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Google is only free if your time has no value


Sooo there's free software (“Everyone should be able to write open source software!”) and there's open source software (people programming their own computers for their own communities). Ideally, Neima should be able to program her computer to help her kids do their homework or for their sports club. So there's open source software that's written for the developers community, and there's open source software that's written for the GNOME community, which is polished and truly a delightful experience for new users: if for example you installed Linux Mint with Cinnamon, you'd connect to the wifi and probably be immediately greeted with a notification telling you that your printer has been added and is ready to go.

I'm not saying that Linux users should learn programming, especially if they don't know about e.g. GNU Guix, Skribe/Skribilo/Haunt, or SICP (that's directly referenced by the Haunt info pages – I promise you, starting a blog as an English speaker with a Skribe implementation and reading SICP once you get comfortable enough could get you started in months); but that of course, learning any field on such a platform as Stack Overflow would provide an absolutely stupid experience, whereas the ideal learning medium is books.

It isn't enough for Google to insert far-right suggestions in YouTube shorts; they've deliberately sabotaged features in their search engine to get us to generate more ads, and Google Scholar results are, by the way, the bottom of the barrel too. Compare queries results to "sex work" or "borderline disorder transgender" with those of HAL and wonder why there's a public distrust in science. More broadly, Google hinders our relationship to information, and we're both trading it for a far-right agenda.

The same is just as true for LaTeX: it's a great, intuitive language, provided that you read some good introduction on the topic. As a matter of fact, Maïeul Rouquette's French-speaking book is available for free on HAL.

I'm more and more fed up as I write that and I'm pretty sure it shows. You may totally use open source software, meant for the non-technical community of a graphical library, desktop environment, Linux distribution, and so forth. But if you really wanted to "learn Linux", please install any distro you're comfortable with and read some good book on whatever topic you want to work on.

in reply to Océane

Speaking personal experience hence extremely biased.

Books ain't worth shit by them selves. There is no better resource than experience. I learned programming and other stuff just by trying and the googling and reading up on the problem.

Books are only as good as they are searchable and can be used as a reasource to solve problems (and I'm not talking about literature in general, I love reading, just not profession related stuff).

TL; DR
I strongly disagree. Nothing tops just tinkering and figuring things out practically. My whole career is based on my ability to learn and solve IT problems and google is still the best tool for that.

in reply to Mr. Satan

Hi, it may depend on the background, but personally I've been stuck on problems for months, only to solve them by spending 2 hours reading a book. I'm talking about basic self-taught tools like Git, your first programming language, and so on – Microsoft and Google build and leverage platforms to keep specific demographics stuck for years, and to some extent, to kill them.

I'm not talking about solving problems on a complex stack with tools that you already know, but rather about learning to program the output of a Skribe document as a social media-addict 4chan user. We're not even talking about Makefiles here, but about hundreds of thousands of people actually giving a hand to free software development, instead of trying to change the world in free form fields.

in reply to Océane

Very specifically for learning about GNU/Linux and Unix, I highly recommend the book Classic Shell Scripting by Arnold Robbins and Nelson Beebe (O'Reilly Media, 2005).

ISBN: 9780596005955

I recently wrote the following about it in a post:

This book is extremely readable and gives a very good introduction to the various standard Unix shell commands (grep, sed, awk, tr, sort, to name but a few) and how to tie them together to do useful things. It’s very suitable if you have some experience with the command line at the level of individual commands but now want to see how to do construct more interesting pipelines and scripts. It includes an introduction to regular expressions. The fact that the book is already 20 years certainly means that some explanations and approaches are outdated, but since shell programming is at the core about text processing, almost all contents of the book are still highly relevant today.

in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus

All of this deepseek hype is overblown. Deepseek model was still trained on older american Nvidia GPUs.
in reply to scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲

AI is overblown, tech is overblown. Capitalism itself is a senseless death cult based on the non-sensical idea that infinite growth is possible with a fragile, finite system.
in reply to scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲

Your confidence in this statement is hilarious the fact that it doesn't help your argument at all. If anything, the fact they refined their model so well on older hardware is even more remarkable, and quite damning when OpenAI claims it needs literally cities worth of power and resources to train their models.
in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus

The "1 trillion" never existed in the first place. It was all hype by a bunch of Tech-Bros, huffing each other's farts.

in reply to FenrirIII

Is this the same incident? Some more detail from CBC:

Israeli forces fired on the crowd on three occasions overnight and into Sunday, killing two people and wounding nine, including a child, according to Al-Awda Hospital, which received the casualties.

Israel's military said in a statement that it fired warning shots at "several gatherings of dozens of suspects who were advancing toward the troops and posed a threat to them."

in reply to pageflight

Yes, this video is from two days ago.


The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback. Google has open-sourced the Pebble software, which means anyone — including Pebble’s founder — can make one.


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/25280992

Google agreed to release Pebble OS to the public. As of Monday, all the Pebble firmware is available on GitHub, and Migicovsky is starting a company to pick up where he left off.

The company — which can’t be named Pebble because Google still owns that — doesn’t have a name yet. For now, Migicovsky is hosting a waitlist and news signup at a website called RePebble. Later this year, once the company has a name and access to all that Pebble software, the plan is to start shipping new wearables that look, feel, and work like the Pebbles of old.


Technology reshared this.

in reply to tree

God dman it. I just bought a Galaxy Fit last Sunday.
in reply to tree

To this day, I've yet to find a smartwatch that I like using and find as useful versus my former Pebble and Pebble 2. Those were the days, I guess.


TURIEL: RESOLVER el DESAFÍO climático y energético




Nextcloud - Federation: a foundational concept for digital sovereignty


Doesn't seem like it uses ActivityPub, still interesting, and open source

In Nextcloud, user’s Federated Cloud ID works similar to an email address or a Mastodon handle, allowing them to exchange data across servers: share files and and collaborate on documents, communicate in group chats and make audio and video calls.

Federated tools available in Nextcloud:

  • Federated file sharing
    • Share documents and media to users in other Nextcloud Hub instances for viewing, editing and collaboration.


  • Federated chatting
    • Create group chats with users from different servers and use many essential chat tools.


  • Federated calls
    • Make audio and video calls with Nextcloud Talk among users from different servers.



github.com/nextcloud

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in reply to Die4Ever

Yeah, it doesn't use ActivityPub, but they are federated amongst themselves. So my NC can share documents seamlessly with my friend's NC even though we're on different domains.
in reply to themadcodger

Well, there is a social app for Nextcloud which uses AP, so you can use your account to connect to the Fediverse. That functionality is separate from the file sharing though and not installed by default.
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in reply to Die4Ever

I'm personally very excited for Forgejo to get federation between self-hosted git forges
in reply to als

What’s the status on that? To my understanding it has lagged or stalled.


DeepSeek releases new image model family


Technology reshared this.

in reply to spaduf

Now if they'll do a video model...

Tencents Huanyuan is surprisingly flexible

in reply to spaduf

analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2025/…

This informal testing found that Janus Pro explained a Nokia meme much more crisply than DALL-E 3 but was quite a bit worse than the other tasks, even appearing to hallucinate a score in one test case.

I suddenly realize I myself sound like CHatGPT. Haha. Haha.

Edit: At least you can run these models locally!


in reply to Luffy

Sometimes someone just doesnt like a specific content. No need to try and please everyone, just like people dont have to hold back on downvoting to not hurt someones feelings. Thats how it works.



Why all that rage against windmills?


Because ...
bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north…

Cross-post da: feddit.it/post/14364321


Why all that rage against windmills?


Because of his playground sightseeing:

bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north…

#brainpoorness


in reply to suoko

They're machines, aren't we supposed to rage against them?
in reply to suoko

They are machines, so I rage against them

I have zero media literacy



in reply to Maroon

If you’re not being paid for reviews, then only review for open access (and ideally non-profit) journals.


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New Social: The Campaign, The Designer, & The Box




Ukraine’s Existence ‘At Risk’ Without Peace Talks by Summer, Says Intelligence Chief


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

It sucks for them that the US presi is a Putin asset, now.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Or you could also read these facts:

Robert Mueller did not disagree with the conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In fact, his investigation confirmed that Russia engaged in "sweeping and systematic" efforts to influence the election through social media manipulation, cyberattacks, and other methods. However, Mueller's findings on whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russia or whether President Trump obstructed justice were more nuanced.

Key Points from the Mueller Investigation:


  1. Russian Interference: Mueller unequivocally stated that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump's campaign. This interference included hacking Democratic emails and spreading disinformation.
  2. No Criminal Conspiracy: While Mueller found numerous contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russian individuals, he did not establish sufficient evidence to prove a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia beyond a reasonable doubt.
  3. Obstruction of Justice: On obstruction, Mueller did not reach a definitive conclusion. His report outlined evidence on both sides but noted that Department of Justice policy prevented him from indicting a sitting president. He explicitly stated that the report "does not exonerate" Trump.
  4. Congressional Testimony: During his 2019 testimony, Mueller rejected claims of "total exoneration" by Trump and emphasized the seriousness of Russian interference, warning it remained an ongoing threat to U.S. democracy.

While Mueller's investigation found no criminal conspiracy, it highlighted significant ethical concerns and vulnerabilities in U.S. democratic processes exposed by Russian interference.

Citations:
[1] americanbar.org/news/abanews/a…
[2] apnews.com/article/f109a539220…
[3] time.com/5610317/mueller-repor…
[4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_…
[5] acslaw.org/projects/the-presid…
[6] justice.gov/archives/sco/file/…
[7] npr.org/2024/09/24/g-s1-24189/…
[8] pbs.org/newshour/show/inside-t…

in reply to TacoButtPlug

So, you're saying Russia does same things the US and other great powers do? The problem with your "argument" here is that nobody actually showed that anything Russia has done actually swayed the election in the US.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

While it's true that both Russia and the United States have engaged in foreign interference, Russia's approach has been notably different and more pervasive in recent years.

Russia's election interference efforts have indeed been systematic and far-reaching, often focusing on fanning extremism and undermining democratic institutions rather than direct regime change. Key aspects of Russia's approach include:

  1. Global reach: Russian interference has been documented in elections across Europe, the United States, and beyond.
  2. Digital tactics: Russia has extensively used cyberattacks, hack-and-leak operations, and online disinformation campaigns to influence elections.
  3. Promoting division: Russian efforts often aim to exacerbate existing societal divisions and promote extremist views, including far-right ideologies.
  4. Long-term strategy: Russia's interference is part of a broader geopolitical strategy to weaken adversaries by creating doubt, uncertainty, and distrust in democratic institutions.
  5. Evolving sophistication: Russian tactics have become more advanced over time, adapting to new technologies and countermeasures.

While the United States has historically engaged in foreign interventions, often involving regime change through military means, Russia's recent approach has been more focused on covert influence operations that don't necessarily involve direct military action. This strategy allows Russia to impact a larger number of countries simultaneously with less risk of direct confrontation.

The scale and persistence of Russian election interference in the last decade have made it a significant global concern, prompting increased awareness and countermeasures from many democratic nations. This widespread and ongoing campaign of influence distinguishes Russia's recent activities from those of other nations, including the United States, in terms of its scope and potential long-term impact on global democracy.

Citations:
[1] thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…
[2] csis.org/blogs/strategic-techn…
[3] il.boell.org/en/2022/01/25/glo…
[4] news.yale.edu/2020/08/20/rigge…
[5] reuters.com/world/us/us-intell…
[6] justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-dep…
[7] brennancenter.org/our-work/ana…
[8] washingtonpost.com/news/monkey…

in reply to TacoButtPlug

So your complaint is that the US can no longer do interference around the world unilaterally and that Russia is countering US propaganda with their own. Interesting take there.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I was gonna chill with you but I guess you're just a troll on this shit. Too bad. Blocking you're sad ass.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Then there's also:

Russia has been widely accused of interfering in the socioeconomic and political stability of other countries through a variety of methods, including cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, election meddling, and leveraging economic tools.

Key Examples of Russian Interference


  1. Election Interference:
    • Russia has been implicated in meddling in elections globally, including the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The Kremlin used covert influence campaigns, cyberattacks, and proxy organizations to manipulate public opinion and sow discord.
    • In Europe, Russia has interfered in elections in countries like Ukraine, Germany, and France by supporting fringe political parties, spreading disinformation, and conducting cyberattacks.


  2. Economic Leverage:
    • Russia uses state-controlled firms like Gazprom and Sberbank to gain economic influence in regions such as the Balkans. These investments are often designed to deepen dependency on Russia while undermining Western institutions like NATO and the EU.
    • The invasion of Ukraine has caused global economic disruptions, including food shortages and inflation. While sanctions have strained Russia's economy, Moscow continues to exploit economic tools to exert influence.


  3. Destabilization Campaigns:
    • Beyond elections, Russia has engaged in broader destabilization efforts, such as its annexation of Crimea and support for separatist movements in Ukraine. These actions aim to weaken neighboring states' sovereignty while expanding Russian influence.
    • In Moldova and other post-Soviet states, Russia has sought to subvert democratic processes and maintain control through both overt military aggression and covert operations.


  4. Soft Power Tactics:
    • Moscow cultivates influence through cultural and religious institutions, media outlets, and social organizations. These efforts blur the lines between state-sponsored activities and independent initiatives, providing plausible deniability for the Kremlin.


Russia’s interference strategies are part of a broader effort to assert itself as a global power while challenging Western dominance. These actions have drawn widespread condemnation but continue to evolve as Moscow adapts its tactics to avoid detection and attribution.

Citations:
[1] home.treasury.gov/news/press-r…
[2] cfr.org/backgrounder/russias-i…
[3] home.treasury.gov/news/press-r…
[4] economicsobservatory.com/ukrai…
[5] csis.org/blogs/strategic-techn…
[6] bti-project.org/en/reports/cou…
[7] atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-…
[8] carnegieendowment.org/research…
[9] academic.oup.com/cjip/article/…

in reply to TacoButtPlug

Oh man wait till you find out the kinds of interference the US does around the world. Russia just follows the rules based order here as established by the hegemon.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I'll repaste what I just replied to you...

While it's true that both Russia and the United States have engaged in foreign interference, Russia's approach has been notably different and more pervasive in recent years.

Russia's election interference efforts have indeed been systematic and far-reaching, often focusing on fanning extremism and undermining democratic institutions rather than direct regime change. Key aspects of Russia's approach include:

  1. Global reach: Russian interference has been documented in elections across Europe, the United States, and beyond.
  2. Digital tactics: Russia has extensively used cyberattacks, hack-and-leak operations, and online disinformation campaigns to influence elections.
  3. Promoting division: Russian efforts often aim to exacerbate existing societal divisions and promote extremist views, including far-right ideologies.
  4. Long-term strategy: Russia's interference is part of a broader geopolitical strategy to weaken adversaries by creating doubt, uncertainty, and distrust in democratic institutions.
  5. Evolving sophistication: Russian tactics have become more advanced over time, adapting to new technologies and countermeasures.

While the United States has historically engaged in foreign interventions, often involving regime change through military means, Russia's recent approach has been more focused on covert influence operations that don't necessarily involve direct military action. This strategy allows Russia to impact a larger number of countries simultaneously with less risk of direct confrontation.

The scale and persistence of Russian election interference in the last decade have made it a significant global concern, prompting increased awareness and countermeasures from many democratic nations. This widespread and ongoing campaign of influence distinguishes Russia's recent activities from those of other nations, including the United States, in terms of its scope and potential long-term impact on global democracy.

Citations:
[1] thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…
[2] csis.org/blogs/strategic-techn…
[3] il.boell.org/en/2022/01/25/glo…
[4] news.yale.edu/2020/08/20/rigge…
[5] reuters.com/world/us/us-intell…
[6] justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-dep…
[7] brennancenter.org/our-work/ana…
[8] washingtonpost.com/news/monkey…

in reply to TacoButtPlug

Everything you've written applies to the US. In fact, the US has entire organizations like USAID and NED specifically dedicated to the types or interference you're complaining about. Nothing Russia has ever done even comes close to that.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

That being said. An amount of Americans and their politicians can suck dicks.



'This is ethnic cleansing': Trump faces backlash over Gaza proposal


in reply to Peter Link

"Jordan and Egypt rejected the idea of displacing Palestinians, and Hamas condemned it, stating that Palestinians would “foil such projects,” as they have done to similar displacement proposals over the decades."

I don't know why I was expecting something more compassionate to come from Jordan and Egypt...




Minimum wage


Context: —

Guy on the left: typical ancap/neolib/oligarchy etc

Guy on the right: believes all basic necessities should be provided, either directly or by sufficient UBI

in reply to HonoraryMancunian

The guy on the right is also an ancap. UBI has a lot of support from them.


National Federation of the Blind advocates for restoring Facebook accessibility, following Meta's removal of the MBasic interface


in reply to Dan Keck

Isn't not providing accessibility options illegal and leaves you open to lawsuits?

Oh what am I saying? I forgot that laws don't exist for the rich anymore.

in reply to I_Has_A_Hat

Isn't not providing accessibility options illegal


WRT online services, I think that only covers public (as in governement) sectors and services

in reply to Dan Keck

On the phone currently, can't look. Is facebook page a "webäpp" consisting mostly of <div class="cgh57hd75"?
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Pentagon doc shows why 'deep state' fears release of JFK files


in reply to Shatur

Nobody fears the release of JFK files. Anyone who could have possibly been involved is either extremely old or dead. Most likely the latter.
in reply to Flying Squid

Unless the truth is that the CIA did it. Then the agency itself has something to fear.
in reply to cranakis

Why? Anyone involved would no longer be in the CIA.

That's like saying they have something to fear about MKUltra.

in reply to Shatur

1) Daily Mail is not a source.

2) Internal US News is not "World".


in reply to m_f

We got fedi short form getting posted on fedi threads

And it is shitting on corpos

🥲

in reply to m_f

Ohh... I hope we will not importe the weird subtitles culture from TickTock into Loop. We need real accessibility not some high paced text diverting attention.


Pentagon doc shows why 'deep state' fears release of JFK files


in reply to Shatur

Don't upvote the Daily Mail. It was a fascist paper in the 1930s and it has continued to spread bigotry, hatred and lies for decades.


Congolese General Cirimwami Assassinated in North Kivu, Escalating the Region’s Crisis


The assassination of Major General Peter Cirimwami marks a critical escalation in the conflict in DRC, amid a geopolitical scramble for the country’s vast mineral wealth.

Major General Peter Cirimwami, the military governor of North Kivu province, was shot near Kasengezi this past Thursday and later succumbed to his injuries. The incident occurred as he visited the frontline to assess the deteriorating security situation. His visit occurred while DRC President Félix Tshisekedi was attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Speaker of Parliament Vital Kamhere was in Vietnam, and the Minister of Communication Patrick Muyaya was in France.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/25/congolese-general-cirimwami-assassinated-in-north-kivu-escalating-the-regions-crisis/


in reply to John Richard

Just wait for Epstein's best friend to pardon him. A rapist tech bro is still a rapist bro.

in reply to return2ozma

Chinese dominate EV production, but they also need it the most. Other countries recognized the problem of being dependent on oil imports, such as Japan, and Singapore. Necessity is the mother of invention and innovation.
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in reply to Amoxtli

Human exploitation and subsidies are hardly innovative nor invented in China. All major innovations in EV are made in other countries for them. If anything, innovation puts you at the losing end because China will just copy you cheaper.
in reply to CosmoNova

Europeans and Americans can't make EVs cheap enough, period. Joe Biden's subsidizes luxury cars for the rich and upper middle class. China makes cars for everybody. Califonia recently had to repeal EV truck mandate or else face a economic disaster in future.
in reply to return2ozma

i would much rather have a chinese ev with that long range battery tech and framework than an american car company's ev option not including tesla which i don't even consider a car company. they're a shit tech company that makes shit cars shittily.

in reply to return2ozma

It’s a very different picture in the US, where the economic case for EVs without subsidies is weaker, he added, because gas is “extraordinarily cheap” and Americans prefer “absolutely massive vehicles.”


That preference may be true to some degree, but at least some of it is due to federal regulation, which as-structured creates an incentive to sell larger vehicles.

resources.org/common-resources…

Since 2012, manufacturers have faced GHG emissions requirements that depend on the mix of vehicles sold; a manufacturer that sells larger vehicles and light trucks rather than cars faces less stringent requirements for GHG emissions. This regulatory structure incentivizes manufacturers to shift their product offerings to avoid strict GHG requirements, which potentially increases emissions.

Since the adoption of size-based standards in 2012, new vehicles have been getting larger, and sales have shifted from cars to light trucks. Between 2011 and 2022, the average vehicle footprint (roughly, the area defined by the four wheels) increased by about 4 percent, and the share of cars in total sales dropped from about 65 percent to 40 percent. In the GHG standards that EPA proposed in April this year, the agency notes that the increasing size and shift from cars to trucks has increased average emissions rates by about 10 percent.


old.reddit.com/r/Trucks/commen…

EPA regulations require a vehicle with X emissions to be relatively X size -- the size is relative to emissions.

This means that to meet modern American emissions standards, for a vehicle to get the kind of gas mileage a pickup should get while still being useful, it needs to be huge to fit in the emissions bracket. The only way around this is to have a hybrid or have an electric vehicle, but even then, it is incredibly hard to fit within these regulations, which get tighter every period especially while still being remotely "affordable."

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Distrowatch - Linux Facebook Ban


cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/30849791

Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.

We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.

The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.

Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.

We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.

In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.




Distrowatch - Linux Facebook Ban


Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.

We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.

The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.

Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.

We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.

In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.




in reply to plactagonic

The kit would probably have to be used with a certain style of bottle, since if that collar slides up too far you aren't going to get a seal. So the flared end on the bottle would need to be a measured amount or there will be too little or too much tension on the cap when it's flipped.
in reply to plactagonic

My local homebrew shop used to sell these. I think they stopped selling it since people used bottles which couldn't take the pressure.

What were you planning on using them for?



Distrowatch - Linux Facebook Ban


Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.

We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.

The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.

Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.

We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.

In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.

in reply to 299792458ms

Facebook moderation is infamous for pants on head stupid false positives, but I've never seen one this bad.
in reply to 299792458ms

Can someone tell them that they didn't link to their mastodon in the post?

I guess they don't understand the concept of instances yet. We need to know which server you're on, guy




Homelab upgrade! - Looking for suggestions on new setup 😀


Hi there good folks!

I am going to be upgrading my server within the next couple of months and am trying to do some prior planning. My current setup is as follows:
- Case: Fractal Define R5
- Mothberboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Designare-CF
- CPU: i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
- Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
- Storage: 15TB spread across 4 HDDs (10x2x2x1) + 1HDD at 10TB for Parity.
- OS: Unraid 🧡

While this setup as served me well, I am completely hooked on these mini-racks(Rackmate T1) and am thinking of getting one eventually. Fortunately I'll be getting my hand on my first mini-pc soon, a ASUS ExpertCenter PN52. This little badboy has the following specs:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX
- Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
- Storage: Comes with one NVMe SSD 1TB

From my little cpu knowledege this one is superior in almost all ways, so it feels like an easy choice to swith out the old one. This leads me to my question. I need an enclosing for my 5 HDDs that connects to this minipc. What are your suggestions?

::: spoiler Pictures of the mini-pc for those interested:

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Homelab upgrade! - Looking for suggestions on new setup 😀


Hi there good folks!

I am going to be upgrading my server within the next couple of months and am trying to do some prior planning. My current setup is as follows:
- Case: Fractal Define R5
- Mothberboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Designare-CF
- CPU: i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
- Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
- Storage: 15TB spread across 4 HDDs (10x2x2x1) + 1HDD at 10TB for Parity.
- OS: Unraid 🧡

While this setup as served me well, I am completely hooked on these mini-racks(Rackmate T1) and am thinking of getting one eventually. Fortunately I'll be getting my hand on my first mini-pc soon, a ASUS ExpertCenter PN52. This little badboy has the following specs:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX
- Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
- Storage: Comes with one NVMe SSD 1TB

From my little cpu knowledege this one is superior in almost all ways, so it feels like an easy choice to swith out the old one. This leads me to my question. I need an enclosing for my 5 HDDs that connects to this minipc. What are your suggestions?

::: spoiler Pictures of the mini-pc for those interested:

Ports overview



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Instance policy update: Votes are in and Xitter links are now banned on this instance


Ahoy mateys!

We are closing the voting on this topic a couple of days early as the result is already conclusive., Our threshold for passing the motion was for 2/3 of voting members in favor. We have far exceeded that threshold (see below) and have a good number of overall responses, so the proposed policy change has now been approved and takes effect immediately.

Our new policy on Xitter links


  1. No Xitter links are to be posted on this instance from the date of this announcement.
  2. Workarounds such as link shorteners and alternative front-ends that resolve to Xitter posts are also banned.
  3. Screenshots will still be permitted as per the overwhelming number of comments in support of this option.
  4. Exception: In rare cases there may be a need to verify the veracity of a Xitter post. If this need arises, then you may post a xcancel.com/ version of the link. Please note this option should only be used sparingly and exclusively for fact-checking purposes.

We will begin communicating this instance policy change to all our users today.

Please try to be helpful to anyone who accidentally posts a Xitter link who may not yet be aware of the policy change, and/or feel free to report in the usual way.

N.B.: For the loopholers - by "Xitter links" we mean any links to content hosted on X (formerly Twitter). Alternative Xitter front-ends are also banned under this policy, unless exception #4 applies. Edit: The ban also applies to other Xitter-owned domains such as their photo blobstore (pbs) domain at pbd.twimg.com

Thanks to everyone involved for participating in the vote!


**The final tally is as follows: **

  • For: Salty Dog: An icon of two crossed cutlasses with a skull in the center in orange-red, black and white colors (2), Vouched: a minimalist compass icon. Orangered color (7), Deck Hand: An icon of anchor crossed with two staves in orange-red, black and white colors (5), First Mate: a pirate ship's steering wheel, orangered color (3), Powder Monkey: An icon of powder barrel in orange-red, black and white colors (2), Threadiverse Enjoyer: An icon of a doubloon with a black hole in the center in orange-red, black and white colors (1)
  • Against:
  • Local Community: +2.6
  • Outsider sentiment: Very Positive
  • Total: +22.6
  • Percentage: 100.00%

To break this down a little differently:

  • Home instance users voted 93% in favor of the proposal (284/307)
  • External instance users voted 97% in favor of the proposal (70/72 note: these are not counted, but good to know)
  • Donating and vouched for users voted 100% in favor of the proposal (20/20 votes).

Community vote on banning X/Twitter links aka "Twitter in the shitter?"


Ahoy me hearties!

We were thinking this might be a good test run topic for instance voting in our !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community. Please be patient with us if anything breaks or isn't working properly. Feedback is welcome.

The voting topic


Given the current political backdrop and recent video of Elon Musk performing clearly identifiable Nazi salutes at the Presidential inauguration, some communities have started banning all links to X/Twitter. A couple of examples I noticed yesterday:

The vote is on whether our instance should follow suit and implement an instance-wide ban on X/Twitter links in posts and comments.

I've noticed some people suggesting allowing screenshots to still be used (e.g. for memes). Feel free to drop a comment if you have an opinion on that.

How to vote


Simply upvote or downvote this post. The /0 Bot will automatically calculate and update a tally of votes every 15 mins or so according to the voting rules (so don’t expect instant updates). An upvote is counted in favour of the resolution. A downvote is counted as against the resolution.

Note regarding crossposting: please be aware that only votes on the original post in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com will be counted.

When to vote


Voting starts as of now. We'll close voting once the flow of votes stops - not sure exactly when that will be yet, but I'd like to keep the topic open for at least 2 or 3 days (maybe a week?) to give everyone a chance to vote.

Who can vote


TLDR here is that anyone can vote, but your votes will be weighted differently depending if you are a financial supporter, local instance member or external instance member.

As discussed in the announcement post, the initial plan was that only stakeholders can vote and open threads. That now includes everyone who is supporting us with any monthly donation amount.

Voting rights have also been extended so that votes of other local instance members who otherwise have no voting rights will be accounted at a rate of 1/100 from a random sample of up to 1000 of their votes. This means that a vote can go up to max +/- 10 from local community votes and it’s a fractional count (i.e. +1.1, or -0.7) which should make the local community sentiment an excellent tiebreaker, without overwhelming the people who are directly supporting the instance. Furthermore, I decided to display the “outsider sentiment” which is votes from non-valid-voting users from other instances. The outsider sentiment is only flavour (“Positive”, “Negative” etc) and is disregarded from the total. This is just shown for reference of the outsider sentiment which I think might be useful.

What constitutes a successful vote on a topic?


We are totally open to debate on this. I was thinking for this topic, a 2/3 majority vote would be a good target to aim for so we can be certain the community vote represents a clear majority of our users' opinions.

My thinking here is that if some topics are split close to 50/50 then achieving a 51% vote for example does not produce a clear mandate and may simply cause unnecessary division.

Having said that, I acknowledge a 2/3 majority is an arbitrary choice, but unless we implement a more complex voting system hopefully it is "good enough" to indicate a clear majority. As mentioned previously, feedback is very welcome and we will review and make adjustments where necessary.

Community participation


I strongly encourage all our instance members as well as subscribers from different instances to vote on this topic. If we only get a small handful of votes it's not going to be very representative of overall sentiment. This is a test run, so if things don't work out in terms of participation we will re-assess and perhaps revisit the topic.


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In un momento in cui le piattaforme di social media consolidate stanno affrontando critiche e turbolenze (dalla chiusura temporanea di TikTok al ritiro di Meta dal fact-checking, fino alle crescenti critiche sulla moderazione dei contenuti politici), un nuovo approccio ai social media sta guadagnando una certa attenzione.

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La campagna Kickstarter di Supernault , lanciata il 24 gennaio, ha già superato il suo obiettivo iniziale di CA$50.000, secondo quanto riportato da TechCrunch , raccogliendo CA$93.022 (circa US$64.839) alle 11:02 PT di oggi. Il finanziamento sosterrà lo sviluppo di tre piattaforme all'interno di Fediverse, una rete decentralizzata di servizi di social media interconnessi. Queste piattaforme includono Pixelfed, Loops e Sup, progettate come alternative incentrate sulla privacy a Instagram, TikTok e WhatsApp, rispettivamente. Ogni piattaforma rifiuta i tradizionali finanziamenti di capitale di rischio e modelli di ricavi basati sulla pubblicità a favore dello sviluppo guidato dalla comunità.

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