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lemmy - Link to source

An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate

Hello, recent Reddit convert here and I'm loving it. You even inspired me to figure out how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.

One thing I can't understand is the level of acrimony toward LLMs. I see things like "stochastic parrot", "glorified autocomplete", etc. If you need an example, the comments section for the post on Apple saying LLMs don't reason is a doozy of angry people: infosec.pub/post/29574988

While I didn't expect a community of vibecoders, I am genuinely curious about why LLMs strike such an emotional response with this crowd. It's a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3) in a few years and I am personally concerned about many of the safety/control issues in the future.

So I ask: what is the real reason this is such an emotional topic for you in particular? My personal guess is that the claims about replacing software engineers is the biggest issue, but help me understand.

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lemmy - Link to source

Luffy

how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.


Are you fucking Moses? Then how the fuck did you manage to turn your Windows Machine into an android phone?

is the level of acrimony toward LLMs.


Good, since you apparantly arent able to use your brain, I'm gonna speed run it real quick:
- Its frying the planet
- its generating way to much slop, making anyone unable to find true non hallucinated information
- its a literal PsyOP
- it's rotting peoples critical thinking
- its being shoved down everyone's throat, tho it can't even generate simple things.
- people are using it to slood FOSS projects.

such an emotional response with this crowd.


Its not emotional, its just having the same negative experience over and over and over again

It's a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying


The only thing that's terrifying about it us peoples brain rotting away their critical thinking

lemmy - Link to source

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 you 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 you 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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lemmy - Link to source

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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lemmy - Link to source

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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lemmy - Link to source

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.

lemmy - Link to source

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

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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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

LandedGentry

The DS had countless iterations and refreshes. The Switch was Nintendo's flagship product. I also never said the steamdeck was useless or done. You know I didn't, yet you pretend like I'm treating it as if its practically e-waste. I was very specific/nuanced in how I talked about it. I don't know why this is such an important hill for you to die on but I think I'm being more than fair to the deck.

If I didn't think I could find good use for the steam deck for at least 5+ years then I wouldn't have bought one. But like the Xbox Series S it is starting to show some age on more demanding titles. It is just reality, and for many people that's not really a big deal. But for some it is.

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lemmy - Link to source

LandedGentry

Dude come on why are you making me be so prescriptive? Stop looking for holes and try to infer meaning/understand what I am actually saying. This isn't a formal debate, you don't need to score points. We are trying to reach mutual understanding.

Yes it matters in the grand sense of things. I care about the state of the industry and gaming.

It does not matter re: the subject I am talking about, i.e. whether or not the steamdeck is getting older/its AAA capabilities. I am talking about realties, you are trying to make this a discussion about values and developers. This is an assessment of the steamdeck as hardware.

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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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irelephant [he/him]

Did something change since this was posted?
I can look it up properly on mastodon.
You have to be signed in to fetch accounts on mastodon, is that the problem?

Are you using any framework to build the site? There's a few libraries for activitypub.
These links could be helpful: codeberg.org/fediverse/delight…


delightful-activitypub-development

A curated list of developer resources related to ActivityPub and the Fediverse.
Codeberg.org
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lemmy - Link to source

Blender Dumbass

Seems like somebody mentioned the account on the fediverse that started a chain reaction of various instances requesting a bunch of stuff. Which made it to Mastodon.social too. It still doesn't work though.

The server is written in python and the idea is to make it deploy-able without needing to install anything extra. So I'm trying to implement my own activity pub.

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lemmy - Link to source

irelephant [he/him]

I just took another look at it,

Comparing it to another random note, the to and cc fields are supposed to be arrays, rather than just a string.

Its also missing a url field, which is supposed to link to the user-facing url of the post.

cc: @blenderdumbass@lm.madiator.cloud

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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.
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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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lemmy - Link to source

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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lemmy - Link to source

wuphysics87

1st turnoff for me was the creator added this anime background which overwrote whatever background you had. I found the file and wrote a hook to automatically delete it on update reverting to mt background, only to find that there was a condig option to do the same thing

2nd The maintainer is a bigot and I won't support bigotted projects when there are other (better) options like sway which I know use.

TLDR: Creator violates Wheatons Law. I don't like that.

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lemmy - Link to source

phantomwise

There's an option in the config to replace the default anime background by a more sober one with the hyprland logo (wish I had know that BEFORE doing a presentation on a large second screen for the first time and realizing that hyprpaper kept my custom background on my workspaces but defaulted to the anime wallpaper on the second screen because in hyprpaper backgrounds are configured per screen 😂 ). And no matter whether you use that option or not, it shouldn't overwrite the background you choose. It's displayed only if you don't have any background configured. Otherwise it's either a bug or misconfiguration in hyprpaper.

Definitely not going to defend the dev on the other stuff.

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lemmy - Link to source

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?

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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

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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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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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TIL: Up to 85% of Americans Believe Abortion Should Be Legal in At Least Some Circumstances Despite What Politicians Say

Up to 85% of Americans Believe Abortion Should Be Legal in At Least Some Circumstances Despite What Politicians Say

In state capitols across America, politicians routinely stand at podiums declaring they represent “the will of the people” while simultaneously enacting policies that directly contradict what most…
HR NEWS (Medium)

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Full disk encryption - Hibernation and unlocking

Hey magical linux-oracle,

I recently made a full disk encryption on my computer via the debian installer.

I partitioned it like this:

SSD:

-- unencrypted part --

Boot - 1GB space, Mounting point: /boot

EFI - 512MB space, Mounting point: ESP, bootable flag: on

-- encrypted part --
Encrypted container with a volume group (vg-1) containing 3 logical volumes:
Root - 50GB space, Mounting point: /
Swap - 30GB space, Mounting point: swap
Home - Rest of space, Mounting point: /home

  • Second harddrive fully encrypted with one logical volume and mounting point /mnt/data

The install of linux worked pretty well.

Unfortunately, the hibernation part doesn't work out of the box. When I press hibernate (or standby), it only goes to the lock screen. How can I solve that issue? (Is it even a good idea to use hibernation on encrypted devices?)

Second thing: As you can see from my setup, I use 2 disks. When I start up my system, I only need to enter my decryption password once (not twice for the 2nd HD) and I see, that my second hard disk seems to be mounted already. It seems that people usually struggle with typing in their passwords twice and want a solution for that. Is it possible, that debian automatically fixed this for me (It's the same pw for both)?

Thanks!

~sp3ctre

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dbkblk

You have to use two swaps if you already use one swap, because one will be used when the system is on, but the second will be used to set the RAM content + the 1st content into SWAP (if any), otherwise, it would fail.

Then, find the hibernation swap uuid:

sudo swapon --show
lsblk -o name,uuid

Then
# /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=UUID=xxxx"

\#/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
resume=UUID=xxxx

# bash
sudo update-grub
sudo update-initramfs -k all -u

# to hibernate on lid switch
# /etc/systemd/logind.conf
HandleLidSwitch=hibernate

Then reboot 😀
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Avid Amoeba

You can do encrypted swap as well. If you use the same passphrase you can install decrypt_keyctl and use it as described here. It will cache the passphrase and send it to every other LUKS volume that needs decrypting so you have to type it only once. This is what I'm currently using and my root is on ZFS on LUKS.

Another option which I haven't used is to have a small volume that only stores your LUKS keys as files, then your LUKS volumes reference those files as keys, then you decrypt only that volume with a passphrase upon boot.

Another option is to use a swap file. I used to run Ubuntu LTS on LUKS on LVM. That is disk > EFI and LVM partitions > LVM volume boot, LVM volume for LUKS > root filesystem inside LUKS > swapfile in that root filesystem. Upon boot, GRUB is able to read the Linux kernel straight from the boot volume on LVM. Boots the kernel. You get a prompt to decrypt the LUKS volume where the root filesystem is. Once decrypted, the kernel can access the swapfile if it needs to resume from it.

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gnuhaut

I have this working on Debian like how you have it set up, everything on an encrypted lvm volume, except for boot and efi. Just one disk though. When waking up, it asks for the password like it does during normal bootup. It then restores RAM from the encrypted swap after you type the password. I think it worked out of the box, but it has been a while, so not 100% sure if I had to enable this somehow. Anyway this looks good to me.

If you manually run systemctl hibernate, does that work? Assuming this also does not work, you need to look at the logs during the failed hibernate attempt. Probably something like sudo journalctl -f and/or sudo dmesg -wH (for kernel logs). Open this up in two terminals, run systemctl hibernate and observe any errors or warnings.

It's possible this is a hardware/driver issue, i.e. a driver prevents hibernation or fails at it. You may be able to figure out which driver/device is responsible by looking at the logs.

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[Mostly solved?] audio distortion from hdmi on graphics card

OK, I'm on Debian Trixie with Gnome and just got a new (used) geforce 1050ti graphics card. I installed the proprietary drivers, and everything was working fine (after wrangling wine issues) until I turned on the sound. Playing something simple from a single audio source would work OK. But if another program started playing something, or if I pause/played quickly, then the audio would get all distorted and echo-y.

So far, the only way I can get the audio to be stable is the following:

  1. in gnome settings, set the audio output to HDMI/displayport
  2. install easyeffects
  3. under output/players, enable the PipeWire ALSA [fluidsynth] playback
  4. under PipeWire/General, uncheck the "Use default output", and change the output to "Built-in Analog Stereo" (which in my case isn't hooked up with anything)

Alternatively, I can changev the Gnome settings to the "Built-in Analog", and then in easyeffects, I can exclude the pipewire ALSA, and enable whatever programs I want to hear. The problem with this method is the Gnome volume control then doesn't work.

I'm mainly posting in hopes this gets indexed and helps some other wayward linux weirdo in the future. But I'm also curious if yall have any suggestions for a more permanent fix. Remove ALSA? In the default configuration, it definitely seems like there's some feedback or doubling or interference going on with pipewire and/or ALSA.

But linux audio is still black magic to me. I don't even know if ALSA or pipewire is a lower level. It's one of those situations where I half-solve a problem I couldn't find by googling, and just want to put it out in the ether

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Joe

ALSA is lowest level, and is the kernel interface to audio hardware. Pipewire provides a userspace service to share limited hardware.

Try setting "export PIPEWIRE_LATENCY=2048/48000" before running an audio producing application (from the same shell).

Distortion can sometimes be related to the audio buffers not getting filled in time, so increasing the buffering as above gives it more time to even out. You can try 1024 instead of 2048 too.

There is no doubt a way to set it globally, if it helps.

Good luck!

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Vik

I can appreciate that people use their systems very differently, but this is something that gnomes designers did not care to acknowledge throughout that whole exchange; input directly from their end users, and that's bearing in mind they collect no telemetry.

I appreciate working in UX for a community driven project is no easy task, many of the people commenting in the thread linked above could be considered more advanced users with their own desktop shortcuts configured, and a one size fits all approach satisfying all is difficult to deliver. All they asked for was an option for this new behaviour.

The communication in that thread was so poor that matt miller got involved.


GNOME 40 login is to the activities/overview mode, how do you disable this?

By default (at least in Fedora Rawhide) GNOME 40 fires up the activities/overview mode (not sure what the correct term for it is) when you login from the greeter.
GNOME Discourse
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Oniux: Kernel-level Tor network isolation for any Linux app

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
blog.torproject.org

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Liberux Nexx GNU/Linux smartphone starts crowdfunding!

Original Text by: @AprilShowers@lemmy.blahaj.zone

The Liberux Nexx smartphone will be (if it makes it to the production stage) the most powerful smartphone (with the RK3588S) to run GNU/Linux and the mainline kernel. More powerful than the PinePhone Pro, or the OnePlus 6. It will have a decent OLED display, alot of RAM, and much of what you would expect from a privacy-focused GNU/Linux smartphone such as hardware killswitches.

That is to say, this phone will (hopefully if it releases) be a true daily-driver candidate for many people, more so than the current offerings are now. While I am skeptical of it (as I am with any crowdfunded project) I think this will be a great thing if it does make it to production.

Site: liberux.net/

Crowdfunding Link: indiegogo.com/projects/liberux…


Liberux NEXX

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

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My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes
There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/my-week-with-linux

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Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux

In the comments section of a recent post I found out that Windows PowerShell had been ported to Linux. Had no clue it was a thing.

Went looking and found this old article attempting to explain why they did it. Not remotely interested in giving up Bash for PowerShell, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. The article seems to be from 2016.

I have never been more tempted to check the NSFW box, but I'll leave it open for now unless a mod complains. 😁

Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux

You can already test PowerShell in Ubuntu, Debian and CentOSrn
CIO

melroy

2025-05-28 22:16:15

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Microsoft Edit is coming to Linux


The brand new Microsoft Edit, which is the successor of the old MS-DOS-editor will come soon to Linux as well?

There is a discussion going on how to call ms edit executable under Linux at: github.com/microsoft/edit/disc…

Microsoft Edit is fully written in Rust. And the source-code is actually fully open-source as well under MIT license 😮.

I personally would like see them calling it dos-edit or just dosedit, since that would be kinda funny. But I understand it will be called ms-edit instead.

I know Linux already has vi, vim, neovim and nano, ... and more... However is kind of ironic to see this binary be shipped to Linux distros. Of course it's already added to Arch btw: aur.archlinux.org/packages/ms-…

Official GitHub page.

The logo of MS-edit

GitHub - microsoft/edit: We all edit.

We all edit. Contribute to microsoft/edit development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer

How does this help though? If anything they would've helped themselves by porting more Linux commands to work natively in Windows. This move makes it easier for Windows admins and devs to switch to Linux. With the latest horrible moves in the Windows desktop space I can't believe they're trying to become the "RedHat of Windows".
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Trying to recreate a version control system for my music collection, with one crucial difference ... 🤯

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TIA

additional info:

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

Hey folks,

I’ve been using Linux on and off for over a year now—not a total newbie, but still learning. I know the basics and usually rely on GPT or forums when I hit a wall. I’ve tried a bunch of distros so far: Kali, Debian, Pop!_OS, KDE Neon, Kubuntu… and currently running Fedora KDE.

Fedora is solid, but I keep finding myself tempted to try something new. Maybe I get bored easily—or maybe I just haven’t found the one yet. That’s why I’m asking for your help.

Here’s what I’m really looking for:

🔹 Large and fast app repository – I want access to a wide range of apps, updated quickly, without weird dependency issues.

🔹 Great UI/UX – KDE is my current favorite. I love how modern and smooth it feels, and I want something that builds on that experience.

🔹 Stability without being outdated – I don’t mind rolling release if it’s reliable. Crashes and breakages are a dealbreaker.

🔹 Good extras – Whether it’s unique tools, deep customization options, or just thoughtful polish, I love a distro with a “complete” feel.

🔹 Active community/support – Docs, forums, or anything that helps when things go wrong.

I’d love your suggestions—especially if you’ve been in the same place: bouncing between distros, loving KDE, and still chasing that “perfect” setup.

What would you recommend and why? Any underrated KDE-based distro I should check out? Or maybe something mainstream but deeply customizable and stable?

Appreciate your thoughts!

Also, if you can, please share some of the best (and free) resources to really learn and master Linux.
I’m still learning and only know some basics, but I want to go deeper and really understand how things work under the hood. Even if I don’t feel super advanced yet 😅, I’m curious and willing to grow.

Thanks a ton in advance!

in reply to NotUrHoney

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kshade

You could try Tuxedo OS. It's stable Ubuntu minus Snap plus newer KDE packages by a small Linux system retailer. Been using it for about a year now on my work laptop and it's perfectly adequate.

TUXEDO OS - TUXEDO Computers

TUXEDO OS: TUXEDO OS Modified Linux kernel Optimized for TUXEDO-Hardware Simple by default Powerful when needed Linux-qualified customer support Powered by KDE Plasma "Making Linux accessible to the general public" - this is our mission at TUXEDO ...
www.tuxedocomputers.com
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Is there a quick way to know which instance might need mods?

As per title.
I've been wondering about this. How can we help when someone managing a community/instance can't find help locally, for whatever reason? Something like an "help wanted" board. Even if it's for one month, three months, etc.

I've been an admin for a 8-9k+ users Discord server for years, but I love Lemmy so much I'd like to see if I can be somehow useful here. I don't think I'm power tripping at all, but have zero tolerance for harassment, racism or sexism, bigotry and honestly want to keep neocons and bigots/trolls out of Lemmy as long as it's humanly possible. Whenever in doubt, I generally abstain from using any moderation power and talk with other mods/users to find the best course of action.

The situation I imagined in the first paragraph did happen to me. Managing the server alone was draining my mental health, and I couldn't find anyone to help with all I had to do. Then someone wrote to me, we had lengthy discussions about the rules and philosophy of the server and we've been co-managing it together for years. Lemm.ee closing down made me think about "how to help where and when it's needed"?

I'm posting in this community in hope that other users may be wondering about it and may find any answer useful.

[Multiple edits, original post written quite late, judging from most replies, I failed to phrase correctly what I had in mind]

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tuckerm

I'm wondering if the fediverse in general (but especially Lemmy) would benefit from some kind of "fediverse help wanted" board for moderators, donations, technical help, etc.

edit: People who run a Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed/etc instance might be hanging out in the Matrix chat room for the software they are running; that might already serve this purpose.

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PSA: Exporting and importing your Lemmy account settings will also include your saved posts and comments
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BootLoop doesn't like this.

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Lemmy.zip Turns One!

Hey all,

Today, 10th June 2024, marks Lemmy.zip's first birthday.

Back on the 10th June 2023, I was as disillusioned with Reddit as many others here were, and wanted somewhere I could go where mods and users weren't treated like an end product.

At the time I had been messing with a lot of home server stuff (think Jellyfin and the *arr suite - usenet is great 😉) and figured I could spin up a docker container or two, how hard could it be right?

I'd never even heard of ansible, never changed an nginx config file, hell I'd never had more than one other person use something I'd spun up before. But after a couple of hours, there it was - Lemmy.zip. And suddenly, people were actually joining, posting, and making content. It felt unreal.

Since then, and with an awful lot of help and support from Sami and the community, I feel like we've got a really good, solid, stable and active Lemmy instance, our own corner of the internet where we can't be abused for corporate greed. In this first year, I have spent an awful lot of time learning how to run a so-called "social media" site, how to protect the backend, and how to build a bot to do all the boring stuff.

Linked in this post is a very brief overview of the last year - yearone.lemmy.zip - which gives some detail on how things unfolded at the start.

I am insanely thankful for all the lemmy.zip users, even the ones who only visited briefly. You're all brilliant (yes, even the lurkers 😘 ) and I hope you all continue to enjoy Lemmy.zip for many more years.

Running your own Lemmy server has its ups and downs. Days like today, when I can debug various issues without stressing, push new code to ZippyBot like its second nature, and have the ability to celebrate massive milestones like this, make all the bad times worth it.

I remember about a month or two in to the sites operation, and we'd just upgraded to the latest lemmy version - there was a period of about 5 or 6 hours continuous downtime and nothing I tried was getting the site working again. I was sat with my head in my hands, completely out of ideas, ready to give up. But thanks to the guidance of some fantastic people in the wider Lemmy community, eventually the site came back to life. Many mistakes have been made (many server backups have been restored 🙃) but we've continued to learn and grow, and I think the site is all the better for it.

We've got over 2,500 signed up users, we've recently tipped over 500 active users a month, we're in the top 20 lemmy instances - and in reality, that's all thanks to the mods and users of lemmy.zip. Without you, there wouldn't be any point to the site!

(Interesting fact - our longest serving user is Firestorm Druid - I don't have any medals yet sorry, but you deserve one!)

Looking forward to the next 12 months, I'm hoping we can continue to grow and continue to be a Lemmy instance for everyone. With the increasing enshittification of Reddit (and the wider "traditional" social media sites), I hope many people can escape and make their way over here. The Lemmy of today is a much different place to what it was 12 months ago. Even from purely a technical standpoint, federation is infinitely more reliable, and there are many long-standing servers to choose from now.

So once again I say a massive thank you to everyone. To the mods, you're the backbone of creating content across the whole lemmy network. Its often a thankless job, but here's hoping this goes a little way to expressing the gratitude we all have for you.

To everyone that has donated - I'm still humbled by your generosity. Thank you, you keep the lights on and the bits flowing.

And to the users of Lemmy.zip - thank you for being here. You make this whole thing worthwhile 😀

Happy Birthday Lemmy.zip 🍻

Demigodrick
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Lemmy.zip Year One!

yearone.lemmy.zip

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Attempt 2 at Lemmy 0.19.11 upgrade! (April 12, 13:00 BST)

Hello all,

Attempt two to update to Lemmy 0.19.11 is now planned in for tomorrow, April 12th at 13:00 BST (that's 12:00 UTC!)

Following feedback from the downtime thread, information can be found on the upgrade in these places:

  • Matrix - We have a Matrix space you can join by clicking here. This is likely where I'll be most active during the update.
  • Status Page - Following the failure of our old status page to actually detect any downtime, I've swapped to a different status page supplier temporarily while I review the options. Uptime Kuma was great (and free, and self hosted) but let us down. Our status page has now been updated, and I've included the maintenance on there. If there are any unforseen issues, I will add them there.
  • Mastodon - I have a mastodon account which you can view by clicking here and I will make a couple of posts here as and when things are happening too. You can get a mastodon.zip account too by clicking here!

There will absolutely be downtime again, but I cannot predict how long this will be. Some sources say 8 to 10 minutes, but during our last attempt the migrations took significantly longer, so it may be a few hours its down for.

Obviously there will be a backup, and if anything does go wrong again then we'll roll back.

Fingers crossed this time 😀

Thanks

Demigodrick


Mastodon

@Demigodrick invites you to join this server of Mastodon! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.zip
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