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9488fcea02a9 ,

So... Only slightly more than 2 microsofts ($3.2T market cap)

9488fcea02a9 ,

Not really good news for the plastic that isnt waste. Plastic pipes or structures in buildings that were meant to last decades we dont want eaten away by fungus

9488fcea02a9 ,

You'll always end up on debian. You just dont know it yet

9488fcea02a9 ,

For me, no....

I've gone from debian 9 to debian 11 and now debian sid without reinstalling OS on my desktop

Same with my servers. Debian 8 -> 11 all upgrades in-place. Will have to upgrade to 12 soon....

The only time i messed up an upgrade is when accidentally used the codename "bookworm" in the sources file and skipped a major version. The system tried to fully upgrade 2 versions ahead and promptly borked itself.... But it was an LXC container so i just rolled back my mistake. Lesson learned...

But yeah. Full re-installs have NEVER been a thing for me since going debian. It will even happily clone to a new SSD when you need to upgrade your hardware. (As long as your new hardware has in-kernel drivers, or at least some basic functionality to boot and fix the problem, if any)

9488fcea02a9 ,

Swift is helping bring down live nation/ticketmaster... So there's that too

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing

9488fcea02a9 ,

Debian sid user here, and long time keepassxc user

Debian maintainer didnt communicate this well, but i agree that i dont want my password manager having any access to networking or interacting with anything other than the clipboard.

I'm not a developer or a security expert. This is just my gut feeling talking

9488fcea02a9 ,

To be fair, it looks like the debian maintainer started the unfriendly discourse by calling the work of other FOSS devs "crap"

Everyone needs to chill out, otherwise we have another potential XZ social engineering attack

It would be catastrophic for something like keepass to have a malicious maintainer take over

Are Thule backpacks still good?

I bought a Thule Crossover eight years ago and the zip on it has finally gone. Short of getting a local seamstress to fit a new zip, I think it's time for a new one, and am a bit tempted by the Thule Crossover 2 30l. Are Thule still good? Is there anything else of the same sort of size that I should be considering?

9488fcea02a9 ,

Didnt osprey recently get bought by a private equity firm?

Are they still honouring their lifetime support?

9488fcea02a9 ,

None of my coworkers drive to the office and we actually like seeing each other.... Hybrid remote work is great for us

I think 90% of the problem is people being forced to drive everywhere

9488fcea02a9 ,

Any new pictures of them?

Why dont they love each other anymore?? :(

9488fcea02a9 ,

Weather underground is owned by IBM now

Anyone know of a community driven, non-profit weathet platform we can share weather station data with?

9488fcea02a9 ,

QNAP is taiwanese and still providing software patches for my 8 year old NAS. I think they are reasonably trustworthy

But i agree with you, i'm going to build my own NAS from scratch this year...

9488fcea02a9 ,

Wow, did not know this...

I think i will accelerate my plans for a new NAS lol

9488fcea02a9 ,

Its hilarious that apple is creating a bunch of ewaste for no good reaaon?

My mom's macbook is 14 years old and perfectly functional. So why doesnt it work (well) anymore?

Apple doesnt provide updated root certificates anymore, so all https sitesare borked.

9488fcea02a9 ,

So the ending to the story which i didnt feel like typing out earlier was that i loaded debian on to the macbook and it runs 2x faster now with regular security updates....

The vast majority of people will never edit a video. The vast majority would be perfectly happy doing 90% of their work in a browser on older hardware instead of chucking it in the bin

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" ( futurism.com )

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

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I always hated that the most upvoted art on reddit was just photorealism... Abd then the comments were all like, "Wow! I was 100% sure this was a photo until i zoom in!!!"

9488fcea02a9 ,

Libraries would need more funding to operate extended hours...

Then people would complain about gov't spending and taxes. Then we would privatize the libraries

This is why we cant have nice things

9488fcea02a9 ,

Or even if you personally benefit from public services, you'll still complain about "muh tax dollars!!"

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We held a private work event at the museum one time... I got loaded on whisky and went to see all the dinosaur bones. It was one of the best nights of my life

9488fcea02a9 ,

Oh yeah, the taxes! The finger thing means the taxes!!
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/886f0a84-29e5-4793-a4a2-2daa72aa1acd.gif

9488fcea02a9 ,

I'm not a developer, but I use AI tools at work (mostly LLMs).

You need to treat AI like a junior intern.... You give it a task, but you still need to check the output and use critical thinking. You cant just take some work from an intern, blindly incorporate it into your presentation, and then blame the intern if the work is shoddy....

AI should be a time saver for certain tasks. It cannot (currently) replace a good worker.

9488fcea02a9 ,

I hope the message thst came back was "i am V'ger"

9488fcea02a9 ,

"Deeply unlikely" sounds like a stylistic mistake by a bad LLM. I've never heard that one.

"Highly unlikely" is the more common expression

9488fcea02a9 ,

Sorry, a bit off topic, but. Why is the btc community so weak on the fediverse?

I would think that the decentralization and self hosting would resonate with bitcoiners!

Every bitcoin post in this community keeps getting downvoted. I try hard to engage and upvote, but seems like nobody is here

Ukraine Can’t Win the War ( time.com )

The long-awaited counteroffensive last year failed. Russia has recaptured Avdiivka, its biggest war gain in nine months. President Volodymyr Zelensky has been forced to quietly acknowledge the new military reality. The Biden Administration’s strategy is now to sustain Ukrainian defense until after the U.S. presidential...

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This is the first seemingly realisitic news i've heard from western media, why is it getting downvoted?

Ever since russia failed to take kyiv early on, the only news i hear from our media is "russia failed, russia will be bankrupt in 3 months, russia losing 50k troops every week, mutiny in russian army, etc...." They made it sound like the war would be over in less than a year.... But clearly russia is doing way better than previously reported over the past 3 years, otherwise the war would be over.

I spoke to a ukranian guy at work and even he says that western media is totally downplaying russia's strength.

I could understand reporting this way (to boost morale) if we were directly involved in the war with troops...

AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants ( www.bbc.com )

an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....

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Thats ok... Idiotic hiring practices will filter out the worst companies

9488fcea02a9 OP ,

why are you trying to privately communicate with a minor?

Uhm... Because my niece asked me yesterday if she could message me on her phone.

When i say "private" i mean not hosted/harvested by facebook or google or whatever.

My brother has full acess to the device and can read our messages. Also, he is well aware that she is messaging her aunts and uncles

I don't want to assume the worst

Proceeds to assume the absolute worst

9488fcea02a9 OP ,

Hmmmm.. I already have a nextcloud instance running... This is probably the most frictionless option for me...

I'll look into NC talk on iphone for her. Thanks!

9488fcea02a9 OP ,

Still need a phone number to register. Then after that, you can give out your username to others without revealing your phone number

9488fcea02a9 OP ,

Would be so cool if my kids and nieces/nephews used IRC!!

9488fcea02a9 ,

One of my young coworkers had been running a huge balance on her card for two years. She was making minimum payments every month and didnt understand why the number wasnt going down.....

I had to sit her down and explain how interest works and helped her figure out how to take a lower interest loan to wipe out the credit card debt and get a repayment plan going

I wonder what would have happened to her if i didnt overhear her phone conversation and decided to be nosy and ask her about the credit situation...

9488fcea02a9 ,

It makes sense....I think the FOSS/anti-big tech world brings together a weird mix of far-left socialists and also libertarian types (hence the anti UBI sentiment)

How to fool a laptop into thinking a monitor is connected?

Hello! I converted an old laptop with a broken screen into a home server, and it all works well except for one thing: when I reboot it (via ssh), if no screen is connected, it will get stuck and refuse to boot. as soon as I connect an HDMI monitor, the fans will start spinning and it will start booting as usual. Then I can...

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There's an evangelion joke here that i'm not clever enough to make

What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it's 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you're about to execute... And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

9488fcea02a9 ,

I didnt break anything, but there was this one time i was setting up a new lxc container i had just spun up. I installed nginx, and a bunch of other packages, started writing new config files.... Then i noticed my prompt was user@desktop$ instead of user@server$

Whoops... I was in the wrong terminal window, typing commands into my desktop instead of the container i was setting up.

9488fcea02a9 ,

The new mining is AI... TSMC is at max capacity. They're not going to waste too many wafers making gaming GPU when AI acceleratora are selling for $30k each

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    9488fcea02a9 ,

    Wow. That looks like a lot of work! I have one dkms module i added to makr my motherboard sensors work, but everything else seems to work out of the box.

    debian sid with amd 5600x cpu and amd rx580 gpu

    9488fcea02a9 ,

    IT87 kernel module for gigabyte b450 motherboard. Cant remember full model number, but most gigabyte motherboards have a crappy sensor chip that needs extra software to work on lm-sensors

    9488fcea02a9 ,

    Also, Linus is a "woke communist"

    https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm

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    Canada: our bottled water IS tap water....

    I just drink water straight from the tap

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