Man what a clusterfuck. Things still don’t really add up based on public info. I’m sure this will be the end of any real attempts at safeguards, but with the board acting the way it did, I don’t know that there would’ve been even without him returning. You know the board fucked up hard when some SV tech bro looks like the good guy.
This is tilting at windmills. If someone has physical possession of a piece of hardware, you should assume that it’s been compromised down to the silicon, no matter what clever tricks they’ve tried to stymie hackers with. Also, the analog hole will always exist. Just generate a deepfake and then take a picture of it.
I have a self hosted HA deployment that hasn’t been updated in a while. I haven’t updated it partially because they made the boneheaded move of deprecating their YAML config in favor of GUI-only config, and partially because the developers are insufferable dickholes....
As a user, the best way to handle applications is a central repository where interoperability is guaranteed. Something like what Debian does with the base repos. I just run an install and it’s all taken care of for me. What’s more, I don’t deal with unnecessary bloat from dozens of different versions of the same library...
Snaps benefit Canonical. They’re trying to build their own walled garden, and anyone else benefiting is not a consideration.
Flatpaks are different, because they aren’t purpose-built to benefit a single company. I wouldn’t use them to install most things, but there’s a few places where there’s benefits for at least some people. It’s a lot easier to maintain large projects like Firefox on older distro releases for example. You get sandboxing, so that say a bug in Firefox won’t let malicious javascript take over your system. It lets vendors release closed source software that would never be included in your distro’s repos. These are all things that may not benefit you, but in theory they’ll benefit enough people that it’s worth it.
I’ve also moved onto NixOS so don’t use either one anyways. I think Nix or something like it is the future, even if you’re running a more traditional distro, though that might just be misplaced optimism, see the success of worse is better.
Started learning Linux with Manjaro a few years ago, but there were always stability issues pushing me away from daily driving. I found when I did have time to use my PC, it was largely for gaming, and when any issue presented and needed to be fixed it was a bit of a barrier to entry....
What a shitheel. They’re trying to justify imperialism with realpolitik, but they’re not even doing a good job of it. The third option is that other countries help out Ukraine against a crazed imperialist. It won’t be easy, but right now, Ukraine retaining its sovereignty looks actually likely.
They already were the first? I still remember when I upgraded Firefox on my phone and all of the extensions were gone. It’s nice that they’re finally bringing them back after all these years, but it’s just a return to the way things used to be.
EDIT: Headline here was changed from the original article, which doesn’t claim “first”, just “only”.
I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in a different time period or whether my sense of humor is just misaligned, or if it’s just that I don’t have the background necessary, but I don’t understand shit....
This seems really short-sighted. Why would I go to How Stuff Works when I can just ask the LLM myself?
Maybe there’s just no possible business model for them anymore with the advent of LLMs, but at least if they focused on the “actually written by humans!” angle there’d be some hook to draw people in.
There have been some impressive (and scary) temperature records set in the past couple weeks. That said, there are parts of Canada that are currently on fire that likely have a daily temperature in the hundreds of degrees. Clearly that doesn’t count for any sort of temperature record. What I’m wondering is: where’s the...
The overall issue with global warming is not that one place gets super hot once and sets a record. Otherwise I could make news headlines by setting my house on fire and getting “hottest temperature ever! (at my house)”. Those local hotspots of fire will affect the average global temp only a tiny bit, because the earth is a big place and there’s lots of places not currently on fire. The thing to worry about is the reverse actually: because the earth is warming, fires are increasing everywhere, and then everybody will be next to a fire on that blessed record-setting day.
I’m playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon myself. It feels pretty balanced and cohesive with frequent updates. It also doesn’t have the weapon durability mechanic from vanilla, which I hated
Meshuggah - Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion (Sweden, 2012) (www.youtube.com)
Black Crown Initiate - The Fractured One (USA-PA, 2014) (www.youtube.com)
Should posts here be cross-posted to other Lemmy metal communities?
When relevant. I could cross-post them myself, just wanted to see if that would be a good idea.
After Valve says no, Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs unite to get "very serious" about their very silly demand for a dwarf tag on Steam, and they want your help (www.gamesradar.com)
Hideous Divinity - The Numinous One (Italy, 2024) (centurymedia.bandcamp.com)
Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years (lemmy.world)
I don’t know why I even bother opening the settings app
OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away (www.pcgamer.com)
New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter (spectrum.ieee.org)
macburgere (lemmy.world)
Nuclear Power Trio - Critical Bass Theory (www.youtube.com)
Instrumental Week: Obscura - Orbital Elements (Germany, 2009) (obscura.bandcamp.com)
Any good alternatives to Home Assistant?
I have a self hosted HA deployment that hasn’t been updated in a while. I haven’t updated it partially because they made the boneheaded move of deprecating their YAML config in favor of GUI-only config, and partially because the developers are insufferable dickholes....
Archspire - Calamus Will Animate (CA-BC, 2017) (m.youtube.com)
They were posted already a while back, but hopefully a different song with a good music video is OK.
Rivers of Nihil - The Silent Life (US-PA, 2018) (www.youtube.com)
They’ve also got a retro music video for one of their proggier songs:...
Who does flatpak/snap benefit?
As a user, the best way to handle applications is a central repository where interoperability is guaranteed. Something like what Debian does with the base repos. I just run an install and it’s all taken care of for me. What’s more, I don’t deal with unnecessary bloat from dozens of different versions of the same library...
Finally boarded the ship! And all it took was swallowing my pride.
Started learning Linux with Manjaro a few years ago, but there were always stability issues pushing me away from daily driving. I found when I did have time to use my PC, it was largely for gaming, and when any issue presented and needed to be fixed it was a bit of a barrier to entry....
It's not even absolutist pacifist naivete. It's just bootlicking and pro-Russian imperialism. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year (blog.mozilla.org)
Source: blog.mozilla.org/…/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-e…...
I understand close to none of the comics in here.
I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in a different time period or whether my sense of humor is just misaligned, or if it’s just that I don’t have the background necessary, but I don’t understand shit....
Did you know that the Tyrannosaurus Rex...
lived closer to the present day than to the destruction of Alderaan?
I easly got the reddit r/place data into a 4.3GIB sqlite database, where can I post it? (lemmy.world)
cross-posted to: lemmy.world/post/2499861...
How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors (mastodon.social)
Jury orders Google to pay $339M for patent-infringing Chromecast (arstechnica.com)
How far from a forest fire do you have to be for a daily temperature record to count?
There have been some impressive (and scary) temperature records set in the past couple weeks. That said, there are parts of Canada that are currently on fire that likely have a daily temperature in the hundreds of degrees. Clearly that doesn’t count for any sort of temperature record. What I’m wondering is: where’s the...
What version of Pixel Dungeon is everyone playing?
I’m playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon myself. It feels pretty balanced and cohesive with frequent updates. It also doesn’t have the weapon durability mechanic from vanilla, which I hated