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lproven

@lproven@vivaldi.net

Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.

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Gentoo and NetBSD ban 'AI' code, but Debian doesn't – yet

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/distros_ai_code/

The problem isn't just that LLM-bot generated code is bad – it's where it came from

<- by me on @theregister

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Put Rescuezilla 2.5 on a bootable key – before you need it

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/16/rescuezilla_2_5/

Sort of a FOSS Norton Ghost, now updated to Ubuntu 24.04 base

<- by me on @theregister

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The great Tom Gauld in New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2431198-tom-gauld-on-cars-of-the-future/

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The Worst Website In The Entire World
https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/

<- Desktop VMware is free for personal use now… but trying to get it is an entirely different thing.

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Remember the Dali hitting Baltimore bridge?

Yeah, it's still there...

And they won't let the crew off. And they took their phones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-69011124

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With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu's never looked so snappy (without the Snaps)

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/15/asmi_2404_ubuntu_without_snap/

Distro formerly known as Zinc cuts the fat, rather than just replacing it

<- by me on @theregister

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Linux 6.9 arrives, plus Torvalds indicates Arm64 will get a bit more love

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/13/linux_kernel_69_released/

And the windows are opened to 6.10 in September or so

<- by me on @theregister

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First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/9front_do_not_install/

Possibly its most helpful codename yet

<- by me on @theregister

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The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/26/long_live_16_bit_z80/

Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential

<- by me on @theregister

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Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/23/miracle_wm_020/

What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway?

<- by me on @theregister

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"AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it." -- beultra_warrior

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We Need To Rewild The Internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

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AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/almalinux_94_ciq_lts_kernels/

CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux

<- by me on @theregister

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NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/

Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

<- by me on @theregister

lproven,
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@resuna @theregister Both OpenBSD and NetBSD default to giving you a graphical login and an Xterm, if you say that you want it. FreeBSD is lagging behind here, as I told them.

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After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/15/ubuntu_24_04_belated_beta/

Kernel 6.8, GNOME 46, and more apps in Snap packages

<- by me on @theregister

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The Imperfectionist: The goose in the bottle
https://ckarchive.com/b/0vuwh9hor8l34a7mggrmzhwe9qk55

<- the best explanation of this ancient koan I've ever read, and I think the explanation has real value

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TFY unwisely agree to Do Something about 70-year-old in-law's laptop, which is 9 years old and running Word 2008 atop a version of macOS unsupported since 2018 …

You have a spare M1 Probook to upgrade him to. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, he's forgotten his login password, never had an AppleID, and his old machine doesn't recognize APFS filesystems for that old-time floppy-style SSD shuffle.

And the cable to the only SSD they have is flaky.

(Now back home, screaming quietly in Mac.)

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@cstross OCLP will fix that, if you can be bothered.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/09/opencore_legacy_patcher/

The Now Official Mrs Proven's old MacBook is a 2009 model and it's supported by OCLP. In principle I could get it onto macOS >10 easily. Big Sur is the last one to support pre-Metal GPUs. It's doable.

But it's in the basement in Prague and we can't find it. So I hackintoshed macOS 11 onto my old ex-SUSE Dell, restored the Time Machine backup onto that, then copied the files onto a USB HDD and switched the SSD for one with ChromeOS Flex on it. That does all she needs and it's simpler and quicker than macOS.

(This latter made some folks on Reddit very angry with me.)

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@cstross I didn't think Apple ever shipped Celerons?

And as ever, a reminder: these things are relative. Mrs P's MacBook is a Core 2 Duo with 6GB of RAM (I have more but it's too fast for the nVidia GPU) and a 120GB SSD.

It flew along in 10.13 and its ~12-year-old battery was good for ~2 hours of disconnected use.

It was a freebie (dropped; dinged case, dead HDD) so I did it up as an experiment. A very successful experiment. It became a daily driver for another couple of years.

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@cstross Aha!

I think I tried one in a shop. Not my cuppa: ultra-low travel keyboard, just 1 port, tacky gold option, etc.

But, saying that, for some people it would be a lifesaver.

Apparently it runs Ventura and Sonoma well with OCLP! https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/178zg1f/updated_my_12_mb_via_opencore/

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@isaackuo @cstross Fake news!

Can attest that my Core 2 Duo 2009 MPB can play YouTube -- my toddler daughter could watch for 2-3 hours, on the original 2009 battery, as of 2022.

Of course a HiDPI screen will need more juice, yes, but a Core M should be significantly faster than a C2D.

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"UNIX is the C language runtime"

– PJMLP, Hacker News, 2024-04-05
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941063

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https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/canonical_snap_store_scams/

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@popey @sgd If I had known it mattered to you...

But an uncapitalised proper noun makes my teeth itch.

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Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/red_hat_hires_mckinsey/

Some staff are worried – can't think why

<- by me on @theregister

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Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to Android phones

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/30/fairberry_fairphone_hardware_qwerty/

Now updated – v0.3.0 is here, with less soldering

<- by me on @theregister

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