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kzimmermann

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An amateur hacker who works towards the advancement free software. Advocates for privacy and user freedom.

I have a #peertube channel hosted generously by Diode.zone:

https://diode.zone/video-channels/kzimmermann_podcast

:alpine: - :artix: - :freebsd: - :debian: - :raspberrypi:

Aeons ago (like 2016), I used to have an account on Quitter.se. You may consider this its spiritual continuation.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

kzimmermann, to til
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that @JasonPunyon curated and compiled a whopping archive of answers from and assorted Q&A sites in a minimal sqlite format, where they can be downloaded and analyzed offline:

https://seqlite.puny.engineering/

Amazing effort and great idea. Reminded me of the archives that kept of it (alongside Wikipedia and similar projects), but more streamlined and cross-platform. Nice.

kzimmermann,
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Also, for who's wondering about the part:

https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

Arch, Gentoo Wikis, Wikipedia in several languages and levels of detail (pic, no pic, summaries only, etc) and SO, all in the ZIM format.

kzimmermann, to linux
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Using #Linux in a Corporate Laptop for work

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/linux_work_laptop.html

Longish post that I've been meaning to post for a few weeks now. I tried to run only #FreeSoftware for work for a month and the result was amazing. Here's a few tips on how I did it in case you want to try it too.

Needless to say, I have zero intentions on going back. Long live Free Software: Liberate your Hardware today!

53 out of #100DaysToOffload

kzimmermann,
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@danielittlewood that's true. Come to think of it, there were so many other ways my job could've made it harder, huh. Photoshop, Autocad, etc. At least Microsoft and Google basically develop for Chrome, so we're still in the same boat.

I have edited documentation with LibreOffice locally, but a lot of what we use is "co-authored" by many people at once via webapp. This benefits me, to be honest, because at least no one complains if "weird formatting" from LO is left on them.

kzimmermann,
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@vazhnov aww man, I feel sad for you! But in a way, do you find it less painful than, say, Windows? I once worked in a place with a Mac, too. A lot of people said "oh, at least it's Unix-based, so should be similar to your Linux, right?" But in my experience, I found the two as much related as a motorboat to an airplane because "the two have a propeller." :P

Linux on Mac hardware, however, is quite another story :D

kzimmermann, to random
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Decided to play around with #chroot again. But this time I beefed it up considerably. Basically built a mini-Debian stable install on top of #Devuan with debootstrap and started installing some internet-facing utilities on it.

Got to the point where I'm running chrooted firefox, which works pretty transparently, except I get no sound (yet). What could I try next?

kzimmermann,
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Really neat how much you reduce in size given some of the host filesystem re-use (mounts, etc). Graphical environment and all, yet the whole chroot is just around 1.8 G in size.

kzimmermann,
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(clarification: firefox is running as a regular user I created inside the chroot, not the root user)

kzimmermann, to random
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Gratuitous reminder that (and the better fork ) don't only work with YouTube, but rather with pretty much any other media site you want to download music or videos from.

Own your media. Play anywhere and however you want. Download it. Reward authors in more direct ways. ,,/

lw, to FreeBSD
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seen in another toot:

> FreeBSD is working on a graphical installer. Finally.

"finally" what? like, what is the actual benefit to users here?

bsdinstall could definitely do with some improvements to its workflow (which people are working on) but it's already pretty intuitive and easy to use.

if you install FreeBSD with a graphical installer, you finish the install, and then... you end up with a "login:" prompt on a text terminal. so you didn't gain anything from having a graphical installer.

if the idea here is to make FreeBSD easier to install/use, then the focus should be on the post-install system (e.g., installing DRM/X/Wayland/etc. by default), not on the installer itself.

#freebsd

kzimmermann,
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@lw agreed, there's nothing wrong with a TUI installer. There's not even anything wrong with a script installer like in Alpine.

Post base-install options to bootstrap DEs and other GUI goodies would be welcome, though I probably won't use them.

kzimmermann,
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@lw and they could even take an inspiration from Linux in this point. Debian's installer works text-based (graphical is basically the same thing, but with a mouse) and offers clear and easy options to add popular DEs and other goodies post base install (which again I tend not to use). Just a matter of marking and pressing Enter.

kzimmermann, to debian
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Warning: broken - again - in latest unstable [ | ]

Well, let's just say it's a small price to pay for the unclogging of the previous 200+ held back packages. Good thing we have https://snapshot.debian.org/ to "roll back" a little!

kzimmermann,
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Culprit seems to be actually libsnappy instead:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1070217

Downgrade that package to this version and latest runs again:

https://snapshot.debian.org/package/snappy/1.1.10-1/#libsnappy1v5_1.1.10-1

kzimmermann, to random
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Looks like doing one apt full-upgrade to one of my #Devuan Ceres (unstable) machines safely "unclogged" the 200+ packages that had been held back for 2 months now with no apparent breakage anywhere else.

Guess it can be a useful trick (after analyzing carefully what in fact is being updated) despite my usual advice not to do it:

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/running_debian_sid.html

#rollingrelease

kzimmermann,
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Oh, nice, this also seems to enable the installation of again! Maybe one more thing to try later on.

kzimmermann,
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@http indeed. I install both this and apt-listbugs to more safely daily-drive Sid

kzimmermann, to random
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DuckDuckDown right now

kzimmermann,
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@tulpa DuckDuckNo

kzimmermann,
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DuckDuckGone

kzimmermann, to random
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The perfect meme crossover doesn't exi-

kzimmermann, to privacy
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So did G**gle finally cuck completely at last? Every video I try to see now is like this, in every instance 😠

kzimmermann,
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Oh well, at least instances seems to be working at the moment?

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

(ugh, hosted in GH)

kzimmermann,
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@cina indeed it's not that like I never saw that error before, but with this frequency (i.e. 99.9% of all videos now if not 100%)? No way. There's the G-man's dirty hand behind all this.

kzimmermann,
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@invidious great to hear :) I hope y'all will nail it soon!

GossiTheDog, to random
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My Mastodon server, cyberplace.social, has received a legal threat in an attempt to have a user's thread deleted. It is styled as a cease and desist.

I have published the email here:
https://github.com/GossiTheDog/Cyberplace/blob/main/LegalThreats/Cease%20and%20Desist%20Order%20-%20Felix%20Juhl

kzimmermann,
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@GossiTheDog we really need to ask people to please not go into google, type the name Felix Juhl, press enter and look at the search results and keep searching for more information about this Felix Juhl who really, really, shouldn't be searched for.

Or, godforbid, click this inoffensive hashtag to know even more about

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