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3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought

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Excrubulent

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It would be nice if you could post something where we can examine the source. (EDIT: the link has been changed since I wrote this)

I found this article: techspot.com/news/108720-hidde…

There they say that it's not yet ready to be used in evidence, but the problem with that is that most forensic "science" is generally misapplied and nowhere near as conclusive as the police want us to think. They can usually massage the results to tell a jury what they want to be true. That would be my concern with this kind of technique.

Also, if you're going to the trouble of making a 3d printed ghost gun that will be used in a crime, you could always hide the toolmarks with a sander. You could also treat the surface with resin which would make the markings practically unrecoverable. I've started doing both of these for my prints and I love the results just for the aesthetics, so it's not such a stretch to imagine a gunsmith doing the same.

The hidden fingerprints inside 3D-printed ghost guns

Kirk Garrison, a forensics expert with the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department, has spent years working at the intersection of digital blueprints, heated plastic filaments, and real-life criminal...

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There they say that it’s not yet ready to be used in evidence, but the problem with that is that most forensic “science” is generally misapplied and nowhere near as conclusive as the police want us to think.

This is such an important thing to remember. It's just like how a lot of hand-held breathalyzers are closed source, and when their source code is finally subjected to scrutiny (because you're supposed to be able to face your accuser, and the device is your accuser), it often doesn't meet basic required standards for things like error reporting or failsafes to prevent false positives.

Much of forensic "science" isn't exactly science as we understand it.

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Yup, Behind the Bastards did an excellent two parter on forensic science in general:

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They make a good point that real science is involved, but by the time it makes it into the police's hands it's mutated into essentially a mechanism to manufacture convictions. Grifters get hold of the science, and cops are like the perfect marks, because they're just primed for anything that will confirm their existing biases, plus they've got massive state budgets to play with, and they'll happily give the grifters legitimacy.

Part One: The Bastards of Forensic Science - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

Forensic Science is supposed to provide perfect certainty in the most serious criminal cases. What if it's all a bunch of bullshit? Robert sits down with Dr. Kaveh Hoda to talk about all the myriad cons in forensic 'science.”See omnystudio.

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Not only that, but I would rather see all of this energy being applied to the problem of traditionally manufactured guns and the deaths they cause. Which is a huge problem, while this is a blip on the radar so far.

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Kirk Garrison, a forensics expert who works for the San Bernardino Sheriff’s department, told 404 Media he’s had early success matching 3D printed objects to the machines that made them.

This is "bite evidence" all over again, isn't it? For those not familiar, cops swore in court they could match a perp's teeth to bite marks on victim's bodies.

They couldn't.

There were a lot of tainted court cases because of their junk science. I'm all for murderers going to prison but lets not use bullshit to lock up perhaps the wrong people.

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If there is a demand for a forensic capability, there's someone willing to sell it to a police department (and a jury).

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Univ3rse

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So much of forensics is bullshit or not quite as accurate as it's portrayed to the public. People are already primed to accept information from people with titles/degrees and copaganda television cements that trust in these "experts."

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I'm sure they'll have the "science" ready in time for Luigi's trial

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Makes me wonder if there'd be any bits of dust, hair or other substances that could have been embedded in a printed object and might be used as evidence in a case.

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Sherlock Homes' treatise on typewriters, 21st century edition.

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Just based on the title, since I haven't read the article yet, that's quite unfortunate. I would want all of them to be practically identical, so there's no way to trace them at all.

Edit: After reading the article, I stand by my above statement. I still want them to be completely identical if at all possible.

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Some good discussion from /c/3dprinting@lemmy.world about how it really isn’t as dependable/tracable as the article says:

lemmy.world/post/33199760

TLDR is 3D printing typically uses brass nozzles which wear down over time which will change marks left over time, your bed leveling can change over time, and the “fingerprints” the article talks about can be avoided by just printing in different positions/rotations on the bed.

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Show me 20 people with 3D printers and I'll show you 20 people with a bunch of spare nozzles on hand.

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Zron

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Show me 20 people with 3d printers and I’ll show you 20 other people with 3d printers that match the fingerprints of the first 20.

This isn’t like paper printers where companies were forced by the government to encode the serial numbers of the printer into every piece of paper that comes out. There’s no way you could hide identifying information in molten plastic like that.

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Echo Dot

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So throw the gun in the river afterwards, just like always?

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Or burn it

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You would have better luck figuring out the chemical composition of the material then tracking all sales of said material. Still would be next to impossible but that's a more likely means of identifying someone than the printer itself.

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Use a different print head, sections of print bed, or just entirely new print beds and you defeat this 'tracing'

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USA: Humanism and mercy are fine, but don’t use them too much, or for every group

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How can I share/store sensitive data for family

I need to start making plans for when I am gone, much sooner than I thought, and I realized our finances are pretty opaque to my spouse. Our bank account is shared, but there are other sites that only I have access to.

The easiest solution would be to physically write down logins and what needs done, put it in an envelope, and tell my family where that envelope is. I'm not thrilled about that, because I would have to shred and rewrite it every time I update a password or a URL changes, and it'd be vulnerable to nosy guests.

Putting it in a shared Google Doc would be easiest for everyone. But then Google has that data. Even supposing I trust a cloud SaaS provider not to misuse the data (which is a big 'if') I do not trust them to never have a data breach.

Self-hosting seems like the next step, except I expect my home server to be the first thing to collapse once I'm gone. Filing login info with an estate attorney would still require frequent updates. Putting a document on a flash drive risks data loss, but is what I'm leaning towards.

Is there a solution I'm missing?

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Store encrypted on a trusted cloud provider (or two) and put the password in an envelope.

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Use something like Bitwarden, and record your master password and/or backup codes in an envelope.

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Password manager, and give access (or recovery access) to your spouse and attorney now.

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Password manager such as Bitwarden, you can store your passwords, and sensitive info as notes or attachments. It's all encrypted client side.

Then you just need to have a note with the master password and instructions on how to access it.

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IIRC Bitwarden has a feature for this, where you can designate someone to get access if you pass away. I believe that if they request access, and you don't deny the request within X (configurable) days, access is granted to this designated person.

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They do have the emergency access feature yeah, I'd still put the password in a physical document somewhere though just as a backup.

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every time I update a password

Use a password manager. KeePassXC stores stuff in a file, so it's easier to synchronize. You can selfhost BitWarden too.

Syncthing is great to synchronize stuff across devices.

Cryptomator creates encrypted volumes (looks like a folder with gibberish inside) for you, which you can sync with whatever commercial cloud.

Putting a document on a flash drive

Data loss might come from bitrot, yes. Regardless, you should always have multiple backups.

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This is the one reason I’ve paid for 1Password. My wife has access and can get what is needed without figuring out how to revive a self hosted password solution. I realize this isn’t about self hosting, and that you can pay for Bitwarden too. It just struck a chord.

OP wishing you all the best.

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Why not just put logins in a database such as keepass and then have the password for that written down in like a lock box or something?

You could also store a flash drive with the password in the lock box and update it, say, every six months with the most current database version.

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No solution I've found, but I've been working on this myself. As I see it, there are two situations, and four categories of data:

I. My wife survives me
II. We both die, e.g. in a car

Digital media
Financial accounts
Subscriptions
Physical possessions

I've been thinking about getting an M-Disk writer for media, because ultimately, backing up to B2 is fine until I'm gone. Family members will need physical media for the photos and stuff.

For secrets, I'm planning using SSSS. Keys will be given to members on each side of my wife's and my families. If we both die, they'll have to get together, put their keys together, and decrypt the KeePass DB.

The online accounts are almost all financial; those are in a KeePass DB. My wife already has access to all of that through power is attorney, and if we both go, it's SSSS for the family.

The third data category are accounts and services that will be to be stopped. I don't subscribe to much, but the VPS provider and B2 will have to be terminated, and a document with instructions and with the credentials is in the SSSS archive.

The final category are assets: home, mortgage info, where and what the M-Disks are, a copy of the will that deals with all of the valuables, and any notes about anything not covered in the will. That's in documents in the SSSS archive.

I still have to put the archive together. I've been working toward a state where all of the secrets are in a cryptfs that's shared on the LAN and automatically encrypted with SSSS and synced to a share. Once I have that automated, I'll communicate out the SSSS keys and a how-to document.

In some ways, it was easier when you just died and your kids fought over the china. But I have a plan.

ssss: Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme

Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme

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BertramDitore

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My mother died recently, and she was the breadwinner and was in charge of everything financial, because my surviving father is a toxic narcissist with zero financial literacy who refuses help from anyone. So I just have to say kudos to you for thinking about this difficult stuff. Your family will appreciate it more than you can imagine.

Other commenters have already given you solid advice, and I don’t have anything to add there, but more people need to have these difficult conversations and make real practical preparations, as soon as possible. Speaking from experience, not having clear guidance about where things are and what should be done with them, makes an already emotional situation even harder to deal with. Everybody dies, but in death you can make your family’s grieving process slightly easier by thinking ahead like this.

I’m sorry for whatever you’re going through, but props for thinking about other people while you go through it.

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Proton Drive is end to end encrypted. I would use that to store all relevant info and either store the access to the proton account in a safe. A trusted family member or estate attorney would have access to the safe at my passing.

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"In this envelope is the password for my keepass password vault. The entry for "In case of emergency" contains everything you should need to know in the event of my incapacitation or worse.

There are two USB keys with this vault on them, they are synchronized for redundancy. When I pass, get the password out of this envelope, plug in a USB key, open keypass and enter the password. "

You: Use the primary key as your password storage, keep the backup key plugged into a raspberry pi, run syncthing on both devices.

Have a spare test key set up, do a dry run with the family members you entrust to have this data.

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Self hosted stuff will collapse without you. Bitwarden has a family plan with survivorship rules. You can also share passwords easily. Also, Google and Microsoft accounts also have survivorship rules you can set up.

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I'll just write down instructions etc on a libreoffice document and put it on the desktop or somewhere easily accessible

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To store sensitive data, Filen is nice, encrypted, no-knowledge, 10GB for free. To share sensitive Data, the best is to use, eg. Sharrr or Croc (P2P), for small data and short documents (max-10MB) also fine scrt.link.

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You kinda only need the email credentials. Shouldn't the rest be resettable from that point?

Is there anything that needs MFA that they won't have?

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I use Vaultwarden with two user accounts but with an "organization" that contains passwords that we both might need access to at some point. They then get updated at the same time the password is updated since it's where I store all passwords.

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I would use Keepass. You would have a single file, opened with a single password, that you could share with them however you want.

Wishing you the best

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Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks

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Cooking the books AI style

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I quit my job in public accounting for many reasons, but the primary one was the forceful adoption of LLMs to replace associates.

I told the dimwits at the top that it was a mistake, because LLMs are incompetent even when the information fed to it was perfect, and that was rarely the case in practice.

Our ultra wealthy clients were notorious for giving us the most incomplete and asinine information, and it often took someone with decades of experience to decipher what the fuck their personal assistants are even talking about.

They went ahead anyway because of the high cost of wages, of course, and I made my exit because I did not wish to be complicit in such a monumental mistake.

Lmfao the LLM they laid associates off and paid half a million dollars for made up fake ledger accounts when accounts didn't reconcile, and none of the dumbasses left noticed in time because they hadn't done associate-level work in decades.

It also lied all the time, even when you asked it not to.

The damage was done and the biggest clients started leaving, so they begged us all to come back but I got obsessed with baking bread and I ain't about to neglect my sourdough starters to help a group of people who would lose a battle of wits against yeast.

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🎶 Just Sit Right Back And He'll Hide A Tale 🎶

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A tale of a rapeful trip

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Reddit executive Roxy Young is departing the social media company

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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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If god were real it would’ve been Steve Huffman instead of Aaron Swartz

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RIP Aaron.

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But then he would have been a good human, and one who worried about the right things.

You can’t just swap suicide like that.

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Sinking ship.

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UN Statements Undercut New Israeli Report on 10/7 Sexual Violence

Major news organizations, most prominently the New York Times, have promoted the idea of systematic sexual violence at opportune moments to justify Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The first major salacious headlines and assertions emerged in late 2023, when Israel was campaigning to restart its killing during a brief ceasefire. The latest effort to revive this narrative follows the same pattern as its predecessors—and, indeed, is more overtly political, with the report spending less airtime on the well-being of women than on reasons we should roll back what is left of international law.

The UN, however, has stated multiple times that it does not have evidence of systematic sexual abuse by Hamas or any other militant group on October 7, 2023. A top United Nations official issued a statement last week that stands in direct contradiction to the new Israeli report.

Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, affirmed in her statement this week that though the UN had not found “systematic” sexual violence: "It is my understanding that neither the Commission nor any other independent human rights mechanism established that sexual or gender-based violence was committed against Israelis on or since the 7th of October as a systematic tool of war or as a tool of genocide," Alsalem wrote in the statement, first reported by NBC News.

In a move that is highly unusual, the Dinah Project report is now hosted on the UN’s website among its own reports on sexual violence and global conflict. Drop Site News asked Patten why she was hosting the report, but she did not respond. The UN fact-finding mission led by Patten and so dearly held by the Dinah Project, at times, directly contradicts what the Dinah Project argues.

UN Statements Undercut New Israeli Report on 10/7 Sexual Violence

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basically every Jubilee video - Man Carrying Thing

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New youtube web video player interface...?

What are your thoughts?

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Y tho

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Probably part of their plan to get rid of ad blockers for good.

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It looks a lot like their smart TV interface which has always been less functional than their web or mobile app interface. They're probably trying to cut the UI down to just the bare minimum that the majority of casual users regularly use. In part I'd assume to reduce the maintenance overhead, but I'm sure it likely will also make things harder for ad blockers.

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AOC says Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee and Al Green, who voted with MTG to stop arming Israel, are supporters of neo-Nazism

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So if a Black person votes for something, all who vote for it are Black?

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AOC says that progressives (including those who voted for the amendment) are welcoming Neo Nazis this is very clear cut.

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KI-Tool versteckt Inkompetenz

Ein Vibe-Coder schreibt ohne es zu merken auf X, wie kaputt Vibe-Coding ist: Ein Staging-System greift direkt auf die Produktionsdatenbank zu. Keine Versionskontrolle mit Git. Tests funktionieren laut den Posts nur auf dem Produktionssystem. Und der Höhepunkt: Ein KI-Tool warnt explizit „I can not be trusted, I will violate the rules“ und „hire human developers you can trust“ – trotzdem verwendet der Typ das Tool weiter.

Da hab ich schon Meinung zu.

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Quanto costa un funerale oggi in Italia?

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"Libri" di "ricette" allucinate da chatgpt, inviati in stampa senza nemmeno una rilettura veloce

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Purtroppo me l'hanno regalato, quindi l'autore è stato pagato e non posso fare resi

16.50€ per questa porcheria!

All'interno altre gemme "ai slop" come fette di banana con il picciolo, petti di pollo con ossa, forchette dai denti storti, ecc

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puoi usarlo come ferma porte o come sottobicchiere 🙂

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UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption

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Ofcom (British Watchdog): Public service TV should work 'urgently' with YouTube.

Ofcom warns traditional public-service TV is endangered
Recommendation for prominence on third-party platforms part of six-point action plan
Urgent clarity needed from Government on how TV will be distributed to reach audiences in future
Broadcasters must work more together, and with global tech firms, to survive
Urgent steps must be taken to ensure that public service media content is easy to find and discover on third-party platforms, under new Ofcom recommendations to secure the system’s survival.

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OpenAI signs deal with United Kingdom to find government uses for its models

OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models

Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google

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Here we have a solution, now let's look for a problem!

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If openai can find a use for the government that'll be swell.

They tend to get it under everybody's feet otherwise.

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Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse

Cigarettes and vapes are being smuggled into virtual spaces beyond the reach of regulation, creating a new battleground for health campaigners

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People use the Metaverse?

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Yeah. I have had a real issue with the kids smoking in my Metaverse based VR app. /s

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But if you say that almost all adult Israelis are IDF militants, which is actually correct, everyone loses their mind.

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British government to ban public bodies from paying ransoms to hackers

UK government to ban public bodies from paying ransoms to hackers

Measure intended to send message to international cybercriminals ‘that the UK is united in fight against ransomware’

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Though this is a good idea it's kind of important to also work on the other side, you know, ensuring IT has enough resources to make backups and do their job so that this shit doesn't happen in the first place.

Ransomware mostly happens when your systems are badly protected

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You know that they only are prepared to offer cyber security experts minimum wage.

I was literally looking at this yesterday, if they doubled what they are offering it would still be well short of an entry-level wage in the private sector. Up to a point you can get away with it and rely on "patriotism" to fill the difference but not to this extent.

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Laura Santi è morta dopo aver avuto accesso al suicidio assistito, infine

Molto toccante anche la lettera lasciata da Laura Santi sul sito dell'associazione Luca Coscioni

Laura Santi è morta dopo aver avuto accesso al suicidio assistito, infine

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Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA

The significant legal differences between the United States and Europe cause Nintendo to punish piracy differently depending on the territory.

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And Nintendo JP says that “Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 cannot be remotely located, their users remotely identified nor disabled over the Internet” (tweet in Japanese warning people against accidentally losing or getting their consoles stolen over summer vacation)

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But I bet it is more like “Nintendo won’t disable them remotely even if people report ones stolen to them with serial numbers and police reports”, but they’ll happily do so if they caught you using the console in an unapproved manner in their eyes.

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This is by definition "we are just assholes"

Someone play for 5 minutes with a mig switch a legit dump of their own, legally purchased game, just for convenience, to have multiple games on the same cart? The console is now almost useless. You can't play any digital games that you purchased with real money, and physical games can't get any update. Game requires a 20gb day one patch to be playable? Though luck buddy, go to buy a new console!

They stole your console? Oh no! Yes, we absolutely could do the same, as it's bound to your Nintendo account and we could add a button "report as stolen and ban it from internet" in your profile. But we won't, go to buy a new console!

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Guys hi, just looking for some support share, a Fantasy Adventure Story, for all ages and just some entertain with some storyes: - maybe you are curious (many was not very kind just for share a film), heartless with hatefull speach and respekt always

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MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it (without end-to-end encryption) as WeTransfer competitor with no file size limit.

For over a decade, MEGA has been the trusted choice for secure, encrypted file sharing. But not every file transfer needs end-to-end encryption. Sometimes, simplicity and speed matter more, especially when dealing with large files or recipients unfamiliar with the limitations around their browsers having to decrypt their downloads.
That’s why we created Transfer.it, a new service from MEGA designed for effortless file transfers, without end-to-end encryption.

Introducing Transfer.it – effortless file sharing, powered by MEGA - MEGA Blog

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Google removes nearly 11,000 YouTube propaganda channels linked to China, Russia in global disinformation purge.

TAG Bulletin: Q2 2025

Our bulletin covering coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q2 2025.

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Lyle Lovett - Release Me (2012)

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Lyle Lovett - Release Me (2012)

La sorte toccata da tempo ad altri colleghi è giunta anche per Lyle Lovett: il musicista texano scioglie il quasi trentennale rapporto con il colosso country della Curb records (seppure in anni recenti passato per le maglie della Lost Highway) per affrontare una inevitabile indipendenza. Questione già affrontata e d'altronde dirimente in quest'epoca: come John Hiatt, Steve Earle e altri campioni dell'Americana il ruolo di Lovett non è più quello di capofila, né evidentemente le vendite e l'appeal dell'artista possono convincere un baraccone discografico a mantenere in piedi contratti che nella loro logica non fruttano i risultati di un tempo... rootshighway.it/recensioni/lov…
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A Self-hosted, BSD-native Gemini Protocol Server Stack

For those who are adventurous enough to explore the non-http corners of the Internet, the Gemini protocol is a delightful experience to use. It has been around a number of years, making the biggest bang around the time when discontent with the web’s gener

My “capsule”, Vigilia, is self-hosted, and has been since its inception. It used to run on a disused Macbook Pro running Fedora Server, under our TV at home, but since then I have become much more confident in using OpenBSD. It used to run on a little Python CGI script I wrote, which also started to feel too bloated and complex, with too many bells and whistles that I frankly had no need for. It was time to make a change, so I replaced the old Macbook with a Raspberry Pi, and Fedora with OpenBSD, and then took my time to figure out a new “status quo”.

0. Philosophy

I wished to create a more Unix-minded stack. The more I have been using OpenBSD and Unix systems the more I have been sold on the “everything is a file” philosophy, as well as opting to use internal tools as much as possible rather than reinvent the wheel on my own. That is to say, I’d much rather work with simple scripts and shell commands than write complicated and buggy code.

So with that in mind, here’s the stack that I settled on after a some trial and error:

1. Hardware

I have absolutely no intention to expose our home IP address via DynDNS or similar. However, I like to be in control of my data as much as possible: ideally as little of my data should be hosted on “someone else’s computer”. If I can’t unplug the hard disk and put it in a drawer, I can’t guarantee it’s security from a hack.

So Vigilia is actually two servers. The server with the actual data is at home, in running on a Raspberry Pi 4B. But as a “public front” vigilia runs a reverse-proxying gemini server on a standard VPS over at OpenBSD.amsterdam.

2. Network setup

I will not go into the intricacies of the dual-wan setup in this post I have at home; but to keep things connected to each other I am using Tailscale to tie the servers together in a Virtual LAN. This is incredibly handy because they get to have easy to remember static IP addresses, all over an encrypted channel.

So here’s the rough idea:

Vigilia.cc’s DNS records resolve to the OpenBSD.Amsterdam VPS running gmid
VPS and home server both run tailscale
VPS reverse-proxies incoming gemini connections to home server

3. Gemini server config

Both the VPS and the local server run [url=https://gmid.omarpolo.com]gmid[/url]. It’s a fast and simple gemini server that mirrors OpenBSD’s httpd; which means it is very easy to configure, it is stable and secure. It can run in chrooted environments, and as its own user, so it’s just a Good Thing all over. Most importantly, it can relay and reverse-proxy TCP connections with sni fields intact, which is something for example OpenBSD’s relayd, built primarily for HTTP, does not do.

My gmid config files look something like this:
### REMOTE_SERVER:/etc/gmid.conf#user "_gmid" # running it as its own user to achieve privilege separationchroot "/var/gemini" # and in a chroot so it can't just access random bits of the file systemlog { syslog # log to /var/log/messages}vigilia_pem = "/etc/ssl/PUBLICKEY.pem"vigilia_key = "/etc/ssl/private/PRIVATEKEY.key"public_ip = "46.23.93.41" # OpenBSD Amsterdam VPS' public addresshomeserver = "100.REDACTED.REDACTED.101" # TailScale IP of the home machine public_port = "1965"homeserver_port = "2965"server "vigilia.cc" { listen on $public_ip port $public_port cert $vigilia_pem key $vigilia_key proxy { proxy-v1 # this directive enables some advanced features like forwarding IP Addresses of visitors verifyname off # I found I need to specify this somehow, maybe because of self-signed certs sni "vigilia.cc" relay-to $homeserver $homeserver_port }}
This above allows to listen for connections to vigilia.cc:1965 and forward them to HOME_SERVER:2965. So thus the homeserver has the following configuration:
### HOME_SERVER:/etc/gmid.conf#user "_gmid" chroot "/var/gemini" log { syslog }internal_address = "100.REDACTED.REDACTED.101" # TailScale IP of the home machine internal_port = "2965"# The below are the same certificates that are in use on the VPSvigilia_pem = "/etc/ssl/PUBLICKEY.pem"vigilia_key = "/etc/ssl/private/PRIVATEKEY.key"server "vigilia.cc" { listen on $internal_address port $internal_port proxy-v1 # add proxy-v1 support for relayed connections cert $vigilia_pem key $vigilia_key log on location "*" { auto index on # enables directory listing }}

4. Getting the files to the Server

Because I am lazy I want to edit files locally and I want them to magically appear on my capsule. So I am using [url=https://syncthing.net/]syncthing[/url] to copy things over automagically from DESKTOP:~/public_gemini to HOME_SERVER:/var/gemini.

Syncthing runs most reliably as my own user, I found. To do this it is best to follow the documentation for the Syncthing OpenBSD package — but basically it involves starting it via the user’s crontab with the “@reboot” directive. But as it runs as my own user, I need to set the permissions properly. HOME_SERVER:/var/gemini is owned by the _gmid user in the _gmid group so I also added MYUSER on both machines to the same _gmid group, and made sure MYUSER has write access:
#!/bin/sh# HOME_SERVERusermod -G _gmid MUYSERchown -r _gmid /var/geminichmod -r ug=rwx,o=r /var/gemini
Then I set up syncthing on HOME_SERVER. As it is running headless, I needed to access the web interface, which I achieved via SSH tunneling:
$ ssh -L 9999:localhost:8384 HOME_SERVER
This way I could open a browser on DESKTOP and access the server’s Syncthing settings.

So here are the settings:

On the DESKTOP:

Syncthing web interface -> Add folder
Folder path: ~/public_gemini
Folder label: Gemini files (or something)
Ignore patterns: “*.sock” (Unix sockets might confuse the poor thing)
Sharing: HOME_SERVER
Pause syncing for now

On HOME_SERVER:

Establish ssh tunnel to HOME_SERVER as described above
Open remote Syncthing webinterface on DESKTOP: localhost:9999
Accept the incoming share request for “Gemini files” from DESKTOP; but point it to /var/gemini
Folder path: /var/gemini
Folder label Gemini files
Advanced: UNTICK “Wach for changes” because OpenBSD doesn’t seem to allow Syncthing to poke around in /var with those various Go modules and you’d just get errors, like I did
Check the Ignore patterns — if it didn’t synchronise “*.sock” then specify it manually

On DESKTOP:

Unpause syncing

Now any file you write into DESKTOP:~/public_gemini will sync across to HOME_SERVER:/var/gemini. Yay!

6. Setting up automatic static site generation

Now if you are content to maintain your capsule manually, you are done. As I said I am lazy so I want my little “ssg” script, Lumen, to create index pages for each directory for me. Lumen, I promise, will be made available once I tidy it up.

Lumen basically lists all files recursively and generates an index.gmi for each directory. This means that Lumen has to be re-run each time the folder changes. OpenBSD is acquiring some degree of file watching natively.¹ However [url=https://openports.pl/path/sysutils/entr]entr[/url] already exists in ports.

It took a bit of tweaking but basically here’s the command I ended up using, adapted from one of the examples provided in the entr manpage:
$ while sleep 0.1; do find /var/gemini/vigilia.cc/* | entr -nd python3 /var/gemini/cgi/lumen.py -d /var/gemini/vigilia.cc; done
What it does is, in a loop it recursively lists all files every 0.1 seconds in /var/gemini/vigilia.cc, and feeds the output to entr. Then entr runs with -n to specify a non-interactive session (in interactive sessions it also responds to e.g. keystrokes and tty changes – so to be safe, I don’t want that); and with -d to specify it should be looking for changes in the parent folder of any changing files. The looping and the -d directive were added because sometimes I ran into issues when a file got deleted: entr just quit because it could not find the removed file in a “stale” file list it was provided on launch. Lumen needs a -d argument as well to specifiy which directory it needs to work on.

7. System config

Because there are a few other servers like “auld.vigilia.cc” also running on the home machine (the configs for wich aren’t reproduced above for brevity’s sake) and because those rely on a number of CGI scripts I have to start them on launch. I ended up using supervisord for these. Supervisor is a cool little daemon for launching things. I could use rc but supervisord allows me to specify a few extra bits more easily, like redirecting output to syslog and other things.

So for HOME_SERVER, here is my supervisord configuration:
#### HOME_SERVER:/etc/supervisord.conf## [... snip ...][program:gmid]command=/usr/local/bin/gmid -f ; the program (relative uses PATH, can take args)process_name=%(program_name)s ; process_name expr (default %(program_name)s)directory=/var/gemini/ ; directory to cwd to before exec (def no cwd)priority=100 ; the relative start priority (default 999)autostart=true ; start at supervisord start (default: true)startretries=3 ; max # of serial start failures when starting (default 3)autorestart=true ; when to restart if exited after running (def: unexpected)killasgroup=true ; SIGKILL the UNIX process group (def false)stdout_syslog=true ; send stdout to syslog with process name (default false)stderr_syslog=true ; send stderr to syslog with process name (default false)[program:lumen-vigilia_cc]command=/bin/ksh -c 'while sleep 0.1; do find /var/gemini/vigilia.cc/* | entr -nd python3 /var/gemini/cgi/lumen.py -d /var/gemini/vigilia.cc; done'process_name=%(program_name)sdirectory=/var/gemini/priority=102autostart=truestartretries=3autorestart=trueuser=MYUSERNAMEstderr_syslog=truestdout_syslog=true
There are other directives that start the CGI scripts for “auld.vigilia.cc” in the config, omitted here.

Note that you can specify “priority” to control in what order you want the scripts to run. I first want the gemini server to run (100); then I want it to run the CGI scripts (101 — left out of the above example); then I want to run the static site generator’s watcher (102). Notice I am telling explicitly it to run /bin/ksh with a command specified in -c; this is because simply feeding it a complex command confuses supervisord, as I discovered.

One nice feature of supervisord is that it can redirect both stderr and stdout to syslog, so any commands and processes supervisord runs will have their output sent to /var/log/messages, neatly tagged and organised.

Conclusion

So there you have it — my Gemini stack from start to finish. It was a really fun experiment to start to use OpenBSD, instead of reinventing the wheel, or relying on some monolithic CGI scripts. You can do quite a lot with just system internals and a few packages.

The watch utility was added to 7.7-current on 2025-05-19; it will make its way into 7.8 hopefully. ↩︎

Adapted from the original article “Vigilia’s New Gemini Stack” published via Gemini at vigilia.cc on 21 July 2025.

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Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

One aspect of Guix I found to be really fascinating: That there is basically no conceptual difference between defining a package as a private build script, and using a package as part of the system.

Let me explain: Say you wrote a little program in Python which uses a C library (or a Rust library with C ABI) which is in the distribution. Then, in Guix you would put that librarie's name and needed version into a manifest.scm file which lists your dependency, and makes it available if you run guix shell in that folder. It does not matter whether you run the full Guix System, or just use Guix as s package manager.

Now, if you want to install your little python program as part of your system, you'll write an install script or package definition, which is nothing else than a litle piece of Scheme code which contains the name of your program, your dependency, and the information needed to call python's build tool.

The point I am making is now that the only thing which is different between your local package and a distributed package in Guix is that distributed packages are package definitions hosted in public git repos, called 'channels'. So, if you put your package's source into a github or codeberg repo, and the package definition into another repo, you now have published a package which is a part of Guix (in your own channel). Anybody who wants to install and run your package just needs your channel's URL and the packages name. It is a fully decentral system.

In short, in Guix you have built-in something like Arch's AUR, just in a much more elegant and clean manner - and in a fully decentralized way.

tazjin's blog: Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

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I'd argue that using Scheme as a configuration language is not such a steep barrier. Any Emacs user has surely done a little bit of configuration setup by pasting bits of configuration statements into a file called .emacs . Well, the configuration language he or she was using is actually Emacs Lisp. There is no border between configuring Emacs by text file, and writing code in Lisp.

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The biggest problem with Scheme as config language is that it is sloooooowwwww. Nix is already quite sluggish when it comes to configuration changes, in Guix it's a lot worse, and it's unlikely to change anytime soon, given that Scheme allows macros and other hacks that might make it difficult to properly cache or index the package database.

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It depends on the implementation, but Schemes and Lisps are in general not that slow - some use JIT compilation to native code - and Guile is not a slow Scheme.

Lisp SBCL vs Racket - Which programs are fastest? (Benchmarks Game)

Lisp SBCL Racket - Which programs have fastest performance?

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One aspect of Guix I found to be really fascinating: That there is basically no conceptual difference between defining a package as a private build script, and using a package as part of the system.

This is true for Nix as well.

The two main advantages of Guix are the language (which is well-known and comes with lots of good tooling and other support) and the package bootstrapping.

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The main disadvantages I've faced when trying it a few years ago:

non-free packages need to use a non-official channel
I had to install guixos through the iso provided by systemcrafters to have non-free drivers
I couldn't get any help from the official guix irc because I used the modified iso, even though the issue had absolutely nothing to do with it
there's significantly less packages in both than in nix, and they're usually seriously outdated (the docker package was behind Debian for example)
even when I enabled downloading precompiled bins, some packages like firefox and chromium would still compile all night long

At the time it was a great concept, but essentially useless for anything not Emacs/Haskell related.

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Yep. I feel like Guix is surprisingly awesome and polished in a couple places, but mostly it's a very DIY distro, much more so than even NixOS.

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non-free packages need to use a non-official channel
I had to install guixos through the iso provided by systemcrafters to have non-free drivers

Yeah. See, drivers are part of the hardware abstraction layer which in a Linux system is the Kernel. The kernel is GPL, so it is hard to get support for hardware with drivers without GPL, it does not conform Linux' license.

I, too, had also nothing but hassle with an NVidia graphics card in Debian. It was a happy day when I finally ditched it for a supported card and had a fully supported system!

The other thing... let's turn the question around. Would you:

expect from Apple that you get your Mac with The Gimp pre-installed?
From Microsoft that they pre- install LibreOffice and provide it for free in their app store?
Expect from IBM or Brother that they develop and give you free drivers for their competitor's hardware?
Expect from Google that they give you free LaTeX support?
Expect from Adobe that they host and staff tje Linux Kernel Mailing List for free?

If not - why do some people expect equivalent things from free software projects?

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Shareni

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

The kernel is GPL, so it is hard to get support for hardware with drivers without GPL, it does not conform Linux' license.

It's a violation that's not enforced, as almost all distros provide proprietary blobs. They balance ideology with usability, since they realised most people aren't going to use a librebooted ThinkPad from the 90s. If everyone enforced libre purism like GNU, desktop Linux would've been completely dead long ago. If you need proof, check usage statistics for any of the free distros.

I, too, had also nothing but hassle with an NVidia graphics card in Debian.

And did you need to install a modified iso to have WiFi? Did maybe Debian provide those nvidia drivers?

The other thing... let's turn the question around. Would you:

How is any of that relevant? This is not a question of additional software or services, but basic usability. Guixos as is, is for example essentially useless on a laptop unless you're willing to carry an external WiFi card in your pocket.

If not - why do some people expect equivalent things from free software projects?

The only expectation I have for an OS is to work on my devices, guixos does not. And even when I jumped through all of the hoops to get it working, I still needed to use nix to install most packages I need to work. So why would I use guixos+nix+flatpak instead of just running nixos?

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

in reply to Shareni • 1 mese fa • •

The only expectation I have for an OS is to work on my devices

So maybe Guix System is not a good choice for you?

It has top-priority goals like reproducibility, capability to inspect and verify all source code, and providing a fully free system. These specific goals are not compatible with providing nonfree binary blobs in Guix-core. For example, depending on non-free binary blobs will block exactly reconstructing a system years later if these binaries are not available any more. Guix has scientific applications where reproducibility absolutely matters.

Also, I can unterstand if companies are hating it which just want to have a free ride and monetize efforts of other people. But for users, there are many many other options and distributions available. Why not chose one that matches your need better?

Workshop on Reproducible Software Environments for Research and High-Performance Computing - Sciencesconf.org

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Captain Beyond

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

This

I use Guix as my "default" distro because I value software-freedom and reproducibility. It fits my needs very well, and I make sure to buy hardware that works with it instead of expecting it to work with whatever I throw at it. For my Windows gaming machine I use PopOS as the replacement OS instead of trying to beat Guix into serving that purpose, because PopOS is better suited for that role, and I have different expectations for it.

It's okay if something doesn't meet your needs, that doesn't make it bad, just means it's not the right thing for you. There's like hundreds of distros for Windows gamers, let us free software zealots have ours too please.

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

in reply to Captain Beyond • 1 mese fa • •

I make sure to buy hardware that works with it instead of expecting it to work with whatever I throw at it.

This is the way. Trying to get unsupported hardware to work under Linux in general is such a useless expense of time. In my experience, it is almost never worth it.

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paequ2

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

1,000 times this.

looks at laptops with hidpi displays 👀

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Shareni

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

Also, I can unterstand if companies are hating it which just want to have a free ride and monetize efforts of other people. But for users, there are many many other options and distributions available. Why not chose one that matches your need better?

Why get mad about people comparing nix and guix, in a thread comparing nix and guix? Pointing out legitimate disadvantages is not hating. Maybe get off the internet for a bit and touch grass.

It has top-priority goals like reproducibility, capability to inspect and verify all source code, and providing a fully free system that is not compatible with providing nonfree binary blobs.

So does nix, nobody is forcing you to opt-in into non-free packages. And guix most certainly is compatible with non-free blobs, as that's how most people are using it. The only difference is that nix is supporting non-free packages instead of banning even talking about them.

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

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And guix most certainly is compatible with non-free blobs, as that's how most people are using it [...]

~~I am not sure about that one and somewhat doubt there is hard data showing that.~~ The 2024 user survey also shows that a lot of people are using Guix as a package manager on top of another distribution, like Arch or Ubuntu or even NixOS. . If you have hardware that is not directly supported, this fixes the driver problem.

Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 1) — 2025 — Blog — GNU Guix

Blog posts about GNU Guix.

^guix.gnu.org

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paequ2

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non-free packages need to use a non-official channel

It's very easy to add additional channels and non-official channels integrate pretty well into everything. I don't really notice if a package comes from an "official" channel or "non-official" channel.

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Shareni

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I didn't like using AUR when I ran arch, let alone some random repo with absolutely no oversight.

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a Kendrick fan

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toys.where-is.social/

Find different channels and substitute servers or create your own

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Shareni

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Address not found.

Also, it doesn't change the fact you're depending on some random person's repo that is not moderated in any way.

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msherburn33

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The two main advantages of Guix are the language

I wouldn't call that an advantage for the average person. Nix is far nicer to work with. Some Lispers might disagree, but I, for one, can't exactly see the beauty in trying to turn Scheme into a configuration language with macros and hacks. Also Guix puts Scheme everywhere, things you can do with plain old Bash in Nix, you'll have to all do in Scheme in Guix, so there is a much steeper learning curve.

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balsoft

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Well, Nix language is also full of hacks, idiosyncrasies and stupid decisions. I say that as someone who's writing it "professionally", i.e. as part of my job. Scheme is way less "unexpected". But there are other parts of Guix which are pretty weird or just bad, like the "channels"/"pins" management situation.

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

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Plus, if one compares the full bash man page with an introduction to Scheme - I love the quick introduction into racket with pictures - one can come to the conclusion that Schemes are both a lot simpler and more powerful.

In the end, it is pretty much a matter of taste, previous experience, and practical needs what one prefers.

Quick: An Introduction to Racket with Pictures

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

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Some Lispers might disagree, but I, for one, can't exactly see the beauty in trying to turn Scheme into a configuration language with macros and hacks.

Scheme is a minimalistic Lisp dialect, and macros are central in Lisp. For example, they allow for both conditional evaluation ("if" is a macro, or more precisely, a "special form" that is used in other conditionals), and for delayed evaluation at run time, which matches a bit Nix being lazy.

Also, Scheme is designed as a not strictly but mostly functional language, favouring side-effect free functions, which matches well with the declarative task which is package definitions.

bash, in contrary, is not side-effect-free, it modifies its environment, and this is very much not desired in a functional package manager: it is at the core that package declarations are side-effect-free.

And Emacs shows that Lisp written in a declarative style is a superb configuration language. (There is now even a project to use a Scheme, Steel Scheme, to configure helix, a programmers text editor which has many many features stemming from vim!).

Add Steel as an optional plugin system by mattwparas · Pull Request #8675 · helix-editor/helix

Notes: I still need to rebase up with the latest master changes, however doing so causes some headache with the lock file, so I'll do it after some initial feedback. Also, this depends on the ...

^GitHub

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iopq

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Bash is not a advantage, it's a disadvantage

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msherburn33

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You prefer:

     (add-after 'install 'remove-examples
       (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
         (with-directory-excursion
             (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out") "/lib")
           (for-each delete-file
                     (list
                      "basic-server"
                      "helloworld"
                      "postcollector")))

over:

postInstall = ''
   rm  $out/lib/basic-server $out/lib/helloworld $out/lib/postcollector
''

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

in reply to msherburn33 • 1 mese fa • •

Yes, having programmed bash and its predecessors for 30 years and several lisps (Clojure, Racket, Guile, a little SBCL) in the last 15 years, I very much prefer the Scheme version in this place.

Why?

This code fragment is part of a much larger system, so readability and consistency counts
The Guile version supports a more powerful functionality, which is that evaluation of a package can have several extra results (called outputs). It is over a year that I read about that in the Guix documentation and yet I recognize it immediately.
the code tells me that it is removing examples.
the code fits neatly into a tidy system of several stages of build and packaging
the code uses a structured loop. Of course you can do that in shell as well - I am pointing this out because the bash version is a bit shorter because it does not use a loop.
Scheme has much safer and more robust string handling. The code will not do harmful things if a file name contains white space or happens to be equal to 'echo a; rm -rf /etc/*'.
Scheme strings handle Unicode well
If there is an error, it will not be silently ignored as is the norm in shell scripts which are not written by experts, but will throw it.
the code has less redundancy. For example, the bash version mentions three times the subfolder "lib", the Guile version only once. This makes it easier to refactor the code later.

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

(And don't get me wrong, Unix shells are great if you want to save on extra keys pressed in a terminal session. But there are reasons that the shell languages are not often used in larger programs.)

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balsoft

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

I agree with your overall point, that having a single consistent functional language for package descriptions and build scripts is a great thing, and that bash is awful, but your reasoning is somewhat flawed. The main drawbacks of bash are somewhat rectified in Nix because bash is very much contained/sandboxed, which prevents arbitrary damage to the system, and there are some nice defaults in stdenv too.

The Guile version supports a more powerful functionality, which is that evaluation of a package can have several extra results (called outputs). It is over a year that I read about that in the Guix documentation and yet I recognize it immediately.

Nix also supports multiple outputs (in fact this is where the concept of outputs in Guix came from)

the code tells me that it is removing examples.

You could also do that with Nix in an easier and more declarative fashion, either by adding a comment, or by doing this:

postInstallPhases = [ "removeExamplesPhase" ];
removeExamplesPhase = ''
  rm -f "$out"/lib/{basic-server,helloworld,postcollector}
'';

Scheme has much safer and more robust string handling. The code will not do harmful things if a file name contains white space or happens to be equal to 'echo a; rm -rf /etc/*'.

Bash is just two double quotes away from doing this too. See code above for an example

Scheme strings handle Unicode well

Bash also handles Unicode well

If there is an error, it will not be silently ignored as is the norm in shell scripts which are not written by experts, but will throw it.

Nixpkgs stdenv sets set -eu which has a similar effect. If that code fails, the entire build will fail too.

the code has less redundancy. For example, the bash version mentions three times the subfolder “lib”, the Guile version only once. This makes it easier to refactor the code later.

This is also really quite easy to rectify in bash, see code above.

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iopq

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

Can't you just define a macro called rm-f and pass a list of files to remove?

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

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Of course, this would be no problem. Can also be a function. The expliciteness serves readability.

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balsoft

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Bash code should definitely be

rm -f "$out"/lib/{basic-server,helloworld,postcollector}

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iopq

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Yes, because the bash example is a string inside of nix so it will have string highlighting inside of my text editor

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Matt

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Guix is way too libre for me to use.

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Drito

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

Why Guix packages are unsuitable for graphical desktop apps ?

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

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They aren't?

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Drito

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They aren't on my Arch linux with Guix package manager

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samc

in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • 1 mese fa • •

I had a go at using guix as a package manager on top of an existing distro (first an immutable fedora, which went terribly, then OpenSUSE). Gave up for a few reasons:

As mentioned in the article, guix pull is sloow.
Packages were very out of date, even Emacs. If I understand correctly, 30.1 was only added last month, despite having been available since February. I get that this isn't the longest wait, but for the piece of software you can expect most guix users to be running, it doesn't bode well.
The project I was interested in trying out (Gypsum) had a completely broken manifest. Seems like it worked on the dev's machine though, which made me concerned about how well guix profiles actually isolate Dev environments. This was probably an error on the dev's part, but I'd argue such errors should be hard to make by design.

All in all I love the idea of guix, but I think it needs a bigger community behind it. Of course I'm part of the problem by walking away, but 🤷

gypsum

Archive of project prior to name change

^Codeberg.org

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

in reply to samc • 1 mese fa • •

As mentioned in the article, guix pull is sloow.

This one has beem discussed on several forums discussing the original blog post, like here or also here on lobste.rs

Part of the reason for slow pulls is that the GNU projects savannah server, which Guix was using so far, is not fast, especially with git repos. Luckily, this is already being improved because Guix is moving to codeberg.org, a FOSS nonprofit org which is hosted in Europe. So if one changes the configured server URL, it is faster. (On top of that interested people might use the opportunity to directly take influence, and donate to codeberg so that they can afford even better hardware 😉).

Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

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OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services

The US tech firm behind ChatGPT say it will work with the UK government to "deliver prosperity for all".

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An Introduction to the Command-Line

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CodandChips

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Thanks for this! New summer holiday reading!

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littleomid

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Excellent article.

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Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub

Motivation Opportunity is upon us! For the past few years, the desktop Linux user base has been growing at a historically high rate. StatCounter currently has us at 4.14% desktop OS market share...

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cronenthal

in reply to petsoi • 1 mese fa • •

Uhm, isn't bazzite practically what the author is asking for?

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Botzo

in reply to cronenthal • 1 mese fa • •

That's certainly part of the motivation (see the 4th paragraph).

Yes, image based. No, not Bazzite specifically, but silverblue (and kinoite) under the fedora banner directly.

But that's not really the point of the article. In order for those to go mainstream, flatpak and especially flathub have a lot of maturing to do first, and the author lays out a pretty good roadmap with thorough explanations.

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marlowe221

in reply to Botzo • 1 mese fa • •

That’s kind of what the ublue project is doing. Bazzite is a part of that, of course. But it also has more “normal” versions like Bluefin (gnome) and Aurora (plasma).

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quarterlife

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They're already mainstream, any belief otherwise is ridiculous to the point of being parody.

Meanwhile you have Fedora getting legal threats because they're shipping broken software in their own flatpak repo that exists only to waste developer time and project resources at the expense of its users and their experience.

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Botzo

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I'd love to think so too, but I think our echo chamber is pretty tight.

I certainly think they're ready for mainstream usage (I have one Bazzite install myself), but I don't think there's significant awareness beyond the dedicated fan base.

There aren't really any actually useful metrics that I know of, but the only one of the 3 I've mentioned that broke into distrowatch's top 100 is Bazzite, and that's only in the last few months.

And for legal threats: I doubt any court in any country will give credence to that. Fedora is MIT licensed.

License of Fedora Linux

Learn more about Fedora Linux, the Fedora Project & the Fedora Community.

^{Fedora Docs}

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quarterlife

in reply to Botzo • 1 mese fa • •

The legal threats were credible and resulted in yet more wasted developer time removing that package instead of the entire useless repo.

You're forgetting that millions of Steam Deck consoles have been sold and all of them are flathub exclusive.

On top of that you have: Mint, Vanilla OS, Endless OS, OpenMandriva, PopOS!, Clear Linux, PureOS, ZorinOS, KDE Neon, GNOME OS, Salix, and many others all shipping flathub by default.

Fedora is in a very exclusive group of distros dumb enough to ship their own flatpak repo.

Bringing up Distrowatch stats and "Echo chamber" in the same comment is the most absurd thing I've seen this year.

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juipeltje

in reply to quarterlife • 1 mese fa • •

I think he was referring to immutable distros not being mainstream, not flatpaks.

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quarterlife

in reply to juipeltje • 1 mese fa • •

That's irrelevant to this conversation

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juipeltje

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What? He said "in order to go mainstream", referring to immutable distros like bazzite.

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quarterlife

in reply to juipeltje • 1 mese fa • •

Bazzite is not immutable, and SteamOS is as mainstream as it gets while being A/B root immutable.

All of them ship Flathub because it's ready for public consumption.

If the attempt here is to argue that cloud native isn't mainstream and change topics from flathub, you are proudly in a bubble of 3% of the computing industry while your peers in the Linux server space and Android run circles around you.

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juipeltje

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Pretty sure bazzite is immutable, it is based on silverblue after all. But that's besides the point, i just wanted to point out that you probably misunderstood what he was saying. Immutable distros being mainstream kinda depends on how you look at it i suppose. Purely in terms of amount of users, with steamos and bazzite being so popular, i guess you could consider it mainstream, but how many people actually choose a distro because it is immutable? Steamos just happens to ship with the steam deck, bazzite is popular because it mimicks steamos for other devices, and if you look at something else like NixOS, it's more about the system being declarative rather than immutable. It's probably safe to say that flatpak is the most popular third party package manager though, i do agree with that.

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Leaflet

in reply to quarterlife • 1 mese fa • •

There are broken Flatpaks in Flathub too. Does Flathub deserve legal threats too? No.

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quarterlife

in reply to Leaflet • 1 mese fa • •

If they behave anything like what Fedora did, yes.

OBS chose Flathub as their official default supported option for their software. Fedora took that software, modified it to update dependencies they weren't ready to use yet, and then put it on their store in a completely broken state with all of OBS's trademarks intact and in a way that made it preferred over the official one, and then fought OBS over removing it for months while it racked up support requests from unsuspecting users (victims of Fedora's shitty policies).

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Leaflet

in reply to cronenthal • 1 mese fa • •

Not at all.
- Bazzite preinstalls Flathub apps by default. The author still wants to use Fedora Flatpaks for the preinstalled apps.
- Bazzite ships Flathub unfiltered. The author wants to only show FLOSS software built on trusted platforms by default (so no taking a precompiled binary and shipping that).
- Bazzite ships Flathub in spite of its flaws. The author wants Fedora to work with Flathub to clean up its issues before shipping the remote by default.

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warmaster

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Bazzite ships Flathub unfiltered.

Last update (which replaced Discover with Bazaar) changed that.

so no taking a precompiled binary and shipping that.

All FLOSS apps on Flathub are built on trusted platforms by default, in the open and verifiable. Same thing with Brew.

Not including proprietary software in the default config is a valid choice every distro has to make.

The sudden success of Bazzite comes from how easy it is to use.

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Leaflet

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Last update (which replaced Discover with Bazaar) changed that.

In a way, true. But I don't think they are using flatpak's filter mechanism. I believe the filtering is done by Bazaar itself. That means that even if Bazaar is hiding an app, you are still able to install it manually from the CLI.

The intent is also different. Bazaar is filtering out footguns, like the Steam flatpak on Bazzite (since Steam is preinstalled as an RPM) and Bluefin hides flatpak IDEs.

All FLOSS apps on Flathub are built on trusted platforms by default, in the open and verifiable.

That's not true. Take LocalSend as an example. It does not build LocalSend on Flathub. It simply takes a GitHub release URL of a compiled tar.gz. And GitHub releases do not have to be built on GitHub, you are able to upload any local file and have it shown as a release.

The sudden success of Bazzite comes from how easy it is to use.

I agree. But it's also important to have principles and to stick to them. The great thing about Fedora Atomic is that Fedora is able to create their FLOSS OS following their principles and others are able to take that base and build upon it to create their vision.

Fedora doesn't have to be for everyone.

org.localsend.localsend_app/org.localsend.localsend_app.yml at master · flathub/org.localsend.localsend_app

Contribute to flathub/org.localsend.localsend_app development by creating an account on GitHub.

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quarterlife

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No it's still unfiltered, we just removed 3 footguns that are pre-installed in the image anyway.

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Matty_r

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I wish they didn't need to replace Discover and were able to integrate changes into it upstream instead of implementing Bazaar. I'm sure they had their reasons though.

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quarterlife

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Bazzite is popular precisely because we ignore bad opinions such as these. Flathub is mainstream and all the whinging in the world isn't going to change that.

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TimLovesTech

in reply to petsoi • 1 mese fa • •

That "article" is painful to try and read, it's like a run on thought that bounces all over the place. The author really should make a clear outline and could probably cut out half by not saying the same thing over and over and over again. I stopped after the third time I read about Fedora flatpaks are different from flathub flatpaks, and users like flathub more, but the author is apparently eventually going to explain why that's an issue after 2K words of nonsense.

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exu

in reply to petsoi • 1 mese fa • •

It's great they're having this discussion, but some of the arguments seem overblown and imply Flathub does less reviewing of app than actually does.

Outdated runtimes aren't great either, but as they learned with OBS, just updating to the newest version broke a bunch of stuff.

See this blog post for a response that was made to similar criticisms during the OBS issue. Flathub Safety: A Layered Approach from Source to User

Flathub Safety: A Layered Approach from Source to User

With thousands of apps and billions of downloads, Flathub has a responsibility to help ensure the safety of our millions of active users.

^{Cassidy James Blaede (docs.flathub.org)}

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Leaflet

in reply to exu • 1 mese fa • •

What OBS did was bad. They should not have stuck to an EOL runtime, period. It would have been better if they temporarily moved to a supported freedesktop runtime and vendored in their Qt dependencies. That way, they would have been using a supported runtime while still using their outdated Qt version until the upstream issues were fixed.

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LeFantome

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What they did was bad but I am glad the Flatpak kept working.

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LeFantome

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We can flag old runtimes as out of date. Individual users or whole distros can set preferences to anvoid out of date runtimes. But Flathab must support out of date runtimes.

If an app has not been updated, I want it to continue running.

I want FlatHub to support binary only apps (like commercial ones) as well.

FlatHub is supposed to be the easy, one-stop place to publish apps. If I cannot put my app there, it is a problem.

It is supposed to be the place I get apps that will run on my distro. If the app I use daily that has not been updated in 10 years stops working, I am annoyed.

Fedora wants to deprecate runtimes that would still be “stable” on Debian.

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beleza pura

in reply to petsoi • 1 mese fa • •

didn't read the article, but i never got the point of having a distro-specific flathub repo. isn't being distro-agnostic the main thing about flatpaks?

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pmk

in reply to beleza pura • 1 mese fa • •

It's about making sure you know what is inside the flatpaks. If you make your own set of flatpaks, you can distribute them with the OS. It's not that fedora flatpaks aren't distro-agnostic, you can use them on any distro. They just want a set where they can verify the build process and trust.

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beleza pura

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then why not just use regular packages?

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pmk

in reply to beleza pura • 1 mese fa • •

Indeed. I believe most users will just switch to flathub. Sort of how most users will install some codecs, but it can't legally be included in the base install.

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ibot

in reply to beleza pura • 1 mese fa • •

I think, because of Fedoras atomic desktops. I didn't use any of them yet, but it seems like Flatpaks should be used there, since one should (or can?) not install tradional packages there. Therefore Fedora provides the flatpaks anyway and they can be used on the non atomic desktops as well.

Another reason is, that you might not be able to install the latest version of an application as rpm package if a required dependency in the repo is outdated. A Flatpak usually does not have the issue since a newer version would include the fitting runtime.
This said, I do think its not this big of an issue for fedora which is usually quite up to date. But if you run a distribution with LTS releases or something like Debian you will much more likely have older dependencies in your repositiry.

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beleza pura

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atomic desktops

i guess it makes sense in that case, but i'm really not convinced flatpaks should be used as the default (or only, apparently) way to install every application in the system. flatpak's flexibility is great for the particular cases where you want to install newer versions of applications or if an application isn't available in the official repos somehow. besides that, just use distro packages

Another reason is, that you might not be able to install the latest version of an application as rpm package if a required dependency in the repo is outdated

doesn't flathub solve that already?

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Leaflet

in reply to beleza pura • 1 mese fa • •

Not distro specific. They are Flatpaks built according to Fedora’s philosophy. But you can use them anywhere. I’ve used them on Ubuntu and OpenSUSE.

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beleza pura

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sounds weird to me. aren't we replicating the repository problem if each distro decides to make a flatpak repo according to their own philosophies?

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Leaflet

in reply to beleza pura • 1 mese fa • •

Depends what you mean by "problem". The biggest problem with traditional packages like debs and rpms is that compatibility sucks. They only reliably run on the distro and version they are designed for. Third party packages typically build on old dependencies and hope that backwards compatibility will allow them to run without issue on later distro versions.

Yes, it's redundant to have have the same app packaged as flatpaks. Though I don't think that redundancy is necessarily a bad thing. Flathub is not a profitable project and has up to this point relied on Gnome for funding. There's work being done to spin it out to be it's own thing and hopefully be supported by paid apps. But what if that fails and it shuts down? Or less dramatically, what if Flathub has a major outage?

One of the common complaints against snap is that there is only one store, controlled by Canonical. Flatpak is designed to support multiple stores. I don't see why they can't exist side by side. That's exactly what I do. I have dozens of apps installed from each source.

And to address the claim of what if "each distro decides to make a flatpak repo according to their own philosophies?". I guess that would depend on how many resources are being poured into supporting that. If flatpak continues to push for OCI support, then that would make it easier for distros to have their own remotes, if they desire. If not, they can just use an existing option. Whether that be Flathub or Fedora. Personally, I think Fedora Flatpaks are a good match for Debian and OpenSUSE's policies, only real downside is that major Gnome app updates would be a month delayed, annoying Tumbleweed users.

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beleza pura

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i don't have an issue with multiple flatpak repos. i'd actually find it very interesting if we went a more decentralized route with flatpak (maybe kde, gnome, mozzila would each have their own repos). but i don't see the point of a distro-specific flatpak when we already have normal packages. compatibility is kind of a non-issue, since you're not supposed to install them elsewhere anyway (unlike flatpaks)

also, i see absolutely no reason to use fedora's flatpak repo on debian given that flathub exists already. you could add it if you want it, but what's the point?

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Leaflet

in reply to beleza pura • 1 mese fa • •

Fedora and Debian have similar philosophies. FOSS only, packages must be built from source, no vendored dependencies. So they have similar policies regarding security and Fedora Flatpaks align closer to that than Flathub.

I believe Debian also doesn’t ship patented codecs in their main repo.

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beleza pura

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that makes a little more sense, though debian is not as strict as fedora about propietary software (it is in the separate nonfree section, but that's it)

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Leaflet

in reply to beleza pura • 1 mese fa • •

I don't think nonfree is enabled by default. Though I guess the repos are still hosted by debian, unlike RPMFusion. Though Fedora does treat it as semi-official given that parts of it can be enabled during first setup.

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quarterlife

in reply to beleza pura • 1 mese fa • •

Yes, we are. It's exactly why it shouldn't be done and why Fedora is the only project wasting their time with this.

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typhoon

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Why only Fedora?

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LeFantome

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Fedora maintains its own Flatpak repo that competes with Flathub. This is about merging them.

Zarlock via Tecnologia Etica e Sostenibile: IA, Mobility,Smartphone, App, Gadget, Tablet

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L'enorme braccio reclutato per agevolare la rinascita del nucleare in Gran Bretagna - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri

Affermò la profezia: “E quando il destino dovrà compiersi, il giorno si trasformerà in notte, e il normale ciclo diurno sembrerà finire prima dell’ora del tramonto.

^{Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)}

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Kalcifer via Lemmy Support

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Kalcifer
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What is the exact meaning of the "Banned" label next to a user?

For example, I've come across this:

^[1]^

::: spoiler References
1. Type: User Page. Name: "CanadaRocks" ("@CanadaRocks@piefed.ca"). Publisher: ["Lemmy". "sh.itjust.works"]. Accessed: 2025-07-22T02:07Z. URI: sh.itjust.works/u/CanadaRocks@….
:::

#lemmy_support

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asudox

in reply to Kalcifer • 1 mese fa • •

That's an instance ban.
Community bans are explicitly stated.

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Kalcifer

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So the user is banned from the instance where that label is seen (eg my instance)? Does an instance banning a user not block that user and their content from that instance? If not, what's the point of the ban?

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davel

in reply to Kalcifer • 1 mese fa • •

The user cannot vote, post or comment on that instance¹. If a user’s own instance bans them, then they can’t even log in.

Due to a bug, currently the user can post & comment, but those posts & comments won’t federate beyond their own home instance. ↩︎

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Kalcifer

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[…] Due to a bug, currently the user can post & comment […]

Do you have a link to the bug?

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davel

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A hacky, incomplete solution has been running for a while: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu…

A full solution has been merged, but I don’t think it’s been released yet: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull…

Instance banning a remote user should prevent them from participating in remote versions of communities

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...

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Kalcifer

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[…] A full solution has been merged, but I don’t think it’s been released yet: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull…

It looks like it's coming with Lemmy 1.0 ^[1]^.

::: spoiler References
1. Type: Comment. Author: "Nutomic". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "Open issues on popular lemmy apps to prepare for 1.0.0 release". Author: "dessalines". Publisher: ["GitHub". "LemmyNet/Lemmy"]. Published: 2025-03-15T13:17:39.000Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….]. Published: 2025-06-02T08:21:42.000Z. Accessed: 2025-07-22T06:26Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….
:::

Open issues on popular lemmy apps to prepare for `1.0.0` release

Now that we've fundamentally changed nearly all the data structs, there's no reason to keep an api/v3 in the codebase. Nearly every data structure was changed with #5482 . As one example: GET /comm...

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asudox

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Yes. It "blocks" the user. Afaik it should prevent the banned user from interacting with communities from the instance they were banned from and also the instance will no longer accept any new interactions from the user (local users cant see new content of that user, like PMs, comments, etc.)

Additionally, their content can also be removed, but that is optional.

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davel

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The user was instance banned from sh.itjust.works: sh.itjust.works/modlog?actionT…

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Kalcifer

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Hrm, I have a suspicion that it was a false positive by the automod (maybe it didn't like "kill this idea"?):

^[1]^

Update (2025-07-22T02:37Z): The moderation action was a false positive, and has been reverted ^[2]^.

::: spoiler References
1. Type: Webpage. Title: "Modlog". Publisher: ["Lemmy". "sh.itjust.works"]. Accessed: 2025-07-22T02:31Z. URI: sh.itjust.works/modlog?actionT….
2. Type: Message. Author: "InEnduringGrowStrong" (@inenduringgrowstrong:matrix.org). Publisher: ["Matrix". "sh.itjust.works"]. Published: 2025-07-22T02:36Z. Accessed: 2025-07-22T02:40Z. URI: matrix.to/#%2F%21ftaqqnpOePvPw….

:::

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation

^matrix.to

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Kalcifer

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Does an instance ban block future posts by that user from being federated in?

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davel

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Correct, future posts/comments. It’s like getting banned from every community on that instance. They also can’t send direct messages to users on that instance.

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Kalcifer

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They also can’t send direct messages to users on that instance.

Can a user on the banning instance message the banned user? If so, can the banned user reply?

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davel

in reply to Kalcifer • 1 mese fa • •

Can a user on the banning instance message the banned user?

I’ve never tried it so I’m not sure.

If so, can the banned user reply?

I’ve never tried this either, but I highly doubt it.

crankyrebel via Memes

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A Fashion Statement That Says, Stand Out In The Crowd

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altphoto

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The newest American freedom! The freedom to mask and walk around without anyone telling who you might be... Specially at a McDonald's.

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Rolling Resistance

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moe93 via Privacy

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Bypass blocked VPN restrictions

I have recently been finding myself on a network (cellular) that blocks access to VPN. I have tried Wireguard on multiple ports using IVPN and Windscribe with no luck. Similarly tried OpenVPN and IKEv2.

I also tried using Windscribe’s “stealth” protocol and IVPN’s obfuscation protocol but again with no luck.

I refuse to rawdog the internet like that and was hoping to get advice on how to work around that nonsense.

I am on iOS if that matters.

#privacy

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shortwavesurfer

in reply to moe93 • 1 mese fa • •

You could potentially get your own VPS server and set that up as a VPN server that way you're not connecting to a known VPN.

Edit: You might also try using Tor.

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moe93

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I have a Wireguard tunnel running on my home server back home in the US. I am currently outside of the US and that Wireguard tunnel won’t connect if I am on cellular connection for this one specific provider that I am using atm.

I have never attempted to use Tor as a VPN on my iOS device, how is the performance in terms of making Signal calls for example?

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shortwavesurfer

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Oh, I see. I don't think you can make calls over tor because I think it's TCP only. Not UDP.

Could it be an IP addressing problem by chance where the telecom provider doesn't support say IPv6 while your home network is IPv6? If so, they may not be blocking it, so much as it's not possible to make the connection to begin with.

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moe93

in reply to shortwavesurfer • 1 mese fa • •

My home server VPN is IPv4. The VPN provider I have uses both IPv4/6. Neither of those work.

At this point I am inclined to believe the network carrier is performing DPI as I also can’t use OpenVPN on TCP 80 and TCP 443, which are generally hard to block unless provider is intentionally looking into it…at least that’s my understanding.

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shortwavesurfer

in reply to moe93 • 1 mese fa • •

That very well could be, as I mentioned earlier, you might get yourself a VPS and set up an SSH tunnel or something like that, but otherwise I have no idea.

I do know that you can use signal over tor because I do so, but I only use it for the sending messages and voice messages part. As I said, I think the audio call uses UDP and tor is TCP only to the best of my knowledge.

The only other thing I could think of would be to try a mix net such as Nym.

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flatbield

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Usually openvpn via tls port 443 is the least blocked.

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u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

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I also had luck with UDP on port 123. On some public WiFi networks I could even connect to internet that way without agreeing to ToS on "login page".

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SheeEttin

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A VPN isn't rawdogging the Internet. For that you should use stuff like ad blockers. A VPN only protects traffic inspection by on-path attackers like ISPs, though HTTPS mitigates most of that, leaving only metadata. It also changes the apparent origin of your connection.

If possible, I'd change providers.

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Geodad

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Please name and shame your provider. I'd like to know which ones to avoid.

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moe93

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I am on a trip and using a local carrier in the country I am currently staying at, carrier is called Zain.

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med

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Have you tried tailscale with an exit node? Could be worth a test, if it works, some combination of other providers might too

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Melody Fwygon

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I second tailscale. But this requires you to be using it at home as well.

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Hellfire103

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Honestly, this sounds like a job for Tor. Install Orbot, possibly enable a bridge, and you should be good to go. Onion Browser is recommended for use with Tor, but Safari will work just fine.

I have never tried calling over Tor, but I have never had an issue with the speed before (although it is inherently slower than a VPN).

::: spoiler Tor Bridge Types
* obfs4 makes your traffic appear "random"
* snowflake disguises your traffic as VoIP
* meek-azure makes it look like you're connecting to Microsoft services
* meek-amazon makes it look like you're connecting to AWS
* meek-google makes it look like you're connecting to Google
:::

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slackness

in reply to moe93 • 1 mese fa • •

You can use Tor: orbot.app/

Cheapest way to not be in this situation is to run an exit node on your home network and route your traffic through when you're travelling (dead simple with Tailscale).

Also try Mullvad's circumvention methods.

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dajoho

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Try setting your vpn to listen on UDP, port 53 (usually used by DNS. If that fails, it's going to be some sort of deep packet inspection, yes.

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DosDude via Pixel Art

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Cliffside Stargazer [1-Bit] (OC)

My first (real) pixel art. I wanted to start with the limitation of monochrome to see if I could make something semi recognizable.

#pixelart

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crankyrebel via Memes

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No Shame

#memes

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fulcrummed

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Cap’n bears a striking resemblance to Joaquin Phoenix.

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Xavienth

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Wine in the same aisle at children's cereal.

ActivityPub - Collegamento all'originale

Octt via Blogs

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la volpe e la finestra fanno insieme il grande spacc (glitch Firefox coi freeze a caso)

Regà, aiuto. Io vorrei ogni giorno arrivare a fine giornata senza bestemmiare, ma purtroppo non è fottutamente mai possibile, perché c’è sempre qualcosa che non funziona!!! E boh, ultimamente allora non capisco se sono io che sto diventando sempre di più una calamita per gli insetti digitali di merda, o se tra le tante cose […]

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2025-07-21 20:33:36

la volpe e la finestra fanno insieme il grande spacc (glitch Firefox coi freeze a caso)

Regà, aiuto. Io vorrei ogni giorno arrivare a fine giornata senza bestemmiare, ma purtroppo non è fottutamente mai possibile, perché c’è sempre qualcosa che non funziona!!! E boh, ultimamente allora non capisco se sono io che sto diventando sempre di più una calamita per gli insetti digitali di merda, o se tra le tante cose è Firefox che è sempre più rotto… e stasera lui ha deciso di fare il seguente. 💩

Stavo facendomi i benedettissimi cazzi miei, quando così, dal nulla botto, noto che il merdardo inizia a laggare malissimamente… e noto anche che uno dei tanti processi del programma stava prendendo circa 2 GB di RAM — per fare cosa, non si sa bene, visto che ho anche l’estensione che scarica dalla memoria le schede inattive. Nel task manager di #Firefox appariva come “GPU”, e infatti, quando ho cliccato sulla X per ucciderlo, la finestra ha flashato un attimo… ma invece per Windows il processo era rimasto, e qui escono le rogne. 💔
A questo punto (ovviamente, perché l’utente vittima sono io) ha iniziato a peggiorare sempre di più, a tratti freezandosi per interi secondi mentre cercavo di navigare o scrivere… addirittura, nel fare Alt+Tab da finestre di altre app ad una del browser, sembrava non accadesse nulla, perché a schermo la finestra non appariva subito, impiegava secondi. Tutto questo, però, nel mentre che il video di YouTube in riproduzione sull’altro schermo (sempre in Firefox) filava liscio… il che rende tutto ancora più insensato. 😭

Quindi (e menomale, così tutti possono vedere la schifezza!) ho filmato la cacca, e si vede bene come in certi momenti prende e si blocca — cosa che si riflette in quel processo scassato che prende un intero core della CPU e diventa irresponsivo agli occhi di #Windows — poi appena si riprende digita in un colpo solo tutto quello che avevo scritto o esegue tutti i click che avevo cercato di inviare… fa schifo alla merda, e che cazzo! E alla fine si è pure incazzato di quanti click stavo facendo, perché ha preso ed è crashato completamente, senza permesso, cosa che mi avrebbe pure fatto perdere le schede in incognito aperte se non le avessi salvate in tempo (e questo non so se sia un crash interno o se è stato Windows che lo ha ucciso, ma qualunque sia la causa non si può continuare così… Non ce la faccio più!!! 😫😣)
#bug #crash #Firefox #glitch #Windows

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Fears of escalation after Israel hits Huthi-held Yemen port

Hodeida (Yemen) (AFP) – Israel pounded Yemen's Huthi-held port of Hodeida with air strikes on Monday for the second time in a month, stoking fears of escalation as it warned Yemen could face the same fate as Iran.
In its latest raids, Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel struck "targets of the Huthi terror regime at the port of Hodeida" and aimed to prevent any attempt to restore infrastructure previously hit.
The renewed strikes on Yemen are part of a year-long Israeli bombing campaign against the Huthis, but the latest threats have raised fears of a wider conflict in the poverty-stricken Arabian Peninsula country.
"Yemen's fate will be the same as Tehran's," Katz said.
His warning was a reference to the wave of suprise strikes Israel launched on Iran on June 13, targeting key military and nuclear facilities.
A Gulf official told AFP there were "serious concerns in Riyadh... that the Israeli strikes on the Huthis could turn into a large, sustained campaign to oust the movement's leaders".
The Huthis withstood more a decade of war against a well-armed, Saudi-led international coalition, though fighting has died down in the past few years.
Any Israeli escalation could "plunge the region into utter chaos", said the official, requesting anonymity because he cannot brief the media.
The Huthis' Al-Masirah television reported "a series of Israeli air strikes on the Hodeida port".
A Huthi security official, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, told AFP that "the bombing destroyed the port's dock, which had been rebuilt following previous strikes."
On July 7, Israeli strikes hit Hodeida and two nearby locations on the coast, with targets including the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, captured in November 2023, which the Israelis said had been outfitted with a radar system to track shipping in the Red Sea.
A Yemeni port employee in Hodeida said the strikes targeted "heavy equipment brought in for construction and repair work after Israeli airstrikes on July 7... and areas around the port and fishing boats".
An Israeli military statement said that the targets included "engineering vehicles... fuel containers, naval vessels used for military activities" against Israel and "additional terror infrastructure used by the Huthi terrorist regime".
It said the port had been used to transfer weapons from Iran, which were then used by the Huthi rebels against Israel.

Fears of escalation after Israel hits Huthi-held Yemen port

^RFI

#globalnews

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stink

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Considering you're calling an arab nation acting according to international law "terrorists" speaks volumes about you. Stop replying, you're a racist embarrassment

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BrikoX

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Nowhere did I call arab nation terrorists. The Houthis are not a country. Once again you are attacking non-existent comment.

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1984 via Technology

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Bubble Trouble

This article describes what ive been thinking about for the last week. How will these billions of investments by big tech actually create something that is significantly better than what we have today already?

There are major issues ahead and im not sure they can be solved. Read the article.

Bubble Trouble

As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week has sounded the alarm that some believe AI models will run out of "high-quality text-based data" within the next two years i…

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

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Xaphanos

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My company is in AI. One of our customers pays for systems capable of the hard computational work to design the drugs to treat Parkinson's. This is the only newly possible with the newest technology.

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MysteriousSophon21

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This is acutally one of the most promising applications - AI can screen millions of potential drug compounds and predict protein interactions in hours instead of months, which is why we're seeing breakthroughs in neurodegenerative disease research.

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altkey

in reply to MysteriousSophon21 • 1 mese fa • •

That's probably Machine Learning, the root category of tools and the origin of LLMs, not Large Language Models themselves we call 'AI'. These have many applications they are efficient at gradually explored from the 80s I believe, while the AI boom involving Google, Meta, OpenAI and others is about generalistic chatbots that are bad in just about everything they used in. I'm putting that distinction not because I'm an ass, but because I don't want the hype wave to get more credibility on the back of real scientifical and technological progress.

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Womble

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It depends, if they're use a transformer or diffusion based archetecture I think it would be fair to include it in the same "AI wave" thats been breaking since the release of chat gpt publicly.

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proceduralnightshade

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tl;dr AI companies are slowly running out of data to train their models; synthetic data is not a viable alternative.

I can't remember where I saw it, but someone somewhere on YouTube suspected the next step for OpanAI and such would be to collect user data directly; recording conversations of users and using that data to train models further.

If I find the vid I will add a link here.

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1984

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Yeah that would be the logical end game since companies have invested billions into this trend now.

AbnormalHumanBeing via Fediverse

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TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines

Learned about it thanks to the Fireside Fedi Podcast. Might just end up becoming a new way to find solutions/perspectives by real people, just as looking for reddit results has been in the past for many people.

FediSearch — Easily Search the Fediverse

Easily search the fediverse in your preferred search engine

^{programmer2514}

#fediverse

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wakest ⁂

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wow this is great, I hadn't heard of it!

sun via Technology

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MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit

https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/mega-launches-new-large-file-transfer-servicetransfer-it-with-no-file-size-limit/

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SCmSTR

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There's enough front page politics right now about conservatives all being and protecting child rapists, that I missed the title as "MAGA launches file host with no limits"

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Goldholz

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"One for your friend. And one copy for the state. Thanks 😀"

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Seattle's Primary Season Is Upon Us, Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again, and Scientists Figured Out How Snakes Eat Bones

Free Gui: Guilherme “Gui” Silva, a Brazilian immigrant, lawyer, and muralist, was detained by ICE earlier this month on San Juan Island in Washington state. Silva was a lawyer in Brazil, and moved to the US about eight years ago to pursue his art. He has a four-year-old daughter with his now ex-wife, and is expecting a child in just a few months with his wife Rachel Leidig. Two Fridays ago, masked ICE agents followed Silva from his home in unmarked vehicles, pulled him from his car, confiscated his cellphone, and detained him. When he asked to see an arrest warrant, they refused. Silva is married to an American citizen and is currently in legal proceedings to apply for a green card. The only blemish on his record that the Seattle Times was able to find was a $100 speeding ticket. The Department of Homeland Security said they detained him because he overstayed his tourist visa, which, let’s say it again together: is a civil violation.

Slog AM: Seattle's Primary Season Is Upon Us, Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again, and Scientists Figured Out How Snakes Eat Bones

The Stranger's morning news roundup.

^{Hannah Murphy Winter (The Stranger)}

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MirchiLover via Technology

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Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

Who, Me?: For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

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Moonrise2473

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At least not as bad as that one that let some LLM to control the server then get pissed at it when it deleted the production database theregister.com/2025/07/21/rep…