nirogu

@nirogu@vivaldi.net

Computer scientist and mathematician

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nirogu,

If the child is really young, check out the sugar desktop environment. There is an official distro from sugarlabs and there is also a fedora spin (fedora soas)
If the computer should be a little more functional, the GNOME desktop or the Deepin desktop are good options imo

nirogu,

Although the most active instance by far is pixelfed.social, that shouldn't be relevant as you can interact with any pixelfed or mastodon account/posts no matter the server you join. So, you could join any pixelfed instance and follow the mastodon.art (most active multimedia instance) users, for example

nirogu,

As far as I know, no. But you can from mastodon, pleroma, or other similar microblogging oriented software

Migueldeicaza, (edited ) to random
@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social avatar

This is what I worked on during my last two years at Microsoft.

Finally public!

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960345/microsoft-cpu-gpu-ai-chips-azure-maia-cobalt-specifications-cloud-infrastructure

nirogu,

@Migueldeicaza impressive!
Is Microsoft also developing the @pytorch compatibility or is it someone else's job?

dansup, to random
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

Pixelfed.social approaching 100K users 🥳

It may seem like a huge instance, but with 5K MAU, only 5% of users are active.

I have a few plans to increase MAU and improve retention!

nirogu,

@dansup what do you mean by active users? Posting pictures only or just logging in counts too?

nirogu, to linux

Run command as not-root

Hi everyone

At work, I have to run a command in an AWS instance. In that particular instance only exists the root user. The command should not be executed with root privileges (it executes mpirun, which is not recommended to run as sudo or the machine might break), so I was wondering if there is a way to block or disable the sudo privileges while the command is running. As mentioned, the only user existing there is root, so I suppose "sudo -u" is not an option.

Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance!

@linux

nirogu,

@elscallr I agree about the instance configuration, fixing that is the real solution
My question was not about running something as another user, but about hiding the superadmin privileges from a single command I'd execute without switching users. However it is clear that something like that doesn't exist so I'll do the right thing and set everything to work with a new user

nirogu,

@Oisteink yep, that seems the right thing to do. Honestly, most of the real problem was lazyness to reconfigure everything, and that's why I published the question. But now I'm convinced that that's the only way lol
Thanks for the help!

nirogu,

@ursakhiin honestly, didn't consider it. Just checked and the "docker" command doesn't even exist so I assume that is not the case. Do you know if the is any other way I can be certain?

nirogu,

@Oisteink in another comment (https://social.vivaldi.net/users/nirogu/statuses/111342629815373353) I explained why I'd prefer not to create another user, as it would require a lot of work to configure everything again for that command to work (it's a big process). I was thinking of hiding my sudo permissions from the program or something like that, if possible, because many things in the instance are only configured to be used with the root user, even if they don't require sudo. Anyway, I'm seeing that it might not be possible so creating a new user could be the only option 🙁

nirogu,

Forgot to mention that creating a new user brings a lot of problems because of how that machine is configured and all the tools that would need to be added the new user's permission. In theory it would eventually work after some time working on it, but I'd like to know if there's a way to do it without creating users (or if it's impossible, so I can just go on with that only option)
@linux

nirogu,

@astraeus yep, completely agree on the security issues, that is a mistake that should be fixed. But for the moment I confirmed that root is the only user, and every file and program in the instance can only be used by root (I just created a new user and tried to run the command with su -c but got a lot of permission denials and command not found)
If I could hide or disable my own sudo permissions that would save me a lot of work, but I'm starting to think that something like that doesn't exist 🙁

nirogu,

@astray yeah, that could be an option, but if more users exist in that machine then other processes might fail as that instance is part of a bigger cluster that has several processes running. It might not be a big deal, but checking that may still need some work. I'd prefer a way to do it without creating new users, if it exists

nirogu,

@ursakhiin honestly, I didn't even know an aws instance could be a docker image. Everything I did was creating the instance normally so I assumed it was just a regular vm. But already double checked and it is not a docker image, so no problem there 🙂

nirogu,

Very well explained! Especially given how difficult RL can be sometimes

nirogu,

Great news. Seems that most of the community uses KDE anyway, so this should make things faster for most installations

nirogu, to linux

Problem with WiFi driver in arch linux

Hi everyone

I've been trying to solve a problem with my arch (endeavour) instalation and wanted to know if anyone here can help

Everything is working well, excepting the WiFi connection. It is extremely slow, sometimes disconnecting from the network, and in the task bar, the WiFi icon shows that the signal strength is weak, although the router is in the same room. Switching between r8168 and r8169 as recommended doesnt work. Any ideas?

@linux

nirogu,

@driving_crooner @linux Just did it, but no change at all. I think that would be the solution if the card weren't recognized, but the issue here is that it connects but erroneously reports weak wifi signal

nirogu,

I might do that if nothing else works, but it'd be really weird if there is not a simple native linux solution, I'm just not an expert lol

nirogu,

@knobbysideup @linux Yep, it is disabled

nirogu,

@Rustmilian @linux Thank you for your help! I did what you suggested and it fixed about 80% of the problem. I no longer randomly disconnect from the network and it is way faster than before, although download speed is still 8x slower than it was last week when I had fedora running instead of arch. I think I'm going to try more values for the 11n_disable parameter (there is no power management to disable), but even if it doesnt improve my machine is at least usable now. Thanks!

nirogu,

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 [8086:24fd] (rev 78)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [1043:200f]

nirogu,

@Kalcifer @linux
[ 5.010372] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 5.108148] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0xbadcafe, cnv-id 0x10 wfpm id 0x80000000
[ 5.108171] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: PCI dev 24fd/0110, rev=0x230, rfid=0xd55555d5
[ 5.137796] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 36.ca7b901d.0 8265-36.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[ 5.556122] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265, REV=0x230
[ 5.614915] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: base HW address: 60:f6:77:eb:1e:6e, OTP minor version: 0x0
[ 5.689840] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: iwlmvm doesn't allow to disable HW crypto, check swcrypto module parameter
[ 13.355547] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 0

nirogu,

@Rustmilian @linux Yeah, it's close to impossible to find documentation on what to do here. I'm trying to find out how is it that Fedora works well with the same hardware, and even considering changing the card itself, but for the moment at least my connection is much more stable after setting the iwlwifi.conf file
Once again, thank you for your help!

kde, to academia
@kde@floss.social avatar

Introducing KDE for Students

Make your sessions more productive, compose papers with ease, and ace your with KDE. Our apps and Plasma desktop will give you all you need to succeed during your studies and in ... and will even run fine on your old laptop!

https://kde.org/for/students/

@kde

nirogu,

@kde @kde I tried to install some of the apps listed there but they are not in the arch linux repos. Is there any other way to try them?

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