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Void linux. Package managers. Alternative to AUR?

Helloo, firstly this might be long post about people talking void linux hasnt much packages in opposite of arch which has aur, so i will try conveince some people to void linux and will tell also something about package managers.

Package manager is a thing that keeps organized all programs on your pc, normally u would have to go to site, download .deb or .tar.xz and etc. package manager takes cares of doing that and manager also integrates this package with system, so when theres update and something is added or deleted, package manager will take care of all.

Okay, so if its only downloading then why AUR has 97587 packages, and XBPS-SRC (void linux - aur alternative kinda) has much less? It's because AUR is community, anyone can maintain some package, XBPS-SRC also has community but by pulling requests to merge TEMPLATES, but that doesn't mean u can't add your own TEMPLATES.

Wait, wait, wait, what are TEMPLATES?

Its kind of script which makes Package manager do its thing. Templates in XBPS-src and "PKGBUILD?" in AUR are similar.

We have to tell in this script: what package, what version, give link to download and etc.

Example of TEMPLATE in XBPS-SRC for DISCORD:

# Template file for 'discord'
pkgname=discord
version=0.0.96
revision=1
archs="x86_64"
depends="alsa-lib dbus-glib gtk+3 libnotify nss libXtst libcxx libatomic
 xdg-utils webrtc-audio-processing libXScrnSaver"
short_desc="Chat and VOIP application"
maintainer="Ryan Conwell <ryanconwell@protonmail.com>"
license="custom:Proprietary"
homepage="https://discord.com/"
distfiles="https://dl.discordapp.net/apps/linux/$%7Bversion%7D/discord-$%7Bversion%7D.tar.gz"
checksum=2b885df8aa69310726f46149e39c42d48eda8f14b53aae605b5d7fa6410c4c0c
repository=nonfree
restricted=yes
nopie=yes
nostrip=yes

do_install() {
    local package_location="usr/lib/$pkgname" item
    vmkdir usr/share/pixmaps
    vcopy discord.png /usr/share/pixmaps/
    vmkdir usr/share/applications
    vcopy discord.desktop /usr/share/applications/
    vmkdir ${package_location}
    chmod +x Discord
    for item in \
        locales \
        resources \
        Discord \
        libffmpeg.so \
        snapshot_blob.bin \
        discord.png \
        icudtl.dat \
        libEGL.so \
        libGLESv2.so \
        chrome_100_percent.pak \
        chrome_200_percent.pak \
        chrome-sandbox \
        chrome_crashpad_handler \
        resources.pak \
        libvulkan.so.1 \
        v8_context_snapshot.bin \
        postinst.sh \
        libvk_swiftshader.so \
        vk_swiftshader_icd.json
    do
        vcopy "${item}" "${package_location}"
    done
    vmkdir usr/bin
    ln -sfr $DESTDIR/${package_location}/Discord $DESTDIR/usr/bin/Discord
}

post_install() {
    vlicense $FILESDIR/LICENSE
}

Okay, but still AUR has much much more packages than xbps-src, why should i use it then? Why should i learn how to make templates?

I hope u don't use AUR blindly and just do yay -S something without looking what pkgbuild is doing, it might be dangerous not knowing what program can do and what script that is downloading it too right? XBPS-SRC learns you how to maintain packages.

Also theres way to share Templates with other by importing REPO of some templates, like librewolf-void repo and etc. So there's way to share packages.

So this is my way to conveince you to use void linux 😀. IN MY OPINION, void is what people think arch is. A diy distro with learning curve to understand how OS works. ARCH is great!, but void gives you more knowledge of what things systemd takes care.

To make thing little bit funnier theres easy and really nice (experimental and not official) script of installing void :

https://github.com/kkrruumm/void-install-script

THANK YOU FOR READING! I might not be clear or right in some things so tell me about that in comment, i will read everything.

SOURCES:

https://xbps-src-tutorials.github.io/packaging/j4-dmenu-desktop.html
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages
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lemmy - Link to source

nous

XBPS-SRC does not look like an alternative to AUR at all. It looks like Voids alternative to gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux… - where Arch maintains all its packages. Nor is comparing the number of packages in AUR to Void main repos a good idea - Arch has its own main repos that are a better equivalent. The Void templates do not look dissimilar form what a PKGBUILD file is either and you can do the same things with writing your own PKGBUILD or pulling them from repos if you really want to. I don't see how void is any better then Arch in anything you have described here. IMO it just looks like it does more of the same things with a bit difference in syntax/commands you run. Nothing you have said here is really a solid argument for using Void or Arch at all.

The AUR is not even that great. I think most people seem to get confused between what is in the AUR and the main packages since they just use tools like yay that install from both. But most people only use a couple of packages from the AUR - it is the package selection in the main repos which is what is so nice about Arch. The AUR is just nice for more niche things that have not made it into the main repos yet.

I hope u don’t use AUR blindly and just do yay -S something without looking what pkgbuild is doing, it might be dangerous not knowing what program can do and what script that is downloading it too right?


Same goes for Void? Most people wont read the source of third party packages they install. No matter what distro they are on. AUR tooling does try to help with this but most people ignore it. Same will go for Void. It is not a distro problem - just a humans are lazy problem. Plus even if people did read them there is only a small subset of people that actually understand them enough to spot obviously malicious packages - though that can spot hidden malicious packages are vastly smaller.


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DIY KARMA KIT

Thank you for your comment, maybe people wont read 1:1 code, atleast they will learn how this kinda works, because now they just install things, but looking at templates they can actually understand its kinda simple script and get the idea of how it works. Also i wasn't comparing exactly xbps main void repos to AUR but overall xbps-src to aur, which can be similar because people can share templates, anyway we should still understand what package manager does and what download scripts are doing. Also void has runit so this mean u have to get more simple programs to run system like seatd dbus and etc. So overall i 2 arguments of void being better in understand of OS is actually knowing how to maintain packages and how system works from boot. Anyway i understand it is your opinion, all i can is tell u my opinion.

Edit: when i used systemd my system booted in 13sec, now on runit its 8sec, not really important thing but still

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Monitor your AREDN Node with Prometheus and Grafana

Monitor your AREDN Node with Prometheus and Grafana

Utilize the newly added prometheus metrics exporter in the AREDN firmware to add analytics and performance metrics to Grafana. Read about the metrics endpoint and a basic dashboard to monitor performance of your AREDN hardware or VM.
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rumschlumpel

Drumstep is probably pretty niche. It's like oldschool dubstep but slightly faster and with busier drums/cymbals/percussion. I think I actually need an even more specific descriptor to differentiate it, because if you search "drumstep" on youtube etc. you mostly get stuff with those brostep-style midrange noises that is super popular in more modern dubstep, drumstep and drum'n'bass, which I mostly don't like at all.

I'm listening to a ton of niche genres, but TBH I don't really have a good idea which of them would be the least known or least popular.

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lemmy - Link to source

Panos Alevropoulos

It's easier to understand drumstep as a subgenre of drum and bass. It has the same tempo as drum and bass but employs a halftime 2-step drum pattern like dubstep, using synth sounds that are also reminiscent of dubstep.

Drumstep was popular in the early 2010s but it's mostly out of fashion today. Some classic examples are Rob Swire's drumstep remix of Witchcraft or Knife Party's Bonfire.

People still produce halftime drum and bass tracks today but they use much deeper basses and sounds reminiscent of breaks/garage/techno, not 2010s dubstep sounds. That style is more known as simply "halftime". Ivy Lab are classic, reputable halftime producers.

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rumschlumpel

At least the stuff I like (if it would actually be called 'drumstep', which I'm not certain about) is generally quite a bit slower than drum'n'bass.

halftime 2-step drum pattern like dubstep


Is that not what drum'n'bass is doing, too? I don't think I've ever heard a drum'n'bass track that wasn't halftime with some kind of two step pattern.

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gazter

Ok I'll take this as my opportunity to rant about a pet peeve.

Wearing a harness in this style of elevating work platform is more dangerous than not wearing one, and having a requirement to do so is part of what's wrong with work health and safety.

The only way someone falls out of this, beyond mechanical failure or tipping, is if they lean so far over the railing they fall out of it.

If I need to wear a harness in this, you need to wear one whenever you walk next to a balcony.

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Iran expands dog-walking ban beyond Tehran
Dogs are vieved as "unclean" by Islamic officials, but ownership is rising as a form of quiet rebellion.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/bbc.com/news…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.


Iran expands dog-walking ban beyond Tehran

Jessica Rawnsley (BBC News)

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Help troubleshooting a mouse / repairing a mouse scroll wheel?

I have two wireless mice. One is a really good mouse that served me for years until it got too beat up, and now the scroll wheel doesn't work very well. The other is a newer HP mouse (specifically HP 280 Silent Wireless Mouse, product number 19u64AA) that is a bloody piece of shit and I hate it.

The HP mouse currently has two main issues with it. 1, it doesn't "sleep" or turn itself off after a period of inactivity. It just stays on, even if the usb dongle is disconnected, until the battery just dies on it. 2, it's clicking software/firmware had a fucking stroke or some shit. It only clicks on the active screen; so for example, if I have Firefox open and fullscreen, it will not click on the task bar on the bottom of my screen at all. It won't even register that it's hovering over something down there, it just refuses. That, and the middle click won't work. It's genuinely annoying, because the mouse used to work with no issues. I have no idea what caused this, and my conspiracy theory is that HP just kills mice that are alive for too long, because this is fucking horse shit. I do not recommend this fucking mouse at all for this.

What's funny is, I tried both my previous mouse (the one with the broken scroll wheel), and my desktop's wired mouse, and both worked excellently. No issues at all, unable to replicate the issues experienced by my HP mouse. Crawling through the journalctl logs don't show anything wrong with any of the mice, at least not that my noob ass could tell, and the HP support page for the 280 doesn't have a fucking user manual for it. There just doesn't seem to be one at all, not one I can find at least.

Anyways, /rant. How can I see what's wrong with the 280, or fix what might be wrong with it (or factory reset the mouse, if that's a thing)? Alternatively, how can I fix my other mouse's scroll wheel (Victsing Wireless Mouse model PC106A my beloved)?

Edit: Forgot to mention, on Linux mint 22.1 cinnamon, on an HP laptop oddly enough (you would think HP accessories would work with HP products). if you need any information, journalctl, inxi, my fucking social security number, whatever, lmk.

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lemmy - Link to source

ComicalMayhem

update: my roomate gave me permission to enter his quarters and acquire the compressed air for usage. blew out both mice, both still had the same issues. for the victsing i think it might be a physical damage issue; the switch or whatever controlling the scroll wheel is broken. for the hp, it's a piece of shit and likely a software issue i think.
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lemmy - Link to source

over_clox

I just got home and tried a thing on your behalf, using a perfectly good wired mouse of mine.

I simulated my suspicion that the mouse wheel click button might be shorted out, by holding the wheel button down while trying to left click on the taskbar.

Sure enough, in that condition, it doesn't recognize the left click on the taskbar.

I am pretty sure your wheel click button is shorted out and the system thinks you're constantly holding it down.

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rumschlumpel

Wäre er mal dabei geblieben, dafür hätte ich deutlich mehr Respekt. Aber selbst der Autokram ist wahrscheinlich deutlich ethischer als die DVAG (Pyramidensystem das sich als Finanzdienstleister tarnt), für die u.a. Michael Schumacher, Mick Schumacher und Jürgen Klopp jahrelang Werbung gemacht haben.

in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz tätiger Finanzvertrieb

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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LandedGentry

I mean conservative estimates have over 20 million people using game pass and the steam deck is getting long in the tooth technology wise - valve has also made it very clear there are no plans to release a new one any time soon, if ever.

Also, Ilove my steam deck so much, but it is not the most user-friendly for newbies sometimes. You have to be comfortable troubleshooting occasionally, especially if you ever plan on using desktop mode. Which is not required of course, but you are leaving a lot of the appeal of the device in the first place on the table if you don’t use that ever.

I fucking hate Microsoft, I am over the Xbox ecosystem, but ultimately this will be a very pick up and play device. It will likely sell at least half decently (likely underperform their estimates as always). I think anybody saying it’s doomed to fail however is honestly not up to date on the current state of gaming.

If I had to ignorantly shoot from the hip, I would say they will probably sell ~500,000-1mill units

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lemmy - Link to source

malwieder

Well, at least the base model Xbox Ally has essentially the same SoC as the Steam Deck. The Z2 A has 4 Zen 2 cores and 8 RDNA 2 CUs. It will be configurable up to 20 watts TDP instead of 15 on the Deck, but that's it. So much for "long in the tooth technology wise".

Sure, the Z2 Extreme variant will be more powerful, but it'll also be in a different price category (800-900,-€).

And in terms of user-friendliness: the Xbox Ally will run Windows. It won't launch into the regular desktop shell (by default), and it won't have as many services running in the background which might help with performance and battery life, and you'll probably be able to update drivers and Windows through it. Maybe it will have some preconfigured scripts/shortcuts to install Steam, Battle.net etc. But that's it. Expect to fall back to the desktop mode (or open a browser, terminal and Explorer window in the new gaming mode) for anything more advanced like installing emulators.

In terms of pick up and play this won't be much different to the Steam Deck, with the one exception being Game Pass - but even then don't expect any of the more demanding titles to run well.

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lemmy - Link to source

LandedGentry

The steamdeck has matured and because of its architecture there is no meaningful upgrade or change you can do to it yourself besides storage.

Valve has made it very clear they have no plans to release another one, the OLED was their final refresh of the design. Their focus in that arena is on bringing steamOS to different platforms, perhaps another round of Steam machines, but they have explicitly said they are not taking another crack at mobile hardware right now.

I get you are excited about the steamdeck, I love mine as well. But they have been abundantly clear on this matter. No speculation required

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lemmy - Link to source

JackFrostNCola

I do not for the life of me understand why people do this.
Shoes: go great with socks and cold weather
Thongs & sandles: go great without socks and warmer weather

The avantages of thongs/sandles is that they have airflow and are easy to get on & off, wearing socks with them both hampers airflow and also are fully exposed to getting wet or dirty.
Do you also wear a sweater over your bathers? A beanie over a sun visor? Breifs with your assless chaps?

lemmy - Link to source

Need help implementing ActivityPub - getting inconsistent results across platforms

My friend is working on adding ActivityPub support to his blog platform (BDServer) so people can follow/comment from Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.

Current status: Lemmy and Misskey can find and follow his account (@blenderdumbass@blenderdumbass.org), but Mastodon can't find it at all, even though he sees proper ActivityPub requests hitting his server.

The technical details are pretty gnarly - RSA signature verification, HTTP header recreation, multi-threading issues. He wrote up the full journey here: Please Help Me With Activity Pub

If anyone has ActivityPub experience or wants to take a look at the code (Python), we have a Matrix room for BDServer development. Any insights on why different platforms behave differently would be super helpful.

matrix.to/#/#bdserver:tchncs.d…

Source code: ActivityPub.py


Please Help Me With Activity Pub

This article is published on a website which is powered by BDServer. And I'm trying to make this website support ActivityPub, so you could for example, subscribe to me from your Mastodon account. Yet it is easier said than done.
blenderdumbass . org

Marthirial doesn't like this.

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duckiegobrrr

This only really works for people who have hardware whose fingerprint readers are supported by upstream fprintd; would be interesting if they (or another distro; haven't seen anybody implement this yet) add a "just works" option for installing and setting up e.g. libfprint-tod-vfs0090 or python-validity (which I use on two of my machines actually), similar to how some distros (Mint included I believe, but haven't dealt with it in a while) give you an option for installing Nvidia proprietary drivers (or just make it work out of the box).

However these drivers are extremely sketch at times so... I guess there's some good out of it not being preconfigured for people (because you have to look into it yourself and realize just how terrifying they are, both security and stability wise, python-validity especially)...

(though now I'm on NixOS where I have it pretty much "just work" through not that much effort, at least not as much as on Arch, and definitely not as much as on Mint which was painful because PPA fuckery)


GitHub - 3v1n0/libfprint-tod-vfs0090: libfprint TOD driver for Validity Sensors 0090

libfprint TOD driver for Validity Sensors 0090. Contribute to 3v1n0/libfprint-tod-vfs0090 development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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lemmy - Link to source

Flatfire

Fingerprint sensors have been an interesting hurdle for Linux distros. Not one I necessarily would have anticipated either. The biggest question seems to come down to their security as well, given that there have been exposed flaws in the design of biometric hardware that tries to generalize its compatibility.

Microsoft has defined SDCP as a strong standard for TPM/Windows, but there isn't an equivalent for Linux. Match on chip sensors have made things a bit easier, but there isn't a standard way to communicate the validated authentication to the OS, usually relying on TLS.

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What editor or IDE do you use and why?
Now I'm wondering who uses what development tools. I mostly use Qt Creator myself - I chose it because of its good integration with C++ and Qt projects, and I'm just used to it. On Linux I use Qt Creator, and on Windows I use Visual Studio.
I wonder what others use? VSCode, Vim, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDE, Emacs, Sublime or something more rare?
- Why did you decide to use them specifically?
- What do you like or annoy you about it?
- How usable is it in real work?

lemmy - Link to source

Is Hyprland a good WM choice if I can make stacking / floating workflow work?

I've been on the fence since I've been trying Hyprland. What I want out of a window manager / DE is lots of window customization settings (borders, animations, etc.), & having configuration inside one file or one directory with hot-reloading (I'm switching from KDE since its config files all over the place). Hyprland is very popular among WM users with a large ecosystem, though I prefer stacking rather than tiling. I can make it work with some window rules, and shell scripts using hyprctl & jq.

I'm wondering how many little things I will need to fix / figure out. For instance, when I open the firefox bookmarks library with CTRL SHIFT O. When that window is open but not focused, and not on top, if I press CTRL SHIFT O again on a DE it comes back to the top, but not on Hyprland. I could probably find a fix for that?

I might be answering my own question but I really want to hear thoughts.

Using hyprctl

hyprctl is a utility for controlling some parts of the compositor from a CLI or a script. It should automatically be installed along with Hyprland.
wiki.hyprland.org

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The Power of a Niche [Video talking about Fediverse successes when providing spaces for niches the mainstream social media has problems reaching]

The Power of a Niche

The Fediverse is finding is building itself from smaller subcultures rather than mainstream disruption. These niche communities utilize the Fediverse to connect with each other effectively and the ...
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lemmy - Link to source

transscribe7891

unfortunately in my experience reddit still has more niche communities than can be found on lemmy, probably bc they have more users. they have more subreddits for specific games, cities/states, mental illnesses, spiritualities/world mythologies, art, music, and book genres... the number of times I've searched for a community on lemmy only for it to not exist makes me hesitant to accept this video's claim. reddit still has more niches than us. we just don't have the numbers or activity.
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ich🤖iel

Das schlimmste ist, dass KI nicht im geringsten Humor hat (oder weiß was KI im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch ist).

Erstelle mir ein "We've got you surrounded" Meme wo Trollface "Ich hasse Ki! Ich hasse Ki!" sagt. Erstelle passende Aussagen für die Blauhelme.

Hier ist eine humorvolle Idee für ein Meme im Stil von „We’ve got you surrounded“ mit Trollface und Blauhelmen, wobei der Trollface KI hasst:

🖼️ Meme-Beschreibung:

Szene:
In der Mitte: Der klassische Trollface, wütend, schreiend:

„Ich hasse KI! Ich hasse KI!!“


Um ihn herum (im Kreis), verschiedene Blauhelme (symbolisch für verschiedene KI-Anwendungen) mit ihren Aussagen:

  1. 🤖 ChatGPT (Text-KI):


„Ich habe dir schon dreimal bei deinen Hausaufgaben geholfen.“


  1. 🎨 DALL·E (Bild-KI):


„Du hast mich gestern noch Memes generieren lassen.“


  1. 🧠 Grammarly / Sprachkorrektur-KI:


„Ich korrigiere täglich deine Rechtschreibung.“


  1. 🎵 Musik-KI:


„Du liebst die LoFi-Playlist, die ich komponiert habe.“


  1. 🛍️ Shopping-KI (z. B. Amazon-Empfehlungen):


„Ich weiß, was du nächsten Freitag kaufen willst.“


  1. 📸 Fotofilter-KI (z. B. Snapchat/Instagram):


„Ohne mich kein Glow-Up.“


  1. 📅 Planungs-KI / Kalender-KI:


„Ich erinnere dich an Mamas Geburtstag.“

Wenn du willst, kann ich dir dieses Meme auch als Bild erstellen. Möchtest du das?

Ja
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lemmy - Link to source

nous

252 of that 592 used memory is buffers/cache, not application memory. That is used by the kernel for kernel buffers and the filesystem cache - IE files read by something at some point. The kernel keeps them in memory in case they are needed again to speed up file reads. You can effectively ignore these vales as they will always grow to fill your ram and will be evicted when programs require memory and there is not enough free.

These tools are not lieing to you, just telling you something other then what you are reading into them. Tracking and reporting on what is using memory is a complex topic and here used is just what is physically allocate. It doesn't mean much over all as it always tends to be full of your system has been running for a decent amount of time. Available is typically the more useful one to look at as it is an estimate about how much the kernel can reclaim now if an application request it without needing to swap things out.

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LandedGentry

While I’m very interested in her experience, this piece speaks very generally and makes a lot of unqualified (but obviously truthful) statements. I wish it was a little more granular. I mean it’s really really general.

“They respect work hours. Vacation is respected as well. The time shift of working 6:30am-2:30pm is inconvenient but worth it. I have more time with my daughter.”

It doesn’t really talk about corporate culture or give any specific stories, it doesn’t compare really talk about working at an Austrian company. It doesn’t talk about how her day to day feels being so differently sync’d with the US work day. Idk. It’s just lacking details and substance.

It would be like my writing a piece about how it’s important to eat fruit and vegetables because they are good for you, and to cut back on sugar because a lot of it is bad for you. And I just leave it at that.

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technocrit

I'm going to write a program to play tic-tac-toe. If y'all don't think it's "AI", then you're just haters. Nothing will ever be good enough for y'all. You want scientific evidence of intelligence?!?! I can't even define intelligence so take that! \s

Seriously tho. This person is arguing that a checkers program is "AI". It kinda demonstrates the loooong history of this grift.

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LandedGentry

Yeah that’s exactly what I took from the above comment as well.

I have a pretty simple bar: until we’re debating the ethics of turning it off or otherwise giving it rights, it isn’t intelligent. No it’s not scientific, but it’s a hell of a lot more consistent than what all the AI evangelists espouse. And frankly if we’re talking about the ethics of how to treat something we consider intelligent, we have to go beyond pure scientific benchmarks anyway. It becomes a philosophy/ethics discussion.

Like crypto it has become a pseudo religion. Challenges to dogma and orthodoxy are shouted down, the non-believers are not welcome to critique it.

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The Wine development release 10.9 is now available.

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/42576639

What's new in this release:
  • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.16.
  • Initial support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
  • Support for compiler-based exception handling with Clang.
  • EGL library support available to all graphics drivers.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 10.9 · wine / wine · GitLab

The Wine development release 10.9 is now available. What's new in this release: Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.16. Initial support...
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DepressedMan

@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
@communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

Many things still don’t work for me just a black screen. I try from time to time. I’m using bottles and disabled X11 permissions in flatpak to test wayland. I only play older titles (pre-2010). The oldest game I have is Total Annihilation (1997), and I also have Anno 1602 (1998). Neither game runs on Wayland, and they’re not the only ones. Some games do work, like majesty 2, but it has broken camera movement with the mouse. Wayland and wndows are too different to make certain behaviors match, so Xwayland is still needed for some applications.

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Will kernel-level anti-cheat ever work on linux?
From both a technical perspective and if the maintainers of these anti-cheat will consider porting or re-writing kernel level anti-cheat to work on linux, is it possible? Do you think that the maintainers of kernel level anti-cheat will be adamant in not doing it, or that the kernel even supports it or will support it. I think that if it ever happens, there will be a influx of people moving to linux, or abandoning their duelboots, and that alot of people will hate that such a thing is available on linux.

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'Putin is a murderer' — Zelensky rejects Trump's claim that Russia, Ukraine are like 'kids'

'Putin is a murderer' — Zelensky rejects Trump's claim that Russia, Ukraine are like 'kids'

"We are not kids with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin at the playground in the park," Zelensky said, as quoted by the TV network. "He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids."
Daria Shulzhenko (The Kyiv Independent)
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over_clox

More or less yeah. Though back around 2013 or so, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised by how they designed their Mac AIO desktops, they actually were somewhat repair tech friendly.

The front glass was magnetically attached, so it only took a suction cup or two to start disassembly, and basic screwdrivers to remove the screen and get access to the motherboard, hard drive, RAM, DVD drive, etc.

And yes you could replace or upgrade parts as necessary, none of this newer soldered on storage shit they do these days.

I've lost a lot of respect for companies that solder on important parts that should rightfully be fairly easy to replace or upgrade.

Plus, now the big companies have taken to forcing encryption on the storage devices, effectively locking the drive to the system. Well isn't that just cute for the backup operator that's trying to recover your late grandmother's family photos...

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Arthur Besse

HyperCard was basically the viewer/player for HyperCard stacks/files. HyperStudio was the program used to make them.


This is incorrect. The HyperCard application could both create and play back HyperCard stacks. It could also export them as stand-alone applications which people could use without needing to run HyperCard.

::: spoiler HyperStudio was something else, not shipped by Apple.
The author describes it here:

It was inspired by HyperCard and Ted Nelson’s ideas of hypertext and hypermedia. But whereas HyperCard was a database of alphanumeric data controlled by a scripting language, HyperStudio was founded on the idea of the primary layer being a paint program, and linking (“hyper-”) media (“studio”) together in an object-oriented, rather than lexical (program language), environment. The result was a program that is its own category of software. That is to say, HyperStudio has an extremely unique environment, and although it can create videos, presentations, animations and comic-style (graphic novel) digital stories, it is neither movie-making software, presentation software, and animation program, nor a comic-book maker. It is HyperStudio and no other program has ever duplicated or even successfully approximated its functionality.


see also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperStu…
:::

I should admit that it’s been years since I messed around with old Macintosh or looked into the old Mac retro sites, it’s probably out there somewhere…


You can use HyperCard on an emulated Mac in a web browser at system7.app/ - it's in the Multimedia folder there 😀

Infinite Mac

A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want.
system7.app
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over_clox

Interesting. I only recall 2 programs when I took the HyperStudio class, where the HyperCard Player was free for all to use, but couldn't make projects.

HyperStudio was the paid program that the school had paid licensing fees to use, and as such we weren't allowed to copy that software.

Maybe I missed the original HyperCard itself, we were only allowed to copy and share HyperCard Player, which most definitely could not create projects, only play them.

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Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions

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The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.

“LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities,” one of the moderators of r/accelerate, wrote in an announcement. “There is a lot more crazy people than people realise. And AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”

The moderator said that it has banned “over 100” people for this reason already, and that they’ve seen an “uptick” in this type of user this month.

The moderator explains that r/accelerate “was formed to basically be r/singularity without the decels.” r/singularity, which is named after the theoretical point in time when AI surpasses human intelligence and rapidly accelerates its own development, is another Reddit community dedicated to artificial intelligence, but that is sometimes critical or fearful of what the singularity will mean for humanity. “Decels” is short for the pejorative “decelerationists,” who pro-AI people think are needlessly slowing down or sabotaging AI’s development and the inevitable march towards AI utopia. r/accelerate’s Reddit page claims that it’s a “pro-singularity, pro-AI alternative to r/singularity, r/technology, r/futurology and r/artificial, which have become increasingly populated with technology decelerationists, luddites, and Artificial Intelligence opponents.”

The behavior that the r/accelerate moderator is describing got a lot of attention earlier in May because of a post on the r/ChatGPT Reddit community about “Chatgpt induced psychosis,”


Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions

“AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”
Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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A_norny_mousse

There's no linux-firmware package on Debian. I guess that's one of the major changes that makes Ubuntu different from Debian, under the hood.

Anyhow, on Debian:

  • firmware-linux: Meta package, depends on:
    • firmware-linux-free (that one really is a sammelsurium)
    • firmware-linux-nonfree: Meta package, depends on:
      • firmware-misc-nonfree (big one, could well be made into a meta package depending on vendor-specific packages)
      • firmware-amd-graphics (another big one)



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who

On Debian Bookworm...
::: spoiler $ apt-cache pkgnames firmware | sort
firmware-amd-graphics
firmware-ath9k-htc
firmware-atheros
firmware-b43-installer
firmware-b43legacy-installer
firmware-bnx2
firmware-bnx2x
firmware-brcm80211
firmware-cavium
firmware-cirrus
firmware-intel-graphics
firmware-intel-misc
firmware-intel-sound
firmware-ipw2x00
firmware-ivtv
firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-libertas
firmware-linux
firmware-linux-free
firmware-linux-nonfree
firmware-marvell-prestera
firmware-mediatek
firmware-microbit-micropython
firmware-microbit-micropython-doc
firmware-misc-nonfree
firmware-myricom
firmware-netronome
firmware-netxen
firmware-nvidia-graphics
firmware-nvidia-gsp
firmware-qcom-media
firmware-qcom-soc
firmware-qlogic
firmware-realtek
firmware-samsung
firmware-siano
firmware-ti-connectivity
firmware-tomu

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pixelpop3

For one thing it will run a lot of existing and proven Matlab code.

Another is that Octave and Matlab syntax is ambiguous about functions vs indexes (has pros and cons).

And don't get me wrong (I use jupyter and python a lot and really do like it) but numpy can get fundamentally weird in the way indexing maps to memory in ways that I don't remember happening back when I mostly used Octave.

For me the major advantage of python is having access to other non-numerical things. It's so difficult to do anything not-numerics in Octave and Matlab or to use even basic data structures like lists and trees. Python is sort of a basic object language that makes some of the things that would otherwise make you scream for Lisp possible. That's worth the numpy annoyances. Otherwise I would probably be using julia.

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rumschlumpel

I wouldn't call "throw some stuff in the oven and add salt" cooking. And either way it's vastly easier than working with pots and pans - you don't have to watch for pots boiling over or things turning black in the frying pan, and the clean-up is rather minimal, as well. Plus, pans tend to not do that well with meat or veggies directly from the freezer (it's possible but harder, which is not great for the post's premise), which isn't even an issue when you use the oven instead.

Also, there's something about baking that makes food taste pretty consistently good, I've never managed that consistency on a stovetop. It's incredibly demoralizing when you put in the work to cook properly and it turns out shit.

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BlackRock’s Bitcoin Scheme: How Wall Street Giants Are Bilking Poor People Out of Money

BlackRock’s Bitcoin Scheme: How Wall Street Giants Are Bilking Poor People Out of Money

While everyone’s getting hyped about “digital gold” and “financial freedom,” BlackRock is sitting there with over 530,000 Bitcoin — that’s more than half a million coins — laughing all the way to the…
HR NEWS (Medium)

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Klima-Klagen gegen deutsche Firmen: EU soll NGOs bezahlt haben

Klima-Klagen gegen deutsche Firmen: EU soll NGOs bezahlt haben

Einem Medienbericht zufolge soll die EU Klimaaktivisten bei Klagen gegen deutsche Unternehmen unterstützt haben. Ziel war es demnach, die Öffentlichkeit von der Klimapolitik der EU zu überzeugen. Dafür sollen Millionen Steuergelder geflossen sein.
Markus Wolf (BR24)

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Riot police, anti-ICE protesters square off in Los Angeles after raids
LOS ANGELES, June 6 (Reuters) - Helmeted police in riot gear turned out on Friday evening in a tense confrontation with protesters in downtown Los Angeles, after a day of federal immigration raids in which dozens of people across the city were reported to be taken into custody.
Live Reuters video showed Los Angeles Police Department officers lined up on a downtown street wielding batons and what appeared to be tear gas rifles, facing off with demonstrators after authorities had ordered crowds of protesters to disperse around nightfall.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/riot-police-anti-ice-protesters-square-off-los-angeles-after-raids-2025-06-07/

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Oberhaching will mit Bodenschwellen schnelle Radfahrer ausbremsen

Oberhaching will mit Bodenschwellen schnelle Radfahrer ausbremsen

Die Gemeinde Oberhaching plant den Einbau von drei Bodenschwellen, um die Geschwindigkeit rücksichtsloser Rennradfahrer zu drosseln. Anwohner und Fußgänger berichten von gefährlichen Situationen. Andernorts blickt man gespannt auf das Pilotprojekt.
Iris Hilberth (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
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JillyB

American Werewolf in London

The title alone makes it sound like a cheesy 80s goofy movie...and it kinda is. But the practical effects are right up there with The Thing. It makes you invested in the characters and the main conflict is really tough. It's more dark and gritty than you would expect, especially near the end. The werewolf transformation scene has some of the best practical effects in film. It's stomach churning.

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BananaTrifleViolin

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but the commands would apply within the zsh, which is a bash alternative, not within the programmes running themselves?

Or are you saying its sus because its illogical/confusing to have opposite uses for tgebsame shirt cut? I can see that as people using a terminal and launching vim would constantly be working against "muscle memory" each time they switch which would be annoying! Being familiar with keyboard shortcuts is what can make terminal based workflows so fast.

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We have launched a PieFed instance!

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/45609571

Would you like some pie? Check it out here: piefed.ca/

What is PieFed

PieFed follows a similar format as Lemmy and Mbin. Those that are familiar with Lemmy will find it very similar, with some additional features including topic lists, optional private voting, new mod and admin tools, crosspost de-duplication, community wikis, etc. Thanks to how the fediverse works, you can use either lemmy.ca or piefed.ca to interact freely!

We will put together some guides on our non-profit's website at some point. In the meantime, we have created !newtopiefed@piefed.ca for us to learn from each other. There is also the official !piefed_help@piefed.social community which has a similar purpose.

We have done some testing and we are learning as we go, but please bear with us while this new platform gets going 🙂

Other Links & FAQ

- lemmy.ca is not migrating to PieFed. We will run both instances at the same time. You can use whichever one you prefer.
- Learn about the differences between PieFed & Lemmy: join.piefed.social/features/
- A tour of the community moderation features in PieFed: piefed.social/post/844065
- One of the first mobile apps to implement support for PieFed, with more to come: interstellar.jwr.one/

Welcome | Fedecan

Discover a new way to connect online. As a Canadian not-for-profit, we can help you join a growing network of federated social media that prioritizes community over profit.
fedecan.ca

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Supervisor194

So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then? I'm not really clear on how communicating freely between them works. I understand that's how the Fediverse works, but I have a Mastodon account and I haven't sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it, so I'm not sure what the integration actually means in practical application? Maybe someone could help me out.
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Die4Ever

So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then?


Separate things, just the same admin I guess. You can follow the same communities from either one.

I have a Mastodon account and I haven’t sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it


On Mastodon, follow the account for this community, just Mastodon uses @ instead of ! so it's @fediverse@lemmy.world and you can post to the community by mentioning it

You can paste URLs of Lemmy posts/comments into the search bar of Mastodon to pull it up. Just make sure you use the real URL and not a mirror, so you need to get the URL from Lemmy's Fediverse icon it has on every post/comment

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Was kauft ihr in größeren Mengen als andere?

Ich mag es, "selbstverständliche" Dinge zu hinterfragen.

Das hatte Auswirkungen auf Kaufentscheidungen...

Reis kaufe ich über einen Shop auf ebay mittlerweile als 10 Kilo-Sack. Spart Plastik, spart Geld, spart mir Wege zum Supermarkt... Ab und zu gebe ich der Familie was davon mit..

Vor ein paar Wochen kam mir ein weiterer Gedanke: Wie hirnverbrannt ist es, dass ich mir immer wieder aufs Neue Shampoo in diesen "kleinen", fancy Verpackungen kaufe, die man dann wegwirft, um neues Shampoo zu kaufen in einer neuen Plastikverpackung, die man dann wieder wegwirft?

Ich bin nun Besitzer eines 10-Liter-Kanisters Shampoo, das wahrscheinlich von Fitnessstudios oder Hotels gerne in diesen Mengen gekauft wird. Den Inhalt fülle ich einfach in 1-2 leere Fläschchen, die ich noch habe. Den Kanister werde ich danach draußen zum Blumen-Gießen nutzen. Aber auch ohne diese spätere Verwendung ist ein 10-Liter-Kanister wohl sinnvoller als 40x 250ml-Fläschchen... Und zwar ökonomisch und ökologisch, vor allem da es ein No-Name-Produkt ist, deren Werbekosten ich nicht mitfinanzieren muss...

Bin ich der Einzige, der größere Mengen von Dingen bevorzugt? Wie siehts bei euch aus?

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rumschlumpel

Ich komme leider nicht dazu, in Läden zu fahren wo man sowas kaufen kann, und online bestellen frisst dann durch Versandkosten oft einen Großteil des preislichen Vorteils auf (außerdem adressiere ich Pakete nicht gerne an meine Haustür, und 10kg-Pakete sind schon etwas schlecht zu tragen vom nächsten Postshop).

Das gesagt, ich habe mir gerade ein halbes Jahr Vorrat an Melitta Filtertüten Größe 100 (für Handfilter) auf melitta.de gekauft. Hab kein Geld gespart, aber das gibt es selten im Laden zu kaufen und wenn doch, ist es oft schon ausverkauft oder nur noch eine Packung übrig. Ich habe auch den Eindruck, dass Melitta die 10x-Größen langsam ganz aus dem Programm nimmt, was kacke ist weil ich dann meine Filterhalter wegwerfen kann ...

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Made a big(?) mistake with `mv /*/*/* ./`

Background:

I think I messed up ...
Wanted to get a lot of files out of a nested folderstructure 3 levels deep and used mv /*/*/* ./ somewhere deep in my personal folders.
I got a lot of errors and quick as I could stopped it.
Now that folder is is messed up with a lot of stuff (see below) which I dont know the origin of.
The good news: I have fairly recent backups

Questions:

  • Could they be from subdirectories in my home folder?
  • Could they be from subdirectories outside my home folder? Especially grubenv caught my eye.
  • Could it be potentially dangerous to reboot? I leave my PC on untill I know more.
  • Would it be possible to reverse the moving in some way, to put them back where they belong, even manually?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Files:

Sorry for the long list

0
1
10
10:1
10:125
10:126
10:127
10:130
10:183
10:224
10:228
10:229
10:231
...
116:8
116:9
...
13:81
...
8
81:0
81:1
81:2
81:3
9
arch_status
attr
autogroup
by-diskseq
by-id
by-label
by-partlabel
by-partuuid
by-path
by-uuid
cgroup
cmdline
comm
coredump_filter
cpu_resctrl_groups
cpuset
fd
fdinfo
fonts
gid_map
grubenv
limits
list.txt
locale
loginuid
map_files
maps
mountinfo
mounts
net
ns
numa_maps
nvme0n1p8_crypt
oom_adj
oom_score
oom_score_adj
projid_map
sched
schedstat
sessionid
setgroups
smaps
smaps_rollup
stat
statm
status
task
timens_offsets
timers
timerslack_ns
uid_map
unicode.pf2
usb
wchan
x86_64-efi

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Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?

Like I'm not one of THOSE. I know higher = better with framerates.

BUT. I'm also old. And depending on when you ask me, I'll name The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask as my favourite game of all time.

The original release of that game ran at a glorious twenty frames per second. No, not thirty. No, not even twenty-four like cinema. Twenty. And sometimes it'd choke on those too!

.... And yet. It never felt bad to play. Sure, it's better at 30FPS on the 3DS remake. Or at 60FPS in the fanmade recomp port. But the 20FPS original is still absolutely playable.

Yet like.

I was playing Fallout 4, right? And when I got to Boston it started lagging in places, because, well, it's Fallout 4. It always lags in places. The lag felt awful, like it really messed with the gamefeel. But checking the FPS counter it was at... 45.

And I'm like -- Why does THIS game, at forty-five frames a second, FEEL so much more stuttery and choked up than ye olde video games felt at twenty?

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over_clox

My favorite game of all time is Descent, PC version to be specific, I didn't have a PlayStation when I first played it.

The first time I tried it, I had a 386sx 20MHz, and Descent, with the graphics configured at absolute lowest size and quality, would run at a whopping 3 frames per second!

I knew it was basically unplayable on my home PC, but did that stop me? Fuck no, I took the 3 floppy disks installer to school and installed it on their 486dx 66MHz computers!

I knew it would just be a matter of time before I got a chance to upgrade my own computer at home.

I still enjoy playing the game even to this day, and have even successfully cross compiled the source code to run natively on Linux.

But yeah I feel you on a variety of levels regarding the framerate thing. Descent at 3 frames per second is absolutely unplayable, but 20 frames per second is acceptable. But in the world of Descent, especially with modern upgraded ports, the more frames the better 👍

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Nanook

@Count Regal Inkwell Most people can't honestly perceive any change in their visual field in less than 1/60th of a second except perhaps at the very periphery (for some reason rods are faster than cones and there are more rods in your peripheral vision) and even then not in much detail. So honestly, frame rates above 60 fps don't really buy you anything except bragging rights.
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Nanook

 — (Shoreline, WA, USA)
@binom If you film with a camera with a ntsc vertical reference rate of 59.95 hz you will see a beat note between the lights and the led lighting indicating it is not well filtered if at all. If you have a newer HiDef camera, most of them work at a 24Hz refresh rate, that IS a slow enough rate that you see jitter in the movement, they also will have a beat note if recording under most LED lights. Many cheap led lights just have a capacitive current limiter and that's it. If you power them off of 50Hz you will see the flicker, if you get dimmable LED lights they will NOT have a filter. But I don't want to interfere with anyone's bragging rights.

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North Carolina parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after their son, 7, is killed a car accident while walking home, driver that murdered a child gets no charges
Not the first time this has happened either, here's another similar case in Atlanta: abcnews.go.com/US/mother-boy-k…

Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident

The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.
Curtis Bunn (NBC News)
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sthetic

I looked this up and found this information about it:

In its Local Plan 2040, Oxford City Council proposed installing elements from the 15-minute city urban concept in neighborhoods throughout the city over the next 20 years. These plans included proposals to improve accessibility to local shops and other amenities for residents so they didn’t have to always drive. Separately, Oxfordshire County Council announced traffic-reducing measures throughout the city, with infrastructure to encourage car travel around the city by using the ring road rather than already congested roads. Initial opposition to the plans led to proposals to introduce permit schemes to facilitate car travel at certain times, allowing car access to areas that the council planned to restrict to motorists.


First, the article says it was separate. Nobody said, "We are blocking everybody's access to this road because the goal of 15-Minute City is to restrict people and forbid them from leaving their zone."

Second, it was just traffic-calming. They put up some planters blocking roads to vehicles to encourage access by bike, pedestrians, etc. That's not restricting access, that is INCREASING access. By bikes.

They decided that a different, busier road was more appropriate for cars. How on earth does that equate to restricting access? So your car had to drive further, using a big busy road instead of a local quiet street - boo-hoo! This, to you, was a sign that the government wants to confine you to a 15 minute area and never let you leave?

Are the following measures, to you, a sign of nefarious "restricting access"?
- An ambulance can drive the wrong way down the street, but you cannot
- A bus can travel in a bus lane, but you cannot
- A commercial vehicle can park in a loading zone, but you cannot
- A vehicle with several people can travel in a special HOV lane, but you cannot if you are driving alone
- A toll bridge reads your license plate to check if you paid a fee to access that route, and charges you a fine if you did not
- The city takes out a vehicle lane to build a dedicated bike lane and plant some nice shrubs
- The city closes a street temporarily for a neighbourhood block party
- The city installs speed bumps on a quiet street
- The city builds a traffic circle at a quiet intersection
- The city puts up a sign limiting the speed you can travel
- A highway cuts through an existing quiet suburb, meaning your car cannot cross it on a quiet street; you have to use an onramp and get on the busy highway

All of those technically "restrict access" by your seeming definition. Well, at least by vehicle. Is it your assertion that private vehicles reign supreme, and if the government does anything to slow down, discourage, or increase the cost of vehicle travel, it means their future goal is to create walled mini-cities that folks can't leave?

Edit: also, you say that people threatened to hang the city council to get them to renege - are you proud of this? Your "side" is threatening to murder people if they don't govern the way they want, and that's just "being vigilant"? To prevent planters from being placed on a street? What the hell?

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lemming

Is it wrong to enjoy art made by bad people? I think it's a very complicated question and the answers will definitely have a lot of variation between people. What if it really is a good art? Or just enjoyable? Should everyone avoid it? People still listen music by Michael Jackson, for example, are they bad because of it?

My own approach is that qualities of what someone creates don't need to be inseparably tied to the personality or views of the author. Everyone can enjoy what they like without the obligation to find out details of the author and adjust their preference based on that. It's fine to make them aware of the problems, it's not fine to make them feel bad because they like something that is not wrong on its own. If you dislike the author enough for it to spoil their works for you, good for you. I also feel this way about some authors. But don't require it from other people.

That's my take. I'm curious, what's yours?

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toadjones79

To be fair, your dad was probably just as scared of your teacher. Same with the principal.

If I hadn't had a dad who was a school counselor in my district used for all the worst problem kids I think I would have had a different experience. I wasn't a bad kid, but I was a weird one. As a result I got to see behind the curtain a little and think office politics plays a bigger part of why kids get in trouble than anything else (well, except actual parent involvement and how you raise your kids). Now that you mention this I think I'll take my youngest to get her eyes examined just to be safe.

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over_clox

Nah, if you knew my dad at the time, he insisted there was nothing wrong with my vision. I actually was already a pretty intelligent kid, mostly from book learning at the time.

Book learning worked great for me, but only because the book was close to my face, which works fine for nearsighted people. So my dad was convinced, my vision was fine.

I was disappointed at my dad for quite a few years, but ultimately had to let my anger go.

A few years later, dad asked me why I didn't tell them I had bad vision. All I could tell him was "I didn't know, until I finally got to see good vision."

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Assistance requested regarding Linux Mint MATE 22.1 fine grained power management..

I've been testing this OS for a bit, but I'm having trouble where drives are shutting down prematurely, as if the power management is too aggressive when it comes to external USB drives.

My USB hard drive will shut down on whatever timer Linux is using, despite my VirtualBox machine actively using it via Shared Folders. I have to use the Linux host and Caja to wake the drive back up. Like what the hell?

My USB DVD drive will spin up stupid fast to buffer a lot of DVD video, then Linux spins the drive down and turns it off. Then the next time it needs data, the drive has to spin up stupid high speed again, causing the video to freeze frequently while the drive spins back up, way too fast no less for the task. Why not a simple consistent speed and keep the drive running while watching a movie? VLC if that matters, on the host Linux.

Is this a power management configuration issue? Are these somehow the same issue, or are they two separate issues?

What should I do to resolve/reconfigure?

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over_clox

Well shit, I figured out what the real issue was.

I'm on a laptop with only 3 USB ports, and I'm running a physical laptop hard drive on an adapter on one USB port, and a laptop CD/DVD drive on another adapter on another port.

Obviously that's probably pushing the power limits of the USB power, but it's worked before, so I didn't see why it wasn't quite working right now.

But this time I was trying a different DVD drive, an HP TS-T633P slot loader drive. Apparently that drive is extra power hungry compared to a conventional laptop drive, so I dug out my old tray loader drive.

Apparently the slot loader drive was competing with the hard drive for power, and they were apparently taking turns robbing power from each other. The system is perfectly happy with the tray loader drive though, no reconfiguration necessary!

🤦‍♂️😂🤣👍

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Putting ads for old.Lemmy.world on reddit would make this site perfect.
There is not enough people on this site to properly achieve its purpose which is to post and discuss content. People would flock to old.lemmy.world if it was advertised. Probably seeing proper migration in a few weeks.
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Die4Ever

I think you misunderstood, ada was suggesting using a different server than lemmy.world in order to spread out the load better

some examples:

discuss.online/

sh.itjust.works/

lemmy.ca/

sopuli.xyz/

lemmy.zip/

aussie.zone/

They're all still Lemmy, just different access points. If you want the "Old" UI, some have it built in like old.lemmy.ca/ and old.lemmy.zip/

lemmy.ca

old.lemmy.ca
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Sudden emergency
I am a Linux beginner but I really enjoyed it so far. So far. Since yesterday, my Linux (pop OS) only wants to boot into emergency mode. I have a suspicion, even though my Linux and Windows are located on different physical disks, somehow Windows does it's toxic ex lover things and somehow broke my Linux I assume. It's there a terminal command to somehow reorganise my boot files?
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Attacker94

While I agree with your assertion in theory, I cannot agree that windows doesn't mess with grub. I have had 5 different issues with grub being overwritten, 1 was because windows and Linux were on the same drive, but the other 4 was simply because I launched windows through grub.

My advice for people dual booting is to never launch windows through grub and instead change your boot order in bios, this has made all of my boot related issues go away.

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Nanook

@Attacker94 The boot block pointing to grub is what gets overwritten, grub itself in /boot/efi doesn't. You can fix either though with either boot repair or boot from a usb thumb drive, mount the partitions on /mnt and subdirectories,mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev, /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts, and then mount --rbind /proc /mnt/proc and /sys /mnt/sys, cp /etc/resolv.conf to /mnt/etc/resolv.conf, chroot to /mnt, and then grub-install /dev/sda or whatever the drive is. Not a big deal. And this only happens if you install Windows AFTER you have installed Linux.

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Liberux Nexx GNU/Linux smartphone adds cheaper entry model

In response to community feedback, Liberux is adding a cheaper, entry level option to it's crowfunding campaign

Source:
mastodon.social/@Liberux/11463…

Liberux

2025-06-06 16:57:20

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📢 Good news, community!

Your response to the new Liberux NEXX model has been amazing 🙌
So we’re making it real:
🗓️ This Monday, June 9 at 15:00 UTC+0, the new entry-level version will go live.

🔧 LTE · 128 GB eMMC · 16 GB RAM
💶 Price: €890

It will be available on the crowdfunding page, alongside the current version:
👉 indiegogo.com/projects/liberux…

Thank you for helping us build meaningful open hardware.
See you on Monday! 💬

#LinuxPhones #LiberuxNEXX #liberux #nexx



Liberux NEXX

THE LINUX PHONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. | Check out 'Liberux NEXX' on Indiegogo.
Indiegogo

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Evil_Shrubbery

It's a bit diffident when you don't have big megacorp subsidies (Meta, Google, various local-market apps, etc) & have to buy all hardware from third parties. And perhaps not have planned obsolescence. And upsales. And ad revenue. And frown upon slave or unhappy workforce & other negative society impacts.

Also it looks like an ok phone, low spec cameras, but still the usual dimensions, OLED, enough RAM & CPU to be usable in desktop mode, Linux.

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Neue Milka-Tafeln sorgen für Spott bei Kunden - "extra teuer?"
Mondelez konnte demnach bis März 2025 beim Umsatz nur leicht um ein Prozent zulegen, während die verkaufte Menge um fast 25 Prozent zurückging – und entwickelt sich damit schwächer als der ohnehin rückläufige Markt für Tafelschokolade.


1/4 weniger verkauft und dennoch ein Umsatzwachstum.

Neue Milka-Tafeln sorgen für Spott bei Kunden - "extra teuer?"

Seit wenigen Tagen stehen neue Tafeln von Milka in den Supermarktregalen - zwei Sorten wurde extra hierfür entworfen. Bei vielen Kunden löst das aber keine Freude aus.
amp.infranken.de
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Obelix

Genau das - der Kakaopreis ist in den letzten Jahren extrem gestiegen. Und da ist es natürlich irgendwie wohlfeil, wenn man jetzt hier von Gier oder Wucher spricht, aber das ist eine Entwicklung, die alle Schokoladenhersteller trifft. Der eine oder andere mag vllt. noch einen längerfristigen Abnahmevertrag haben, aber irgendwann trifft das alle Hersteller und es ist auch irgendwie unvermeidbar, dass solche gestiegenen Rohstoffpreise nicht anders abgefangen werden können, sondern zwangsläufig an die Kunden weitergegeben werden müssen

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Should we be wary of Red Hat?

They were bought by IBM a few years back, but even aside from that they’re a corporation and they care about making money above all else.

It looks like Red Hat is doing its damnedest to consolidate as much power for themselves within the Linux ecosystem.

I don’t think the incessant Fedora shilling is unrelated.

It seems like there isn’t much criticism of the company or their tactics, and I’m curious if any of you think that should change.

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bacon_pdp

IBM is evil (literally making NAZI death camps possible)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_…

If it wasn’t for IBM the Holocaust couldn’t have happened.

So morally move away from them as soon as you can justify.

The alternatives provide better support anyway


book by investigative journalist Edwin Black

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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What are the modern design trends you hate most?
What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are:
- Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine's programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button.
- Every website looks like it's made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit. And then having the nerve to tell you to download the mobile app 😑
- Why does everything need to be an app by the way? Especially when the only advantage the app gives you over the website is that you're not constantly spammed with messages telling you to use the app... Are you making your website shittier on purpose so I feel like I have to use the app?... I don't WANT your app, you can shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
- Actually EVERYTHING looks like it's made for a phone... Like what's the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP software? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it's not like you're lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can't be opened from the keyboard like regular menus. You know, "keyboards"? Those things that people on DESKTOPS use?
- All phones look the same. All laptops look the same. It's boring as hell.
- Laptops must be as thin and flimsy as possible. Bonus points if you can't even fit an ethernet port.
- I'm so sick of rounded corners everywhere... 😭
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Moonguide

I see your point, but... I don't know. Nowadays, attention is a prime commodity. The easier something is to consume, the more people it will reach. And while that doesn't matter as much in entertainment media, it has to be considered when designing for more important topics. Thus, media has to be designed to be read efficiently.

I don't love how media is designed nowadays, precisely because it is monotonous and boring often, but I don't long for the days when I had to look an entire page over for the bit of information I'm after. A balance can be struck through clear layout design and following trends that respect hierarchy. Maximalism does neither.

Though, I feel like I have to differentiate artistic media from informative media. Art can go bonkers, in fact art should challenge established tropes, but design should prioritize function over form, keeping in mind there is some room for aesthetics in there.

Again, I'm approaching this from an efficiency and ease of use point of view.

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phantomwise

I do get the efficiency point, and it did improve accessibility massively. I don't want to downplay that. Like not having huge paragraphs of text take the whole width of the screen anymore helped improve readability a lot. Or pages of text over a background image... that was a nightmare. But it would be nice to have efficiency and accessibility without every website looking the same. There has to be a way to make websites look interesting without the design hindering users from reaching the information they want... But I assume that it would require a lot more effort, and that's not a priority for most websites. I guess the priority isn't to look interesting anymore but SEO? Maybe it comes from the changing nature of the internet, with big websites getting most of the traffic and replacing everything else? Like having markets with crazy stalls everywhere replaced by malls... I guess it's easier for a small website made by one person about a topic they are passionate about to take the risk of a creative design than it would be for Facebook to do it.

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help needed with Linux internet connection!!
i have tried everything i could possibly think of, but Linux will not connect to the internet until i restart it. it doesn't matter what distro i use, it won't connect. on windows, it connects immediately, but only with fast start enabled. i have reset the router, the BIOS is up to date, and I've tried pretty much every solution i could find online. at this point i think it's a hardware issue, but I'd like to know if there's anything i can try before giving up on Linux until i get a new PC. any help is greatly appreciated!

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Ghost 6.0 releases next month with ActivityPub support
The team working behind the scenes on ActivityPub at Ghost grew from 3 to 8 in 2025, and now we're ramping up our work to launch things officially in Ghost 6.0 in the next month.

Ramping up for expansion

Ghost 6.0 is coming soon
Ghost (Building ActivityPub)

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Victor

What is Ghost?

Yet another site or project where you read endless paragraphs that talk abstractly about ideas and concepts instead of just showcasing what the delivered product/app actually is or looks like. Drives me up the goddamn wall sometimes. Why should I be interested, you know what I'm saying?

Edit: alright guys, every person doesn't have to reply saying what it is. I'm not actually interested anymore. My point was to whine about how it wasn't clear from their home page. 👍 When I realized it was too hard to figure out what this is, I lost interest.

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aasatru

OP linked to an entry in their newsletter. If you check out their site, they are being pretty clear that they're in the business of "Independent technology for modern publishing", stating in pretty big letters that "Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.".

Reading their newsletters would get boring fast if they started every single one of them with repeating what they are.


Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform

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Cochise

Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.


For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.

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Victor

It needs a show case, to show me what it can do! Like, what is the output? Does it spit out a React project? Does it post directly to a hosted CMS type service? What!

There's just too much of what we in Sweden would call "word shitting". Lots and lots of words that say fuck all.

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Liberux Nexx GNU/Linux smartphone adds cheaper entry model
In response to community feedback, Liberux is adding a cheaper, entry level option to it's crowfunding campaign

Source:
mastodon.social/@Liberux/11463…


Liberux

2025-06-06 16:57:20

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📢 Good news, community!

Your response to the new Liberux NEXX model has been amazing 🙌
So we’re making it real:
🗓️ This Monday, June 9 at 15:00 UTC+0, the new entry-level version will go live.

🔧 LTE · 128 GB eMMC · 16 GB RAM
💶 Price: €890

It will be available on the crowdfunding page, alongside the current version:
👉 indiegogo.com/projects/liberux…

Thank you for helping us build meaningful open hardware.
See you on Monday! 💬

#LinuxPhones #LiberuxNEXX #liberux #nexx



Liberux NEXX

THE LINUX PHONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. | Check out 'Liberux NEXX' on Indiegogo.
Indiegogo

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who

It packs an octa-core Rockchip RK3588S CPU (4×Cortex-A76 + 4×Cortex-A55 up to 2.4 GHz) with 32 GB LPDDR4x RAM and a 6.34″ 2400×1080 OLED display. Storage is plentiful – 512 GB of replaceable and expandable eMMC plus expandable microSD (up to 2 TB) – and connectivity includes dual USB-C ports, 5G, Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and even a headphone jack.


indiegogo.com/projects/liberux…

Rockchip (Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Fuzhou, Fujian province. It has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Hong Kong.[4] It designs system on a chip (SoC) products, using the ARM architecture licensed from ARM Holdings for the majority of its projects.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchip

LTE · 128 GB eMMC · 16 GB RAM\
Price: €890

Liberux NEXX

THE LINUX PHONE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. | Check out 'Liberux NEXX' on Indiegogo.
Indiegogo
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Minimalists

Just wondering.

Are there minimalists here who tailor the distro used to their pc or sbc? Custom kernel. Swap default programs for simpler ones. That kind of stuff.

Are there examples of someone using (for instance) buildroot to create a custom 'distro' as daily driver?

If so. Curious about the technical details but also the 'why?' question.

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Finally making the move to Linux, and I have questions before I get started.

Hi everyone, I'm planning on moving from w11 to kubuntu (lts release - 24.04). I'm a gamer at heart, a game designer by education, and wanting to get away from Windows. I could really use some top tips, best practices, and things to look out for. I have run Linux on a Chromebook, but never as my primary PC.

I'm preparing by copying tax info, critical documents, game prototypes, and D&D documents to a USB.

Then run Linus from a different USB on restart?

Thank you for your help, and any references to specific how-to's 😅.

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OldFartPhil

You're already using Obsidian, so my suggestion is... Take notes!
Take notes on cool software you've discovered, take notes on your settings and configurations, take notes on any issues and bugs you've had to fix, take notes on how to use unfamiliar programs, take notes on Linux terminology. You have a huge personal knowledge base from years of using Windows. Linux is not hard to use, but it takes time to become second nature to you.
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German tech media publisher Heise just launched their own PeerTube instance

cross-posted from: lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/pos…

heise haben nun ihre eigene PeerTube-Instanz

Erklärt, warum die letzten paar videos nicht auf ihrem Konto auf makertube.net hochgeladen wurden - ab jetzt hoffentlich zeitgleich mit YT auch im Fediverse


PeerTube

Willkommen auf der Peertube-Instanz von Heise Medien
PeerTube

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NotASharkInAManSuit

911, and ideally they would alert a tactical response team with a negotiator to get on a helicopter while they gather details and form a plan in transit that would reflect their training for these situations. Have four of these teams in each state. police cordon off the area and monitor the situation to keep the team updated while they are in transit and to watch the entrances and exits while the staff that were already in the building, including resource officers, would be doing what they could to get people away or get them to the safest place they can. Police force as an intervention would be a last resort scenario, as escalation in these situations will only guarantee more dead. The police have no obligation to protect or serve under the current laws, they are not required to do fuck all, they should not be the people you expect to save or help you, they only exist at this point to punish you and bind you.
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atzanteol

Congrats! You win a prize for offering the first actual answer to the question without simply attacking me for my perceived biases. 🏆

In most mass shootings I doubt negotiation is going to get very far - and the delay may cause more deaths. Many times the perpetrator simply commits suicide. These are folks who have hit 'fuck it' and are looking to end it all and cause a lot of damage on the way out. Often by the time police are even able to respond they've done most of the damage they will do already.

The rest sounds an awful lot like SWAT.

LandedGentry doesn't like this.

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NotASharkInAManSuit

You’re right, there is no perfect answer so we should just do nothing and allow the cops to do whatever the fuck they want and give them immunity for everything. If we can’t have it absolutely perfect every time then we should just let things go to their worst possible situation, right? Otherwise we’d have to accept that the system isn’t perfect.

Go fuck yourself you stagnant kowtowing twat.

Edit: Yes, SWAT is a tactical response team trained for these specific situations. Way to point out that we actually already have these units ready to be used, you god damned idiot.

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atzanteol

Your trophy is taken back. Sorry - I thought you were serious.

You’re right, there is no perfect answer so we should just do nothing and allow the cops to do whatever the fuck they want and give them immunity for everything.


Where did you get this from? I genuinely don't understand the childish level of anger I'm getting for asking a legitimate question. When people say "never call the cops" they neglect to say what one should do instead. Just hide in a corner and wait for inevitable death?

Go fuck yourself you stagnant kowtowing twat.


Kowtowing to WHO??? Are you people crazy or something?

lemmy - Link to source

Besides mod logs, is there a better way for the Fediverse to keep track of malicious actors, such as Kiwi farms members, Nazi apologists, and genocide deniers?
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Fizz

The voyger mobile app allows you to tag users and see how many times you've upvoted abd downvoted them. If you have an idea you can suggest it as a feature on github. Outside of that you can only really block and report if their behaviour breaks the rules.

At the moment its up to the community at the moment to weed out those kinds of people.

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We now have a PieFed instance!

Kaity has just spun up a PieFed instance, which is open to anyone that wants to try it out.

PieFed is part of the "Threadiverse" along with lemmy and mbin. If you are already reading this in lemmy, then you already know what PieFed is about.

If you're curious to try it out, or if you're just looking for a way to avoid lemmy, you can find it at piefed.blahaj.zone/

Like our lemmy instance, we have set PieFed applications to require manual approval, but if you're already a member of our lemmy instance, you can get auto approved by our modbot by quoting your registration code somewhere in your application.


Blåhaj PieFed - A PieFed instance for gender diverse folk and their allies.

Blåhaj PieFed is brought to you by the kind folk at Blåhaj Zone, and while anyone is free to register for an account here, please bear in mind tha…
piefed.blahaj.zone
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ArbitraryValue

Serious answer:

That's cool. What makes it special?


Sometimes people talk about how expensive something they own is simply because they're proud that they could afford it and even when they're being tone-deaf, there's no benefit to getting offended when you could just move the conversation along instead. (Although you might have to listen to them talk about watches.) If they were trying to brag, now they're stuck trying to explain why the watch is actually worth what they paid and you're the one judging them.

Cars (and watches) aren't so expensive that a middle-class person can't plausibly already own the one he would buy even if money was unlimited. You can act like that's true about you. My status-conscious former mother in law was bothered by the fact that I owned an old car, but when she would bring it up I would just say "I really like the 2008 model." She couldn't argue with that.

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phantomwise

That’s cool. What makes it special?


Nice one. If it's only a status thing he'll scrabble to find something to say about it other than it's price. And on the very very low chance that it's not, he'll have an excuse to explain. Who knows, he might be a watch nerd who's really proud that he could afford that watch because it's a special watch to watch nerds for watch related reasons and he'll tell you all about it.

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A tour of the community moderation features in PieFed

Tour of the community moderation features in PieFed

A PeerTube platform for general use, hosted in northern Europe.
PeerTube.wtf

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Trim down the kernel so that it's only supports tty

Greetings,

I want to trim down my Linux kernel to only support a tty and ethernet card, I don't need any other features, has anyone done something similar of trimming down the linux kernel. I know that "make tinyconfig" exist but it's not what I want.

can anyone suggest me something? or provide me some documentation to do it?

Thanks in advance!

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tal

all options I see seems cryptic and doesn’t make any sense, it’s maybe because I am new to Linux Kernel tinkering…


So, just as a heads-up, building a truly minimal custom kernel is going to probably involve learning about what a bunch of kernel systems do. Like, this isn't going to be a five minute task skimming a menu with twenty choices on the lines of "Ethernet", "3D graphics", etc.

I don't know what you're aiming to accomplish, but it may be that a regular kernel build already does what you want. Like, say you want to reduce memory usage. Most of the current-day Linux kernel on typical distros is built to be modular. That is, features are built into modules, and never actually loaded unless that functionality is called for. It's not all that common for a typical user to need to build a custom kernel in 2025.

You can reduce build time, but that's not usually a huge issue for most people if they're using prebuilt kernels.

You can maybe shave down disk space, but the kernel isn't usually the first candidate that I'd go after for that.

If you're doing this as a learning experience, then knock yourself out. Just want to moderate expectations, if you're going into this thinking that this is a common task and is going to involve a minimal amount of learning and effort. You're probably going to discover that your kernel requires a lot more than you're listing here to usefully function.

If you do decide to go down this route, you're going to want to dig up one of the many guides to building and installing a new kernel. If you haven't already done so, I'd get to the point that you can build a normal kernel for your distro, with the options that it sets, and get it working and boot off it. That'll give you a working starting place before you start trying to figure out what you can rip out, and you'll be familiar with the bootloader, initrd, and some other stuff that you'll want to know. You're probably going to need to understand what a lot of the systems you're stripping out of your kernel do; Google is going to be your friend.

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My work pc with win 11 and 64g of ram is slower than my linux pc with 15 year old hardware

Title kind of says it all but it's still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives.

Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.

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Norah (pup/it/she)

Not every single thing that's non-FOSS is enshittified, sometimes things cost A Lot of money to develop and those involved deserve to be paid. A good example of such software is Arturia's V Collection, a music/synthesiser program that requires access to original synths to recreate them. You own your license and can deregister it and sell your key to someone else.

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I feel like I wouldn't be avoiding conflict if I could just trust that the other person to be as likely as me to end the conflict when it's over

I came here to vent; I'm sick of being told that I'm non-confrontational and I avoid confrontation, I don't. I avoid confrontation with you because you need to be correct so I'd rather not waste time by arguing with you and instead just find a way to solve the problem in which you're correct and the problem is solved. And it's objectively wrong to say about me that I avoid confrontation because I do have regular confrontation with specific people who do end it.

But if you think conflict builds character you're not going to get any of that character building with me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sorry nobody owes it you which means no one owes you a confrontation which means I'm not avoiding confrontation.

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Anyone use a voice/mic modulator they can recommend?

I hope it's the right term. I'm primarily looking for live pitch-shifting for funsies. Even a little delay in the output is alright for me.

I spent a while futsing around with wireplumber gui/pipewire to get Lyrebird to work to no effect. I tried routing my mic audio through Lyrebird and sometimes through sox, and then forwarded their audio to obs, but - no effects got applied. Sounded like my regular mic sound. I did make sure to activate pipewire to manage the audio instead of just pulseaudio.

Hoping for a recommendation before I spend another evening experimenting.

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Linux server hangs on shutdown

I've had two server oses here: alma linux and debian(currently). On both of them, they will hang when I shut them down from cockpit, and they hang at the end of the shutdown.

Also, it takes an hour to a day to have this issue start. if it's restarted two times in a row quickly, it works perfectly fine for some reason.

What I've tried:

  • setting "acpi=off" and "acpi=force" kernel parameters in grub
  • removing my nvidia gpu(i was using nouveau drivers)
  • changing distros

nothing worked. here are some things that both distros had in common with eachother:

  • systemd
  • cockpit
  • libvirt & qemu
  • docker

does anyone have advice? nothing i've seen online has worked. thank you for suggestions

in reply to potentiallynotfelix

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AnEilifintChorcra

I don't have an Nvidia GPU so I don't have any experience with it but a quick search brought me to Nvidias website and the instructions seem to line up with users answers on other forums.

Disable it here docs.nvidia.com/ai-enterprise/… or apparently installing Nvidias proprietary drivers automatically blacklists Nouveau.

Disable Nouveau — NVIDIA AI Enterprise: VMware Deployment Guide

docs.nvidia.com

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Dear #profileActing #rolePlay #communityAccount's.

This is a reshare of a recent advise by the administration of this instance for this profile.

Considerating the content of it, we'd like to call the attention to all of you to consider with more dedication the contribution you decide to publish in the respective profiles.
None of us is interested in losing this space.
As it is ever more difficult to really know the extent of the community, please reshare this post if you are part of those who have access to the profiles so we get a better idea about what is going on.
thx

♲ TupambAdminOrg [2024.03] - 2025-01-31 13:44:44 GMT

👩‍⚖️ @jesuiSatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ,
can you please stop with your #rolePlay #profileActing stunts in places like this @Friendica Support forum on a distant instance?It's hard enough to work things out. Just consider this forum a working environment where there is no place for foolish children having fun disturbing the precious minds of hard working freestyling unpaid coders so you can do your recreational #contentCreation stuff.

Even tho it might seem reasonable to point out that it can have unexpected consequences and lead to people feeling offended by the naming of the profile @EDIT | don't follow! @utopiArte, please ignore #whiteHatTroll's like @jesuisatire, and have him at bay, other wise this administration might have a look into the conditions of your profile contract, consider further restrictions, temporary suspension or even en entire freezing of it's activities.

@all, sry .. kidd's you know.
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Missing project?

Why is there no fediverse project forma online sales (like eBay)?

I get that involving payment adds a layer of complexity, bit it shouldn't be that hard? And with the rising rates of older platforms it feels like a missed opportunity

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m_f

Are you maybe looking for flohmarkt?

The name flohmarkt is a german word and translates to flea market or garage sale in english. This is a symbol for each flohmarkt being meant to be a small place for a somehow connected group of people. All the flohmarkts willing to federate make up one big place for small advertisements about exchange of goods and services.

flohmarkt

federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub
Codeberg.org
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Linux Mint a PITA to install on Win 11

I have a Windows 11 laptop and recently gotten excited to try Linux. I read good things about Mint being pretty good to go out of the box, and while I can be a fast learner I'm also tired and don't have a tremendous amount of bandwidth.

So I followed all the installation instructions, verified, flashed a USB, booted into it and started to install a dual boot of it. Made it through installation until it told me my computer had BitLocker on, and I'd need to go turn it off and try again. Fair enough.

Went back into my Windows OS (after booting it went to "diagnosing your PC"). I don't seem to have bitlocker installed - looks like a Pro version thing which I don't have. It did show that encryption was enabled, so I turned it off.

Restarted to boot to USB. Nope, "mmx64.efi - Not Found" error.

OK, googled it, renamed it, let's go.

error: shim_lock protocol not found
error: you need to load kernel first

OK... I googled it just enough to see this is going to be a pain.

I tried remaking my USB just in case, didn't help. It's extra frustrating because my first attempt to boot into Linux went so well! How did it go from booting into it flawlessly to giving me a series of errors?

Did I anger the Microsoft gods and now they're blocking my path? Is this a bad omen that Linux is going to be a problem on my laptop in general?

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This new game Jump Ship looks interesting

Didn't hear about this game until today, but it looks really cool! Full game's not out yet but there's a demo up which I plan to try out with some friends when they're available.

According to some reports on ProtonDB it works great on Linux too, which is good news for me.

What's your first impressions?


Jump Ship Demo on Steam

Jump Ship is a mission based co-op PvE for up to 4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks.
store.steampowered.com
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Season 2 Episode 1: FediForum Commentary
We’re covering FediForum this week, and talk about what’s going on in the space, ActivityPub and AT Proto, the controversy that made FediForum postpone, and some predictions for what this week’s unconference entails.

Season 2 Episode 1: FediForum Commentary

After a long break, we're back to provide a pre-event commentary for FediForum 2025, which starts tomorrow! Sean and Damon were excited to launch the new season, and provide some insight on the FediFo
Sean Tilley (We Distribute)
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LandedGentry

It’s playing into the 2010s culture of workplaces being “cool hangouts with beer taps,“ and acting like that’s all millennials care about.

What they never understood is yeah, that stuff could be nice I guess in certain contexts, but that’s not why we went to work. None of us forced those companies to do that shit. And some of us even didn’t like it, because those places could often blur the lines between a place of business and a place for socializing, which often led to women being sexually harassed.

WeWork anyone?

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mic_check_one_two

And some of us even didn’t like it, because those places could often blur the lines between a place of business and a place for socializing


To be clear, this was always the goal. If an employer could have you work 80 hours a week and sleep under your desk, they would. The goal is to give employees things to do around the office, so they don’t feel the need to actually leave work. Because if you’re playing ping pong in the break room, you’re immediately available for your manager to go “hey, we have a project for you.” Even if you’re not clocked in while playing ping pong, you’re essentially on call.

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Now that PewDiePie is on his Linux/engineering arc, could he help boost the Fediverse?

Pewds has been dabbling more in Linux and engineering content lately, and considering he's essentially retired and doesn’t rely on YouTube ad revenue anymore, wouldn’t it be amazing if he also started posting his videos on PeerTube in parallel?

He can definitely afford to support decentralized platforms and wouldn’t be held back by monetization concerns. With his reach, even just mirroring his content to PeerTube could bring massive attention to the Fediverse. Do you think he'd ever consider it?

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