Kiev’s plan to invade the Kursk region failed, – Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Kiev's plan to invade the Kursk region failed, - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
As the Swiss newspaper reported on the anniversary of the invasion, Kiev’s hope of using the Kursk region as a bargaining chip was dashed when Moscow refused to discuss the territory, and the issue lost its significance after the Ukrainian forces wer…newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
Poland’s New President Nawrocki Challenges Zelensky on Bandera Legacy
Poland’s New President Issues Ultimatum to Zelensky on Ukraine’s WWII Legacy
Poland’s new President Karol Nawrocki issued a stark ultimatum to Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding Ukraine renounce the glorification of wartime nationalists as a condition for continued supportLyuba Lulko (Pravda English)
A tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App
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Moscow’s top negotiator confirms Kiev rejecting 1,000 POWs
Moscow’s top negotiator confirms Kiev rejecting 1,000 POWs
Vladimir Medinsky has accused Ukraine of derailing prisoner swap effortsRT
WIRED Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' Over a Broken Display
"WIRED Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' Over a Broken Display"
"\u003cp\u003eTwo weeks ago, I had what I can only describe as a \u003cstrong\u003epunch-to-the-stomach moment\u003c/strong\u003e (which luckily doesn\u0026rsquo;t happen very often)."Achim Haug" (AirGradient)
Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons
Meet the AI vegans
They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point, writes Guardian columnist Arwa MahdawiArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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Trump's Truth Social is getting its own AI search engine — powered by Perplexity
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Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT) ("Trump Media" or the "Company"), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, the streaming platform Truth+, and the FinTech brand Truth.Fi, announced today that the company has begun public Beta testing its new AI search feature, Truth Search AI, on the Truth Social platform.Powered by Perplexity, a software and AI company dedicated to providing direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations, Truth Search AI is intended to enhance the Truth Social platform and exponentially increase the amount of information available to its users.
Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech
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European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, which aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia, to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and 33% of German queries by the end of the year.
Qwant said it is using the new index to power some of its features, like AI summaries for search, and Ecosia has plans to add some AI features soon to its platform, too.
EUSP is also in talks with companies to spur the adoption of its index for enabling search within apps. Notably, it is targeting chatbots, presenting Staan as a cheaper alternative to Google and Bing.
“If you’re using ChatGPT or any other AI chatbot, they all do knowledge grounding with web search […] our index can power deep research and AI summary features. Google and Bing’s solutions are also pricey, and our index can offer power search features at a tenth of the cost,” Christian Kroll, CEO of Ecosia, told TechCrunch.
EUSP, like Proton, is pushing to develop a European tech stack that doesn’t rely on technology from the U.S. or China.
“The timing could not be more urgent. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. election has reminded European policymakers and innovators just how exposed Europe remains when it comes to core digital infrastructure. Much of Europe’s search, cloud, and AI layers are built on American Big Tech stacks, putting entire sectors – from journalism to climate tech – at the mercy of political or commercial agendas,” the companies said in a statement.
Kroll added that through this index, combined with European privacy laws, EUSP can offer a more privacy-friendly search solution as compared to its U.S. counterparts.
Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech | TechCrunch
European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, that aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
Photo of Saudi Arabia's crown prince inside Jeffrey Epstein's mansion fuels criticism online
The New York Times on Tuesday ignited a wave of backlash after revealing a framed photograph of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman displayed inside the New York City mansion of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The article, which takes readers inside the late convicted paedophile's seven-storey Manhattan home, features surveillance cameras positioned above his bed and in adjoining rooms, taxidermied animals, and provocative artwork, including a sculpture of a bride clutching a rope suspended from the ceiling in the atrium.
The criticism escalated as people connected the image to long-standing allegations of Gulf-Israeli collaboration.
Sam Youssef, author and editor of American and International Affairs, asked: “Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”
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He's getting outrage for the stuff inside of his country as well. But this heavy link to American and Israeli intelligence demolishes his image as a "Pious Muslim ruler".
MBS has had a lot of whitewashing done to for image by consulting groups like BCG.
The whole Gulf leadership is in American pockets and they work together with Israel.
Israel-Saudi Arabia land bridge emerges as game-changing prospect
Israel-Saudi Arabia land bridge emerges as game-changing prospect
Exclusive: Israel, U.S. quietly advancing ambitious plan for land bridge connecting UAE, through Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to Israeli ports; Route will facilitate transportation of goods while significantly reducing costs for the entire region; In the…Itamar Eichner (ynetnews)
Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”
Is New York Times "Arab rulers"?
Well, you're not going to believe this but there are temporary marriage contracts available that can be as short as an hour.
Why do people need an hour long marriage? Beats me...
That's a Shi'a practice. The Saudi royals aren't Shi'a; they belong to a rabidly anti-Shi'a Sunni sect, the Wahhabis. The Saudis routinely murder and terrorize members of the Shi'a minority in the Eastern Province.
The reason for temporary marriage is generally "try before you buy" during marriage negotiations. It's a loathsome practice but not relevant to the slimy deeds described here.
Photo of Saudi Arabia's crown prince inside Jeffrey Epstein's mansion fuels criticism online
The New York Times on Tuesday ignited a wave of backlash after revealing a framed photograph of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman displayed inside the New York City mansion of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The article, which takes readers inside the late convicted paedophile's seven-storey Manhattan home, features surveillance cameras positioned above his bed and in adjoining rooms, taxidermied animals, and provocative artwork, including a sculpture of a bride clutching a rope suspended from the ceiling in the atrium.
The criticism escalated as people connected the image to long-standing allegations of Gulf-Israeli collaboration.
Sam Youssef, author and editor of American and International Affairs, asked: “Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”
A religion of,
SCP-MBS, (That's right. It's an SCP) “Hey DeeT! Pass the ten-year-old!"
DeeT, "Yes My master."
SCP-MBS, "Dag, honky! You could have wiped it off, first!"
That, plus FGM should help you form an opinion.
AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)
Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil
You used to believe that adversarial attacks against AI-powered systems are complex, impractical, and too academic. In reality, an indirect prompt injection in a Google invitation is all you need to exploit Gemini for Workspace's agentic architecture to trigger the following outcomes:
- Toxic content generation
- Spamming
- Deleting events from the user's calendar
- Opening the windows in a victim's apartment
- Activating the boiler in a victim's apartment
- Turning the light off in a victim's apartment
- Video streaming a user via Zoom
- Exfiltrating a user's emails via the browser
- Geolocating the user via the browser
Invitation Is All You Need
Ben Nassi*^, Stav Cohen^, Or Yair' *Tel-Aviv University, ^Technion, 'SafeBreachsites.google.com
What are some cool things to put on a 32gb flashdrive?
Ive got some ideas to try with a flashdrive ive picked up but i want to know what others would do with such a device? I was thinking i could use it for retro gaming or something like important files.
What would you do?
I know its not alot of room but i got it for cheap.
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I've heard usb flash memory can degrade over time, but refreshing the cells by plugging it in once in a while can mitigate the potential data loss.
I have a few USBs like that and i plug them in once a year for about 5 minutes. I don't usually even mount the data. Not sure if it makes an actual difference, but nothing lost so far
I dont think it's about housing/shielding, just the lack of being powered on over many years.
Many of my drives are also nearly 20 years old
I've had a live linux USB drive that I literally have never used since creating it 15 years ago and it still runs the live ISO just fine. Again slow as hell as it's like USB 2.0 or something but still works.
If a live ISO still works then I'd be willing to bet most other stuff will too, given it didn't sit at the bottom of the ocean.
It's been in my pocket for years having never seen actual use. No USB cap either. Dirty and the housing is only covering half the USB. Remind me and I'll post a photo. It's wild to see. The housing is loose nearly off entirely and hanging on by a thread but it's last through time like a tank, change and tools in my pockets daily. I only keep the old fucker at this point for seeing how long it'll last still spinning up the live iso Linux spin I wrote on it.
I have. It doesn’t happen often; but when you take a situation before you can afford to buy a bunch so you have like, only a few and do installs constantly of varying distros and OSes, you’re formatting / preparing those multiple times a day for a few years. Eventually they just sort of give up.
But honestly, that’s not even close to typical usage. A typical user or even a very active user will likely never have to worry about it.
Out of like 50 usb drives I think I’ve lost like 4 maybe 6. And yeah they’re all good brands like Sandisk, Lexar. Nowadays I buy whatever’s cheap like micro center when they have a give away I’ll take the freebie, and otherwise I buy Sandisk, Lexar, Kingston, Samsung or Crucial.
Oh and on the subject, basically, I’ve spent the better part of my life immersed in tech. I got started in the early 1980s and yeah, I’m kinda old, but it still blows my mind that there are now microSD chips that hold 1.5TB. Just… fucking blows my mind! I still remember being jazzed about getting my first 1GB hard drive. Friends were jealous. This is just absolutely insane.
I think it’s counterintuitive insofar as it goes against a kind of social trope that laymen are blown away by tech because they don’t understand it blah blah but I have found that no understanding it is what makes them all just take it for granted. Techies who have lived through the growth of this stuff and seen it from its early stages are far more impressed and in awe of the crazy advancements. Because we actually appreciate it.
It’s like how my friend and I who are both aviation enthusiasts actually look up at planes flying by sometimes are we’re like damn, it’s still goddamn marvelous. Because we understand it and how amazing it is for people to have thought it up and made it happen. Although we’re each certain that had we lived then, we would have pioneered aviation as well lol. Seems obvious really.
Did I just say all that? Sorry, I’m passionate.
I guess that's the difference. I don't tend to format mine often, if ever.
It is amazing that you can buy a TB drive these days, especially at the size they are. And amazing you can fill one up.
It's good to keep that sense of wonder, IMO.
I would also probably try to plug USB drives in once a year or so if I were being diligent, but in reality I recently found a handful of USB flash drives that I'd stored in a box in my parents' unattached garage, and every one of them could be read completely without any issues. They ran the gamut of build quality from expensive, name-brand drives to no-name dollar-store keychains. They'd been sitting in that box, untouched, for a little over nine years, and I'm pretty sure that some of them hadn't been used for several years even before that.
I wouldn't rely on it for critical data, but USB flash might not be so terrible.
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I installed Ventoy on mine and dropped a few live ISO files: Clonezilla, Linux Mint, and Windows PE
I'll sometimes use the Windows PE ISO for tools like CrystalDiskInfo. Have Clonezilla to quickly test out random computers without a GUI and Linux Mint when I want a GUI.
The rest of the space comes in handy for quick and dirty file transfers between Linux/Mac/Windows/printers. Especially with my work computer never touching my primary home network, an airgapped retro gaming setup, and most of my other drives formatted for use with Linux.
GitHub - VulpesSARL/MiniNT5-Tools: small Windows 10 (based on Windows PE) with customised tools
small Windows 10 (based on Windows PE) with customised tools - VulpesSARL/MiniNT5-ToolsGitHub
Yeah, or trim some of the portable apps in medicat since a few are redundant, to make room for a couple more ISOs.
The cool thing with ventoy is you can just drag and drop isos in the folder, no need to reflash.
Counter Strike Source and other old school LAN games.
Then invite friends over and pass the drive around so they can all install games and you can have a LAN party.
You can fit since some hours of 1080p porn.
When the apocalypse happens and Internet goes away it's gonna be worth a lot of bottle caps
there’s still plenty of ways to make stuff autorun in a similar way. the thing that makes proper badUSBs so scary is that they’re recognized by the system as a keyboard.
it’s somewhat difficult to discern bad actors from regular users for this kind of attack, but it also hasn’t become prolific enough for anyone to bother. at a certain point it’s more the fault of building security for allowing some randy to access to sensitive hardware.
I install a full MX-Linux distro on an old 32Gb usb drive.
Particularly helpful when family or friends have IT problems.
I install the latest downloaded distro on a usb with dd:
sudo fdisk -l
sudo dd if=MX-23.5_x64.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress
The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1
boot into the live distro F12,
fully update the live disk.
set it up as you would your new linux device. network manager, web browser, text editor, email, VPN, etc and any tools you want.
whatever you change here goes into your new usb distro settings
once complete, install and run bleachbit as user and as root to clear all the caches and install data.
install another blank usb into the laptop
Open MX-Linux tools to create a snapshot
select Snapshot.
select a different snapshot directory. use the blank usb you just inserted,
usually: /dev/sdb
rename the snapshot to a name of choice.
once the creation of the snapshot is complete, safely remove the usb drive and shut down the live distro.
boot into your daily driver.
Insert the usb drive with the MX-Linux snapshot, and transfer it to a new folder/directory.
insert the 32Gb usb. format it with gparted, fat32 is fine
open the folder/directory with the snapshot.iso
open a terminal
then install the snapshot onto the usb with dd.
sudo fdisk -l
sudo dd if=snapshot.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress
The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1
always double check with:
sudo fdisk -l
How about a project Gutenberg "best of" CD full of free public domain ebooks?
Download page:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/11220
Link directly to download:
gutenberg.org/files/11220/PG20…
They also had a dual layer DVD download if you want something bigger. They don't seem to host it anymore, but archive.org does.
archive.org/details/pgdvd04201…
Project Gutenberg "Best Of" CD August 2003 by Project Gutenberg
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Google advertising monopoly exposed in new book: Former executive documents secret programs Bernanke and Poirot used to manipulate auction systems.
Google advertising monopoly exposed in new book
Former executive documents secret programs Bernanke and Poirot used to manipulate auction systems.Luis Rijo (PPC Land)
Vanishing Culture: Why Preserve Flash?
Book Talk: Lucky Day with Chuck Tingle (IN-PERSON)
The Internet Archive is thrilled to host Chuck Tingle and his upcoming novel Lucky Day, for a book talk presented by The Booksmith! We can\'t wait to see you there, […]\nblog.archive.org
‘Cookie-less’ identification for/against privacy?
The advertising industry’s anticipated shift away from third-party cookies led to the proliferation and normalisation of first-party identification architectures online. Marketed as ‘privacy-friendly,’ the new technologies promise to deliver the efficiencies that advertisers have become accustomed to, while addressing privacy concerns from third-party cookies. Such tension calls for a better understanding of the privacy implications from first-party online identification architectures. We evaluate first-party user identification mechanisms by (1) surveying the literature to create a typology that synthesises existing privacy concerns in third-party cookie-based identification, and (2) applying our typology to evaluate the privacy of prime examples in what we frame as three distinct types of first-party ID architectures — Universal IDs, Onboarding ID, and Walled Garden ID. We analyse technical documentation and code repositories from each architecture type and show how first-party ID solutions still enable cross-site tracking over longer periods of time and encourage sensitive user targeting. First-party ID solutions do create mechanisms to ease opting out from tracking, but the implementation of those mechanisms is questionable. Our findings demonstrate how the advertising industry is trying to maintain its existing structure and replicate the tracking functionalities on which it has grown reliant.
‘Cookie-less’ identification for/against privacy?
The online advertising industry is shifting content monetisation mechanisms to rely on first-party user identification architectures. The paper evaluates these architectures based on a novel typology to assess their privacy implications.policyreview.info
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in EuropeHarry Davies (The Guardian)
How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today
How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today
Since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the US continues to use nuclear blackmail to reinforce its dominance.Rhonda Ramiro (Mondoweiss)
Parts of the Internet are going dark for UK users since the Online Safety Act heaped weighty duties on platforms.
Online Safety Act - shutdowns and site blocks
Report incorrectly blocked sites on UK ISP and mobile networks.Report mobile and Internet Service Providers blocking sites
Get Ready, the AI Hacks Are Coming
Get Ready, the AI Hacks Are Coming
Artificial intelligence, very real vulnerabilities.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal
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You'd be surprised. I know a guy who would definitely do this, and has the skills to make it look amazing.
Dude is goofy as hell and dumb as a bag of rocks, but he's a genius at metalworking.
You’d be surprised. I know a guy who would definitely do this, and has the skills to make it look amazing.
but ... why?
I think the caption is fake but the picture isn’t. If you google “stretch Prius” there seem to be a bunch of photos of this thing going back like 15 years.
I didn't know what a widows peak was so I googled it and figured out that's just what you call that type of hairline in english.
Personally I really like the german word for it which is "Geheimratsecken". It literally translates to "secret council corners".
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I started taking pills for it a few years ago. It was ridiculously easy to do. I did it online, it auto-renews, and it's an easy chewable I take every morning.
I think a lot of guys have the impression that hair treatments are bullshit, because for a while there they were. But the new shit works, at least for me.
No side effects or downsides for me. My hairline is just paused, even rewound a little bit.
Ok, but I'm not lying.
Do you think I'm advertising or something? What would be my motivation for lying?
It also kept tigers away for six years! Personal anecdotes are not meaningful when it comes to something like medical efficacy.
See, the simple fact that you're telling me those things when clearly I don't give a single fuck tends to suggest the contrary, but of course it's not conclusive and again, I don't give enough fucks to actually find out.
Which med is that?
Everyone’s risk tolerance is different, but a 99.96% chance that I would not experience irreversible side effects feels like pretty good odds
Yea that's me rn. It hasn't hit me yet (at least not noticably) but when it does I'm just embracing it. I know there's medication/treatment but between cost and potential side effects (as someone who already struggles with mental health the possibility of Post Finasteride Syndrome scares the shit out of me) it's not worth it.
Plus I have a personal aversion to the idea of clinging on to youth or denying aging. Nothing against people trying to look how they want to but I'm embracing aging, it feels so much less stressful than the alternative
CW: suicide
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Some men experience side effects like reduced/absent libido, depression, and other negative mental health effects. I don't know how rare they are but to me it's not worth the risk just for my own vanity. Sure the pharma companies deny it's a thing but they have a clear profit motive so I don't trust a damn word they say
those new research chemicals for hair loss pop up every year with lofty promises, and always end up being nothingburgers when the results come in.
if you care about it, try the treatments already available. they seem to help most people.
It might have been created in mockery, however the fact that it‘s apparently okay to joke about men‘s insecurities like that is part of the problem.
Make this meme about women with PCOS/cellulite/whatever and suddenly you have SJW‘s stand on business everywhere. Which is completely fine, but then why are men‘s feelings being so disregarded? It‘s the same with more hurtful topics like mental health and so on.
So about ⅙ of people are ugly if that adjective means 'one standard deviation below'.
Is Physical Attractiveness Normally Distributed?
Spoiler alert: women are better looking. Here's why...Aporia
Bald early to mid 30 dudes are currently all the rage as streamers.
The rest have become vtubers.
It's rather funny watching the slow take over of bald bros on twitch and YouTube.
Life is good if you don't give a damn what people say and Just play with your legos.
Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share
I was kind of surprised to see this article on HackerNews, so I thought I'd ask here; how do you handle your dotfiles and do you share them publicly?
My own dotfiles started from those provided by ArcoLinux, with a bunch of changes over the years I had them. Currently installed using Ansible, because that's more sensible than Bash for this imo.
Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share
I love dotfiles and I love sharing. But I have this weird feeling that sharing my dotfiles is too intimate and personal.Juha-Matti Santala
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Bare git repo + some custom aliases and functions to sync some things across machines.
But I agree it's a bit too personal and I don't share most things.
All public and I regularly link people to my bash functions. Started with git bare repos, moved to stow, now on chezmoi. If I need anything more complex than chezmoi for these I'll probably give up syncing them altogether.
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GitHub - StaticRocket/dotfiles: Assorted config files for use with chezmoi
Assorted config files for use with chezmoi. Contribute to StaticRocket/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Started with git bare repos, moved to stow, now on chezmoi
started exactly the same, now using YADM and loving its simplicity.
Honestly, I was running into the limits of stow. Want to unstow some configs on a bare machine? I hope you wanted that entire directory to be a symlink. Then I saw that someone had actually fixed that many years ago but the maintainer at the time was caught up in some personal crypto related projects and did not appear to be looking at the mailing list.
Chezmoi fixed that, applied a templating engine and added a data mechanism. In moving my stow configs I realized that application specific config file deployments are nice but shouldn't be necessary. Templates fill that gap, and meshing them with scripts allows you to do some cool things only when variables change.
Plus I was beginning to play around with go at the time, so it just seemed like a good idea to use something I could contribute to if I needed.
I still don't think I'm using chezmoi to it's full potential, but I am fairly proud of the script I use to determine data sources for my waybar config on all of my machines.
What originally started as a git repo for storing backup scripts and a list of GNOME Shell extensions now contains dot files, systemd units, Pipewire and Wireplumber configs, scripts for installing new software from Brew and Flatpak, and a systemd service that pulls and apply the latest changes on session startup.
GitHub - axeleroy/setup: Various configuration files and scripts to set up and manage my computers.
Various configuration files and scripts to set up and manage my computers. - axeleroy/setupGitHub
Yeah, I've been using scripts to set only the parts I actually want to modify, which is already a pretty good step for reducing the amount of information and knowing what you publish without having to review the dotfiles when you back up your latest configuration changes.
But even with that, there's some info I do not particularly want public.
Like, it starts with the name of my user account showing up in places. On my personal device, I just call it "main" to sidestep this whole problem, but if I want to use those scripts on my work laptop, well, the user name there is a shorthand of my real name, which I do not want to publish.
But there's also lots of things in between.
Like, I make music as a hobby, which isn't really something I care to announce to the world, but decided I don't mind the world knowing either.
On the other hand, I decided against sticking my RSS feeds into there for now, because I want to be able to add any RSS feed without having to think about whether I want that particular interest public.
Ah yeah, that didn't make a ton of sense. To some degree, I wanted to say that it may show up in various config files, which you're right, I could template with a shell script.
But then I'm using Nix for scripting, which has a concept that everything should be defined in the repo, so you shouldn't have dependencies on external state like $HOME or $USER.
I'm still working out to what degree that's actually necessary/useful (and I do have a workaround, so I don't need to check in my username). But I'm guessing, it comes partially from the 'proper' thing being NixOS, where you define the whole OS in your configuration, so you would need to type out at some point anyways, what the user should be called, so that it can create it.
I got into the habit of keeping a ~24 GB VM image that I just clone to fresh systems and have yet to find the motivation to hunt down the config files I've created or modified over the years. I'd probably want to rip a couple personal in-jokes and spicy comments out, but that would still be very rare.
Not that it's a dotfile, but much of my customization revolves around the UI, so any potential public repo would include themes, from which I'd remove some more identifying wallpapers. But my desktop config is unique enough IMO that I'm mildly afraid to post screenshots of it on accounts I don't want associated with this one.
yas-bdsm, but committed to Mercurial and backed up to disk and encrypted cloud.
Never shared. Ever. Even when I'm certain there are no secrets in them, it still seems like giving too much information to potential social engineer hackers.
TL;DR, Mercurial is a better VCS. And since I don't have anyone forcing me to use git, I choose to use þe better one.
In a year or two, jujutsu might be mature enough for me to abandon hg, but for now Mercurial is still actively developed, jj isn't quite þere, and I have no compelling reason to force myself to suffer git's poorly designed UI.
As an aside, you don't really see a lot of hg being mentioned, so I get it. Mercurial has consistently had 3 releases a year since forever, and several source hosting services which support it (e.g, Sourcehut). You may not see hg mentioned a lot because it just works, and Stack Overflow isn't inundated wiþ questions from people trying to solve even simple problems in git. But also, git is far more used þan hg, þanks largely to github.
I've always felt like on paper hg is better than git but in practice it doesn't feel like it to me. Kinda like arguing beta is better then vhs, etc. Also kinda wanted darcs to succeed and while it seems to still be developed it's so niche as to not exist.
But the great thing is they do exist as alternatives.
darcs was þe best!! Except it didn't scale, and got reeeally slow on even toy projects. AFAIK þat was never fixed. Noþing - not even Mercurial - has a better theory of patches.
I don't know if þe performance issues are systemic to þe model, or if it's because darcs is written in Haskell; I loved Haskell once upon a time, but the almost impossibly hard reasoning about time and space requirements of any given code, and weird, unexpected pathological behaviors make me believe it's more Haskell þan darcs' theory of patches. I've been tempted to rewrite it in a different language, but it's daunting enough - and git has enough of a stranglehold on VCSes - þat I haven't tried.
But... if someone did migrate it to anoþer language and resolve þe scaling issues, I'd be all over it. It's a truly amazing tool.
edit: I guessing its to throw a spanner in the works.
throw a spanner in the works.
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Also, a surprising number of people get so irritated by it, þey block me. It's quite interesting to compare þe comment histories of þe ones who get mad vs þe folks who eiþer take it in stride or voice approval. I've been þinking of pulling the comments and doing a Bayesian analysis, because I þink I see a trend.
I'll have to do some reading first. Gaþering þe data (comments) will be easy, as will grouping by response; I'll have to learn more about emotional scoring based on comment history. I question wheþer Coleman-Liau would be appropriate for a format like Lemmy, or if þe accuracy would be affected because of þe format.
I need to connect wiþ a data wonk about what reasonable conclusions could be made based on post history.
Mercurial is so much more intuitive. And it has proper branches!
I use YADM to manage my dotfiles. I like and recommend it.
I don’t share them, though.
I work in a security-related position. My dotfiles expose more about tools I use, how I have them configured and if those configurations are secure.
I still like sharing and if there’s some snippet I think is particularly useful, I may share directly or post it somewhere. But I don’t share them all by default.
Might need to look into yadm at some point.
yadm instead of git when managing your dotfiles.
Currently installed using Ansible, because that's more sensible than Bash for this imo.
What do you mean? It's just a few lines to symlink everything for me.
I don't use symlinks, I copy the files to their place. This also means I have to manually copy updates back into my repo, but it massively reduces the risk of committing a private key or a bunch of bad changes to my repo.
My switch to Ansible from bash was mainly motivated to make the initial setup more robust. My setup script would need fixes every time I installed a new machine and be semi-unattended at best. I find it also easier to make changes and add new steps
For reference, here are the bash scripts I used before:
config script
setup script
That was my biggest issue when I tried nixOS, that for a lot of configs I'd have needed to create my own wrapper.
I share my dotfiles, I don't see anything intimate or personal in there. I share them because other Linux enthusiasts have asked about what to use or how I config it.
It's in my GitHub but what I don't do is share my GitHub publicly, mostly cause it links me from my shit posting social media where I'm too open about things, into the work and irl landscape.
I like to keep those things separate.
I don't share mine. I manage them with gnu stow and my private gitforge on my server (with 3-2-1 backup in place)
I don't have an objection to sharing them. I don't think it's too personal, I just don't use a public facing gitforge.
Edit to add: I have branches for my different machines in my dotfiles repo for variations
I have embarrassing code and commented lines in mine, so not sharing. (using Awesome and qtile)
If someone has a problem my dots have the solution for, then I might copy paste edited segments.
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