VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) Release 0.90 – Dynamic
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35161703
Arriving on time! Dynamic settings, dynamic (but reasonable!) fires, dynamic combat and gameplay in general thanks to a ton of improvements in terms of mobs and gear. Smite some zombies in armour they picked up from the spot of your last death and some skeletons with their new texture – using an enchanted deepslate hammer, obtained with just a crafting table. Knock the stalker away with your enchanted spear, or let him explode and take out a pack of mobs. And enjoy stone tools with a green flavour, while you're still on the surface... There's more, see yourself!We're announcing the VoxeLibre release 0.90 The Dynamic release.
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Release v0.90 – Dynamic
 Arriving on time! Dynamic settings, dynamic (but reasonable!) fires, dynamic combat and gameplay in general thanks to a ton of improvements in terms of mobs and gear.Mesehub
in order to maintain access to America’s market.
I'd rather have access to China and India's markets, Americans have to work two jobs just to pay the rent
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Canada could lose its measles elimination designation by October: experts
Canada could lose its measles elimination designation by October: experts
Canada is approaching the one year mark of when measles first came to Canada, meaning it might lose its elimination designationCindy Tran (Edmonton Journal)
[Discussion] Flatpaks, ram/disk usage and compression
I have 91 flatpaks, and it is my primary way of getting apps. But the (not very shared) dependencies have been bothering me lately.
I was primarily drawn in because Gnome Software has a cool UI and because I wanted the magic of one-click installs. I heard a lot of things about Flatpak and gave it a try.
I have a relatively small 72GB BTRFS root partition with zstd:1 (lowest) enabled. I think disk compression helps with the Flatpak dependency mess, as I only have 60% disk usage currently.
Idk how much extra RAM my flatpaks use, but I don't want 4 versions of the same dependency taking up space in my RAM. Thought about enabling zram to compensate for this. As different versions of the same library in RAM are easy to compress.
I don't think this compression mentality I instinctively adopted is healthy. Make stuff reliable in expense of storage/ram -> compress storage/ram in expense of proc. power
Another thing is slow Flatpak downloads. I have a gigabit connection, and Arch mirrors generally work around 30MB/s with WiFi. Flatpak, on the other hand, hits at max. 5MB/s with its "CDN"
Overall, even though it's kind of ugly, I absolutely love the "don't think about it" mentality of flatpaks. It just works most of the time. I simply use the system package manager for programs that heavily interact with the system (like IDEs, management stuff, and so on)
I am interested in hearing your opinions.
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No idea how flatpak or snap works here (I want my rpm:s dammit) but I bet someone started adding compression to something at some point.
You can’t deduplicate already compressed data, except in theory. If you want deduplication, do that first, then compress the data. (i.e. use ZFS. Friends don’t let friends use subpar filesystems.)
Everytime someone says something positive about BTRFS I’m compelled to verify whether RAID6 is usable.
The RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes of Btrfs are fatally flawed, and should not be used for "anything but testing with throw-away data."
Alas, no. The Arch wiki still contains the same quote, and friends don’t let friends store data without parity.
So in the end, the best BTRFS can do right now is running RAID10 for a storage efficiency of 50%. Running dedup on that feels a bit wasteful…
(Sidenote: actually, ZFS runs dedup after per block compression, so it can only dedup blocks that are identical. Still works though, unlike when people do user level .tar.gz-style compression. The it’s game over.)
If possible consider putting the flatpak folder on a bigger storage partition and mount it to your root btrfs.
Small SSD + compression is faster than HDD with no compression ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Plus I've been planning to upgrade my (8gb) RAM and SSD, for like, the last 5 years? Never gonna upgrade lol
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Exactly what I'm talking about. It reminds me of the time microsoft introduced memory compression to compensate for every application bringing it's own DLLs
But I still think flatpak is superior to windows way of doing things because it actually has dependency management. I kinda like the idea of having multiple versions of the same library but I wish they did not come in big bundles (runtimes), but instead, came in small 1-2MB pieces.
download random binaries from non-trusted distributors that contain a copy of every library that software needs to run
This is overexaggeration. Flatpak, unlike places windows users get software from, is moderated, and flatpak (although chunky) has shared dependencies
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The appeal of Flatpak is not that I prefer it to my distro package manager.
The appeal is for the application author who finds the fragmentation in Linux a problem. It is a way for them to target “Linux” and not individual distros. It is a way for app authors to control the distribution and the support surface in a way that turning over control to package managers does not allow.
Which means the appeal for me is just that I can get apps as Flatpak that I cannot find in my distro repo.
On Arch, I hardly ever use Flatpak. On other distros, I use them more. I do use the pgAdmin Flatpak everywhere though because all the distro versions I have tried are garbage.
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Fedora Flatpaks are better in this regard. They are built entirely from Fedora rpms. When an rpm gets updated in the Fedora repos, rebuilding the flatpak will automatically pull in that updated rpm. And with flatpak's deduplication feature, any reused vendored dependency should be perfectly deduplicated since the input is exactly the same (the rpm).
The problem just is that the repo is small, it's affected by Fedora's risk-averseness (so no codecs), and people don't like them.
AppImage.home folder so you can make it portable. That's from my research on the matter, though I use them myself.
I don't think there's a solution for RAM dedupe, so your only solution for runtime efficiencies is (RAM) compression
That has a performance hit for every read, write and paging operation, so, lower performance than you'd expect...
But, I guess you don't run all 91 apps at the same time, so you're probably into decreasing returns for the few apps you do run in parallel...?
It also kind of takes its roots from my frustration with garbage in my home or leftover bullshit in my root
It's not viable to ditch native packages 100% (like immutable distros). But a combination of two is pretty comfortable imo
But as I said, I am not comfortable with the way flatpak does some things
As someone who worked OS security after working build/release on Unix and Linux, don't use flatpaks. The modicum of comfort you gain in brainless installs you lose far more in validation of package contents.
And brainless installs on Linux (yum install) is about the same via synaptic/etc. You're not missing much.
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I disagree with some of the panels but support the overall message.
UN is a tool of imperialism to subjugate planet
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Namely the first two. The premise of R2P or "responsibility to protect" has been heavily promoted and one of the major arguments for it was "the UN did nothing to stop genocide in Rawanda". Of course when R2P was applied it was to justify completely destroying Libya in service of US empire.
In truth, in Rawanda, the most heinous crimes were carried out by the RPF led by US puppet Paul Kagame on behalf of US interests.
The same issue in Sudan today is the US-israel-UAE arming RSF militants to throw the country into a perpetual civilian war. This is in line with the decades long zionist-American plot to fracture Sudan.
In Myanmar, again, the imperialists are heavily invested in propagating lies to justify various types of intervention in the name of human rights but really to expand their empire.
People dont just wake up one day and decide to exterminate their neighbors. Such genocidal campaigns are precipitated by imperialist schemes. And in cases when multi-lateral "human rights" interventions occur it has always turned out worse rather than better.
The world doesnt need more UN intervention it needs death to America.
The Balkanization of Sudan: The Redrawing of the Middle East and North Africa
With outcome foretold, the recent referendum on the "independence" of oil-rich South Sudan is part of a deeper agenda bearing little relation to human rights concerns.Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (Voltaire Network)
I had thought and interpreted that the UN or US flag being used in the first panel wouldn't have made a difference but then I remembered someone could absolutely try to diminish the US's (and really the collective West's) role in perpetually balkanizing and destabilizing the Global South by dispersing the blame equally to each member state of the UN (both-sidesing/all-sidesing/whatever-the-fuck-it's-called)..
Thanks for the sources, I've learned a lot more new material from this than I care to admit..
There is an interesting relevant history. Regarding the UN resolution 678 which justified the imperialist destruction and genocide of Iraq in the 90's, the US pressured all members on the security council to support it. Even non-permanent members.
With America's place in the world, not to mention Mr. Bush's political future, riding on the outcome of the gulf crisis, the Administration never hesitated to let other nations know that their support for this resolution was vital to Washington, which would remember its friends, and its foes. Minutes after the Yemeni elegate joined the Cubans in voting against the resolution at the Security Council on Thursday, a senior American diplomat was instructed to tell him: "That was the most expensive no vote you ever cast" -- meaning it would result in an end to America's more than $70 million in foreign aid to Yemen.
Thankfully the US has much less leverage against Russia and China today compared to 35 years ago but I think its readily apparent that the UN "peacekeepers" are generally just used as cudgels on behalf of US-led NATO domination. Examples from Haiti to Lebanon to Mali
I would much prefer a UN that is utterly powerless than one that is used to justify genocidal sanctions on Iraq or Iran for instance.
Thanks for the sources, I’ve learned a lot more new material from this than I care to admit
Always glad to share when I have time. We are all always learning new things together 🫡
UNIFIL’s Role in the 'Israeli' Aggression on Lebanon
In the shadow of the ongoing conflict, Israeli forces have launched operations from villages like Yarin, Dahra, and Alma al-Shaab, advancing toward al-Jabin, Sheheen, Tyre Harfa, and Shama.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Is Tor browser on Mullvad DNS a bad idea?
I set secure DNS to Mullvad DNS.
Since I can't afford a VPN, I do my web searches on Tor browser.
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that's how ipleak and co. check for DNS leaks.
No. It's fine.
Tor uses its own DNS system to my recollection. It's true there is DNS as part of fingerprinting and DNS leaks are a concern for VPNs (see for example dnsleaktest.com/) but Tor is not vulnerable to this and it's more a problem of you're using a VPN to appear to be in NYC but your DNS shows Phoenix so that's a big discrepancy that raises the uniqueness of your fingerprint on a VPN and even lets threat actors guesstimate where you actually are. As I said though this is not an issue on Tor.
So understand that the DNS from Mullvad will only affect other programs not Tor. It will prevent say your ISP's DNS from seeing your video games calling their domains that way. Your ISP can still see you're connecting to infrastructure for as an example Genshin Impact when you launch the game because they can see where your traffic is flowing and the IP addresses as well as traffic patterns, ports, etc. It somewhat limits the data and visibility they get but there is something called SNI snooping as well as of course the fact they know the IP addresses where your connections go. So it's perhaps better than nothing but understand the limits of it as they still have a lot of visibility though they shouldn't be able to see your web searches regardless just that you're accessing google or bing or duckduckgo as those sites use HTTPS.
DNS leak test
DNSleaktest.com offers a simple test to determine if you DNS requests are being leaked which may represent a critical privacy threat. The test takes only a few seconds and we show you how you can simply fix the problem.www.dnsleaktest.com
More context please. Where did you set the DNS? Smartphone, desktop? In browser or on system settings?
Assuming the following: You set the general DNS on your AOSP based smartphone to Mullvad and use Tor bowser simultaneously.
This is perfectly fine as Tor browser uses its own DNS. They won't interfere.
This kinda reminds me of when Beavis and Butthead first came on the air. Panned as the stupidest thing on TV.
When it came back in the 2010s, it was exactly as stupid. However, relative to what ELSE was on TV? Suddenly it was relatively high brow. It was easily the smartest show on MTV. By a LOT.
Putting super Gover in the first Iron Man? Nonsense. Putting him in whatever they do next? IMO it would generally raise the bar. No offense, MCU superfans.
Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published
The letters, written to Epstein by a number of high-profile individuals, were reportedly compiled as a birthday gift for Epstein’s 63rd birthday in 2016.
In one letter, former prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak and his wife wrote “there is no limit to your curiosity.”
“You are like a closed book to many of them but you know everything about everyone,” they wrote, describing Epstein as “A COLLECTOR OF PEOPLE”. They continued: “May you enjoy long and healthy life and may all of us, your friends, enjoy your table for many more years to come.”
Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published
New York Times reports on letters by Ehud Barak, Woody Allen and others written for Epstein’s 63rd birthdayAnna Betts (The Guardian)
Chomsky tells WSJ his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein are "none of your business"
Noam Chomsky met multiple times with Jeffrey Epstein, long after a court ordered the disgraced financier to register as a sex offender.Katie Balevic (Business Insider)
"What was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence," Chomsky told the Journal about his meetings. "According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate."
For a propaganda expert that's an incredibly bad comeback from Chomsky.
Domain names for catch all email aliases
I'm looking into getting some domains for email, so I don't need to use the same few addresses for everything. In doing this, the domain name itself becomes the identity, but it's also entirely arbitrary.
What is a good method to choose domain names so that they look more or less normal? Catch all addresses can of course be detected in SMTP, but the idea is just to not look suspicious. Would anyone be comfortable sharing the constructions they use? (though not the domains themselves, for obvious reasons) Should I use subdomains for the things that can safely be correlated, (as spam defense) or is it better to only use different mailboxes on one domain?
Look into simplelogin.io/
They make creating random aliases for custom domains like this easy.
As for the domain name itself, anything that already looks like a mail service is good. “examplemail.com” or “mailexample.com”
SimpleLogin | Open source anonymous email service
With email aliases , you can be anonymous online and protect your inbox against spams and phishing.SimpleLogin | Open source anonymous email service
I went to expireddomains.net and searched for ones ending in "__mail.net". Found a good, short domain that was once a regional ISP and email provider 15-20 years ago. (I still get spam for some of their old subscribers.).
I do not use subdomains for this one. Generally, I combine a simple name with a number for the mailbox name. Like "johnathan2715@zzzmail.net" if I think it needs to look like a real name, or some other word like "giraffe1238" or something like that.
It's working great.
I just use a single catch-all account in my existing domain. If you send an email to my primary address it just goes to my primary box. If you send an email to my secondary address it goes to my secondary box. If you send an email to anything else it goes to my catch-all box.
Rumba@mycustomdomain.com Skips the catch only goes right to me.
Intel@mycustomdomain.com Go straight to the catch-all
I don't have to pre-make them I simply use anything that doesn't exist.
I set up my postfix server so that anything after a hyphen ("-") becomes a wildcard. It like Gmail's "plus addressing", but the hyphen is more subtle. It means multiple users can make infinite aliases on one domain.
So, "user@domain.com" has the same mailbox as "user-somesuffix@domain.com".
I'm not OP but I use mailcow to host my mail and it comes with the + aliases by default. So mail+google@example.org goes to mail@example.org.
You can also do fully random aliases on demand, both time limited and permanently. Useful for those few services that do not accept + in their email fields.
Something you can remember...
Catch alls are most useful when you are away and you need to give an email out. If you can't remember the domain that becomes a pain.
I’m looking into getting some domains for email, so I don’t need to use the same few addresses for everything.
Getting a custom domain for email is smart. It’s a necessary step given how data is treated these days. The domain becomes your identifier, but it's essentially arbitrary. I switched from sharing a single email address (which predictably led to breaches and spam) to creating dedicated emails for each service. Now, when an account gets compromised, I just redirect that email to oblivion. It’s a clean break, and a strangely revealing look at how online identities get resold and repurposed. Worth considering.
Announcement video of Deepmind Genie 3
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Kalamazoo Linux Users Group
Tonight in #kalamazoo is the weekly Kalamazoo #Linux Users Group. I have been going again lately. It is a nice old group that has been holding on for more than 10 years by the one and only Lynden Kirk.
If you happen to be in #swmi, #westmi, #battlecreek come out and join us.
So it is tuesday nights at 6pm(18 for the rest of the world) at
Kzoo Makers
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Kalamazoo Makerspace - Kzoo Makers
We are a Makerspace community interested in designing things, building skills, and getting creative! Use our community tools in the areas of metalshop, woodworking, lasercutting, 3D printing, electronics, craftmaking and more!Kzoo Makers
From Gaza: A Student’s Story of Loss, Resilience, and Hope
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5757723
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.
But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.
Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
On top of all this, I’m also struggling with serious health issues.
I suffer from a urinary tract infection caused by the lack of access to clean drinking water.
Here in Gaza, we’re forced to drink water mixed with sand and other contaminants — there’s simply no other choice.
It’s affecting my health badly, and I need treatment I can’t afford in these conditions.
I’m sharing my story with honesty and hope, praying it reaches a kind heart — someone who can help, or even just share it with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here’s my GoFundMe link:
Every share, every kind word, and every small donation could be a lifeline for us.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
I completely understand your doubt — the world is full of scams, and it’s your right to question things.
But my story is real, and unfortunately, what my family and I are living through in Gaza is beyond words.
The photo is real, the account is real, and the GoFundMe link was created by a friend in Germany because I’m unable to create one from Gaza.
All I ask is for you to consider sharing it if possible — or even just a prayer.
Thank you for your compassion, even if you’re still unsure.
Thank you for replying, and I’m sorry that bad actors on the internet make people like me have to be a little suspicious of posts like this.
Have you considered providing photographic proof that you are the person in the picture, such as providing a photo of you holding a piece of paper that says “Hello Lemmy” with the current date and time on it? Things like that are usually typical when you are proving your identity in a post like this because it allows people to analyze it for signs of photo manipulation. With nothing but a few photos of you in Gaza, it is impossible to tell if it is really you or if someone has stolen those photos and is impersonating you for money.
Assuming that you are the man in the photo, I do want to say how horrible I feel about the genocide happening in your country. Nobody deserves that, and most of the world sees the crimes happening against your people, even if those in power are too cowardly to do anything.
From Gaza: A Student’s Story of Loss, Resilience, and Hope
My name is Soliman a young man and student from Gaza carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times
We once had a small farm with olive and citrus trees and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops but dreams
That farm was our only source of income and more than that it was a place full of memories of hope and of the laughter that once made life a little easier
But in a single moment everything was gone
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes
We lost our source of living our stability and with it a part of our souls
Now despite the pain I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength dignity and sense of humanity
I share these words with honesty and hope hoping they reach a kind heart someone who can help or even simply share my story with others who might be able to
If you’re able to support us in any way here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign
Every share every kind word every small donation could be a lifeline for us
From the bottom of my heart thank you for taking a moment to read my story
Any fitness trackers not sending my health data to the USA?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/33995436
I am looking for a good fitness tracker to start doing cardio in a more measured way.I was interested in Polar and Oura as EU alternatives (both Finnish companies), but both send data (health data, which is sensitive according to Article 9 of the GDPR) to AWS.
Are you aware of any EU solutions, or at least non-US, Chinese, Russian, or Israeli solutions, that do not send my data to companies in those countries?
I would like to be able to organize something self-hosted, but I don't think I'm capable of doing that yet.
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It doesnt even support unicode chars...
Have you ever heard of a pen and paper? You can print out tracking forms. I know.....pretty crazy right?
People need to take their heads out of their ass and realize that you don't need an app for fucking everything.
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There's also FitoTrack which is an open source, local android app for fitness tracking
How we built our multi-agent research system
How we built our multi-agent research system
On the the engineering challenges and lessons learned from building Claude's Research systemwww.anthropic.com
cava tint2 module?
Congratulations to Linux on recent victories!
They see you clearly on the world stage.
Be strong. Be Vigilant. Stay safe.
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Again...Linux is deployed to more devices on the planet than any other OS, beating MS by a long shot.
Are you just referring to Desktop?
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
In other words, Linux is the most deployed kernel. But if you're talking about the "linux OS" then you're probably actually thinking of GNU/linux, which I don't think is as widely deployed as windows (maybe I'm wrong? that's why I was asking). Or, you can include all OS's using a linux kernel, in which case you'll include all androids, but that's not what most people mean when they talk about linux os.
Ah OK, just found
Napster was the original peer-to-peer platform and drew heat from the recording industry. Artists like Dr. Dre, Eminem, Metallica, and plenty more spoke out against the platform.
(I do know Napster, but didn't know they had spoken out against it. Ah well.)
"spoke out against" is an understatement:
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic…
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#…
...besides contributing to the eventual shut down of napster, Metallica first compelled it to ban hundreds of thousands of their fans - who's usernames they delivered to them. Lars Ulrich responded to the backlash by saying "If you'd stop being a Metallica fan because I won't give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don't want you to be a Metallica fan."
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'Unjustified and unreasonable': India calls out US, EU over oil trade with Russia; pans double standards
“India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security,” the MEA said in a statement, while pointing out that the US and European Union have themselves continued trade with Russia, including in energy and critical commodities, despite publicly opposing the Ukraine conflict.
'Unjustified and unreasonable': India calls out US, EU over oil trade with Russia; pans double standards
India News: NEW DELHI: India on Monday pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s threat to “substantially” raise tariffs on Indian goods over its continued .TOI News Desk (The Times Of India)
Inquiry Regarding NYM VPN
Site: nym.com/
Documentation: nym.com/docs/network
This popped up on my radar last month. The article I was reading touted NYM as the most secure & private VPN on the market and I just wanted to run it by the pros here to see if anyone has a bead on NYM or perhaps uses NYM.
They have an implimentation in their network they call 'Mixnet'. It's a random noise generator, which sounds intriguing:
If you're into comparisons, the Nym mixnet is conceptually similar to other systems such as Tor, but provides improved protections against end-to-end timing attacks which can de-anonymize users. When Tor was first fielded, in 2002, those kinds of attacks were regarded as science fiction. But the future is now here
Does anyone have any sauce on NYM VPN?
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Nym | the world's most private VPN for desktop & mobile
Stay private online with Nym’s decentralized VPN. Block trackers, hide your IP, and browse safely—now 80% off during our early bird offer.Nym Technologies SA
my opinion about nym VPN for now is..
it's not very stable, and it was very unstable up until recently
before two things were very very annoying that tree me off, first is the connection was getting stuck after exactly one hour saying that everything is connected when it wasn't, and the second issue is partly of too many reconnects was that my *tb allowance was exhausted after 60gb which happened many months in a row
there are not as many nodes for the same country as I would like to have, and many nodes have not really good health (like websites ask for captcha or don't let you in)
on the other hand, if without tax and paying for two years with crypto, you can get it very very very cheap
and nym promised to be very secure and etc, and with more development the whole experience will get better
(like websites ask for captcha or don’t let you in)
Thank you for your comment. As far as captcha, the way I have my network set up, captcha's are just part of the 'way it is'. I would rather captchas than have my jimmy just hanging out exposed in the ether tho. I was just very curious about NYM because it sounds very promising. The reviews I've read from as recent as 01-25 place NYM in the beta range of development tho, so I'll keep an eye on it.
You can see the mixnet as network masquerade with technologies such as vless/v2ray/Trojan
I have no experience yet, but wanted to purchase it. I'll wait for some more experience here.
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As a Ukrainian I can confidently say that those people resisting the lawful mobilization efforts by our legitimate and democratic president Mr. Zelenskyi are definitely all Russian agents.
You can actually prove it with pure logic!
As we all know from watching reliable sources like CNN - Russia literally tortures and massacres everyone on the territories they illegally capture! Dying in a war protecting the last democratic bastion against invading orcs is surely a better option than getting massacred by those evil orcs (like it happened in every city captured by them), right? So the only ones who disagree are Russian agents who will be spared.
Now you see, stupid tankies?
“Mobilisation is a mandatory form of military service, and citizens have an obligation to defend their country. This is probably why there is such a negative attitude towards the drafting offices: because, to put it bluntly, our function is to force a citizen to do his duty.”
God somebody get me off this planet 👨🚀 🚀 👽
Well there's two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.
In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.
either the nature or the solitude
i think this is why i don't get it: growing up in the middle of nowhere taught me that nature can fuck you over in an instant multiple times and living in suburbia gave me a cold & painful dose of reality when it comes to solitude.
i suppose it looks nice if you've never experienced enough of the dark sides of nature and solitude.
I used to live alone in the forest like that and I loved it. I can’t wait to move back.
Yeah, nature can fuck me over but as long as I don’t have to deal with anyone I’ll manage.
nature isn't as bad as people; you can atleast try to prepare of it.
out in the middle of nowhere, people can and do make sure that you can't prepare for them.
Sad part living next to ppl in city with hoa feels like a prison.
The awful air
Mugging
Packages stolen
Noise
Never see a tree or stars
Can't do jack all without gossiping hens
Etc
Humans need a good balance but many just want to see if grass is greener on other side.
Humans need a good balance but many just want to see if grass is greener on other side.
this makes the most sense to me because that's what i did. life had taught me that being queer, autistic and brown is boring AF in urban enough environments; but it REALLY makes those hens gossip in the country side and the ppl forcing you to conform because they refuse accept your true expression of yourself is a prison of its own. to make matters worse: that 1 factory; 4 MASSIVE beef & pork farms; and plantation that employ 80% of the population will fuck up your air & water worse than the city thanks to a friendly local government that gives them passes. having to drive 5 hours to the nearest water source, to spend another 2 hours filling up, and then another 5 hour drive back every month is galling when there's a natural stream nearby that the local gov't makes illegal to take from.
i wanted to see if the grass was greener in the core of several cities and found that, yes, very much so for someone like me.
You write about (a quite shitty) reality, but the picture is somewhat of a dream, everyone is projecting their own wishes all around it. Running water, electricity, in the vicinity of supermarket/restaurant/pharmacy… it’s all there, in magic country land.
I am also a city person. I love disconnecting for holidays, but then I am back with similar minded friends, in a city with all city commodities and I don’t think I would switch.
Yeah this is why I’d like to be close enough to civilization to have city water.
But if you actually threaten my family’s right to stay alive, you just lost yours. I have no qualms about being a psychopath if I have to.
Just leave me the fuck alone.
the ticks have gotten so bad in recent years, it's actually a main reason I wouldn't want to move farther out from the city.
my dogs are too low to the ground and too fluffy to find the many ticks on them after being outside. hell they get ticks even inside city limits (in the green spaces) here.
we stopped taking a wonderful forest route at my parents' with them because it's just not worth finding ticks on them over the next 48 hours and having them crawl out onto you at night
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You don't need A/C.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
Edit: I meant that you don't need A/C in a cottage like the one pictured, not that A/C is unnecessary altogether. I used to live in Texas. No A/C will literally kill you in Texas, but in a wooded mountain cottage surrounded by trees like that, you don't really need it. In my house in WY, the hottest it ever gets inside is 78 with low humidity. Below is the current temp in my room, with computers running, at 2:22PM.
I live in the U.K., no one has AC. Some people will say you don’t need AC. If it was free, or even reasonably affordable, and easy, do you know what I’ve had this summer?
Edit; edited for clarity.
I also live in the UK. The last few years I’ve been tempted to buy a portable AC. Just as I go to spend £300, the weather turns and I decide to spend money on other stuff (like food)
We had that heat wave just after Easter this year, much earlier than I remember, that was the final straw. Bought one on marketplace for £180.
Every night going to bed the sheets are crisp and cool. I sleep like a baby.
The biggest downside? Damn those things are pricey to run
You don’t need A/C.
Eh, it's REALLY nice to have right now with daytime highs in the upper 90s. It's even nicer when it's both hot and humid.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
So do I.
Source: I live in Wyoming.
No you don't Wyoming doesn't exist. Garfield told me so.
Yeah, no.
While you might not need it, everyone has a different temperature tolerance and for some people, it is absolutely a requirement.
You don't need AC now.
I live in Vancouver Canada, and up until like 2005 none of the lower density developments (townhouses and low rise apartments) had air conditioning because no one really needed it. Our townhouse for example even has windows that aren't compatible with window air conditioners and no one minded until fairly recently. All that's changed really quickly and now everyone is scrambling for air conditioning with heat waves getting worse every year.
Me, living in Wyoming with gigabit fibre:
Yes it's a bit of a flex but I sold everything I owned in order to own a humble old house here and I am proud of it. Cow poop walls? No regrets.
Aha! I suspected you'd comment.
Can confirm, the internet here is decent and it's pretty far from people
Nothing consistent. I probably should pick a spot and do a roll-up of the last four years and then post more regularly. I did a little summary about a year ago here --> lemmy.ca/post/16843909/7896562
Since then we actually have installed a deep well, washer/dryer, and two more outbuildings. I'll try to reply to your comment in the next few days with more details if you are interested.
I also post completely randomly as Bo7a@loops.video and mstdn.ca/@solace
SolaceHomestead (@solace@mstdn.ca)
100 Posts, 71 Following, 80 Followers · Solace is a new homesteading effort being taken on by a married couple. It sits on just over 5 acres in Southern Quebec, Canada. In April of 2022 it was just forest and a creek.Mastodon Canada
Would like a variant on this, the bugs and darkness of the woods would drive me insane:
- On a field, farming optional
- Add a soldering station, solar panels, well with pump, and septic tank
- Perimeter tripwires and defense (nobody's coming to help if something happens)
- Tornado shelter with medical supplies and a healthy supply of 3D filament
And I'll finally be able to complete everything on my bucket list that doesn't involve travelling.
No need of AI if you have money
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The spiders tend to stay out of the house. But everything outside the house?
Yeah, spiders own that.
We get maybe 2 or 3 spiders in here every summer, and they get relocated. (unless they are on the ceiling above the bed, then they get dispatched.
I went and had a pile of kids so I have to do it everyday. Oh my god I’m tired.
And what was I thinking?
We have to kids and cook every day. We have about 12 dishes we cycle through, plus a new dish every couple of weeks. Plan for a week and shop for it accordingly.
Before the kids i would go to the local supermarket, that, regardless of the city i lived in, never was more than 10 Minutes away by foot. I'd figure out what i was feeling like cooking once i was
But it is nice to have other options, like ordering food, for the very lazy and very stressful days. This i would give up for a nice place in nature though.
You don’t understand actual honest to god hermits then.
My wisdom tooth is going to kill me because I’d rather die than have someone touch me. I’m not kidding.
I had appendicitis and barely noticed. I just felt like I had a mild case of gas for 3 days. I was lucky that I was with my ex at the time and she got worried, otherwise I might be dead and would barely have cared.
But then the year after that I broke my back and also only cared to go to the doctor after one month, so maybe I'm not the best example
I did see a guy make a cooler with a cistern, pump and radiator. Water in the cistern/well is cold most of the year. Guess you just have to drain it in the winter, but yeah I'd say batteries can be a money sink.
Also I did kill a lot of batteries by hooking them in parallel to a bad 12v battery, buuut that's just me saying battery system can go for a lot
If you live in the wilderness, you should have a boat.
Edit: yes I'm pretty sure I can order a boat for delivery, but if not you can always make something.
denying free speech
Not any different from the UK or USA
and the Tiananmen square massacre
That happened over thirty years ago. The USA wishes it could do that.
It's hardly North Korea or Russia.
El Salvador is doing a good job in solving their crime issue
Except you pulled a "but akshually ☝️🤓" when someone brought up the USA and Israel.
What does that even mean?
You can make a case both are worse than China
Feel free to make that case and present it to me.
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I would, but with electricity, water and no kids. You could with determination live alone here, but it's far from simple.
Fetching enough wood, harvesting (it takes heavy labor in a forest), protecting your food from wild animals, baking your products, like soap, clothes, maintaining you cabin, preparing and surviving winter, and i only covered a tiny part of everything.
But if you're truly ready, life like that can become a great source of happiness. Got that from a old local forest guard who tried to live like that for one year.
I did it for nearly 3 years with limited access.
You get over it eventually and start living life instead of watching other people live theirs.
I can't wait to unplug again.
A friend inherited off-grid property. I was already into the idea of homesteading and survivalism and had been building those skills sets for years. What started as a little bit of helping on the weekends turned into full time living. I didn't think I could do it and it was hard.
But now I know what I'm capable of and how much nicer life is when you live it. I've been back in regular society for a few years and my phone is still on 'do not disturb' mode all the time.
Yeah i have notifications silenced as they are a stupid distraction.
I have a tablet for work that I rarely use so I leave it for the kids to play on. Everytime i look at it there is hundreds of notifications from games they play. How are the kids meant to get anything done if they keep getting interrupted.
This right here. Just disappear into the woods and forget about the doomscroll in its entirety.
If one day you wake up in your cabin to a bright flash in the sky so be it, and least you had a good life.
May - blackflies
June - mosquitoes and blackflies
July - mosquitoes and deer flies
August - mosquitoes, deer flies, and horse flies
September - All of the above, and start to worry about stuff freezing.
October - Whew, I can finally work outside
November - Start the fire, and keep it going until April.
Ok where I live it's :
Jan - snow and first sunrise of the year
Feb - snow
Mar - snow
April - snow
May - snow followed by two weeks of thaw, last sunset for 2 months and one week of spring
Jun - warm but no bugs
Jul - where has all my blood gone (mosquitoes and horsefly) sun starts setting again
Aug - same exsanguination issues as July
SEP - too cold for bugs lol
Oct - snow
Nov - Snow last sunrise of the year
Dec - snow
A composting toilet is all I want and need.
- No clogging
- No splashing
- No waste of water
- No smell
I always hate to use a plumbed toilet when we visit friends or family.
1 stick to put your pants on and second one to fight off bears while u poop?
We basically have this in Ireland. Only instead of a log cabin its an old cottage in the middle of nowhere.
An old cottage with a gigabit connection.
Yeah my Father in Law basically has this… but significantly nicer (4bed, 4bath, full kitchen, running spring water, off-grid solar+batteries), up a mountain, surrounded by pine trees, with StarLink internet.
It’s amazing when we can go visit for a week or 2
For me and my friends it would be a bunch of small close islands, and then one larger community island in the middle.
I'm thinking something like in Sweden's Skärgård, where there are lots of such islands.
Nah the internet sucks no matter where you live. That cottage with a closed network or something like Secure Scuttlebutt/Manyverse in a little village would be cool though. The town library can have gigabit internet (for downloading media) and a shared local Jellyfin (& calibre, Navidrome, audiobookshelf, etc) server that can be accessed by anyone in town.
Want to play Live Service or online games? To the library.
Publish your website or music album or artwork outside of the local loop? To the library.
Online classes? To the library.
Return of the Dumb-arse!
As requested, – here is an update on my Linux adventure - the first week has gone by without incident and I'm not turning back!
The tl:dr summary: OMFG. This is probably the EASIEST OS install I’ve ever had – and that’s saying something - since most modern Linux distros are easy!
Reminder of who you’re reading right now – I’m a Windows veteran for the past 25 years and between work and home, I’ve used and supported every flavour from Win95 to Win11 and Server 03 to Server 22. I have installed well-north of 1000 instances in my time, deployed from Floppy, CD, USB, Ghost, WDS and more.
I have dabbled in Linux on-and-off over the years but always on secondary PCs so this is my first time rocking Linux on my primary. I’ve spent the last 12 months experimenting with Linux in preparation for the End-of-10 and this very moment. Testing different distros, Desktop Environments and philosophies while digging into proper Linux learning (not just ‘best Distro’ lists or reviews on YouTube). I’ve had several ‘lightbulb’ moments as I’ve come to learn more about Linux that make me feel like a n00b all over again and I’m loving it. You can read my other lightbulb moment in here.
The remainder of my home gear is already Window-free. Home server: (Unraid), laptop and TV box (Fedora Gnome & KDE respectively). These have all been cut over and running well for the past 6-months as I’ve really sunk my teeth into this new learning. Now that my last hurdle - Windows-only software requirement - is no holding me to Windows, I’m free at last!
Current state: Brand-new parts purchased - and since I couldn’t wait, it’s all hosted in a temporary case while I wait for stock of the exact case I want. Core7 Ultra, B860 and 5060ti for those that care.
Summary: This must be the easiest Linux distro I’ve ever used. Here is a breakdown of what happened:
- Installed Bazzite
- Log into the desktop
- Sign into Steam
- Download Doom 2016
- Play Doom 2016 in glorious ultra widescreen.
It really was that easy. No Drivers to install, no endless Windows updates, no mountains of software to install and configuration to remove all the garbage and regain privacy. Once I got eaten by a Pinky then I quit the game to continue my setup, just a handful of flat pack software installs required to fill the gaps but all that was done in about 20mins. In fact, downloading Doom took longer than the rest of it combined!
And fast! The new hardware helps obviously but I've forgotten how bloated office has become. Libre Office by comparison opens in half a second and everything feels so snappy. Nothing is snappy on Win11, not even notepad anymore.
I watched a very timely video on the weekend featuring a guy with fancy chest-hair and this really hit me where I lived (and worked). So many of Window’s ‘quirks’ are normalised while the same (or less) on Linux is seen as a problem. To paraphrase: we think nothing of editing registry, running PowerShell scripts or sacrificing small woodland creatures to remove built-in functions and apps, and endless other utilities to give us control over our system and yet, if we do anything like this in Linux, it's "too hardcore, not ready for mainstream".
I haven't touched the terminal at all, yet I have to the software I need and my entire PC is ready to use.
If you're someone who's been on the fence about Linux, please don't be. If you last tried it 5+ years ago, I encourage you to revisit. I honestly think Linux is about ready for the mainstream and I genuinely didn't think Bazzite would be this easy getting games going. A huge thank you to the Bazzite team and everyone who contribute to making Linux better and easier!!
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Glad to see it's going well :3
I've been on linux for years at this point, and it's such an astronomical upgrade over windows, that sometimes when I don't think while talking about PC stuff with people I forget that most people aren't using it, and it throws me off to hear them to refer to windows things lol
I used to fix computer problems for people a lot, for fun. Last week, I booted a Windows 11 laptop to help a friend and I was put off by EVERYTHING. The nagging popups, ads, the dubious ad-riddled webpages I have to visit to download apps. It's all crazy evil. And still people bullshit-bingo me that "Linux is so complicated, you need to learn so much" while constantly fighting off predatory shit from soulless corporations. They don't even know what using a computer that works for you means anymore.
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The nagging popups, ads, the dubious ad-riddled webpages I have to visit to download apps.
I still have to use Windows at work, and it advertising apps in the start menu and specific games to me with a notification popup in pro versions of the OS just blows my mind. This is a piece of software my company paid extra for, and it has ads all throughout...in a completely 'clean' install.
It's even worse since I end up using VMs at work, so I get to experience this over and over on each machine.
"Ghost"... That brought back memories, thank you.
Good story. And boy, I'm jealous of your first time, I wish I could go back, in a way. Keep going, it gets better.
This is really good to hear. As someone who hasn't used Windows since 2004, it's easy to lose perspective of how daunting a self-switch can feel.
I'm glad to hear your experience is going well. I know you're experiencing many little annoyances and things which seem harder than they should be, but are not focusing on those. It's always good to hear the perspective from a new user!
games or specialized software seem to be the thing that gates most people from using linux and it's nice to see such progress on the gaming side.
i myself gave it a shot with fedora on a new laptop and it was as smooth as you described it; the last time i tried it, it required several google searches and knowledge of how to convert from debian to fedora.
Agree - software is the greatest blocker these days. My recent software restriction was simply a tool I was only using for study.
I was still skeptical that it would be so easy as I've been burnt before by Linux on YouTube or articles that exclaim just how easy it is but I usually run into at least a couple of major issues that become a pain to overcome. Not so this time! Every PC I've cut over during this process has been painless.
Literally the only issue I've had to date was my monitor not waking from sleep - a minor fault that was fixed by selecting any colour profile that wasn't the default.
it clear that linux is improving and i wish it was still as open as it used to be given the american's gov't's mandate to kick out foreign developers and google closing their source on android.
it's still more open than the alternatives; but it's future trajectory is clear.
The desktop version of Bazzite is such a hidden gem in the Linux scene. Polished, fast, and no fuss. I rate it the best distro by a good margin, and I have tried many many distros.
How are you dealing with the immutable side of things? Was it easy to get your head around?
So far, so good but I haven't really thought about it since. It may not suit a purist, hardcore or someone who tweaks their system endlessly but for someone like me, I don't want to spend me free time fiddling, breaking, then fixing my home gear.
Until Win10, I never liked to "upgrade" any OS, preferring a clean slate approach and from what I understand, that's what I'll get here. A clean new OS with each upgrade that eliminates any gradual degradation due to a build up of clutter and abandoned packages. All while the flat packs and my data/config reside safely in the use partition (anyone, let me know if I've got this wrong!)
Amazon requires gov-ID photo before refund.
So I bought a product for €200 on Amazon.com. I am slightly ashamed of doing so but I did, didn't know where else to find this type of product. So after a few days they told me they would not be sending me the product for whatever reason. So I would be getting a refund. They said if I hadn't gotten the refund within 5 days I should contact support. So after 5 days I contacted support. And as soon as I did that, they sent me an email claiming that they require me to upload a picture of my "government issued identity document". They write that if I don't do that "You may continue shopping on Amazon, but you will no longer be eligible for a refund on the order ". Surely they have no right to do so right? They claim they've noticed some suspicious behavior on my account, but all I did was order a product, pay for it in advance, which they decided not to ever deliver to me. It's not me who's being suspicious here.
Anyone else had this experience? This a clear dealbreaker for me. I feel shame for ever having bought something from their store.
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Chase bank is a scam. Minimum balance of 1500 or 500 direct deposit monthly or that charge 12 dollars a month to have an account. They bill it yearly. So when 144 comes out of your account randomly and you call removed. That's when they tell you.
Fuck chase bank.
Amazon has a non-existent customer support, so you may have limited options.
If they had customer support, I'd suggest contacting them and tell them to either refund, or else you'd give them the ID immediately followed by a GDPR request to purge your data. That might have gotten some movement, because those GDPR requests have the force of law, and are also a fair PITA for Amazon. However, there's no way to give them a shot across the bow. I think your options are:
- process a charge-back, as someone else suggested, which might result in an Amazon ban
- take the loss (that's entirely your call, regardless of anyone else's opinion)
- give them the ID, get your refund
- you can still initiate a GDPR purge request. I'm going to guess it's going to result in a block, but maybe not. You might be able to recreate your account
The happy news is that you are protected by GDPR. Many of us are not, and don't even have the option to demand they purge the information.
I’m not sure how “suspicious behavior” could be relevant to a seller issuing you a refund.
"suspicious behavior" is just a BS term used for switching the blame back to the consumer. Kind of like "for your convenience, we are [removing a capability]" or "for your safety, we are [taking away a right.]" You are correct that it makes no sense.
(unless you go beg for mercy at the altar of Bezos)
The "one time one free gift" from amazon policy !
Won’t that blacklist your address from ever buying from amazon
So, win-win.
I recommend a very high quality laser projector !
Do not stop contacting Amazon customer support. Occupy their resources to the maximum.
Phone > Chat > Email
Record time spend and demand immediate compensation at your billing rate. Never accept contacting them back again at a later date.
Always demand their names, transcripts and email confirmation of any promises with exact match wording and check before hanging up. Then, use their own words against them.
That would vary from one jurisdiction to another, but I'm sure you can find guides best suited for your local laws.
As inspiration, here's what I sent to Amazon & Samsung last year (in a formal cease & desist format):
Amazon .com .ca ULC
40 King Street W 47th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 3Y2Samsung Electronics Canada Inc.
2050 Derry Road West
Mississauga, Ontario
L5N 0B9Montreal, April 26, 2024
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Dear Madam or Sir,
I purchased a Samsung 980 PRO SSD 2TB drive (model MZ-V8P2T0) on Amazon .ca on March 3, 2022, which broke on April 4, 2024. This product was used under normal conditions, and I believe it should be covered by the manufacturer’s 5-year warranty.
Several chat sessions with Amazon and Samsung support have failed to provide a solution, with each party referring the matter to the other.
I am requesting that you repair or exchange the product under the Consumer Protection Act regarding the legal warranty of the reasonable durability of a product. I am also requesting reimbursement of $25 to cover the cost of sending this letter.
Therefore, I am formally notifying you to resolve the above-mentioned issue within 10 days. Failing to do so may result in legal action against you without further notice or delay.
Lemon, ginger and lemon balm beer
Happy days! My new beer is done. This is a battle-tested recipe with lemons and ginger. This time I also had 10 g of fresh lemon balm in the seasoning infusion. This guy:
Works really great as a beer component, sharing to spotlight this herb with you all! There's a Wikipedia page that describes the many aromatic compounds it imparts. It's perennial (pic is from my garden), grows in a slightly invasive manner so you only need to plant very little to get enough for many brews. This was a warning 😀
Another new twist was a helping of Weyermann spelt wheat malt. I expected the nutty spelt flavour from it, but the taste profile ended up so multi-faceted that I'll need more tastings to pinpoint it 😁 All in all, a distinctive flavour to this beer. Fermented to bone dry very smoothly.
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Nice, Ill keep lemon balm in mind.
How big was this batch?
do you filter the beer at all when bottling?
Is your lemon balm separated from the rest of your garden or do you keep an eye on it and remove as needed?
How much longer do you ferment beer to get the dryness? I've fermented wine, but it rarely made it long enough to get rid of all the excess sugar.
Also for beer you have some unfermentable sugars, so you can't achieve driness by just fermenting, you have to use enzymes to break them down completely to fermentable ones.
So scientifically speaking it is dependent on the "substrate" (what you ferment) and yeasts.
As the others said, it comes down to how much alcohol the yeast will ultimately tolerate, if there is enough fermentable sugar to get to that point. I still don't do og / fg's, so my 'bone dry' was not a measured outcome, only perceived. I'm type 1 diabetic so I prefer no leftover sugar in my brews 😀
In this case, six days of fermentation followed by a hasty cold crash of two days was enough. The yeasties at work were a standard Finnish fresh yeast, 0,25 € at any grocery store and known to produce 10+ % ABV sahti brews. Speed comes from having a fair bit (25 g) of yeast in there and making a starter with it. I also ferment under pressure and at the cool-ish temp of 16 °C. There is 23 L of the stuff with 6,7 kg of malt, pretty strong stuff.
I filter the wort into the fermenter with reusable coffee filters. The fermenter doubles as a keg, so I only bottle on demand.
The lemon balm is in a garden bed, so yeah, I do battle with it. Hence the warning 😁 It makes good pesto too, so the battle is not too bad XD
Great idea! We're overrun with Lemon Balm!
How did you extract the flavour? Did you add it to the boil or make a vodka tincture or something?
In fact I'd really be up for trying this out if you'd care to share your recipe?
Absolutely! On mobile so I'll make this tight...
Mash is 18 L water, 6,7 kg of mostly blond malts, including 1 kg of Weyermann Spelt and 1 kg of Simpsons Premium English Cara for a little sweetness. 60 min BIAB mashing with strike temp at 71,2 °C.
Then there's the infusion: 3 L water heated to boil, off the hob, in with ingredients and let sit with lid on. This had 2 large organic lemons sliced thin, one smallish ginger sliced thin, 10 g lemon balm leaves and growth tips, 30 g Simcoe and 30 g Amarillo hops (pellets). It had about an hour and half to infuse.
One more thing was the yeast starter - 2 L water, 1 dL white sugar, 1 dL sugarcane syrup, pinch of yeast nutrient. Extra sugar there to feed the starter and offset the diluting effect of 5 L water added on top of the mashing.
Boiled the wort for 50 min, added 60 g Challenger hops at 45 min to go. The 3 L infusion went into the boil at about 10 min to go, flame up to allow a little boiling for that too.
One thing I might have changed in hindsight is a little less of the Amarillo and Simcoe in the infusion to leave more room for the lemony notes.
Would be great to hear how it went if you try this 😀
App for downsizing MP3s automatically when copying to a phone?
I'm ditching streaming services and just going with local music. However all my CDs are converted to either flac or 320kbps mp3 files on my PC and thus far too large for the limited storage I have on my phone.
I was hoping there might be an app that would automatically downconvert to something like 128kbps and then copy over to the Music directory on my phone. A bit like how Calibre can automatically convert eBook files (e.g. mobi to epub) and then send them to your ereader?
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I don't know about automatic, but I also have music locally on my phone after moving away from streaming services.
I use fre:ac to convert from FLAC to MP3, and then just save it in a separate folder. Then when I'm done I move the folder to the phone and delete it from the computer so I just have FLAC on my computer.
Not automatic, but that's how I usually do it.
This is a valid question, but it's hard to answer because it depends on the security of your own network. Tailscale creates a secure tunnel directly into your home network, but if your home network is compromised then it's not secure.
Could Tailscale be compromised? I think it would be difficult but not impossible. It's safe enough for personal use, certainly, but I wouldn't use it to protect state secrets.
And if you have it on your phone, and someone gets access to your phone, then they can access your home network. How secure is your phone? Do you use biometrics or a password keeper? Do you leave your laptop unlocked?
Security is a mixed topic, and it's impossible to pull one thread from the sweater without unraveling the whole thing. Sometimes the illusion of security is as effective as actually being secure, and sometimes it isn't at all.
Not automatic (I think) and a bit clunky but the Strawberry music player does have a transcode feature so you could select music files and transcode them a certain way output to another folder. It's not something I ever do but I did a quick test to a USB drive and it seems to work okay. It's an option if you opt to use a gui to click through.
OTOH if you're happy using the terminal and/or scripting then ffmpeg would be a better bet.
PS - Strawberry does have a panel where it lists "Devices" and maybe your phone could show up there and the transcoding would work a bit more automatically, wasn't able to test that here.
Might not be the most convenient option depending on your personal use-case, but have you considered a dedicated audio device? I personally got a refurbished LG V30 because I came across a YT vid while looking for cheap options for having a dedicated "mp3" player to keep archived/favorite episode of podcasts, audiobooks, and music. Seems there is a decent fanbase of folks that love the 3.5mm DAC that phone has (of course has Bluetooth too). It also has microSD slot. Got a 512GB card (can use up to 2TB which I might do at some point). Most of the music I have on it is flac where possible. I keep it offline and just transfer files via USB, but could use wifi to sync with PC if I wanted to at some point. Shit lasts a pretty long time with wifi/bluetooth off only using the headphone jack (helps that the battery was replaced by the refurb).
There are also lots of cheaper Android-based players (I got one before I came across the vid on the V30) but can have some amount of malware and no easy access to their firmware or communities that can advise custom ROMs to safely flash something clean and/or newer. When I got my no-name device I just side-loaded apks to avoid giving access to my Google account (though I plan to keep my V30 offline after I got the last updates for the OS and LG apps). I just wanted to have something that I only use for local audio and just keep it in my car or backpack and have access to the three apps I like (Musicolet for music, Podcast Addict for podcasts, and Smart AudioBook Player for my audiobooks).
If your device supports it, you might want to encode to Opus instead. Opus produces much higher quality files at much smaller file sizes than MP3.
For example, Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent when compared to the source file. You can probably go down to 64-96kbps when its just for playback in your car.
wiki.xiph.org/Opus_Recommended…
As for transcoding them, you might want to check out ffmpegfs: github.com/nschlia/ffmpegfs
It can create a "virtual" drive based on your source files and automatically transcodes them when you drag & drop files from there onto your device.
GitHub - nschlia/ffmpegfs: FUSE-based transcoding filesystem with video support from many formats to FLAC, MP4, TS, WebM, OGG, MP3, HLS, and others.
FUSE-based transcoding filesystem with video support from many formats to FLAC, MP4, TS, WebM, OGG, MP3, HLS, and others. - nschlia/ffmpegfsGitHub
Navidrome does that. You have to setup a PC, or a raspberry Pi with navidrome, and then use a client like Symfonium (costs $5, not open source, but it's the best subsonic client out there), and tell it to automatically downconvert music when played via the phone. I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+, with just 1 GB of RAM, running navidrome. DietPi + navidrome (which is installable directly via dietpi's software selection), together they take just 80-120 MB of RAM!
I had Jellyfin before that, and Emby, and they were dogs. 1 GB of RAM was not enough for them, they'd swap with an additional 200-300 MB of RAM. And they were slow with large music libraries too. Navidrome/Subsonic don't have such issues. Big music libraries are handled fast with their db/engine.
If you prefer to not use a server, there are encoding shell scripts that do batch-encoding: github.com/caleis/flac2mp3/blo…
flac2mp3/flac2mp3.sh at master · caleis/flac2mp3
Scripts to batch convert FLAC to MP3 files and build libraries - caleis/flac2mp3GitHub
Tempo is a good open-source player for Android that works well with Navidrome.
On iOS, Arpeggi is good, but not open source (I think). It's still under development, but I don't think it's missing any major features at this point.
GitHub - CappielloAntonio/tempo: An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. - CappielloAntonio/tempoGitHub
That’s a shame. Has the developer stated this, or is it just based on the lack of activity?
There seems to be a fork planning to continue the work. It was updated only a few hours ago.
GitHub - eddyizm/tempo: An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. - eddyizm/tempoGitHub
For lower bitrates, I'd suggest using a different codec than MP3. Opus is really solid, and at 128 kbps it will probably get you quality similar to MP3 at 192 kbps. Or you could go lower, and 96 kbps with Opus will be similar to MP3 at 128 kbps. I don't know an app that will do it automatically, but the CLI tools are really simple to use: you point them at the FLAC and tell it the target bitrate and that's it.
Alternatively, if you have access to a macOS machine, their AAC encoder is really good and likely superior to any MP3 encoder at equivalent bitrates.
Opus Codec
Opus, the open standard, high quality codec. Presentation, documentation, comparison with other formats, download links, source code repository.opus-codec.org
This, @Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works.
I'm an audio engineer and can confirm that if you want the best quality audio for the file size, you want Opus. Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent, so it's roughly as good as 320kbps MP3s, but y'know, less than half the size.
Hey! Good to know about the 128 kbps threshold.
What's your take on MP3 bitrates? I've read some posts online claiming that 320 kbps is overkill most of, if not all of, the time. They claimed that there is little to no gain going above around 220 kbps. In your experience, is there any truth to this?
Generally this is true, but it depends on the encoder used. Back during the huge boom of MP3 popularity in the late 90s and early 00s, it likely did make a difference, so if you're looking at MP3s that were encoded back then I would go for 320kbps every time just to be safe, but modern encoders generally do much better like you said.
These days if I were encoding an MP3 I'd use LAME at -V0 setting, letting it lower the bitrate where it can without sacrificing quality. That said, per this test from 2014 that I found as a source on Wikipedia, a 96kbps VBR Opus file is at least as good if not better than an MP3 with -V 5 as the setting on LAME with approximately a 135kbps bitrate.
AAC is more widely supported than Opus and sits closer to Opus than MP3 in terms of compression efficiency, but still trails Opus in that category.
Still, better than MP3 for sure.
Have you considered self-hosting Plexamp? It supports lossless quality and lets you both steam and download your music at any bitrate you want (even 128 if you really have to, but fuck me that hurts to type.
That's what I do, and before long trips with spotty service I'll download a dozen albums or so in flac so I've got a decent lossless selection for flights/etc
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Well, it's not great to take an already compressed audiostream like 320kbps mp3, and then compress it again. Use your FLACs if possible. Then, I'd recommend that you use .ogg - they give better compression (smaller files), but with better sound than mp3...
There's a lot of apps out there, but AFAIK not anyone who does this automatically for you.
It's not really an "App" but tools like ffmpeg or sox or lame can do that no problem. It might take a while to convert your entire collection though ... but depending on the size might just take a night or, few nights.
If you have a ridiculously large collection and do want it "on demand" you could also use e.g. inotify to monitor directories, e.g. ~/Music/ForPhone/ so that any file added to that directory gets converted.
FWIW I'd use a phone with a microSD card as those days one can get a 1To for less than 100€ so probably no conversion needed even for a large collection.
Edit: based on a recent conversation I'd try transcoding capabilities of LMS github.com/epoupon/lms cf lms-demo.poupon.dev/settings from their demo instance
GitHub - epoupon/lms: Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.
Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface. - epoupon/lmsGitHub
This might be a bit overkill for what you want but you could try using a selfhosted music server like navidrome and streaming to your phone. I use symfonium on on phone which can be configured to request the streamed music to be transcoded to a smaller size for streaming from mobile network or for caching it on your phones storage for offline listening.
Given that symfonium supports a lot of self hosted media providers from which to pull, you could also try sharing your music locally using samba. I'm not sure if the transcoding still works in that case though (it would obviously have to be done on your phone)
I would sooner suggest that you find a decent hosting service of free storage or just shove a decent sized microSD into your phone. Lossless music is the way to go. I started doing the mp3 thing quite a long time before most of the world even knew what they were, having been on the pirating scene early in the 90s. So back then I got most of my music in highly compressed mp3. But in the recent years I’ve been slowly replacing all of it with lossless format and it sounds SO MUCH better.
So while I hope you get your answer, should you choose to go that route as you’ve tentatively planned, I’d just suggest you pause a moment and rethink whether it’s the route to go. MicroSD chips are very cheap, and if you have an iPhone so it’s not an option, you could get a cheapie Android phone with a slot and use that for music. You can get a nice small device several years old online for like $15. I even have quite a few I could provide you with one if you wanted.
"Downsizing" an mp3 is what we call transcoding, and it's bad. An mp3 (or the better ogg vorbis) works (basically) by discarding parts of the audio that you won't hear. Doing that will discard parts of the mp3 that already has a bunch of parts discarded and this makes it sound bad.
I do something like what you're looking for, but it's all through a bunch of custom scripts and crap that I made. I buy flac, encode that to ogg (which sounds better than mp3s at lower bitrates), those oggs get synced to my phone, then later I organize those oggs to my collection.
I think you'll have to either accept these large mp3s or start a lossless collection.
So... if I ditch my MP3s (@ 320k) and use Ogg + Opus (@ ...? bps?), then I'd have the same / "better" music in less storage space?
Does that work ok with Picard, etc as I'm a bit OCD with metadata
I'm in a similar boat to you. I ripped almost all of my CDs to 320kbps mp3s for portability, but then I wanted to put all of them (a substantial number) plus a bunch more (my partner's collection) on a physically tiny USB stick (that I already had) to just leave plugged into our car stereo's spare port. I had to shrink the files somehow to make them all fit, so I used ffmpeg and a little bash file logic to keep the files as mp3s, but reduce the bitrate.
128kbps mp3 is passable for most music, which is why the commercial industry focused on it in the early days. However, if your music has much "dirty" sound in it, like loud drums and cymbals or overdriven electric guitars, 128kbps tends to alias them somewhat and make them sound weird. If you stick to mp3 I'd recommend at least 160kbps, or better, 192kbps. If you can use variable bit rate, that can be even better.
Of course, even 320kbps mp3 isn't going to satisfy audiophiles, but it sounds like you just want to have all your music with you at all times as a better alternative to radio, and your storage space is limited, similar to me.
As regards transcoding, you may run into some aliasing issues if you try to switch from one codec to another without also dropping a considerable amount of detail. But unless I've misunderstood how most lossy audio compression works, taking an mp3 from a higher to a lower bitrate isn't transcoding, and should give you the same result as encoding the original lossless source at the lower bitrate. Psychoacoustic models split a sound source into thousands of tiny component sounds, and keep only the top X "most important" components. If you later reduce that to the top Y most important components by reducing the bitrate (while using the same codec), shouldn't that be the same as just taking the top Y most important components from the original, full group?
If your files are flac and you just want to.copy some files you could try Mp3fs
That'll make your files appear to be MP3 when you access them
You could them use a file transfer mechanism to read them from the mp3fs location onto your phone with - kinda - one step.
GitHub - khenriks/mp3fs: FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3
FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3 - khenriks/mp3fsGitHub
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postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera
postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
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it bothers me immensely that javascript backed Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware is the default on underpowered mobile hardware, making Android and iOS level fluidity practically unattainable in the foreseeable future.
edit: I run pmOS on a SDM845 with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, tried em all on edge (gnome, plasma, phosh, plasma mobile) and it's a 5 fps stuttering mess. that's before I load something to said RAM, like a browser or (dog forbid) an electron app.
Javascript isnt the problem, its a problem of priority.
Gnome obviously isnt made primarily for low performance devices.
It will improve over time i think. If the time and efforts of unpaid volunteers continue to be invested into it.
And also idk if you were running with hardware acceleration? Makes a big difference.
You are doing something wrong.
Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware
I was referring to this statement.
My Rockchip 3399 powered former Chromebook (now running proper Linux) from 2017 runs Gnome smoothly with Wayland, not with Xorg.
That's reasonable to directly compare with phones from 2017; it's slower than a Pixel 2. Mine actually benchmarks a little slower than the reference board linked here.
It isn't working as it should be if it doesn't run smoothly on more powerful hardware, but it's not necessarily a matter of the end user "doing something wrong". Sometimes it takes effort to get a particular combination of hardware and software to run smoothly even though it should work.
Rockchip RK3399 Excavator Board edp avb (Android) vs Snapdragon 835 [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software
Comparing Rockchip RK3399 Excavator Board edp avb (Android) vs Snapdragon 835www.cpubenchmark.net
I hope it will be daily drivable in a few years.
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The india painted by american tiktok feed is very different than actual India as a south asian country.
South Indians morbidly feel bad for the US citizens currently
Indians make up like 17% of the world's population so one would imagine so.
I've also run into many people who claim to be Indian here so I don't doubt it.
This is inaccurate. The piss goes on Americans and America.
He helped align Iran to Russia during his first term and does the same with India now.
What Are Your Experiences With Crypt.ee?
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I use it for docs only and quite like it. My biggest complaints are that it doesn't support the dark mode setting server-side, which is quite annoying, and that you have to convert to PDF to print dark mode files, aaaand that if you type in your encryption key it will automatically log you in before you're able to tick the "save this device" setting.
Very minor, really. But I use Immich for photos so I can't speak to that. I'd probably opt for Ente if I were looking for managed hosting.
So I tried windows tiling...
And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top.
Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while.
It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.
How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?
I believe pop does a river style tiling system. Look up videos on Niri, Cosmic, or PaperWM.
There are many other tiling types too. River is however my favorite and I think most intuitive. Other popular ones are Sway, i3, and HyprLand.
Edit: my bad, seems like I misunderstood. PopOS used/is still using GNOME and has a Auto-Tiling plugin that behaves like i3wm (?). I guess this is what OP is talking about!
Not entirely sure what you mean. PopOS, developed by System76, uses the Cosmic DE, which is itself also developed by System76.
River is a dynamic tiling WM which is known for it's customizability among Wayland WMs, as it doesn't distinguish itself with it's "layout generator" (though it does come with a very basic one), but instead let's the user write their own or use an existing, third-party one. This way you can achieve essentially any dynamic tiling behavior with River.
How does PopOS use a system like that? Or do you mean that Cosmic is DWM-style, i.e., dynamic and with tags?
I do agree that River is wonderful though!
And PaperWM is a gnome plugin I thought was developed by System76 as a prototype for Cosmic.
Edit: seems i just made that up too lol
I've tried out a bunch, but at the moment I've mainly been playing around with hyprland, cause it's also a dynamic tiler and im used to that layout now
The main advantage to me tbh is that certain windows don't overflow the assigned tile space like in pop-shell (this is also fixed in cosmic), but there are other things like having all your move/resize actions on the main mod layer instead of needing to enter adjust mode (super + enter is the default keybind on pop-shell), and the fact it uses wayland instead of x11
Of course there are also things that can be downsides depending on how you see it, like the fact it's a TWM not a desktop, which means if you want to adjust any setting you'll need to manually adjust config files, and that it doesn't come with things like a top bar or app launcher etc. So it can take a while to get up and running
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What do you use it for?
Everything? Lol. I mean.. I just run my desktop in hyprland, no matter what im doing. Which for me I guess is gaming, drawing, some coding, and writing.. oh and tinkering with linux (though honestly I mostly do that in VMs)
How much does it make your experience better?
I'd say it's an improvement over GNOME 😛.. though I have enough issues with the configs that I wouldn't really recommend it unless you have issues with GNOME that majorly bother you.. or unless you use one of the premade dotfile configs that people make lol..
For me being able to adjust the windows with my keyboard without needing to enter a special mode for it, and having windows forced into the tile size was worth it, as it was something that was a pet peeve of mine (and now I get to be annoyed by trying to set up my waybar vertically, tradeoffs lol)
Not quite hah :3
It's actually not one of the things I've tried when looking for the best DE/WM for me, though I might at some point just to see if im missing out on anything
Windows Tiling is just having specific zones or regions defined on the screen where windows can be placed or configured to open in, correct?
I should try it out. There is a part of me that wonders if it would be worth it on a 1080p 15in laptop screen.
Yeah, it was a revelation when I discovered tiling. I was always doing work with two windows open, and i'd spend so much time fiddling and resizing the windows. Then i'd open a third window and wouldn't know what to do with it.
I used i3 for many years and switched to sway when migrating to wayland. It does what I need and see no reason to try hyprland or other tilers.
This first paragraph is so me.
Any good wayland implementation? I'm OS hopping to fedora kinoite. I never used tiling now I see the difference from your reply. I'm the dummy.
That's where workspaces come in place, I usually have a single full screen application per workspace, so Meta+1 is my browser, Meta+3 is my IDE, Meta+4 is slack, etc. Some workspaces have more than one application, e.g. I usually keep a few terminals in Meta+2.
This means that I usually work with things occupying all of my screen and in a short keystrokes I'm in whatever I want to be. But if I ever need to open a terminal or a random application it will occupy half my screen and whatever I was doing would resize to the other half, so I never have to grab my mouse to move stuff over to be able to see what I was doing.
I usually have a single full screen application per workspace
Forgive my ignorance but doesn't that just defeat the purpose?
It depends, up to four works for some apps depending on monitor size, but otherwise I do the same thing as @Nibodhika@lemmy.world.
Overlapping window managers, the most common type in use by far, just seem crazy to me. Windows almost never use the available monitor space, and they have to constantly be wrangled around each other so that… you can drag something instead of using the clipboard, I guess?
I use this for KDE tilling github.com/anametologin/krohnk…
Edit: It is the active fork of krohnkite, the official repo is dead since 2022.
GitHub - anametologin/krohnkite: A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
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You could try also:
- GNOME PaperWM, a GNOME extension with tiling and endless horizontal scrolling
- niri
- StumpWM, a tiling WM with Emacs-like keybindings (and zero eyecandy and waste of screen estate)
- HerbstluftWM
Yup, came here to mention PaperWM. I used xmonad in the past, but I executed it on top of Mate to have an "easy" desktop environment.
Nowadays Gnome extensions providing tiling is the equivalent "easy" method. Gnome is not for everyone, but it works out of the box- then you add the fancy tiling window management on top.
For people who have bounced off systems that require much more set up, I think they are a good option.
I've used i3wm for a long time now before switching to hyprland.
The top useful thing: Workspaces. Even without tiling, workspaces give a massive productivity boost.
You can have email clients open on one, monitoring systems on another, browsing on a third, gaming on a fourth.
When you combine with tiling, everything is in its own perfect space and nothing overlaps.
This is especially useful on single-monitor or laptop setups as you don't need multiple monitors to keep track of everything.
I also see people struggle with notifications tiling.
You probably don't want a bluetooth connected message to take up half your screen, so you'll want to make sure to properly configure those things.
At least in i3wm/hyprland, you can use the window class name to exclude a window from tiling (ex. for_window [class="mako"] floating enable or windowrulev2 = float,class:^(mako)$).
Buy a large 4k tv (like 48"+) to use as a monitor and use it without scaling. It'll have similar DPI to am average 2.5k monitor, but you'll have way more real-estate.
Window tiling lets you break the large display surface up into reasonably sized pieces.
Pop OS tiling is awesome. What I always try to do on tiling WM: set workspaces and spawn specific applications on specific workspaces. Not sure if Pop OS can do it, but on i3/dwm/sway...etc. you can freely spawn your applications wherever you like.
Try to play around with those DIY tiling environment. You will have a lot of fun if you like tinkering with stuff. Maybe one day you will run EXWM
How to make the most of it?
Use workspaces, I almost never used it before because I was set in my ways, but after switching to tiling WM it's a must and increases productivity by a LOT, I've grown so used to it that using windows with a mouse feels super clunky and cluttered.
Neigsendoig (my producer) and I have used i3 for a while... and we've probably stayed on that since we first started using WMs.
That said, we've attempted the likes of Xmonad (configured in Haskell), Awesome (configured in Lua), HerbstluftWM, BSPWM, Hypr (not Hyprland), JWM, Ratpoison and even SXWM.
Neigsendoig and I wouldn't recommend any Wayland compositor due to new security risks (despite an attempt to fix X11 security issues), though a lot of people want Wayland to be shoved down our throats. We personally use X11 due to many things that Wayland devs can't/won't fix.
This is also part of the reason why the two of us are excited about XLibre (as much as some will hate the control of IBM, GNOME and FreeDesktop with their Wayland, Systemd and PipeWire push). Sure, its main developer left the project from what we've heard, but otherwise, there are a lot of contributions to it, and it will improve big time.
dotfiles/awesome at master · cleac/dotfiles
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100%. Learning a crossplatform thing is always better, especially when using proprietary OS.
How useful is tmux as compared to regular tiling? It might be a bit janky, I suppose.
🐝 Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match
Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match
Indian auto parts billionaire Sunjay Kapur died after reportedly swallowing a bee during a polo match at the Queen’s Cup in Windsor.Luis Prada (VICE)
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The bee took one for the team.
With any luck, there's a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.
Late reply: humanresourcesonline.net/us-te…
In the photo: Coldplay's Singer.
US tech company Astronomer's CEO resigns after being caught having an affair with CPO at Coldplay concert
Meanwhile, Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to serve as interim CEO.Human Resources Online
He deserves a goddamned posthumous award. There will never a death more ‘billionaire’ than this. I mean this is cartoon level, over the top, absurdist level perfection.
I mean tell me, if you just saw the headline “Man dies after swallowing a bee at a Polo match” that your reaction is anything but “I wonder which billionaire that was.”
Little dude makes us honey, AND kills our oppressors?? May you spend eternity in an infinite field of wildflowers.
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There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.
None of these imaginary points matter.
(Lemmy is rad)
Do upvotes even matter? They are just indicators of good/bad but that doesn't prove anything. It's up to the perceiver to declare.
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and morewww.phoronix.com
Or, ORRRR....just do the stuff yourself and don't further perpetuate this dumbshit until it doesn't require an entire months worth of energy for an efficient home to run to search "Hentai Alien Tentacle Porn" for you.
Buncha savages.
search “Hentai Alien Tentacle Porn” for you
This is suspiciously specific 🙂
I haven't tested this but TBH as someone who has run Linux at home for 25 years I love the idea of an always alert sysadmin keeping my machine maintained and configured to my specs. Keep my IDS up to date. And so on.
Two requirements:
1 Be an open source local model with no telemetry
2 Let me review proposed changes to my system and explain why they should be made
2) You can certainly have unattended updates without an LLM in the mix.
Even if it was open source (it isn't, because no model is really open source ultimately) and even if it let you review what it says it's gonna do, AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.
Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn't...
Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn't...
I wouldn't trust a Sales team member with database permissions, either. This is why we have access control in sysadmin. That AI had permission to operate as the user in Replit's cloud environment. Not a separate restricted user, but as that user and without sandboxing. That should never happen. So, if I were managing that environment I would have to ask the question: is it the AI's fault for breaking it or is it my fault for allowing the AI to break it?
AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.
So are interns. I don't think you can hate the tool for it being misused, but you certainly can hate the user for allowing it.
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Do you use IDCS? If not, why not?
Have you taken care of automating encryption and backup to cloud?
There's a new open source shared media server, are you interested in configuring, securing, and testing it?
It's mostly set and forget, Earth is mostly harmless, etc
Idk why people don't read the article before commenting.
Newelle supports interfacing with the Google Gemini API, the OpenAI API, Groq, and also local large language models (LLMs) or ollama instances for powering this AI assistant.
So you configure it with your prefered model which can include a locally run one. And it seems to be its own package not something built into gnome itself so you an easily uninstall it if you won't use it.
Seems fine to me. I probably won't be using it, but it's an interesting idea. Being able to run terminal commands seems risky though. What if the AI bricks my system? Hopefully they make you confirm every command before it runs any of them or something.
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While I definitely do not want a LLM (especially not Open AI or whatever) to have access to my terminal or other stuff on my PC, and in general don't have any use for that, I find it cool that something like this is available now.
Remember, it's totally optional and nobody forces you to download that stuff. You have the choice to ignore it, and that's the great thing about Linux!
While I definitely do not want a LLM (especially not Open AI or whatever) to have access to my terminal or other stuff on my PC, and in general don't have any use for that, I find it cool that something like this is available now.
Remember, it's totally optional and nobody forces you to download that stuff. You have the choice to ignore it, and that's the great thing about Linux!
I've had good experience with smollm2:135m. The test case I used was determining why an HTTP request from one system was not received by another system. In total, there are 10 DB tables it must examine not only for logging but for configuration to understand if/how the request should be processed or blocked. Some of those were mapping tables designed such that table B must be used to join table A to table C, table D must be used to join table C to table E. Therefore I have a path to traverse a complete configuration set (table A <-> table E).
I had to describe each field being pulled (~150 fields total), but it was able to determine the correct reason for the request failure.
The only issue I've had was a separate incident using a different LLM when I tried to use AI to generate golang template code for a database library I was wanting to use.
It didn't use it and recommended a different library.
When instructed that it must use this specific library, it refused (politely).
That caught me off-guard. I shouldn't have to create a scenario where the AI goes to jail if it fails to use something.
I should just have to provide the instruction and, if that instruction is reasonable, await output.
While I appreciate the liberals calling balls and strikes in the Trump administration I am frustrated at this point that that is all that is being done.
Like, there is a point at which pointing to a broken judicial, electoral, and economic system and saying "hey! They are fucking this up" is just a shield to that administration to make people feel like something is being done to resist it. And they are not.
It's like, if I was a investigator and I kept pointing to the stabbing victim and saying "I know exactly who is at fault!" But I never actually opened a case and those guilty never saw their day in court. All I did was give people a false sense that justice would be served when they saw the victim. So, those that heard me shout "I know who is at fault" are left with the false satisfaction of justice (or at the very least resistance) and never look much beyond that and continue with their life wondering why there are so many people on the street getting stabbed still.
That's what it feels like when I listen to the Democratic party and it's leadership. It feels like they are the party of "acknowledging bad things" and nothing more.
Like, you can call balls and strikes. But if you're going to tell us for years that "Trump is a threat to democracy" and have zero plan or effort to throw him out of the game when he charges the pichters mound. Then you're not an "umpire" for democracy. You're just an announcer in a game without an ump.
Edit: sorry, double analogy in my scattered brain.
As someone with a career in manufacturing who lived in the rust belt most of my life: I knew I was fucked financially each time Trump won, even without the needing to move to avoid hostile laws. What American manufacturing needs is affordable housing, reasonable trade, subsidies to start, and to accept that thr future of american manufacturing is high tech manufacturing that relies on our high numbers of engineers and our skilled tradespeople. Well paid, unskilled manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, but sensible forward thinking policies can ensure we have plenty of jobs designing, building, operating, and maintaining advanced and modern manufacturing systems.
Also the fact that our currency is highly valued isnt the best strategy for manufacturing, but it's an excellent strategy for other industries like finance and provides us a powerful ability to purchase foreign goods.
two PMOS installs with LUKS
So I'm trying to setup peppermint os , I have two disks and I want them both to have full disk encryption. After a couple of reinstalls using different approaches, searches and llm questions , still can't get it to work.
First boot gets to encryption of SDA (I believe) , then to grub menu and I'm able to load the first one.
Managed to get new entries but then I get: server error you need to load the kernel first.
I believe both installs are fine and that it is a LUKS thing. UEFI, disabled secure boot.
Sda1 EFI
Sda2 root
Sdb1 EFI
Sdb2 root
Maybe EFI should only be on one of them?
You want to install the same OS twice? But booting the first one doesn't work?
Two EFIs are fine, if you want to switch using your motherboard's boot selection. If you want to switch between the two using Grub one unencrypted boot partition after the first EFI is probably easier. But if your motherboard's boot loader is easy to reach using that to switch is probably the easiest way.
But apparently you cannot even boot into one OS. i would abandon all thoughts of two OSs and concentrate on getting one to boot. Did it work before you installed the second one?
SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound AI, Inc., a California-based innovator in voice artificial intelligence, has quietly accelerated the future of in-car communication.Bryan Johnston (auto connected car news)
Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/45358033
Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocatesThe software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.
Palantir was founded in 2003 in the United States, notably by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is known for his libertarian and conservative positions, his closeness to US President Donald Trump and his criticism of liberal democracies.
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They're pointing to the other states already doing it.
Here's hoping our constitutional court will get around to this quickly.
I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it with the criminal prosecution clause.
Great.
I stand with Israel
Whether or not an ethnostate is good depends on the ethnicity of the people of the ethnostate.
(/s, it is POV of a racist)
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The American civil war was about states rights (states right to white supremacy)
Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
States rights people hate it when pointing out slavery was enshrined in the state constitutions as a requirement for being part of the confederacy.
Or when showing the south was pushing the north to ignore their states rights by forcing them to only follow southern slavery laws
this is rather dumb considering Israel is more ethnically diverse than any of it's neighbors
73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank
21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers "Arab")
[2] An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as "others". This diverse group comprises those with Jewish ancestry but not recognized as Jewish by religious law, non-Jewish family members of Jewish immigrants, Christians other than Arabs and Armenians, and residents without a distinct ethnic or religious categorization.[2][1]
In a 2012 ruling by the Supreme Court on the issue, some of the judges on the panel discussed demography, and were inclined to accept that demography is a legitimate consideration in devising family reunification policies that violate the right to family life.Those in favor of the law say the law not only limits the possibility of the entrance of terrorists into Israel, but, as Ze'ev Boim asserts, allows Israel "to maintain the state's democratic nature, but also its Jewish nature" (i. e., its Jewish demographic majority).
Ethnically diverse? Motherfucker, they're all kinds of WHITE EUROPEANS. It occupies Palestine with that in mind, using religion to hide behind it and justify it.
The other 30 percent were either kidnapped children from various operations (with the help of the West) that grew up to be dogs of the Euroanglo-zionazis and become Zionazis themselves or straight up opportunist compradors from all around the world. Oh and to top it off, they sterilize them no matter how much they try to be a good dog, because they're not white enough.
That's not diversity, that's a settler-colonial ethnostate playing population control, trying to get just enough brown to justify their occupation to the public, but not too much to maintain Pan-Europa whiteness.
considering Israel is more ethnically diverse
Apartheid South Africa was ethnically diverse...... Still an ethno-state.
Ethno-states aren't defined as lacking diversity, they are defined by an ethnic creating and maintaining a dominant hierarchy of that diversity.
It's because he's attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.
While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn't expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.
Context and nuance is important.
it started inthe 70's and passed all the ratification hurdles in 2020; that's how long people have been trying to push for it and proves how little things change within the american system.
in typical democrat fashion, biden made much ado about ratifying it, but without supporting it against the technical hangups so that it would die on its own and doing so paved the way for project 2025.
the democrats kept control of the house for the entirety of biden's tenure as president while they had control of the senate for half of it and the aca fell apart anyways despite the democrats having a majority .... again.
no one expects the republicans to follow through on welfare programs, so it's silly to hold them to account on it on something like the equal rights amendment; the democrats do claim to care and that's why we expect progress from them.
maybe your expectations for Republicans are too low
i almost forgot why i had instance blocked .ml on my lemm.ee account and neglected to do so on my piefed account. my bad. i keep getting reminded what a waste of time it is to talk to tankie chuds.
Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements from ex-Russian leader Medvedev
You don’t really need to reposition nuclear subs as a show of power - that’s not how they work.
They play a specific role in nuclear deterrence, in that they stay hidden and provide retaliation capability in case the mainland gets attacked and nuclear silos in Montana, etc. get destroyed.
Yeah we can nuke the goddamn moon with a missile controlled from earth. We have hypersonic jets that can carry nuclear payloads from bases all across the planet. Those are the first strike legs of the nuclear triad. The subs are terrible at first strike capacity, but so long as they remain hidden they can't really be prevented from assuring mutual destruction.
But also Trump didnt know the nuclear triad in 2016 and his brain was only mostly pudding back then
Good job Mr president. Now you've helped Russia with a few things.
- If they know where the sub's are, they now know if you lie or tell the truth about the sub's.
- If they didn't know where the sub's are, they now know where they probably weren't, and where they may be going
- In either case, they know you've fucked with their patrol routes, which may give them yet another advantage with finding them; or seeing how you influence their routes
How can ufw do me like that?
EDIT: Thanks for the help guys!
Something strange happened just now, im trying to figure out how exactly did it happen. On my server I was suddely able to bypass my VPN! I looked around what did happened and found that my VPN service had sent me an email that my subscription expired. What is strange is that I have ufw rules like
To Action From
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0So it should be not allowed to access the internet outside of tun0. Why exactly did it happen? Does the VPN service change iptables or something? Any ideas? I was able to ping, wget, even surf on w3m. The thing is that when I rebooted the server, nothing could connect outside the tunnel, as it should be. Here is the whole ufw table.
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), deny (outgoing), disabled (routed)
New profiles: skip
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22/tcp ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
53 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
80 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
9091 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # Transmission
2049 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # nfs
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0
192.168.2.77 22 ALLOW OUT Anywhere
2049 ALLOW OUT Anywhere # nfsSo how in the world did my VPN company do something to bypass my ufw??? Or was it something else completely?
TIA
Are you running docker?
UFW is a popular iptables front end on Ubuntu that makes it easy to manage firewall rules. But when Docker is installed, Docker bypass the UFW rules and the published ports can be accessed from outside.
github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker
GitHub - chaifeng/ufw-docker: To fix the Docker and UFW security flaw without disabling iptables
To fix the Docker and UFW security flaw without disabling iptables - chaifeng/ufw-dockerGitHub
Best bet would be that something reloaded/changed the underlying ip/nftables bypassing ufw (ufw is just a frontend, I do not know if it periodically verifies the current rules are correct and it would feel extraneous to me if it did). Or it didn't apply it correctly.
You can get the actual rules with iptables-save (dunno about respective nftables command)
curl ifconfig.me shows my ip address and I have full rawdog access to the internet lol
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in reply to Sivecano • • •if you're american: go up to your nearest friendly ice agent and slap him in the face
if you're in the uk: say free "palestine action" to your nearest police officer
if you're german: say free palestine or isreal is commiting another holocaust to your nearest police officer
if you're french or italian: place netanyahu under citizens arrest in lieu of the icc's arrest warrant.
having a single police force and a single concentration camp is SO RETRO; everyone knows that it's easier to hide it in plain sight if you distribute the evil along with making it hard to pay attention.
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in reply to BrainInABox • • •They just kill the ones already there.
the IOF also isn't quite the same as NATO
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in reply to Sivecano • • •You put millions of people there... Do not know any history of Gaza?
Yeah, it's just armed, supplied, defended, and backed by NATO, it's a very important difference and not at all minor nitpicking. Not to mention that NATO actively has assets in the air above GAZA supporting the genocide, and that's just what we know of.
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Or Nato. Whichever.
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