ssm

ssm , 9 hours ago

Friends don't let friends use IBM software.

ssm , 11 hours ago

I'm no longer a leftist, but when I was a leftist (and yes, I mean "real" leftist, critical support for AES states and other such nonsense), there were no objections to dictatorships or censorship. I don't know where you got the idea that leftists love democratic absolutism and freedom in every aspect of society.

Also I hate to tell you, but many leftists (dengists) here think highly of modern North Korea and China.

ssm , 11 hours ago

I suggest that the tech bros should be the first to inject llms into their brain stems, if it can be located.

ssm , 1 day ago

I'm an OpenBSD user & ports maintainer, and while I don't totally agree with the permissive ethos, I'll summerize it the best I can:

Permissive licensing (anyone can use your code for any reason, as long as they give attribution) means more people are using your software, which is improving the quality of software in the world, and regardless of it is being used for nefarious purposes or not, it increases the probability of your software becoming a standard. Copyleft/GPL can lead to total rejection of software by large proprietary/corpo entities, and lead to in-house proprietary implementations instead. A good example is MacOS, which if BSD didn't exist with the license it did, we could have very well have ended up with with two systems as non-portable as Windows instead of one.

My personal opinion on the matter is that your license should change depending on what type of software you're writing. I think permissive is good for libraries and highly portable applications. For something like a game on the other hand, I think something like the GPL isn't good enough; I would pick a license that would would prevent any commercial use whatsoever. I don't care about the purity of open source or what does or doesn't qualify open source or free software; I view it as zealotry, and licenses are a tool, not an ideology.

ssm , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

As much as I appreciate projects like Linux Mint improving portability for projects like GTK (against GNOME's wishes), Linux Mint and PopOS have a similar dependency issue of being dependent on Ubuntu. To what degree each project is I don't know, but personally I'd use something that is either entirely independent (Alpine, Void, Gentoo, Devuan, Debian, etc), or at the very least not a fork of a fork (especially in Ubuntu's case with how many poor decisions Canonical are making in regards to proprietary repositories and telemetry).

Devuan or Debian aren't exactly hard to set up with a similar environment and interface to Ubuntu, and otherwise function in a very similar fashion, so if you want something like Ubuntu without the shittification, use one of those.

EDIT: A commenter pointed out that LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) also exists, which is a Debian-forked version of Linux Mint, rather than Ubuntu forked.

ssm , 1 day ago

Who is determining what is and isn't fake news?

I'd check the paper, but it's paywalled

ssm , 1 day ago

skibidi

ssm , 1 day ago

skibidi 2

ssm , 1 day ago

Most video games

ssm , 10 hours ago

Skibidi Toilet, specifically this video and this video

ssm , 1 day ago

"not surprised they all died shortly after this"

ssm , 4 days ago

bunhole

ssm , 4 days ago

An americano. when particularly thirsty, an americano with water on the side.

ssm , 6 days ago

A time for celebration

ssm , 6 days ago

Except the gold is actually poop and the shovels require burning several trees per dig

ssm , 6 days ago

Have to wait for Hunter X Hunter to finish, or for the author to die. Then I can die.

ssm , 7 days ago

• open source gamedev
• uses discord

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/fc60dea8-33ea-4fa0-a025-31746c02f53b.png

ssm , 7 days ago

That's fine and I understand; and I'm cool if projects have multiple ways to make contributions. What I hate is when open source projects only exist and allow communications on closed platforms.

ssm , 6 days ago

Oh I assure you I am no fan of Microsoft/Github :)

ssm , 7 days ago

No, because as soon as I accept that knowledge, the wave function collapses and my future becomes deterministic.

ssm , 7 days ago

the fine needs to start at throwing execs in prison, for a very long time. or a firing squad. either is good by me.

ssm , 8 days ago

wonder what fraction of a fraction of a percent of their yearly profit they'll be charged this time

ssm , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

I had my biases, due to the large number of tech support scammers from India... Until my mother got scammed by chiropractors, and my whole family (including me) got their teeth mutilated by a malpracticing dentist in the US trying to profit off unnecessary dental proceedures. Scammers are everywhere there's corruption; they just take different forms.

ssm , 9 days ago

SteamOS on steam deck, PostmarketOS on pinephone. On desktop I use OpenBSD, but if I used a Linux it'd be either Alpine, Void, or Devuan.

ssm , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Not "snakeoil" per say; employers will care about your history of education: but as an aspiring computer engineer currently in CC looking to move to a university, I've learned exactly 0 useful things at community college. Outside of the piece of paper you get at the end, it's all useless busywork, testing how much bullshit you can put up with. Everything useful I've learned in life has been for free, provided kindly by passionate communities. Hopefully this changes in university.

I think the value employers place in modern education in the United States is snakeoil, however.

ssm , 9 days ago

Is this that "Ohio Skibidi Rizz" the kids are talking about?

ssm , 8 days ago

Really wish when I clicked on the alternative for change.org one of the choices would have just been "a gun"

ssm , 9 days ago

Hardware News: Louis Rossmann, GamersNexus

Other News: Lemmy (very heavily curated), Mastodon (rarely)

US Pol, Israel/Palestine, Ukraine/Russia: Blocked

ssm , 9 days ago

Humanity should be instantly deleted

ssm , 8 days ago

no u

ssm , 10 days ago

• Closed software (and hardware if we count in house arm chips?) ecosystem is bad for security and privacy
• Apple is subject to ancap US corporate law, which means they can realistically do whatever they want with your data (and it would be a bad business decision not to) with no real punishments/business expenses if they're caught
• Large number of users increases interest for state backdoors
• *BSD has mostly the same userland, is totally free, and open source

ssm , 12 days ago

Couldn't help but notice it used exact same moon for both moons; that being earth's moon

ssm , 14 days ago

Definitely not

ssm , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

I use OpenBSD on my prod machine and vps, and that's serving me very well (other than suspend and usb expansions cards being buggy on my framework laptop (latter might be hardware issues))

I have the default SteamOS on my steam deck; I'm not a fan of its immutable filesystem paradigm and not shipping with any real package manager besides flatpak, so I'm thinking of putting Void Linux on it at some point.

My phone runs PostmarketOS (alpine based mobile OS); which is adding support for systemd and making it default for phosh, kde and gnome installations; which I'm disappointed about to say the least. openrc will still be supported, but given it's no longer the default (and requires recompilation to change), it's probably taking a backseat to systemd. openrc will still ship by default on sxmo, but I'm ready to find an alternative at this point. Maybe I should look into trying to port OpenBSD to the pinephone again, as much as a dream as that seems like. Looks like there's also been some effort put into porting Void Linux to the pinephone, so I'll check that out.

ssm , 17 days ago

Base system in BSD isn't "immutable" per say; the filesystem is mounted rw and is prone to the regular unix file modes. The base system is more just the userland that was written by the OpenBSD project themselves (plus some 3rd party components that are dependencies like perl and clang), which typically isn't on Linux, as most Linux distributions simply use GNU userland or similar; so everything is 3rd party.

That being said, it is very easy to replace the base system should anything go wrong, simply by re-updating to the same version inside of bsd.rd on OpenBSD.

ssm , 17 days ago

Police, Judges, Presidents, Therapists, Executives, the whole US scammer industry of Noctors ("Functional" Neurologists and other chiropractors)

ssm , 17 days ago

Balatro, game has 1 song (with variations), and after 100+ hours I'm still not tired of it.

ssm , 17 days ago

lemmy doesn't have spez, so lemmy is better.

ssm , 17 days ago

I love basking sharks, they're so cute <3

ssm , 16 days ago

Fuck. I was hoping they would just go forward with it anyways so it would drive some people over to open source ecosystems. Maybe they'll make it opt-out again after a couple months and the outrage dies down, as these companies tend to do these days.

ssm , 17 days ago

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/6c158eb9-a0eb-4f49-b34d-a031d78c2cee.png

fvwm?

ssm , 17 days ago

yay!!!!

ssm , 18 days ago

Blocked lemmy.world after this nonsense, I was already sick of how closely that instance mirrored reddit; including the witch hunting. Had a few communities there I liked, but I can live without them.

ssm , 18 days ago

some tiny hyper-specific communities like c/DeepRockGalactic, as well as c/AssholeDesign (there's a c/AssholeDesign on .ml, but it's as dead as a doorknob); also enjoyed c/shitposting from time to time

ssm , 18 days ago

Companies: Will slurp up and sell every last bit of your user data to the highest bidder just to make one fraction of a cent extra profit

Open Source Projects: Stop giving us money!

ssm , 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

No, then yes, then no again.

Long story, won't explain, I don't remember many details since it's been years since I cared about any of this stuff; other than "Gonzalo did nothing wrong, there is no AES, CCP and Russia lost their way due to Deng in China and the assassination of Lenin in Russia blah blah I'm an ultra or maoist or something blah blah".

Open source movement is the only thing I care about now.

ssm , 19 days ago

Use https://wiby.me/ for everything but documentation

ssm , 19 days ago

Trusting this as a blind person would be a terrible idea, unless you had someone nearby who could verify the LLMs output (at which point they could just describe the image to you). At least it's local.