Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.
The article has a certain fascination, because it claims to be the ultimate guide to Anson Mount's height, and it goes in a lot of detail about it, for example explaining that height is often measured in feet and inches, or how having more height helps Mount find better fitting clothes.
Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.
Freedesktop has a specification for idle inhibition[1] (which hinders sleep from triggering when you're watching videos, for example) exposed via org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.Inhibit. To use it in your application, all you need to do is make a D-Bus call, whether it is Inhibit to enable it or UnInhibit to disable it.
The systemd suite includes a tool called systemd-inhibit[2] that lets you call some software and ensure that it will inhibit idle/poweroff/restart/reboot/suspend/hibernate for the duration of the software's lifetime. This is also exposed via org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Inhibit!
KDE CLI tools includes a similar small utility called kde-inhibit[3] which in addition to supporting inhibition during the software's lifetime lets you inhibit notifications or the Plasma-specific night color mode.
The survey is completely anonymous and I'm not collecting any personal sensitive data. Survey is hosted on trusted university's server.
Update: if you use other app that can connect with Mastodon via ActivityPub protocol then you can still check the Mastodon as your main platform. But it will be alright if you will leave a note in the survey that you use that other app. You can do it in any of the question that have an 'other' variant of an answer. Please look at the comments, I put there an example how to do it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thank you in advance, your help means a lot for me! :blobCat_blush:
Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much McDonald's CEO's $17.8M salary is driving up the cost?
I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
The cashiers at the grocery store tell me that the U-scans that are being installed will result in their hours being cut. They will lose their health insurance if they don't work enough weekly hours.
This is yet another reason that health insurance should not be tied to your job, and full-time workers should not be made to work part-time without their consent.
The abusive behavior that was being used to manipulate Lasse Collin into bringing on more maintainers for #xz went unnoticed because abusive behavior in Open Source communities is so pervasive. In context, we can clearly see it was part of an orchestrated operation. Out of context, it looks like just another asshole complaining about stuff they have no right to complain about. https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/
HT to @wdormann here - somebody has backdoored the open source project XZ which has downstream impacts.
For example, although OpenSSH doesn’t use XZ, Debian patch OpenSSH and introduced a dependency which translates as the XZ changes introducing a sshd authentication bypass backdoor it appears.
One dude bothered to investigate in his free time about why ssh was running slow, so it was caught fairly early - i.e. hopefully before distros started bundling it.
be cool to figure out what this railroad dispatch software that was in use in 1991 was.
three keyboards in total for this setup, and the dude is using a mouse that is able to move the icons on the map around. it does not seem the map auto-updates (from the few short moments that it is visible)
The city I live in has a decent digi like... 8-10 miles north but nothing local (read: nothing I can hit with an HT)
My VHF rig has two settings: 5W and 45W
Should I set myself up as a WIDE1? I don't quite know where the boundary lies between "if there's a gap in coverage, fill it" and "that'll just cause more APRS congestion"
