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savvywolf , 7 days ago

Technically that would mean that one copy of the file is no longer updated when the other is.

You should consider using ln bkp.tar.gz bkp2.tar.gz instead.

savvywolf , 1 month ago

I'm cool with Obsidian because everything is just a bunch of Markdown files. If they go off into the deep end then I can just switch to VScodium or some random text editor.

Vendor lockin is the real problem with proprietary software.

savvywolf , 1 month ago

Hire that frog.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Used them to debug a problem. Forgot to remove them. Wondered why I ran out of disk space a few weeks later.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Programs running graphically (Firefox, your file browser, etc.) need a way to tell the system "draw these pixels here". That's what the display server does; it takes all these applications, works out where their windows are and manages that pixel data.

XOrg has historically been the display server in common use, but it's very old and very cobbled together. It generally struggles with "modern" things that must people expect today. Multimonitor setups, vsync, hdr and all that. They work, but support is hacked together and brittle.

Wayland is a replacement for XOrg that was designed from scratch to fix a lot of these issues. But it's been an uphill battle because XOrg is the final boss of legacy codebases.

tl;dr They're both software that manages drawing pixels from applications to the display.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

We'd all like Steam to be open source, but that's not going to happen for a number of reasons. So I guess you could say that a core part of the OS is proprietary, if you wanted.

We like Valve because they are actually contributing to open source projects, unlike Microsoft who say they love open source but don't do anything to support it.

Also, the Steam Deck is really nice, and less locked down than "Windows" hardware.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Realistically, what are you expecting? If Valve suddenly decided tomorrow to release all of their source code on Github, all you'd get is a big blob of source code that is purpose built for Valve themselves and not really modular. They'd have so much technical debt and auditing requirements that it'd probably be easier to start from scratch, which I don't think it's reasonable to expect them to do.

And honestly, nothing closed source that Steam does is really novel enough to warrant being open source. The value of Steam comes from its ecosystem and playerbase, as well as the backing of Valve themselves. That's not something that an open source Steam server or client would allow people to compete with.

I would like them to release an open source command line tool for downloading, launching and DRM-validating-ing games though. That seems reasonable for people who don't want to run the full client and want something like Heroic or Lutris to be able to hook into.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

But how does an orb person drink coffee!?

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Terrifying. Please nobody implement this in an actual game.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

(Technically aren't half the white people in the comic not actually being racist?)

savvywolf , 2 months ago

That view feels overly romanticised to me, tbh; the idea that the way to stop racism is to just not acknowledge it. That not drawing attention to things will just make it go away.

There's a lot of institutionalised racism in many countries, either due to racism itself or as a knock on effect from other failed systems.

And, of course, there's just plain bigotry that is passed patent to child and from social group to social group. That's not going to stop by just censoring media.

The message of this comic is, basically, "here's some unconscious biases you could be making". Reading it as "this is how you're supposed to talk to black people" is... Well, if that's the reading you make, then whether the comic exists or not isn't going to change anything.

It feels like this sort of thing makes people feel uncomfortable and they try to justify the removal of the media rather than grappling with the concept of privilege (which, tbf, is hard for people to do).

savvywolf , 2 months ago

They 100% would stop you if they could.

It's why Google's website DRM thing was so scary.

savvywolf , 2 months ago

Okay, so I originally was going to go in a long rant about how they're still doing it, but decided that it didn't really add much to the comment, so removed it.

Afaik they've, for now at least, shelved it in browsers, but are still going ahead in Android webviews (as part of their war on Youtube Vanced).

savvywolf , 3 months ago

There are so many issues left in the world...

savvywolf , 3 months ago

Please, we don't call things "sin" any more. We prefer the dogwhistles "disease" and "disability" now.

savvywolf , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Back when I was learning languages, I got obsessed with the streak thingie. Then I found myself without internet for a few days and started to get really stressed and upset about losing the streak.

I then realised that my reaction to it was unhealthy and decided that these streak things are just toxic to me. So now I don't really care about them.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

It was rough. I basically gave up on playing 3D games on Linux for the longest time and used a dualboot. Much less hassle.

What convinced me was when they verified Apex Legends, which was a game I was not expecting to be verified at all. Turns out Proton secretly got really good in all that time.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

I do not like the foot.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

So if someone enjoys something that isn't strictly required to live, they forfeit any implicit right to safety and privacy?

savvywolf , 3 months ago

... And then the other party uploads then to OneDrive because they didn't realise it's turned on by default.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

Agreed. Sharing nudes is risky, and something people should consider wisely.

I just don't agree with the weird victim blaming that is going on here and the idea that if a woman shares her photos then she shouldn't expect any privacy.

savvywolf , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

... You know, reading some of the replies and attitudes here towards the nudes part, the phrase "It's her fault for dressing so provocatively" comes to mind.

Edit: Compassion 101, because apparently we're doing this:

• You have no right to tell anyone what to do with their body provided that everyone consents and fully understands the situation.
• If you know things that they might have missed, gently let them know, but back off if they don't want your input.
• If something bad happens to someone, even if it is their fault, for the love of god don't lecture them on how it was their fault. Give them emotional support and advice on how to fix things, not what they should have done in the past.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

Yeah, but the correct response to that is "okay, you should have checked that the door was locked before you headed off" rather than "well, you should never leave your house because the lockpicking lawyer can unlock doors in seconds".

It's a massive overcorrection imo to say that because there's a chance they might get leaked then it's her "fault" for doing it in the first place.

It's also misogynistic as hell to blame a woman because she trusted a man who betrayed that trust.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

Well said. It's all risk management.

It's obnoxious for people to tell people what risks to take. And demonstrates a complete lack of compassion to lecture people when these risks don't pan out.

That's the issue here, which people seem to be missing.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

And yet you send your security number to banks and your job. Curious.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

I don't want to speak for all introverts, but by god I wish someone would gather a bunch of us with similar interests and invited us to a nice quiet place to hang out.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

Remember: Always replace EagleOS on your SmartGun with Linux to avoid the NRA's telemetry.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

If you're asking on a forum like this, then you presumably aren't that interested in trying new and experimental ways of using your computer - you just want something that "works".

Maybe it ends up being a gateway to further experimentation with UIs, or maybe you just want to stick with something that works for you. Either way is fine.

Let's not gatekeep and say that to use Linux you have to fall in love with the open source and free software movement. It's fine to use Linux because you don't want Windows' tracking or it's 2025 and you don't have a TPM. It's fine to want something that's similar to what you're used to.

I personally think UI design peaked with Gnome 2 and everything since then has been trying too hard to be different.

Also... What makes a look and feel "proprietary" and "closed source"? Like, they don't block other people from copying it.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

Windows and Linux are both easy to use... Provided that everything works out of the box.

Once you have to actually start solving problems, Windows really starts to fall down because you have to spend ages looking through settings and perhaps installing tools like bcd editors. Like seriously, the number of places you can manage your microphone settings are insane.

At this point, I think the only people that say Windows is easier are those that have never had to reinstall it or who have been using it since the XP days and haven't realised that it is all learned knowledge.

I certainly think Linux tooling could be improved (a graphical fstab editor would be nice), but I struggle to see how troubleshooting in Windows is any easier than Linux.

savvywolf , 3 months ago

You guys are getting 15%? I always assume that these things are like "If you spend an entire month shopping here you might get a coupon for a chance to get £5 off something you weren't going to buy anyway".

savvywolf , 3 months ago

* looks at time * Wait why is it 02:30 when I went to bed at 1?

savvywolf , 4 months ago

system dees nuts haha gotem

savvywolf , 4 months ago

AI art aside, if you took a photograph of something and posted it to a digital or traditional art community under the pretence that you drew it yourself, you'd absolutely get thrown out.

AI bros do be thinking that all art is the same and there is no nuance.

I guess stonetoss guy is pro-AI now? Another for the pile of reasons to dislike them, I guess.

savvywolf , 4 months ago

The maths technology behind AI generated stuff is indeed impressive and beautiful. But people are mostly against the way it's being used in the real world.

Big companies like Microsoft are using it to make profit off of the back of creative types. They're going to force non-AI art out of the market to make quick short term profit at the cost of the entire creative industry.

It may be "progress", but it's progress in the same way that social media platforms restricting their consumers to increase roi is progress.

savvywolf , 4 months ago

I know some people are working on open models trained with consent, but they are in the minority. Most people are angry with the large scraping model which plays no heed towards copyright and ethics. Maybe the language could be more nuanced, sure, but that's not the world we live in.

As for stopping people making money from it... As far as I can tell the only people making money from genai are:

• Large megacorps that can easily throw up some hosting, throw a model on it and charge money for access to it.
• Companies backed by venture capitalists looking for innovative applications of AI to find a gap in the market.
• People who don't create things of artistic merit. For example, by writing a prompt, getting some art and putting it on a t-shirt.

I'd consider the second one to be the only "good" one. And hey, if you can make something cool out of things that you have explicit consent to use, go for it. But the other two I don't think are good for society.

And this is a zero sum game, so money that people are spending on AI are directly coming out of artist's hypothetical pockets. Which is a problem nowadays given the recent NFT stuff, worldwide economic problems and collapse of vast parts of their marketing and marketplace spaces.

The technology is cool, it's just grossly misused by people that are abusing it.

savvywolf , 4 months ago

I'd say no. This is a bit of a risque type of humour. There's so much here that could be misunderstood, and it requires some context which they might not know or appreciate.

I think generally memes about marginalised groups should be avoided entirely in work environments unless said groups are extremely normalised.

savvywolf , 4 months ago

I've found meld to be a good graphical tool to do this sort of thing. Should be in the repos.

Would be nice if it could be launched by file managers though.

savvywolf , 5 months ago

The steam deck does have a gyroscope for sensing rotation... Just saying.

savvywolf , 6 months ago

You know, I do wonder how many of these statistics are influenced by Linux users tendancy to use adblockers and block tracking. Linux could be more popular than it looks.

Also, they should tell us how much of that increase is due to the Steam Deck. :P

savvywolf , 6 months ago

Eh. Furry is one of the few punching bags that people feel it's safe to attack nowadays. I've seen some people say that that attitude just a modern expression of homophobia.

savvywolf , 6 months ago

Famously Gay Creature:

Oh hey, you like Linux?

Some people here:

Stay back foul incubus! My faith in my heterosexuality shall protect me from your wily charms! Stand down, beast, for I invoke the word of cringe!

savvywolf , 6 months ago

It's a shame really. Those people are afraid of exploring themselves in case they find out things they don't want to admit.

savvywolf , 7 months ago

If you're cold, they're cold.

Run this command to warm up your computery friends.

savvywolf , 7 months ago

... Didn't Chrome get in trouble recently for scanning random files on the user's disk looking for malware?

savvywolf , 10 months ago

I'd rather have an app with unnecessary options that nobody will ever use than one where some UX expert somewhere has decided the exact way I have to interact with the program.

savvywolf , 11 months ago

Do the power move and call them dictionaries.