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bear,

When people recognize they were wrong about something, as smugly satisfying as it may be it’s not actually helpful to tell them that they should have been correct sooner.

bear,

Have it just be form-fitted outside contacts, with magnetic adhesion to hold the plug in place.

I actually really like this idea. If we’re breaking backwards compatibility anyways, let’s do something useful with it. This form factor was invented in the 1950s. I’m sure we can do something better now.

We need to move away from everything having a battery anyways. Wireless headphones were a mistake. Now people are walking around with 4-6 batteries on them at all times. Phone, laptop, earbuds, earbud case, battery backup, smart watch. Batteries aren’t great for the environment, not to mention they typically condemn something to being tech waste in a few short years. We need to significantly rethink this model.

bear,

I’ve switched to Kagi recently and honestly it’s better than Google ever was. You can assign weights to sites to see more or less of them in your results, it automatically cuts the listicle crap out, it has various built in filters for specific things like forums or scientific studies.

Downside: it’s $10/mo. But I’m at the “I’d rather pay with money than data” stage of my life. Especially if it actually makes the experience fucking usable again.

bear,

I’m gonna keep it real with you, I’ll take “weirdo CEO and optional AI tools” over “corporate entity so powerful that society has literally warped around it, whose primary business model is psychological manipulation” any day of the week. The other search engines are so poor at what they do that they’re not viable options.

bear,

I think they’re just making fun of the bad font kerning in the app which causes a gap in the word Unmanaged

bear,

Overall I’m quite pleased with this news, but I’m a bit of a zealot when it comes to democracy. Barring any breakdown of process during the drafting and election phases, I see this as an absolute win, and the first step towards repairing the community.

bear,

I would rather have a strong dictatorship focused on technical merit, to be deposed in the future for another dictator, again, based on technical merit.

Normally when I see people say something like this, what they actually mean is “based on technical merit (and also has the right opinions that agree with mine)”. The concern is that democracy will produce outcomes they find disagreeable.

bear,

Personally I’d rather have a choice of who to follow based on whose opinions align better with my own, instead of everyone being forced to go with the majority…

NixOS is FOSS. People can freely fork it. Your choice is not being taken away.

in other words I respect people’s freedom to have opinions I do not like, which I think this type of “community power” is in some ways the opposite of that.

I’m not sure how voting makes it so we can’t respect each other’s opinions.

bear,

… Yes. You will have to behave like a civilized adult. If your opinion is that you shouldn’t have to, then you are correct that I do not respect that opinion.

bear,

That caused a lot of tension, the foundation came to a decision not to accept sponsorship

This part is actually not true, they are still a sponsor of NixCon NA 2024.
2024-na.nixcon.org/

They proposed a policy to handle deciding sponsorships in the future, but it’s pretty lackluster. It basically just says the people in power promise to do a good job, pinky swear.
github.com/NixOS/…/sponsorship_policy.md

bear,

I’m not sold on the name, but I’m definitely interested in the fork. I think there is an irreconcilable schism in the NixOS community that cannot be fixed unless the Benevolent Dictator steps down as leader, and it sure seems like he’s not gonna do that, as he’s built his entire company on top of NixOS.

bear,

RETURN OF THE KING

bear,

Your response is “why are you doing X, you should do Y”

Because they’re right, you shouldn’t do X. I know that’s not a satisfying answer for most people to hear, but it’s often one people need to hear.

If the process must run as root, then giving a user direct and unauthenticated control over it is a security vulnerability. You’ve created a quick workaround for your issue, and to be clear it is unlikely to realistically cause you problems individually, but on a larger scale that becomes a massive issue. A better solution is required rather than recommend everybody create a hole in their security like yours in order to do this thing.

If this is something that unprivileged users reasonably want to control, then this control should be possible unprivileged, or at least with limited privilege, not by simply granting permanent total control of a root service.

This is ultimately an upstream issue more than anything else.

bear,

Refurbished drives get their SMART data reset during the process, they absolutely had more than that originally.

bear,

I’ve got a Protectli VP2420 running OPNSense at home, which has 4x Intel i225-V 2.5gbe running on a weaker Celeron J6412, and I was able to get the expected iperf performance of ~2.35gbps from some brief testing between two directly connected machines. I didn’t really do any deeper testing than that though, and I’m not currently doing any crazy threat detection stuff.

bear,

Recent NixOS convert, where has this work of art been all my life

bear,

There’s 102 people mentioned in that commit and two of them happen to meet in the comments of a meme thread on Lemmy of all places. I love the Internet.

bear,

This feature unironically turned me from a decade long Samsung hater into a Samsung shill. The fact that it’s still not in base Android is just embarrassing.

bear,

Motorola has always had some custom additions, it’s not running raw AOSP. Unless it’s changed in the last year, not even the Pixel can do it. Good to know Moto has apparently had this feature for a while though, wish Google would get it into Android itself so everyone can benefit.

bear,

Docker is open source, licensed under Apache-2.0. Not really sure what you’re talking about.

bear,

This is so cozy and giving me some inspiration for my own environment!

bear,

“Because I feel like it.”

So in other words, because she wants to? As in, “because it’s her body and she can do whatever she wants with it”?

bear,

I don’t know, that sounds like hard, thankless work that will take years of consistent effort, dealing with countless setbacks and losses but not giving up, before finally achieving our goals of making real and meaningful change. What if instead if that I just don’t buy Starbucks, will that work?

bear,

Plants aren’t sentient. When we say they “feel pain” and “communicate” we don’t mean like sentient creatures. We just don’t have better words to accurately convey the mechanics at play here. Computers also “communicate”.

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