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I thought the name is pretty fun.

Prism refract boring white light into its colorful component. This process is kind of like spliting a single x86 instruction into several arm instructions. In the meantime also conveys the message that arm is "cooler", because colored light out of a prism is prettier than the input white light.

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I hope my next PC can be a risc-v one, ideally, open source OS, running on open source firmware, with a open source instruction set.

I want to see everything open source band together, just so that I can be forced to use slack for work.

Do you imagine slack will feel ashamed running on top of this many open source code?

baseless_discourse ,

It is time to hold mother nature accountable!

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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bandcamp is nice. They give much more to artist, and allow you to download flac. So that you can enjoy your music without worrying about your listening habits feeding the machine.

Our share is 15% on digital items, and 10% on physical goods. Payment processor fees are separate and vary depending on the size of the transaction, but for an average size purchase, amount to an additional 4-7%. The remainder, usually 80-85%, goes directly to the artist or their label, and we pay out daily.

https://bandcamp.com/fair_trade_music_policy

baseless_discourse ,

I think spotify is swedish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify

baseless_discourse ,

I think capitalism has already prevailed before America is the dominant force in it.

baseless_discourse , (edited )

If the recipient doesn't have the public key, they can't read the content.

Sir, if your recipients don't have a public key, you cannot even encrypt the message... That is how asymmetric-key crypto works.

baseless_discourse , (edited )

Plus there isn't many jurisdictions with stronger privacy law than the swiss. It is unlike they made a bad choice for choosing a headquarters.

I guess they can operate on the public sea or the arctic, but I imagine the commute will be terrible.

baseless_discourse ,

This is why you buy laptop from companies that officially support linux.

baseless_discourse ,

That is because the specific calligraphy style, 零 looks more like a old man (depending on your font)

baseless_discourse , (edited )

You didn't translate the first character "干", originally means "do", and like in English, eventually evolved to "fuck", like in "do me".

To make things even worse, 干 also means dry, when using a different tone. And 爆 is also a cooking technique, where they stir fry diced (or sliced) meat with very high heat to cook, resulting in a crispy and dry exterior and juicy inside.

A famous joke is that 干爆鸭子 (when written) can simultaneous mean the delicious "crispy diced duck", or "fuck the duck until it explodes".

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    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    Must be nice, in China we only have the poorly formatted, lack-of-citation garbage that is Baidu Baike https://baike.baidu.com/ .

    The "sorting algorithm" article: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%8E%92%E5%BA%8F%E7%AE%97%E6%B3%95/5399605 only have 3 citations: none of which are the original papers and none of which have any links. I tried searching these "citations" and found absolutely nothing...

    Similarly, the article for "Amsterdam" contains almost no citation beyond the first paragraph https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%98%BF%E5%A7%86%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9%E4%B8%B9/814

    Just imagine how bad it would be for more obscure concepts.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    Basically, you should try it, if it works, keep using it; if it doesn't, switch to xorg to see if that fixes your problem.

    Wayland is newer, have better support for multi-monitor, and application cannot see what you are typing in other app (so they cannot log your key and send your password to someone else).

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    It is the same on Windows, people can put a ahk script in your autostart, logs your password and send it to anyone on the internet, all without even invoking UAC.

    So yeah, wayland is kind of important...

    baseless_discourse ,

    Yes, on wayland you will need to run a particular program as root to be able to read all keyboard input. See xremap or mouseless (unmaintained).

    Since you already give the program plenty of trust to let it read all your inputs, I think running it as root is not outrages.

    That being said, in an ideal scenario, we would be able to set fine-grained permissions like, allow to read keyboard input but deny communication with other app, networks, and storage etc. But I don't know any OS that can do this.

    A more straightforward way to remap key is to get a keyboard with QMK firmware, that doesn't cover all the use case of ahk, xremap, or mouseless, but that don't require you to trust another program to run as root.

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    I use a laptop to run home console, and its display can turn off just fine.

    I was intentionally vague in my response, since I don't want to confuse the reader. Specifically, the improvement I was referring to is when you run two monitor with different refresh rate or different scaling factor.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    If you throw a linux OS to an average user, they would want to download app from the web instead of installing from app store. Average user don't "want" to download app from the app store, they do that because they are "told" to do so.

    I don't believe most average user "love" anything, they only want their device to "work", no matter what the privacy, security, and environmental concerns are. Plus apple's repeated propaganda, which makes many people believe that Apple is reasonably private and eco-conscious.

    I think one of the best decision apple has ever made is to start shitty and thus never enshittify. After a while, people accepted the shittiness of apple; yet Windows continuing to enshittify by putting ads everywhere, thus people feel like their old and good experiences have been taken away from them.

    I an obviously not saying Windows is better than macOS, they are both shitty in different ways. But I feel like Window's recent enshittification in some way contributed to the recent decline of Windows and rise of macOS.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    What about discovering and installing private app that don't use proprietary big tech service, including sending push notifications?

    On android this is very easy, you can just search and install apps from fdroid, where all apps has been manually audited to make sure there is no telemetry and proprietary dependencies, including network service dependency.

    Fdroid also build all the apps in their app store to prevent developers from secretly inject backdoors (think xz backdoor, and xcode ghost).

    I don't believe the fdroid model works in Apple's walled garden.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    What industry? Does this industry you mentioned happens only contains data hungry ad oligopolies like google, facebook and bytedance; but happens to exclude all the reasonable alternatives like Mozilla, duckduckgo, grapheneos, calyxos, desktop linux, mastodon, and lemmy?

    baseless_discourse ,

    I got a feeling that many consumers do use desktop linux, given the recently revealed 4% desktop market share across the world. macOS has 15% market share (around 3 times desktop linux), and Windows at the dominant 72% (around 3 times macOS). See https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

    I believe macOS probably is more private than Windows, but it is definitely not as private as the rest of the industry.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    I think it is useful to use fdroid in conjunction with private OS like graphene, divest and calyx all with excellent android compatibilities. Unfortunately, grapheneos, IMO the best of the three, is only avaliable on a small set of devices (so is ios).

    But I do agree with your point, if you use the stock android, even with privacy hardening, it is probably still not so private. But I don't know if a hardened stock android is "worse" than an average user's iPhone.

    baseless_discourse ,

    Okay, I mentioned desktop because you mentioned "personal computer industry" which I assumed means desktop/laptops.

    I think there are indeed more private (some can even be more secure) alternative to iOS, like calyx and/or graphene.

    But like you said, they do require a reasonable amount of computing literacy to install: first they need to know these projects exists, then they will need to connect their phone to their computer and click a single button.

    Thus, I think there is indeed no private and "popular" alternative to iOS, that a completely tech illiterate person can easily obtain.

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    Psychopath!

    /jk

    baseless_discourse ,

    At some point we all need to move away from insecure bash scripts.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    Python is great for scripting, but the advantages of nu and powershell are the ease of interacting with system utilities and the availability of common commands like ls etc.

    of course, you can always do subprocess.run or os.listdir(), but that is not as simple as scripting in nu or powershell.

    baseless_discourse ,

    Why are people still on there?!

    baseless_discourse ,

    I think you can install nvidia driver by clicking on "third party driver and codecs" check box during install? It should even register the secureboot key automatically.

    Ubuntu installer is pretty good IMO, at least much better than the current fedora installer.

    I haven't used ubuntu for a while, maybe these are outdated impressions.

    baseless_discourse ,

    LOL, this is a joke, on most popular distro it is quite easy, on ubuntu and mint, it is just clicking a check box and set a password for secureboot.

    On fedora is clicking a button, and run a single line of command.

    Many distro has nvidia images that don't need any configuration, like popOS, ublue derivates, and vanilla OS etc.

    I have been using my old GTX1060 on ublue for couple years now.

    I think the complains are most about distro developers needs to do extra work, just because nvidia refuse to play nicely with open source, like everyone else did.

    baseless_discourse ,

    You just uninstall and reinstall no?

    baseless_discourse ,

    I don't think most desktop OS has a consistent back button that the OS can hook into?

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    Oh no, this includes "aids" to Israel isn't it...

    Why the hell do Israel needs more money?! They are not even close to poor...

    baseless_discourse ,

    On the other hand, fragmentation makes software hard to support all of them. It seems like a dilemma.

    baseless_discourse ,

    That is what the xdg standard and file hierarchy standard are for.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    Until flatpak came along and just keeps everything in their respective app sandbox.

    If your app don't need full user home access (most app don't), you can use a persistent folder to place the folder in app sandbox instead of home.

    It is not only more clean, but also more secure and private.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    I do feel like setting environment variable on linux is not as intuitive as on windows, but after I setup my workflow, I realized I never have the need to manually set any environmental variable besides in flatseal.

    Maybe you have a specific use case for it?

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    programs writing shit in the document folder are so freaking annoying. I typically backup my document folder, as they contains most of my user files.

    And some stupid program just decide to litter it with their temporary file, and game saves....

    baseless_discourse ,

    Oh no, I think AoE (some version) will sometimes save game file to Documents, and IIRC, wechat will save temp file to documents without user interaction

    baseless_discourse ,

    If you have flatpak, and the application don't need full user home access, then you can move the folder to application sandbox by setting a persistent path.

    baseless_discourse ,

    Which unfortunately also don't follow xdg-dir specification...

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    Let's not pretend regedit is a good thing, it is littered with unreadable keys and has terrible UI and UX. And it requires root privileges to edit anything.

    I believe one of the worst disservice Windows has done to secure computing is to make users desensitized about root privileges. Every single action you do need root privileges, install app, changing config, people would just click allow whenever UAC pops up...

    This means any program can easily inject rootkit into Windows during install, without the users noticing a thing, like LoL.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    You don't need to use sudo command that much on linux. I personally only need to use it to edit two config files when setting up my system, that is it.

    One for pre-connection mac randomization, one to enable a kernel module I need, because my distro disable many of them by default. I am very conscious of the changes I am making. However on Windows, I have no idea what the app installers are doing.

    Not to mention, most users don't even need to make these changes. Per-network randomization is likely good enough for most user, and they probably not on a security-hardened distro which disables tons of kernel modules.

    For a office work and entertainments, flatpak apps are more than enough. And developers can choose to get their sdk via flatpak or podman dev containers. None of them requires sudo.

    Is there a good reason for a everyday user (not a tinker nor a system admin) to use sudo in linux?

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    The safest way to install update is via offline updates, which don't need sudo on the user side, but requires a restart. See https://fedoramagazine.org/offline-updates-and-fedora-35/ for a good explanation.

    I believe offline upgrade is also the default on every OS out there, for example gnome software only installs updates offline.

    Even if you have to use sudo to upgrade (or journalctl, dmesg, both are sysadmin tasks and not typically done by a normal user), you are still only giving root privileges to these trusted programs distributed by your distro, not some random installers on the internet, unless you are using AUR.

    I am genuinely curious what other commands with sudo that you need to run on a daily bases, for tasks that is unrelated to system administration?

    Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government (arstechnica.com)

    Apple said it complied with orders from the Chinese government to remove the Meta-owned WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China. Apple also removed Telegram and Signal from China....

    baseless_discourse ,

    You cannot access contents in tiktok in douyin, nor is tiktok.com accessible in China, which can be tested here: https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedinchina/

    Hence I believe it is reasonable to say tiktok is blocked in China.

    baseless_discourse ,

    Is there a FOSS implementation of esim any where? AFAIK all privacy/security rom need to download a proprietary component to use esim, and such component need to run as root (as of now).

    I wonder if this is another HDMI situation where implementing a FOSS version would violate some NDA of some sort.

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    I feel like these clothes are the prefect match for the body type on the right. There are many clothes that might not fit the person the the right (also many wouldn't fit the person on the left), but the ones in the comics are not these clothes.

    baseless_discourse ,

    So is posting on lemmy every hour. But you don't see people waving it in other's face, because it is none of your business.

    A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

    Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    There are so many surveillance built into proprietary software, countries like U.S. probably can just ask for any information from Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft.

    On the other hand, countries like China and Russia would probably need to compromise these product like Jia Tan did. Except for Apple, because every apple service in China is maintained by a Chinese company with no encryption allowed.

    baseless_discourse ,

    Okay I thought you mean libreoffice math. I have been using texmath since forever, but recently I am migrating towards libreoffice math, since texmath don't work with the flatpak version.

    Fortunately, I find the language of libreoffice math quite similar to latex and has a much better UX than texmath.

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