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can I trim the black margins of several mkv files on debian 12.11 with ffmpeg or mkvtoolnix?

when I say trim I don't mean to time trim a file, like getting rid of the last 2 minutes of the mkv file, but to picture trim every frame of the mkv file to get rid of black margins to both left and right of the actual image.

Files were originally recorded on 4:3 aspect ratio (some are movies from the 1950's) but the encoder somehow created / copied huge black margins to both left and right of the actual image. I want to get rid of these.

Some of my files are 30 minutes long but others 2 hours.

if ffmpeg is the application I need, could anyone knowledgeable enough write the actual command?

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[GUIDE] How To Setup Rust on secureblue (with some pictures)

NOTE


For some reason, Lemmy isn't allowing me to upload more than 11 images. I will try to add the missing images after posting. It will take a while.

Edit: It isn't allowing me to add more images. If anyone is interested, I will upload the images elsewhere.

Introduction


Setting up a secure coding environment for the Rust programming language on secureblue isn't hard to do, but it's difficult to figure out on your own. That is why I am making a guide explaining how to do it yourself.

For this tutorial, I will be using the silverblue-main-hardened:latest image of secureblue. For this tutorial, I am also assuming you have enabled Flatpak permission lockdown by running ujust flatpak-permissions-lockdown.

Install a code editor


You can install whichever code editor you want, but for this tutorial I will be using VSCodium which is an open source binary of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code without telemetry.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

VScodium can be installed using the following command:

flatpak install com.vscodium.codium

Sources: 1, 2

You will be prompted to proceed with changes to the user installation. After reviewing the changes, you can press enter. VSCodium will be downloaded and installed for the current user.

You may close the terminal now.

User-interface instructions


  1. Open GNOME Software.

  1. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

  1. Select VSCodium (the blue one). VSCodium - Insiders (the orange one) is the nightly release of VSCodium, and is not recommended for daily use.

  1. Click the blue Install button on the top right. VSCodium will be downloaded and installed for the current user.

You may close GNOME Software now.

Install the Rust SDK


Rust provides multiple ways of installing. On secureblue, things are more locked down, especially with VSCodium being installed as a Flatpak. Rather than layering Rust as a system package and giving VSCodium invasive permissions to make it work, there is a much more elegant way to install Rust that isn't mentioned in their install instructions.

Flathub provides an SDK Extension for Rust that can be used for Flatpak code editors, such as VSCodium. This can only be installed from the command line. Trying to install it from GNOME Software will install an outdated version of the Rust SDK.

Open the terminal.

First, we need to find the branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk. This will allow us to install the correct version of the Rust SDK.

The branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk can be found using the following command:

flatpak info org.freedesktop.Sdk

Make a note of the version number next to the Branch: section. In my case, it is 24.08.

The Rust SDK can be installed using the following command:

flatpak install org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable

You will be prompted to select which ref you would like to install. Find the version that matches the branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk. Type the number corresponding with the version (in my case, 5), and press enter.

You will be prompted to proceed with changes to the user installation. After reviewing the changes, you can press enter. The Rust SDK will be downloaded and installed for the current user.

You may close the terminal now.

Grant Flatpak permissions


Assuming you enabled Flatpak permission lockdown, VSCodium won't have permission to access everything it needs to work properly. We need to grant these permissions manually.

We will need to create a directory to act as your project directory. VSCodium will have access to every file in this directory, so it is best to only use it for VSCodium. I am deciding to create a folder in my home directory named VSCodium to store all of my VSCodium projects.

VSCodium will need the following permissions to work:
- The Network permission, in order to efficiently install extensions and update them automatically.
- Access to a dedicated project directory, in order to create workspaces.
- Permission to access the Rust SDK, in order to support the Rust language.
- Optional access to Development syscalls, in order to use debugging extensions.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

VScodium can be granted the Network permission using the following command:

flatpak override -u --share=network com.vscodium.codium

The -u flag is an alias for --user, which will change the permission only for the current user.

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A project directory can be created using the following command:

mkdir VSCodium

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VSCodium can be granted access to the project directory using the following command:

flatpak override -u --filesystem=~/VSCodium com.vscodium.codium

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VScodium can be granted access to the Rust SDK using the following command:

flatpak override -u --env=FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=rust-stable com.vscodium.codium

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You may close the terminal now.

User-interface instructions


  1. Open Flatseal. This should be installed by default, but if you decided not to install it during the post-install of secureblue, it can be installed from GNOME Software.
  2. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar on the left, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

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  1. Select VSCodium.

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  1. To grant VSCodium the Network permission, enable the switch next to the Network permission. It should turn blue, indicating that the permission has been granted.

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  1. Open Files

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  1. Right click, and click on the option labeled New Folder... (This can also be done using Shift+Ctrl+N)

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  1. Enter VSCodium in the text field labeled Folder Name.

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  1. Click Create to create the folder. This will create a project directory for VSCodium to use.

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  1. In Flatseal, scroll down to the Filesystem section.

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  1. Click on the folder with a plus icon under the Other files section. An empty text field should appear.

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  1. Click on the empty text field.

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  1. Enter the following into the text field:


~/VSCodium

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  1. To grant VSCodium access to the Rust SDK, scroll down to the Environment section.

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  1. Click the plus icon on the top right. An empty text field should appear.

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  1. Click on the empty text field.

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  1. Enter the following into the text field:


FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=rust-stable

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You may close Flatseal now.

Open VSCodium


Now that VSCodium has the necessary permissions to function, we can finally run it.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

VScodium can berun using the following command:

flatpak run com.vscodium.codium

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User-interface instructions


  1. Press the Super key to view the dock.
  2. Click on the Show Apps button (nine dots) on the bottom right to show a list of installed apps.
  3. Click on the VSCodium icon to open it.


Install the rust-analyzer extension


Upon first launching VSCodium, you will be presented with a README.md file.

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This file has information about using VSCodium as a Flatpak. Since we have already granted it the necessary permissions, this file can be ignored.

We now need to install the rust-analyzer extension. This extension will give us a comfortable Rust development environment in VSCodium.

Keyboard instructions


Launch the VSCodium Quick Open by using Ctrl+P.

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Enter the following command:

ext install rust-lang.rust-analyzer

Sources: 1

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Press enter to install the rust-analyzer extension.

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You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can press enter to select the Trust Publisher & Install button on the bottom right.

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You may be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this workspace. After reviewing the prompt, you can select the Install button. The rust-analyzer extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

Mouse instructions


  1. Click on the Extensions menu on the left. (This can also be opened by using Ctrl+Shift+X)

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  1. Enter rust-analyzer into the search bar. This will search for the extension we need.

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  1. Click on the extension labeled rust-analyzer.

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  1. Click the Install button for the rust-analyzer extension.

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  1. You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can click on the Trust Publisher & Install button on the bottom right.

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  1. You may be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this workspace. After reviewing the prompt, you can click the Install button. The rust-analyzer extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

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The rust-analyzer extension is now installed.

Create a new project


Now that we have the rust-analyzer extension installed, we can create a new Rust project.

The keyboard instructions are broken due to the Ctrl+K keybind being unfunctional, and the Ctrl+O keybind being binded to the wrong option. Because of that, only mouse instructions are available for this step.

  1. Click on the File dropdown on the top left.

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  1. Click on the option labeled Open Folder...

You will get a dialogue saying the following:

Oops! Something went wrong.
Unable to find "/app/share/ide-flatpak-wrapper". Please check the spelling and try again.

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This can be ignored. It is appearing because we never granted VSCodium access to a specific folder, and it has no effect.

  1. Click on OK to dismiss it.

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  1. Double click on the VSCodium folder to enter it.

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  1. Right click, and click on the option labeled New Folder... (This can also be done using Shift+Ctrl+N). Alternatively, select the folder with a plus icon on the top right.

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  1. Enter the name of your project in the text field labeled Folder Name. For this example, I will create a folder named example.

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  1. Click Create to create the folder.

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  1. Click Open in the bottom left to open the folder.

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  1. You will be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this folder. After reviewing the prompt, you can select the Yes, I trust the authors button.

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  1. Press Ctrl+` to open the terminal.

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  1. The project can be initialized using the following command:


cargo init

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You have now created a Rust project, and you can get started coding in Rust.

Optional: Support for debugging


Right now, there are no debugging extensions installed. The two recommended debugging extensions are CodeLLDB and Native Debug. I prefer CodeLLDB because, as of writing this, Native Debug has not been updated in over a year. It is still in active development, but there has not been a release in over a year.

Keyboard instructions


Open VSCodium.

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Launch the VSCodium Quick Open by using Ctrl+P.

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Enter the following command:

ext install vadimcn.vscode-lldb

Sources: 1

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Press enter to install the CodeLLDB extension.

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You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can press enter to select the Trust Publisher & Install button on the bottom right. The CodeLLDB extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

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You will see a prompt on the bottom right saying the following:

Completed installing extension. Please restart extensions to enable it.

Select Restart Extensions to restart the extensions.

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Mouse instructions


  1. Click on the Extensions menu on the left. (This can also be opened by using Ctrl+Shift+X)

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  1. Enter CodeLLDB into the search bar. This will search for the extension we need.

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  1. Click on the extension labeled CodeLLDB.

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  1. Click the Install button for the CodeLLDB extension.

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  1. You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can click on the Trust Publisher & Install button on the bottom right. The CodeLLDB extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

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You will see a prompt on the bottom right saying the following:

Completed installing extension. Please restart extensions to enable it.

Select Restart Extensions to restart the extensions.

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The CodeLLDB extension is now installed.

Grant VSCodium ptrace access


If you try to debug a program using a debugger extension, you will receive the following error:

VSCodium
Cannot launch '/var/home/anonymous/VSCodium/example/target/debug/example': ptrace failed: Operation not permitted

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The reason for this is because VSCodium does not have permission to access development syscalls.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

VScodium can be granted the Development syscalls permission using the following command:

flatpak override -u --allow=devel com.vscodium.codium

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You may close the terminal now.

User-interface instructions


  1. Open Flatseal.
  2. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar on the left, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

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  1. Select VSCodium.

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  1. To grant VSCodium the Development syscalls permission, scroll down to the section labeled Allow.

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  1. Enable the switch next to the Development syscalls (e.g. ptrace) permission. It should turn blue, indicating that the permission has been granted.

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You may close Flatseal now.

Enable anti-cheat support


Even though VSCodium has access to ptrace, the system still does not permit it. This is to defend against basic security concerns. secureblue provides a toggle to enable support for anti-cheat, which will allow VSCodium to access ptrace.

Open the terminal.

Anti-cheat support can be enabled using one of the following commands:

ujust toggle-anticheat-support

or
ujust toggle-ptrace-scope

Sources: 1

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You will be prompted for your administrator passphrase. After reviewing the prompt, enter your passphrase and click Authenticate. This will enable anti-cheat support.

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You will need to restart your device to complete the changes.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

The device can be restarted using the following command:

reboot

User-interface instructions


  1. Click on the status bar on the top right.
  2. Click on the power button.
  3. Click on the option labeled Restart....
  4. You will get a prompt saying the following:


Restart
The system will restart automatically in 60 seconds

  1. Click on the button labeled Restart to restart the system now.

Anti-cheat support is now enabled, and debugging extensions will work.

Rust Programming Language

A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
www.rust-lang.org
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lemmy - Link to source

WiFi issue with iMac

E: I AM NOT USING FEDORA. Please stop linking to guides for Fedora. They will not work. uBlue/Bazzite does not use dnf.

I got a free iMac. Installed Linux on an external drive. Bazzite, specifically. WiFi does not work. My research leads me to a problem with proprietary Broadcom drivers but no solutions. If you know how to get this working, your advice would be appreciated.

Also if there's another distro that works "out of the box" on Macs with GNOME I'd be open to installing that as well.

E: "System information" says it is a

Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.77.111.1 AirPortDriverBrcmNIC-1772.1)
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lemmy - Link to source

I want to move out from Ubuntu and use something else.

I didn't intentionally pick Ubuntu, my pc went shit and I needed to install some os and the only one I had available in a usb was Ubuntu noble.

Laptop specs: I think a 7th gen inter i5, 8 GBs of ram and (the issue) a 125 GB M2.Sata SSD

I'm not really going to play games on it, it's one of those weird laptops that folds and can use a stylus.

So what would you suggest for something light in size and good with a stylus.

in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha

lemmy - Link to source

Archy

Recently install Fedora 42 KDE on one of those weird laptops with a pen - everything just works, no tinkering.
Looking at your specs - I have almost the same config, except in place of SATA SSD I installed a NVMe SSD, if course the laptop needs to support that. KDE Plasma is superior in the touch support, although the screen keyboard is a little buggy at times. But the situation in the GNOME ecosystem is a bit worse for touch/pen devices. Good luck
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lemmy - Link to source

What have you been using for cloud backups?
I had backblaze, and it's really a bummer they don't support linux. The closest one I've found is Icedrive, but it costs a bit more. I don't mind paying a bit more though for a FOSS solution (technially not free but yeah). I probably only have 2 TB of actual important stuff but it would be nice to have more for future.
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What well known maxims/rules are over exaggerated, but generally still true?

Things like don’t shake a baby (babies love to be bounced and rocked, which are honestly just gentle shaking, but even moderately vigorous shaking can seriously injure or kill an infant and you should never shake a baby in anger or anything like that) or don’t take anything with you when exiting a building when a fire alarm goes off (don’t go looking for things, but you should still put your coat on if it’s next to you and it’s cold out). What other common maxims are generally good to follow, but over exaggerated? Bonus points if it’s only a well known saying because our instinct is to do the thing, like with rocking babies.

(Please don’t think I’m telling you to shake babies or look for and carry huge stacks of files out of a burning building)

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lemmy - Link to source

SwingingTheLamp

Children and sex. Recently on local social media, there was a discussion on our topless laws. Of course, there were the predictable comments about women not going topless where children might see.

Well, why not, Karen? It's utterly ridiculous when you consider what breasts are for, and what children are meant to do with them. Yes, it's true the children shouldn't be engaging in sex acts, and the details of adult sexual behavior should be kept from them, since they're not equipped to understand, e.g. BDSM and power play, yet. But if kids see a pair of boobs, if kids see naked people, or even if kids know the basic functions of body parts, they'll be fine. Lots of kids throughout human history lived in small dwellings and heard, or even saw, parents and other members of their community having sex, and they all survived the experience.

Communicable disease? Now there's something that we should be protecting children from...

lemmy - Link to source

Trying to recreate a version control system for my music collection, with one crucial difference ... 🤯

I want to have a mirror of my local music collection on my server, and a script that periodically
updates the server to, well, mirror my local collection.

But crucially, I want to convert
all lossless files to lossy, preferably before uploading them.

That's the one reason why I can't just use git - or so I believe.

I also want locally deleted files to be deleted on the server.

Sometimes I even move files around (I believe in directory structure) and again,
git deals with this perfectly. If it weren't for the lossless-to-lossy caveat.

It would be perfect if my script could recognize that just like git does, instead of deleting and reuploading the
same file to a different location.

My head is spinning round and round and before I continue messing around with find
and scp it's time to ask the community.

I am writing in bash but if some python module could help with it I'm sure I could
find my way around it.

TIA

additional info:

  • Not all files in the local collection are lossless. A variety of formats.
  • The purpose of the remote is for listening/streaming with various applications
  • The lossy version is for both reducing upload and download (streaming) bandwidth. On mobile broadband FLAC tends to buffer a lot.
  • The home of the collection (and its origin) is my local machine.
  • The local machine cannot act as a server
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lemmy - Link to source

bastion

you know, you could also either include a lossy copy next to the lossless ones, then rsync only lossy extensions, or, if that pollutes your collection, have a separate but identically-structured directory tree, where all your lossless files have lossy copies. Then, you can rsync both folders (send-only) to your single remote (lossy extensions only).

but, yeah, Git really isn't the tool for this, agreed.

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FBI reveals there's video to prove Jeffrey Epstein killed himself
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Fox News Thursday morning that he is certain Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide while in federal custody — and there is video that supports it.

"There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case — and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly... there is video. That is something the public does not know," Bongino said in an interview on Fox & Friends.

Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.


FBI Reveals There's Video to Prove Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself

Dan Bongino, the FBI deputy director, made the remarks on Fox News Thursday.
Peter Aitken (Newsweek)

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Out-Of-Date OpenH264 On Fedora Is Frustrating Users With A High Severity CVE
While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for several months with a high severity security vulnerability.

Out-Of-Date OpenH264 On Fedora Is Frustrating Users With A High Severity CVE

While OpenH264 support coming to Fedora was widely celebrated as part of offering a better codec experience on Fedora Linux, an increasing number of Fedora users have grown frustrated with the OpenH264 packaging in that it's been out-of-date for seve…
www.phoronix.com
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When you live in Seoul and try to install snap inside of your Ubuntu docker image
When you live in Seoul and try to install snap inside of your Ubuntu docker image:
Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow  
this down by presenting a list of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located.  

  1. Africa   3. Antarctica  5. Asia      7. Australia  9. Indian    11. Etc  
  2. America  4. Arctic      6. Atlantic  8. Europe     10. Pacific  12. Legacy  
Geographic area: 5  

Please select the city or region corresponding to your time zone.  

  1. Aden         19. Chongqing    37. Jerusalem     55. Novokuznetsk   73. Tashkent  
  2. Almaty       20. Colombo      38. Kabul         56. Novosibirsk    74. Tbilisi  
  3. Amman        21. Damascus     39. Kamchatka     57. Omsk           75. Tehran  
  4. Anadyr       22. Dhaka        40. Karachi       58. Oral           76. Tel_Aviv  
  5. Aqtau        23. Dili         41. Kashgar       59. Phnom_Penh     77. Thimphu  
  6. Aqtobe       24. Dubai        42. Kathmandu     60. Pontianak      78. Tokyo  
  7. Ashgabat     25. Dushanbe     43. Khandyga      61. Pyongyang      79. Tomsk  
  8. Atyrau       26. Famagusta    44. Kolkata       62. Qatar          80. Ulaanbaatar  
  9. Baghdad      27. Gaza         45. Krasnoyarsk   63. Qostanay       81. Urumqi  
  10. Bahrain     28. Harbin       46. Kuala_Lumpur  64. Qyzylorda      82. Ust-Nera  
  11. Baku        29. Hebron       47. Kuching       65. Riyadh         83. Vientiane  
  12. Bangkok     30. Ho_Chi_Minh  48. Kuwait        66. Sakhalin       84. Vladivostok  
  13. Barnaul     31. Hong_Kong    49. Macau         67. Samarkand      85. Yakutsk

lemmy - Link to source

Which program is the one that surprised you most that it is available on Linux?
For me, it was perhaps simple-scan, a very simple and efficient GUI to scan documents. I used it with my Brother printer / scanner and it works like a charm. Especially since I do not scan stuff often, so a program with more complex UI would have the effect that I forget how to use it until the next time.

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Fediverse for teens

I have three teenage daughters who are currently not allowed on social media. But I want to give them some ability before they become adults. My eldest gave me a PowerPoint presentation on why she should be allowed on Snapchat, lol.

She made some good points. Her friend group has a group text and she wants to keep up with everyone but doesn’t want to get the ding notifications constantly.

Feels like a good opportunity for a Fediverse platform. Like a closed Mastodon/Pixelfed server and have some parental controls. Any projects out there?

don't like this

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Soar: A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage) & More
Code: github.com/pkgforge/soar
Soar is like linuxbrew (homebrew) but whose packages are 100% static & relocatable on any Linux Distro.

GitHub - pkgforge/soar: A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid]

A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid] - pkgforge/soar
GitHub
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Quetzalcutlass

If CDPR hadn't forced the team to crunch to get the game running at all on PlayStation, it probably would have been much more polished on release. A lot of the bugs you see in YouTube glitch compilations were due to this over-optimization (like NPCs vanishing or changing models when you looked away for a second).

I wonder how much better the game and its reception would have been if they'd dropped the last-gen console support during development. Those were the truly awful versions; the PC version was about even with Bethesda's launch day jank.

I also wish they'd properly managed expectations. The PC release was buggy and missing promised features, yes, but a lot of the hate came from it being a game with an open-world city with guns and driving but not mimicking GTA's systems.

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lemmy - Link to source

kemsat

Some people complain very loudly. It’s possible most of us actually had no problems & said nothing, leaving only the scorned to be heard.

So, believe it or not, what you said is why I was responding. To let you know “that performance issues are different for different people on different systems.” Seems like you forgot it yourself.

Have a nice day 😊

LandedGentry doesn't like this.

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lemmy - Link to source

Quetzalcutlass

Could you remind me what features people were upset about? I stayed away from most of the drama since CDPR has a long history of releasing a free major upgrade a year or two after release that fixes everything people complained about.

I remember the dev diaries being pretty open about dropping features during development, like the RC drone turning from a staple of your kit into something shown off once in a mission and immediately forgotten.

lemmy - Link to source

Plex now want to SELL your personal data

Text:

I consent to Plex to: (i) sell certain personal information (hashed emails, advertising identifiers) to third-parties for advertising and marketing purposes; and (ii) store and/or access certain personal information (advertising identifiers, IP address, content being watched) on my device(s) and share that information with Plex’s advertising partners. This data is used to deliver personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Your consent applies to all devices on which you have Plex installed. You can withdraw your consent at any time in
Account Settings or using this page.


Soure: plex.tv/vendors/
(Might have to clear cache)

Can also read about the changes here:
plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/

Privacy Policy | Plex

Prior Versions   What’s new in this version Clarified language in the Privacy Rights section. Updated “Who does Plex share...
Plex
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lemmy - Link to source

non_burglar

Sorry, I meant "Plex took away free remote streaming".

You're being really, really snippy. Either have a coffee or take a breather, but calling strangers liars is way offside.

I'm not lying, I can show you my Fw config. My son called me yesterday saying he couldn't watch Plex, something about the Plex pass. I just changed the Fw rule DST nat mangle port and told him to use jellyfin. The user is local, so that's dead easy. Done in 10 minutes.

And yes, most users don't have this kind of experience, granted. But Plex comes with its own stupidities, like in 2020 when my wife had to pay $5 for the Plex app so she could access our library. Or the exercise of sharing libraries if you don't have a Plex pass, which is a real pain.

But that wasn't my point. I was trying to relay that jellyfin isn't as buggy and difficult as a lot of self hosters claim.

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jagermo

I mean, if they don't want to learn, there is always netflix, prime, Disney +.

Or stay with plex, no shade.

Or you take an afternoon and build something cool like this.


GitHub - sfnemis/proxmox-traefikproxy-cloudflaretunnel: Proxmox LXC based Traefik Reverse Proxy with Cloudflare Tunnel

Proxmox LXC based Traefik Reverse Proxy with Cloudflare Tunnel - sfnemis/proxmox-traefikproxy-cloudflaretunnel
GitHub

LandedGentry doesn't like this.

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akilou

Jellyfin is hardly a no-brainer. I set it up out of curiosity a few weeks ago and my first question was how do I give access to my friends and family. So I searched, and all of the results were talking about setting up a VPN or a reverse proxy or whatever. Man, I just want to tell my mom "install this app on your tv and log in", which is exactly what Plex does.

I get that Plex is enshittifying, but pretending Jellyfin is a drop-in replacement is delusional.

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swap SSD to test run Linux?
I want to make the switch but I want to test run first before fully committing. My PC has an M.2 SSD. I was thinking I could buy another one, swap them out and put Linux on that. In an emergency, I can swap the SSD back. Does this seem like a viable/sensible path toward Linux? I don't really have too many files on my PC that I care about. I don't want to dual boot. I did that on a laptop back in the day and it was annoying.
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Einar

I'm good. But thank you for the tip.

Just posted the video, because I like that she's quite balanced in her views. The subject matter will always trigger a level of controversy, esp. on lemmy. But the advice is pretty solid.

And if Mint isn't the answer, go with Ubuntu. Or Zorin OS. Or PopOS. All of them are "right" and provide excellent beginner experiences for many people.

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FunOS - Have any of you used this

Is this a decent OS to move users off Win too that I won't have to do a lot of remote maintenance on? I have a few varied OS's installed on machines around and Cinnamon I have found to look/feel a lot like Windows 7 which would benefit the learning curve for family/friends looking or needing to find an OS to install on a machine that isn't newer.

Curious if anyone has used this, and if so if it is a good fit for those 60+ aged family members and such. They have all used Windows for work at least a decent amount, so keeping things similar is always good. A decent App Store would be nice though. I hated the default store in Pop_OS.

If I could say do updates and reboot every once in awhile and you should be fine it'd be great. Remoting in with RustDesk and hitting App Update/Upgrade being all that is needed also would be great, but you know how that goes. Someone will break something, and I just want something intuitive enough that they won't do it often.


This lean Linux distro can give your Windows 10 PC an extra 5 to 10 years of life

Don't throw away your old computer. Install a Linux distribution that'll make it feel brand new. FunOS is here to help you out.
Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
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Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out!

Configure Lemmy redirect

lemmyverse.link

don't like this

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Lilbits: Retro gaming hardware, another BlackBerry clone, and a DIY UMPC with an E Ink color display


The Onyx BOOX Poke 2 Color was one of the first eBook readers to ship with a color E Ink display. And while it’s designed for reading eBooks, periodicals, and comics, it’s basically a tablet with a sunlight readable display (with a slow refresh rate) and a relatively sluggish processor: but thanks to its Android-based operating system you can install plenty of third-party apps.

So why not […]

#2old4toys #cyberdeck #denseForever #diyUmpc #lilbits #sipeedTangConsole #unihertzTitan2

Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-retro-g…

Lilbits: Retro gaming hardware, another BlackBerry clone, and a DIY UMPC with an E Ink color display - Liliputing

Brad Linder (Liliputing)

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Fediverse Social Media Guide

Yesterday someone asked if one could do something like this, here is my version, in case you missed it !

Here is the list of all the softwares in this picture :
- Friendica
- GNUSocial / Mastodon
- Vernissage
- Wordpress / Writefreely / Pixelfed
- Loops
- Jlai.lu (French lemmy instance) / Lemmy (with the lemmy.world logo because it's more colorful than the plain lemmy logo)

Feel free to share it anywhere you want 😀

If you have any idea for other meme of this type for the Fediverse, please send me a DM and I might make a nice graph like this for you !

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Reverse engeneering a Keyboard software

Im currently trying to get my Keyboards software to work on linux, but since that won‘t be a thing, like ever, im trying to Reverse engineer the software in order to copy the get and set requests the Software sends over USB and send them over a Python Script using libUSB, so I can control it independent of OS

So I set up my Wireshark with a USB snooper and started using the software

Only problem: Since I have no idea how a Keyboard usually communicates, so I have no idea what to look for. Can someone recommend me some already reverse engeneered FOSS Keyboard software as an example? (Like the wooting software, if its even OSS)

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taaz

Unless the vendor is rolling something super custom, for the communication TO the keyboard, it should use USB HID.

Start Wireshark, filter for hid, connect the KB and the first message should be a HID descriptor of the KB, look for Output Reports (it's meant from the POV of the usb master) or Feature Reports.
Though, this will probably not yield much insight - vendors love to do the easy thing, reserve opaque 32x8 bytes as a "downlink" Output communication in the Vendor Usage Page and stuff their own protocol/encoding in there.

On linux I can recommend hid-tools for working with this, in windows I believe your only solution is Wireshark.

marcusfolkesson.se/blog/hid-re…

Happy Hacking!

E: About the already reversedsoftware, for logitech (and more) stuff, there is piper but you will want to look into the underlying daemon libratbag, there is also solaar


GitHub - libratbag/libratbag: A DBus daemon to configure input devices, mainly high-end and gaming mice

A DBus daemon to configure input devices, mainly high-end and gaming mice - libratbag/libratbag
GitHub
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NaiP

I reversed engineered a keyboard for a presentation in uni. I’ll drop you an excerpt of a written review:

Resources used
I learned the USB protocol from this (the relevant parts I needed). We’re thinking of including some basic understanding of the USB protocol in the slides.
beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/us…
I got an idea of what could be going on from the following link, specifically the section I’ve set.
github.com/openrazer/openrazer…
I deciphered the protocol using the USBHID packets that would be sent. I was highly sure it was USBHID from a pointer from another Linux community member, but this article was my third source to confirming this.
hackaday.com/2020/04/14/revers…
One of the sources for information to develop these procedures was from the openRGB wiki.
This stream has to do with reversing using URB. I find this might be out of scope, and it would’ve been way tougher to reverse engineer with this.


Feel free to ask as needed here. Spam the requests on the software while monitoring wireshark to be sure of what is what.

The other large comment by “taaz” is also very useful and parts of which I did use while reverse engineering.


Reverse Engineering USB Protocol

Open source driver and user-space daemon to control Razer lighting and other features on GNU/Linux - openrazer/openrazer
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Linux 6.16 adds the “X86_NATIVE_CPU” option to optimize your kernel build for your processorThe X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time parameter has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy w
The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time parameter has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy way to enforce the “-march=native” compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize kernel builds for your system's local CPU architecture/family. For those who want “-march=native” for Linux kernel builds on AMD/Intel x86_64 processors, you can easily include a new CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU parameter to set this compiler behavior in local kernel builds. The CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU parameter is considered when compiling the Linux x86_64 kernel with GCC or LLVM Clang when using Clang 19 or later due to a compiler bug in the Linux kernel in older compiler versions. In addition to setting the compiler parameter “-march=native” for Linux kernel C code, enabling this new Kconfig build parameter also sets “-Ctarget-cpu=native” for Rust kernel code.
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0xf

Yes, most likely need to compile it yourself. Or the distros would need a v1,v2,v3,v4 version. Also you need to know the feature set of you cpu. Distros will probably compile with the lowest common denominator, since those are compatible largest range of cpu's. Cachyos does compile it's packages for v3 optimization, I don't think that needs avx512. So can definitely see distros trying something out.

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Am I in for a bad time with an RTX 5080 on Linux?

Hey guys, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this (feel free to point me to a better community) but I'm in a weird "predicament" this summer: My AMD build plans are in shambles after receiving a free ROG Astral 5080.

Now I want to make the switch now with my current (Intel i7-13700K) hardware + this new card. I was only considering AMD before but it's really hard to say no to a video card worth more than my entire budget lol

The slightly worse performance compared to Windows is still an upgrade from my 3070 so that's fine - It's initial/recurring troubleshooting I don't really want to deal with. Most of the info I've found is from earlier this year and no one speaks highly of the beta drivers

Sorry if this is a stupid question but am I setting myself up for disappointment with this new plan? I have a few more related questions I'll toss in the comments but that's my main concern.

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Psythik

It's a Linux distro made specifically with gaming on Nvidia GPUs in mind. It's basically Arch, but GPU drivers are included with the installation, and Steam, Proton, and Wayland are already installed and configured for you.

Great performance and perfect for people who don't want to set up all this stuff themselves, but like I said earlier, no NV Control Panel or NV App.

It also comes with a "Dr460nized" theme that you may or may not like. It reeks of early 2000s adolescence, but I was a teenager in that era so I kind of like it. Of course you can easily disable it and use a more mature theme if you'd like.

For a first time Linux gamer I'd recommend Garuda.

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Want switch to linux

Hello guys i have a qustion about which distro i should use?

I want to dual boot windows and linux

I just want a safe place away from microsoft eyes to do edit and drawing and other hobbies on my pc.
And playing some games like cs2 & 2d games
Also the distro run my wallpaper engine
Should be popular distro so if i have a problem i can ask about it

Please dont tell me linux mint because i tried it 3 times and everytime i do anything simple the distro goes off and i should re install i won't give it anymore chances
thank you 😖

Edit: thank you guys for typing your suggests. after some search i will give bazzite try and if won't work like i want. I will go with the other suggests
I really enjoyed reading all your suggests

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lumpybag

Not to get into politics but the whole point of Linux is about being open and used by anyone from anywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised to see various parts of the Linux kernel, drivers, etc developed/funded by people from Israel, Russia, and many many other countries.

Edit: the point of this message, this type of approach to your OS choice will ultimately result in throwing your PC in the trash if you dig deep enough.

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IttihadChe

There is a vast difference between a community driven project like Debian taking small contributions from people who happen to be in Israel/incorporating some things from RedHat after lots of vetting and diluting and Fedora being a direct upstream testing ground for RedHat who are the primary contributors and maintainers.

No, this type of approach will not lead to you throwing your PC in the trash, it will simply lead to you being more aware of your software and how it functions,what it contributes to, and what contributes to it. Which is a good thing imo.

For example, I use LMDE. Yes, there are most definitely contributions from redhat in my machine. the difference is between

RedHat engineers -> Fedora.
And
RedHat engineers -> Fedora -> Upstream Project acceptance-> Debian -> LMDE.

I'm not saying you need to stop using Fedora. But everyone draws a line somewhere and I'm simply making my knowledge on this known for people who's line may be in a similar place to mine.

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IDEA to make this site standout why don't you make a live chatbox for people who have logged in?

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/65149489

try using this code do you think it will work?

Below is a minimal example of how you can add a real‐time chat box that only your authenticated users can use. It uses:

  • Node.js + Express for the web server
  • express‐session to track logged-in users
  • Socket.io for real-time messaging

You’ll need to adapt the authentication check to however you store your users (database, JWTs, etc.), but this will give you the core of “only logged‐in folks see/use the chat.”

1. Install dependencies

npm init -y
npm install express express-session socket.io

2. server.js

const express = require('express');
const http    = require('http');
const session = require('express-session');
const SocketIO = require('socket.io');

const app = express();
const server = http.createServer(app);
const io = new SocketIO(server);

// 1) Session middleware
const sessionMiddleware = session({
  secret: 'YOUR_SESSION_SECRET',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: false,
  // store: you can add a store like connect-mongo here
});
app.use(sessionMiddleware);

// 2) Make session available in socket.handshake
io.use((socket, next) => {
  sessionMiddleware(socket.request, socket.request.res || {}, next);
});

// Serve static files (our chat page + JS)
app.use(express.static('public'));

// 3) A simple “login” route for demo purposes.
//    In real life you’d check a DB, hash passwords, etc.
app.get('/login', (req, res) => {
  // e.g. ?user=alice
  const username = req.query.user;
  if (!username) return res.sendStatus(400);
  req.session.user = { name: username };
  res.redirect('/chat.html');
});

// 4) Protect chat page
app.get('/chat.html', (req, res, next) => {
  if (!req.session.user) return res.redirect('/login.html');
  next();
});

// 5) Handle socket connections
io.on('connection', socket => {
  const req = socket.request;
  if (!req.session.user) {
    // kick out any un‐authenticated socket
    return socket.disconnect(true);
  }

  const user = req.session.user.name;
  socket.broadcast.emit('message', {
    from: 'SYSTEM',
    text: `${user} has joined the chat`
  });

  socket.on('message', msg => {
    io.emit('message', {
      from: user,
      text: msg
    });
  });

  socket.on('disconnect', () => {
    socket.broadcast.emit('message', {
      from: 'SYSTEM',
      text: `${user} has left the chat`
    });
  });
});

server.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('Listening on http://localhost:3000/');
});

3. public/chat.html


```html


Chat Room





> Send>


> const socket = io(); > > const form = document.getElementById('form'); > const input = document.getElementById('input'); > const messages = document.getElementById('messages'); > > socket.on('message', msg => { > const li = document.createElement('li'); > li.textContent = `${msg.from}: ${msg.text}`; > messages.appendChild(li); > messages.scrollTop = messages.scrollHeight; > }); > > form.addEventListener('submit', e => { > e.preventDefault(); > if (input.value.trim()) { > socket.emit('message', input.value); > input.value = ''; > } > }); >

```

4. How It Works


  1. Session setup
    We use express-session so that when a user “logs in” (e.g. via your existing form/database), we store { user: { name: '…' } } in req.session.
  2. Socket authentication
    By re-using the same session middleware in Socket.io’s io.use(…), every incoming socket has access to socket.request.session. If there’s no session.user, we immediately disconnect() them.
  3. Real-time chat
  • On connect/disconnect we broadcast a system message.
  • On client‐side, every message the user sends is emitted and broadcast to all.
  1. Protecting the page
    We guard chat.html in Express so that if you go there directly, you’ll get bounced to /login.html (you’d build a real login page).
Next Steps


  • Integrate with your real user database. Replace the demo /login route with your own logic.
  • Persist chat history if you want to store messages (e.g. in MongoDB or MySQL).
  • Add rooms or private messaging by namespace or room support in Socket.io.
  • Style it and embed it in your existing layout (lemm.ee) CSS.
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froufox

You can fork the Lemmy repo and play with it. As people here already said, it's Rust, so you have to adapt your code. Create your feature request, discuss it with the developers community, prepare the pull request—that's how it usually done

GitHub - LemmyNet/lemmy: 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Jim East

slrpnk.net already has its own XMPP chat option where one's Lemmy username (e.g. user@slrpnk.net) is one's XMPP address, and I imagine that other instances could do something similar if they wanted. XMPP is federated, so it doesn't require any Lemmy-side coding for the federation aspect. For instance-wide chat (visible to all users of the instance), an implementation in XMPP would probably be easier as well, perhaps using some form of the group chat functionality. What does your proposal offer that cannot be done using XMPP?

Login

Chat client and blogs for SLRPNK.
movim.slrpnk.net
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The First B61-13 Gravity Bomb Is Delivered Ahead of Schedule
How do you think this could impact the balance of power among nuclear-armed states ? Might it trigger a nuclear arms race ?

The First B61-13 Gravity Bomb Is Delivered Ahead of Schedule - The National Interest

The US delivered its first B61-13 nuclear bomb nearly a year early. With enhanced yield and precision, it modernizes a key part of the nuclear triad amid rising global tensions.
Lake Dodson (The National Interest)

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PeerTube from your pocket! | JoinPeerTube
Direct link to the crowdfunding campaign (biggest news in the article)

PeerTube from your pocket! | JoinPeerTube

Thanks to your support, we (Framasoft, a small french not-for-profit) have been developing PeerTube for seven years! From a student project to a softw...
JoinPeerTube
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obsoleteacct

I don't know of a specific theme in the neubrutalism/neobrutalism style (names that are generally used to describe this style or aesthetic), but it shouldn't be too hard to make.

For anyone unfamiliar it's generally defined by flat, blocky layouts, with thick borders, single color drop shadows and a few bold high contrast colors (think CGA and EGA monitors if you're that old). It often features “unpolished” elements like flat simple shapes. Bold fonts and monospace fonts are pretty common.

There are a few resources out there if anyone wants to play around with this style.

github.com/ComradeAERGO/Awesom…
dribbble.com/shots/20764973-Ne…
nngroup.com/articles/neobrutal…


Neobrutalism: Definition and Best Practices

As a UI design style, neobrutalism focuses on raw, unrefined elements like bold colors, simple shapes, and intentionally "unfinished" aesthetics.
Hayat Sheikh (Nielsen Norman Group)
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How to use legacy OpenCL in amdgpu without using DKMS on Pop OS 22.04?

I have a pretty old laptop with an AMD dGPU and I am trying to do OpenCL compute on it to make sure that device switching is handled correctly in some stuff I am testing. All the instructions I see to install amdgpu drivers is to have --no-dkms as an install flag.
Doing
amdgpu-install --usecase=opencl --no-dkms --opencl=legacy
results in
ERROR: using '--no-dkms' with '--opencl=legacy' is not supported

Specs:

HP Pavilion 15-br158cl

CPU: i7-8550u (HD 620 iGPU and this has working compute)

GPU: Radeon 530 2 GB DDR3

RAM: 24 GB

OS: PopOS 22.04 6.12.10-76061203-generic

Clinfo -l output

Platform #0: Intel(R) OpenCL HD Graphics
 -- Device #0: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 [0x5917]
Platform #1: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

As you can see, only the platform, not a second device. Is there anything that I am missing?

I did post this on reddit in the PopOS subreddit.
reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1…

Reddit - The heart of the internet

www.reddit.com
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Wireless keyboard disconnects when idle for ~2 minutes

I'm on Bazzite Linux 42 and was having some trouble with my 2.4GHz wireless keyboard disconnecting, so I decided to replace it. The new one is having similar issues despite being a different brand (new: XVX, old: Royal Kludge), so I suspect the culprit may actually have been software all along. I have a 2.4GHz wireless mouse connected to the same system that is generally reliable, so I don't believe it's an issue of 2.4GHz interference. The keyboards work well when connected to my Mac, so I don't believe it's faulty hardware.

This keyboard has one feature that may be helpful in troubleshooting: it flashes an LED when it’s trying to reconnect. (The previous one had no indicator.) I can clearly see that, after the keyboard has been idle for a bit, it starts trying to reconnect again. I suspected a power management issue, but I believe I’ve disabled that. I started with a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1038", ATTR{idProduct}=="1830", TEST=="power/control", ATTR{power/control}="on"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0c45", ATTR{idProduct}=="fefe", TEST=="power/control", ATTR{power/control}="on"

(These rules disable power management for both keyboard and mouse, just in case.) I got the IDs with lsusb. I’m assuming the part of the ID before the colon is the vendor ID and the part after is the product ID.

That didn’t seem to help at all, so I tried disabling USB power management with rpm-ostree kargs --append-if-missing="usbcore.autosuspend=-1". That made the problem better, but now it just seems to take longer (a couple of minutes) for the keyboard to lose connectivity. Also, now when it loses connectivity, it seems even disconnecting and reconnecting the dongle doesn't always fix it.

Anyone have ideas what I might try from here?

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RadDevon

Since posting this, I've also tried installing powertop and checking the tunables. According to lsof -t, the dongle is connected directly to the root hub (under only xHCI host controller). I noticed in powertop that those controllers were still under power management, so I disabled them. That didn't seem to help. The keyboard still lost connection.
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This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs

This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in Plasma"! Every week we cover the highlights of what's happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
This Week in Plasma: File Transfer Progress Graphs
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Buffalox

You can use sync in terminal. But it's tricky because it sometimes returns even when the writing isn't finished.
My method is to use sync multiple time, if it returns immediately 2 times it should be clear,
Only then do i dismount the stick, because I don't like to dismount a device with pending operations.
But when the dismount says the stick is ready to be removed, you should be clear.
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In case you missed it, LXQt and Xfce both support Wayland now

Both don't ship with their own Wayland compositor, but there are enough to choose from.

Xfce comes with a wayland session using labwc out of the box, but was also tested with Wayfire. The devs state you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for the native window manager xfwm to be ported into a Wayland compositor, since they don't know if/when it will be done. Almost all other Xfce components support Wayland now, while retaining X11 compatibility.

LXQt's newest stable release has full Wayland support, with 7 different Wayland compositors to choose from within a GUI settings menu: Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri

xfce.org/about/news/?post=1734…
lxqt-project.org/release/2024/…

Release LXQt 2.1.0 | LXQt

The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.1.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.
lxqt-project.org

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Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going?

I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

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karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social) "MAINTAINERS: Remove myself"
Following the R4L debacle "you are cancer, you are the problem, we are the thin blue line", another maintainer steps down from the Linux Kernel

karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social)

I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer. I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa.
chaos.social
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Arbitration at least, or some form of: Torvalds Yes to Rust, No to Small-town Dictators
Besides Marcan resignation, not much on other recent turmoils, or, more importantly in my view, the use of "Thin blue line" in the language of the anti-rust dev

As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase

Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can’t interfere with it.
Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
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Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

Arch is aimed at people who know their shit so they can build their own distro based on how they imagine their distro to be. It is not a good distro for beginners and non power users, no matter how often you try to make your own repository, and how many GUI installers you make for it. There's a good reason why there is no GUI installer in arch (aside from being able to load it into ram). That being that to use Arch, you need to have a basic understanding of the terminal. It is in no way hard to boot arch and type in archinstall. However, if you don't even know how to do that, your experience in whatever distro, no matter how arch based it is or not, will only last until you have a dependency error or some utter and total Arch bullshit® happens on your system and you have to run to the forums because you don't understand how a wiki works.

You want a bleeding edge distro? Use goddamn Opensuse Tumbleweed for all I care, it is on par with arch, and it has none of the arch stuff.

You have this one package that is only available on arch repos? Use goddamn flatpak and stop crying about flatpak being bloated, you probably don't even know what bloat means if you can't set up arch. And no, it dosent run worse. Those 0,0001 seconds don't matter.

You really want arch so you can be cool? Read the goddamn 50 page install guide and set it up, then we'll talk about those arch forks.

(Also, most arch forks that don't use arch repos break the aur, so you don't even have the one thing you want from arch)

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Linux

Why do many people dislike Linux?
Freedom and openness:
Open source, No vendor lock-in, Many distributions
Security:
By default, more secure than Windows.
Fewer viruses.
Regular security updates.

And now briefly.

Control & Flexibility,Free, Developer Friendly, Productivity, Education & Understanding, Support & Community, Support & Community, Package Managers, Server & Cloud Friendly

Oh yeah, I forgot about our gamers! They will whine that you can't play games on Linux. It's very funny because for a long time there has been a program called lux-wine that allows you to open 95% of .exe programs and even more so you can choose any version of Windows without downloading anything, there is like proton and so on.

I am ready to talk to anyone about this topic, but not for the purpose of humiliation or insult.

You can speak and answer in any language, but please write in English at the beginning, in what language you gave the answer.
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deur

What's Linux? Why are you making a strawman to found yoer disagreement, there is no inherent value to what you believe to be obvious.

"Linux the kernel" is a wonder of the software world. One free and open source kernel codebase to rule them all, a culture, a license that enshrines that culture. The kernel is great as it is.

"Linux the kernel packaged with software used on the desktop" is flaming garbage. That's not to say it's worse, modern windows is like using the lava from Chernobyl to keep warm on a brisk evening. MacOS is relatively acceptable but Apple isn't. Open source BSD based OSes are cumbersome on the edges of general computing. Android is all but Google OS at this point. Ultimately no practical, actually useful alternatives to linux on the desktop actually exist. This does NOT mean we have to convince ourselves it is actually good.

"Linux the kernel and a server OS package" is great, can't go wrong with this. Love it, genuinely.

"Linux for embedded devices" is a fucking travesty. Still happens.

Various opinion roundup:

  • nix is the only case of anyone ever truly imagining what they could do with a Linux system
  • "open source" does not provide value, the implications do, when true
  • Linux is as secure as your dedication to never using software from outside the package manager is. Oh you installed discord? steam? compiled something and fetched dependencies? Those aren't the package manager, oops! (Discord gladly downloads its own updates whether you think you've stopped that or not)
  • Fewer viruses you've heard of
  • Regular security updates is a low effort troll given the corporate OSes are paid to do so
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Is there a Lemmy server/way that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers?

So, I am one of those old school types who mains with Firefox and Noscript. And also a filthy casual that just goes on lemmy.world. But half the images are broken because I'm expected to allow scripts on like 30+ sites to see most of the posts. I'm literally expected to allow /all/ the scripts from a domain just so I can see a dang picture behind the thumbnail. That's the entirety of the scripting needed. That seems ridiculous. Is there, I don't know, a server/way that makes it so I don't have to blanket allow all these scripts? To put it in meme form (not sure I'm doing it right, never seen the show): "It's an image of a banana Michael, what should it take, one Raspberry Pi running Docker?"

[EDIT 6/1/25 - thanks to everyone who commented on this. Screenshots: lemmy.world/comment/17403335 ]

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AMD vs Nvidia

I am going to buy a new graphics card and can't choose between Nvidia and AMD. I know that Nvidia has bad reputation in Linux community but how really it works? And I heard recently their drivers got better. What can you recommend?

P. S. I don't want any proprietary drivers (so I am talking about Nouveau or any other FOSS Nvidia driver if it exists)

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vintageballs

Just not true anymore. Must have been years ago that you used Nvidia on Linux. As someone who has been using Nvidia GPUs under Linux (Manjaro KDE mostly), recently also under Wayland (since plasma 6), I can attest that the experience is very good, no "tons of small issues".

Still though, since OP wants no proprietary drivers, he has to go for AMD, since nouveau is dog shit.

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Reassessing Wayland
So a bit under 3 years ago, I made my infamous Wayland rant post that is likely the most read post on this blog by miles. I should really actually write about music again one of these days, but that's a topic for another time. The language was perhaps a bit inflammatory, but I felt the criticisms I made at the time were fair. It was primarily born out some frustrations I had with the entire ecosystem, and it was not like I was the only sole voice. There are other people out there you can find that encountered their own unique Wayland problems and wrote about it.

With that post, I probably cast myself as some anti-Wayland guy which is my own doing, but I promise you that is not the case. You can check my mpv commits, and it's businesses as usual. Lots of Wayland fixes, features, and all that good stuff. Quite some time has passed since then, and it is really overdue look at the situation again with all the new developments in mind. To be frank, my original post is very outdated and it is not fair to leave it up in its current state without acknowledging the work that has been done. So in comparison to 3 years ago, I have a much more positive outlook now.

Reassessing Wayland

dudemanguy.github.io

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Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace
As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I'd like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmar…

flohmarkt

federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub
Codeberg.org

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Missing comments - how does it work?

Just looking at this post as an example, on lemmy.world show it has 29 comments, but when i open it, there are now only 3 or 4. I replied to one comment, the user i replied to got banned, and the whole comment tree is gone from lemmy.world. Other instances still show all comments, including those from the banned user and my reply.
I think it’s very confusing when a single post appears with different comments on different instances, and have no idea how this works.

Edit: why am i forced to upload a photo for a new post?

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"I'll move to Linux if it runs every game I want" just say that you never will move

I hate when people say that they'll only move when it has 100% support

People who say 'cant wait for steamOS to come out so that I can move to it' is also very similar

They never will try Linux, even if what they want comes true

They won't do it, whether they just fear change or think it'll break stuff or they can't bother

And I'm not going to lie, I don't hate them or debate with them for it, I just hate the bold lies they tell just to get with the crowd

"Fuck you Microsoft, I'm moving to Linux" says the individual that would never move if they haven't already

Frankly, I probably wouldn't move either if Windows didn't permanently break my ethernet and WiFi drivers, and reinstalling windows wasn't harder than installing Linux, fucking hell

Either way, these people kick up hype for a Linux that will be so much bigger but they never arrive

Maybe they will, due in fucking 2028 or something when they invent a really easy way to use built in Linux tools to move your files from NTFS to Linux and then when you launch steam you have a perfect library of Linux compatible games that are as good or better than windows

And don't lie, even now with 80% compatibility it feels more like 60%, whether because it depends on the system one runs or because the performance drops just make it not worth it...

At least don't lie that you'll move to Linux at a goal post that you'll just move whenever you get close, maybe say that you'll move to Linux when you finally get a new pc with a new disk or something?

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Reil

It's a little strange that you think "I want feature parity with what's working for me (from my perspective)" is:

1) A lie.
2) Unreasonable to ask for.

The healthy responses would be "Well, I hope either support grows or your needs change, because of some philosophical reasons you might not care about... yet" or, if they're open to it "Oh, it can do this if you put a little work in, let me help you."

The unhealthy response is to accuse people of moving goalposts as if someone's tool of choice is a political debate. It can be, obviously, given FOSS philosophies, but honestly this kind of screed just drives people away.

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This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”

This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”

This week was all about the quality of life features! As we close in on Plasma 6.2 (the soft feature freeze is in four days, eek!), some great work that’s been in progress for a long time got…
Adventures in Linux and KDE

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Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs

Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs

Microsoft has issued a security update that has broken dual-boot Linux and Windows machines. The update wasn’t supposed to reach dual-boot PCs.
Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Nick

So they were trying to patch systems that use GRUB for Windows-only installs? What a load of BS. Why would anybody install GRUB to boot only Windows with that? Or am I overlooking something?

Furthermore, if GRUB has a security issue, they should've contributed a patch at the source instead of patching it themselves somehow.
I'm a bit stunned at the audacity of touching unmounted filesystems in an OS patch. Good thing Windows still doesn't include EXT4 and BTRFS drivers because they might start messing with unencrypted Linux system drives at this rate

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What distro do you use for your servers?

I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.

I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.

Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.

In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.

So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?

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What is happening in Norway, and how do we spread it?
Source
Linux currently 29.1%
Sample size according to StatCounter: 24,353,436 page views

Desktop Operating System Market Share Norway | Statcounter Global Stats

This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in Norway based on over 5 billion monthly page views.
StatCounter Global Stats
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Would being a Linux "power user" increase my chances of getting a job in IT/tech?
I'm trying to get a job in IT that will (hopefully) pay more than a usual 9 to 5. I'm been daily driving Linux exclusively for about 2 1/2 years now and I'm trying to improve my skills to the point that I could be considered a so-called "power user." My question is this: will this increase my hiring chances significantly or marginally?

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What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using?

For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).

Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.


GitHub - YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to YaLTeR/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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What's on your personal server?

Either self-hosted or cloud, I assume many of you keep a server around for personal things. And I'm curious about the cool stuff you've got running on your personal servers.

What services do you host? Any unique stuff? Do you interact with it through ssh, termux, web server?

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perishthethought

You might like to search this community, and also \c\self_hosted, since this question gets asked a lot.

For me:

  • Audiobookshelf
  • Navidrome
  • FreshRss
  • Jellyfin
  • Forgejo
  • Memos
  • Planka
  • File Storage
  • Immich
  • Pihole
  • Syncthing
  • Dockge

I created two things - CodeNotes (for snippets) and a lil' Weather app myself 'cause I didn't like what I found out there.

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Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows

This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.

Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)

Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.


Latest Crowdstrike Update Causes Blue Screen Of Death On Microsoft Windows, Multiple Users Affected

Latest Crowdstrike Update Issue: The issue seems widespread, affecting machines running various CrowdStrike sensor versions. CrowdStrike has acknowledged the problem and is currently investigating the cause.
Moinak Pal (Times Now)
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shirro

I isn't even a Linux vs Windows thing but a competent at your job vs don't know what the fuck you are doing thing. Critical systems are immutable and isolated or as close as reasonably possible. They don't do live updates of third party software and certainly not software that is running privileged and can crash the operating system.

I couldn't face working in corporate IT with this sort of bullshit going on.

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How Long Should Hardware/Software Support Last?

A while back there was some debate about the Linux kernel dropping support for some very old GPUs. (I can't remember the exact models, but they were roughly from the late 90's)

It spurred a lot of discussion on how many years of hardware support is reasonable to expect.

I would like to hear y'alls views on this. What do you think is reasonable?

The fact that some people were mad that their 25 year old GPU wouldn't be officially supported by the latest Linux kernel seemed pretty silly to me. At that point, the machine is a vintage piece of tech history. Valuable in its own right, and very cool to keep alive, but I don't think it's unreasonable for the devs to drop it after two and a half decades.

I think for me, a 10 year minimum seems reasonable.

And obviously, much of this work is for little to no pay, so love and gratitude to all the devs that help keep this incredible community and ecosystem alive!

And don't forget to Pay for your free software!!!

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9 year hardware upgrade, running arch 😱

I undertook a sizeable upgrade today, bringing a skylake era build into the 2020s with a 13th gen. All core components- memory, motherboard, GPU, everything must go... except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldn't let my OS go. I have spent years tweaking and tuning, molding my ideal computing environment. We pushed forward.

Well I'm pleased to say it was mostly uneventful. The ethernet adapter was renamed causing misconfigured dhcp, but otherwise it booted right up like nothing happened. Sorry, linux is boring now.

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Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?

I have tried Linux as a DD on and off for years but about a year ago I decided to commit to it no matter the cost. First with Mint, then Ubuntu and a few others sprinkled in briefly. Both are "mainstream" "beginner friendly" distros, right? I don't want anything too advanced, right?

Well, ubuntu recently updated and it broke my second monitor (Ubuntu detected it but the monitor had "no signal"). After trying to fix it for a week, I decided to wipe it and reinstall. No luck. I tried a few other distros that had the same issue and I started to wonder if it was a hardware issue but I tried a Windows PC and the monitor worked no problem.

Finally, just to see what would happen I tried a distro very very different than what I'm used to: Fedora (Kinoite). And not only did everything "just work" flawlessly, but it's so much faster and more polished than I ever knew Linux to be!

Credit where it's due, a lot of the polish is due to KDE plasma. I'd never strayed from Gnome because I'm not an expert and people recommend GNOME to Linux newbies because it's "simple" and "customizable" but WOW is KDE SO MUCH SIMPLER AND STILL CUSTOMIZEABLE. Gnome is only "simple" in that it doesn't allow you to do much via the GUI. With Fedora Kinode I think I needed to use the terminal maybe once during setup? With other distros I was constantly needed to use the terminal (yes its helped me learn Linux but that curve is STEEP).

The atomic updates are fantastic too. I have not crashed once in the two weeks of setup whereas before I would have a crash maybe 1-2 times per week.

I am FULLY prepared for the responses demanding to know what I did to make it crash and telling me how I was using it wrong blah blah blah but let me tell you, if you are experienced with Windows but want to learn Linux and getting frustrated by all the "beginner" distros that get recommended, do yourself a favor and try Fedora Kinoite!

edit: i am DYING at the number of "you're using it wrong" comments here. never change people.

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Whatever happened to Elon Musk? Tech boss drifts to margins of Trump world

On Monday, the Politico website published an analysis under the headline “Why has Elon Musk disappeared from the spotlight?” It found a sharp drop in the number of times that Trump posted about Musk on his Truth Social platform, from an average of four times a week in February and March to zero since the start of April.

In addition, White House officials no longer fill their social media feeds with Musk-related content. Reporters seldom ask about him at the White House press briefing. Members of Congress are giving his name a wide berth.

Musk seems to be taking the hint. This week, the Tesla chief executive confirmed that he had reduced his role as the unofficial head of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to just two days a week, and will also cut his political spending substantially – the latest public signal that he is shifting his attention back to his business empire amid growing investor concerns.


Whatever happened to Elon Musk? Tech boss drifts to margins of Trump world

The president’s billionaire backer was ever-present at the start of Trump’s term but is now pulling back from politics – and Republicans want to keep it that way
David Smith (The Guardian)

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Found a printer and Linux saves the day again

I was walking home yesterday and I just happened to come across an HP LaserJet p2035n sitting by the dumpster, waiting to be taken away. I've never owned a printer, but this thing looked like it came from an era when such devices were made to be reliable instead of forcing DRM-locked cartridges, so I picked it up and took it with me. After getting situated I started some online research and I figure this brand of printers was manufactured from about 2008-2012, and my printer has a 2012 date.

As it turns out, this tossed printer works perfectly fine. I plugged it into power and ran a test sheet, and it prints almost perfectly. I plugged it via USB-B into my PC running Fedora 41 and immediately it gets picked up and added as usable printer. I then plugged the printer into its Ethernet port and fortunately this thing is new enough to have Bonjour (i.e. mdns) services so once again my PC just immediately finds it and can print. Awesome!

My laptop is a MacBook. While it did detect the printer over the network, it couldn't add the printer because it couldn't find a driver to operate it. I honestly don't understand why that's a problem since I assume macOS also uses CUPS just like Linux. But at any rate, I found the solution:

With CUPS on Linux I can share the printer. After configuring firewall-cmd to allow the ipp service now my iPhone and my MacBook can also print to the shared printer using the generic PostScript driver. So, in conclusion, Linux helped me 1) use this printer with no additional effort of installing drivers, 2) share this printer to devices which were not plug-and-play ready, and 3) print pics of Goku and Vegeta. As always, I love Linux.

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Shuttle Nano AI Mini PC G1 is a Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered computer


After Qualcomm introduced its Snapdragon X processor family last year, nearly every major PC maker introduced one or more laptops that would use a Snapdragon X series processor. But it’s been harder to find desktop computers using the chips. Lenovo and GEEKOM have both introduced models, but for the most part they still seem to be listed as “coming soon” rather than available for […]

#computex2025 #miniPc #shuttle #shuttleNanoAiMiniPcG1 #snapdragonX

Read more: liliputing.com/shuttle-nano-ai…

Shuttle Nano AI Mini PC G1 is a Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered computer - Liliputing

Brad Linder (Liliputing)

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GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releases

GNU Taler begins operating in Switzerland, distributed by the Taler Operations AG. Gnu Taler aims to be a “digital wallet” and has been used by the swiss national bank as well as the european national bank as a example for how a digital currency handed out by the state could work. It aims to be as privacy preserving as cash for the buyer while not allowing the seller to evade taxes.

Currently the Taler is brought out by a special organisation, the “Taler Operations AG”, and not the national bank, although both the national bank as well as the Taler Team have shown interest in a official digial currency by the national bank based on the Taler. But we need to relativate as the national council has stated that the introduction of a digital currency would probably take relatively major legislative changes and therefore take a bit of time.


Digital Payment System GNU Taler Gets Green Light to Operate in Switzerland

GNU Taler, the privacy-preserving digital payment system, is now Swiss ready.
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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malank

Very interesting thanks for the explanation.

I think that makes some sense to me. I’m moderately familiar with signatures and encryption. I’m going to do some more research into blind signatures now since that’s one thing I have never had to implement.

Without doing that research, I still feel that the bank or whatever could store the signature info at the time of signing with the account that requested it, but perhaps the blind signing even protects against that if the verification process is done in some way that the original signing request info isn’t present in the same form.

Anyway, thanks for the response!

ETA:

Oh the other hole in the ATMs I was talking about assuming a malicious ATM. Since the coin can only be verified by depositing it, (without doing more research on this) I still don’t see a way to verify that the ATM actually gave you a valid signature. Maybe it’s possible to validate the signature before unwrapping the coin, then impossible to validate the unwrapped coin that is given to the merchant. I could see that.

Also presumably these could be bank ATMs and not sketchy Bitcoin ATMs so maybe the malicious case isn’t as much to worry about.

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malank

How would one acquire tokens anonymously but in a way that you can verify that you acquired genuine tokens, and what keeps those tokens from being given to multiple people? This is really where the privacy aspects fall down. It’s a hard problem to solve in Bitcoin, but at least you can have Bitcoin ATMs that you can verify that you received the funds.

A Taler ATM it seems could issue invalid tokens or issue the same tokens to every client and there would be no way to know until you tried to spend it or deposit it in your account (thus defeating the anonymity).

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_thebrain_

My company uses a VPN where the client is so slow inside the VM it is functionally useless. 99%of the time I can still get away with it because my connection amounts to a couple of telnet sessions, but when I actually need data or a spreadsheet or something transferred local, I need to fire up windows directly to snag it.

Sonicwall has a VPN client that will run fine on Linux (or so they say), but the company won't switch over to it. And sonicwall considers the windows only version eol and won't add a Linux version

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Are my DVD/VOB files broken?

I have copied a DVD of an old family video to my computer but am having trouble playing or converting all of the video content.

If I open the DVD directory in VLC or MPV to play it I can see that the video is 1h46m but it will only play the first 14m53s, which seems to correspond with a 'chapter'. If I open the directory in Handbrake it will detect the full video length of 1h46m and a total of 8 chapters but will only convert the first chapter. Ffmpeg will convert the three main .VOB files to .mkv but the output files only add up to 30m or so of video, which is an improvement over opening the DVD directory in a media player or converting it using Handbrake but still doesn't pick up the full video length.

What, if anything, can I do?

Thanks

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brucethemoose

You need software (like MakeMKV) to read the metadata from the DVD and properly chop up or combine the video files. It should be able to export without any re-encoding.

On a separate note, if you want to shrink the files, I’d recommend av1an if you are comfortable with a little CLI and want the best possible encoding efficiency. In a nutshell it chunks videos and encodes them in parallel, hence its great for really long files like movies/TV on DVDs.

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[Review] SkyRC MC5000 battery charger and analyzer – a worthy successor to the MC3000?

As a flashlight enthusiast, you might be interested in this new professional battery charger and analyzer for checking and maintaining your batteries.

The full review is available here


English review at BudgetLightForum
German review on my website

Summary


For many years, the SkyRC MC3000 has been considered one of the best chargers for round batteries. The user has full control over the charging process and can set not only the charging current but also many other parameters. It can also connect to a PC or smartphone for settings and data logging.

And here comes the new SkyRC MC5000!

I was really looking forward to the SkyRC MC5000: a modern design with a large color display, innovative scroll-wheel input, charging currents of up to 5 A per slot, Bluetooth connectivity and advanced analysis features.

All in all, everything has worked so far, but the range of functions still seems somewhat limited. Many enhancements could potentially be introduced through firmware updates, such as expanded parameter ranges, more effective use of the status LEDs and possibly even support for 1.5V Li-ion batteries. The absence of program memory slots is particularly disappointing. At this price point, a PC interface for control and data logging should also be included.

In its current form, the SkyRC MC5000 is still a long way from being a real successor for the MC3000. It is not a bad device by any means, but it does not yet fully meet the expectations I have for a professional charger in this class.

[Review] SkyRC MC5000 battery charger and analyzer – a worthy successor to the MC3000?

BudgetLightForum.com
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Nanook

@SammysHP That's great except just how many primary batteries do you need to replace before this thing pays for itself? Pricing is not justified. I spent a whole of $30 for a unit from popular mechanics of all places. it charges every chemistry except lithium ion, I have separate chargers for those, does so individually for each battery so I can put say an NiMH in one slot, an alkaline in another, and it will charge as appropriate for each.
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SammysHP

I live in a world of mostly Li-ion batteries around me, NiMH come second. Primary (alkaline) batteries? Nope, never use them because of their poor performance, environmental problems and because they leak.

Not all of my devices can charge their Li-ion batteries. A simple charger is enough in most scenarios. You only need an analyzing charger if you want to monitor and maintain the performance of your batteries.

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Nanook

@SammysHP The reason I use Alkaline in some applications is I have some devices where voltage is important and they will not run on 1.35 NiMH voltage but they will run on 1.6 Alkaline voltage. But I agree, performance is bad. Unfortunately the 1.5v lithium ion cells aren't really 1.5v, they're 3.7 or so and regulated down. This causes two issues, the regular introduces a lot of RF noise, and the voltage is flat right up to the point of complete exhaustion so you can't tell when the battery is ready to crap out.
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SammysHP

This causes two issues, the regular introduces a lot of RF noise


Yes, unfortunately that is true …

and the voltage is flat right up to the point of complete exhaustion so you can’t tell when the battery is ready to crap out.


There are many models with a voltage warning (either dropping to 1.1V or slowly decreasing voltage):

If there are two batteries in series, you could also try a single LiFePO₄ (with protection circuit), as it keeps a rather stable voltage around 3.2V.

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Screwed up permissions, ownership, attributes on large fs. How to reset?

I have been playing around with chmod, chown, setfacl and special bits trying to get multiple system/full users in same group correct access permissions to my media collection.

But I've messed it up somehow and now I'm having weird problems that are hard to track.

I would like to set my whole collection back to the defaults.

What is the best way to do this?

One problem I've had when making changes to so many files is the process seems to go forever without completing. Eventually it gets killed so my filesystem has variable attributes throughout. how can this be worked around?

I want everything to be owned by myuser, group media, everything else default I will sort it from there once I have a fresh slate.

And is there a way to backup these attributes only? I don't have enough storage to backup the files themselves.

It is Debian with ext4 filesystem.

Edit to add: Media collection is on its own separate drive/filesystem; this has no impact on anything else on the computer.

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layzerjeyt

I'm not familiar with chacl ("change the access control list of a file or directory"). Is is similar to setfacl ("set file access control lists")? A matter of preference/habit?

It seems like -B does "Remove all ACLs". Which I guess is what I am asking for? Files on linux are OK to have no ACLs?

About the find ... {} +, I see {} +

runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be much less than the number of matched files.


So does it wait until it has found all the matches to run the command as a giant batch instead of running it as it finds matches?

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ReversalHatchery

So does it wait until it has found all the matches to run the command as a giant batch instead of running it as it finds matches?


almost. it runs the command in batches, if you have few enough files it may only run it once. this shouldn't make it slower, but actually faster.

and yes, linux does not use ACLs by default. ~~on ext4 usage of ACLs is not even enabled by default, but only if you set it up with the right mount option~~

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User Experience Study on BookWyrm – Looking for Your Feedback

Hi everyone,

As part of a UX/UI design project for my studies, I’m currently analyzing the user experience and interface of BookWyrm. The goal is to identify areas for improvement while respecting the platform’s core values (decentralization, simplicity, accessibility, etc.).

I’m looking to gather feedback from actual or potential users of the platform. If you have a few minutes, your answers to the questions below would be extremely helpful:
- What do you like most about BookWyrm? Which features do you use most frequently?
- Are there any features or interactions that you find frustrating or unintuitive?
- What features do you think are missing or could be improved?
- How do you feel about the interface (design, readability, navigation)?
- Do you use BookWyrm (or similar platforms) mainly to manage your personal library (individual use), or to get recommendations, join discussions, and engage with others (social use)?
- Do you mainly use BookWyrm on a mobile device or on a computer? And why?
- Do you also use other platforms (e.g., Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing)? If yes, what makes you prefer one over the other?
- If you’ve never used BookWyrm, what’s holding you back? And conversely, what might encourage you to use it regularly?

Thank you so much for your input. I’d be happy to share the results of this analysis here if there’s interest.

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Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools

Discussing a breaking change in Python's setuptools.

The really interesting part is in the discussion section.... and it shows once more how incredibly well-designed the GNU Guix package manager is -- which solves these problems very very well, for arbitrary languages and with a fast growing distribution of, by now, about 50,000 packages.

Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools

In late March, version 78.0.1 of Setuptools — an important Python packaging tool — was released [...]
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HaraldvonBlauzahn

Guix is really making fantastic progress and is a good alternative in the space between stable and fully FOSS distributions, likes Debian, and distributions which are more up-to-date, like Arch.

And one interesting thing is that the number of packages is now so large that one can frequently install additional more recent packages on a Debian systems, or ones that are not packaged by Debian.

For example, I run Debian stable as base system, Guix as extra package manager (and Arch in a VM for trying out latest software for programming).

The thing is now Guix often provides more recent packages tham Debian, like many Rust command line tools, where Debian is lagging a bit. There are many interesting ones, and most are recent because Rust is progressing so fast. Using Guix, I can install them without using the language package manager, regardless whether iy is written in Rust, Go, or Python 3.13.

Or, today I read an article about improvements in spaced repetition learning algorithms. It mentioned that the FLOSS software Anki provided it, and I became curious and wanted to have a look at Anki. Well, Debian has no "anki" package - and it is written, among other languages, im Python and Rust, so good luck getting it on Debian stable. But for Guix, I only had to do "guix install anki" and had it installed.

This works a tad slower than apt-get ... but it still saves time compared to installing stuff and dependencies manually.


GitHub - sts10/rust-command-line-utilities: A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust - sts10/rust-command-line-utilities
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