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in reply to SocialistVibes01

I'm afraid that the freedom of "mainstream" Linux will slowly fade away. SteamOS whilst praised by many is basically a proprietary binary blop OS. Without Steam no one would give a shit about SteamOS. What makes Linux great isn't the same as what makes SteamOS "great".
in reply to deczzz

This is a concern I have as well. Normies are getting into Linux, or should I say GNU/Linux, without understanding the core concepts of Software Freedom. I feel Linux is has been ready a long time ago, but now Linux is more compatible with nonfree software. That is not really a positive thing. But atleast we are making a FLOSS OS more mainstream.

Episode18


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Episode 18, in which we discuss the desirability of imperfection and the likeness of mathematicians to cats.

Postagem de apreciação por bandeiras não-binárias alternativas


Publicação que fiz em r/naobinarie, com algumas modificações.
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Publicação original no Reddit aqui.


Algumas pessoas se fixam muito na ideia de quais bandeiras de orgulho são "oficiais", quando, na realidade, não há órgão que pode obrigar pessoas a não usar bandeiras diferentes ou criar novas bandeiras para uma determinada identidade. É verdade que a bandeira amarela/branca/roxa/cinza escura feita por Kye Rowan vai ser mais facilmente reconhecida como "a bandeira não-binária", mas é sempre possível divulgar bandeiras diferentes ou usar bandeiras menos conhecidas em situações onde não há urgência para que as bandeiras sejam reconhecidas como as mais populares, como imagens de perfis pessoais ou de grupos.

Por isso, para inaugurar o flair de cunhagem/bandeira, estou apresentando algumas outras bandeiras que podem representar a não-binaridade. 😊

Retângulo composto por três faixas horizontais, nas cores lavanda, branca e verde.

Também já vi uma de cinco cores contendo as cores da bandeira mais popular (talvez um pouco modificadas) + verde, com as cores reorganizadas da mais clara para a mais escura. Não incluí na publicação original por não ter conseguido a encontrar, mas, ao editar esta publicação para este blog, a encontrei: é esta aqui. Também encontrei esta outra bandeira, que usa as cores da bandeira mais popular mas as faixas coloridas estão na diagonal por cima do fundo horizontal preto e branco.

alot of processing freezes my pc so i have to hard reset/reboot/restart


like 95% of the time this happens its when i play minecraft (on lunar client) and in a discord call at the same time, PLEASE help 😭😭😭

distro: endeavourOS

gpu: nvidia rtx 3060 ti

cpu: amd ryzen 7 5700G

de: kde plasma wayland

if i need to add any extra info then please say so

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General resolution: LLM usage in Debian: First call for votes: corrected ballot


What do you think it'll happen and what do you want to happen?

Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not.

The choices being considered for this Debian general resolution (GR) include:

[ ] Choice 1: Ban LLM contributions from Debian via Social Contract

[ ] Choice 2: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions with conditions

[ ] Choice 3: Reject LLMs as far as practical, update Code of Conduct

[ ] Choice 4: Accept AI contributions for Debian specific work

[ ] Choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI

[ ] Choice 6: A cautious approach to generative AI

[ ] Choice 7: Debian is created by humans

[ ] Choice 8: Avoid the use of LLM: climate destruction is a deal breaker

[ ] Choice 9: None of the above

All the details on each of those choices can be found via the Debian.org vote page.

Additional details in this mailing list post with the voting details on the general resolution. The voting period began at midnight and is set to run through end of day 28 August.

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in reply to SocialistVibes01

4. Ethics
---------

LLM companies directly hurt the free software community as whole by
scraping the whole web for training data without any regard for
license, copyright, or even established conventions such as
robots.txt.[6] This has had a major negative impact on Debian's public
web resources, effectively a large scale and perpetual Denial of
Service attack on sites that many users rely on. As a consequence
parts of our infrastructure were not reachable at all, and JS-based
checks had to be enabled. Many other projects were similarly affected.
Furthermore, LLM training consumes a staggering amount of
resources[7], and the user verification systems that we have been
forced to implement as protection waste resources as well. This is
blatant disregard for the internet as a public resource, wastes system
administrator time, and although individual LLM sessions do not
directly use massive resources or DoS the public web, the fact that
they can be used at all is a direct result of these unethical
behaviours by the LLM companies.

Debian has a Social Contract. [8] Our priorities are our users and
free software. Debian is Stable. [9] Users and organizations choose
Debian because it is reliable and secure.

Debian is not here to generate as much code as possible requiring
manual review by a shrinking number of human volunteers, or to package
every piece of software, or to rush new features, but these are what
LLMs are used for.

In conclusion, allowing LLM contributions is contrary to the social
contract and the common cause of creating a free operating system with
a focus on quality and stability.

Proposal
--------

In the interest of not eroding Debian's reputation or further damaging
the community, LLM-assisted contributions should be prohibited from
inclusion in Debian.

Though our position is that LLM contributions are contrary to
documents already ratified by Debian, in order to remove all doubt, we
propose the following addition to the Social Contract:

6. Works Created through the use of Large Language Models (LLMs)

We will not allow direct contributions to Debian written with the use
or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI
tools. Direct contributions are defined as packaging, native Debian
software like lintian, documentation and translations written by
Debian contributors, and official Debian web resources, etc. Other
categories such as upstream projects written with LLM assistance may
be included at a later date. This ensures that Debian remains a
stable, trusted, and reliable operating system, and protects the
interests of the Debian volunteers who make it possible.

Possible Issues
---------------

Other projects exploring similar decisions have elicited a common
reply: "How will you enforce a ban on LLM contributions?" While
enforcement could be a challenge, this is a statement of intent by the
Debian community, and we trust this community to adhere to it in good
faith.

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What's your preferred method for upgrading your system drive?


Swapping out an old 2TB pcie 3 drive for a newer 2TB pcie 4 drive.
I was leaning towards using dd, after shrinking the partition on the source drive so it doesn't also 'copy' all the empty space.
Have you done this recently? What was your method?
Or is there a CachyOS/kde tool I may be unaware of?

Gamescope/Game Mode broken on my hardware 🙁


E: please read the entire post before replying...

Hi all. For the last several years I've been using Bazzite/Gamescope on my desktop, and even before that I was using it with ChimeraOS. It's been really great and I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Unfortunately I've begun to experience issues with games freezing. Within an hour of firing up a game, the image freezes. Audio continues playing on a loop. I'm able to pull up the menu and exit out of the game no problem. But then I fire it up and the same thing happens again.

I don't really know how to diagnose this issue but I reinstalled Bazzite fresh, same issue. Installed CachyOS-Handheld, same issue. However I tried launching games from the desktop mode and I've now spent ~20 hours gaming with no issue, but this is certainly not ideal. Any ideas on potential fixes?

E: AMD 5700x + 6800XT 16GB

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Help me choose a distro


Update: Thank you all for your kind and quick responses! I installed Void and antiX and cruised around in them a little. I ended up defaulting back to Artix in the end. The hardware issues with the NIC seem to have gotten resolved. Whatever toxicity and bigotry is present among their larger demographic, I'm going to spread as much light and love as possible. That is, until I switch OS again. 🤣

I have literally never whined about distros before. I went through some Debian based ones, some Arch based one and also installed a base version of Gentoo.

I am most fond of Arch, but after trying Artix, I found that I'm more comfortable with OpenRC as init and process management.

In addition to the latest Artix making my NIC unrecognized by the OS, the Artix forums also seem to house at least some transphobia. This is as good as any opportunity for me to finally ask the question to the world wide web:

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T480 on which I want to use mpv to play video. What Linux flavor do you recommend for a non desktop setup? I looked briefly at Slackware, but it seemed somewhat prepackaged, as opposed to configured by me.

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