamental misunderstanding of our purpose. The goal is not to deny that pain, injustice, and suffering exist in the world. On the contrary: the BSD Cafe exists precisely because the world is often a difficult place.
Our purpose is not to pretend that those who suffer should stop suffering, but to offer them a place where, for a while, they may not be defined solely by their suffering. A place where they can be, first and foremost, a technology enthusiast, a FreeBSD expert, a curious OpenBSD user. A friend of the bar. We are always ready to support, console, and help those who need it, but we want to protect that mental space where shared passions unite us and give us relief.
Fortunately, this vision is confirmed by the very people we are trying to help. The number of private messages of appreciation I receive from people going through terrible times far exceeds the criticism. They write to me that “the civil, friendly, and constructive level of the BSD Cafe is good for their mental health”, because it allows them to disconnect from daily dramas that would otherwise be unbearable.
I am just the Barista. I can’t solve the world’s problems, but I can try to keep the counter clean, keep the machines running, serve a good (BSD) coffee, distribute (many) stickers, and ensure that, at least here, friends can find a moment of peace and constructive sharing. But a bar is nothing without its regulars. And the success of the BSD Cafe is not mine, but that of the BSD Community and the friends who are part of it. The richness of this place is not only the quality of the Coffee (which, being BSD, is very high), but mainly the human richness of the friends who are part of it. And to them, to all of you, I say thank you. From the bottom of my heart.
We need more bars and fewer shopping malls, and that is why I recently also founded the illumos Cafe. We want people who sit down, who socialize, or who simply enjoy the atmosphere of an environment that is familiar, friendly, and positive to them. Like this conference and all the BSD Conferences, because the environment is the same. Enough of shiny shop windows; a good hot drink, in the company of friends, can help you live better. “From the people, for the people“.
The slides, the video, and the text behind my presentation at EuroBSDCon 2024 and BSDCan 2025 - Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs.Stefano Marinelli (IT Notes)
U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL) says Cuba’s healthcare system “sucks” and “doesn’t work,” pointing to hospitals without medicine and deteriorating conditions.
But this criticism leaves out a major part of the story: the policies Giménez has championed are the reason why Cuba’s hospitals are collapsing. U.S. economic warfare has restricted Cuba’s ability to obtain medicines, medical equipment, fuel and other resources needed to keep its healthcare system running.
In 2027, your operating system is going to ask how old you are. California's age verification law (AB 1043) takes effect January 1st, and AB 1856 just carved Linux out of it. But the law still leaves many questions open, here's the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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The Fox host he was talking to didn't push him to explain what he meant.Alex Bollinger (LGBTQ Nation)
As much as the Fascist that the fools who voted for his very specific promises to destroy freedom of the press("We are going to jail journalists!" crowd roars (paraphrased, but not far off, I think the original was even wilder)) and being the Project 2025 Puppet is a Worthless Tool, I do have to clarify something here.
The implication was very much clear, but he did not explicitly say "trangender people will end." He intimated that if they lose the ground they deserve to lose that it "will never end."
We have to be accurate in our commentary about and towards the Fascists. To devolve into their tactics is to give them ammunition to fuel the brainwashed.
He absolutely wants our Family dead and gone--Project 2025 literally laid out the plan to make our Trans Family illegal(criminalize porn, redefine porn to include transgender persons, thereby making it illegal to exist). But we have to report accurately, not fuel the Apologists who will look at this article and go "look at this radical--Fearless Leader never said that."
The Annoying Orange will eventually fade, but the Nazis(GOP) will remain trouble nonetheless. Let us accurately report their idiocy so people can wake up.
To devolve into their tactics is to give them ammunition to fuel the brainwashed.
I agree with this message but not your reasoning. Fascists don't care about what is true. If we only speak objectively, make rational arguments, emphasize logical consistency, stick to our principles, etc, they'll just lie and take things wildly out of context to feed to their base. They don't need us to feed them ammunition.
However, we should still do these things for our own sake. If we fight their misinformation with our own, we erase any hope objective truth and shared reality have of coming back. A lot of Trump voters and supporters don't support every aspect of modern fascism. If the Epstein files or Iran war gets some of them to realize they've been lied to, they might look around to other ideologies. We need to represent the values of transparency and truth that the MAGA movement pretends to uphold. If manipulation and deception eventually defeats fascism, it would still be bad. The new normal and values of the new leadership would continue manipulating and deceiving people to the benefit of the rich.
FrOSCon 2026 in Sankt Augustin, Germany, was a first for F-Droid as well as for me. It was the first time F-Droid had a booth at FrOSCon, and it was also my ...f-droid.org
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At the behest of a friend, I tried out Omarchy (bear with me) and found it to be a perfectly serviceable custom arch install with hyprland (bear with me) and others configured relatively sanely out of the box. What really sold me on it was how easy it was to "custom brand" my laptop with our business name & logo -- I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.
After recent, uh... Revelations, I no longer wish to be a bump in Omarchy & hyprland's user numbers. I have plans on where to go next and what WM(s) I'll be trying (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed + Sway), but will gladly accept recommendations on other projects I may or may not have thought about. What I'm really looking for, though, is how to do the branding. My personal brand and logo were on login, lock screen, and the screensaver, all of which I greatly enjoyed.
So how might I best accomplish that? Thanks in advance.
A fair point! You'd be surprised where some people's deficits lie. I've used Linux for many years, but never bothered messing with the theming for greeters or the like before -- I never really cared. 🤷♂️
So while I would definitely say I'm technically savvy enough to accomplish the task, it's also something I've never poked before. Figured it couldn't hurt to pick the collective brain of the Internet for knowledge and recommendations. Maybe someone out there knows a trick I wouldn't find elsewhere, or a lovely piece of software I should look into.
True. I was hoping for an element of human experience, more general guidance and personal preferences than a step-by-step.
I'm sure the Arch Wiki probably has a page in it somewhere that covers the basics, and I definitely plan on looking for neutral resources like that. I'd also love to hear from the community, likes or dislikes, different software solutions. I always find it interesting and enlightening to learn how other people are doing things. 🙂
I use gtklock for lockscreen with a background picture.
I'm personally running river right now, which given the right window manager can be a delightful experience.
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I could let AI think for me, or I could learn how to manage in on my own.
If you seriously want to employ AI effectively, I find knowing how to do what you're asking it to do is the best way to get good results. Otherwise... Who knows what's going to come out the other end!
I like to handle my system myself. Managing my install is fun for me. I'm just looking for general advice, not for someone to do it all for me.
hasan piker (guy on the right) is actively making abdul el-sayed’s chances at election worse and i am frustrated about it given the stakes so i made this meme.
because like. my absolute BESTIE abdul el-sayed is out here working miracles at home trying to keep poc, migrant, low-income, queer, etc. people alive and doing the actual work of building a coalition, including making real inroads with his Jewish constituency, while being explicitly pro-Palestinian and rejecting AIPAC money.
hasan piker has made a handful of appearances with both abdul and zohran, but now abdul is getting viciously smeared for hasan’s own words, with fox news literally turning things hasan said into attack-ad material against him. and hasan just will not read the room and step back.
this is the same BOZO hasan piker who wears mao outfits, plays literal terrorist propaganda videos for his friends and goes “they’re just very musical people,” denies the Uyghur genocide, supports the invasion of Tibet, lies about queer rights in China while going on tours, and has said enough insane shit that even my OTHER bestie zohran mamdani disavowed him months ago. and the room is STILL unread and some people are trying to tell me i have to fall on the sword for piker.
do i have to beg ;;;;;;
i just want candidates who aren’t evil to win :’(
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Humanitarian conditions in the Sudanese city of El Obeid and two camps on its outskirts are dire and deteriorating, according to people on the ground, as civilians displaced by fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia continue to pour in from the surrounding countryside.
The UN says more than 15,000 families have arrived since mid-July, joining more than 200,000 people who arrived in the first half of the year, according to government figures cited by Save the Children.
“The situation is very harsh and is deteriorating as El Obeid is receiving IDPs [internally displaced people] on a daily basis … The city is shockingly overcrowded,” said Maryam, a humanitarian volunteer whose name has been changed for her safety.
The new arrivals came on foot, carrying almost nothing, she said. “They also suffer from a shortage of food and they definitely arrive traumatised.”
More traumatised civilians are arriving every day at ‘shockingly overcrowded’ El Obeid and camps on its outskirtsRachel Savage (the Guardian)
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Heard Lunduke went super into the deep end but "suggesting" that you follow Christian commandments in the ethics is wild.
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Given what I've heard of him, I doubt it's tounge and cheek, sadly.
And as someone who follows the LGBTQI+ community, I've seen Christian values lead to really unhealthy communities and atrocities. 😛
And as someone who follows the LGBTQI+ community, I’ve seen Christian values lead to really unhealthy communities and atrocities. 😛
Just a guess - where those encounters of the evangelical kind?
following the rules of the ten commandments is something that leads to a somewhat healty community
Except the first four is all about how you must follow and obey the Xian god. It's the last six that are fairly practical, almost to the point of common sense.
Common sense now, that is thousands of years after they were written.
I do not disagree with either of you, I am not christian but I mostly appreciate and abide by the ten commandments. I doubt I would if our morals were not forged over those commandments over the past 2000 years.
I am not christian but I mostly appreciate and abide by the ten commandments.
Please re read the actual ten commandments, then your own comment.
If you're not christian, you're not following the commandments, because they're 40% contractual obligation to worship the christian god exclusively.
Agreeing not to steal, murder, or fucking your neighbours' goats, on the other side, is hardly something christians have a monopoly on.
But then, all of the Old Testament is really Jewish with some minor edits to retrofit it for the sequel. Guess somebody coveted their neighbour's scripture and broke its fundamental rules to swipe it.
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You shall have no other gods before Me.
If he is sincere in his beliefs then he won't be able to follow the "no discrimination based on religion" part of the code.
How vain must he be to name an OS after himself.
At least call it LunOS or something. See Debian, which is Deb+Ian, but it at least sounds good and has a sweet backstory. LCOS sounds like an illness (PCOS, anyone?).
I liked the guy way back when but some day he just seemed to become a bit crazy. Made his content unwatchable. What narcissism and trauma does to people...
I sincerely hope he one day gets treatment for his trauma which probably caused the shift in personality, and I hope Bryan will be a healthier and better person one day.
That said, why try an OS by one guy which doesn't even offer anything above what is already on the market. At least be creative and innovative...
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Debian 12 is one of the last holdouts of 32-bit support if you're like me and have some pretty old devices still kicking. Just a couple years left.
Originally I was an advocate for dropping 32-bit support, but now that getting newer devices is increasingly unaffordable... I actually think it might be a good idea to reverse course on that just a little and keep 32-blt support for just a little longer. At least until after the AI bubble finally fucking pops.
iirc the Linux kernel dropped support for pre-Pentium x86 in the last few years, so any distro with 486 support now would be using an unmaintained kernel.
I think if you want a maintained operating system for your 486 today, NetBSD is probably the thing to run.
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I am surprised to learn it was May of last year, with the 6.15 kernel being the first to drop 486 support and the 386 family dropping out back in 2012.
After a touch more research to figure out what the oldest currently-supported computers would be: I also hadn't realized the first Pentium debuted in 1993. Pentium and compatibles are still operable, so there are maintained distros out there like Tiny Core Linux that will work on computers made 33 years ago. Just amazing.
Linux kernel 6.15 is ending support for some very old computer processors such as Intel 486 and the early Pentium (i586 or P5 Pentium).sk (OSTechNix)
It really is amazing how far back Linux reaches.
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Selecting a pyrolysis plant is not simply a matter of choosing the largest processing capacity or the lowest equipment price. Feedstock composition determines thermal behavior, reactor requirements, pretreatment needs, product characteristics, and emission-control considerations. A suitable system must therefore be matched to the physical and chemical properties of the material being processed.
For investors evaluating a tyre recycling project, understanding feedstock-equipment compatibility is particularly important because the tyre pyrolysis plant cost can vary according to processing capacity, automation level, reactor configuration, pretreatment requirements, and environmental-control systems. The same principle applies to plastic, biomass, rubber, and other carbonaceous feedstocks. Equipment selection should begin with the material rather than the machine.
1. Evaluate Feedstock Characteristics First
Before selecting a pyrolysis plant, several feedstock parameters should be assessed:
Moisture content
Particle size
Volatile matter
Ash content
Fixed carbon
Chemical composition
Contaminants
Bulk density
Daily or annual availability
These characteristics directly influence heat transfer and residence time inside the reactor. High-moisture biomass, for example, requires additional energy for drying, whereas relatively dry tyre feedstock has a fundamentally different thermal profile.
A detailed feedstock assessment can therefore prevent operational instability and unnecessary equipment modifications.
2. Match the Reactor with the Material
Different feedstocks respond differently to thermal decomposition.
Waste tyres generally require robust feeding and conveying systems because whole tyres or tyre chips have high mechanical strength and elastic properties. A tyre pyrolysis plant must also accommodate the recovery of products such as pyrolysis oil, carbon black-like residue, steel wire, and non-condensable gas.
Waste plastic presents another set of considerations. Polyethylene and polypropylene can generate substantial quantities of liquid hydrocarbon products, while mixed or contaminated plastics may require additional sorting and pretreatment. Reactor temperature and condensation configuration are particularly important for controlling the resulting oil fraction.
Biomass such as wood chips, sawdust, rice husk, and agricultural residues generally contains more moisture and oxygenated compounds. Drying and particle-size control can therefore become crucial parts of the system. The desired product also matters: a system designed primarily for biochar production may use different operating parameters from one optimized for liquid products.
3. Consider Processing Capacity
Capacity should correspond to the actual feedstock supply rather than an optimistic projection.
For a small and relatively stable waste stream, batch pyrolysis equipment may provide operational flexibility. Larger projects with continuous feedstock availability may benefit from continuous pyrolysis technology, which can support more consistent throughput and reduce frequent reactor start-up and shutdown cycles.
Capacity planning should consider both daily availability and seasonal fluctuations. Agricultural biomass, in particular, can exhibit pronounced seasonality.
4. Examine Pretreatment Requirements
Pretreatment can strongly influence the efficiency of a pyrolysis plant. Tyres may need cutting or shredding. Plastic waste may require sorting, crushing, and removal of unsuitable materials. Biomass may require drying and size reduction.
The objective is straightforward: create a more homogeneous feedstock that can be processed predictably.
Ignoring pretreatment can lead to inconsistent feeding, excessive energy consumption, lower product quality, or accelerated mechanical wear.
5. Compare Energy and Thermal Integration
Thermal efficiency is another critical selection criterion. During pyrolysis, combustible gases are generally generated alongside liquid and solid products. A properly engineered system can recover and utilize these gases as an internal heat source.
This reduces dependence on external fuel and improves overall energy integration. Insulation quality, heat-transfer efficiency, reactor configuration, and gas circulation all contribute to the thermal performance of the plant.
6. Account for Environmental Requirements
Equipment selection must also reflect local environmental regulations. Emission-control requirements can differ considerably between jurisdictions and feedstock categories.
A plant may require combustion chambers, gas purification, dust removal, condensers, or other treatment equipment depending on the process design and applicable standards. Environmental compliance should therefore be considered during the initial engineering stage rather than added as an afterthought.
7. Look Beyond the Initial Equipment Price
The purchase price is only one component of project economics. A more meaningful assessment should include feedstock preparation, energy consumption, labor, maintenance, emission treatment, product recovery, and expected operating life.
For example, a lower-cost system may become less economical if it requires extensive manual handling or consumes significantly more external fuel. Conversely, higher automation and thermal integration can increase the initial investment while reducing recurring operating expenses.
Ultimately, the right pyrolysis plant is the one that creates a coherent match between feedstock, reactor technology, capacity, pretreatment, energy utilization, environmental controls, and project economics. This systematic approach provides a more reliable basis for evaluating equipment and developing a commercially and technically viable pyrolysis project.
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I now have 4 computers running Linux, each with an almost perfectly set up distro (which took days to perfect) and would want to create backups so that I can move and restore these between all of my computers.
Here is a list of my computers:
Surface Go 1 128gb SSD 8gb of Ram running Fedora Silverblue
MacBook Pro 2012 (upgraded with 512gb SSD and 16gb of Ram) running Pop!_OS
NUC7i3DNB 128gb SSD 8gb of Ram running LibreELEC
Steam Deck LCD 256 SSD 16gb of Ram running Steam OS
I was planning on using Clonezilla to create backups of these, store them somewhere (kDrive and external hard drive) and be able to restore these between each of these (and my future) computers if needed.
I've succesfully used Clonezilla in the past, but I've also encountered a dead end issue when trying to restore my Surface Go 1 backup on an old Acer (probably 5737Z) I had lying around. I don't remember what the problem was, but something related to UEFI and EFI legacy stuff I think..
So, as all these computers are quite different and not all of them so Linux friendly, I wanted to know if you think I'll encounter issues when trying to move installs between them or not.
In order to save space, I'd probably shrink every partition so that it's the same size as the data it contains and then extend it again once restored on another computer.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Edit: Thanks for your help. In the end, I think I’ll keep building installation tutorials for myselt to be able to reproduce my distros and might one day try NixOs on one of my computers
With standard PC hardware, that would work.
Some things like firmware or drivers can be auto-detected and installed on demand. Symptom would be that e.g. your WiFi or video card does not work.
The safe way is to back up user data (including config) and install newly. This will work almost always as the kernel provides hardware abstraction - that is its main purpose.
Installers like Debian are also quite quick.... quicker than restoring a backup.
Linux has a strict separation of user data and system.
Anything that you can configure and adust without entering the root password is stored as user data in your home account.
If you back it up and restore it on another computer with the same distro, it will work.
An alternative to complete cloning (which gets out of date fast) would be to manage systems with ansible.(or puppet, or chef).
You can script configurations, package installs, users, etc. And it also allows for hardware/architecture specifics when needed (e.g. drivers for the different platforms).
You would then just install a base os and run your playbook. No need to store gigs of data and easier to update the base os to newer versions. You could even mix
You can also push out changes without needing to snapshot a new image and re-install it everywhere.
I understand where you are coming from but I would take the opposite approach, namely not how quickly and conveniently you get back to exactly the same state (because that's actually really hard) but rather how quickly and conveniently you can get to work, or play, or do whatever you do, from the most generic of hardware and software, including of course yours. What this perspective suggests though is NOT to consider your stuff precious but on the contrary, to assume it will inevitably disappear, due to any reason, from a freak event, e.g stolen to the mundane, e.g. hardware failure over time.
IMHO it's much more relaxing to consider hardware disposable. My own heuristic for this is to understand what a distribution does, save only MY data (e.g. things that I produce, for example in a data it would be my saves but not the game itself) and buy only well supported hardware.
Consider your perfect settings as the part you want to keep (as well as all your documents etc, of course), but the OS will change.
Tomorrow you'll do an update and 2 applications and 10 libraries are now newer... so you probably don't want to store a "golden image" for too long without redoing it to consider all the updates.
Now... with that situation in mind, it's generally easier to just do a clean install of the distro and reapply your settings.
So, depending on what you've setup, installed, tweaked & configured, saving that can be done with config files in /etc and /home and maybe a 1-liner for applications to install.
That will be smaller and more easily reproducable on all your hardware (and maybe some VMs)
How you do that depends on what you've changed and your skills... maybe bash, maybe ansible, maybe just copying files - whatever makes sense to you.
As others say, where the use cases are so specific to each machine, it'll be a headache juggling all of those images if your needs and workflow change down the road.
But I'd be remiss to say I don't practice a form of what you mention, I would go insane if I actually had to reinstall from distro defaults. I have a single perfected VM image with customizations and software common to all of my machines. And yes, if you were to go this route, there are little quirks to iron out manually each time I image to a new machine, even old and well-supported ones. Some just cosmetic, some preventing graphical output. Although still much less time than setting up from scratch.
It works well enough for me, but it also frankly leads to a poorly-documented system that will accumulate cruft with updates, and can't propagate changes in the VM to my existing systems easily, so I'm interested too to see what other people here suggest. Particularly for those niche customizations that land outside of /home and /etc (e.g. /usr/fonts, packages not provided by the distro).
I think your solution is a 'declarative operating system', where you just have a config file and the system builds it-self from that. You can decide if the system is locked to certain versions if you like. I know of Guix and NixOs, but maybe others exists. Alternatively an external scripting solution.
You still need to backup valuable local user data oc.
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Yeah I guess something like NixOS might be the solution for me, even if it apparently comes with a steep learning curve..
But it would not really answer my need to discover new distros and DEs while saving my settings in case I wanna go back to my old distros and.
For most people today, public elections are synonymous with democracy. However, between 508 and 322 BCE, Athenians favoured a lottery system known as ‘sortition’. They largely believed it to be more fair, representative and responsive to the public interest than elections, which are often influenced by money and can foster destructive political polarisation. In this animation, Michael Vazquez, associate director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, breaks down both the potential of lottery-based systems and their limits. In particular, he highlights an updated lottery system conceived by the US philosopher Alex Guerrero, designed to address flaws in earlier models and some of the most pressing problems in contemporary electoral politics.
Ancient Athenians chose leaders by lottery rather than elections. Could this solve the problems facing democracy today?Aeon
Election by lottery. Every eligible citizen is entered into the lottery to serve in the Senate. Each year on December 1st, 100 citizens are randomly selected to serve a 10-year term, to report to their duty by January 1st. The Senate will consist of 1000 of these people, with 10% of them replaced every year. (If a Senator dies, retires, or otherwise becomes unfit for office during their term, they are not replaced until their term ends, and the Senate will be slightly smaller than 1000.) The first year and the last year of your service in the Senate are special. During your fist year, you will be mentored by a more experienced Senator; you will have full voting rights, but you will be "Silenced" -- not able to propose new bills/votes or address the Senate -- until your second year. During your last year, you must choose at least one new Senator to mentor.
If selected, service in the Senate is considered mandatory, like being selected for a military draft. Individual Senators can be excused from service or allowed to retire before the end of their 10-year term, but only with approval from a 66% supermajority vote of the Senate. (This is important to help avoid selection bias in the Senate. Otherwise, certain demographics may be underrepresented if that demographic is more likely to refuse service or retire early. It's also important because the people who don't want to be in government are exactly who we need in government. If citizens are allowed to refuse service in the Senate, that would bias selection toward the type of people who want power, which may defeat the entire purpose.) Being a Senator should still be a prestigious, respected, and well-paid position, of course -- that will only further encourage people to accept their selection if chosen.
If, at any time or for any reason, the Senate has less than 500 Senators, a special selection will be performed immediately, and enough random citizens will be selected to bring the total number of Senators back up to 1000. (This includes the very first selection, since you'd be starting with 0 Senators, which is less than 500.) Since 100 new Senators must be placed every year, replacing the longest-serving ones, some of these Senators chosen in 'special selections' may end up serving terms of less than 10 years. (For example, in the very first year of the Senate, 10% of the Senators chosen will only serve for one year.)
The Senate can vote to "Silence" individual Senators -- to prevent them from proposing new bills/votes and prevent them from speaking to address the Senate, with a 66% supermajority vote. This can be a temporary punishment or a permanent injunction for the remainder of that Senator's term, at the Senate's discretion. Must have an individual vote for each individual Senator to be Silenced -- you can't Silence entire voting blocs with a single vote. Silenced senators, though, will still be in the Senate and will still vote just like any other Senator.
The Senate may (optionally) appoint a Chief Officer, who serves as the head of the Executive Branch, at the Senate's pleasure. The Chief Officer (and indeed any official in the government outside of the Senate and Judicial Branch) can be removed and replaced at the Senate's discretion at any time, with a simple majority vote. This Chief Officer can be a Senator, but doesn't have to be. Doesn't even have to be a citizen. It can be literally anyone the Senate agrees on (except for any previous Judge or Commander in Chief). Or, if the Senate chooses, they can have no Chief Officer at all, and instead have the heads of each individual department of the government report directly to the Senate. In the event of an exactly tied vote in the Senate (which will probably be very rare), the Chief Officer (if one exists) may cast the tie-breaking vote.
The Senate may (optionally) appoint a Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, only if the Senate has declared war on another country. They may choose to appoint any General or Admiral who is currently serving or has previously served in the military to this role. The Senate will delegate control of the country's military to the Commander in Chief, who may make sweeping and rapid decisions about the military without consulting the Senate, on the presumption that their experience and ability to respond quickly will enable them to achieve better military results than the Senate or Chief Officer could. The Commander in Chief may only serve during times of declared war, and must step down from their position at the end of the war, ceding control of the military back to the Senate (optionally through the Chief Officer). Like the Chief Officer, the Commander in Chief can be removed and/or replaced at any time with a simple majority vote from the Senate, even if the war is still ongoing. No single person can serve as both Chief Officer and Commander in Chief -- not concurrently nor successively.
The Senate will also vote to appoint judges to the higher courts, including the Supreme Court, with a 57% vote required for successful appointment. They may only nominate well-qualified and experienced judges who are well versed in the law and the (new) constitution. These judges will serve for 20-year terms, after which they must retire and may never again serve in government in any other capacity. They can only be removed and replaced with a 75% supermajority vote from the Senate. (To prevent a constitutionally misguided Senate from quickly and easily replacing any judge that rules their new law to be unconstitutional.) And their most important job (as is supposedly the case already) is to rule on whether or not laws passed by the Senate and actions taken by the Executive Branch are allowable and enforceable according to the (new) constitution.
This ensures:
I like this and think it would be a big improvement over the current system. However, I do see some potential problems:
Like I said, I still think this would be an improvement, but I think you're making a mistake in thinking that people will bring their values with them once they become senator. I think our values are highly shaped by our incentives and the incentives of a senator will change their values.
Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI.Bert Hubert's writings
While barely related to Linux, I can genuinely recommend this article. If there's anyone who can give a nuanced but realistic take on AI, it's Bert.
If you're in the mindset of AI BAD/AI GREAT you might want to skip this one.
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AB 1856 doesn’t explicitly say that repos aren’t app stores, but a store’s main obligation under the law is to request an age signal from the user’s OS provider and pass it to developers; an exempt open-source OS produces no signal.
So what's the outcome of that? Are covered applications and application store to treat users as children when they don't get a signal from the OS?
A game I payed long ago in my mobile requested me last week age verification.
Game lost...
Sensible laws? That's not the world I grew up in. What the hell is happening.
Punish users. That's the only way they'll learn.
got a great deal at an estate sale, i9-9900k, 32gb ddr4, rtx 2070 for $350.
I started with debian but unfortunately it's an Nvidia card. the big thing I want to try with this thing is emulating bloodborne, and maybe local AI models so performance is key.
will I be fine with debian or are the packages just too old?
edit: lmao debian wouldn't boot or even successfully launch the terminal in recovery mode after installing the nvidia drivers so fuck that I switched to kubuntu since it's what I have experience with it worked as expected beep boop bop. thank you for your suggestions everyone!
this is my first time with a prebuilt and it's weird working with someone else's HW choices. ugh the RAM rgb can't be switched off I might try to mod it.
Get Arch on there if you're looking for bleedng edge, no bloat performance.
The wiki has some points on nvidia drivers too
did this happen to be from the radio free asia sale?
will I be fine with debian or are the packages just too old?
I use Debian with a 3060ti - i9 11th gen combo, works fine, if you’re familiar with Debian then you’ll likely have an alright experience.
I would second this. They key as a beginner I think is to choose a distro with a reasonable release cycle, give yourself some room to breathe.
Debian is too slow, their release cycle is basically 2 years. You could use Testing or Unstable instead of Stable but they're not officially meant for public consumption and come with no guarantees. It's great as a minimalist, rock-solid foundation for a server where stability is paramount but not great for any purpose with a faster pace of technology.
Arch-based distros on the other hand are extremely fast ("rolling distro"). Most of them sit in the range between "drinking from the firehose" (release packages as fast as they come in) to something like 2 weeks for a "slow" distro like Manjaro.
Distros like Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu, PopOS have ~6 month release cycles so you end up with reasonably recent packages but not too recent to catch all the new bugs.
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Fedora is life.
For me it replaced every other distro, since the minimal install of its fedora Server flavour is just aß minimal as debian
Yeah I updated the system with too little space left on disk and it stopped booting. I rebooted, choose an older boot image with BTRFS and bam I was back in games.
I can also confirm AI local stuff does do well on Cachyos.
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Between linux distros on the same kernel and a similar DE setup the difference in performance between them is within the margin of error. If it's greater than that then something is broken with the setup. You'll likely get worse performance and hardware compatibility on debian or mint, just because they run older kernels by default. You can get newer kernels backported to debian if you add the right repositories, but I don't think it's recommended.
I run the desktop version of bazzite and can not say enough good things about it. It's been more stable than debian for me and the "immutible" distros i've been on have been such a good and trouble-free experience that I don't want to touch traditional distros anymore. It has all the codecs and a bunch of extra hardware support enabled by default, a bunch of scripts to easily set up things, and a bunch of QoL improvements set up on install. Having to open up flatseal every now and then to grant permissions to a flatpak is so much less trouble than what I've experienced on traditional distros where updates can straight up break shit and randomly send you on a troubleshooting goose chase. I don't understand how anyone finds that normal and acceptable. You can get local AI set up pretty easily with the right flatpaks (alpaca) or certain appimages.
If not being able to mess with system level stuff, or the niche quirks of an immutable distro are a dealbreaker, or you want to jump around on different DEs and not mess with a VM: Fedora is good, generally stable and decently updated packages. Mint generally stable but might have slightly older packages. CachyOS for an arch based option that's highly regarded, because it has a lot of useful options, but with rolling release distros the risk of updates causing an issue slightly higher than usual. I've also heard nothing but good things about OpenSuse Tumbleweed which is also rolling release but reportedly very stable.
nvidia is not that bad on linux anymore. all people usually have is small annoyances, big issues are uncommon on major distros.
debian probably works. but if you want the best performance and games, newer packages are usually better, yes.
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That's not normal, Debian works fine with NVIDIA cards including with their proprietary drivers. You can follow wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphics…
How do I know? Been running such a setup for years including for gaming, even VR gaming, and tinkering with local AI models for evaluation (and disappointment) and works well.
A security issue in Omarchy’s default Docker configuration meant that essentially every program running in the user’s desktop session could escalate to root without a password, sudo, or a privilege prompt.0xcc.io
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I wouldn't take that statement too seriously, some people really like to gatekeep. The simple fact is that Ubuntu has done a lot to make Linux more accessible to a lot of people who otherwise would still be using another OS. That also makes it an easy target for ridicule.
Having said that, they also made a lot of unpopular decisions, especially amongst Linux purists.
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If you use Omarchy, the most important takeaway is simple
stop using a system made by fascist?
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It was all just a bunch of rich tech bros that made that $8M investment, with $1M from DHH himself.
Its not the standard investment from another company where they do some due diligence. This was just a "we think this is the future of Linux" vibe investment.
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Its not the future of Linux, most likely a fad. The most it will be is a cult OS used by people on the far right.
The only thing good I can say about it is that it has interested some people into Linux because of how all of the components are unique compared to Mac and Windows. Cosmic could be the main stream option for those users once it becomes more stable.
Omarchy is just a bunch of dotfiles in a Hugo Boss trenchcoat pretending to be a linux distribution.
Utterly untrue, it's also an AI slop website with a dumb little icon bouncing around listing his insecurities.
Ugh, I stopped reading when he segued from wolves being a danger to humans straight into the "gypsy problem" 🤮
Also had a look at the site for this distro, he really seems to like cars and seems to be pretty full of himself about some neither-new-nor-original arch+tiling_wm distro.
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Are there any hard forks or similar to Hyperland that are for Wayland? I was going to try it on my Pi5 (it is my main "messing with random Linux stuff" device that I don't care if I break something), but then I saw people talking about the far-right/fascist stuff and didn't bother. It looked nice when I saw people in random videos running it (wasn't the focus of the videos and just stood-out).
I know there are other well known tiled window managers which I might end up trying since I keep meaning to see how I take to them. The look of Hyperland is nice with some stacked window manager elements if needed (which I imagine other projects also have). I just don't know which TWM projects are "better" (for starting with coming from only using SWM). Some level of aesthetics would be nice but am fine with adding after install.
Have you checked Niri?
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to niri-wm/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Seconding Niri, but also I've seen swayfx setups that have Hyprland-like aesthetics.
If you don't care about fancy effects, I've been a river user for years and I like it. Nowadays it is just a compositor and the WM is separate, but river-classic (which includes a WM) has a dwm-like tag system, is programmatically configured (ie you speak to the river IPC in any language of your choosing—by default it's a shell script but the WM just executes ~/.config/river/init on startup, so that file can be any executable), and is simple and lightweight. The new 0.4.x release separates the compositor and WM, so you can pick or write your own WM that suits your own workflow/use-case, if that's your thing—it might not be if you don't want customisability and you just want something that makes the decisions for you to a good enough standard.
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I am shitting on Hyprland because DHH, who is responsible for the mess that is Omarchy, is in bed with Vaxry and they both enable each other. I did not say that Hyprland has any vulnerabilities. I said that people who have a hard on for aesthetics do so because they are compensating for a lack of substance most often. I was specifically referring to this privilidge escalation fuck up.
and i dont think hyprland is here like “the thing” that will attract users.
Well, the attempt is made for it to be part of just that. See Omarchy.
it’s for power users.
Almost all programs that implement some sort of GUI the way XFCE or dwm does are for power users, it's called being on Linux. The exception here is maybe the latest GNOME release. Hyprland is also for the r/UNIXPORN crowd.
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When I explained X11 on FreeBSD to Windows users 25 years ago, I said, "you start from the pretty side and work towards the ugly. I start on the ugly side and make it pretty."
Omarchy is turning a perfectly decent OS and putting a pig outfit on it and giving it lipstick, then calling it pretty.
DHH was too distracted by all the scary people of color in London to worry about security.
CW on that link for bigotry, false statistics, and thinly veiled fascist screeds.
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium.world.hey.com
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EUGHH.. fuckin gross...
There seems to be a notable amount of FOSS coders of the old guard (90s til 00s) that are like that.
I long frequented a place called linuxquestions.org. You wouldn't believe how right-wing to libertarian most of the people there were. Still are I guess.
Some gained status (Ruby on Rails was a big thing 1 or 2 decades back) and started spouting things because they knew people were listening.
Some people in such communities recognize that there's something off here, and they have this excuse ready: all coders/nerds are basically on the spectrum (they don't phrase it like this though) and don't know how to phrase things politely, they just blurt it out.
As if that makes things better when you think like that guy.
If you use Omarchy, the most important takeaway is simple: ~~update to 4.0.1~~ STOP.
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And finally: Initial USB4/Thunderbolt support for M1/M2/M3 on LKML: https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20260830-b4-apple-soc-tbt-v1-0-44bc9348683c@kernel.Sven Peter (Treehouse Mastodon)
Footage of a massive iceberg flipping in Greenland has gone viral. The feat took place off the coast of Ilulissat and was caught on a nearby livestream camera. Icebergs shift like this because they melt unevenly, with submerged areas melting faster. As the underwater shape of the iceberg changes, the buoyant forces shift relative to the iceberg’s center of mass, and it flips, eventually settling into a (temporarily) stable orientation. This situation is simpler in the lab version, though; as the video here shows, real icebergs can also rapidly lose mass if they start breaking apart. That, too, can necessitate a flip. (Video and image credit: AfarTV; via Colossal)
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#buoyancy #climateChange #fluidDynamics #iceberg #melting #physics #science #stability
Watch the complete collapse and rollover of a massive iceberg near Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 25, 2026. Non-Timelapse version (55min long): https://www.yo...afarTV (YouTube)
Some talks just write themselves, @KernelRecipes is going to be fun this year! (not that it's not fun every year, but you get the idea...)social.kernel.org
I had a blindspot and didn't really knew what CVE's was. Digging a little:
docs.kernel.org/process/cve.ht…
"Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE®) numbers were developed as an unambiguous way to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities.
This article talks about op's chart specifically: howtouselinux.com/post/why-lin…
The number of CVEs fixed in each Linux kernel release is climbing fast. Not long ago, a release closed about 500. Now the count is nearing 2,000. Greg Kroah-Hartman teased the trend before his Kernel Recipes 2026 talk.David Cao (howtouselinux)
And at the rate they're finding the bugs, they'll all be found by the end of the year.
Then no more bugs and all the LLMs can be shutdown.
TBH, I think everyone's playing with the new thing and a bunch of people will just move on to the next big thing (augmented 3d post-realism AI?)
Then, it'll settle down into decent workflows and become more organised... it'll just be painful until that happens.
I hope you guys understand my question, as somebody who has used VOIP on very limited times.
On a regular phone call, there is a constant line of communication, meaning both sides could talk at the same time if they wanted. I thought VOIP would be like this, but in my experience VOIP is a short audio message you send, the other side hears it and sends you an answer, nothing wrong with that.
I want to talk to family, I don’t want to use whatsapp and I’m experimenting with SimpleX Chat. It allows me to send short audio files as audio messages, but it’s still not a continuous LOC. Would whatsapp be the same?
I want to convince family to use SimpleX, user experience would have to be as similar as possible to whatsapp
SimpleX Chat - e2e encrypted messenger without any user IDs - private by design!f-droid.org
Both sides can talk at the same time during VOIP calls. While Simplex can send audio or other files you can also tap the phone icon in your contact. This will make a regular phone call or video call with two way communication. For me, calls have worked the best out of other open source apps other than Signal. Only problem I have had was echo when using speaker phone. Regular calls work fine.
If you were asking about the network layer how things work. There are small packets of information going in both directions. Dropped packets will cause short lost audio. But normally all the small packets are put together into a continuous two way communication.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare
01:45 Flatpak gets half a million in funding
03:57 Omarchy gets 8 million dollars
06:05 Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation
08:16 GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships
09:34 Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements
11:10 BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster
13:09 Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support
14:35 Multikernel project has its first version
16:39 Asahi project now supports M3 macs
18:30 LibreOffice gets big improvements
20:42 Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app
23:26 Wine and Proton update
24:57 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
Links:
Flatpak gets half a million in funding
modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatp…
Omarchy gets 8 million dollars
linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarch…
omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omaco…
Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation
tomshardware.com/video-games/n…
GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships
linuxiac.com/grapheneos-suppor…
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements
itsfoss.com/news/linux-7-3-pre…
BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster
phoronix.com/review/linux-73-f…
Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support
phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chrom…
Multikernel project has its first version
linuxiac.com/multikernel-linux…
lore.kernel.org/lkml/ao34RJ7aZ…
Asahi project now supports M3 macs
asahilinux.org/2026/08/progres…
LibreOffice gets big improvements
blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app
techradar.com/phones/iphone/il…
Wine and Proton update
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08:16 GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships
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BTRFs, which has advanced filesystems features like snapshots, data integrity checks, and scrubbing, is a less performant filesystem for databases than filesystems that don't have these features, like EXT4, F2FS and XFS. No shit, Sherlock. At least compare it to ZFS or something.
If you are storing files that you care about, use a filesystem with integrity checks. If you require high database performance, it'll probably be happier using a whole partition, if not just a whole pile of disks, and be allowed to get on with it. If you are driving nails into a wall, do not compare the performance of different screwdrivers for the task. And so on.
The Omacom Foundation (Omarchy) contributors listed are:
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell, Block co-founder Jack Dorsey, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, 37signals CEO Jason Fried, and Hansson himself.
Matthew Prince has in the past removed nazis from Cloudflare, maybe it's worth bringing his attention to DHH's support for Tommy Robinson and anti-immigrant protests in the UK. The rest of them seem at least sympathetic to, if not part of, the far right.
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大祭司背手站在宫室内，望着窗外罗马大兴土木的景观，士兵、奴隶或是苦力在脚手架上动着，在帕拉廷山这个高度看像一群蚂蚁，远没有他们所包围的穹顶或巨型雕像来得让人印象深刻。那些大理石在中午强烈的阳光下几乎闪着光，将那些小小的人影全部吞没。他的密探向他报告着首席贞女改变的穿衣习惯，如何在炎夏的中午外出很久，回来后换下来的衣服上偶有污渍和某种气味，等等。大祭司始终背对着她，好像没在听她说话。对此她并不在意，只要能拿到报酬有一天回到山里去就行了。何况，这男人几乎没正眼瞧过她，这或许是件好事——男人多余的注视总是会带来些麻烦，哪怕在山里时也是这样。有传言说大祭司对男人更感兴趣，对此她并无所谓。甚至对于她正在报告的首席贞女可能在违反戒律的事，她也并无看法，只是拿钱办事而已。她很满意现在这个安排，清爽利落，“或许我也算从擦地板端盘子往上走了。”珀拉带点自得地想。
拉维尼奥醒来时，头疼依然如故。伊坐起身来，感到一股酸液剧烈地涌上来。自从上次与埃涅阿斯不愉快的告别之后，伊似乎总在头疼、恶心、忽冷忽热地出汗。埃涅阿斯居然让别人闯入他们的密会，在他抱怨“没有人知道我们”的时候，也许他已经告诉别人来墓地看滑稽戏了！或许他觉得这很值得夸耀，一个被他诱惑了的维斯塔贞女，正如在凯旋游行里展示的那些战利品。拉维尼奥想到他们一起做过的事情就只想羞愧地在床上蜷缩成一团。在梦里，拉维尼奥梦见自己一丝不挂地站在大广场上供全罗马观看点评，伊便慌慌张张地拆发髻上的簪子和发绳，想用头发蔽体，人群笑得更大声了：“头发松散，道德也松散！”。每天做这样的梦，伊这些天来总是恍恍惚惚，已经几次把新收到的遗嘱和要拿去葬礼宣读的遗嘱拿混，那些亲属死于热病的人虽然自己也病得几乎要倒在火葬的柴堆上，但依然能对首席贞女读错遗嘱的事表达不满。每当这时拉维尼奥总是想，不如让我也倒在柴堆上，一把火烧个干净！就是在这样一个中午，首席贞女挣扎着爬起来剃过须——下巴上多了一道口子，没认真听海伦娜在给伊梳头时说什么——事实上伊两次把“海伦娜”叫成了“塞西莉亚”，拒绝了任何食物，然后带着一块备用的头巾穿过宫殿来到大祭司的套房门前，正好看到珀拉从里面出来。女奴看到伊，马上受惊似地微微低下头去，脸颊发红。伊几乎想要俯下身去抱她，像安慰阿米莉亚她们一样，但是她看起来已经够害怕的了。[^1]
“我的小妹妹！”马提乌斯走出门来说，他略微把头转向珀拉那边：“可以了，退下吧。”珀拉脸更红了（大祭司想，赫耳墨斯在上，这狡猾的小蹄子演技了得），向拉维尼奥行礼后便快速跑开了。首席贞女感到什么东西冲上脑门，头更疼了。独裁官夫妇刚从希腊回来两天，他在他们的卧房里还没浪荡够么？伊跟着大祭司走进套房，忍住颤抖咬牙切齿：“马提乌斯！你敢碰我房里的姑娘……”
“亲爱的，别那么大声。”他轻佻地说，“别人会以为我有一个爱吃醋的老婆——我向你保证，一切都是自愿的。何况……”他关上门，“据我所知，你房里一个女人也没有。”
拉维尼奥连翻白眼的力气都没有了，噩梦里那个自己一丝不挂的幻象又隐隐在额头前漂浮。我还可以装作一切如常，回到旧的法度里去，伊由着自己旧式女人的脑筋接道：“大祭司阁下要是对男女之事有兴趣，或许该考虑再婚了。让我来看看元老院的家谱……”伊故意模仿孪生哥哥去年农神节说这话的语调。
“要是母亲在这大概会跟你说一样的话，”他咋起舌来，“摆出这样一副受人尊敬的主妇样子。”
“你到底想说什么？”拉维尼奥感到仿佛一块冰冷的铁板压到自己背上。
他没有再看伊，转身走到铜镜前坐下：“男女之事的事，我们祭祀结束再谈，不能误了祭祀的吉时。”他每天就在那铜镜前让他的贴身男奴给他刮脸梳头穿带祭司兜帽的托加袍，拉维尼奥突然意识到，他房里侍候的奴隶都不在，如果马提乌斯把他们都遣走，那么某些事情确实发生了。大祭司拍拍手：“你带来了吗？”
拉维尼奥这才想起手上端着放着头巾的托盘：“带来了。”
“那给我扮上吧。”他几乎对着铜镜露出恶作剧得逞的坏笑，小时候有一次他把蚯蚓扔进了家里大人上酒的雕花铜瓶里，就是这样笑的。“这可不是上台演戏，”拉维尼奥给他披上镶红边的白头巾时说，“祭祀丰收女神就得如此而已。”伊尽量让语气公事公办，头疼几乎让伊无法思考。这样或许会显得可疑，但接下来什么都不说会更省力。伊也没力气听马提乌斯说了些什么了。
大祭司和维斯塔贞女团来到祭司府，这里自一年前的大火以后就没人住过，墙壁上还有熏黑的痕迹，倒下的柱子和烧毁的前厅已经被清理过了，只是显得空荡、凄凉。拉维尼奥感到自己步伐不稳，手上堆着祭品的铜盆摇摇晃晃。他们走进供奉丰收女神的厅室，好几盏油灯的光亮轻轻摇曳，在经历过火灾的墙壁上投下不详的阴影。拉维尼奥在神像前跪下放下铜盆，几乎已经虚脱，马提乌斯对伊耳语：“小妹妹，现在，我们中有两个异装者了。”[^2]
然后一片漆黑。
埃涅阿斯知道自己总在找借口路过大广场。自奈乌斯在阿皮亚路撞见他俩之后，拉维尼奥再也没出现在伊戈利亚泉水、阿皮亚路或其它他们见面的地方。埃涅阿斯暗暗诅咒同僚坏人好事，他觉得实在有必要向拉维尼奥当面解释。罗马城突然变得愈发混乱，暴风雨和洪水过后，更多的乡下人涌入城里避难，在失去自己的收成之后，他们指望混到给罗马城居民的救济粮度过今年。这些人，加上城中因为火灾失去家园的灾民和惶恐于热病的流行的民众，已经开始议论这接二连三的灾祸究竟是罗马哪里触犯了众神。毕竟少数幸运的能找到些工地上的杂活干干，大部分只好无所事事地闲晃、乞讨。“就算今天维斯塔贞女祭祀了丰收女神，淹死的庄稼就是淹死了……”路边几个这样的闲人议论道。埃涅阿斯冲上前问道：“丰收女神祭祀在哪里？”
乞丐们惊异地看了他一眼，然后一个鼻子上长肉瘤的指了指旧维斯塔神庙的方向：“以前的祭司府。”他们只当他也是流落在外，为土地的损失疯疯癫癫，想去丰收女神的神龛外祈祷，甚至没找他要一两个阿斯的赏钱。弓箭手向祭司府走去，原来那本就在维斯塔神庙旁边，这片区域的废墟让他想起火灾的夜晚，那个时候……一个披着头巾的高个影子冲出了祭司府，焦虑地向外面守候的卫兵们大喊大叫。拉维尼奥？他又看了看，对方没有表现出认识他的意思，他只听到了几个词，“马车……快点……梅洛迪亚夫人……”说话间那人烦躁地把头巾扯下，露出一头短发，是大祭司。随后拉维尼奥被人架着两只胳膊拖了出来，看起来了无生气——埃涅阿斯想冲上前，被卫兵挡下：“没什么好看的，去！去！”拉维尼奥被大祭司塞进马车（他很注意不让别人碰伊胳膊之外的地方），车轮滚滚在城里开出一条道来向东而去，消失了。
第二天大广场上的公示石板有一条：首席贞女大人抱恙，已按例出城休养，维斯塔神庙日常事务不受影响，愿圣火保佑罗马。
半轮月亮挂在夜的黑幕上，埃涅阿斯在罗马郊区的一扇院门前踌躇，像火灾的夜晚一样，他跟着夏季大三角的指引来到这个方向。但拉维尼奥这次不在他身旁，也不会从脖子上掏出钥匙开门了。这里似乎十分冷清，他甚至不确定伊是否在这里，也不确定里面究竟有没有卫兵把守，但他只能试试。 他摸索院墙墙砖上的凹凸试着往上攀爬，弓箭手的眼睛和耳朵注意着院子里是否有任何动静或人迹。他尽量无声地落到地上，这院子看起来像他记忆里一样荒凉。
梅洛迪亚突然醒来，是日耳曼森林给她的直觉让她醒来的。她从草垫上起身，房中站了一个人，一个她没有见过的人。梅洛迪亚想起自己开了卧房门通风，因为这房里病人的气味几乎令人难以忍受。曾经日耳曼部落的女首领去摸怀里的小刀，她想念长矛和狼头锤的手感，但是她只有小刀。那个人的脸转过来一瞬，她知道他听到她了，但是他没有动。睡前留的油灯还燃着，他们对视了一眼，梅洛迪亚握在小刀上的手指松快了，她能辨认出一种气质，在这个帝国都城里的一个异乡人，和她一样。她看到他转过头去继续看着床上躺着的人，脸色悲哀，他爱着一个马提亚家的人，和她一样。她又想起独裁官和大祭司之间的抵啎，但或许此刻她的两个爱人正在宫中一同过夜。
“啊，我一直怀疑她有一个某人。”梅洛迪亚说，“是您。”她放松下来说话就带一点日耳曼口音，比罗马人更硬的咬字。
他没有回答，只盯着床上的拉维尼奥，伊颧骨突出，发黄的面皮崩得紧紧的，只有得罗马热病的人才有这么黄的面色。那对脸颊塌了下去，但烧得通红，额头上盖着冷毛巾——好像那有什么用一样。他伸手去摸下颌，好像很惊异那是光溜的。
“我想您知道这一切。我们尽力照顾她。”梅洛迪亚说，“她哥哥每天早上来给她刮脸。”她用布料沾水蘸到拉维尼奥焦枯的嘴唇上，依然感到陌生。在森林里当部落首领时，她从不用亲自做这样的事。但马提乌斯请求她时说她是他最信任的人，她必须独力照顾拉维尼奥，不让其他人近伊的身。
“她会好吗？”他压抑着绝望说，“我不明白，我从北方来，她明明是罗马人……”
“他们比您想的脆弱。”她说，没有解释这是指罗马城里出生的人还是马提亚[^3]家的人。
“我能做什么？”
“您不能。”梅洛迪亚说，“您想的话，像罗马人一样去神庙里发愿祈祷吧。”
“她醒来过吗？”
“也许明天下午她会醒来一会，直到下一次发烧。她不会愿意被您看到这副样子的，别再来了。”
“她不会愿意？”
梅洛迪亚叹了口气：“我只能说如果是我的话，我不愿意这副样子让情人看到。您走吧，走吧，记得她比现在好的时候……”她想起拉维尼亚讲的故事，二十岁时伊如何推着穿女装的马提乌斯和德鲁苏斯翻院墙离开好女神节聚会。
他垂下头来：“我对她没有一点用处，是吗？”
她想，马提乌斯翻遍了能找到的医书，可惜世界上没有一种仙草或符咒，只是在遥远天边的高山上等这样一个男子跋涉攀登后取来治好拉维尼亚的病，她知道他有这个决心，但是世界上没有这样的良药。她在心里苦笑一下：她又知道这个人什么？或许她只是把自己对爱人们的决心想象成这个人也有的。她打开门：“爱情什么时候跟用处相干了呢？”
“如果她醒来，告诉她我来过？”他知道她在下逐客令了。
“如果她醒来。”梅洛迪亚说。
几天后埃涅阿斯还在想她最后这句话。他放工后去城里越来越热闹的那些热病女神[^4]神庙转了一圈，那里多的是自称大夫或巫师的可疑角色兜售着“一条鱼最大的牙齿”或“马蹄内层皮”之类的偏方，以及各种各样号称能预防热病的咒语[^5]。他回到军营，还在想拉维尼奥是否用得上一颗他买的鱼牙齿。两个禁卫军的卫兵在营房门口拦住了他：“你就是弓箭手埃涅阿斯？”
“是的。”他下意识应道。
“伸出手来！”他们粗暴地反剪他的手。埃涅阿斯刚从城里回来，身上没有武器，他试着用胳膊肘击出去，往后踢腿，没穿盔甲的肚子上挨了一拳，痛得他往下缩。麻绳一圈圈捆住他的上身，“跟我们走一趟！”
营地里的人们渐渐聚集起来，交头接耳着他究竟犯了什么事要劳动禁卫军来抓他而不能在军事法庭[^6]解决。“你们要带他去哪？”十六岁的马克西姆跑过来抽出他的短剑，阿勒斯按住他的手，小声说：“别把事情弄得更糟，小子。”
“我们有大祭司阁下的命令！”他们推着他走出军营，其中一个卫兵把胳膊搭在埃涅阿斯肩上，好像他们是最好的哥们一样，他低声说：“小子，操维斯塔贞女爽吧，现在算账的时候来了。”
“我不懂你在说什么。”埃涅阿斯说，然后他的腿肚子上挨了一脚。
拉维尼奥终于退烧醒来时，已经是九月一号了，伊茫然地睁着眼睛，辨认了一会室内陈设，然后看到了梅洛迪亚的一头金色卷发。
“梅、梅洛迪亚夫人！”伊艰难地发音，嗓子嘶哑。
“你醒得及时，没时间解释了。”日耳曼女人干脆地说，“有一个叫埃涅阿斯的辅助兵团弓箭手被控与维斯塔贞女犯下乱伦之罪，这对你有意义吗？”
拉维尼奥从嗓子深处发出一声哀叫，感到自己实在没力气伪装：“行刑是什么时候？”
“今天。”日耳曼女人看伊的脸色，又打开门看了看花园里的日晷，“还有一两个小时吧。”
“叫人备车！”拉维尼奥挣扎着想坐起来，感觉全身每一块骨头都不属于自己，“请你帮我、帮我起来穿戴，梅洛迪亚。”伊小声请求道，现在顾不得体面了。如果梅洛迪亚是哥哥指派来照顾伊病中的贵妇，现在顾及体面已经是太迟了。
“那么他就是那个某人。”梅洛迪亚出去吩咐了什么人，回来关上门，从衣箱里拿出干净衣服和镶红边的头巾，“我见过他。”
“你一定是在凯旋宴会上见过他了。”缇利亚闭上眼睛，颤抖着脱掉汗湿的罩衫。
“不，他来过这里。我想是同一个人。”梅洛迪亚用新浸的毛巾给伊擦背，拉维尼奥不得不想起另一个人曾经在这房子里，用湿布给伊清理背上的烧伤。毛巾抹过伊的胸前，梅洛迪亚像是为了防止伊抗议而继续说下去：“官方的说法是他去年在凯旋宴会上被喝醉的独裁官赏赐了一名维斯塔贞女，作为神罚的一部分，失贞的贞女去年就死在火灾里了。现在把他结了，这些暴风雨和瘟疫就会彻底结束了。”
“我哥哥真的信这个？”
毛巾移动到拉维尼奥下半身，伊把手放在毛巾上，对梅洛迪亚摇摇头。
“我觉得他想要相信。”独裁官夫人松开手，看着拉维尼奥在毯子遮掩下擦拭自己。她想起马提乌斯每天早晨来探病，见拉维尼奥没有起色，脸色一日沉过一日。有天他突然说起元老院如何有人拿赏赐维斯塔贞女的事做文章，这事无论如何得了结以免危害大业，他这样与她长篇大论说了一通，或许是说给不省人事的拉维尼奥听的。她听了只觉得他可怜，元老院如何只是借口，他一定是暗地里信了只要法办那个小小弓箭手乱伦之罪，给诸神表示表示，拉维尼奥就能醒过来了。独裁官夫人顿了顿：“你哥哥用尽方法想让你置身事外，我只是想确定这个人是不是对你很重要，拉维尼亚。如果他强迫了你，那就让行刑发生吧，这事会……”
“他没有！”拉维尼奥哽咽着回答。是你的丈夫强迫我的，伊在心里说。但伊不想指责梅洛迪亚，只是抓起放在一边的干净罩衫套上，翻身下床。双腿无力得像是最蓬松的羊毛团做成的，伊扶住梳妆台才堪堪没有跌倒，“都是我……”
梅洛迪亚给伊披上外袍系上腰带，按着伊的肩膀在梳妆台前坐下：“我不认为你强迫了他，拉维尼亚。”
拉维尼亚往脸上拍了水，借着油灯对铜镜检查下颌，现在追究谁给伊刮过脸是浪费时间。伊就这样对着镜子看梅洛迪亚给伊梳理头发，突然说：“为什么帮我？”
“像我说过的那样，”梅洛迪亚没有问伊意见给伊挽上最简单的发髻——日耳曼女人自己或许只会梳这一种罗马发式。她突然又用起她那种过分夸张热情的语气：“亲爱的，我们女人得互相帮助。”她给伊戴上红色绳冠披上头巾，对镜子露出一抹自嘲的笑容：“或者，我觉得他是我的同类。”
梅洛迪亚搀扶着拉维尼奥坐上马车。首席贞女看谁都嫌动作太慢，包括马车夫和拿束棒的仪仗们，要不是梅洛迪亚拦着，伊差点要自己赶马。维斯塔贞女的马车一向有特许能进罗马城，“首席贞女大人要去哪里？”穿过城门那一刻，车夫问。
拉维尼奥正要发作，梅洛迪亚按住伊的手：“只管一直在主路上兜风，直到我们叫你停下。”拉维尼奥搜寻着窗外的街景，尽力不去想象孪生哥哥就在牲畜市场等着，与伊十分相似的手上拿着鞭子，准备将埃涅阿斯鞭挞至死。[^7]
这不是埃涅阿斯第一次双手被反绑着游街，但扔向他的烂果子、臭鸡蛋和萝卜皮绝对比十岁时的那次凯旋游行多，那次他是一个战利品，现在他是一个违背神意带来一连串灾祸的罪犯。他低着头走着，不理会市民的谩骂，尽量不去想他身上到处都痛，还有点冷。这和带伤行军没什么两样，他对自己重复，想要信以为真。他要一个名头，在牲畜市场被鞭刑处死“还算有个名头吧”，四个多月前他在朱庇特神庙的台阶上对拉维尼奥说过，现在他能如愿了。他们或许要鞭打一百下，两百下，三百下他才会死去，但无论如何，这一切很快就会结束——马蹄声和滚滚的车轮声越来越近，埃涅阿斯惊奇地抬起头，面对着去刑场的游街示众队伍的是拿束棒的仪仗，后面是一辆马车，白日能在罗马城中乘马车的人是……拉维尼奥穿戴着全副行头，扶着车门走出来，痩削憔悴，看起来几乎要被绳冠和头巾的重量压垮。人群似乎意识到将要发生什么：“这混蛋要被维斯塔贞女偶遇赦免了！”[^8]
“这不能算！谁知道他们是不是一伙的！”
“以贞女大人这副尊容，我看他们之间肯定清清白白，嘿？”
拉维尼奥好像没有听他们在说什么，有人扔了一块污泥到伊身上，棕色的泥浆顺着白色长袍流下来，伊似乎也没有感觉。仪仗们对人群挥舞束棒，看守囚犯的卫兵们开始拔出剑来，而拉维尼奥只是向埃涅阿斯走来。
“罪人，见到首席贞女大人还不下跪！”依然忠于大祭司的卫兵把他往下按，埃涅阿斯跪下去，按在他脖子上的那只手像铁一样。拉维尼奥伸出一只手指点在他额头上，那指头冷得像冰一样，伊说话的语气也像冰一样：“我赦免你。”但说完这句话以后伊并没有再动，他们就维持这个姿势停留在路上，拉维尼奥的手指顶在他额头上，好像伊就靠这根指头撑着站下去，埃涅阿斯继续跪着，抬眼去看拉维尼奥的眼睛。他知道自己好些天没有刮过胡子，脸上脏兮兮的混着血和垃圾，他本来已经准备好迎接一个有名头的结束，用一个隆重的姿态证明他的心，现在首席贞女大人连这个机会也夺走了，看着那双眼睛，他又想要比一根指头更多的东西。
但拉维尼奥不会给出更多。金发女人这时下了马车，提着一条毛皮斗篷把拉维尼奥紧紧裹住，她强调了伊的位阶：“首席贞女大人，我们走吧，走吧……”
于是埃涅阿斯连那个冰冷的指头和那双眼睛都失去了。人群的喧哗重新回到他的耳朵里，宣布大祭司听到报信赶来了。
[^1] 头疼、恶心、恍惚、忽冷忽热出汗都是感染疟疾（罗马人称热病或罗马热病）的症状。疟疾由蚊子叮咬传播，感染后有7—30天的潜伏期。罗马城因沼泽众多易生蚊虫而容易疟疾流行。
[^2] 丰收女神祭祀（Opiconsivia）在每年八月二十五日，她的神龛在祭司府中，只有维斯塔贞女和某位男性公共祭司才能接触，Varro 记载这名男性祭司去拜祭丰收女神的神龛时，需披上维斯塔贞女的头巾（suffibulum）。后世历史学家推测这名男性祭司指的是大祭司，祭司府也应是他平时的居所。
[^3] 拉维尼奥和马提乌斯的父系家族姓氏是 Matia （阴性）或 Matius （阳性），在用来指代一个家族时常用的是阴性形式 Matia （马提亚）或复数形式 Matii.
[^4] 罗马人会崇拜热病女神以期不被感染或被治愈，据记载罗马城内有三处她的神庙。这一实践因为崇拜邪祟为精英作者们所批判。
[^5] 据 Liber Medicinalis, Quintus Serenus Sammonicus（死于公元 212 年），都是罗马人治疗或预防热病的偏方。
[^6] 相比一般民众犯罪上的普通法庭，罗马士兵如犯寻常罪行，会在军事法庭判决并得到宽待。
[^7] 被判与维斯塔贞女犯下乱伦罪的犯人会在牲畜市场被大祭司公开鞭打至死。
[^8] 一般的犯人在去刑场的路上偶遇维斯塔贞女出行可被赦免。当然，历史上并没有与维斯塔贞女偷情的犯人被维斯塔贞女赦免的先例。
Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code.www.phoronix.com
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Unfortunately, one of the things that Debian is, is almost unable to manage packaging modern dependency trees. While more recent distributions like Guix can recursively import dependencies from a dozen programming languages' package repositories, with a result that is generally acceptable to add to the distribution, Debian's policies don't make that very possible for a progam to accomplish. Perhaps some will use LLMs to do that. If they succeeed, Debian will become dependent on proprietary software for development, while still needing people in the loop, doing even less appealing scut-work.
See also his blog entry on concrete disadvantages of contributions of LLM-generated code, in this case in git-annex.
It is very interesting what Guix achieves.
I run Debian on all my home systems, increasingly with some Guix on top.
Yesterday, I was setting up an old X220 Thinkpad with Debian stable for a purpose of quick data entry in my living room. (My work Thinkpad can't do that because due to some hardware problem, it crashes when one tries to suspend it and closes the lid). I wanted to have Taskwarrior on it, which I want to sync with the Taskwarrior instance on my Gemini PDA, for things like shopping lists. The PDA runs Sailfish OS, which contains Taskwarrior.Turns out it is Taskwarrior 3, which has a new sync protocol. Debian Trixie still has Taskwarrior 2 which is not compatible.
The easiest solution? Installing Guix as package manager and "guix install taskwarrior".
And Guix also has a current Rust compiler and cargo build tool, which is nice for building and running personal tools,and things like jujutsu.
Still, Debian is the base, and the contributions of Joey Hess and the other maintainers are invaluable.
A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jjGitHub
Debian is unable to manage modern dependency trees because they chose not to. It is fucking embrarassing what happens with any "normal and modern" thing in cargo, npm or other cursed repository pulling in 2000 dependencies you have absolutely no hope in being able to vet for malware or stupid bugs. This comes on top of a culture of API instability between one minor version and another.
Debian has their packages and those are tested and inspected in depth, regressions are tested. There are people running debian for a job and we don't want that kind of nonsense.
Come with me, if you want to live
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And Arch. Arch itself and most derived distros like Endeavour don't use Omarchy; Omarchy uses Arch.
Is Void run by crypto libertarians? Is Alpine? openSUSE? LFS? Puppy? All of þese are independent and don't share a package manager and all reasonably popular. Heck, Gobo Linux is still around! Much less distros like Chimera and Dragora which might be less widely used but are still independent, maintained distributions.
Þere are a ton of distros not based on deb, rpm, or ... who is þe "crypto libertarian"? Omarchy?
Some talks just write themselves, @KernelRecipes is going to be fun this year! (not that it's not fun every year, but you get the idea...)social.kernel.org
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The second graph doesn’t really even tell the whole story either, because it’s just by release. You need to see how the number of bugs detected/fixed changes over time for each release.
Otherwise super-new releases get an unfair advantage just by virtue of not being exposed for as long. And super-old releases get an advantage too, by falling out of use at the same time more resources are allocated to detection.
Can a lemmy post be directly mastodon
Kind off no and yes. Server side there is no federation AFAIK, but some frontends/apps can show and post to both networks. Kbin and forks for example.
Every time when i poweron the pc, some proccess are started with the system. Some of them are Anydesk and SQL.
I had disable sql from start alongside the system with systemctl disable mysql, so i think that i need to do the same with anydesk.
But why these programs make this? Even if i dont start the app/program, they will be there, eating resources from the start... WHY THIS HAPPEN?!?!
Edit: Something i forgot to put: why they have root permissions? this happen no wonder the system i install these programms, they have the same behaviour
This is where the server/client concept comes from. Some server software runs in the background and wait for access from an external client software. Then it works on the server and produces and output for the client. This way the entire server does not need to start run and stop for every single request. I mean you don't start and close every time you click on a new link on the website, right? So your PC runs all the time. And that's similar to how MySQL operates. It starts a server in the background and then waits for any application to use it. So this is totally normal.
Now because lot of people don't want to start the server process "by hand", they put it in autostart, so it starts with your system. If you don't want it to autostart, maybe there is a way of configuring it so you have to start it manually each time you want to use it. But I cannot assist with that help, just wanted to explain why that is on a high level.
Whether a system(d) service is activated by default after you install a package is a distro-specific choice. I know Debian and derivatives do, so it will be started at the next reboot; while Arch and derivatives don't, requiring an explicit systemctl enable [--now] something.service to run it. The devs of the distro try to pick what they think their userbase wants and after the initial decision is taken it's not a behaviour that can be changed lightly.
Regarding running as root, sometimes it's just the default configuration that can be changed to a dedicated user, other times it's required by the privileges they use (e.g. if they need to open a port below 1024)
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The untold story of Nazi sympathizers on American soil.
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the “Jewish controlled media” and called for a return to a racially “pure” America. The keynote speaker was Fritz Kuhn, head of the German American Bund. Nazi Town, USA tells the largely unknown story of the Bund, which had scores of chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country and represented what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. The Bund held joint rallies with the Ku Klux Klan and ran dozens of summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery. Its melding of patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism raised thorny issues that we continue to wrestle with today.
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@Revan_9766 The initial devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027. The initial devices will be flagships so they'll be higher end hardware than Pixels at a higher price. Lower end devices will take more time to meet our requirements since the updates and security features aren't as good. It's mostly due to how Qualcomm handles it. The latest Snapdragon flagships have the best security features. We'll also need Motorola to start paying them for longer updates below flagships.
I have now been using Linux for 15 years.
I started using it just a few months before Ubuntu 11.04 was released. And so my very first distro was Ubuntu 10.10.
Nice video!
#GrapheneOS also recently announced that it looks like #Motorola just surpassed #Google as the latter just removed #ArmMTE support from the #Pixel11! Which is a very nice security mechanism protecting against vulnerabilities from memory errors.
discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564
Also note that #Eden (eden-emu.dev) is the continuation of #Yuzu and #Suyu with a few important bugfixes.
A crucial benefit of #BTRFS is transparent compression with #LZO or #zstandard! Meaning that contents on the filesystem are compressed and uncompressed when you access them, so you can store more data on your disk! I wonder what the benchmarks would be if that compression was turned off, that might be a significant reason 🤔
How to get windows to not do disk checking or ruin my bootloader when i add a linux partition on the same drive. I don't like the windows panicking when there is a linux partition on it and doing a variety of things, even if its not on the same ssd it STILL does disk checking but I have not seen anything worse than that on the same partition, but I need the space.
Dunno if this belongs in the linux subreddit but I mean if there is any way i can hide linux that could also work.
set up a second efi boot partition
This may or may not work. Recognizing a second ESP on the same disk is not required in the EFI standard. So it's down to your board's implementation if it works or just stops the moment it find the first one.
set up a second efi boot partition.
I have had a bad history with this. The windows partion constantly (noticed the competition and) overwrote the bootloader when it updated. With separate drives for both OS I no longer have this problem.
I've done it with over a dozen computers by different manufacturers: primarily laptops: Lenovo, HP, toshiba, and I have yet to run into any issue.
Windows assumes there is only ever going to be one efi, so it totally ignores the second partition. Linux has you mount the efi partition so you can choose it over the windows one.
What problems have you had with it? There is lots of advice out there on the Internet saying this is the best setup, not just me.
You'd be saving yourself a headache if you use separate physical drives. I was able to get a dual boot to work on one drive temporarily, but it broke every time Windows updated.
In the age of Bitlocker and UEFI windows recognizes potential drive contamination at a very early point in the boot process. So it will look like it's working fine at the start, but once you boot into the linux partition, Windows is going to request disk checking at next boot and potentially write over things.
You can't.
Windows will rewrite your boot partition, when it feels like it.
It can be commanded to do this remotely, also. Its called a Windows Update. And Windows buries itself below Ring 0 via Pluton/TPMv2.
It does this because the NSA likes being able to keep tabs on everyone.
The precise/exact way this works is hardware/setup dependant, and changes every 6 months or so, ish, but yeah this bootloader fuckery nonsense has been going on for years now, in dual boot setups, and there really is not a plausible explanation for this continuing as a persistent 'problem', other than Windows makes NSA backdoors into your entire system, or breaks shit while trying to.
Dual booting is dumb if you value system security and stability.
If there's a way under Gaia's green earth to put it on a separate drive, do that. Stick windows on an external NVMe on a fast USB / Thunderbolt, or many laptops have a WLAN port you can shove a NVMe into (often faster than SATA, has a PCIe lane, so give it to linux). Then use BIOS (F12 or whatever) to swap between them, or boot to linux first and let GRUB start windows. Back when, I used REFind on macbooks, if I recall it gets in there earlier but winblows is likely onto it by now.
This problem has been so persistent that it indicates malice aforethought from M$, so if possible give it it's own lesser device until you can find an alternative to that holdout software (sympathies if it's Photoshop or AutoCAD). Perhaps there's a way to run it on Wine / Proton.
**NOTE: i have only used linux for about a year or so and im not a power user, im basically a tired windows user but i know more stuff than most beginners i feel like? like not a lot more but a little bit
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so when i don't have anything open my memory usage is like 4-5GB out of 16, which makes it pretty bad when i want to play games (even minecraft can make it so my pc use 99% memory so i have to hard reset, although i might have fixed that) and/or when i want some demanding theming things (like a live wallpaper). "Background services" is using like 4GB and "baloo_file_extractor" is using like 1GB out of the 4. I have done a tiny tiny bit of research and ive found out that baloo is a file indexing thingo, but idrk what file indexing is used for so i don't know if i should disable it
distro: endeavourOS
de: kde plasma wayland
ram: 16gb of something (i have a prebuilt so idk what ddr it is or whatever)
if you need more info then please say so (i can't show images for some reason)
baloo_file_extractor
Yeah that shit ain't worth it. It's part of KDE and I think you can disable it in the desktop settings.
It's for the KDE file search
That is correct, the setting van be found at:
System Settings -> Search -> File Search -> Disable
After that you could alsof disable the service.
File indexing allows (faster) searching of files and sometimes even allows finding files by their content not only the file name.
That said those indexers (I'm not using KDE so not sure about details of your specific case) can use an big amount of RAM especially if there are new files to index. As far as I unterstand they should pause if the RAM is needed otherwise but might depend on the implementation.
File indexing allows (faster) searching of files and sometimes even allows finding files by their content not only the file name.
At least for text files, grep can do that too. Off course it is not as fast as indexed files, but how often do you need that? There is ripgrep, a faster alternative. I personally don't miss indexed files as I thought I would. With fast drives and CPU and the knowledge how to do a proper search does most of the stuff I need. Just my opinion. The price for an indexer is too high to me (and besides they were responsible for the death of my SSD... I believe).
I'm on EndeavourOS, too. I don't see anything near that kind of memory drain, but I've been using window managers instead of desktop environments for a long time.
For ages I had old, poorly specced laptops, and the big DEs like KDE would quickly cap what memory I had for actual software. And I'm not even a gamer, this would be GIMP or a plain browser that would crash because of too little RAM.
Even now, with more memory and better CPU, I stuck to the habit of using a WM instead, and everything really just runs better. You do sacrifice some eye candy and built-in functions, but IMHO it's worth the tradeoff.
You should read into zram,
It's a very fast compressing method that will help you leverage some ram space.
With your 16gb ram you could compress 8gb with a normal 2x compression rate. That would "net" you around 20gb usable ram space. With basically non existing performance penalties.
You can also opt to compress all of your 16gb.
In layman's terms it's like downloading more ram. But it won't help you get rid of your source problem.
Baloo is indexing your file system, you can disable it, but its memory usage should drop once it is done. How long it will take to finish depends on how many files you have.
If memory usage is a concern you can always try a lightweight desktop environment but with 16GB you are just fine staying on KDE Plasma.
KDE provides a very large set of services. This makes it something of an elephant in the world of Linux desktop environments. Lighter DEs should fit in less than 1GB (that's anything other than KDE and Gnome). I think the last time I checked my system with just the DE up and nothing open, it was using on the order of 200-300MB. However, the lighter DEs will also do less by default.
It should be safe to kill baloo, but as others have already said, you will see some tradeoffs in how file searching works if you stick with KDE. If I'm not mistaken, it may restart periodically to index new files unless you go to some effort to exorcise it.
Baloo (which is KDE's file indexer, which is meant to speed up file searches) was borked earlier this year, and I don't know if it has been fixed yet, but seemingly it'd keep doing symlink loops which of course isn't useful. This is likely to happen when you have any wine-prefix installed so even just Steam installed will do this.
::: spoiler The fix on my computer was simply turning it off for all of my /home/$USER folder by adding the location in System Settings - Workspace - Search - File Search - Stop indexing a folder.
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If you're on an nVME SSD, and if you rarely do file searches anyway, I don't see any problems doing this.
As for RAM, definitely check out Zram. It works by compressing unused parts of memory back into RAM. Here's what 8 GB Zram looks like on my PC right now:
> zramctl
NAME ALGORITHM DISKSIZE DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 zstd 8G 573,5M 138,6M 154,4M [SWAP]It's very easy to set up, take a look here.
::: spoiler My config for reference, which ships by default with Nobara.
─────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: /usr/lib/systemd/zram-generator.conf
─────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ # This config file enables a /dev/zram0 device with the default settings:
2 │ # — size — same as available RAM or 8GB, whichever is less
3 │ # — compression — most likely lzo-rle
4 │ #
5 │ # To disable, uninstall zram-generator-defaults or create empty
6 │ # /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf file.
7 │ [zram0]
8 │ zram-size = min(ram, 8192)
─────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────Regarding stuff like which algorithm to use etc. the Arch wiki article on zram has some good info.
Systemd unit generator for zram devices. Contribute to systemd/zram-generator development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Summary of my reply: Baloo (and mlocate) were stuck on filenames with unusual characters in filenam, which probably caused the death of my system SSD.
Baloo is known to be borked from time to time, in the many years I used it before. I stopped using Baloo for a different reason. Baloo and the more general mlocate file indexer destroyed my previous system SSD. After replacing the drive, (without knowing what the issue was) I was careful and watched write and reads of the drive. And then I found the issue, Baloo (and later mlocate) did massive Gigabytes of writes and reads in short amount of seconds for long period. After examination I found out baloo (and later mlocate the same) were stuck on specific files. Those filenames had unusual characters, that normally would only be seen in binary file formats.
I don't know if we can blame the indexers for this, but as far as I know those are the only applications with the issue. I'm not entirely sure if RetroArch can play those games (these are Rom files for old systems), but at least its file handling worked fine.
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"nothing open" - does þat also include Firefox?
IME modern KDE idle consumes a lot of memory, and every file indexing tool for boþ Gnome and KDE have always been hogs. You used to be able to turn it off.
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Every once in a while I think I'll drop my mix of all those GTK/Gnome-based apps plus some Qt apps, and switch to a full KDE desktop. More coherent. Uniform look etc.
I just tried Q4OS yesterday but it runs under Xorg. Isn't wayland the default for KDE these days? Which distro should I live-check?
Another thing, I noticed that something called ksyslogger iirc consistently eats CPU. A daemon that keeps up with everything that's happening. Is it possible to disable this without breaking KDE, or otherwise make it as lightweight as, say, a simple Openbox desktop?
Using Falkon under a Plasma desktop was a great experience though.
BTW, does KDE have a good equivalent for all the usually important apps, e.g. a full-fledged mail client?
Which distro should I live-check?
Fedora KDE, CachyOS, Debian. One of those, depending on your needs.
You can rice KDE Plasma easily. Check why ksyslogger uses so many resources, it's not normal. You can get a full Plasma desktop with under 400MB of RAM usage and under 0.5% CPU.
I use Thunderbird as mail client, as Kmail doesn't really cut it for me.
under 0.5% CPU
Surely this depends on the CPU?
On a Thinkpad T430s with a Intel Core i5-3320M, i.e. 2 cores with 2 threads each at 3.3GHz max., ksyslogger ran at 3-5% CPU. This was in a live environment which I shut down after tweaking it for about 30mins, so IDK, maybe it would've settled down evtl.?
Thanks, I guess it was ksysguard what I saw eating CPU in Q4OS.
I tried CachyOS Plasma live yesterday, it ran so much lighter! Idling at ~1%, that's basically the same as my current (fully riced) Openbox system.
However, the live system is very barebones.
I researched CachyOS and I approve so far. Even the ArchLinux community doesn't seem to hate on it.
Have to boot it up again and sniff around under the hood.
This might just be my stepping stone back to a fully fledged DE.
The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution.www.phoronix.com
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Contributors are expected to understand, review, test, and, where appropriate, modify AI-assisted output before incorporating it into Debian. Blindly accepting or uploading AI-generated material without appropriate human review is inconsistent with Debian's established development practices. We [encourage] our contributors to disclose whether a contribution was made with AI [assistance], but do not require them to do so.
When people do code review off a pull request and sees it’s slop, it will go back to the developer to fix it. I guess if a person submit too much slop, they will get banned or something similar.
However, I don’t know the Debian process to have new code submitted, but would guess that it have to be more than one person to go from code to build a package.
from my POV Debian has fallen already.
I hope either Alpine does not commit the same mistake or Chimera becomes a major distro.
If this AI distro crap keeps going, I'm going back to using my Android (Pixel 10a and GrapheneOS) phone for everything. Not the best option but better than using a vibe-coded distro.
All I need is a monitor and wall mount for the monitor. Connect a hub and charger (phone does pass-through charging), a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Some workflow will have to change, Cryptpad instead of LibreOffice for example.
If you think Gemini isn’t deep in android development now, you’re mistaken.
Maybe you’re ok if you stay on 13 or maybe 14.
Graphene isn’t using Gemini, nor including the Gemini app in user space.
But they’re still ingesting AOSP from Google’s source drops and Google is 100% using Gemini to make that.
Same as Debian is going to allow devs to use LLMs to develop for Debian.
Here I was waiting for linux to be truly viable on mobile, because android is... android, and now linux is... linux
At least I have a pencil I can probably trust
"Responsible use of AI"? Is that a joke? There is no such a thing as responsible use of AI. Responsible people would refuse to use AI.
But anyway, Linux is already AI. Sticking to any one of those BSDs is the only way out.
Linux reshared this.
I did this too years ago, with varying levels of success.
Now I just buy Linux laptops instead - dell at work, Tuxedo computers for personal use. Less worry about supported hardware that way too.
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Among the IPs included are The Elder Scrolls, World of Warcraft, and another shot for Halo.OpenCritic
You gotta hand it to MicroSoft, they really know how to drive IP'sstraight into the ground.
It is actually impressive.
Years ago they bought Iron Galaxy, the studio behind the beloved Killer Instinct reboot. They also bought smash.gg, the site where most fighting game tournaments are hosted. At the time I was sure this was a sign. PS4 was the console for fighting games and M$ were trying to position the Xbox as the fighting game console. We were going to get a new Killer Instinct (or new IP), smash.gg would have it's terrible UI improved and probably some Xbox integration. It would get an app too.
Several years later, none of that happened. They renamed smash.gg to start.gg and you can login with your M$ account. That's all that's changed. It's amazing how they squandered such an opportunity.
Когда приходит время прощаться с любимым питомцем, важно, чтобы этот процесс был максимально гуманным и спокойным — и для животного, и для семьи.
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In the other corner, Proposal B seems to lay out something similar to how AI-generated code is handled on the Linux kernel. The proposal allows AI-generated code only if the submitter takes full accountability for it, ensures it's free of copyright issues, and declares any LLM usage.
Assuming full technical responsibility would probably make most AI-generated code pointless, as the whole point of using AI this way is that generating code saves work. Which is not any more the case if the result is really fully reviewed.
This is different from using AI for vulnerability scanning (as it is practised in the Linux kernel).
The other thing is there is no way one can declare AI generated code safely free of copyright isses. You'd need to prove that the result code was not contained in the training data - which is not possible.
Disagree on your first point. AI will generate code that is mostly correct, the human time cost of (properly) reviewig this code and correcting it is generally less than also writing it. People that do more serious work than vibe-coding oneshot skateboard simulators in html do actually get noticeable productivity boosts even when every generated line of code is reviewed by multiple people.
That is why the kernel allows it, because they mostly care that a human is around that will take responsability for it, that the patches are of the same quality than always and that everything is manageable by humans. This is in contrast to the techbro github repo with commits that span 20 files and 2k edits where there is no hope in hell to understand what is going on.
AI will generate code that is mostly correct, the human time cost of (properly) reviewig this code and correcting it is generally less than also writing it.
I do not see it play out like this in practice, for example at my workplace. The work of debugging, reviewing, verification, and maintenance is simply offloaded to other people. Which, as a result, have more work, not less.
The Promise: "You'll have to work less!"
The Reality: You have to work more, for a literal machine.
It is a very well known truism that it is harder to debug code than it is to write it. This is, in my experience, doubly true of the convoluted code generated by current frontier LLMs.
Allowing LLM coding at our org basically stole most of this year's progress from us as every PR made this way still has yet to be merged because the code quality just never reaches anywhere near our minimum requirement.
We are investigating ways to improve this (a style guide for agents etc) but the best step we've taken so far is just to ask people to stop using it and see what happens. (Code quality jumped up and PRs started getting merged, though the LLM ones are still languishing and probably will need rewriting from scratch before we can merge them)
That doesn't change the fact that it's harder to properly review code than to write code, especially when that code is ten times longer than it needs to be, makes no sensible decisions about how to separate concerns, and might, if you're lucky, pay lip service to naming things well.
I don't necessarily think this will always be the case with generated code, but I expect we'll need a proper breakthrough in the technology before it can write good code (it needs a number of things: actual world models, the ability to go back and edit its output when it realises a mistake -- which is crucially different from saying a new thing that contradicts the mistake -- and continual learning, to name the three that spring to mind).
Even if it started writing perfect code, I'd be dubious of signing your org's ability to write code away to a service that you don't own and has a notable history of intellectual property infringement and an insane disregard for both the law and morality. At the very least we should all be using open weights models.
Assuming full technical responsibility would probably make most AI-generated code pointless, as the whole point of using AI this way is that generating code saves work. Which is not any more the case if the result is really fully reviewed.
When you submit code that you write you take responsibility for it, irregardless of the tools you use. AI generated code should not be different in this aspect.
You can use AI to generate code but you should review it anyway, at least at the basic level to make sure that it does not contain obvious bugs and do what it is supposed to do.
The other thing is there is no way one can declare AI generated code safely free of copyright isses. You’d need to prove that the result code was not contained in the training data - which is not possible.
Which itself should make people to avoid to use AI generated code for anything else than playing around.
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the distro is a misnomer
Ubuntu is an ancient african word, meaning "I can't configure Debian"
- urbandictionary.com/define.php…
Also, my favorite:
Manjaro is an ancient African word, meaning "I can't install Arch Linux"
- urbandictionary.com/define.php…
Manjaro: Manjaro is an ancient African word, meaning "I can't install Arch Linux"Urban Dictionary
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The 'old' article seems to have deliberately missed a lot, and the headline is perhaps misleading?
It is perhaps likely that debian expanded on A vs B since the article was written
I was unable to find anything more recent than what has already been posted on lemmy, based around the vote linked below, that contains a lot of long-winded potential outcomes, mainly of which seem deliberately verbose?
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Debian will decide to allow ai code.
E: as it turns out, Debian has decided to allow ai code. I’d like to dedicate this comment and this edit to my haters.
The bigger question is that if Debian and Ubuntu have conflicting policies, what does that mean for upstreaming changes from Ubuntu to Debian?
It would eventually result in Ubuntu drifting even farther from ~~God~~ Debian.
Also, downstream distributions from Ubuntu might themselves choose a conflicting policy with similar problems.
Debian voted to not ban AI. Proposal E won:
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Major UAE construction activities frequently take place in developed areas where land is already occupied by buildings, roads, parking facilities, utilities, and other infrastructure. A construction site may therefore have a substantial concrete requirement but very little room for supporting equipment. A conventional stationary batching plant typically requires dedicated areas for aggregate storage, cement systems, batching equipment, internal traffic, and maintenance access. On a constrained site, allocating this amount of space can interfere with cranes, excavators, material storage, worker access, and other essential activities. A compact concrete batching plant approaches the problem differently. Its reduced footprint allows concrete production to occupy a smaller portion of the site while preserving more space for the primary construction workflow.
A crowded construction site can quickly become inefficient if equipment and material flows overlap. Concrete trucks, aggregate loaders, construction vehicles, and workers may all compete for limited access routes. Compact batching equipment can help simplify this arrangement by reducing the physical area dedicated to concrete production.
A smaller installation can create a more orderly material flow. This matters in urban UAE projects where site access may already be affected by surrounding roads and traffic restrictions. The objective is not merely to fit a plant into a small space. It is to preserve enough circulation area for the rest of the construction operation.
Many construction projects in the UAE are completed in phases. Concrete demand may be intense during one stage and considerably lower during another. A large permanent batching facility can become disproportionate when production requirements change throughout the project lifecycle. A compact batching plant offers a more flexible production model. Contractors can select a configuration that corresponds more closely to actual demand and available space. For temporary construction facilities, infrastructure works, building projects, and developments with restricted access, this flexibility can simplify both installation and subsequent relocation.
Some compact batching plants are designed for easier transportation and relocation. This characteristic is particularly useful when the active construction area changes. Rather than maintaining concrete production at one fixed point throughout the project, contractors can potentially reposition mobile equipment closer to the next work phase.
Producing concrete closer to the point of placement can reduce unnecessary movement across a crowded site. Shorter internal transport routes can simplify traffic management and reduce conflicts between concrete delivery vehicles and other construction equipment. For a space-restricted project, this can be just as important as the plant's nominal production capacity.
The term "compact" should not be confused with low-performance equipment. A properly selected plant can provide sufficient output for many small- and medium-scale construction applications while occupying less space than a large conventional installation. The correct capacity depends on concrete demand, pouring frequency, project duration, and the required production rhythm. Contractors evaluating a batching plant UAE solution should therefore assess the complete operating environment rather than focusing solely on production figures.
Oversizing a batching plant can create unnecessary requirements for space, material storage, power, and site logistics. Undersizing it can lead to insufficient production and disrupt concrete placement. The ideal configuration should be based on expected hourly demand, peak pouring requirements, total project duration, and the consistency of concrete consumption. A project requiring moderate quantities of concrete at regular intervals may benefit more from a compact, well-matched plant than from a high-capacity installation designed for substantially larger projects.
Site preparation can become a significant consideration when available space is limited. Contractors should examine the plant's installation method, foundation requirements, aggregate storage arrangement, and accessibility for maintenance. Equipment that simplifies installation can reduce the amount of permanent site infrastructure required.
A compact plant should not be positioned so tightly that routine inspection and maintenance become difficult. Sufficient clearance must remain around critical components, conveyors, mixers, electrical systems, and material-loading areas. Space efficiency should improve the site layout, not create a maintenance bottleneck.
A concrete batching plant in UAE must operate reliably in a demanding construction environment. High temperatures, dust, continuous operation, and intensive project schedules can place considerable stress on equipment. Contractors should therefore consider component quality, maintenance requirements, spare-parts availability, technical support, and operator training alongside the initial equipment cost. Reliability becomes particularly important on space-restricted sites because equipment failure can obstruct an already congested work area and potentially affect several other construction activities.
The strongest argument for compact batching plants in the UAE is not simply that they occupy less ground. Their real value comes from how efficiently they fit into the broader construction system. On a restricted site, every square meter has a function. Space may be needed for cranes, reinforcement, formwork, aggregate storage, vehicle circulation, worker access, and safety zones. A compact concrete production system allows contractors to allocate more of that limited space to activities directly connected with project progress. For contractors searching for a concrete batching plant in UAE, the right solution should therefore be evaluated according to site geometry, concrete demand, mobility requirements, installation conditions, and long-term operational reliability. In the UAE's increasingly dense construction environment, mini batching plants provide a pragmatic answer to a deceptively difficult problem: how to produce enough concrete without allowing concrete production itself to consume the construction site. When equipment dimensions, production capacity, mobility, and logistics are considered as one integrated system, a compact plant can turn limited space from a constraint into a manageable engineering parameter.
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EDIT: Ended up going for Kubuntu anyway. Installed it with separate / and /home so in case they want to explore more there's the option.
I daily drove Linux for about 6 years and finally managed to convince some of my family members to try it!
However, I realized I don't have a lot of ideas about beginner distros. I have some requirements that led me to some decisions, but there doesn't seem to be a fit-all option:
- Minimal maintenance -> Debian-based (stable release)
- High compatibility -> Debian-based (.deb seems more convenient than say, AUR)
- Familiarity -> KDE Plasma (looks like Windows, very customizable)
It's for a Thinkpad X1. The main purpose is going to be academics.
All of that points to Kubuntu, but I worry about the Canonical Snap store stuff.
Everyone recommends Linux Mint for starters, but it doesn't come with a KDE Plasma flavour. I know I can install it myself, but the integration is gonna be bad and they're gonna bug me a lot.
I use Endeavour OS personally, so I'm somewhat familiar with Arch-based system. I guess .debs can be installed with debtap, but that feels like a whole another hacky solution. I have done university courses with my Endeavour OS laptop and I know quite a bit of software comes in .deb but not AUR.
What should I pick for them? And should I get more input from them? If so, what should I ask about?
Don't think too much about it. There's little reason not to try Kubuntu even with snaps. If it starts to bother you, backing up your files is simple then you can redeploy them on another distro. I've used Ubuntu for a couple years now with no issues other than some audio funkiness. But as I understand, that's just linux in general sometimes and I fixed it in like 20 minutes.
The sooner you stop being determined to get 100 concensus opinions from "experts" and instead just roll with what features suit you and form your own opinion, the happier you'll be. Snap has never once got in my way and the moment it does, I'll figure out a solution or jump ship if it's a big enough issue. The same way I did with Windows, Reddit, Twitter, toilets, disposable napkins, etc.
LFS + twm FTW.
You seem to have a good sense of what disros are out there. I think any beginner friendly distro with wherever user friendly DE it comes with will probably be fine.
I'd say maybe stick with a deb or rpm one which most are anyway, for the compatibility point you already made. If you/they need something that's otherwise not available in your distro's repos, there's probably already packages or third party repos available.
But the ask is a recommendation. I find myself generally recommending Fedora, despite not having used it myself for years. It's easy to install, you can choose your DE, it's stable, has a good release cadence, and is easy to upgrade and maintain.
Debian as a base, flatpaks/nix for anything new or shiny.
For the most part this confines anything that might break to your regular user account (so you're even less likely to break the system).
manjaro kde, it tells you when you need to update, and all you do is push a button. Most users should be able to get everything they need from official, or flatpak if need be. I don't use the AUR at all.
mint is such a weird common recommendation
debian is annoying for no good reason
ubuntu is for when you want linux to go down the windows path
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A first draft rarely tells the whole story. That initial mockup is just the beginning of a conversation — one that shapes everything about your online presence.
Think back to when you first partnered with a web design company. You shared your vision, discussed timelines, and outlined what success would look like. Now the ball is in your court, and the notes you provide will determine what happens next.
Too often, business owners send feedback that is either too vague to act on or too harsh to process constructively. Neither extreme helps. Learning to communicate well with your creative team is one of the highest-leverage skills you can develop.
To make this concrete, imagine you own a family bakery looking to launch an online ordering system. Your website designer has delivered the first version of your site, and you need to guide them toward the final product. Here are several principles to follow.
Colors and fonts are magnetic — they pull your attention the moment you open a design file. But leading with aesthetics skips the most important question: does this design actually help the business?
A talented website designer builds for function first. They want feedback that connects visual choices to measurable goals. In the bakery scenario, the central objective is clear: let customers browse the menu, customize an order, and check out without confusion.
If your homepage burys the online ordering button beneath a scrolling photo gallery, the design is not supporting that goal. Instead of saying "the gallery is too big," try something like: "The ordering button needs to be visible without scrolling. People come here to place orders, not admire photos."
This approach tells your designer what matters and why. It removes guesswork and anchors the conversation in real business priorities rather than personal reactions to a shade of frosting.
"Something feels off" is among the least helpful notes a creative professional can receive. Your design team needs specifics — details they can locate in the file and act on immediately.
Consider what outcome you are after. Describe it in ordinary language without jargon. Back at the bakery, let's say your menu page needs to highlight seasonal items that have a limited sales window. Instead of telling your team to "make the seasonal stuff more visible," try a different approach entirely.
Say, "We need a featured section at the top of the menu page for seasonal items. Right now, they disappear into the full list. Our best sellers — the pumpkin loaf in fall, the citrus tarts in summer — should stand out on their own with pricing and a one-click add-to-cart option."
When you spell out exactly what you need, the task becomes a checklist rather than an interpretation exercise. Your designer gets clear parameters: a dedicated section, visual prominence, and a specific user action to facilitate. That is a world apart from a vague complaint.
Feedback scattered across emails, texts, voice messages, and sticky notes creates chaos. Nobody can track it. Important points get buried. Versions conflict with each other.
A web design company operates most efficiently when they receive a single, well-organized document. Structure it by page or feature. Keep each entry focused and brief.
A simple spreadsheet works well here. Use columns for the page name, the specific concern, and what you want changed. An entry might read: Menu Page — Cupcake photos are dark and inconsistent — Replace with well-lit photos on a white background so the colors pop.
After any phone call or video meeting about the project, send a written summary of the decisions made and the tasks assigned. A short follow-up message prevents misunderstandings and ensures that nothing gets lost between conversations.
Every business owner has opinions about how things look. That is natural and even healthy — up to a point. The key is recognizing when a comment addresses a genuine usability problem versus a matter of individual taste.
If a checkout button blends into the surrounding background so closely that a user might miss it, that is a legitimate accessibility concern. Your website designer should address it without hesitation. But if you simply dislike the typeface chosen for your headings, that is a different category of issue.
You can still raise aesthetic concerns. Just frame them honestly. "The script font used for our headings is charming, but it is difficult to read on smaller screens. Could we explore something that retains warmth but is more legible?" gives your designer a direction while acknowledging the tradeoff.
Always bring it back to the people using the site. In the bakery case, those people are busy parents ordering a birthday cake on their phone during a lunch break. They need speed and clarity. Flashy effects or decorative elements do not help them complete an order faster.
Hiring a professional means you gain access to expertise you do not have. Visual hierarchy, responsive layout principles, color theory, and usability heuristics — these are not guesswork. They are skills refined over years.
Your designer may occasionally push back on your suggestions. They might tell you that a particular layout will not scale to mobile, or that a color combination will fail accessibility standards. This is not defiance. It is the exact reason you brought them on board.
Treat those moments as learning opportunities rather than obstacles. A good web design company will not simply refuse a request — they will explain why, and they will often propose an alternative that achieves your goal while respecting technical constraints.
If you remain convinced a certain change is important, let your designer note their objection formally. Then compare results once the site is live. Data settles these debates more reliably than opinions do, and over time, mutual respect grows from evidence-based collaboration.
Creative work depends on momentum. When you delay feedback, the entire production timeline shifts. Worse, the designer may lose the mental context around your project and need time to reorient.
Do not rush your review, but do give it proper attention. Set aside a focused window — thirty uninterrupted minutes at your computer. Navigate every page. Click every button. Read every line of text. Look at it on different screen sizes if you can.
Aim to submit your notes within 48 hours of receiving a deliverable. If something prevents that, a quick message goes a long way: "I will have my full feedback ready by Thursday." That short update preserves trust and keeps the project moving forward without unnecessary friction.
Criticizing is effortless. Improving is harder but far more valuable. Whenever you identify something that does not work, try to suggest a better alternative — even if it is rough.
If your bakery's contact page feels cluttered, resist the urge to simply write "too much going on." Instead, propose a solution: "Can we trim this down to just the address, hours, and a simple inquiry form? The embedded map and social links can move to the footer."
This kind of note gives your team a starting point. A capable web design company will take that direction and elevate it — refining the layout, adjusting spacing, and ensuring it integrates smoothly with the rest of the site. Without a proposed direction, the designer must invent one from scratch, which adds time and cost to the process.
Feedback is not a confrontation. It is a conversation between two parties who share the same objective — building something that works. You hold the knowledge of your audience and your brand. Your designer holds the technical capability to translate that knowledge into a functional site.
Be organized. Be specific. Ground your examples in the reality of how your customers behave. The bakery's online ordering system and a large e-commerce platform follow the same feedback principles because they both serve real human needs.
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That actually makes a lot of sense, if you remove concepts such as "but Windows is already customary here" from your head. From scratch, you'd never want to do this.
If such a petition exists for the Netherlands or EU-wide, I'd sign and subscribe/support.
I disagree. While it would be correct in some way, it would be a different political movement.
With "let's introduce Linux", it's easy to stop mid-way and too early. For example, at 1 hour per week for 1 semester once during the whole school.
With "ban Windows [from school computers and as mandatory software]", the political agenda is clear and the technical goal is clear. And the benefit is clear, too.
American mindset, and probably more broadly speaking, "ban thing" when thing isn't widely understood (to be bad, or even in general) usually gets reactionary backlash because people don't like when decisions are made for them or options (even those they're unaware of) are either taken off the table or forced upon them. It's teeing up Microsoft to spend a few bucks on a country song and cowboy character ad campaign to brush the issue off.
"New thing better" doesn't always work well either because people need a reason to change when things seemingly already work as-is. Leading with outrage is unfortunately the better way to win over people who aren't going to make an effort for themselves to investigate the problem. Tell them why they should be angry, why Microsoft is a threat to their children, etc and then, if you can convince them, is when you add "...and that's why we should ban MS products." Even that is still insufficient without a clear course of action. If the solution isn't drop-in and painless, it's going to disrupt the education of the generation when the change is made. The argument needs to be compelling enough to worth unsettling the status quo.
Last up, our education system is headed by a carny. Our administration swung the doors wide open for Mecha Hitler. Our president loves the uneducated and the uneducated clap like a pack of trained seals when they hear it. Even if Microsoft failed to backroom deal or blackmail their way into maintaining their stranglehold, you'd have to be on Elon levels of ketamine to believe the current admin would adopt open standards or invest the US equivalent of Venezuela's Canaima Linux. We'd get gaudy gold TrumpTops preloaded Grok, nationalist propaganda and government spyware.
All that isn't to piss on the parade. I'm for open standards, open operating systems and improving technical literacy while stripping away the invasions of privacy and stopping the dumbing down of our youth. I just think "ban thing" is only ever going to appeal to bandwagon radicals and the folks that already agree with you. If you're not winning over the opposition (and more importantly the idiots who don't even know they're opposed until their indignant inner sleeper cell is activated by the word "ban") you're in for a losing fight.
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As long as 90% of businesses use it on their desktop it makes sense to teach. Using windows and the common software (photoshop, excel etc.) on it is basically a life skill at this point in time.
I agree with your premise though.
I guess it could be argued the computer proficiency skill is transferable (from Linux at school to Windows at work) as long as there is a significant overlap in the available software, desktop presentation, workflow and control conventions.
One example where it for sure doesn't work is gimp to photoshop. If you wanna know why, go dig out instructions for how to draw a circle in each one. Or try recreating one of the many effects from PS in GEGL. - The workflow is so fundamentally different that if you know one software, it will actually hinder you learning the other, because your intuition will mislead you and you'll be constantly frustrated (which actively hinders learning. There are studies on that)
I went to school in germany, we had a generic computer class for a semester, where we started with basic controls left, right mouse click, middle click to close apps, tripple click to select a row of text, f2 for rename, f10 create new folder, deleting files, installing and uninstalling software etc.
And even here Linux diverges. Middle click pastes your clipboard and only rarely do apps like pdf viewers support tripple clicking.
Later we learned photoshop, word, excel, powerpoint, internet explorer and how to use the powerful features in google search, like quotes, +, -, site: etc. And I must say, it proved to be extrenely useful. I constantly see people around me struggle with those tasks and I'm thankful for my school teaching me.
I moved all my PCs to Linux ~5 years after graduating and it sure was a long grindy struggle of frustration and accepting bad compromises. I tried using gimp for university assignments and it was a huge PITA. Touched a mac for a week and it was equally full of friction to learn and work with.
What I want to say is - I'm sure the re-learning is a similar struggle in either direction. So if you want to prepare students for the real life, it makes sense to learn the software they will most likely encounter in their real worklife. I'm sure most polish design companies use photoshop and illustrator on windows or mac systems instead of gimp and those school students will have a harder time getting into it.
Good luck!
You may already be aware but perhaps some of the rationale from these projects could help bolster your argument:
europarl.europa.eu/petitions/e…
numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es…
Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a common free Operating System for the EU public sector 🇪🇺eu-os.eu
While I agree with the petition, it shouldn't be limited to Windows, it should be about software freedom...
I'm not commenting to pick on you but because I think it's really important that people understand the details of laws so that they can make informed choices. People often think they have more rights or protections than they do, and they might not make the same choices if they knew otherwise.
If you are referring to FERPA, the decision about whether an email is an education record depends on the content and the context for which it is used. I don't think it would hold that all emails from an educational account are educational records. ( aalrr.com/EdLawConnectBlog/a-r… )
From the above and specific to whether an email itself can be a record (when there was a paper copy on file)
The court held the electronic messages themselves were not “education records” for purposes of FERPA because, while they related to the student, they were not “maintained” by the educational institution.
(Please note: "the decision was unpublished and therefore cannot be cited.")
Getting a little more specific:
ecfr.gov/current/title-34/subt…
An educational agency or institution may disclose personally identifiable information from an education record of a student without the consent required by § 99.30 if the disclosure meets one or more of the following conditions:B) A contractor, consultant, volunteer, or other party to whom an agency or institution has outsourced institutional services or functions may be considered a school official under this paragraph provided that the outside party—
(1) Performs an institutional service or function for which the agency or institution would otherwise use employees;
(2) Is under the direct control of the agency or institution with respect to the use and maintenance of education records; and
(3) Is subject to the requirements of § 99.33(a) governing the use and redisclosure of personally identifiable information from education records.
So having access to and using the information in the emails is not necessarily a violation so long as the personally identifiable information is not redisclosed.
Schools have a duty to ensure that the access is for "legitimate educational interests" which is subjective but I could see email tools or copilot being argued as meeting that.
I guess we won't know until someone challenges it 😉
I'm aware of all of that, but wasn't looking to write a novel about it.
I am of the opinion that feeding students' information to AI and to advertising algorithms is not a legitimate educational purpose. Particularly when hosting your own email that doesn't do that is so trivially simple.
ETA: btw, my nickname is potateo. You could say that's an arcane spelling of potato!
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The problems you're talking about are not problems of hosting email. Hosting email is trivially simple.
The anticompetitive practices of big tech have to be dealt with a different way. Requiring all schools to host their own email would go a very long way to ending one of those practices. You would see the opaque, unresponsive spam filterers disappear overnight.
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I don't know how much IT experience you have, but at the end of the day when an organization pays for license, they're paying for a fall-guy. They want to have someone to go to when there's a problem with the software, because that's cheaper than everyone needing to hire an expert at whatever issues pop up to be certain it's solved.
They don't want to have a bunch of PCs running whatever distro and domain software the last IT guy felt like going with. And when the next heartbleed/shell shock/spectre happens, they don't want to have to figure out how to get the fix for the flavors of software they went with. They want to be able to say "hey company, this is what we pay you for" and the company to say "all good, we got you".
Of course, it is possible to have both open software, and corporate support. This is why redhat exists. Just understand that your IT dept may have a preference based purely on how easy/hard it makes their job. When my PC has some bug or hw incompatibility, I'm willing to take the time to solve it. But someone who doesn't have that time is going to prefer to just tell the company that made it to solve it.
I'm also on-board with no computers in schools, as someone else brought up. Phones should not be allowed in classrooms. Before we had LLMs running on calculators, my idea was to have a series of optional classes where you build your own calculator starting from logic gates, and that's the only computer you're allowed to use.
The very pro-Microsoft government where I live was apparently the origin of social media age restriction legislation that then went national and now seems to be taken up various places internationally. Also very into banning phones in classrooms. And the leader was also promoting some sort of purity ring type pledge thing for phone use.
I am kind of anti-tech for kids when it detracts from the basics and adds nothing and I think a lot of tech is distracting and a waste and the only real beneficiaries are large companies. So with all this anti-phone, anti-social media stuff you might think they were looking after kids. But they were also pushing a rebranded copilot into schools and forcing AI into the curriculum. My take is Microsoft write all their scripts for them. Microsoft missed the boat on social media and mobile so attacking Meta, Apple and Google serves them while attacking AI and Windows does not. Shit like public servants and politicians getting corporate lobbying jobs isn't illegal. Nothing ever changes.
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Jup, in an ideal world there would be one or more computer rooms with desktop PCs running whatever fucking immutable Linux distro.
However I'm also kind of torn about books since I DO think they are important, but in practice they were always just super outdated, super politically one-sided, unreasonably heavy and so on. Some kind of middle-ground would be great with a mix of some classes using books and paper and some classes using a cheap laptop with Linux on it. But whatever's the case, tablets are absolute fucking bullshit.
Edit: hell or just no laptops but WAY more than one computer room so you could literally have some classes exclusively in "regular" rooms and some in computer rooms, idk. JUST NOT FUCKING TABLETS.
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Go for it, but please consider the platform you use for that carefully and get as many partners as possible beforehand - gives much bigger chances it reaches more people.
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I agree with Stallman and others on this sort of thing, it should be illegal for any public institution to use proprietary, corporate software in any capacity.
Public institutions are supposed to serve and benefit the public good first and foremost. The idea that they can do that equally well or better by partnering with mega-corps who's only fundamental drive is to generate as much profit as possible for their shareholders, is idiotic.
Fuck it, rant time.
I was IT lead at an education trust (kinda like a school district but bigger) covering K-21 for a long time, managing a few thousand endpoints for a few thousand students. Laptops, desktops, tablets, smartphones, digital signage and embedded; devices belonging to schools, partner organisations, staff BYOD and student remote learning; structured IT suites in school campuses, stateless networks for anything portable, antique appliances that simply must work but also be accessible to particular people from anywhere; it goes on and it never ends.
No-one has time for that.
From a few central interfaces, I could deploy an application to every device. And, I could make sure that a particular website was accessible to every student from their fifteenth birthday, not a day before. And, I could make sure that any device a Ukrainian refugee logs into speaks Ukrainian. And, I could remove any bloatware. And, I could make sure that when a brand new laptop is drop-shipped to a teacher's home address directly from the distributor it will automatically configure itself with everything they need the second they connect it to their home Wifi without me even having to touch it. And, I could apply a photo-of-the-month to every device, even overlaying it with the appropriate school's logo. And I could disable (or force enable) any unwanted hardware or software features on any device. And I could make sure that every student's web traffic was appropriately filtered and, if nessecary, scrutinised.
And I could prove that all of it was working: I could prove it to staff, to parents, to governors and, when it came to it, I could prove it to the police and to lawyers. "When", not "if".
Forget schools for a second, look instead at big corporations. They are ruthlessly profit focused, but they all run Windows, Office, SharePoint, 365, etc because even though it costs money, it's cheaper overall and comes with a lot of protection, both technical and legal. Schools get that stuff basically for free, and it just works. Linux isn't there yet, not by a long shot, and no education authority worth their salt is going to take the risk of being the first to experiment with their student's wellbeing, let alone curriculum, for effectively - in their eyes - zero benefit.
To be blunt: when one of the children you are responsible for safeguarding is the victim of an attempted kidnapping that was only possible because of lax data security, no-one is going to have any tolerance for your personal philosophy about software licensing or your home-spun scripts. Ask me how I know.
Also, if your schools are letting advertisers/social media/whatever inspect student's data, that's nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with mismanagement: forcing them to manage yet another OS isn't going to fix that.
TLDR: If you want to make Linux replace Windows in schools, you first need to figure out how to make Linux replace Windows in hospitals, call centres and Fortune 500 corporations.
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Linux isn't there yet, not by a long shot, and no education authority worth their salt is going to take the risk of being the first to experiment with their student's wellbeing, let alone curriculum, for effectively - in their eyes - zero benefit.
This is the crux of your ramble and it's nonsense.
The reason orgs use these tools is productivity, not the well-being of the students. To conflate the two is to admit you're a lackey of capitalism.
If the orgs cared about student well-being, they wouldn't be training them on proprietary systems and letting corpos harvest their data. Period.
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I am looking for good options for an elderly relative which has some onset of slight dementia, but is still living alone (with assistance).
The main problem is that usual things are becoming just too complicated for that person. There are too many details that don't matter. For example, user interfaces have a lot of features that are not strictly needed, many hidden states, often no clearly visible affordances, and so on. Some mail clients make it difficult to recognize phishing.
As a good example how it is done better, I'd name GNOME simple-scan. A really good and simple UI!
This person is currently using Thunderbird + Firefox on Windows, and K9 Mail on Android. Learned to use Windows in their sixties and is now in mid-eighties age.
The main need is a simpler Email client.
Any suggestions?
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Y'all will get pissy. You should set them up with an AI assistant interface. You could do it with a powerful GPU + qwen, but there are obviously non foss options as well.
Set up something like Hermes + Nemoclaw. Set them up with productivity skills they'll need, eg let's go through my email. As well as skills, memories, and cron tasks to help them through the day. Set them up with agents to review for scams and other malicious payloads. Skills to contact you to intervene when situations with low confidence arise.
The medical models for this are currently being developed, but the public ones are good enough for now.
Yes, it'll hallucinate, but I promise you it'll still be better at identifying scams than your family member. For me the biggest concern with be them creating an attachment to the AI which is certainly problematic but I'd weigh the risks and where they come from as age increases and dementia gets worse but for me the rest of the risk mitigation would be worth it.
I'd recommend against having someone with cognitive health issues offload cognitive load to a machine that has demonstrated many times to be poor at it.
You've brought up the dangers of hallucinations and dependence, but I think the dangers are much riskier than you think they are.
Besides, doesn't learning and using critical thought help slow down the progress of dementia?
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I assure you the dangers of falling for a scam and sending your retirement to a scammer is more consequential. You can instruct models to drop the nice act via skills and memories with rbac to mitigate. It's a tool to handle certain things and risk mitigate.
Not every LLM is candyai trying to date you. It's putting your emails in front of you and running scam detection and maybe paying a bill or two.
Google, Microsoft, banks and everyone in between has been spending the last decade rolling out sophisticated scam detection systems and infrastructure. If a scam can get through all that, then it can get through your little kiddy model.
And even if you did have a model that worked well, why is the best interface for it an llm? Why not just have a big red "scam warning" banner? Loud, clear and to the point.
AI agents can make mistakes, that's something you're going to have to explain to the user. But you also have to explain to the user to always listen to the scam warning even if their gut thinks otherwise. How do you define whether or not you should trust the AI in such a way that someone with cognitive impairment can apply it?
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If a scam can get through all that, then it can get through your little kiddy model.
I use FastMail which has a reputation for decent spam filtering, and spam messages still fall through. I also have AI agents process my emails and it correctly detects those messages as spam.
why is the best interface for it an llm?
Because you can talk to it like a person and it's not bounded by a GUI's features. Compared to humans they're more readily available and you're not risking your relationship if you need to ask something you wouldn't want to ask a person
Why not just have a big red “scam warning” banner?
Because we already have those and they aren't reliable enough
How do you define whether or not you should trust the AI in such a way that someone with cognitive impairment can apply it?
When in doubt ask a human when one becomes available
I’d recommend against having someone with cognitive health issues offload cognitive load to a machine that has demonstrated many times to be poor at it.
AI has improved tremendously though and outperforms old people with cognitive health issues by a large margin at this point, and that's even with low-cost models
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A pleasure to read and fun to set up an own server. I run an agate server (written in Rust) on a Raspberry Pi B which is attached to my home router. Needs only about 1 Watt of power.
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A collection of awesome things regarding the gemini protocol ecosystem. - kr1sp1n/awesome-geminiGitHub
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Did he actually do anything illegal? It sounds like he spent some time tooling around in a FedEx parking lot, but not much more than that.
Beyond the question of legality, what threat does this actually pose? The Chinese will now have a picture of the aileron of a max 8? It's not like these planes are some deep secret, they carry the public around.
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Dust should be removed regularly, particularly around ventilation openings, sensors, motors, and moving components.
Remote projects should maintain an inventory of frequently replaced components such as sensors, belts, bearings, electrical elements, and other vulnerable parts. Preventive replacement is often more economical than waiting for a failure that stops the entire production line.
This is another reason why evaluating only the initial concrete plant price can be misleading. A plant with better component accessibility and stronger after-sales support may deliver a lower total cost over the project lifecycle.
Stable operation is not only about keeping the machinery running. A concrete plant in Chile must also consistently produce concrete that meets the project's technical specifications.
Operators should monitor fresh concrete temperature, slump, setting behavior, and curing conditions. During particularly hot periods, the production team may need to coordinate aggregate storage, water temperature, admixture dosage, transportation time, and concrete placement schedules.
These measures are especially important for large-volume pours, where even a small variation in mix consistency can affect construction efficiency and quality control.
A realistic equipment evaluation should include purchase price, transportation, installation, electricity consumption, maintenance, spare parts, labor, and potential downtime. Therefore, contractors should look beyond the quoted concrete plant price when comparing different suppliers.
For remote projects, equipment reliability can have a direct impact on construction schedules. Spending slightly more on a properly configured concrete plant in Chile may be economically justified if it reduces production interruptions and maintenance difficulties over several years.
Stable concrete production in the Atacama Desert requires coordination between equipment selection, environmental preparation, material management, maintenance, and quality control. Contractors should evaluate these factors before installation rather than waiting for environmental conditions to cause operational problems.
Whether comparing a concrete plant in Chile, researching a concrete plant in Bolivia, or evaluating different suppliers based on concrete plant price, the most reliable approach is to consider the complete project lifecycle. Properly selected equipment, disciplined maintenance, accurate batching, and adequate spare-parts preparation can help construction teams maintain stable concrete production even in one of the world's most demanding desert environments.
Planta de hormigón en Chile es un equipo importante para la industria de construcción. Compre una planta de AIMIX con alta rendimiento.AIMIXgrupo (AIMIX GROUP)
Ok, yeah, I think your last sentence is probably where I was thinking...
Yep, repo packages are going to be fairly good except for watering hole attacks, but PDFs and other documents could be a potential source of malware that anti-malware software would - potentially - protect the user.
For the average home desktop/laptop user, you probably don't need it. It won't hurt, but unless you're really downloading and executing random files off the internet, it won't do much.
If you run a server that is publicly available on the internet that allows folks to upload files to it, then you will almost certainly want it.
Easy tips, tweaks and tricks for Linux Mint and Ubuntu, both for beginners and for advanced users. Complete starter's guide with simple how-to's.easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com
some of this
and some of that
Doxypep is a really common preventative prescription cocktail intended to combat HIV and bacterial based STD infections -- i'm genuinely confused why you hadn't heard of it if you're sexually active.
Do you get your healthcare in the United States because that's the only way it makes sense that you haven't heard of it.
Backup your data so that you can restore what matters to you. There is no need for an antivirus on Linux if you stick to the distribution channels of your distribution because package are verified. Unlike in the close source world because the source of those packages are open, verifying, even though imperfect, is much simpler. Popular distributions, e.g. Debian or Redhat, have a very strong incentive not to let anything slip. Maintainer of packages also are able not just to track what changed but also by whom, that means if there is a problem it can be identified and attributed rather quickly and thus other maintainers can be warned. It is not impossible and supply chain attacks do happen, e.g. xz backdoor, but it is rare, specific and has been studied and thus partly alleviated even though it remains a challenge.
If you do download executables or binaries, not media e.g. videos or music, from random places though then all bets are off.
Targeting Linux distributions is even less likely because unlike Windows or MacOS there is no "official" viewer for a kind of document, being image, video, text, etc but rather only the one that the distribution picked but that even during the installation process the user might ignore or replace. So the attack on the media would have to work for any viewer which seems basically impossible.
Technically possible yes but practically impossible at scale, it would have to be targeting a specific user and then it's a totally different situation.
Eu admito que estou gostando de usar o Reddit ultimamente. É um modelo similar ao de um fórum de internet, mas há comunidades ativas e em crescimento. Há uns algoritmos irritantes na página inicial, mas é possível ir a qualquer comunidade e ordenar publicações por métodos mais transparentes do que um algoritmo de Instagram ou Bluesky. Também vejo menos gente tentando invalidar a posição alheia por motivos fúteis ou reclamando de "textões" ou "palestrinhas" por alguém publicar mais de dois parágrafos de uma vez só.
Neste texto, meu público-alvo são pessoas que, como eu, publicam textos, vídeos, imagens, eventos ou afins. Isso porque o Reddit tem uma cultura de ser "contra autopromoção" de forma que pode acabar afastando quem usa espaços sociais na Internet para compartilhar o próprio trabalho. Porém, eu acho que o Reddit tem valor para pessoas que estão cansadas de se dedicar somente a outras redes sociais e não ver muitas pessoas absorvendo as informações divulgadas. Enfim, acho que o texto pode ser útil para outras pessoas conhecerem um pouco sobre o Reddit também, só estou especificando meu foco.
Reddit tem uma estrutura de fórum online, só que de forma relativamente descentralizada. Cada pessoa tem a sua própria conta e a utiliza para acompanhar e postar em comunidades (subreddits), as quais giram em torno de temas específicos e possuem suas próprias equipes e regras. Isso significa que o Reddit possui termos de serviço mais gerais, mas que é importante conferir as regras de cada comunidade antes de publicar algo nela.
Cada publicação original ("postagem" na linguagem oficial, que é como um tópico num fórum) vai ter comentários (respostas), a não ser que os comentários tenham sido trancados pela moderação (automaticamente ou não; muitas comunidades optam por trancar comentários em publicações antigas automaticamente). Cada postagem e comentário pode receber upvotes (votos positivos valendo +1 cada) ou downvotes (votos negativos valendo -1 cada) com os resultados finais (infelizmente chamados de "karma" na linguagem oficial) sendo visíveis, e é possível ordenar comentários dentro de cada postagem e postagens dentro de cada comunidade peles mais controverses, mais noves ou mais bem votades, ou de formas que misturam tais conceitos. Postagens não podem ficar com pontuações menores do que 0 independentemente do número de downvotes, enquanto comentários com menos de 0 ficam escondidos por padrão por provavelmente serem ofensivos ou conterem informações erradas.
Comentários utilizam uma estrutura de árvore, facilitando aes leitóries visualizarem quem respondeu a quem. Cada resposta só notifica a conta que foi respondida, então, se eu escrever um comentário B a uma postagem A, a autoria da postagem A será notificada, mas comentários C respondendo o meu comentário B só enviarão notificações para mim, e comentários D respondendo a uma das respostas C não me notificarão. Isso permite a evolução de um assunto assim como ocorre em fóruns e redes sociais de forma mais organizada e menos invasiva em comparação a vários outros espaços.
Perfis são identificáveis por um nome de tela, o qual é imutável, e podem também ter ícones, biografias, links e nomes de exibição que podem ser mudades a qualquer momento. Usuáries do Reddit estão acostumades com a ideia de perfis quase anônimos - fazer contas diferentes para propósitos diferentes é comum e permitido desde que não hajam abusos, e ninguém recomenda ter nome ou foto reais a não ser que seja uma celebridade oferecendo para responder perguntas ou algo do tipo - e tendem a insistir que por isso o Reddit não é uma rede social, embora eu acredite que qualquer site ou aplicativo que ofereça a possibilidade de publicar no próprio perfil e se comunicar diretamente com outres conte como rede social.
É possível publicar no próprio perfil como se fosse uma comunidade, mas não há muita vantagem nisso na maioria dos casos. A interface do Reddit não é muito própria para um blog e poucas pessoas usam a função de seguir perfis.
Existem sistemas de pontuações totais (aquelas acumuladas via postagens/comentários) e conquistas (do tipo "seja a primeira pessoa a responder X postagens" ou "dê upvotes por Y dias seguidos") que incentivam pessoas a permanecer com as mesmas contas. Além disso, muitas das comunidades mais movimentadas não permitem que contas que não atingiram uma determinada pontuação postem lá (geralmente algo em torno de 50-150 pontos), justamente para evitar pessoas fazendo contas apenas para trollagem/evasão de banimento.
A maioria dos subreddits tende a ser voltada para dúvidas e discussões, mesmo que existam opções de compartilhar links, vídeos e outros tipos de mídia. Existem subs mais voltados para compartilhar imagens/vídeos/notícias, ou para pessoas se apresentarem e se conhecerem, mas, num geral, não existe uma expectativa de alguém vir se apresentar, e alguém só vindo repostar seu trabalho sem vir falar de outras coisas provavelmente será viste como spammer. A etiqueta oficial diz para só publicar o próprio conteúdo 1 vez a cada 10 postagens.
Pois é, ao contrário de alguém mantendo uma conta no fediverso apenas para mandar links para o próprio site/blog, a cultura que o Reddit impõe é de ser ume membre da comunidade para além de mandar links para o próprio site/blog/canal. Por um lado, é uma jogada psicológica para incentivar a manter pessoas dentro do Reddit e pintar pessoas com menos vontade de interagir de outras formas como spammers sem interesse na comunidade. Por outro, como alguém que esteve em vários espaços online faz mais de uma década, eu acho que isto faz sentido (até certo ponto): não é legal quando alguém faz uma conta num fórum para compartilhar algo e depois nunca volta para interagir com as respostas, pessoas que só usam contas de microblogging para enviar links descontextualizados dificilmente vão ser populares em tais redes e redes sociais com foco em "falar o que quiser na própria conta" criaram um problema cultural de pessoas não conseguindo se adaptar bem a espaços mais sociais como grupos de bate-papo ou fóruns (uma restrição contra só repostar o próprio conteúdo externo obriga a pessoa a refletir sobre o que mais tem a oferecer à comunidade, mesmo que sejam suas próprias dúvidas, ao invés de focar somente no que ela mesma quer divulgar).
Eu andei fazendo várias postagens no r/naobinarie para movimentar o sub (e divulgar trabalhos de uma variedade de pessoas não-binárias que deveriam ser mais populares). Também frequento alguns outros subs, como r/transbr. E percebi algumas coisas:
Dependendo do que alguém quiser divulgar, pode ser possível postar sem se preocupar tanto com a etiqueta acerca de autopromoção. r/betatests, por exemplo, é principalmente para publicar aplicativos prontos que precisam de pessoas para testá-los. Obviamente recomendo ter bom senso e não publicar 10 aplicativos diferentes de uma vez só, mas não há tantas restrições para as publicações em si.
Fora isso, a solução é ficar e achar o que falar entre divulgações. É possível divulgar notícias ou informações relevantes de outros lugares, mesmo que isso não resulte em muitas interações. É possível fazer perguntas relevantes à comunidade, como "com quantos anos vocês descobriram ser trans" num subreddit trans ou "qual tipo de saia vocês preferem" num subreddit de moda. Responder a outras postagens também demonstra interesse na comunidade em si, e não só no que ela pode oferecer como audiência, e pode incentivar mais pessoas a prestar atenção quando você divulgar algo próprio.
O Reddit reportou cerca de 20 milhões de usuáries brasileires no final de 2025, mais usuáries do que o X, sendo que ambas as plataformas são abertas a maiores de 13 anos. Não é algo que vai trocar a presença no Instagram ou WhatsApp, especialmente quando muitas vezes são pessoas diferentes que frequentam cada plataforma, mas também não acho que faz sentido agir como se fosse "um lugar vazio que ninguém conhece".
Eu sempre divulgo os eNBontros no Instagram e Oltiel faz o mesmo no Instagram déli, mas mesmo que eu tenha os divulgado no Reddit menos vezes, mais pessoas compareceram fisicamente por terem descoberto os eNBontros pelo Reddit em comparação com o Instagram. Ao meu ver, as interações no Reddit são mais raras, mas também são mais engajadas.
Não sei o quanto isso ainda se aplicaria a questões como produtos à venda ou assinaturas (que também seriam bem mais difíceis de divulgar do que publicações gratuitas), mas acho que o Reddit incentiva pessoas a realmente ler antes de interagir já que o objetivo é comentar/discutir, ao contrário do Instagram que é cheio de "likes por educação" que não se traduzem em aprendizado de novas práticas, novos termos ou comprometimento de ler a publicação divulgada. Também acho prática a existência de uma rede social que não tenta forçar pessoas a se expressarem com poucos caracteres, caso o objetivo seja algo como desabafar ou apresentar um termo novo.
Atualmente, acho que há uma tendência centrista no Reddit. A administração tentou "limpar" alguns subs mais reacionários, então muita gente que os frequentava foi para alternativas de direita como o Voat (que não existe mais, mas com certeza há outros lugares similares). A maioria dos subs maiores não permite ofensas diretas ou discursos de ódio mais pesados, mas não tem preocupação com instâncias mais normalizadas na sociedade em geral de racismo, misoginia, cissexismo, capacitismo e assim por diante.
Porém, o Reddit é um espaço de discussão voltado apenas para determinados temas de interesse. Comunidades como r/transbr não permitem apologia à extrema direita e transmedicalismo, mas um "público geral" trans ainda não vai ter uma maioria de pessoas aplicando neolinguagem quando usam linguagem genérica ou evitando termos como "nasci homem/mulher" ou "uso pronomes femininos/masculinos". Comentários transmísicos contra outras pessoas, como "não existe não-binaridade", "seu pronome é muito ridículo, ninguém vai usar" ou "mulher trans tem que se barbear todo dia sim" vão ser deletados e pessoas podem ser banidas (do r/transbr) por isso, mas há um fluxo grande de pessoas e nem sempre os comentários mais violentos são apagados dentro de poucas horas.
No final, sobra um "centrismo" que vai variar de comunidade para comunidade, o qual muitas vezes pode acabar por excluir pessoas fixadas em quaisquer extremos de forma explícita (via banimentos) ou implícita (por pessoas preferirem não lidar com uma comunidade que não modera de acordo com seus valores). Pessoas podem criar suas próprias comunidades alternativas, como o r/lesbiangang que é para lésbicas cissexistas e monossexistas porque o r/actuallesbians é inclusivo de quaisquer pessoas sáficas (ou mesmo quaisquer pessoas interessadas em participar num geral).
Mas, quanto mais genérico for o nome, mais gente vai conseguir achar o local: eu prefiro o r/NonbinaryTalk e o r/XenogendersAndMore do que o r/NonBinary ou o r/queer, mas é provável que mais pessoas não-binárias venham esbarrar nestes últimos dois primeiro. O r/arco_iris é provavelmente o subreddit NHINCQ+ mais variado, mas tende a ser bastante exclusicionista de pessoas que saem de L/G/B/T (e olhe lá) porque não há esforços para barrar comentários acemísicos, periorientistas, exorsexistas ou contra orientações fluidas; mas alguém criando uma alternativa vai ter bastante trabalho se quiser montar um espaço movimentado mais inclusivo sobre o mesmo tema.
Entendo que muita gente das nossas comunidades ou só se abre por completo ou só interage em espaços mais isolados: comunidades de Discord/WhatsApp mais específicas, contas privadas no Instagram/fediverso ou assim por diante. Entendo que há riscos de maldenominação e chacota muito presentes em espaços "vale tudo" em uma sociedade exorsexista, exorlinguista e antiNCL, e que há pessoas cuja saúde mental não é forte o suficiente para lidar com estes riscos.
Porém, não é incomum eu me deparar com pessoas que acham que a neolinguagem é algo do passado ou que só existe no contexto de chacota ou de empresas desinformadas. Com pessoas que nunca viram alguém usar o modelo artigo/pronome/final de palavra. Com pessoas que nunca viram alguém não-binárie se definindo para além de agênero, gênero-fluido, demi-homem, demimulher, transfem ou transmasc. E não é necessariamente uma questão de intolerância consciente, e sim da falta de normalização. Porque, por mais que já existam anos de livros, artigos, postagens de blogs, vídeos e podcasts que implementam alguma forma de neolinguagem ou falem de não-binaridade, estas publicações ainda são uma minoria que muitas pessoas podem ignorar e que muitas vezes nem chega em pessoas que poderiam estar interessadas. Ocupar espaços onde a conversa não só vai ser lida por muites mas também vai ser moderada contra ataques que saem do assunto pode ser ótimo para que outres saibam que nós e nossas pautas "ainda" existimos.
(Alterumanidade e pluralidade também estão estranhamente ausentes de praticamente quaisquer discussões na lusosfera, NHINCQ+ ou não, mas daí já não acho justo fazer o mesmo pedido.)
Eu não estou dizendo para enfiar a não-binaridade ou o uso de neolinguagem de forma forçada em toda e qualquer publicação ou resposta. Só estou pedindo para aproveitar a oportunidade de um perfil praticamente anônimo (no caso de quem não associa seu perfil com suas redes sociais/fotos/etc.) para refletir a forma ideal da expressão da não-binaridade e/ou evitar termos cissexistas ou concepções exorlinguistas, ao invés de se render ao derrotismo de que ninguém vai entender termos pesquisáveis e/ou finais de palavra incomuns e/ou todo mundo vai atacar caso algum conjunto para além de a/ela/a, o/ele/o e -/-/- seja utilizado. Caso alguém não entenda alguma coisa, será uma ótima justificativa para enviar um recurso que explique, ou mesmo explicar a questão com as próprias palavras.
A relevância do Reddit está crescendo bastante como um dos únicos lugares onde publicações e respostas enviadas automaticamente por IA generativa são raras mesmo que também haja lá uma grande movimentação de tutoriais, pessoas dispostas a responder perguntas e compartilhamentos de outros achados da internet. Acho que pessoas que buscam visibilizar pautas anticapitalistas e de justiça social têm muito a ganhar caso tragam seus conhecimentos para lá.
Só peço para que não entendam esta publicação de forma cínica: espaços online mais focados em comunidades requerem trocas. Meu incentivo aqui não é voltado a explorar um público despolitizado (o que não é o caso), e sim não descartar um site/aplicativo utilizado por milhões de pessoas como "ruim" por ele não ter sido projetado para ser um diário pessoal, ou como inerentemente hostil por conta de usuáries reacionáries que vão existir em praticamente qualquer plataforma aberta.
Administro r/neolinguagem e r/naobinarie, e no momento estou sozinhe na equipe de ambos. Sintam-se livres para interagir por lá mesmo sendo parte de comunidades NHINCQ+ relativamente incomuns; é só seguir o assunto das comunidades ou das respostas anteriores. Para quem quer conselhos/ajuda de forma mais geral, o próprio Reddit tem uma seção de ajuda bem completa para ajudar usuáries noves, e também existe o sub r/NovoNoReddit.
Finalmente, eu também entendo quem prefere não interagir com (mais) nenhuma rede social administrada por uma grande empresa. Existem equivalentes do Reddit no fediverso, como o Lemmy (exemplo: lemmy.eco.br) e o PieFed (exemplo: feddit.online), mas admito que não vi muitas discussões/dúvidas interessantes por lá. Raddle é pra ser tipo "um Reddit de esquerda" que não monetiza sues usuáries, mas ele é relativamente parado e a única comunidade que eu achei parcialmente em língua portuguesa é /f/Brasil, com publicações sendo compostas de compartilhamentos de notícias mais ou menos uma vez por mês (a maioria na língua inglesa). Eu acho que muito do que falei neste texto se aplica a outros espaços no estilo fórum, só acho que será necessária uma articulação mais ativa para chegar em mais pessoas por meios deles.
Almost a year after the Multikernel project shared its Linux kernel code and submitted its first patches for review, the team has now made its Multikernel Linux tree publicly available for the first time. This release is built on Linux 7.0 and is labeled v7.0-mk2 in the project’s kernel tree. Currently, only x86_64 is officially supported.If you haven’t heard of it, Multikernel is a new way of using Linux on big multi-core systems. Rather than one Linux kernel running everything, it lets several separate Linux kernels run side by side on the same hardware.
The main idea is simple. One Linux instance acts as the host and manages a pool of CPUs, memory, and PCI devices. It can split these resources into separate groups and start another Linux kernel in each group. Unlike virtual machines, these extra kernels don’t run on a hypervisor. Each one gets its own physical CPUs, memory, and devices, and runs right on the hardware.
Resources aren’t locked in place, either. The project says you can shut down instances, return their CPUs, memory, and devices to the host, and then start new instances with a different kernel if needed.
With this release, the project has also shared performance comparisons showing where its bare-metal approach can outperform traditional virtualization. In one set of lmbench tests, Multikernel was compared to a well-tuned KVM virtual machine. Both used the same kernel build, two CPU cores, and 1 GB of memory on a dual-socket Intel Xeon Gold 5418Y system.
The results showed almost the same memory latency and bandwidth, which makes sense given how efficient modern hardware virtualization is. The bigger differences showed up in tasks that need lots of transitions and CPU wakeups.
For example, the tests showed a two-process context switch took 1.37 microseconds with Multikernel, compared to 3.42 microseconds in the default KVM guest. Pipe latency was 3.24 microseconds versus 7.06, and Unix socket latency was 4.81 versus 7.48 microseconds.
However, the developers point out that these numbers don’t mean Multikernel is always several times faster than KVM. A lot of the difference comes from how idle virtual CPUs are managed. In the default KVM setup, waking an idle vCPU means leaving and re-entering the virtual machine. Multikernel, on the other hand, manages its physical CPU cores directly.
The downside is that these CPU cores look fully used to the host and use more power. The project measured about 19 extra watts in this setup. Giving the guest more control over CPU power management also helped latency, but still came with power and resource tradeoffs.
For this first public release, the developers say x86_64 has been tested the most. Support for other architectures may come later. The architecture-specific interfaces have already been separated with future ports in mind, but none are officially supported yet.
For additional details, see the announcement. You can find the Multikernel Linux source code on GitHub. The project also offers a getting-started guide for anyone who wants to try out the technology.
The first public Multikernel Linux release lets several independent kernels run side by side on one machine with dedicated CPUs, memory, and devices.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Le chercheur au CNRS Jean-Michel Hupé décortique le lien indissociable entre écologie et démocratie au micro du Greenletter Club.
Face au modèle capitaliste et colonial porté par l’élite, la préservation des limites planétaires impose de réduire radicalement notre consommation.
L’effondrement démocratique actuel instrumentalise les catastrophes environnementales pour protéger les privilèges d’une minorité ultra-riche, prête à sacrifier la majorité de la population mondiale.
Repenser nos modèles de société de manière équitable reste notre unique issue.
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Quel déclin accompagne le green backlash selon Hupé ?
➡ Déclin de la démocratie.
Quel modèle d'élevage est incompatible avec les limites planétaires ?
➡ L'élevage industriel.
Quelle est notre seule chance de résoudre l'ensemble de nos problèmes ?
➡ Une vraie démocratie.
Slop Linux got money to spend and the reactionary ----- is the first one to get it.
David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH, has put a number on how serious he is about desktop Linux. That number is eight million dollars, and it's going into a brand new nonprofit called the Omacom Foundation.DHH is incorporating the foundation now, set to cover the Omarchy trademark, its infrastructure and hosting, promotion for the project, and funding for the open source developers whose work it depends on.
He calls it a "moral obligation," not just to get Omarchy into more people's hands but to change how they use a computer in the first place.
The above is so Google-in-early-days-vibes coded that one has to think they should know by now that nobody is buying it. Except that the gen alpha has the attention span of a flea and doesn't really read anything nor it's interested in History. So those techy bozos will always find new prey.
Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, Patrick Collison of Stripe, Tobi Lütke of Shopify, Jack Dorsey of Block, Matthew Prince of Cloudflare, Jason Fried of 37signals, Brendan Iribe of Sesame, and DHH himself each put in a million dollars to make it happen.People already like using Omarchy, DHH says, and he wants this money to last as long as possible instead of getting spent all at once while also making the most out of it.
There are two major updates to this. Omacom funding has hit $10 million, and it has become a premier sponsor for Quickshell.
Hyprland first to gain
Hyprland is the first project outside Omarchy to see any of this money. Omacom is extending an exclusive sponsorship to support Vaxry, the developer behind the Wayland compositor Omarchy runs on.
Under this, he is locked into an agreement for three years, with the possibility of extending for two more years.
This way Vaxry gets to work on Hyprland full time without needing to think about the money. As part of this arrangement, the €5/month Hyprperks subscription service will be discontinued, and everything offered under it will be provided for free.
DHH also joked about finding Vaxry a pookie, noting that:
Many thanks to 37signals (hello self! 😂), Butterfly, and Framework for helping Hyprland get to this point. Thrilled that the Omacom Foundation can take over from October 10, and give one of the best developers in this new Linux moment the chance to go all-in.
(* This deal does not include any direct assistance in getting Vaxry a girlfriend, but I’ll personally be available as a reference for any inquiries on the matter.*)
I'll feel bad for any girl taking her chances.
Do you remember this?This isn't the first time we are talking about money and Hyprland. Back in 2025, Framework became a Gold tier sponsor of the project. But that didn't sit too well with many people, as soon after, a thread titled "Framework supporting far-right racists?" came up on the official forum.
The original poster called out Vaxry's old freedesktop.org ban and pushed Framework to explain why it was funding the project. Framework's own account made things worse that same day. It posted a tweet comparing Omarchy to the old Windows XP product key meme, and people read that as an endorsement of DHH.
While Framework did send hardware to people at Omarchy, the project itself never got any direct funding. Later, Framework had to start publishing a running list of its sponsorships after people kept asking exactly who the company was funding and why.
Where Omarchy's headed
Quattro, Omarchy's newest release, shipped recently, building AI agents into the desktop by default instead of treating them as an extra. While none of the eight patrons have said publicly that Omarchy's AI bet factored into their decision to back the foundation.
My read is that it's hard to ignore, especially with Michael Dell's company betting heavily on AI infrastructure elsewhere. A distro built around AI agents is exactly the kind of bet a company selling AI hardware would want to back.
And it all ties into what DHH said about truly democratizing Linux.
Whether that $8 million and a nonprofit structure are what bring about the "year of the Linux desktop" is a question for another time.
A new nonprofit is being setup that would house all that money, and Hyprland is the first external project to benefit.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.tekin.co.uk
I'm completely checked out. Why are they a fascist? I thought it was just a shitty arch linux rice. Just to clarify, i'm not challenging that they are a fascist. I'm just curious about what happened.
Edit: Ewwwwww built-in AI features. it's all coming together now.
dude proeminently posted a big rant on his blog about how there are too many brown immigrants in london, and it's losing its purity or something.
plus more or his horrible commentary here and there.
Patrick Collison of Stripe
Is that Darby Crash's uncool younger brother?
First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit. You can't polish a turd Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collec...One Happy Fellow - blog
There are bangers like video title bash injection or all notifications being able to run arbitrary bash on your machine.
I checked the release notes of the new release out of curiosity and:
- Stop a video title from becoming the Download Video play command
- Stop an installed theme from running code
- Don't put the user in the docker group; make it opt-in
- Stop USB device names from being executed as Hyprland Lua
Lmao. Nope.
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I couldn’t implement that bug if I wanted to.
Skill issues. 😛 Just joking, I have no idea too.
Probably. The guy's a fascist.
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I have no interest in whatever he wants to do to Linux.
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.jakelazaroff.com
Sounds like a skill issue. But I agree sway is way more stable, I like it too. I personally use hyprland cause even on nvidia gaming worked better on it compared to sway. The breaking changes every few months is a pain in the ass but honestly worth it for all the features. You can do literally anything you want in hyprland. Sway still doesn't have a way to pin floating windows 😩.
I have hyprland, sway and niri configured. So if anything breaks(mostly hyprland xD) I can easily get my work done. The more options the merrier.
When I think of FOSS, and people who are seriously committed to a copyleft future, these names suddenly spring into my mind
IDK why. Generosity, Linux, FLOSS, sharing, GPL... these terms all come to mind when those people's names come up.
Oh wait, no it doesn't.
This is also my concern. I love Hyprland and heard some stuff about there being political contraversy but never knew what it was.
So does all this mean that the cool FOSS compositor I use will be chock full of shitty blobs soon?
Linux needs money.
The Linux Foundation can crash and burn for all I care.
Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, Patrick Collison of Stripe, Tobi Lütke of Shopify, Jack Dorsey of Block, Matthew Prince of Cloudflare, Jason Fried of 37signals, Brendan Iribe of Sesame, and DHH himself each put in a million dollars to make it happen.
What the dell
An exciting development for this Linux app sandboxing and distribution tech. This would also help improve Google Chrome/Chromium support outside the likes of RPM and Debian based distributions with a cleaner packaging experience.
That's what he said.
Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linuxwww.phoronix.com
The main Chrome flatpak currently just installs the official RPM file for Chrome. You're right that the Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium ones do seem to build from source a bit more. I imagine it will just mean a better build process with less patching.
But you can see exactly what it means right in the ticket:
- Create chrome/installer/linux/flatpak/ with packaging scripts and
templates for metadata, AppStream metainfo, and launcher entrypoint.- Add enable_flatpak GN build argument (default false).
- Add package_format to InstallerConfig and omit host desktop integration
artifacts (system desktop files, /usr/bin symlinks, AppStream appdata,
GNOME default apps, manpages, and AppArmor profiles) when packaging
for Flatpak.- Update common/installer.py with Flatpak configuration and App ID
mapping for Chromium (org.chromium.Chromium) and Google Chrome
(com.google.Chrome).- Generalize common/desktop.template to support both Flatpak and
system-wide desktop execution commands.- Disable setuid sandbox and zlib compression for non-official builds.
- Update BUILD.gn with flatpak packaging targets and aliases.
Most of the small shops I talk to have the same bottleneck with video: they have plenty of product photography and no time to edit. The shoot is done, the stills are fine, and the thirty-second clip the ad platform wants never gets made.
For the past few weeks I have been running those stills through an automated cut instead of opening an editor. The tool I settled on is Nereo - you upload the product images, it picks a shot order, adds captions and a voiceover track, and hands back a vertical clip.
The first draft arrives in a couple of minutes. That matters more than it sounds: the reason these clips never get made is not that editing is hard, it is that starting is expensive. Having something concrete on screen changes the task from "make a video" into "fix this video", which is a much easier thing to sit down to.
Caption timing is usually right. Shot order is usually reasonable - it groups detail shots after the hero shot, which is what you would do by hand anyway.
Pacing. The automatic cut holds every shot for roughly the same length, and real ads do not work that way; the hero shot wants to breathe and the detail shots want to move. That is one pass in any editor and it is worth doing.
Voiceover copy is generic unless you write it yourself. Treat the generated script as a placeholder, not a draft.
If you already have an editor and a working process, this replaces neither. If you have been putting off video for a year because the edit step never gets scheduled, it removes the excuse. That is a narrow claim, but I think it is the honest one.
Nereo helps brands create product ads, commercial visuals, try-on assets, and campaign-ready videos from photos, URLs, scripts, and avatars.Nereo
Last year a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machinewww.phoronix.com
The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into 'xfwm4-gl' for OpenGL compositing supportwww.phoronix.com
Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs.www.phoronix.com
I like Wayland just because it lets me easily use two monitors of different resolutions and refresh rates.
I used X11 for about 6 months when I first used Linux because I still had an Nvidia GTX 1080 at the time and Wayland wouldn't even load for me then.
I did manage to get my monitor setup somewhat working on X11 through a lot of manual editing and the trade off constant screen tearing on my low hz 2nd monitor.
When I finally got an AMD card I loaded KDEs Wayland session on the same Linux install and it automatically set the max res and hz for both monitors including the new 1440p 170hz main monitor I got along with the GPU.
Doesn't KDE kinda have that same refresh rate issue on Wayland? I remember seeing a bug that Qt has a limitation in this regard, In the video I saw the workspace transition ran at the lower refresh rate when multiple monitors were used.
Thankfully I stopped using multiple monitors so I can't personally confirm.
For dual monitors and partial scaling wayland have been a bless.
It's not that's more or less efficient or more of less fast. It's that's been able to do things thar X was unable to and had to be practically hacked to get a clunky solution.
YouTube Premium is getting more expensive for subscribers across Europe and Asia, with some plans increasing by nearly 17%.Michael Gwilliam (Dexerto)
Im using framework. my home networks isnt safe (it belongs to my family and google) and i would like to use the internet in public uncensored. someone also has a virus (they will not remove it dont ask why i do not know either) I know qubes is for security but Tails isnt for me. any reasonable ways to make Qubes private in my situation?
btw heres why i want security/privacy (i dont know my terminology)
I will be opening risky files and pirating
Don't like survillence policing/capitalism or censorship
Will be reading political things but dont want to be manipulated by my views
Love disposable identities that are hard to connect together
thanks for reading
Qubes requires a lot of configuring to be properly secure and you have to have a fair bit of understanding about virtualization.
I'd suggest starting with Whonix . It still uses some of the same virtualization technology, and like Tails routes everything over Tor, and provides excellent protection against threats on your local network (due to separating Gateway into its own VM)
Also Whonix is straightforward to set up. You first install VirtualBox, then literally just double-click the Whonix .OVA file to install. It fires up two virtual machines: Gateway and Workstation. You use the Workstation; the Gateway handles Internet traffic (and you generally don't login to it)
You can save files, customize your desktop, use it like a normal computer.
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opening risky files
For that, your best bet is a burner laptop that you re-image regularly. Qubes is also a pretty good way to do this; you'd set up an extremely locked-down execution environment for the "risky file".
But if the risky file attacks Linux-based OSes, you're hosed even under Whonix or Tails.
FREE Download Whonix. Privacy Protection. Anonymity Online. For Windows, macOS, Linux.Whonix
I feel there's a lot of bandwidth with "risky files" anyway. If that's just a select few pirated games, creating two seperate user accounts might do. I did that for a while. Had one regular account for all my files, browsing etc. And another one with Lutris and some pirated games from ye good ol times... If there's some Windows virus included, it can't access any of my files.
If someone does computer security research, or plans to deliberately execute the nastiest malware, ransomware... that's obviously not enough by any means.
But people are in different kinds of situations. So pick what's best for you. And my priorities changed over time. These days I -for example- don't pirate as much software anymore. In case I want some of my Portal2 memories back, I'll just wait for the next Steam sale and buy it for 5 bucks... and for the rest of my software needs I have Linux and the Free Software community. I still keep the separate user accounts for random games and work and personal stuff, though.
system accounts
or even better, fire up a disposable VM
Yes, operating system accounts. And a good follow-up step is to check whether that account is really unable to read the files from other accounts. Sometimes Linux distributions come with weird default settings, I think Debian allows read access to files per default. I'm not 100% sure.
Virtual machines are way better at isolating stuff. Downside might be some extra effort to set them up, and maybe some fiddling with the graphics card.
thanks but i dont have the money for a burner letalone one that is powerful enough for qubes
thanks for the commen it helps other people see this
Look op, you kind of want to drive around without wanting to put in the work to either lern how a car works or what the road rules are.
Security is not something you install and the you got it.
I highly suggest to learn what the common risks are and how they work, then how to counter them.
This whole security and privacy thing requires both effort and knowledge, that is why corpos fuck over people so much, because they ain't willing to put in the work to care.
P.s sorry I reread my answer and I come off a bit harsh, what I mean is that by prompting a community like this with your kind of questions like if we were an AI will not work towards getting you good answers. You need to learn first and one of the first lessons is that there is no security and a casual "I will be opening sketchy files". A better question is: how can I open sketchy files and still be safe?
nah its fine man 👍 thanks for the advice friend )
btw do you have any resources for learning that you recommend?
(ps i meant risky files as in i will pirate or just get curious im not a high profile guy)
You are pretty clearly just starting off on this journey. What I'll say is this:
1) Perfect is the enemy of good, as long as you understand your risk.
2) Know your risk profile as it relates to your level of proficiency. Which means that you should probably not install Qubes and then pirate a bunch of shit, because you don't even know what the pitfalls are.
If you don't know what a risk profile is, then start there. That will help you understand what you should and should not be doing at your level of knowledge. Then, just get started, but be open minded. Nothing is a silver bullet.
I've personally found Qubes to be the best privacy/anonymity solution for my risk profile, but explaining that would be hundreds of pages. You just have to try it. For example, here's one challenge: you know that VPN is recommended for torrenting. How do you use Qubes with a VPN? That is a great road to go down for understanding, and you can start by searching the Qubes forums and documentation.
Accept that this will take a good chunk of your time, especially if you only have one PC and will be daily driving Qubes. So, maybe don't start this journey during a busy time in your life when you have lots of other responsibilities. This stuff is best done as a "deep dive", where you just set aside time and work until you've accomplished your goal.
Finally: interact with the community. Hit a dead end? Post in the appropriate community (or post asking where that is). Join group chats, which are faster than forums and more personal. Don't just go it alone... you will burn out quick!
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Elena Rossini ist eine italienische Filmemacherin, Fotografin und Aktivistin. Ihre Arbeit konzentriert sich auf Themen wie Medienkompetenz, digitale Souveränität und die Nutzung der Möglichkeiten des Internets für gesellschaftliche Veränderungen.
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* Director: Elena Rossini
* Writing: Elena Rossini & Sam Aaberg
* Cinematography: Sam Aaberg & Riyen Patel
* Camera operator: Riyen Patel
* Editing & motion graphics: Elena Rossini
Special thanks to
* Marcel Costa for the Catalan translation
* Pen-Yuan Hsing for the Traditional Chinese translation
* Jan Dytrych for the Czech translation
* Fritjof for the Danish translation
* Erik Kemp for the Dutch translation
* Johannes Palola for the Finnish translation
* sknob for help with the French translation
* Severin for the German translation
* Talya for the Hebrew translation
* Benedek for the Hungarian translation
* Claudio for help with the Italian translation
* Hong Minhee for the Korean translation
* Adrian Janiak for the Polish translation
* Tarcísio Surdi for the Portuguese Brazilian translation
* Daniel Casanueva for the Spanish translation
* Jan Ainali for the Swedish translation
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Somewhat of a PSA for Qt users:
On Linux, Firefox will now default to the XDG portal file picker if available, rather than the GTK3 one, which is usually better integrated with the user's desktop environment, and more powerful.
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Edit: I talk about a patched version below, but it was an about:config toggle in more recent times.
Always needed a patched version of Firefox before for that. Presumably most distros will transparently throw that patch out of their Firefox package, so likely don't have to do anything.
But well, you don't specifically need a patched version anymore for that, so if that's a separate package on your distro, you could consider using the normal package again. Although, I believe there's also still patches floating about for using the KDE mimetype system...
I'm a "developer edition" user (beta channel) running multiple profiles from multiple system users, and the only change I noticed weeks ago was the file picker not opening at all 😬
Fixed by running firefox with dbus-launch. So that was +1 for dbus over systemd in the race to make less shit work expectedly, while killing unix/posix in the process.
wow sucks if that's true. why wouldn't they just fallback to GTK+3 file picker when dbus isn't working well?
i also kinda have dbus killed on my system, gotta see if i get this issue after my distro gets ESR 153..
You can still move your folder from .config/librewolf/ to .librewolf/ and it will use it from there. At least, it works like that in Firefox (potentially to be removed in the future, but there's no real reason to remove it any time soon).
But yeah, I don't know how that works together with KeePassXC. I mean, if it worked on LibreWolf before, then presumably moving the folder back to .librewolf/ should fix it until KeePassXC is updated...
(And yes, the .config/ directory is specified by the XDG standard.)
(Also, good shout about the directory being relevant. I guess, that's also why the extension is currently broken for me, because I was a bit too eager to switch to the .config/ dir. 🙃)
I came across an Apple iMac Retina 5K 27-inch (2017) for a really good price, how well does linux work?
Specs:
Fair question, and yet oddly, I kinda don't mind doing that.
I was using Dell windows machines for work for a long time and let me tell you for a premium priced machines and systems, you still put in a lot of support time.
When it's nearly free I'm ok with tinkering.
I used fedora for a couple years on an Intel MacBook Air I found in the ewaste bin.
The camera was the only thing to give me any problems and they were easily fixed.
I spent a lot of time customizing it so that the Mac key combos would work but ultimately gave up, but I learned of a new distro that seems to do a better job at mimicing the Mac ui including the keyboard and I'd be curious to try in your shoes.
the one I use is kega fusion, downloaded from flatpak, last updated in 2009. Being that old not all controls work correctly anymore.
Is there anything being updated nowadays?
Usually I just use whatever core comes with RetroArch.
Nowadays the best option for Sega seems to be Genesis Plus GX.
The Genesis Plus GX dev themselves recommends Ares or jgenesis though.
I have a dejavu, i was sure i already opened this report but it is nowhere to be found so i might just have thought about it and forgot it. Are there any plans to make a GUI for Genesis Plus GX? Re...Maseru898 (GitHub)
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Trump has underestimated Canadians’ willingness to endure economic pain rather than give in to U.S. pressure, Ontario Premier saysRob Gillies (The Globe and Mail)
Trump's ego must be sated.
That's what there is to 'gain'.
He's just literally a raving demented lunatic, a sundowning narcissist. A real life cariacature of a mad king, a comic book supervillain.
I don't think that's true. Trump, his administration, and the MAGA movement are fascists, not idiots. Fascism is an ideology that sees the problems of capitalism through the lenses of idealism and nationalism. They believe society can only be fixed by a visionary leader unencumbered by traditional limits on power. They don't see class conflict. Instead they see national conflict as the source of societal issues.
When the Nazis were overheating their economy in order to aggressively re-arm, their economic minister proposed some sensible fiscal policy to cool things off. However, these policies would slow the re-armament, so he was fired because he didn't have the willpower to do what needed to be done. In the end, the only way to keep getting the resources needed to keep building the war machine was to invade Poland.
This is the ideology that leads you to devalue international cooperation and instead see other nations as rivals to be dominated. Fascism won't be defeated by calling them stupid. Instead it comes from showing people that the problems of society come from class conflict.
I know you weren't trying to give some big analysis of Trump's ideology. But I can't resist an opportunity to infodump.
Another one bytes the dust. Vex is a YouTube (gaming oriented) tech channel with over 200k subscribers. He just switched and started his journey to Linux. It's a 46 minutes video, so there is lot of coverage. I think its always interesting to see of someone switching to Linux and documenting it in public, especially someone with lots of followers (OK its not a PewDiePie... but still).
Video description:
I've had this Windows laptop, the Zephyrus G16. It is fast, has a beautiful display, lightweight, well-built... but it runs Windows 11. That has always been nagging me that it is holding it back, and I have only heard amazing things about Linux for the efficiency and customizability. So let's see what it can actually do.
0:00- Windows
2:27- why stay?
5:49- THE DISTRO
7:32- installing Linux
11:20- onboarding
16:29- attempting a game + Davinci Resolve
20:45- idle power consumption
21:53- window management is incredible
24:12- fixing the brightness
24:52- Davinci Resolve... STUDIO
27:13- choppy audio
27:52- webcam is ugly
28:31- adding 120Hz!
29:24- DLSS Upgrades
30:17- boot times have been BAD
30:37- GPU switching sucks
31:12- it keeps freezing
32:02- modding a game
32:25- playing a WINDOWS game, but not in Steam
32:57- My Pros
34:34- my downsides
36:30- GAMING vs WINDOWS
41:37- creative apps...
42:33- my experience
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he seems to talk about things he doesn’t really understand
Isn't this normal if you just get started?
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I would at least pretend to learn from my mistakes. So when I skip the shader compilation, then experience freezes while shaders get loaded and the whole f***ing chat mentions it, letting them compile first and then seeing if that fixes the issue would be in fact the first thing I would try...
So no, this is not honest "showing common mistakes other people will experience" or "struggling with basics". Because if it was honest there would be any mention of the underlying issue once he understood it. And he obviously did, judging by a later offhand comment about "yeah, shader issues..."
No, you said these videos show common mistakes on purpose because real users would make them. Which is okay...
But it doesn't matter if it was an honest mistake or one made on purpose because it's a common thing.
Ignoring the chat telling him the problem (and that he caused it himself) and also not mentioning the problem's origin anymore later was not an accident. Given the fact that he later made some offhand comment about "yeah, shader thing again" he understood the problem yet intentionally chose to not include the explanation in the video but leave it at "on Linux there are random freezes I don't understand".
No, you said these videos show common mistakes on purpose because real users would make them. Which is okay…
Ehm, no that is not what I said. I mean he made mistakes that many people make, which is a showcase of common mistakes. Not that he made them on purpose.
yes, it's not pleasan to watch people commit the same mistakes you've learned from for sure and:
I just don’t like if newcomers got shamed on and discredited not understanding what they are talking about.
it's definitely gotten better, but the old RTFM sentiment is still very strong in the linux community and there are too many that make it their entire identity.
There is also a new trend, where some newcomers from Windows don't want to rely on the community and ask Ai bots instead. I'm not a big fan of doing that if you are new to a subject, but on the other hand it can be helpful if the community gets toxic, and they (I mean some random people) say it helped them. So that is another thing we have to deal with, hallucinations and such.
BTW I think there are two types of RTFM, The Read the Fucking Manual and the other explaining and helping as much and then pointing to the documentation for more, let's call it Read The Fine Manual. 😀 So yes, I do not like people just dropping and leaving the asking person helpless with the advice they should read the manual. But I'm a fan of helping and giving them a specific link to a part where the documentation can help further than I can.
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in reply to Trent • • •The only immutable distro I've tried is Bazzite. It's gaming-oriented, but can work well as a desktop. It also does offer a KDE edition, but for some reason they intentionally ship with some GNOME programs instead of the KDE ones. For example, a fresh KDE edition installation includes Ptyxis instead of Konsole.
Also, DistroWatch's search has the option to only show immutable distros. It's under the Distribution Category option. I figure that might help you find a few more options.
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in reply to ClipperDefiance • • •as of bazzite 44, konsole is now the default terminal on kde
(but bazzite kde still defaults to gnome disks)
Mordikan
in reply to Trent • • •I run NixOS as a daily driver and on a box for docker containers.
I will say that it is stable to point that since nothing seems to ever really break, I don't feel I really understand the configuration as well as I could (since I'm not having to fix things and learn).
I started with just traditional NixOS but later moved to using flakes. Because of flakes input pinning, it's much more reproducible but also even more stable. The biggest benefit I see to flakes is the use of local git for updating. Since I have git logs for auditing, if something were to go wrong, I'd just find that change in log and revert to before that commit hash (or just revert to different generation).
The biggest problem I've had is how procedurally some tasks change and sometimes are made more difficult. Symlinks is a good example of that. In Arch, symlinking is just a basic one-liner. In NixOS, it's a matter of writing config more verbosely to the
configuration.nixfile :That's a good takeaway from NixOS: things are more verbose in setup, but tend to get set once and never again.
novafunc
in reply to Mordikan • • •I like Fedora Atomic with bootc for this reason. While Nix language is quite confusing and gets even more confusing when you find online advice that has a different setup than you that introduces compatibilities, bootc is just an OCI containers that I can run bash commands in to get stuff set up.
It's still not one-to-one. Generally, I find that using bash to set things up makes more things easier than harder compared to Nix. Though Nix does make some stuff simpler.
That being said, I haven't tried NixOS in a while. I'm sure that with a decent LLMs, today its easier than ever to make a competent NixOS config. I've been meaning to try, but haven't found the time.
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in reply to Trent • • •I run Silverblue on 2 devices (my main computer and laptop) for half a year. It works and I didn't have any major issues with it. Though as you might have experienced with other immutable distros, some things like configuring gdm might be a bit more work. But for most things there is a flatpak. The only software that couldn't be installed that wat was my vpn.
If you want to try out something new, NixOS or Guix might be more up your alley
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in reply to Trent • • •All distros are immutable if you lost your root password.
I think NixOS is the way to go currently, but I personally would not use it due to the extra amount of work for little to no benefit on a single-user home machine.
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