Blender HDR and the reference white issue | About Blender's HDR support on Wayland
From Sebastian Wick’s Mastodon
Blender is getting HDR on Linux via Wayland before Windows! This isn't by accident, but shows how creating a system with a different design creates better results for users and application developers.
Firefox is in this same boat too. It will get HDR support on Linux* sooner than Windows. Firefox currently only supports HDR on MacOS.
Blender HDR and the reference white issue
The latest alpha of the upcoming Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for Linux on Wayland which will, if everything works out, make it into the final Blender 5.0 release on October 1, 2025.swick's blog
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Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did
Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did
Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
He just hired an Obama advisor, so it’s not looking good.
Cracking up at the downvotes on this post. Just what you’d expect from progressive reformists.
[ANSWERED] Should i use KeePass* instead of Proton Pass, for privacy?
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It really depend on your threat model, Proton Pass is fine. Of course a self-hosted or local solution will be more privacy friendly but at the cost of being responsable for security and good backups (3,2 1 rule).
There is no black or white regarding privacy. You want to ask yourself what you want to protect from and is the investment worth being sovereign ?
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Threat Modeling: The First Step on Your Privacy Journey - Privacy Guides
Balancing security, privacy, and usability is one of the first and most difficult tasks you'll face on your privacy journey.Privacy Guides
Same here, it works well, and the Firefox plugin works well for auto fill, too.
Just make sure KeepassXC is set to Automatically save after every change & Automatically reload the database when modified externally, on the General > Basic Settings screen.
I know it's not your question, but have you checked out Bitwarden or the alternative Selfhosted Vaultwarden. Bitwarden supports passkeys and vault syncing, and if you are offline you can still access your vault.
bitwarden.com/passwordless-pas…
Bitwarden also released a AIO selfhosted docker image, but last I checked it's still not in "official release" status.
Passkey Management - Manage Your Passkeys Securely | Bitwarden
Store, manage and login with your passkeys securely and easily with Bitwarden. You can now sign in faster and more securely with passkeys. Get started today.Bitwarden
Its called Bitwarden Unified. Its still in beta at the moment. I have been running this along side Vaultwarden myself.
bitwarden.com/help/install-and…
Install and Deploy - Unified (Beta) | Bitwarden
This article will walk you through installing and launching the Bitwarden unified self-hosted deployment.Bitwarden
GitHub - dani-garcia/vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs - dani-garcia/vaultwardenGitHub
There have been too many data breaches from cloud-based services to trust another one. I have a Proton account for email and online storage, but I won't use their password service because it's cloud based.
blog.lastpass.com/posts/notice…
Lastpass leaked their password database in 2022, and bad actors are still using it to access peoples files, stealing passwords and hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto.
DON'T trust anything important to cloud-based storage or services. Use Keepass. Use Syncthing if you need to keep the database on multiple devices.
(I see other comments using Dropbox. Dropbox = cloud. Don't store anything security related in the cloud.)
Security Incident December 2022 Update - LastPass - The LastPass Blog
Please refer to the latest article for updated information.nbs[..]blog.lastpass.com
So was LastPass. But when they're source code leaked, turned out their encryption method was crappy. Just because something is encrypted doesn't mean that it's safe.
The key is that proton pass and bit warden and keypass are open source and have all passed independent security audits.
What is this fight club? /s
You could totally talk about E2EE if the client was SA/Electron. If the blob is just getting transferred and stored and the passphrase is never transferred, that's E2EE.
Come to think of it, if they throw in extra keys when you make your blob, it's still E2EE, even if they have a key for it. Perhaps we need to think differently about E2EE being then end all.
I know I can probably google this. But where are the passwords from Keepass stored? Or what makes it harder to hack?
I still use 1Password because the subscription is still running and I was planning to switch to Proton Pass once that is over. I know 1Password is harder to crack due to their 2nd master key password (or whatever they call it)
Keepass just uses a (local) file, but it expects and can handle if the file is modified externally. That's important because it means you can store it on a network share, or in some sort of synchronized storage, self hosted or not (next cloud, sync thing, Google drive, whatever). It's just up to you. If you have it open on your PC and you add an entry on your phone, your PC won't "overwrite" it, but integrates any changes you're making there at the same time.
For example the android client has direct support for a long list on storage services for this exact reason.
Doesn’t keypass support passkeys?
As you can see from the thread, this question is divided amongst the cult of “sensible privacy is a thing provided you’re not a criminal” to the cult of “everybody’s on a FEMA/🧊 spreadsheet and they’re working their way down”.
I’d say make sure you use a separate password for proton pass, it’s an advanced option. You are far more likely to get hacked for your money and password manager goes 97% of the way to defeating those attacks.
Don’t take your eye off the ball. The real threats to your wallet have always been the shareholders.
I’ve been using Strongbox since 1Password switched to subscription only and it’s been good. It’s based on Keepass and supports all the normal password manager stuff (TOTP, passkeys, etc):
I use the desktop and mobile apps, and keep my vault stored in my iCloud account so everything is always synced real time without relying on a third party cloud (yes, I know I’m still relying on Apple for that).
Personal KeePass Password Manager | Strongbox
The world's leading KeePass Passwrod manager for iOS and MacOS. Download or find out more about Strongbox today.Strongbox
Look I love fully offline concepts just as much as the next person. But what Bitwarden offers me that those other solutions don't, is to offload some of the mental load long-term. I like privacy but something are exhausting. Pick and choose your battles.
Less hands on maintenance and mental overhead to keep things synced and all services / files up to date. We bitwarden users have other stuff to do. Different priorities.
This is one of the things I decided to keep to the people who do this far more and deeper than I ever could. Their job. Their liability.
All my accounts are encrypted, cloud accessible, or offline accessible. Protected by a giant hash of a master password. It allows me to feel safe and provides the convenience of copy and pasting insane credentials needed in today's times. Hassle free. Great features. The end.
*potentially even under free account if you choose.
as long as you keep good backups, and maybe sync KeePass to cloud storage.
Yes, that's the caveat. You're paying for a managed solution so you don't have to worry about that.
I think I've done the opposite of most. After using keepassx for the last 4 or 5 years I switched to ProtonPass.
I value security and privacy but Ive realized some of my processes have become too complex, like using syncthing to keep my keepass on my phone and PC aligned. I'm not confident that older man version of me will be able to keep up so Ive stared valuing simplicity.
Im sure many will argue that it is simple but between backups and keys and passwords it really is a lot, especially with a new device each time.
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I think I’ve done the opposite of most. After using keepassx for the last 4 or 5 years I switched to ProtonPass.
Me three.
Mamdani appoints top DNC and Obama adviser in bid to secure Democratic Party establishment support
Mamdani appoints top DNC and Obama advisor in bid to secure Democratic Party establishment support
Mamdani has appointed Jeffrey Lerner—a former top Obama White House aide and Democratic National Committee political director—as his communications chief.World Socialist Web Site
proton pass vs simplelogin - aliases
I'm trying to migrate off gmail and apple services and ended up getting a domain and going to proton and using simplelogin for making aliases. But now I'm looking at proton pass, which comes free with my plan and lets me create aliases and wondering why I did that.
Ideally, I want nobody to have my main email address. everything gets an alias and dumps into the main. if the main address is found out, I just kill it and get another and point all the aliases to that. if an alias gets spammy or sold off to obnoxious marketing boobs, I kill the alias and create a new one.
I got started with migrating a few things over today into the aliases I had on my domain with simplelogin. I started to wonder what would happen if I replied to any of these and unlike apple hide-my-mail, it looks like these expose my actual address, unless I go through the trouble of going to simplelogin and getting an reverse alias link through them, which is an annoying pain in the ass. looking to see if there was any integration like apple's icloud had, I find proton pass is included in my mail plus plan and lets me do what simplelogin already was doing, complete with my domain being in the alias address!
So my question is why did I set up two seperate services for this? can I reply to incoming emails from the aliases created in proton pass without them revealing my address?
I have needed to get away from google for a while and am finally getting off my ass to do it, but apple hide my email was so simple to use whereas proton seems to have these weird oversights.
I have the Proton Unlimited plan so I'm using all their services. I create a new email alias through Proton Pass, which uses SimpleLogin, for every site I sign up for. If I receive an email through the alias in my Proton Mail inbox, and I reply to it, it goes through the alias and doesn't expose my true email address.
All very easy to setup and do.
So my question is why did I set up two seperate services for this?
Unfortunate side effect of buying someone else's product instead of just making your own.
can I reply to incoming emails from the aliases created in proton pass without them revealing my address?
Yes. It's called a relay for a reason. When you receive an email it will come from a relay address, not the actual sender. You reply to that relay address and then the other party receives your relay address (alias).
Check out DuckDuckGo, they also have an email alias forwarding system like SimpleLogin. I have a different email address/alias for each account that I have and they all end up in my Proton inbox.
Also, you’re able to reply and send email with the DuckDuckGo address from Proton mail.
@Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines
Created a Post/Group about how to De-Google. The details about my set-up is also there. Hope it helps:
I thought OP wanted to de-google. I use DuckDuckGo because of their duck player; it opens YouTube on a separate window without all the extra stuff you don’t want (just the video you wanted to see). I guess OP can use PeerTube?
I’m quite happy with my Proton Unlimited but it’s not for everyone.
And yeah, I’m a browser hopper.
Yes, you can have multiple duck addresses at the same time. There’s a personal and private duck address.
Composing email:
duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help…
About duck addresses:
duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help…
I also used SimpleLogin and loved it until I subscribed to the Proton products. Like you, I haven’t needed to use SimpleLogin because of Proton Pass. Haven’t used iCloud since 2021 and have no regrets.
Can I create multiple custom Duck Addresses or Email Protection accounts? - DuckDuckGo Help Pages
You can only have one Duck Address enabled per browser, and only one associated with any given forwarding address.DuckDuckGo
Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10
Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10 - 9to5Linux
With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Exactly. The article says that 90% of hardware doesn't run on it, but in reality, 100% of hardware doesn't run on it. Only Qemu supports it, which is an emulator (and very slow to emulate RiscV in my experience -- latest version we tried with my husband on a very fast PC).
The Orange Pi RV2 was the perfect introductory Risc-V SBC, everyone is going gaga for it, for being a good middle of the road solution for those who want to try Risc-V, and yet, Ubuntu won't support it (and even the current implementation is done by the Chinese, not by Canonical, so I wouldn't touch it).
So I'm not sure what they're thinking. My own conspiracy theory is that EITHER Canonical, OR Raspberry Pi (which are close geographically), are preparing RV23 hardware, so they want to undercut the competition that way.
Nothing else makes sense in that decision.
When compatible hardware is available, it's expected that having packages built for RVA23 will have a big impact on performance. You can already see a big part of that with the vector (V) extension: running programs built without it is akin to using x86 programs without SSE or AVX. RVA23 is the first RVA profile that considers V mandatory rather than optional.
You might see a similar performance impact if you target something like RVA22+V instead of RVA23, but as far as I know the only hardware systems that'd benefit from that are the Spacemit ones (OPi RV2, BPI-F3, Jupiter) while that'd still leave behind VisionFive 2, Pioneer, P550/Megrez, and even an upcoming processor UltraRISC announced recently. The profiles aren't exactly intended to be used for those kinds of fine-tuned combinations and it's possible some of the other RVA23 extensions (Zvbb, Zicond, etc.) might have a substantial impact too.
Hardware vendors want to showcase their system having the best performance it can, so I expect Ubuntu's aim is to have RVA23 builds ready before RVA23 hardware so that they'll be the distro of choice for future hardware, even if that means abandoning all existing RISC-V users. imo it would've been better to maintain separate builds for RV64GC and RVA23 but I guess they just don't care enough about existing RISC-V users to maintain two builds.
This seems to be positioning Ubuntu as a data center OS. There are several RVA23 chips due out but they are all for the data center (tenstorrent, Alibaba, ventana, etc).
There is the SiFive P870 but I do not think anybody has licensed that so it may never get made.
I have also heard rumours of Expressif chips but I do not know the details.
If you like working in slow motion, yes, sure.
Source : I have a Banana-Pi SBC banana-pi.org/en/banana-pi-sbc… and... it works, running Linux proper, with a desktop environment, which is in itself pretty cool IMHO but damn, you have to be patient. That being said "just" already being at that stage on economically affordable hardware is amazing. We are probably not far, say few years at most, with usable RISC-V chips for mundane tasks, e.g. text authoring, coding, Web browsing, but don't expect compilation of a browser, Blender, or gaming on this for few more years. IMHO it will go fast because it's catching up so the path is rather well laid down, which is much harder than innovating and pushing the envelope.
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I guess it depends what you mean by "chip production".
AFAICT mostly via Chip War (2022) and reading a bit on the topic there are few bottlenecks, e.g chip design IP like ARM (UK) or lithography machines like ASML (NL) or high efficiency chip production like TSMC (Taiwan) but overall the grip from the US is mostly on democratization and scale with AMD, NVIDIA, Broadcom or even Intel, namely making a LOT of chips, not necessarily high end (some are) or mobile (also some), for a relatively low price. What I mean is that China is already claiming that they are producing about on-par IPS with e.g. Loongson.
So yes there are for sure incumbents based in the US that do not want RISCV and overall open architectures to make significant progress but is it fair to call them "the US" I'm not sure. Are they heavily leaning on US lawmakers to get their positions strengthened? Maybe. Maybe they do not yet do so simply because they don't believe it's a threat yet, nor it might be ever be.
I believe that in chip production you can lock production via innovation but also, like in other sectors, solely with the supply chain. ASML is powerful because they basically own their markets but also because who would contract with newcomers versus a very well established company that can provide all the insurances imaginable that they will indeed deliver on time a specific amount? Why risk it when you are already contracting with the leader?
Sure there is a potential innovator dilemma but what could prevent e.g. NVIDIA or Intel to switch to RISC-V if somehow they can dominate there too thanks to both their existing expertise but also supply chain stronghold?
Risc v is an instruction set architecture not a chip design, the actual hardware implementation of any given risc v processor won't necessarily be open source and available to all, it's just a guarantee that if the spec is implemented then code compiled for risc v will run on a RISC V processor.
China has had access to x86 for years, they've not been able to implement a chip on par with current gen AMD or Intel chips.
US sanctions massively setback RISC-V.
We would have had the Milk-V OASIS last year , something better by now, and the answer to “as good as ARM” would be yes.
But Sophgo, the company making the SoC was accused of helping Huawei get access to restricted technology. So TSMC refused to make their chips. And the Milk-V OASIS was cancelled.
Massive blow to RISC-V.
New Caledonia to be declared a state in ‘historic’ agreement – but will remain French
France has announced a “historic” accord with New Caledonia in which the overseas territory, rocked by deadly separatist violence last year, would remain French but be declared a new state.
“A State of New Caledonia within the Republic: it’s a bet on trust,” the French president, Emmanuel Macron, posted on X on Saturday, hailing a “historic” agreement.
Receiving the signatories later, the president said that “after two agreements and three referendums, New Caledonia, through what you have signed, is opening a new chapter in its future in a peaceful relationship with France”.
Macron had called for talks to break a deadlock between forces loyal to France and those wanting independence. New Caledonian elected officials, as well as political, economic and civil society leaders, gathered near Paris to hammer out a constitutional framework for the territory.
After 10 days of talks, the parties agreed that a “State of New Caledonia” should be created.
Manuel Valls, the minister for overseas territories, called it an “intelligent compromise” that maintains links between France and New Caledonia, but with more sovereignty for the Pacific island.
The priority now is New Caledonia’s economic recovery.
Last year’s violence, which claimed the lives of 14 people, is estimated to have cost the territory 2bn euros ($2.3 bn), shaving 10% off its gross domestic product, he said.
The French prime minister, Francois Bayrou, said Saturday’s deal – which still requires parliamentary and referendum approval – was of “historic dimensions”.
Home to about 270,000 people and located nearly 17,000km (10,600 miles) from Paris, New Caledonia is one of several overseas territories that remain an integral part of France.
It has been ruled from Paris since the 1800s, but many indigenous Kanaks still resent France’s power over their islands and want fuller autonomy or independence.
Unrest broke out in May 2024 after Paris planned to give voting rights to thousands of non-indigenous long-term residents. Kanaks feared this would leave them in a permanent minority, crushing their chances of winning independence.
As part of the agreement, New Caledonia residents will in future only be allowed to vote after having lived 10 years on the archipelago.
The last independence referendum in New Caledonia was held in 2021, and was boycotted by pro-independence groups over the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Kanak population.
It was the latest of three since 2018, all of which rejected New Caledonian independence. Since the 2021 referendum however, the political situation in the archipelago has been deadlocked.
Macron declared in early June he wanted a “new project” for New Caledonia.
The 13-page agreement announced on Saturday calls for a New Caledonian nationality, and the possibility for residents there to combine that status with French nationality.
Under the deal, a “State of New Caledonia” would be enshrined in France’s constitution, and other countries could recognise such a state.
The deal also calls for an economic and financial recovery pact that would include a renewal of the territory’s nickel processing capabilities.
Both chambers of France’s parliament are to meet in the fourth quarter of this year to vote on approving the deal, which is then to be submitted to New Caledonians in a referendum in 2026.
New Caledonia to be declared a state in ‘historic’ agreement – but will remain French
Emmanuel Macron hails ‘new chapter’ for New Caledonia as politicians agree on statehood after 10 days of talksGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
What do you prefer: icon view or detailed list view?
Most file managers I've encountered default to icon view. One of the first things I do is set the default to detailed list view. Might be a preference for seeing names and dates over many identical folder icons, or just an old habit from using Windows. But I'd be curious to hear about the benefits of icon view and why it's usually the default in Linux GUI file managers.
What does everyone else use and any reasons to prefer one over the other?
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All jokes aside, its personal preference. If you're working in a dense file tree, you probably need the info that details view gives you. Icon view really only matter for media.
-rtAh, to see the most recently modified files last (i.e. above my prompt).
ls -shit which is (iirc, guessing from memory): block size, human readable sizes, inodes, sort by time.
ranger, a terminal file browser, which is obviously a list
if i need a gui file browser, i use pcmanfm with normal grid view
I have it on grid view :3.. just cause it can fit a lot more files into the same screen space
In list view I have to scroll to see all the files in my home folder, and in grid view it only takes like half of the available space, if I have the app maximized
I mostly prefer Detail view, but
I enable Icon view in Videos, Photos, and Music folders so I can see previews.
I’m guessing most file managers have similar behavior, but on XFCE Thunar, I’m able to set detail as the default but have it remembery choice per folder.
I use Krusader on Linux which I don't think has icon view.
When I have to use something else (eg Windows Explorer at work), obviously I prefer detailed list view. I like seeing things like the last modified date.
I think it heavily depends on the files one has to browes the most. I deal with text files all the time, so i dont need an icon to jump in my face telling me, that its a text file.
The media-, design people I know love the previews that icons give them, because its much easier to spot the image file, they are looking for while scanning through a directory
When I am not on the terminal, I use list/detail view all the time. In the details most of the time only last modification date is relevant to me. I always make the list icons one step smaller as the default and sort directories before files in Nautilus.
I don't need thumbnails. When I need to see pictures, I open them with the now new image viewer in Gnome and use the arrow keys to go through, if I am unsure what I am searching for. I most cases I go by file name.
The last time I found icon view useful was in Mac OS 9. There were three main characteristics that made it useful that no current systems have AFAIK:
- The icon grid was tight (32 pixels) and you could either snap items to that grid or place them freely.
- Window sizes and places were directly associated with folders. (There was no "browser-style" single-window mode.)
- File names used dynamic spacing. Longer names would occupy multiple grid spaces as needed.
These factors meant that every folder had a consistent and potentially unique size, placment, and layout.
OS X took the Finder and either ruined or neglected everything good about it. Windows explorer has always been garbage. Never found a Linux file manager with a compelling icon view either (though to be fair, I've never looked all that hard). The lack of system-level metadata for layout kind of mandates an abstraction between a directory and its display.
consistent and potentially unique
What do you mean by that? Aren't those opposites? That is, if something is unique then it's being inconsistent.
I mean that an individual folder will always look the same (consistent), and also look distinctly different from any other folder (unique) if that's how you arranged it. So you could identify a folder instantly.
Everything in list view looks the same at a glance, and most file managers don't retain a folder window's size and placement. Modern macOS kiiiind of does but you have to fight it if you don't want a single-window browsing UI.
Dolphin filemanager from KDE. Nowadays I default to "compact" view without "preview" enabled. This is similar to "Icon" view, but the icons are small. Lot of files scrolls horizontal instead vertical.
- filenames in compact mode can be longer in one line, which is kind of similar to the look as "details" view, but are all displayed in a multiple rows instead one row
- preview disabled, because this is extremely fast, as I have ton of files that do not even have a preview image
That's my default. Occasionally I enable preview image and switch to bigger "icon" view when I look into images or videos. Or sometimes I enable "details" view when needed. In normal usage I don't need the details anyway.
Depends what I am doing, but I often like "orthodox" two-pane file managers better, with details.
So my preference list is roughly:
- Command Line
- Krusader
- Thunar
- Mv2 will be despreciated sooner or later for all browsers, same as Mv1 in 2013. What is changing is the handling of cookies in Mv3 in all webpages which use Google and other ad company APIs (Alphabet, googleanalytics, google-tagmanager, Amazon and others....), so Mv2 Extensions would become ineffective, this is only relevant for the user in case of adblockers in pages with ads, Lemmy and other from the Fediverse don't need this..
- There are still browsers supporting Mv2, but it's only temporary
- First affected are Chromium browsers which use extensions from the Chrome Store, there uBO will disappear with Chromium v139. Not so those which have an inbuild ad/trackerblocker, like Vivaldi.
- In case of other extensions not related to ads and trackers, it is irrelevant for the user if it is Mv2 or Mv3.
_ For adblockers there is also AdBlock Plus which is aleady Mv3. - The image is wrong, uBO remains still in the Chrome Store, without any advice to be deleted.
Today screenshot
Much tin foil hat panic to the subject out there, there are always methodes to show the middle finger to the surveillance ad companies.
Notes worth making:
- Mv2 will not be deprecated in firefox or firefox based browsers
- Adblock plus is not the best adblocker extension, even for Mv3. uBlock has made a version that works with Mv3, called uBlock Lite
- Even though Mv3 adblockers exist, they will always be worse than Mv2 adblockers, because they have a limited set of rules.
Yes, uBOlite is Mv3, but its only advantage is to be hidden from YT anti-Adblock algorrithm, apart of this, the Vivaldi blocker is way better in all aspects. uBOlite has nothing to do with uBO, even AdBlock Plus is way better. The reason is, that Gorehill don't want to put much effort in uBOlite.
Limited Filterlists are not a problem in an inbuild Ad/Trackerblocker, there you can put the filterlists you want, out of the control of Google and the store, Google only can access the installed extensions from the store, if he delete these in the store, they also disappear in the browser. He can't do this with inbuild features and tools in the browser itself.
Less, if you, like I do, install the Portmaster on desktop, with wich, apart to monitor and if needed block all the traffic, also use an own DNScrypt with dynamich and customizables filterlists to show the middlefinger to all these data hogs.
Distro choice
So, I was originally just going with Mint 22.1, but I’m getting a 9070xt and see mint is only on kernel 6.8 which doesn’t particularly support it?
Is using it still okay? Should I go with Bazzite instead? Or something else. I’m fine with a little amount of work to get shit working nice and all, I am fine with figuring out how to use the terminal if needed and all, just want something stable to play games and other shit on. Mint sounded good, but not if it won’t support my GPU.
Is there a particular reason you need an nvidia gpu? Like plans to do local LLMs or other projects that really require a nvidia gpu?
Because I am just so pleased with AMD for gpus in Linux. So simple.
Not knocking your choice, just trying to understand it. Everyone has valid reasons for why they choose their setups.
Edit: nevermind I am so confused by the new naming schemes I thought this was an nvidia, others have informed me its an AMD. Nevermind me I am a dingus.
9070xt is an AMD… it’s just new… and I’ve seen a lot of posts saying you want kernel 6.13 or higher for it, and mint 22 is using 6.8. (And that you want mesa 25 but I don’t think getting that’s an issue?)
(I realize AMD changing their naming yet again makes that confusing.)
Lol at the downvotes, it's like 3 clicks. Not rocket science.
fosslinux.com/138008/how-to-in…
Mint deliberately uses an LTS kernel because it's primary value proposition is stability & simplicity but changing kernels is pretty safe.
How to install and try different Linux kernels in Linux Mint
This comprehensive guide walks you through the process of installing and trying out various Linux kernels in Linux Mint.Divya Kiran Kumar (FOSS Linux)
I've put later kernels on Mint a half dozen times withno dramas, but whether you should depends on what your use case, preferences and skill are.
I personally wouldn't do the arse-ache that is an immutable system, but plenty here love their Bazzite it seems. Different strokes for different folks. Nothing wrong with that.
If you love Mint except for the kernel version then it's an easy fix. If you don't have deep feelings then either try & be ready to ditch, or pick an alternative.
Just for the record there is no "doing all that" about it. It's a simple couple of clicks. It couldnt be easier. I'm not sure where you got the idea it was difficult.
I get the impression you've been enticed/subjected to some confusing technical jargon without noticing. Please allow me to shed some light.
Idk, there so much “mint and Debian are stable” but like… what’s the even mean?
Stable can mean a bunch of different stuff that may or may not be closely related. In the case of Debian, it's the name of its default release; the one in which packages are frozen for two years except for security patches. (Note that this naming scheme is not unique to Debian.) As such, a Debian installation will be unchanging for these two years, earning its stable designation (which, to be clear, just meaning unchanging in this context). Finally, this unchanging environment should provide a ton of stability (i.e. stuff just works), which is also referred to as stable. These three distinct meanings of stable are probably the ones you'll come across the most.
Is fedora 42 or bazzite going to be crashing regularly? Cuz… I doubt it?
The bold part is a clear demonstration that you understood stable to mean strictly robust; i.e. the third meaning discussed above. And to be clear, Fedora does a decent job at providing a reliable experience. (Bazzite even more so.) But not all three meanings of stable apply to it:
- For Fedora (and thus Bazzite by extension), the only stable repository is the one used to create its ISOs (i.e. the images used for installation). Beyond this, some packages are frozen within a release/version; e.g. you'll never get a major release update for GNOME unless you do a major release update for Fedora. But..., that's basically it; (almost) all other packages receive regular updates. As such, Fedora is often referred to as a semi-rolling release distro instead (as opposed to Debian being referred to as a stable release distro). So, to be clear, Fedora and Bazzite are NOT stable in this context.
- As (most of) its packages receive regular updates, it isn't unchanging either. And thus, NOT stable in this context as well.
- However, in terms of offering a robust/reliable experience, Fedora is pretty good. Bazzite is even better due to its atomicity^[That is, updates either happen successfully or not at all. So a random power outage (or otherwise) is not able to break the system's integrity.] and the superior distro-management allowed by the bootc model.
So, to answer your question, Fedora and Bazzite will not crash regularly. And, while Fedora might fall a little short of providing as robust of an experience as you might find on Debian and Linux Mint (assuming you won't FrankenDebian your installs), Bazzite may actually rival (and perhaps even eclipse/surpass) Debian and Linux Mint in this respect.
Seems easier to just go with fedora 42 or bazzite or whatever
For your purposes, I agree that going for the Bazzite-route seems to be the easiest.
but now idk what bazzite being immutable even means for what I can’t change and why that’s a big deal so idk.
This is a nuanced discussion that probably deserves more attention, but I'll keep it short for the sake of brevity. In Bazzite's case, strictly-speaking, immutability refers to how most of /usr's content isn't supposed to be changed deliberately by you. This is enforced by the system (in part) by making those files read-only.
In practice, though, there's very little you actually can't do with the system:
- AFAIK, you're forced to use GRUB; which AFAIK is the most used bootloader anyways. Here's a thread discussing support for systemd-boot.
- No support for UKI at the moment. But progress on this has been accelerated (relatively) recently; .
- The situation around dkms/akmods still ain't great and leaves a lot to be desired; you're basically limited to the ones found here. Thankfully, this is something else that's actively being worked on.
- While installing from Fedora's repository through bootc/rpm-ostree is possible, it's actually discouraged in Bazzite's case. Thankfully, there's a plethora of different means to the same end. Furthermore, sysext have come a long way and might become our go-to eventually.
UKI/systemd-boot tracker
systemd-boot has a lot of uptake and is very simple for the UEFI path. We need to support it. One thing this deeply intersects with is ostreedev/ostree#2753 and ostreedev/ostree#1951 as well as #20...cgwalters (GitHub)
Thanks for reporting back!
Pretty good so far
Glad to hear that it has been a pleasant experience overall!
few things took a while to figure out ...
The "force me to enter a password any time I open my browser"-thing seems like unintended behavior. Pretty strange. Glad to hear that it has been resolved, though.
sadly still one thing I probably won’t ever be able to fix is getting a program (combat mode for GW2) to actually work as it’s… like 13 years old and just lets me press a button to make my mouse left/right click into keys while the game is up. They have integrated the other functionality of it at least so it’s not THAT bad. Might be able to get my mouse to manually do that if I check out the drivers for it I think someone made.
Perhaps you've already undertaken what I'm about to say, so please feel free to ignore this if that's the case: Have you reached out to their Discord server in hopes of resolving the issue? While their documentation is pretty great, it's possible that it ain't sufficient. Whenever that happens, the Discord community can (and probably will (at least in my experience)) step up and provide excellent guidance when prompted.
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Idk about the browser thing it was because the kde wallet or something? It stores passwords and the browser has a login so it would force me to do that every time. Same with email and such, very annoying. I think I have it all working fine now.
As far as what I could not get working, I was able to just set up mouse profiles to do mostly the same. Good enough of a workaround. It’s an old program separate from the game that seems to look at the active window to contain “Guild Wars 2” and if it is, hitting a button will change mouse clicks to whatever buttons. (And hitting certain buttons or not being in GW2 will disable that) so like… idk how Linux works but I feel that ain’t gonna happen without changing it, and the dev has fucked off 13 years ago (and I might be the literal only person still using it.)
Idk about the browser thing it was because the kde wallet or something? It stores passwords and the browser has a login so it would force me to do that every time. Same with email and such, very annoying. I think I have it all working fine now.
Ah okay, thanks for the clarification! I have heard of that interaction elsewhere. Unsure if it's KDE Plasma misbehaving or otherwise. Regardless, I'm glad to hear that you were able to resolve the issue. I did find this discussion (which you may have found yourself as well). In their case, they (somehow) didn't properly create an account, which opens multiple can of worms you'd much rather not deal with. Thankfully, the fact that you were able to deal with the problem suggests that you should be fine 😉.
Bazzite - KDE Wallet constantly popping up
I tried to disable it, but the password I enter in doesn’t work (I know it is my admin password). A SSH pop up happens as well, enter password, goes away, then reappears. KDE Wallet pops up, click next, no key.Universal Blue
If you want to use newer hardware, and would rather not tinker with the system to get it working (and then have to maintain that tinkering yourself if something breaks later), Bazzite is probably the better option. It's based on Fedora Atomic which is almost identical to rolling-release like Arch. I switched from Windows to Bazzite more than a year ago and have personally had no major issues, never had to mess with drivers or kernel updates due to the image-based system, and pretty much everything I might need for some workaround or another is included in the image. The community is very active on both the Discord and the web forum, and the documentation on the website is good as well, so there's no shortage of help and available resources if you run into an issue or don't know how to do something.
The main thing you need to be aware of going in is to be sure of which Desktop Environment you want (KDE or Gnome), because their user-space configs (which are not part of the image) interfere with each other so you can't really switch between them without breaking a lot of things. Coming from Windows, I picked KDE and have been very happy with it.
They're mostly equivalent, but I think KDE has the edge when it comes to customization, included utilities, and advanced features. The Apple/Windows comparison is not limited to their look and feel, it also applies to the philosophical differences between the Gnome and KDE teams. If you plan to use SteamVR, KDE is supposedly better for that specific use case, but I can't personally verify that.
The feature sets and quality of both DEs are constantly improving, so a comparison from 6 months or a year ago could already be outdated. I haven't used Gnome in quite a few years, so I'm basing this entirely on what others have said about it.
Wayland support differs between their display managers (GDM and SDDM).
Outside of that and a few other low levels things that you probably wouldn't care about, it is mostly just flavoring.
And understand that its not a choice just between those two DEs. There are many others that you can use (ex. mate, cinnamon, etc), and even just window managers (ex. i3wm, hyprland, openbox, etc) you can mix and match with many other file managers,etc.
Thanks for bringing up the display managers and Wayland support, I don't know enough to weigh in on those.
And understand that its not a choice just between those two DEs.
If OP sticks with Mint, that would be the case, but Bazzite only has two DEs right now (KDE and Gnome, with Budgie "coming soon"). OP doesn't sound like they want to tinker much, they just want something that works with a modern GPU and will keep working. Bazzite certainly fits that use-case, at least in my experience.
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Maybe something like Comparison, but you have to understand everything can be changed. So, Just because you have KDE, doesn't mean you have to stick with Dolphin for files management, etc. Window managers are even more free form. You don't get a file manager, or image viewer, or text editor. You get a window manager. You can use whatever you want to install though. You also have floating vs tiled windows.
You might just look through screenshots in Google Images and see what looks good to you and then install that.
Comparison & List of Desktop Environments
Comparison of Linux and Unix Desktop Environmentseylenburg.github.io
I'd personally recommend openSuse Tumbleweed if you are looking for the most up to date software with an easy setup. Been using it for a solid year now for gaming and general use with zero issues.
If you are looking for stability, and a strong gaming focus I would recommend Bazzite. Its stable, comes with everything basically game ready, and is pretty simple. It does come with the cost of less customization but it's atomic nature makes it really hard to break. It's solid for general use as well.
While (I think) you can install HWE (hardware enablement) kernels on Mint, you would also have to upgrade Mesa, which is not as easy on Mint.
Personally in this case, for a truly stable distro, I’d install Debian Stable and install a backports kernel and backports Mesa, which are both currently versions that should support RDNA4 GPUs like OPs just fine. This involves two simple steps after installing:
1. Enable the Debian Backports Repo (see backports.debian.org/Instructi…). It’s like, one file.
2. Install the packages with something like sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 mesa-va-drivers and reboot.
Before you take these steps, you probably won’t have hardware acceleration, but will still get video output so you can perform the steps and reboot.
This is definitely a weird suggestion, and other people’s suggestions might be less work out of the box. I just like Debian, and stability+backports+testing is part of what makes it possible for it to be my everything distro.
I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I'm using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can't get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don't load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn't helped. Can't even go above 60Hz refresh rate.
I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it's basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.
I don't have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.
I run mint 22.1 and have a 9070xt.
I used mainline to install kernel 6.14, works flawlessly.
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I remember that scene. If I remember, he broke the handcuffs shortly after, without any trouble at all.
But yes, the situation in America is very shortly and it just keeps getting worse and worse.
::: spoiler spoiler
he is put in a concentration camp, while being told that he isn't entitled to due process. Escaping is a lot harder than in Man of Steel.
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The Jewish diaspora must confront what Israel is doing in our name
Judaism is not Zionism, and those who argue they are one and the same are being fundamentally dishonest. Yet collectively, Jews are often held responsible when the world's only Jewish state claims to act in our name.
The Jewish diaspora must confront what Israel is doing in our name
The genocide in Gaza, backed by diaspora institutions, requires us to challenge the Jewish mainstream's embrace of a fascistic IsraelMiddle East Eye
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[Project] GitHub - voidauth/voidauth: An Easy to Use and Self-Host Single Sign-On Provider 🐈⬛🔒
A new open-source Single Sign-On (SSO) provider designed to simplify user and access management.
Features:
- 🙋♂️ User Management
- 🌐 OpenID Connect (OIDC) Provider
- 🔀 Proxy ForwardAuth Domains
- 📧 User Registration and Invitations
- 🔑 Passkey Support
- 🔐 Secure Password Reset with Email Verification
- 🎨 Custom Branding Options
Screenshot of the login portal:
GitHub - voidauth/voidauth: An Easy to Use and Self-Host Single Sign-On Provider 🐈⬛🔒
An Easy to Use and Self-Host Single Sign-On Provider 🐈⬛🔒 - voidauth/voidauthGitHub
My previous setup was with Authelia and lldap, and VoidAuth is heavily inspired by a combination of both. I think the advantages VoidAuth has are simple user management, supporting user registration/invitation, more branding customization, and a better end-user UI (imo).
There are other great selfhosted auth solutions such as Authelia and lldap, and also Authentik, Keycloak, pocket-id, and Rauthy. I would encourage anyone looking for a selfhosted auth solution to shop around!
GitHub - nosduco/nforwardauth: Simple and minimalist forward auth service intended for use with reverse proxies (Traefik, Caddy, nginx, etc)
Simple and minimalist forward auth service intended for use with reverse proxies (Traefik, Caddy, nginx, etc) - nosduco/nforwardauthGitHub
I think nforwardauth looks like a great project, you can always setup VoidAuth alongside and try it out!
RustDesk, probably one of the best TeamViewer Alternatives
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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.
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
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An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. - rustdesk/rustdeskGitHub
I was not doing very high end stuff though.
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.
What are your experiences?
There was a bit of controversy about them a couple of years back that put me off.
- They used to disable Wayland and force X11 - that was a pain.
- They didn't fully open source all components I think.
- There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it's entirely Chinese devs.
- 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 😉
On a more serious note... yes, nation-state attacks on infrastructure like xz-utils do exist, and as Stuxnet has shown, they are also being used against high-profile targets like Iranian nuclear faculities..
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.
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings
This is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation today at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf seminar ‘Cyber Security and Society’.Bert Hubert's writings
Wish guacamole didn't look like total ass. Otherwise a great product.
Looking for a modern alternative though.
Is there much benefit at all in using vpn on Google Android OS?
I have a normal Googled Android phone and tinkered with a bunch of settings so that only what I can't uninstall or disable remains on it.
If I run a vpn on it then the Googled OS may still know my location(from wifi and bluethooth scanning that it may be doing nonstop) and browser searches.
In that case, would the vpn only mask my activity from my internet service provider?
Thanks in advance
PS: This is a locked phone and I understand that it's spyware but I can't afford an unlocked one yet thanks
But why give your ISP (or any wifi you connect to) all your browsing habits?
like i wrote under your last post, install netGuard as a VPN and activate "manage system apps" which will permit you to block google calling home
also, with ADB you can uninstall almost anything (be careful!)
you can also choose a dns which would block those (mullvad, for example
It can mask your ip from other sites, some have adblocking on them too.
I personally use PiVPN which gives me access to PiHole so I have adblocking on the go.
So like Google still gets stuff, but I figure in trying to get privacy, every little helps.
If I run a vpn on it then the Googled OS may still know my location(from wifi and bluethooth scanning that it may be doing nonstop)
The VPN has nothing to do with your phone's location settings.
would the vpn only mask my activity from my internet service provider?
Yes, plus it's a shared server so it makes it harder for websites to know your location or to track your activities across sites.
Have you tried searching before commenting?
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GitHub - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation: Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
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If your opsec was so great you'd realise I was not the OP and just found the comment to be dismissive.
Communities thrive on dialogue and providing context and links can help with longevity for the community and platform.
Israel condemns new plaques "distorting history" at site of Jedwabne pogrom in Poland
Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, has condemned the installation of new plaques in Poland at the site of the Jedwabne pogrom, during which hundreds of Jews were burned alive in World War Two.
It says that the inscriptions – which were installed as part of a crowdfunded alternative memorial and not by any official body – “falsify history” by trying to absolve Poles of blame for the massacre.
On Wednesday, Gazeta Wyborcza, a leading Polish newspaper, reported that seven large boulders had been placed near the official Jedwabne memorial.
The objects had appeared there shortly before today’s commemoration of the 84th anniversary of the pogrom, which occurred when Poland was under Nazi-German occupation.
Official findings by Poland’s state Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) have established that the direct perpetrators of the massacre were ethnic Poles who lived in the area. But it also noted that broader responsibility for the crime rested with the German occupiers.
However, many in Poland – in particular on the political right – question those findings, arguing that the pogrom was entirely the work of the Germans and claiming that the tragedy has been used as part of efforts to falsely shift blame onto Poles for Holocaust crimes.
One of the newly installed plaques reads, in Polish and English, that “evidence and witness accounts disprove the claims of Polish perpetration of the murder of Jews in Jedwabne…In reality, this crime was committed by a German unit”.
Another says that the fact Poland disappeared from the map of Europe for 123 years between 1795 and 1918 was “an unimaginable tragedy for Poles…[but] a source of satisfaction for many Jews”.
A further one says that, in the interwar period, “many Jews openly sympathised with communism, identified with the Soviets, who were hostile to Poland”, reports Gazeta Wyborcza.
The newspaper notes that Wojciech Sumliński – an author who has written books questioning the official findings regarding Jedwabne – spoke two years ago about installing such plaques as part of an alternative “monument” that would recognise the “truth” about Jedwabne.
Sumliński himself confirmed on Wednesday in a social media post that he was behind the new installation, which was paid for through a crowdfunding campaign. On Thursday, he and a large crowd of supporters gathered for the official opening of the new memorial, marking the occasion with a Catholic mass.
On Thursday, Yad Vashem issued a statement saying that it is “profoundly shocked and deeply concerned by the desecration of historical truth and memory at the Jedwabne memorial site in Poland”.
It says that the new plaques are “an apparent attempt to distort the story of the massacre of Jews” in order to “absolve the perpetrators” through the “blatant falsification of history”.
“Yad Vashem calls on the relevant Polish authorities to remove this offensive installation and to ensure that the historical meaning of the site is preserved and respected,” they wrote.
The new plaques were also condemned by Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, who told Gazeta Wyborcza they are a “disgrace” and a “manifestation of the disease that is antisemitism”.
Systemd's Nuts and Bolts - A Visual Guide to Systemd
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If you’re an intermediate or advanced 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…Sebastian Carlos (Medium)
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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.
I have yet to read this, but. But the first part is like the internals of systemd, you won't immediately need it.
If you want to make use of systemd, you can skip directly to where it explains unit files. You'll soon see just how much it can do for you
I don't know why but I just found it incomprehensible.
#alwaysHasBeen, but for us graybeards the confusion has been "this is a solution with no problem" and "it's eaten WHAT now?"
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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.
Okay, those innuendos have to be intentional!
- Take a non-stop Linux box where even the kernel can be patched while it's hot
- Glance at d-bus sideways
- Now you must reboot.
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
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JSON is not the optimal solution for either humans nor for machines... it's a compromise in-between that is more complex to parse than most binary alternatives (and even some text-based ones, if the data can be represented in CSV tables for example), while also often requiring post-processing through beautifiers and similar to be able to visualize it cleanly for humans.
There are situations where it's the format that makes the most sense.. like in the web, where you are already working with javascript anyway. But it's not a golden bullet to use everywhere.
Sorry American readers, we in the real world use soccer metaphors, we are manly like that, even our women
As a European reader I highly doubt all claims in that sentence. refe what?
Actually I would have thought its the Americans that do this.
Yes, I do get paid. Sometimes considerably (for what tech writing can provide).
Indeed, writing tech articles on Medium has allowed me to get some extra income/free-time in between jobs, which I use to upskill myself and then share what I learn with the community (with some amount of friction regarding the paywall). This self-reinforcing loop is quite appealing to me, and - I would argue - aligns somewhat with my take on the Kantian categorical imperative.
For what it's worth, I like the typesetting. Medium also has extremely good SEO, likely from some direct negotiation with search engines, I assume. Eventually I plan to move my tech writings to my own blog, with some sort of minimal ad system, no paywalls. Also, I usually unpaywall my tech articles after the window of high income dries up.
I updated the post to use the "friend link" which should allow you to read for free. (I didn't realize you could edit the link on lemmy after publishing).
in which case I’d much rather pay directly to the authors.
All my stories have a link to my ko-fi at the end, but the income from that is significantly less than what I get from Medium directly.
Edit: Thanks @hayk@lemmy.ml for donating! Much appreciated!
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If you’re an intermediate or advanced 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…Sebastian Carlos (Medium)
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I was genuinely curious why people use it, thanks for the clarification.
still as someone who writes only open source codes, it goes a bit against my religion, but I totally understand if your income depends on it! thanks for the text, and for the "friend link". as promised... ; )
Polish far-right leader declares Auschwitz gas chambers to be "fake"
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.
The... lies of the Haggadah? The book so benign I can get copies published by ShopRite? Oh no, he's going to out the dark truth that Pesach was never meant to come with a 4 drink minimum and the secret to singing Chad Gadyah in a round while plastered! What's next? Will he expose the ancient Jewish secret to a good brisket is actually Dr. Pepper?
Edit: Obviously this dude is a dangerous Neo-Nazi and the Earth shouldn't suffer him breathing it's precious oxygen, but we gotta laugh or else we'll cry, right?
Jewish brisket is different from Texas smoked brisket. First of all, it's braised rather than smoked. It's cooked with carrots, celery and onions in a mixture of crushed tomatoes and wine and seasoned relatively simply with salt, garlic, pepper, thyme and bay leaves. While I think the smoked kinds are generally better sliced thin on a sandwich, a braised Jewish brisket is such a core memory of the Passover Sedar (the ceremonial meal described in the Haggadah) that I savor it in its own way. I've made em for Rosh Hashanah as well. All that's to say, your milage may vary and so you might not find it to your liking.
BUT, the method is fairly simple.
Season a whole brisket with salt and pepper, brown it in a large roasting pan. Once browned, remove it and add in your aromatics (onion, carrot, garlic, celery, whatever you want) and brown those slightly too. Deglaze with wine, add in Dr. Pepper or cola, add in tomatoes and ketchup (use less if using soda). Add the brisket back in, your herbs, then roast low and slow at around 275°F to 300°F for 3 to 4 hours, should be fork tender. Once it's cooked, pull it out, let it rest for like a half hour, slice it thin, put it back in the roasting pan with the juices, baste it, cover it, let it sit somewhere warm for another half hour while it soaks up the braising liquid.
Ideally you want a brisket with the deckle, but if you got a first cut brisket, don't trim the fat, you wanna render that out during the cook. You can skim it off the resulting braising liquid after the cook if you'd like.
Also the recipe isn't set in stone. Play with it! It's supposed to be a bit sweet, so I've thrown in figs and apricots, seasoned the top of sumac and pomegranate, za'atar isn't unwelcome here, if atypical.
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”.
we could all take a leaf of this advice, fascist says fascist shit, shock horror. I'm so tired of people in 'my community' inadvertantly promoting fascists. It's exactly what fascists want.
A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us
I can't abide an unnecessary question hed.
When I scroll through social media, I often leave demoralized, with the sense that the entire world is on fire and people are inflamed with hatred towards one another. Yet, when I step outside into the streets of New York City to grab a coffee or meet a friend for lunch, it feels downright tranquil. The contrast between the online world and my daily reality has only gotten more jarring.Since my own work is focused on topics such as intergroup conflict, misinformation, technology and climate change, I’m aware of the many challenges facing humanity. Yet, it seems striking that people online seem to be just as furious about the finale of The White Lotus or the latest scandal involving a YouTuber. Everything is either the best thing ever or the absolute worst, no matter how trivial. Is that really what most of us are feeling? No, as it turns out. Our latest research suggests that what we’re seeing online is a warped image created by a very small group of highly active users.
Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way outGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Mastering jq
Mastering JQ: Part 1
This is the first part of an ongoing series on mastering jq. jq is a valuable tool that every fast coder has in their tool chest. It contains depths of immense power. In part 1, we'll start off with the basics.Tyler Adams (CodeFaster)
jq scriptlet for me today. It wasn't even complicated, it just beat working it out/trying to craft the write string to search Stackoverflow for.
I tried and failed to get an LLM to write jq code to do a regex based matcher for finding if one json object was a subset of another.
Gave up and learned it enough to get it going. jq is nutso powerful.
jq to manipulate JSON I'd recommend a helper CLI tool like ijq. It allows you to experiment without needing too lines in your terminal history.
I don't know if we should call someone a master of jq if they do
echo '{"k1": [{"k2": [9]}]}' | jq '.k1 | .[0] | .k2 | .[0]'
Instead of just
echo '{"k1": [{"k2": [9]}]}' | jq '.k1[0].k2[0]'
Both are bad. Make it readable.
And if you often resort to jq, better use python or at least something like nushell.
Introducing Operese(demo)
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Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support
Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support
The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testingwww.phoronix.com
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If only Cycles would ever work on AMD Polaris…
Though honestly, I’ll probably get around to a GPU upgrade eventually.
Rocm packaging looks to be pretty much done on Debian, although they still seem to need time on the problem of keeping it reasonably up to date in Testing and Sid - momentum will probably pick up after Trixie leaves hard freeze and goes stable.
Honestly, it’d be kind of nice to have a project with a repo that does nothing most of the time except during the Testing freeze, in which it would deliver package updates and keep Testing as a rolling release during that time.
I get why Debian doesn’t do this themselves - they tried and found it hell to both prepare a stable release and package new versions.
Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development
Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development
Despite massive adoption, Bottles faces funding shortages. The team shares its reality and asks users to help shape the project’s future.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
I see the advantages that.
- Libadwaita Themed (good for Gnome bad for other Desktops)
- Sandboxed (Only flatpak)
Lutris is for managing games, and can use multiple different engines. Proton is one, but also Linux native games, dos, ScummVM, etc. Lutris also interfaces with popular stores like Steam, Epic, GOG etc. It's a game and gaming library tool.
Bottles is a general purpose wrapper for Wine. You can run games but also any wine software. It's a general purpose wine tool.
Lutris makes running games in proton easy. Bottles makes running apps in wine easy.
You can do lots of things with both, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should.
People have used Lutris for other apps because it was a more convenient wrapper for Wine than the defaults offered but it's not primarily designed for it and support will be limited. Lutris is designed to be a games library and that's it's focus.
I personally wouldn't recommend wine newbies to be using Lutris to run everything because if nothing else it would be annoying for the Lutris dev team to be dealing with "I can't get Microsoft Word working".
I also personally wouldn't recommend Bottles for games because of all the other features Lutris offers. I have a huge library of games and I wouldn't want to manage that in the Bottles interface. But I'm aware people use it for that and Lutris is one of its supported runners.
Bottles and Lutris complement each other and work together well. But lutris is designed to be a games libaray while Bottles is designed to be for everything.
I personally use Lutris for games (most of my wine use) and Bottles for a few other windows apps.
But the real star of the show is under the hood - it's wine and Proton doing the heavy lifting. Lutris and Bottles are tools to get the most out of them and it's choice which you use and how.
It's not a catch-all game launcher.
It's a wine environment manager. And it is becoming increasingly good at simplying the complexity of setting up wine bottles for different things.
It's basically winetricks on steroids, with a really nice GUI to boot.
Running windows games is just one use-case.
Obviously. It too does wine environment management. But it's meant for games, and for wine specifically, Bottles is just nicer.
Lutris is massive overkill if you just want run the windows version of python in order to compile python code to windows binaries. Not to mention it just isn't as slick in terms of UX as a wine manager.
WINEPREFIX environment variable?
Calibre 8.6 released
New features
- Content server: Add a checkbox in content server user preferences to prevent a user account from changing its own password via the web interface
- Restoring database: Improve performance by an order of magnitude
- Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to permit displaying the sort value for series in the Tag browser
- Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3
- Add 'Search "not in"' and 'Filter "not in'" buttons to Manage authors and Manage Items
Bug fixes
- Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files or converting them
Closes tickets: 2115246- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image
Closes tickets: 2115057 - Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books by first letter of series not working correctly for non-English language books
Closes tickets: 2116006 - Edit metadata individually: Ensure Next/Previous buttons work even if something re-orders the books in the book list. They will now iterate over the books as they were at the time the dialog is created
Closes tickets: 2115111 - Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog library causing a permission denied error
Closes tickets: 2115084
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image
New news sources
- La Presse by quatorze
Improved news sources
- Economist
- 1843
- Financial Times
- PC World
- Muy Interesante Mexico
- Hindu Business Line
- Business Standard
- Hindustan Times
- The Week
- Times of India
- Hindustan
- Financial Times
- Reason
calibre - What's new
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.calibre-ebook.com
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Calibre is one of the great pieces of FOSS software, and demonstrates everything good about FOSS: it has regular updates; it's been around for simply ages; it works really, really well; it gets updates and new features and yet has never in my memory had a breaking, non-backwards-compatible release... it's stable; and it resists - in its way - the attempt by publishers to steal our rights and ownerships of our media.
I ~~contribute~~ donate to Calibre. I hope that Goyal has a successor lined up to take the helm who can continue such an outstanding contribution when he finally retires from the project.
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Bash v5.3 Released! New features and syntax in the latest version of the Bash Shell. by You Suck at Programming on YouTube [17:10min]
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I just found this creator who is super excited about the new Bash version. He goes through some aspects of the new changes and features. There is something funny about a guy getting so excited about a new Bash version, that I wanted to share it because of that. 😁
Also its nice to see the changes in action and have an explanation from someone who (seemingly) knows what he is doing.
Video (partial) description:
Source Code: github.com/bahamas10/bash-changes
$ whoami
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Source Code → github.com/bahamas10/ysap
Bash v5.3 Released! New features and syntax in the latest version of the Bash Shell. - SkipVids
You Suck at Programming: Bash v5.3 Released! New features and syntax in the latest version of the Bash Shell. - https://SkipVids.comSkipVids
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Honestly this made me really sad that we're stuck with this archaic, awful language as a primary way of programmatically interacting with our computers. And I don't mean to say anybody has done anything wrong here - sh and bash were revolutionary and amazing for their respective times, and maintainers who are keeping bash alive now are heroes who deserve praise. However, many decisions made when sh was originally developed turned out to be footguns, still creating bugs today (despite shellcheck et al).
nushell is somewhat promising but flawed (because it has to be built on the same system interfaces as sh, after all). The most annoying is that there's no facilities for setting any metadata on data streams (in particular there's no way to set the format of the data) so everything has to be marshalled manually, which would be OK for a proper programming language but really annoying for a shell. At least it fixes most of the quoting, escaping, interpolation, substition etc awfulness, and allows for manipulating data in a more structured way.
I really don't know if it's even possible to make a language that would be a good convenient shell and at the same time not prone to bugs which are easily noticeable in other languages. I hope that something like this becomes a reality at some point.
If you want to do a Bash like management and programming, that is not dramatically different but fixes some irritations, then Fish is an alternative. Obviously it will not fix all issues, but there is no paradigm shift in handling streams. nushell is dramatically different and at that point, I would rather use a programming language to do the stuff. Speaking of programming language, there is also Xonsh (basically Python+Bash like combination as a system shell).
All these alternatives have a singular big flaw to me: they are not the standard tools on the system, which defeats the purpose of a system shell to me. In the end, without changing the core system that these shells are built on, I don't think its possible to make a really well made language that interoperates on system level like a shell does at the moment.
That's the reason why I got a bit more into Bash to understand some flaws, to understand how to use regexes inside Bash and variable substitutions and a few other concepts that are very useful to know. But man... there are so many traps... like looping over a wildcard for files (such as for file in *.txt) and if the wildcard does not match, then the loop consists of the wildcard as a literal word as if "*.txt" was a filename. What a stupid idea. There is an option to change that, but that's the issue. The language is filled with traps and optional options and you have to know all of them.
Edit: Added example code why default behavior sucks:
$ for file in *.ABCD; do echo "${file}"; done
*.ABCD
shopt -s nullglob
$ for file in *.ABCD; do echo "${file}"; done
shellcheck is pretty cool. I have written my fair share of bash and yet still get caught off-guard by its warnings - and it's right most of the time!
Yes, I use shellcheck in the editor. Its pretty useful. But running (a little bit more complex commands) in the terminal directly won't help with shellcheck. That's why I also have a functionality to directly load and edit the current command in the terminal in (Neo)vim and edit and when closing Vim the command gets executed. The benefit doing this is getting checked by shellcheck in the editor and also it makes it easier to one-off complex commands.
Thanks to shellcheck I got in the habbit to always enclose variables in ${var}. And recently learned from a community member that using [[ expr ]] style has basically no downsides against using [ expr ] directly.
VPNs for UK users?
So the UK is going to start requiring IDs to view adult content. I'm in the US, but I've got a friend in the UK who obviously doesn't want to deal with this.
I suggested he use a VPN, but he's apparently heard they sell your personal data. Can anyone recommend a reliable VPN that collects as little data as possible?
ETA: thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'm gonna research em and pass the info along. 😀
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PIA is run by a sketchy company with ties to zionists. Please do not support them.
If you need a cheap VPN go with AirVPN or even Nord over PIA.
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Mullvad VPN if you're prepared to pay; ProtonVPN or Windscribe if you aren't.
None of the services keep logs or require any personal info.
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Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.Mullvad VPN
It's not just UK, but Europe-wide soon. I imagine that the various (other) -eyes countries will be joining with similar legislation.
And then The law of unintended consequences will strike.
Mullvad and Proton!
But not these:
‘Cause these VPNs may have ties to…
These free VPNs may have ties to China’s military – and they are still hidden in Apple and Google app stores
New research reveals 17 VPN apps with undisclosed Chinese ownership, and big tech may be making a profitChiara Castro (TechRadar)
Okay... And what's China going to do with your encrypted data running through their VPN servers?
Maybe that's all the more incentive to use them, since they deffo won't tattle on you to the UK or Canadian govt.
That being said, they did just send an unrequested marketing notification to my phone out of the blue... So might have to look elsewhere tbh 🤷♂️
Could someone help me setup local file sharing? [Fixed]
So I have things working for me at this point. I was never able to get Samba worling properly. My initial issue was not having a / at the end of my folder path in the Samba config file. After fixing that issue I was able to see the shared folder but was prompted to log in each time, which was an issue in my use case. I ended up abandoning Samba and setting up Jellyfin which has been a much smoother experience, but also is providing many more features. So, if you are looking to share media on your local network, my recommendation would be Jellyfin!
Thank you so much to everyone that commented and helped me a long. I hope I get to return the favor in some way.
Hello, I've been working towards fully migrating to linux, but this is one issue I'm having a hard time with. I have a couple of folders on a storage drive that I share on my local network to stream movies and TV, but I can't figure out how to do it in my Linux install. I'm running Linux Mint 22, have installed Samba, and have tried a few different walkthroughs with no success. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this set up?
Thanks for your time!
Well I tried the UI approach of right clicking the folder and going to share options, which is when I was prompted to install Samba, but there is warning that states "The permission for prevent othersl users from accessing this share". I did some digging on that error, and everything I came across basically said that wouldn't work. My next attempt was modifying the Samba config file, I added
[FolderName]path = (file directory path I see in properties, /media/username/lettersandnumbersfordrive?/FolderName)browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask =0775
As instructed by a tutorial I found. When running testpram I don't get any errors, but I'm not seeing the folder in VLC like I do when sharing from Win10. That's as far as I have gotten. If there's anything else that I can provide please let me know, and on that note, the drive I'm sharing from is NTFS if that has any impact.
Thanks again!
Similar issue: serverfault.com/questions/5753…
Adding
[global]
map to guest = bad userto smb.conf and restart the service.
If that doesn't work there are a few other suggestions in the thread.
This is actually what I did. I never could get Samba working, so I setup Jellyfin and it's been a breeze ever since. What an amazing piece of software! I just wanted to access my files, but having them categorized with images, cast and crew, ratings, and even recommended is just fantastic. The Xbox app works fine but it's basically just a web wrapper, and the cursor never goes away which is mildly annoying, but it's still a way better experience than the VLC Xbox app.
Thanks for the help!
path = /home/user/Public
but I had to change it to
path = /home/user/Public/
You're path in your reply looks like it's missing that / at the end. After you update, don't forget to restart the service.
[theoretical] What would the real impacts of FOSS software becoming more prevalent in all segments of society?
Thumbing through the feed, the news on how this or that organization letting go of commercial options for day to day operations are mounting.
This led me to wonder what would be the impact if FOSS, be it on the OS front, productivity front or whatever, was to become truly a relevant option.
I'm painfully aware of the difficulties I've faced trying to take a few online courses to be faced with borderline desdain for not using Windows/Office/Etc and opting for FOSS solutions.
Paying/supporting a FOSS solution does not offend me. I'm happier when giving money directly to a developer or project than to an opaque company. But I'm just one.
But what could happen if the ones became millions, actively contributing with a few coins per year to projects we use daily?
What could/would happen in the short term (under a year), medium-long (one to three years) and the long term (over ten years)?
From enduser perspective the most visible change would be that all software wouldn't be hostile to users because with propreitary you have to be very picky to get that.
In the long term we would see that companies could not build walled gardens to block off competition. Contrast Windows & MacOS vs Linux with its different distros, DEs, toolkits etc.
The least difference would be for enterprise because support is expensive either way.
The scalability problem with FOSS is monetary and motivation.
The successful products need longterm financial security in order to plan and support their peoduct(s) - so, do we start seeing more subscriptions as corp. sponsorship fades away?
And, just like XKCD 2347, FOSS needs to step up and support the components they rely on
That's going to need some more maturity from the developers too: it's a great feeling doing something new and interesting, but - like having a pet - you can't just abandon something when you're bored of it, or too busy, without rehoming your project(s)...
That's where I see the industry needs to improve before they're really ready for the big time.
One huge impact mass FOSS adoption would have is that there would be a lot less software and hardware churn. Commercial nature of proprietary technology is the main driver for constant upgrade cycles we see. Companies need to constantly sell products to stay in business, and this means you have to deprecate old software and hardware in order to sell new versions of the product.
Windows 11 roll out is a perfect example. Vast majority of Windows 10 users are perfectly happy with the way their computer works currently, they're not demanding any new features, they just want their computer to continue to work the way it does currently. However, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 and now they're forced to buy a new computer to keep doing what they've been doing.
This problem goes away entirely with open source because there is no commercial incentive at play. If a piece of software works, and there is a community of users using it, then it can keep working the way it does indefinitely. Furthermore, in cases where a software project goes in a directions some users don't like, such as the case with Gnome, then software can be forked by users who want to go in a different direction or preserve original functionality. This is how Cinnamon and Mate projects came about.
Another aspect of the open source dynamic is that there's an incentive to optimize software. So, you can get continuous performance improvements without having to constantly upgrade your hardware. For most commercial software, there's little incentive to do that since that costs company money. It's easier to just expect users to upgrade their hardware if they want better performance.
I would argue that non technical software users would be far better off if they had the option to fund open source software instead of buying commercial versions. Even having to pay equal amounts, the availability of the source puts more power in the hands of the users. For example, building on the example of Gnome, users of an existing software project could also pull funds together to pay developers to add features to the software or change functionality in a particular way.
This is precisely what makes licenses like GPL so valuable in my opinion. It's a license that ensure the source stays open, and in this way inherently gives more power to the users.
Northern Arizona resident dies from plague
A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/12/health/plague-death-arizona
'Unforgivable': FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors
FEMA missed two-thirds of calls from Texas flood victims after DHS Sec. Kristi Noem allowed hundreds of call center employees to be fired. "They are intentionally breaking government," said Sen. Chris Murphy.
'Unforgivable': FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors
"They are intentionally breaking government—even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis," said Sen. Chris Murphy.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
[Opinion] Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature
Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
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I wouldn't be so sure this time around.
The world is a big uncertainly and the force in Europe for digital sovereignty is something I never seen before.
The initiative to protect Europes boarders and data information is justified.
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It's different this time around.
The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,
This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.
I reckon it's serious this time.
Life long windows user. I switched to Arch
Fuck. That's like going straight from English breakfast tea to hash oil.
I've been using Linux almost exclusively both in my personal and professional life for a decade and a half. I only installed Arch a month or two ago.
The digital dependence on the US is much like the energy dependence on Russia.
Europe is ditching Russian energy. They may ditch US tech.
I don't know about the whole Europe but Spain is buying more energy from Russia than before the war and sanctions.
Don't get me wrong, I hope that would be the case but Europe is also Corporativist.
The European Union regulates the market so much it's hard to call it capitalism, the biggest european companies are basically EU projects like Airbus (every government funds it) or too big too fail like Siemens and/or they would use: "strategic industry" and be done with it.
Edit oh and I almost forgot it, or they are like Inditex, basically not European it's just an European getting rich while exploiting poor people all around the world, but I think this is actually capitalism and that guy isn't exactly appreciated by ruling dictator, I mean party, in Spain.
murciatoday.com/spain_is_now_t…
As they article points out it's all maskerading by the fact that they heavily increased the import in 2023 and now is "reduced"
Spain is now the second-largest importer of Russian gas in Europe
Spain Is Now The Second-largest Importer Of Russian Gas In Europe Keep up with the Latest News In English Murcia Costa Calida Spainmurciatoday.com
Thank you for the article. It brought up something quite interesting that i wasn't aware off before:
But why does Spain rely so heavily on Russia despite the almost global disapproval? The answer lies in this country’s extensive regasification capacity, which stands at 67.1 bcm - the largest in all of Europe. This enables Spain to receive LNG shipments on behalf of other countries that lack the necessary infrastructure, making it a critical hub for European energy trade.
looking a bit into it i found this article:
rbac.com/spains-role-as-a-natu…
So it seems that Spain is also taking the flak here for other EU countries that want to profit from Russian gas but not be directly associated with it.
Spain's Role as a Natural Gas Importer and Re-Exporter - RBAC Inc.
How Spain Uses Natural Gas Europe is one of the most important markets in terms of natural gas and is home to some of the largest consumers of the fuel in the world.Bradley Churchman (RBAC Inc.)
Sure but they are in Spanish. Murcia today is for the local brit community.
elmundo.es/economia/2023/12/01…
The same stuff over 200% increase in 2023 so others can say we dont buy stuff to Russia we buy it to Spain (who bought it to Russia). This source even points out the liquid gas that arrived by boat from Russia wasn't sanctioned.
As we say in Spain "hecha la ley, hecha la trampa"
larazon.es/economia/espana-com…
Says it decrease 25%, but it's 25% from that almost 200% in 2023.
España compra más gas ruso que americano en los últimos 12 meses
Tras Argelia, es el segundo proveedor desde enero de hace un año por el desplome del 32% de las compras a EE UUH. Montero (La Razón)
And now "La Sinrazón"🤦
You do know Marhuenda was the press chief of Rajoy, don't you?
Attacking the source instead of disproving the article.
You have hands, you can sources of your favorite side of the political spectrum, or ask an LLM.
But here are morejust because it's Saturday and I like the apple I am eating for breakfast and I am trying to make lemmy a better place than reddit: 20minutos.es/noticia/5168224/0…
theobjective.com/economia/ener…
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España ha pagado 8.900 millones de euros a Rusia por su gas desde que comenzó la guerra
El próximo 26 de febrero se cumplirán tres años de la invasión rusa de Ucrania. En medio de ese escenario, el Centro de Investigación sobre EnergíaJavier Leal (The Objective)
Bruselas defiende la legalidad del veto al gas ruso ante dudas de importadores como Naturgy y Repsol
It looks like the problem are the contracts. They could go faster breaking the contracts? Yes. But it's Naturgy and Repsol, both private, not the government. Or are you suggesting that the government has to do a take over of the energy enterprises? 😉
Bruselas defiende la legalidad del veto al gas ruso ante dudas de importadores como Naturgy y Repsol - Forbes España
Prohibirá importaciones en virtud de nuevos contratos desde el 1 de enero de 2026 y cortará por completo en 2027 BRUSELAS, 17 (EUROPA PRESS) La ComisiónForbes / EP (Forbes)
First you doubt the claim. Then you attack the source, now you find excuses.
Did they or didn't they increase almost 200% the acquisition of energy from Russia in 2023? Is the Russian Federation a major provider of gas and oil for Spain (and other European countries) or not?
If you notice I am here only to point the hypocrisy of Europe, which they undoubtedly are and Spain is no different.
I don't know if you work for a company with business in Russia, I did when this whole thing started and contracts didn't matter much when sanctions came but I guess we weren't big enough to make excuses.
You gave your sources and I gave you mine. And sadly I'm not working.
About the hypocrisy of the Union and the Spanish government, I know both have a truckload of it. But to each its own. The main problem are Naturgy and Repsol. And yes, the Spanish government should grow some balls and tell them to stop at one. But there aren't balls enough in this government to do the right thing.
Hell, I'm in Silicon Valley here in California, and some of my friends are also jumping off the proprietary ship because those large firms are willing to work hand in hand with federal agencies.
If you've read the NSA document disclosures by Edward Snowden, it's apparent that there is an open door for data requests. The current administration isn't a huge fan of California's diversity, so we might as well minimize our chances of being targetted...
Actually, most of them already do have deals for a limited time. Skype is still available; they needed a new contract since teams does not work without communicating with Microsoft.
OTOH most things they do is via webclient.
If Microsoft was to release a mandatory update that has a single thing that required it to communicate with the organization, by law the whole governmental EU would not be able to use it.
And at the same time we have the Jugendmedienstaatsvertrag in Germany (and with Germany as a strong force in the EU most likely everywhere in the EU soon) that will make all operating systems without fully integrated age restrictions illegal
heise.de/en/news/Minors-protec…
Manufacturers of operating systems must then
ensure that "only apps that correspond to the
age specification or that have been individually
and securely activated can be used". The
installation of programs should only be possible
via distribution platforms such as app stores
that take the age rating into account and have
an automated rating system recognized by the
Commission for the Protection of Minors in the
Media (KJM).
This part of the law alone is impossible to implement on a open platform like Linux.
Minors' protection: State leaders mandate filters for operating systems
According to the revised Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media, operating systems must soon ensure they include a "youth protection device".Stefan Krempl (heise online)
This part of the law alone is impossible to implement on a open platform like Linux.
What makes you think they won't simply make it illegal to use linux?
To make something illegal by law it is needed to have a valid reason for that law to exist.
This is the case at least in every jurisdiction that has a somewhat functional separation of powers.
Due to this can't just make it illegal to use Linux, but with a Law like the Jugendmedienstaatsvertrag it comes as a free bonus.
Since it is impossible to implement on Linux, it may just be flagged as adult-only software.
But, there is still hope. What if Snaps and Flatpaks get properly flagged, allowing Ubuntu and/or Fedora to be legal?
So it is already possible in Windows.
I mean it's impossible on all computers.
Windows should ensure you can only use app-store and make it impossible to install an exe from online as example
MacOS even funnier. If I save a bash script I found online mac is supposed to refuse, unless I am using a vpn that is!
I don't think they will prohibit side loading. This will cause serious issues to developers, and other professionals.
Like, I cannot use the X tool from Github, just because the Y developer refuses to publish it in an organized store?
Since it is impossible to implement on Linux, it
may just be flagged as adult-only software.
This would render Linux unfit for use in Schools, Public Libraries, Youth Centers and other places where Children and Teenagers have access to PCs.
It is, in addition to that, possible that internal regulation of government offices prohibit the use of adult software. Not sure about it, but it would IMHO fit the mindset of bureaucrats
It is in ratification, and will (most likely) become binding law by 1st of December 2025 in Germany
German link:
rundfunkkommission.rlp.de/rund…
I think that if Linux is to be more widely adopted a more easily used distro needs to become mainstream. Let's face it, the average computer user barely knows how to use Windows, just because you find Linux easy doesn't mean they will.
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
Yes. Set automatic package updates, Install firefox with ublock and put it on the taskbar, and bookmark Facebook and Youtube for her. It is the same thing as under Windows.
I would argue that for the most "tech illiterate" users the Linux experience can be made even easier than the windows experience, because you have to set up everything for them anyways.
Completely "tech illiterate" broser-only users are fine. It gets difficult once they happen to actually want to do something.
I have an older relative in that boat, and she was doing fine until she wanted to install some VPN to access foreign Netflix libraries. That was more difficult. Especially because she already paid for the service and that service didn't support her distro, thus there was no guide on how to use it.
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
My 50+ yo mother uses Linux Mint daily with fewer problems that when she used Windows. Her crowning achievement in IT is learning how to use email.
I helped my 93 yo friend switch from Windows 10 to Linux 2 years ago. He called me 3 times in the first 2 weeks to ask how to do something, but hasn't had a single problem since that's related to the OS.
Linux Mint, Bazzite, Fedora, and several other Linux distros are already easier to use than Windows. The only thing holding most people back is fear of change.
There are some people who have specific setups in Windows or a large number of "Windows only" apps, but these people are in the minority. The average person can't even tell you which operating system they're currently using, and wouldn't notice the difference if you swapped the OS but kept the same web browser.
Actually, my mother knew how to use Debian before she could use Windows. Her first pc came with Windows XP, switched that for Debian as its been my main OS since 2000.
Yes, you can teach your grandmother to use Linux.
My mother, 80 years old, uses Linux Mint.
It is a myth that Windows is easier to use than Windows. It is just what you know and it came with your computer.
We already have those. Arguably Windows is much more of a hassle to use than your average "works out of the box" distro. And don't start talking about the terminal, that's comparing apples and organges. A more apt comparison to the need of using the terminal on Linux is the need to apply registry tweaks or use powershell on Windows. As if "average users" would need to do that. They install software via the "app store", change settings via the GUI and run updates when prompted, all of which are seamless on most of these distros. If something breaks, they can't fix it themselves, but then they just go to someone else to help them, just like on Windows, which they also can't fix by themselves. Maybe they manage to reinstall, which isn't any harder than on Windows, if not easier these days.
The group you're actually talking about (and likely belong to) are the Windows power-users that would need to rethink things, and would be capable of rethinking things, if they wanted, which they don't. I know some of these people myself, complaining all day about Microsoft and the privacy nightmare that they put in huge effort to mitigate, but sadly they absolutely need to rely on this one "critical" piece of freeware from the 2000s that they are sure won't run on wine (not that they've tried) or a cracked copy of Photoshop they use for cropping and changing the brightness of desktop backgrounds, but it's the industry leader, so they obviously won't use "inferior" software for that, face the facts Linux users. They think package managers are much harder than downloading and clicking through Setup.exe for the 100th time in a row, and they've had this one bad experience with "rm -rf /" 10 years ago which is why they don't "trust" the terminal, yet routinely double-click on downloaded .bat files without thought. 🤷
Are they democracies? No. Do they respect human rights? Also no.
I don't care as much about them as I care about pointing out the hypocrisy of my people. I have a thing against islam but that has nothing to do with this conversation.
What's wrong with going back to pen and (e-)paper for office? My point is, if you are going to post something in the community, the word "linux" shall at least be in the title.
Good title example: Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft for Linux
It's nobody's fucking business when someone ditching Microsoft, then adopt BSD, Solaris whatnot. What matters to this community is someone adopting or ditching Linux, or they do something remotely related to it.
I don't. This is how it looks like on my Voyager.
Point is (again), it takes zero effort to cross post a video or article here. Windows is historically having a high market share ratio, and people are migrating to Linux nowadays. That's good news to the Linux world. Even someone merely mentioning ditching Windows has an implication of adopting Linux instead.
But what if more and more posts implying this by only mentioning how bad Windows is? Is this a community for Windows circlejerk, or do we share informative stuff that's directly related to Linux? How about we share more article about how great Linux is (or can be), instead of how bad the competitors are becoming?
I can't wait until Lemmy's Peertube integration is released ^[1]^. Then, iiuc, this comment section should be able to happen directly on The Linux Experiment's videos within Lemmy.
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1. Type: Comment. Author: "Nutomic". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "Better federation for Peertube content". Author: "Kalcifer" ("K4LCIFER"). Publisher: ["GitHub". "LemmyNet/lemmy".]. Published: 2023-08-06T21:41:29.000Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….]. Published: 2025-03-27T08:28:52.000Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T00:59Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….
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Better federation for Peertube content
Requirements Is this a feature request? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a feature request? Do not p...K4LCIFER (GitHub)
[…] I hope it’s really coming🤞
A change regarding Peertube federation with Lemmy certainly does appear to be coming in Lemmy 1.0 ^[1]^, but it's currently unknown to me if it does actually fix the issue.
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1. Type: Comment. Author: "Nutomic". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "Better federation for Peertube content". Author: "Kalcifer" ("K4LCIFER"). Publisher: ["GitHub". "LemmyNet/lemmy".]. Published: 2023-08-06T21:41:29.000Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….]. Published: 2025-03-27T08:28:52.000Z. Accessed: 2025-07-14T06:03Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….
- > #5509 fixes this, it will be released as part of Lemmy 1.0
- This is referring to code that was pushed to the repository that allegedly fixes the issue with Peertube federation.
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Better federation for Peertube content
Requirements Is this a feature request? For questions or discussions use https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support Did you check to see if this issue already exists? Is this only a feature request? Do not p...K4LCIFER (GitHub)
I will believe it when I see it for China. They will probably just keep pirating Windows.
India is at something like 15% Linux though and probably going up.
Kylin Linux to replace WIndows in China - news
Homegrown OS Kylin Linux is gaining prominence in China as the final 20% of Windows used by Chinese government is retired.Dashveenjit Kaur (TechHQ)
Agree on the Linux. You do not need the GNU though.
Chimera Linux is based in Spain. Maybe use that.
SheeEttin
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in reply to SheeEttin • • •Sorry, meant to say Firefox OS.
Anyways, fixed it.
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in reply to John • • •Link is getting hugged to death. Mirror:
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