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LOL, I actually managed to do this with a broken spacebar. Half the bar was missing, so I took a completely different model scrap keyboard that was water damaged, carefully cut it in half, secured that with the original half with a couple paper clips and epoxy, and somehow even managed to make the stabilizer bar underneath line up and work.
Hey, if it looks stupid but works, it's not stupid. 👍
In a move that received little public fanfare but will have implications for housing policy across Canada, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has officially abandoned its 2004 benchmark for housing affordability.
The new boss is the same as the old boss, but what would you expect when you vote for the monopoly man who built his empire selling greenwashing funds that mainly hold large US tech stocks.
That is deeply, fundamentally fucked up. Canadians, consider this a warning: At this rate you won't get to say "I didn't see this coming" when you follow your neighbors down south.
Wow, this is big. I mean, I didn't think things were going to get any more affordable, but this deepens my belief in that prediction quite a bit. "Over 50% by 2035" sounds like a fiefdom, because people got a lot more bills than rent/housing - or at least that's my oldthink perspective lol. It's also sobering that this report was published in June and failed, insofar as I know, to make any splash in any Canadian mainstream news. I'm grateful for the Fediverse
What you dont understand about the plan to financially repress the youth by ballooning home values via mass immigration is that Brookfield has a large residential real estate portfolio, which will fall in value if home prices fall.
CMHC is not run by the Prime Minister or the cabinet. It is a Crown Corporation governed by a Board of Directors. Mr. Carney has not "redefined affordable housing". cmhc-schl.gc.ca/about-us/manag…
I'm very new on Linux and i'm trying to get some help.
I tried Linux mint and other debian distros, and since i dont have the sufficient skill to manage linux, this time i'm choosing Kubuntu because of the KDE environment , which i like a lot.
I know more about linux mint and kinda know how to work with him, but kubuntu never tried and i will try this time... but i have some questions if someone can help me.
Kubuntu is ok for a new person on linux?
I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).
On Kubuntu, is easily to install flatpak via diskover? I see i need to add the flathub repo, but my question is if someone have getting any error or problem with this, or if this is easy to do it.
Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines (like sudo apt install firefox - if you understand me) , how can i check this is not a virus or can do bad things on my linux? I use total virus for this, and the checks gives zero flags, but would like to know if for example, i install this programm via flatpak, can break my system.
Other question is about flatpaks from flathub. I know flatpak usually dont follow the theme of my DE. Which is the best way these flatpaks have the same theme as my DE? Is using the flatseal? Any tip about this?
And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey. Cheers all!
I'm very new on Linux and i'm trying to get some help.
I tried Linux mint and other debian distros, and since i dont have the sufficient skill to manage linux, this time i'm choosing Kubuntu because of the KDE environment , which i like a lot.
I know more about linux mint and kinda know how to work with him, but kubuntu never tried and i will try this time... but i have some questions if someone can help me.
Kubuntu is ok for a new person on linux?
I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).
On Kubuntu, is easily to install flatpak via diskover? I see i need to add the flathub repo, but my question is if someone have getting any error or problem with this, or if this is easy to do it.
Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines (like sudo apt install firefox - if you understand me) , how can i check this is not a virus or can do bad things on my linux? I use total virus for this, and the checks gives zero flags, but would like to know if for example, i install this programm via flatpak, can break my system.
Other question is about flatpaks from flathub. I know flatpak usually dont follow the theme of my DE. Which is the best way these flatpaks have the same theme as my DE? Is using the flatseal? Any tip about this?
And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey. Cheers all!
I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).
you can do that on any distro. Should be easy to install.
Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines
Thats why after 3years of debian/kubuntu I switched to arch. But that doesn't mean anything. Just do kubuntu for now and if you have troube installing something ask the community and they will help you get it installed.
And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey.
The best tip I received when starting on Linux was "Break shit", and I believe it is still the best advice out there.
Keep an install ready, and go to town on your distro of choice. Test commands, turn things on and off, delete things, move things, and literally break shit. Then see if you can put it back together again. If not, install a fresh one and try again.
Have any of you run Dolphin standalone with ES-DE? Eventually I'll add PCSX2 standalone, something else for N64 and Dreamcast, etc.
I ask because it seems like my options for installing Dolphin standalone are a flatpak or building from source. I was worried the flatpak would have integration issues with ES-DE because of the sandboxing, but I've never built any packages from source. I'm running Mint if relevant.
Background- I have Retrobat running on windows for my child, and I'd like to get off windows as much as possible. I tried Retroarch, and like 1 out of 5 built in cores worked. I like the ES-DE carousel interface better than Retroarch anyway. If I can't get this to work, I was considering making a partition for Batocera as an alternative.
The FTC's 'click to cancel' rule would have wiped out a practice that allowed some businesses to scam their customers. That's why businesses got it killed
Miret and Krishnan discuss the promise of large language models (LLMs) to revolutionize materials discovery via automated processing of complex, interconnected, multimodal materials data.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 is now available on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2: https://ninten.do/6059S7FDD The games that raised a generation of sk...
Over on YouTube, [Technology Connections] has a new video: Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting’s final form. This video is about a wireless fluorescent light which uses induction to transfe…
Who doesn’t want an X-ray machine? But you need a special tube and super high voltage, right? [Project 326] says no, and produces a USB-powered device that uses a tube you can pick up two for…
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Decided to do this as a streaming stress test for my PeerTube server (and to learn more about live streaming setups and how OBS works), will probably lag behind updates in canvas size and such, as nothing like that is automated. Enjoy!
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Dont worry, he wont be cutting the Bank of Canada's funding, nor the billions in mortgage bonds the Bank of Canada is buying to inflate home values for his stock portfolio. It will be the less important things like health transfers and child benefits.
I have a really hard time believing these cuts aren't going to hurt services. They're saying they aren't going to lay off public servants, which suggests to me that it'll be the actual service delivery that'll take the hit.
https://hypersclub.com/ - Dave Chappelle wants it to be known that he's not a fan of DJ Khaled's silence while his fellow Palestinian's struggle in Gaza to d...
An MIT-led study of three major global cities examines millions of restaurant menu items and concludes that having fewer and less nutritional eating options nearby correlates with obesity and other health outcomes.
My follow up questions: 1. Do unhealthy food options lead to obesity, or do lifestyles drive demand for food options (or some mix of the two)? 2. Regarding the income relationship: does income drive lifestyle or are unhealthy foods cheaper to offer?
I personally believe the first option in both of these questions, though I'd love to see some formal research on it.
I live in Chicago and this city feels so full of energy in the summer. There are constant festivals, events, people are hosting cookouts, everyone's outside. It feels like a constant party. You pay for it in the winter though.
I lived most of my life in South Carolina. Last year, I made the mistake of visiting SC in the summer. I had to say no to so many plans in Chicago and leave beautiful weather to visit the hottest, muggiest, no-wind-est place on earth. In Columbia, SC the pride festival is held in October because if it was held in June, people would just die. I told my friends and family that they visit me during the summer and I'll be around for the holidays.
Hi, as many others I am looking to switch to linux before microsoft kills win 10. I read a lot of advice online for distros, but my main needs are not really discussed. I need a distro that runs well for game dev specifically unreal engine 5.4-6.
I am currently aiming to try mint, as it has been recommended to be stable and i already dabbled a little bit with Ubuntu on my laptop.
I am not afraid of some tech journey, but even though arch seems the coolest, with Wayland, kde, hyperland customization, i am not confident enough to use it for work. I heard it can completely crash your system if your a noob.
So in essence i need something stable that is relatively easy to use and has great ue5 and gaming perf. Thanks in advance for all the help.
Mint is a great choice, it is very stable, and it really holds your hand via the Software Center.
However, stable also means old: it does not support the latest hardware.
If you have hardware that released after (rough estimate) April 2024, consider something based on Fedora, such as Bazzite, instead. It comes with modern drivers and should support modern hardware much better.
Bazzite was heavenly promoted for gaming, but there was no mention on using it for work. Does it work well for regular productivity, code, graphic design, 3d?
You can do that on Bazzite. The only thing I would say is that Bazzite is an atomic fedora distro meaning that the core OS is immutable and everything lives on a layer above the base OS. This helps stability for the OS and make rolling back and repairs much easier. But sometimes installing apps, especially apps that interact with the base OS can be a bit of a pain. On top of that, atomic distros are less common, which means that if you are looking for help, it will be a little harder to find stuff online.
Overall, I like fedora. I have used basically all of the DEs, but tend to hover between KDE and Gnome. Fedora is a little more recent than Debian, but it isn’t a rolling release like Arch or OpenSUSE. This means you get some of the newer kernel features, but the updates are still staggered and released at intervals and tested. I find it to be very stable.
They're actually working on making a version specifically for game developers, but it isn't released yet. There is also a more generic version for developers. dev.bazzite.gg
Of course you can, why wouldn't you? It's Fedora Kinoite with added stuff for gaming. There is a special edition for devs in the making, in case you're interested in keeping an eye on that: universal-blue.discourse.group…
I heard it can completely crash your system if your a noob.
You can crash anything if you try. Been there, done that. Just go ahead and start using it. Just keep backups which you always do, regardless the O/S and situation. (pro tip: TEST RESTORING THE BACKUPS)
Maybe make an extra backup before you try something and you'll live. You could also use a separate partition to store your files so you can re-install without touching your data. Make that partition size 'recognizable' (t.ex. the biggest by far and label it) so you won't mess up the partition selection when you re-install. And NO don't ask me how I know!
Yes Mint is a good choice for your migration. It has been put together in a way that makes it intuitive for a windows refugee. The menu layout has the "start" (mint) button bottom left with your apps in there.
The system apps are named obvious things like "software manager" and it has default apps installed to get you going.
Being derived from Ubuntu it is the best supported platform for commercial apps/games but with Ubuntu's weird choices (snap etc) tidied up.
It's the most recommended linux distro for beginners for a reason. It's a solid reliable well thought out platform
In my experience Fedora with GNOME is really use friendly and intuitive to use, and I've never borked it when not using the terminal. It also has a lot of extensions you can install to customise the experience, and almost everything can be done via a GUI.
I've had smooth sailing both with Fedora GNOME and Fedora KDE. And it's another "common choice" with good enterprise support thanks to Red Hat, just like Ubuntu and all their baby distros.
I'm not sure about unreal engine compatibility, but I've been using Fedora Silverblue and it works good enough. Sometimes I've seen graphical bugs, but they are fixed quick enough for me to not care too much. Since I use the computer for work (and I don't have much time to fiddle with my system) I have found that an atomic distro is the one that requires less maintenance, so it allows me to just do my work without having to troubleshoot things breaking. I have switched a lot of linux distros because I was never satisfied with how things looked or worked (and because of bugs with nvidia and other things, I am a long time linux user and things have never worked as smooth as today, now that we have wayland and proton and a lot of nice things). At the end of the day, I believe that the best thing to do is tho choose one of the most popular distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Arch) and make adjustments to fit your needs. Distro hopping is fun, but not so much when you're short on time and you have stuff to do. Hope this helps.
I doubt that would help, sadly. There is SO MUCH advice out there already, but people always think they are special and have a very rare and complicated use case.
I think Fedora using either Gnome or KDE would be a great place for you to start. Ubuntu or Mint aren’t terrible choices either.
On the topic of Arch, there’s a Distro I use called EndeavourOS. It’s billed as an Arch based distro that’s geared towards the terminal, but unlike Arch it comes all of the basic software you might need right out of the box, and offers a long list of desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, and XFCE being the best choices on the list)
I use Hyprland on it, but Hyprland isnt advisable until you have some solid experience with a different desktop. Because it is geared towards the terminal, it expects you to install and update your software from the terminal. Not a difficult task, but it might not be ideal when you’re just getting started.
I’ve been running it for a long time without issue. But how “stable” it is depends on how much you read the documentation and developer announcements, and how much you fiddle with things you don’t understand. That can be true in mint or Ubuntu as well, none of them prevent you from breaking things.
Recently endeavour changed the way they deal with some firmware related packages, this would cause an error when updating, causing a handful of packages to not be upgraded. A quick DuckDuckGo search of the error message took me straight to a forum post by the devs explaining that you have to uninstall one of the related packages, and run the update again. If you didn’t think to look you’d probably panic and think your system was broken. Just an example of how the operating system itself doesn’t hold your hand. It’s up to you whether that’s acceptable or not.
On the topic of stability, save your important files on a separate drive. It’s been said elsewhere in the thread but bears repeating. As long as your files are stored in a separate drive, if you run into issues you aren’t able to fix, you can just wipe and reinstall, it maybe takes 20 minutes depending on your hardware, and while you’re experimenting and learning, it wouldn’t be uncommon for you to break some things.
Operating systems are rarely unstable. Users are the most common source of instability.
Recently endeavour changed the way they deal with some firmware related packages
Actually, that was Arch and as Endeavour uses the Arch repositories + the AUR, and their own repository for their additions, they were naturally affected.
If you run endeavour, you are basically getting Arch with a familiar installer, a few useful helper scripts, and a friendly community. You are still expected to know your hardware and your install. You are still expected to keep up with the Arch news, and make any manual interventions required. If you do that, endeavour is remarkably reliable.
Thanks for the advice, I will go ahead with trying mint first. Then a fedora to compare performance and a separate partition/drive for messing up arch/endeavour. Just have to disable bitlocker... Because that's how my last mint experience ended up xD
If Mint works for you, just stick with it. No need to try a different distribution to compare. You'll know when you need it.
I would only go to Fedora if you need it. For example newer drivers (kernel, mesa). Don't go change the kernel and/or mesa on a distribution, probably better to switch at that point. Or if you need KDE or GNOME for some reason. Wayland is disabled in Mint by default, but can be enabled. It's been over a year IIRC since they added experimental Wayland support so it may be fine by now.
Differences between Linux distributions are exaggerated.
There is also little reason not to try out different ones to compare if you want to. Nice to see what they are like for yourself if you have the time to.
So in essence i need something stable that is relatively easy to use and has great ue5 and gaming perf.
That is probably the most common set of requirements people ask for. In reality, with a few exceptions, there is really not that much difference between distros given those requirements. UE5 is newer so the biggest change there would be that you might find distros that ship newer versions of stuff might run it slightly better then distros that ship older software. In practice I think it has been out for long enough that you wont see much difference unless you want to play something new on the day of release (but these days those are all buggy messes anyway... not sure your choice of distro will make as big a difference as waiting a few weeks/months for the initial patches to rollout).
Remember, all distros are essentially based off the same software, the biggest difference being what desktop environment they ship with and what versions of software there ship (and how how long they stay on that version). By far the biggest difference you will see if what desktop environment they use and all distros essentially package the same set of desktop environments - each might come with different ones by default but they typically contain all the popular ones in their repos.
i need something stable... great gaming perf
In particular these two points. Do you know what you are asking for here? These are the most bland and wishy washy requirements. Everyone wants something stable and fast, never seen anyone ask for something that crashes all the time and is slow. But worst these tend to be on the opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of requirements, if you optimize for one you tend to trade off the other.
Even stability has multiple meanings. In terms of crash stability you will find all distros to be about the same. No one distro wants to ship buggy crashy software. But at times they do. And it is really just the luck of the draw as to when this might happen to you based on what software you use, how you configure your system and what hardware you have. Some combinations just don't work for some weird reason and you wont know until you hit it. This is why you hear some people claim one distro is a buggy mess while some other one is rock solid while someone else argues the exact opposite. All main stream distros are just as good as any other in terms of this and you are just unlucky if you ever do run into that type of issue. The biggest problems in this regard tends to be when a new major version of something comes out - but like with gaming it can be beneficial to wait a few months for any issues to be patched before jumping to the latest big distro version.
The other side of stability is API stability - or the lack of things changing over time as new versions of stuff get released. There are two main types of distros in this regard, point release distros which freeze major versions of packages between their major releases so you wont get any new features during the release cycle that version of the distro. Then you have to deal with all the breaking changes from newer versions of software once every so often when a new distro version comes out. Vs rolling release distros that upgrade major versions constantly and so generally follow a lot closer to the latest versions of things than point release distros. Really the big trade off here is not if you encounter breaking changes.
Any distro will need to deal with them at some point, the choice is how often you deal with them. You can wait years on the same version of a point release distro and only need to deal with all the breaking changes once every few years, or once every 6 months. Or you can deal with things as they come out with a rolling release distro. But while it might sound nice to only deal with it every few years it also means you need to deal with all the changes at once. Which can be much more disruptive when you do decide to. Quite often I find the slower upgrading distros are better off with just a full reinstall on the latest version than upgrading from one to the next. Personally I prefer dealing with small things frequently as they tend to be easier to fix and less disruptive over longer periods of time. When I was running kubuntu I used to end up reinstalling it ever 6 months as the upgrades never worked for me (though this was a long time ago), but my oldest arch install lasted probably probably 5-10 years or so.
And at the same time how frequently you get the latest versions of things means you get any performance optimizations and support for newer hardware or newer games as well. But also any bugs or regressions. It is a double edged sword. Which is why stability and performance tend to be a leaver you can tune between rather than two separate things to can achieve. Just like overclocking, the more performance you can get out of a system tends to result in the system becoming less stable overall. Everyone wants the most stable and fastest system, but in reality everyone has a different limit on how much or what types of stability they are willing to give up on to achieve different levels of performance.
But out the box, you will find most distros to be very much within a couple of % of each other and which is fastest will vary depending on which games you want to play and what hardware you have. But they all tend to have quite a bit of head room to optimizes for specific use cases as they all are optimizing for the general use case which is typically just trading off performance in one thing for another. But again, we are talking about tiny difference overall.
Mint is great. It may not work for you if you have super new hardware.
Fedora is great. It’s mint but with newer stuff.
Arch is great. Bleeding edge. But it’s not “set it and forget it”.
Linux is great. There’s a million other options. Any of them work if they work for you. Find someone bashing Ubuntu - they would HAPPILY choose Ubuntu over win11.
And you have to realize the “what version I’m on dependency hell” thing is a thing of the past for the most part. Flatpaks just about solve this problem. You’ve got containers and vms too. Switching to another distro ain’t hard either as a nuclear option.
Just install mint or fedora like everyone says. Your requirements aren’t special, and both options are great.
I read a lot of advice online for distros, but my main needs are not really discussed.
You're not special and Linux distros aren't that specialized. They differ in packaging, upgrade philosophy, etc. There is no Linux distro that can't do the things others do.
You dabbled with Ubuntu. Stick with it, you'll be fine. Unless you really want mint, then go for it you'll be fine.
I would go with something ubuntu based or fedora. If you want to learn then Bazziteos may not be for you since it's ridiculously easy to figure stuff out on there. Instead, you might enjoy learning a system where you type some commands in the terminal like fedora or linux mint
If you're new to Linux, you won't stay with the distro anyone recommends for more than a month. It's a truism.
I'm not you. You're not me.
That said. Ubuntu isn't the Ubuntu of old. The real selling point is the zfs, but you have all the other NIH stuff like snap etc. I'm not a zfs fan but I appreciate that it's got a huge fan base.
One thing to say is that you don't have to have a one and only. I have at least two distros I use daily for workstation stuff. I use Fedora for typing and Arch for backups, debugging, rescue, and other fiddling about stuff (because Fedora gets in the way sometimes). Every distro has the same set of commands.
Coming from Windows, OK with a bit of tech journey and into gaming here is my take in no order of preference.
1) TuxedoOS **if you are inclined to Debian/Ubuntu side. Slow updates but it has latest KDE and very stable in my experience. 2) If you just want set and forget (minimal updates) **Linux Mint (Ubuntus fall here too) Now, it is not very appealing aesthetics. 3) Fedora. Probably the best overall, but if you have beef against IBM/Red Hat, ditch it, its superiority is very marginal. Gamers like the spin Nobara, some performance increase but minimal. 4) Arch is not that unstable as portrayed, but one time in a critical time is bad enough, even if very rarely occurs. You assess your risk. The popular baby today is Arch's CachyOS due to catering to gamers. 5) OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed is maintained quite good and very close to Fedora in being perfect overall, but fewer people behind and less support. I would only go with it if you have a specific reason why (German, Yast tools, rolling release but stable,...)
At the end, like many people say, it is likely you will hop... until one day you find that distro hoping is pointless and that all are actually very close to each other and could easily coexist with any of them all. The difficult and uncompromising aspect usually is with the desktop environment like KDE Plasma, Gnome, Cinnamon...
arch seems the coolest, with Wayland, kde, hyperland customization
While I have no experience with Unreal Engine, so I can't give an informed recommendation, I just figured I'd point out that you can do this with every distro
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For example I would selfhost Mastodon with me@fedi.com but then decide to change the server software to GoToSocial but keep the same me@fedi.com. Would everyone who was following me@fedi.com keep me in their follower list or would whole fediverse crash?
I'm not a technical person, so i don't really know, but from a blog i read about switching from lemmy to piefed, i guess there should be some problems :
I also changed the URL from jemmy.jeena.net to piefed.jeena.net because I don't want the other instances to be confused when suddenly a different software with different contents is available under the same domain. But I'm thinking to start up Lemmy and unsubscribe from all communities and to delete the one community I have on my Lemmy instance which has only very few subscribers.
That at least would be a somewhat clean way to dispose of this lemmy instance. Oh and I should return a 410 Gone to indicate that it's permanently gone.
while I don't know the answer to the question, I am very certain that
or would whole fediverse crash
is not it; if that could make the whole fediverse crash, someone could do it maliciously. At most it will cause problems delivering your messages or delivering messages to you.
It definitely depends on the software, for example in matrix you can easily cause federation issues in some cases. this won't blow up the fediverse, but it could impact the user experience if they rely on or interact with that instance.
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I tried it a couple of times and stopped both times because it puts it own password dialogue box up for my password. I assume it wants to sudo for some reason.
No! I will not give you my plaintext password.
No other piece of screen sharing software needs this.
You've not told me what you need it for.
Even if valid, no user level software should have my plaintext password. Make a request to the system, it will prompt me.
You now expect me to trust the software developers that make such brain-dead security choices with sharing my desktop? Not going to happen.
I used to use RustDesk but changed to Moonlight/Sunshine because it doesn't need hosting a server to make sure my data isn't sent to some random Chinese server (I remember having read something about it a while ago, don't know if it's still an issue)
I've had an amazing time remoting into friends and families windows machines from my linux box, and they were able to install rustdesk very easily. It's incredibly streamlined and has been so helpful when I need it.
it absolutely is. used it for work and it fit our needs perfectly. I wonder how much improvement it has undergone in the year it’s been since I’ve used it.
Apart from that I am looking for a solution to a personal issue (see my other comment), I posted this because I was thinking this could be a great way to support other new Linux users and friends.
When I tried RustDesk it was not able to easily function on headless systems, including servers and my desktop PC if the monitor was powered off. Has that changed?
Anydesk and Teamviewer don't have that problem, but both companies have had hacking incidents and Teamviewer actually blamed their users instead of taking responsibility. Allowing 3rd parties of any type remote access to my computers is IMO just asking for trouble, especially for always-on systems.
Wireguard plus VNC isn't as seamless but it works fine the vast majority of the time. When I occasionally need features that VNC doesn't support, NoMachine is a full-featured, free for non-commercial use alternative that works great with WG.
Edit: It looks like the latest release of NoMachine now offers a intermediate network service that operates like Teamviewer and Anydesk. Access via intermediate network ID is not enabled by default, so with it disabled it should theoretically be more secure than the other apps.
I remote to a Mint on a laptop with a closed screen, and pop_OS that doesn't have a screen. (Second one has my jellyfin server). Connecting from my android phone and even my Windows laptop at my last job
Yeah if you still run into an issue for some reason add a virtual monitor in Windows, or "sudo rustdesk --option allow-linux-headless Y" (it's in the GUI as well) and it should take care of it, but I haven't had to do that
Ah, I haven't tried Apple products. Works with Mint, Android, PopOS, Debian, without any tinkering in my experience. I remote from my phone to my media server/laptop/and other junk when needed.
I assume only as long as remote is using adequate number of physical monitors? Or can one run a virtual guest with a single virtual monitor and then use as many monitors as host has?
I was talking with my brother who was supporting our mother on her Windows laptop. He was using TeamViewer for years but that company now requires to subscribe to an expensive license on top of this is a really security- and privacy-sensitive kind of access.
His main requirements are that the new solution are:
safe
very easy to use for the supported person
better works without VPN, public ports etc though this isn't mandatory.
So, it needs to be easy. I was first thinking in VNC but while I have been using TigerVNC for years in Home Office, this looks not exactly as easy as TeamViewer.
Last week was talking with our stand-in admin at work who turns out to know Linux well. He said he has very good experiences with RustDesk, uses it for home office and also for remotely accessing Windows machines.
There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it's entirely Chinese devs.
Ha, I am thinking since a while that for preventing one's internet access being hacked by a foreign power, it's probably best to chain an American-made router with a Chinese one so that they can firewall each other 😉
Such attacks against infrastructure are to be taken serious. But the xz-utils case and Stuxnet also have shown a few things:
Such attacks are incredibly time-consuming and expensive to mount.
Once sn attacker hits such a target, they have blown their powder - they can't continue to use it.
The xz-utils case shows that open source's many-eyed principle works astoundingly well.
xz-utils also confirms that in open source software, you can close a detected backdoor within hours - even if the maintainer of the software does not want that, since you can fork it in seconds. (And using Rust only makes this easier).
So, this topic of foreign state-actor backdoors is less a thing for individuals to worry about. (I agree that lawmakers of democratic states should absolutely worry about this, here a good article be Bert Hubert on the topic.)
However what is actually dangerous is the erosion of privacy and the rising amount of mandated surveillance. But if one is worried about that, one should not use closed-source software in the first place.
I also avoided it for some of these reasons, but in the end it was just the setup that got messy. I ended up using Sunshine/Moonlight for an overall nicer experience. I can use it to stream games if I’ve got a good connection, or toss it in low bandwidth mode for remote admin work. I run it behind Tailscale to access it from anywhere, it supports Wayland, it’s all fully open source, and I’m very happy with the setup.
I host Apache Guacamole on my server, and then VNC/RDP/SSH on the various PCs and servers on my network, so I can connect to them from anywhere, as long as I have a browser, my password manager and my 2-factor auth.
I have used many different RDP's, but RustDesk seems the best option. Yesterday I had to configure my Steam Deck and I am glad that RustDesk can be found in the Discover software manager.
I ran a Rustdesk server and it is constantly unreliable. It's very likely it's my fault and I lack the skills to fix it. I just decided to use Anydesk instead.
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This is a load of bullshit. Who makes the money here? Who give control over the port to a private enterprise here?
Who? Fucking? Wins? Here???????
I supported Carney from the start. If this is what he's aiming at completing I'm walking away ... with the hopes that he FUCKING STOPS N O W with this shit.
Read it and weep asswipe.
As it stands right now you're not leading, you're following.
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If you come from i3, you might be missing Xephyr or Xnest-like functionalities in Sway - that is, the ability to run another desktop session as another user inside your current desktop.
In i3, I log into my test desktops all the time without leaving my main desktop, and that's something I really miss in Sway / Wayland. So I spent some time putting a script together to do that seamlessly in Sway too. You may find it useful.
In fairness, Sway - or more precisely wlroots - can already run nested natively without any modification. You can test that by opening a terminal and typing sway in it: you'll get a second, identical desktop inside your current one.
The problems come when you want to run another user's desktop within yours, for the following reasons:
Wayland makes the incredibly restrictive assumption that the Wayland compositor and clients always run as the same user, and therefore puts the Wayland socket in the user's XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (usually /run/user/<userid>/). That's a problem if you want a Wayland application running as another user to connect to that Wayland socket, because other users can't access your XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, and you really don't want to open it up to other users just to be able to access the socket because it's full of sensitive files pertaining to your running session.
Moreover, since XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is usually a mounted tmpfs, you can't symlink the socket outside the directory either because sockets can't be symlinked across filesystems in Linux.
In other words, again, Wayland makes it extra difficult to do something simple for no good reason.
Sway requires a full login environment - and particularly XDG_RUNTIME_DIR - to be set in the environment, which usually implies that it should also be setup and mounted in /run/user. Unfortunately, you can't just sudo into the account you want to run your nested Sway desktop as and start Sway because PAM explicitely doesn't set XDG when su'ing or sudo'ing, and doing it manually is a recipe for problems.
To solve 1., we use a clever piece of software called filterway, which conveniently solves two problems:
It acts as a sort of gateway: it connects to a Wayland socket on one side, creates its own socket on the other side and links the two. This functionality is used to expose the primary Wayland socket securely without compromising XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
It replaces the app ID of the top Wayland client that connects to it - which is really its primary party trick. In this use case, that's useful to track the state of the nested Sway session in the primary session's tree.
There is no package for filterway so you have to clone the Github repo, build the binary and install it somewhere in your PATH. Fortunately, it's just a small utility so building it is really simple.
To solve 2., we use systemd-run to setup the target user's environment as if it was a full login, then run Sway with the correct setup to connect to the primary Wayland display's socket.
The following script ties everything together: it starts filterway, starts Sway as the other user, then takes care of stopping Sway and filterway and cleaning things up when the session is closed. Alll you need is to add your name to the sudoers.
\#!/bin/sh
# Make sure we run in Wayland
if [ ! "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}" ]; then
echo "$0 must be run in a Wayland environment"
exit
fi
# Make sure we run in Sway
if [ ! "${SWAYSOCK}" ]; then
echo "$0 must be run in a Sway session"
exit
fi
# Pass the nested session's user as first argument
if [ ! "$1" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 username"
exit
fi
NUSER=$1
# Make sure the nested session's user exists
# Replace "password" with "passwd" here, change due to Lemmy posting glitch
if ! grep -q "^${NUSER}:" /etc/password; then
echo "User ${NUSER} doesn't exist"
exit
fi
# Make sure filterway is installed
if ! which -s filterway; then
echo "filterway not found in the PATH."
echo "Please install if from https://github.com/andrewbaxter/filterway"
exit
fi
# Get a unique ID for this nested session
UUID=$(uuidgen)
# Figure out where our Wayland socket is and make sure it exists
if echo ${WAYLAND_DISPLAY} | grep -q "^/"; then
RSOCKPATH=${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}
else
RSOCKPATH=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}
fi
if ! [ -S ${RSOCKPATH} ]; then
echo "Socket file ${RSOCKPATH} for this Wayland display \"${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}\" doesn't exist!?"
echo "Giving up..."
exit
fi
# Unique nested session's Wayland display name
NWDISPLAY=wayland-nested-${UUID}
# Unique filespec for the nested session's Wayland socket
NSOCKPATH=/tmp/${NWDISPLAY}
# Unique filespec for the nested Sway socket
NSWAYSOCK=/tmp/sway-nested-ipc.${NUSER}.${UUID}.sock
# Run filterway in the background to expose our private Wayland socket in ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR} (which is most likely a tmpfs-mounted directory that can't be shared outside without compromising the private $(XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}) and to rename the nested session's app ID
rm -f ${NSOCKPATH}
filterway --upstream ${RSOCKPATH} --downstream ${NSOCKPATH} --app-id "Nested Sway - ${NUSER} ($UUID)" &
FILTERWAY_PID=$!
# Wait until filterway has created the socket and associated lock files for the nested session
RETRY=3
while [ ${RETRY} -gt 0 ] && ! ( [ -S ${NSOCKPATH} ] && [ -f ${NSOCKPATH}.lock ] ); do
sleep 1
RETRY=$((RETRY-1))
done
# If filterway somehow didn't start, try to kill it and clean up its files for good measure
if [ ${RETRY} = 0 ]; then
kill ${FILTERWAY_PID}
rm -f ${NSOCKPATH} ${NSOCKPATH}.lock
fi
# Fix up the permissions of the socket and associated lock files for the nested session so it's only accessible to the owner
chmod 600 ${NSOCKPATH} ${NSOCKPATH}.lock
# Become root
sudo -s -- << EOF
# Give the socket and associated lock files to the nested session's user
chown ${NUSER}: ${NSOCKPATH} ${NSOCKPATH}.lock
# Remove stale symlinks then start Sway as that user in a new session in the background
systemd-run --pipe --machine ${NUSER}@ --setenv=WAYLAND_DISPLAY=${NWDISPLAY} --setenv=SWAYSOCK=${NSWAYSOCK} --user /bin/sh -c '[ "\${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}" ] && (find \${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR} -maxdepth 1 -name "wayland-nested-*" -xtype l -exec rm -f {} \; || true) && rm -f \${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${NWDISPLAY} && ln -s ${NSOCKPATH} \${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${NWDISPLAY} && sway' &
# Wait for the Sway container to appear within 3 seconds after starting Sway, then wait for it to disappear for more than 5 seconds afterwards
export SWAYSOCK=${SWAYSOCK}
COUNTDOWN=3
while [ \${COUNTDOWN} -gt 0 ]; do
if swaymsg -t get_tree | grep -q 'app_id.*${UUID}'; then
COUNTDOWN=5
fi
sleep 1
COUNTDOWN=\$((COUNTDOWN-1))
done
# Stop the nested Sway
SWAYSOCK=${NSWAYSOCK} swaymsg exit
# Kill filterway
kill ${FILTERWAY_PID}
# Remove the filterway socket and socket lock files
rm -f ${NUSER}: ${NSOCKPATH} ${NSOCKPATH}.lock
EOF
I called it nest_sway.sh and it lives in my ~/scripts directory, which is in my PATH. Whenever I want to start a desktop as another user within my desktop, I simply type
$ nest_sway.sh <username>
and hey-presto, the desktop appears. Just like with Xephy.
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So if you do the Docker setup, obeying the instructions and substituting everything that needs to get substituted, but don't proofread the files in detail and so miss that line 40 of docker-compose.yml doesn't have the variable {{domain}} like in every other location you need to write your domain, but instead just says LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=lemmy.ml and so you fail to change it away from lemmy.ml... then, everything will work, until you type in your admin password for the first time, at which point your browser will send a request to lemmy.ml which includes your admin username, your email address, and the admin password you're trying to set. And, also, of course your IP address wherever you are sitting and setting up the server.
I have no reason at all to think the Lemmy devs have set their server up to log this information when it comes in. nginx will throw it away by default, of course, but it would be easy for them to have it save it instead, if they wanted to. And my guess is most people won't use a different admin password once they figure out why creating their admin user isn't working and fix it.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml @nutomic@lemmy.ml I think you should fix the docker-compose.yml file not to do this.
Uh huh, just like how the instance/user block being horribly implemented to where it's just a barely functional mute is just a (4 year) "oversight". Funny how their "oversights" just so happen to have benefits to their efforts to push authoritarianism
Documentation of Lemmy.ml's Extremism [Megathread]
Good job everyone blocking and boycotting .ml! It's having an effect, users are noticing and MAUs on their comms are falling!
And for anyone asking "Why are we boycotting/blocking lemmy.ml?" Here's a quick recap:
Lemmy.ml is an instance run by admins who are hardcore tankies and will enforce their ideology on their instance through various means from allowing (and pushing it themselves) propaganda (Such as Russia being justified in some way to invade Ukraine) and known propaganda outlets (Like RT) to removing content on their instance critical of their favored authoritarian regimes such as Russia or China and even banning users for such speech or speech critical of them if it's off their instance (Just like the Reddit mods of ol!).
If it was just some random instance it would have been defederated from long ago like the rest of the "Tankie Triad" (Hexbear and Lemmygrad), but they've positioned lemmy.ml as the "flagship" instance and abused that position and influence to become large enough to keep other instances from defederating from them.
Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse's overall growth and outside reputation. I have seen it come up before on Reddit threads (and other testimonials from people who came back and tried it again) that "They tried Lemmy but it was a bunch of tankies and went back to Reddit"
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer Lemmy to not end up with the reputation for being "Tankie Central " or even worse "Voat 2.0".
So if you haven't joined the boycott yet, join today and help us foster a better healthier Lemmy-verse!
You can take a look around here on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for documentation of it or checkout this list of curated documentation
::: spoiler Evidence of bans, censorship and bias to push their "ideology":
"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167
"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342
A .ml admins' (davel) response to a valid report of "NK is actually good" propaganda/misinfo lemmy.world/post/32627834
"The China censorship tool isnt actually censorship! And if it is, it's actually a good thing a state has that much power!" ~Tankies of .ml lemmy.world/post/30010789
The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch.
I have a special syringe for this. I had impacted ear wax a few years ago and I went to urgent care to get it rinsed. Turns out my other ear was also impacted, just not as bad. After the rinse, I could hear in 3D. I felt like I shouldn't have been allowed to drive home because it felt like I was on acid it was so overwhelming. On the drive home I heard a crappy Honda with a bad exhaust drive by and I was scream-laughing at how visceral it was.
Now I rinse regularly in the shower and don't get to have free acid trips 🙁
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Neat! Though, from a brief search, it's not clear to me if that means that they were the first "live CD Linux distribution" overall, or just the first company to release one.
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I assume it is for transparency, so if he was heavily invested in Bell and then you see laws passed and contracts initiated they favoured Bell over Rogers, then you can see corruption.
Link to the summary. (Towards the bottom is a link to an appendix summary statement pdf, you'll want to click on that.)
Nature
Mounted and framed Washington Capitals jersey, personalized with Carney #24.
Source
The Honourable Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America.
Man...Fuck Trump.
[Edit] Oh, and Carney is invested in Palantir, along with seemingly every other American big tech company he possibly could be including the likes of Alphabet, Meta, AirBNB, DoorDash, Uber, Amazon, etc. No wonder he rolled over on the DST so easily.
[Edit to the edit] Also American weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris.
I doubt many people are claiming that just having investments makes you bad. But depending on the specific nature of the investments, you could be. If someone ran out and invested in GardaWorld (or had them and didn't divest) after finding out they took part in building that concentration camp in Florida, I'd certainly judge them, as an example. But even casting it as a question of morality is beside the point, I think. It's a question of conflicts of interest. The personal wealth of our Prime Minister seems to be significantly tied up in the success of American industry. In the context of our current relations with the USA, that doesn't concern you even a little bit? Particularly considering the honestly pretty soft stance he's taken towards them post election?
For the record, I'm not trying to make any accusations towards you. When I said 'you' in the previous comment take it to mean the general you. From the comments of yours I've read you seem like a good person to me.
I didn't take it personally. I'm very comfortable with my investments. I was just calling out the fact that someone who had worked their whole life at an economist and central banker is going to have money and is going to have investments just like every single conservative MP, premier, senator, and MPP does.
I'm still surprised, however, that someone who wrote a whole book about the responsibility market participants have to look beyond immediate personal gain (particularly in relation to climate) would be like, gimme an index fund that doesn't exclude oil & gas corporations
He probably didn't specifically choose that fund. He most likely had someone who managed his portfolio. My guy added oil and gas and pipelines and pharma. When I reviewed my holdings I asked him to divest of those things. I still hold pharma but it's all small research companies, not the huge global players. Most of my stocks are technology.
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End of the road. Wish I could say it's been a fun trip, but that would be a lie. Running this instance started out as a fun project, but it has been nothing but a nightmare for a long, long time.
This project has been discontinued and the repo archived. I am done with Lemmy, the Fediverse as a whole, and have no desire to continue developing for the platform or (especially) the demographic thereof.
Wow, what the heck happened? Do we know the dev's lemmy username for any clues?
End of the road. Wish I could say it's been a fun trip, but that would be a lie. Running this instance started out as a fun project, but it has been nothing but a nightmare for a long, long time.
The specific "burned out" is a common killer among folks that try this: community management
"Well, two years in, and I cannot say this place is any better, just differently bad if not worse. Too many people here seem to think that because it's not "corpo social media" that anything goes, and boy do some people really run with that."
I can't say I blame them. People can be horrible. Managing a community also means managing the worst of people. I had a former employer that did community management of a dating site. The level of mental trauma the front line workers endured was more than I could imagine. This is also why I completely understand instance admins that follow an aggressive blocking/banning approach. Beehaw put up tall walls and defederated aplenty. Blahaj.zone actively bans based upon user activity that is even on other unrelated instances. I can't fault either of these approaches because the alternative is dealing with the worst users en masse.
I hope that instance owner/manager gets some of that much deserved rest.
Sounds like someone wasn't prepared for the reality of human interaction on the internet. I mean its completely fair to say that they don't want to deal with it, but also what did they expect?
When you moderate a platform that the public is free to upload anything to, you will see everything. From insults to threats to gore to CSAM. Thats how the internet is. That is the worst part in my opinion, because you cant just look away, but actually have to deal with it.
I agree with you. However, I don't think most people understand that. For most folks they haven't been exposed to the most mentally darkest souls among us.
This really is a complicated problem, but if the fediverse wants to grow without relying on slave labor for moderation like Meta and the rest, then we have to find ways to lighten the load on moderators. Thats why creating transparent pre moderation tools like the image scanners used by many fediverse instances is so important.
This one is a very basic CSAM scanner that goes through lemmy image storage and just deletes stuff it deems bad. github.com/db0/fedi-safety I havent tried it tho, so i cant attest to its quality.
Im sure there are tools made for mastodon too, since it has a lot more users.
I totally have to disagree. Instance owners are attacked here on Lemmy for trying to keep their instance in line with the local laws where they live. You know, which they totally have to keep free of legal trouble that might cost them a lot of time, money or even put them into jail. It's not great when admins have to deal with utter idiots in their free time. Remember the whole Nicole fiasco where some poor girl was harassed via a spam attack? Remember that spam attack with the scat porn? All this hate going around with the war in the middle east? I can totally understand why someone burns out dealing with this crap in their free time. Come home from work after a hard day. Another scat spam attack you have to deal with. Another Hamas sympathizer calling you genocide lover because you deleted his propaganda. Someone else attacking you because you removed content that is illegal where you live and you hope that no authority saw it before you deleted it. Go to bed. Go to work. Repeat.
We arent really in disagreement tho. I am absolutely empathetic with their situation and their burnout. Im just saying they should have seen it coming. Those two things arent contradictory. I just find it odd how one can invest so much time into a public project, without being aware of the realities of having to moderate it. Im thankful for the people that host instances, but i will never do it, because i know how much of a pain it is.
Not sure if "they should have seen it coming" really is the way to think about this. Yes, moderation is hard. Yes, it makes sense to build a team doing moderation. But let's be honest, Lemmy is insaner than other forums due to its federated structure.
Since you're on the same instance as me, I assume you are a mod/admin there. Let me use this opportunity to say thank you to you and all the other mods on feddit.org for helping to keep that place one of the most pleasant online spaces I've come across in my years on the internet. As far as I can tell from the outside you and the others are doing a great job.
A bit offtopic, but why would anyone want to keep their instance in line with local laws? Aren't internet sites operating under jurisdiction of where they are hosted? Or is it just some coincidence that those people decided to host their stuff at datacenters at their local proximity? When I'm choosing hosting the first thing I think about: "hmmm I shouldn't host in country where I live because I don't want to ever have any problem with local authorities, and if I host elsewhere authorities there won't be able to reach me physically so the worst thing that could happen is the site gets shut down".
There are multiple reasons: If you want to fund your instance by donations, you need to be able to act under your real name. You might get away with a totally anonymous instance which you are funding via cryptodonations and which you are hosting at a provider who really does not care about KYC, but that is also illegal in many jurisdictions. There is totally a case for a lemmy instance admin to be known publically, to be able to interact with the community in person, to be able to go to meetups or to be able to give talks at conventions.
And if you are not living in some country with totally crazy politics, most local laws are totally fine. Do not post hardcore pornography. Do not spread hatred or calls for murder and hate speach. Keep the piracy a little bit less obvious. Don't allow hardcore pornography and have a solid process to keep child porn from your platform. That might be different if you're living in Iran, Saudi-Arabia or Afghanistan, but in a western country it is totally ok to be in line with local laws.
Read his rant. It just sounds like he’s mad at us for being mean towards the poor wittle billionaires/nazis.
Considering how few references there were in the post, and your projection onto it. I think you may be part of the group he's talking about that is causing him to close up shop. Its just my speculation though. If I'm right, how does that make you feel? Are you happy he's closing up the instance and leaving the Fediverse or are you sad that a heavy contributor to the Fediverse is leaving?
He's explicitly talking about detracting people who are "violent" and call him a "bootlicker" for "deescalating". It seems like it's moderator speak for "people are saying politicians/billionaires should die and that personally offends me". It's enlightened centrism. People came to Lemmy explicitily because Reddit bans you for disliking billionaires now.
Like, the entire concept of the Fediverse is anarchist. It's a collection of decentralized servers who can connect to each other but have their own rules. Someone going to develop for the LITERAL ANARCHIST SOCIAL MEDIA STRUCTURE and then getting surprised that everyone on it is anti-capitalist and anti-billionaire is the epitome of arrogance and lack of self-awareness.
Again, I ask: Why are you surprised that literal anti-capitalists hate billionaires?
You're making authoritative claims to what the Fediverse is, who the people posting here are, and what their collectives beliefs and goals are. The Fediverse certainly isn't a monolith that you can do that to. Hate isn't an identity, nor is it the goal of the Fediverse. I think this part of the original closure notice may apply to your line of responses here.
"The worst part is that they're so caught up in their own self-righteousness that they can't see they're just as bad or worse than what they're spewing violent rhetoric at; trying to talk sense into anyone or de-escalate things is immediately met with "bootlicker", wild accusations, and/or worse."
I mean, if you wanted to be in the literal anarchist social media network structure and not see people hating billionaires/politicians/nazis, why did you come here in the first place?
The entire concept of the Fediverse is anarchist. Of course anti-capitalists at large would be on it, because the capitalists are all over every other social media network. And besides, Tumblr constantly tells billionaires/politicians to die despite being corporate-run social media and literally nothing comes out of it.
Where are you seeing mention that the coma contributed to the choice to discontinue? I see in the !30rock@dubvee.org post that the community will be shut down despite the fact that the only mod is not able to even protest that decision or anything, but no other mention.
It sounds like he was severely trolled. Those aren't real people, they're either bots or paid accounts to make people leave. There are ways to counter act it, it's too bad he's given up. I wish him the best.
The average Lemming has the nuance of a wrecking ball
He’s not wrong lol. I can imagine how much worse it is as an admin. It’s unfortunate that Tesseract is going down with the ship. I remember I was among the first to provide feedback when he first posted it on lemmy.
Considering this is a Svelte project, it probably wouldn’t be too hard for me to fork (I’m a Svelte and SvelteKit dev). I’d definitely rewrite the UI, cause the current UI is… unpolished.
How much support could I expect to fork this project? Is there anyone that would be willing to help?
I'm working on a new fediverse software but I'm mostly a backend dev. But I have been learning Svelte/Kit to try and write a frontend. Just putting it out there in case you feel inspired to work on something entirely new 😀
I feel the state of the project is still too early to be public (especially the frontend, there's really almost nothing there yet), but I can invite you to the repo if you have a user on Codeberg? I'd love to talk if you have a Matrix user.
I'd rather ensure that I have something a bit more concrete to show before I "announce" it. First impressions matter a lot. And also, there's just not a whole lot to show right now and it is not in any kind of usable state so unless someone is truly interested in working with me on this project (with a somewhat similar idea of a vision of where it's gonna go and all that...), there's really no use in sharing it.
unless someone is truly interested in working with me on this project (...) there's really no use in sharing it.
Yeah, but doesn't it go both ways? How can people find out if their vision is aligned with yours unless you show what you have?
I mean, I share the feeling of not wanting to make any big announcement when it's not usable, but at least putting out a link to the repo and some roadmap would help others to see if they would be interested in helping you.
It does - but I'm honestly also still refining that vision as I work on it and I want to have a coherent story and something to show before I show anything to the world. Just what I'm most comfortable with 😀
There are terrible people everywhere and in particular everywhere online.
This is why I would never be bothered moderating and I am reluctant to release anything to the public of what I do for my own enjoyment. Cheers to moderators and people that post their art and comics and other stuff online.
Friendly reminder that the only way lemmy can be successful is if we create a culture that is enjoyable to be a part of. It sounds like his time here was not so positive, and that's deeply saddening.
Much more important than the enjoyable culture is the material aspect - how much work each developer has to do. Nice vibes help delay burnout but rarely eliminate it. Or they let it happen with a smile on the face.
Pay the developers instead, so they can reduce hours worked elsewhere, if you can. Or contribute code, if you can. This isn't aimed at you personally, but anyone reading. I can't contribute code but I can pay so I do that.
That's incredibly important to! I think people would be hesitant to work for even decent donations if people are assholes, but you're 100% right. I guess it really comes down to appreciating the people around you
You should appreciate the humans that create this social space by being here and being social, and appreciate the people who create this social space by building the space itself
Thank you for making that point, people being paid makes a huge difference.
Author: Nilesh Christopher, Valerio Pepe\ Published on: 11/07/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:\ California Governor Gavin Newsom posted two photographs on X. X users immediately turned to Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, to fact-check the veracity of the image. For that, they tagged @grok in a reply to the tweet in question. Chatbots, including ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, are large language models (LLMs) that learn to predict the next word in a sequence by analysing enormous troves of data from the internet. The outputs of chatbots are reflections of the patterns and biases in the data it is trained on, which makes them prone to factual errors and misleading information called “hallucinations” For Grok, these inherent challenges are further complicated because of Musk’s instructions that the chatbot our analysis of the 434 replies that tagged Grok in Newsom’s post found that the majority of requests, nearly 68 percent, wanted Grok to either confirm whether the images Newsom posted were authentic or get context about National Guard deployment. Notably, a few users lashed out because Grok had made the correction, and wouldn’t endorse their flawed belief. Grok was called on 2.3 million times in just one week to answer posts on X. Data accessed by Al Jazeera through X’s API shows how deeply this behaviour has taken root. X is keeping people locked into a misinformation echo chamber, in which they’re asking a tool known for hallucinating, to fact-check for them. Grok incorrectly blamed a trans pilot for a helicopter crash in Washington, DC. He claimed the assassination attempt on Trump was partially staged. Echoed anti-Semitic stereotypes of Hollywood and misidentified an Indian journalist. Grok vs Community Notes For years, social media users benefited from context on information they encountered online with interventions such as labeling state media or introducing fact-checking warnings. After buying X in 2022, Musk ended those initiatives and loosened speech restrictions. X piloted the “AI Note Writer” enabling developers to create AI bots to write community notes alongside human contributors on misleading posts. This human-AI system works better than what human contributes can manage alone, researchers say. X is trying to bridge this gap by supercharging the pace of creation of contextual notes. Grok gave inaccurate results on the death toll of the Holocaust, which it said was due to a programming error. In June, Grok cited data from government sources and Reuters. Musk has also chided Grok for not sharing his distrust of mainstream news outlets. X deleted the inflammatory posts later that day, and xAI removed the guidelines to not adhere to political correctness from its code base. Researchers expressed surprise over the reintroduction of the directive for Grok 4 to be “politically incorrect” despite this code having been removed from its predecessor, Grok 3.
I got family in AB... The parents believe the bullshit. But their kids all have lgbqt+ friends and as they get older it's clear they're low key seeing through the bullshit their parents don't.
The people have an opportunity to remove her every 4 years, more or less. Hopefully enough of them have the good sense to do so. That won't solve the problem of how she got in in the first place.
There was so much hate on Tesla for this saying it was all fraud, while Tesla was adamant it was just backlogged paper work.
Hopefully those who prejudged and were harsh to the company online about this incident, can come to see that not everything you read online is true, and that maybe, just maybe, you should actually wait for the final results before condemning a company for something like this, and stating it as fact.
“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don’t ignore your own desires... Don’t sacrifice them. Examine their cause.”
That's fair and acceptible by the rules the Canadian gov't had in place.
And I get people being unhappy Tesla used the rules to their own benefit ... but the problem isn't with Tesla ... it's with the Trudeau gov't who did sfa to make the rules strong, where 'saving' sales for a future 'windfall' was NOT allowed.
Don't be pissed at the messenger here. Be angry with the leadership that made lax rules that helped the rich cunts more than it did the average human being.
CTV News asked the office of Minister of Transport if all the claims made by Tesla in January were valid and if they’ve been paid out. Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office has yet to provide a clear answer and did not confirm that they’re looking at potentially launching a new rebate program.
Ottawa says it now has a plan to repay millions of dollars to car dealerships across the country who say they’ve been left holding the bag after the federal government’s iZEV program came to an abrupt halt in January, when it was apparently overwhelm…
In an email to the Canadian Press, a spokesperson for Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland said that while the department is still assessing a few claims, Transport Canada's investigation found the claims made by Tesla "were determined to legitimately represent cars sold before January 12."
I'm honestly surprised that any company would sit on $43 million for any substantial period. While I'm happy that American companies and Tesla in particular are being removed from the EV rebate program, I'd be happier if the stupidest trade war ended and Musk stopped being an enormous piece of shit.
If you’re a new or intermediate Linux user or sysadmin, you might have felt an odd fascination with the myth of systemd. I invite you to this deep dive into systemd's nuts and bolts. I'm not gonna…
Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).
Important notes: 1. I don't use scripts. 2. I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on. 3. Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything. 4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette. 5. One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned. 6. I don't troll.
WTF is going on here?
EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."
I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.
The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.
I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.
EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...
If you’re a new or intermediate Linux user or sysadmin, you might have felt an odd fascination with the myth of systemd. I invite you to this deep dive into systemd's nuts and bolts. I'm not gonna…
I started reading that because I want to learn more about systemd and ended up wanting to go back to DOS. Presumably it all makes sense, but when I tried to read it my brain stopped working and my eyes slid off the bottom of the screen.
I don't know why but I just found it incomprehensible.
This is the beauty of open source. If you wrote an app called “eeznuts” and mad it something everyone needed, eventually a sysadmin somewhere would get to explain that joke to a stiff EVP, and they’d both have a good chuckle about it.
If you’re a new or intermediate Linux user or sysadmin, you might have felt an odd fascination with the myth of systemd. I invite you to this deep dive into systemd's nuts and bolts. I'm not gonna beat around the bush: It's a hairy business, it will be hard, but I promise juicy and satisfying rewards if you keep pumping through this guide.
Let’s start by uncovering the “D” of systemd, the secret sauce that doesn't get the love it deserves: D-Bus.
I've very barely dipped my toes in dbus before, and the option to have something else is on its face attractive (not a fan of XML and the late 90s/early aughties style of oop), but JSON for a system interface?
I mean, Kubernetes shows that yaml can work, but in this day and age I'd expect several options for serialisation, and for the default to be binary, not strings.
String serialisations are primarily for humans IMO, either as readers or writers. As writers we want something with comments (and preferably no "find the missing }" game), so for that most of us would prefer something like TOML if the data is simple enough, and actually Yaml for complexity at the level of Kubernetes—JSON manages to be even more of a PITA at that level.
But machine-to-machine? Protobuf, cap'n'proto, postcard, even CBOR should all be alternatives to examine
Immutable distributions are slowly spreading across the Linux world– but should you care? Are they hacker friendly? What does “immutable” mean, anyway? Immutable means “not …
That's a really good article and they highlight exactly what my problem is with these kind of distribution.
"Use Linux so you can have total control of your system!"
* takes away the ability to have total control over my system.
Like wtf.
And how do you explain to your aging parents why their applications aren't available because it's not containerized?
I dunno. It's got its applications, like on systems where the specs are all the same, like the Macs or Steam deck or tablets. But to me that doesn't make sense on a PC.
If you want to leave your system folders alone, just don't SUDO.
Damn near every application I install through the terminal requires sudo.
The only time I haven't had to invoke sudo was using the graphical flatpack installer included in Linux Mint.
Many of the people who I have had to support through my IT work would 1000% brick their system by following copy+paste commands using sudo instead of just installing a flatpack.
The choice isn't supposed to be for us hobbyists. It's meant for a "I would like to make my system protected from my ignorance, please".
The people using Linux to have total control over their system isnt the people using atomic distros.
Also you dont need to say theyre not available because they aren't containerised you simply tell them its not available because they dont support linux or since your aging parents have low software requirements 100% of their apps are on flatpak.
It's great for people who don't want to take control of the system part but take control of their data. I installed one on my aunt's PC and she's quite happy with it.
I used to had to login via Teamviewer when something goes wrong, or even worse, describe her to login into tty and give commands to fix the situation. She's been using Linux for almost 9 years now and I did that at least 3 times over the phone. Twice it was Ubuntu that got borked after an update and once it was LMDE.
Last time, I installed Aurora and so far it's been fine. It hasn't been long so I cannot compare and say it's better so ask me 2 years later if you remember. 😀 (do we have a !remindme bot here?)
However I have a feeling that I won't have to deal with such things anymore.
IMO it's a nice middle ground between a typical Linux system where every app you run has access to everything else you run, vs a system like Qubes where every app is locked down in its own VM
Probably what all "good cops" think, "I can change the system from within" or "It's just a couple outlier bad cases, but I'll make sure to only prosecute actual bad people"
Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro.
It will have a big CPU core for the first time. According to a new rumor, Qualcomm is currently working on a new chipset for smartwatches, codenamed Aspen...
The Philippines said its visiting forces agreement with Canada is ready for signing, as the Southeast Asian nation builds a coalition of like-minded nations and deterrence amid tensions with China. Article content
Manila is also negotiating a similar military pact with France, while it’s forging an enhanced defense cooperation with India, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said on Wednesday at the Reuters NEXT event in Singapore. Article content Article content
The Philippines said in March that it concluded discussions with Canada for the pact, which would facilitate joint exercises between their militaries. Teodoro didn’t provide a timeline for the signing of the agreement. Article content Article content
“It is a coalition of unity that we are creating here, to create some momentum in resilience because of our shared desire for a free and open Indo-Pacific” he said.
Manila, a US treaty ally, has also sealed military agreements with Japan and New Zealand.
The Philippines said its visiting forces agreement with Canada is ready for signing, as the Southeast Asian nation builds a coalition of like-minded nations and det…
Close to 10,000 college faculty and staff have either been let go or are projected to lose their jobs amid hundreds of program cancellations and suspensions since last year, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said Wednesday as it warned of se…
So now that they can't exploit international students and as a result Canadian minimum wage/food service workers their business model is unsustainable - cue the world's tiniest violin.
Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right leader Grzegorz Braun after he declared the gas chambers at Auschwitz to be “fake” and said it is a “fact” that Jews have committed ritual slaughter of Christians. Denial of Nazi crimes is an offence in Poland that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.
Braun, who finished fourth in the recent presidential elections with 6.3% of the vote, made his remarks during an interview today with radio station WNET. The veteran far-right politician, who is a member of the European Parliament, has a long history of hateful and conspiratorial rhetoric regarding Jews and other minorities.
During the interview, Braun referred to what he claimed are the “lies of the Talmud, the Haggadah [two Jewish religious texts], and the Holocaust”. He said that Jewish organisations “condemn those who tell the truth that ritual murder is a fact and Auschwitz with its gas chambers is a lie”.
A longstanding antisemitic canard is that Jews murder Christians, in particular children, and use their blood for religious rituals. Meanwhile, many modern antisemites deny the fact that gas chambers were used at Auschwitz and other German-Nazi camps to murder Jews during the Holocaust.
After the interviewer contested Braun’s remarks, he reiterated them, saying that the Auschwitz Museum provides a “pseudo-historical account” about what happened at the camp and blocks research into the gas chambers. He also cited a book by an Israeli historian that he says proves Jews carried out ritual murder.
That led the interviewer to immediately cut short the broadcast, saying that there “are limits to political cynicism and sensationalism when it comes to several million victims and their memory”.
Subsequently, Anna-Maria Żukowska, head of the parliamentary caucus of The Left (Lewica), one of the groups that make up Poland’s ruling coalition, announced that she was filing a complaint to prosecutors regarding Braun’s remarks.
She accused him of violating article 55 of Poland’s law on the Institute of National Remembrance, which criminalises public denial of Nazi and communist crimes. Those found guilty can be punished by up to three years in prison.
Late on Thursday afternoon, the district prosecutor’s office in Warsaw announced that it had initiated an investigation into whether Braun had committed the offence of denying Nazi crimes.
Meanwhile, Piotr Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz Museum, which is a Polish state institution, issued a statement condemning Braun’s “scandalous” comments, which he said were not only a violation of the law but also “an insult to the memory of the victims of the camp”.
“Grzegorz Braun’s words are not a ‘political provocation’, but a conscious lie and an act of ideological, antisemitic hatred,” said Cywiński. “They cannot remain without a decisive response from the state and all decent people – for whom the memory of Auschwitz is of particular importance.”
The museum director noted that, while it was primarily Jews who were victims of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Roma were also murdered in them.
At least 1.3 million prisoners were transported to Auschwitz during the war, with at least 1.1 million of them killed at the camp. Around one million of those victims were Jews, most of whom were murdered in gas chambers immediately after their arrival. The second largest group of victims were ethnic Poles.
Cywiński said that the museum would itself file a notification to prosecutors regarding Braun’s remarks. He also appealed to Polish media to stop giving space to Braun, who “has repeatedly shown that he cannot function in the public space without vandalism, lies, hate speech and racism”.
Last week, Braun was presented by prosecutors with seven sets of charges relating to four incidents, including his attack on a Jewish religious celebration in parliament two years ago.
He is also being investigated over a series of incidents during the recent presidential election campaign, including when he vandalised an LGBT+ exhibition, made antisemitic remarks during a televised debate, and removed a Ukrainian flag from a public building.
An fine introduction to USB charging and Power Delivery protocols that also goes quite deep into industry approaches.
The presenter is from the automotive electronic parts market, and posted a great more recent (but more vendor specific) related video here as well: - Introducing Richtek’s New Generation Automotive USB Type-C PD Charger IC -
For example, I really wish my modern Anker AC charger would at least support "Smart Power Sharing Communication" with its Dual Port configuration "via Sinc_Cap", rather than naively having total output equally for each device regardless of each device's power profile capability.
Another video on PPS from a charging device perspective: - USB-C Just got Even Better! (PPS) -
I'll say the newer up and coming standard AVS (Adjusted Voltage Supply) for support with Extended Power Range looks promising, if not a little concerning in regards to cable quality hazards.
Electric cars aren't just revolutionising personal transport, the unprecedented amount of global investment is leading to development of technologies that ar...
The lowest it's been since 1990 is 4.5%, and that was a post-pandemic bounce-back in 2022. It's been over 10%, but the average is 6.6%. We are only slightly above that, which is amazing considering we are under direct attack from the States.
I would expect those number to drop as Canada severs ties with the US and builds a more robust internal economy.
And remember, every time you "buy Canadian" over something that would have come from the States, you are adding jobs to our workforce while taking them away (hopefully) from the American labour pool 🤗
None of these numbers really matter unless we also consider the percentage of those jobs that are full time vs part time. The wages of those jobs should also be considered if we really want to be doing fair comparisons.
Stats Canada didn't have those figures in the data I was looking at, but yes, that's important! There are so many other important metrics, too: affordability vs wages; commute times (then vs. now), etc.
If only one metric moved for the better, are we really better off?
A Windows-to-Linux “translation” tool for the 200M+ Windows 10 computers not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, Operese transfers files, settings, and programs from Windows to a brand-new Kubuntu installation. It's still very much a work in progress, but in my biased opinion, it already doesn't look too shabby!
A Windows-to-Linux “translation” tool for the 200M+ Windows 10 computers not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, Operese transfers files, settings, and progra...
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in reply to Hofmaimaier • • •LOL, I actually managed to do this with a broken spacebar. Half the bar was missing, so I took a completely different model scrap keyboard that was water damaged, carefully cut it in half, secured that with the original half with a couple paper clips and epoxy, and somehow even managed to make the stabilizer bar underneath line up and work.
Hey, if it looks stupid but works, it's not stupid. 👍