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taanegl

@taanegl@lemmy.world

I have peepee doodoo caca brains.

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taanegl ,

This is why you sign and encrypt the contents of email. If the recipient doesn't have the public key, they can't read the content.

Allowing a service provider to "handle your keys" is tantamount to letting the fox watch the henhouse.

Proton doesn't provide IMAP/SMTP access for free accounts, so you won't be able to encrypt emails locally.

This ultimately is the tech version of "trust me bro". This means you are as secure on Proton as you are on GMail, depending upon how you use the service.

taanegl ,

...yes, that's what I said. But sign them locally. Do not put your private key on Protons service. Sign and distribute pub keys locally.

Probably should have clarified.

Also, paid IMAP/SMTP makes Proton a freemium service. Thought I should just underline that.

Has anyone here noticed how reddit has gotten more racist against Indians in the last few months (lemmy.world)

It's something I've seen slowly starting to emerge over the course of the last year or so. Maybe even longer. There's accounts that post stories to designed to shock people into thinking India is a terrible place. Like I get it. India does have issues. And it does have issues with sexual violence as well. But its a shame those...

taanegl ,

No, I'm sorry. Zionists gotta project everywhere, now that people in the mainstream are aware of what's truly happening.

taanegl ,

...well, is he wrong? Exploiting kids is the most lucrative endeavour. In fact, if we're going by piece meal and not lump sum, young people are a fat wad of cash.

So of course you knew we need to take every musical art form and turn it into sensory overload on stilts, because money.

Your little crotchgoblins are a path to your wallet.

taanegl ,

That exactly it. M$ execs look at this stat and probably go "we need to make it more unsecure, for the shareholders - of course."

taanegl ,

Oh noes! Design spec?!? :( STANDARDS AND ETHICS?!?! No! I Want you to install my halfass, broken solution instead of waiting for a proper solution to come along! I'm such a special boy and know coding better than you! HOW DARE YOU HAVE PLANS!! /s

Like some of you are buffoons and need to go use something like Plasma instead. I love Plasma, not pushing that down, it's just that if you don't know the modus operandi of GNOME in 2024 already, you might as well give up trying.

At the very least give up complaining. You wouldn't have Wayland if it weren't for WONTFIX, ya daft cunts.

taanegl ,

"most very useful".

List. Tell me which ones.

taanegl ,

Huh, I guess you're getting to them then with your massive winging. Guess you'll get your Rube Goldberg desktop you want and still complain.

taanegl ,

"16 years of paving the way for Plasma".

There, fixed that for you.

taanegl ,

Both are great projects really, and big projects at that - big stacks, lots of moving parts.

Whereas GNOME tries to be more uniform, Plasma tries to be more bespoke.

I don't care which one you use, really. I just love GNOME design principles and it's desktop paradigm.

Is GNOME a perfect project? No. But when these troglodytes crawl out of their discord servers, I just can't help but be infuriated by their pure malice and ignorance.

So fuck em. I'm done with this thread.

You have a nice day now, y'hear?

taanegl ,

Public-private key signing, using up to date cryptography. That's it. It's also "quantum safe", because all cryptography used by the public goes through peer review processes.

Microsoft as well as Meta have contracted Whisper Systems, but there's no way of guaranteeing that the signing process is functionally working or if it's been broken. If it's run server side, you have no clue. If it's run client side, there's still a question if the process hasn't been tampered with in some way.

Remember: there is no such thing as cryptography with a backdoor. At that point, it's just a secrets system.

taanegl ,

So I'm trying to figure out a way to jip Microsoft. We've already got a way to activate windows for free, but LTSC images need to be available - because that's where we get away from Microsoft's bullshit.

Unless Microsoft removes access to DISM and gp, we'll still be able to cut off that "always online" limb.

taanegl ,

In some cases, that's still not possible for m, although my personal laptop that I use daily runs Fedora Atomic.

But I also recently reinstalled another laptop with Windows 11, promptly stripped the whole thing of all kinds of apps and services, installed a bunch of audio software, libraries, etc, to prepare a machine to be show worthy.

When the day comes and Ableton ports Live to Linux proper is when I will forego a bulk of my VST's, but running it under wine for real-time purposes is not reliable at all - so eh. There's Bigwig, but I got like years of Max patches that I just can't live without, and I don't need just a DAW. In fact, if you ask me to leave Live, I'll tell you to fly a kite.

Same issue it's always been, unfortunately, that vendors do not support the Linux desktop. Go bother the vendors about platform supoort. I do, frequently. In fact, time for another ticket - and this one is going to be political.

Thanks for the reminder.

taanegl ,

By all means. After Apple has painted themselves in a corner, when the legislation has been loophole proofed, that's when Apple gets hit in the face with the Brussels effect - like a big, floppy, dong slapped across Steve Apple's mouth in every country out there.

I'll do a dance for every country. I'll do a shimmy for Botswana, a conga for Japan, a shake for Sebia, etc, etc.

Slap! Other cheek. Slayap! Other cheek! And so on and so forth.

Hopefully.

taanegl ,

Such is writing policy. Mayhaps it needs to be reformed down the line as well.

taanegl ,

I've just recently moved over to 11, because Windows 10 is going EOL in 2025. I needed to switch at some point anyways, so I might as well get it over with. I'm wondering if consumers can get access to LTSC releases of Windows though. Perhaps some form of enterprise edition, if LTSC editions aren't publicly available.

The problem being of course that I can't move from my precious Ableton Live and I really don't want a MacBook. Before I installed 11 I tried it under wine, using Bazzite no less. Could've gone with a more music centric distribution, but everything points towards it not being stable for live usage - like at all, even with WineASIO. Couldn't get the Push to register, and the buffer was hammered with just a little bit of processing. So, yeah...

My old Windows 10 install was Atlas OS, but now I'm trying Revision OS for 11. It must be doing something right for Windows Defender to quarantine one of it's files. High praise from Caesar indeed. Revision is also a light modification, whereas Atlas OS pretty much nukes all the things - with varying effects and successes. In the end, they are community projects that obviously ruffle Microsoft's feathers. So, yeah...

It's a question of how to make a music workstation by choosing the right windows edition, or how to hack at the system until Microsoft limbs are gimped. Also, I don't think I'll need a printer spool. In any case, it's a pain in my arse that I now also have to find a way to nuke Copilot. That will surely just wreck my buffer absolutely. "But you could use it for music creation"... what's the fun in that?

In any case, please list your favourite key reseller sites. I might need to go shopping for something special, and Pro might not cut it.

taanegl , (edited )

A bit more involved indeed. It's not like I didn't try. The goal was to get it as good or as close to the performance you get in Windows.

Again, if you're just using a mouse and keyboard to compose music, that's okay, but you'll put pressure on the Live engine buffer and most likely suffer dropouts - or buffer overruns - as soon as you add a little bit of processing. Juxtaposed to windows, that well runeth dry real quick.

Realtime MIDI and audio is even harder, because getting midi signals from several USB devices cleanly into wine is not as cut and dry as you'd think. There'd need to be some kind of pass thru on the kernel level to really get some of these MIDI devices working. Perhaps even pass thru of USB audio interfaces might be the ticket. But as is? NGL, kind of limited.. and useless for me :/

Sadness.

EDIT: I was using the TKG version of wine, but this seems slightly better... might have to give it a retry. Good thing I left 200GB empty at the end of my SSD :P

taanegl ,

You know, it probably is the time to ask myself: who is the bigger evil? Microsoft or Apple?

I've boycotted Apple products for so long that I can barely remember my white clamshell MacBook... my special little boy T_T I miss it.

But anyways, maybe if I can't find a way to make Windows stop being a little bitch I might have to consider moving to a Mac :(

Unless Ableton ports live and max to Linux, in which case Fedora Atomic go brrrr.

taanegl ,

This is probably the best approach. You could pass thru relative USB ports and even a GPU to do things on the Windows VM that you can't do in Wine.

But how does that work? Isn't windows rigged to discover if you're running it in a VM to go "sowwy :( but this is an enterprise feature. Money please~!"

taanegl ,

Give it a lick...

taanegl ,

Kajit has Mary Kay.

taanegl ,

Everybody's dead, Dave...

taanegl ,

*letters start moving around on paper*

It's been foretold by ancient prophecies. Burn it all down. The factories, the banks, everything. Return to monke. Reject technological poltergeists.

taanegl , (edited )

Welcome to the world of venture capitalism. It's all "come on, guy! This is the next thing! Trust me bro!"

But by that token energy is the possibility collusion and cooperation within the industry, to front these technologies in board rooms and to shareholders. The problem is the question of the how and why. We can compare the current AI boom with the crypto boom.

The crypto boom just made NVIDIA more exploitative and fronted scams, grifts and rugpulls in the form of smart contracts and NFTs.

Everyone pretty much abandoned it, like in the gaming industry, because being associated with crypto was tantamount to being declared a plague bearer.

Then we see NPUs being integrated into SoC's by Intel, AMD, Apple, etc, platforms like Hugging face, frameworks like pytorch.

Sure, there's a crapton of illegal data harvesting and new swathes of content farms, as well as the premonition of mass layoffs in the future. But all these things are strictly speaking speculation.

I personally think that some of the moves being made to distribute AI processing is good, because it is far better to having access to AI processing from within the SoC of your device, rather than being locked to the GPU market. But the question still remains.

Will localised SLM's, LLM's and stable diffusion really take off? Or will these NPU's be gangrenous limbs come the next decade? Will we all have to bend over to our AGI overlords? Only time will tell.

Place your bets.

taanegl ,

In the worst timeline drivers and firmware get distributed through snaps with a mandatory account login.

Knock on wood..

taanegl ,

The venture capital samba:

  1. Make free service (it'll pan out, trust me bro).
  2. 1 years passes... trust me bro
  3. 3 years passes... look at all this user data we can sell - trust me bro
  4. 2 more year passes... look, we're going to have to fire some people...
  5. 1 year passes... we're not really making any money, so trust me bro - we're only going to increase subscription fees a little...
  6. 1 year later, increase subscription fees...
  7. 1 year later, increase subscription fees...
  8. 1 year later, increase subscription fees...
  9. Listen, Mr Creditor - I have liquidity. So much liquidity. I'm rife with the stuff... increase subscription fees

And so forth, and so on...

taanegl ,

And this is why you can't trust corporations. They won't stand up for you, or give you any chance at all, if another corporation wants to see scorched earth. The DMCA, ya'll.

taanegl ,

The logic is a little problematic, because it also means you mislead ordinary users, and honestly the infosec industry has a conflict of interest as well.

taanegl , (edited )

...well of course it's beneficial to their product, and a detriment against everyone else, which is why I called it a conflict of interest.

Either that, or you used the wrong word. Care to elaborate?

taanegl ,

Automattic are the people behind wordpress.com, JetPack and WooCommerce. The amount of people who use their software is staggering. I've set up a fair deal of WordPress instances myself.

WordPress also recently became ActivityPub compatible, in a single-user mode - I think. This actually makes me consider it for my own blog, but I ick at PHP - probably undeservedly, as modern optimizations make it lightweight and quick (cache all the things).

What I'm saying is that they might make having on-site chat and self-hosting a possibility. If they provided a sort of freemium WooCommerce thing, where some add-ons important to certain operations cost money, but that the chat integration is a compliment to Gutenberg and the theming system? Bruh. I'm there.

That being said, freemium sucks, but it's better than not being able to self-host, as bills have to be paid - for both Automattic, other companies and freelance developers ^^;

taanegl ,

haha also nix... because I horde dependencies.

taanegl ,

I've had nothing but good experiences with Flatpaks/Flathub and bad experiences with AUR/nixpkgs.

Fedora also has it's own Flatpak repo now with it's own runtime.

taanegl ,

The thing about Windows, or the thing that is going away, was that it has the possibility of being modified and customised, which made it more freedom respecting than macOS.

From the windows registry, group policies, PE functionality, Windows was the commercial platform for tinkerers, businesses and professionals. It's basically what made Windows awesome.

Now, with ads in the menu, Microsoft being horny for apple's app store vendor lock-in since Windows 8 and depriving the user of any kind of control, we finally see Microsoft emerge as one of the most evil companies to ever exist.

Why? Read their history, because even with the good things they did with Windows, there's a thousand bad, and you should never play devil's advocate for them. They, nor Apple, deserves it.

Also: use Linux or BSD, pls.

taanegl ,

Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they've since removed - or so they claim.

I can say that 2 times out of 10 I defer to DDG, or even Google. But it's good enough and they are based in the EU, so they are forced by law to follow certain privacy measures.

If Mozilla teams up with them, I'm only expecting Qwant to get better - and it's supporting competition, so that's nice.

taanegl ,

Time to enter the Matrix haha... just maybe not that Matrix server.. a different Matrix server.

taanegl ,

Tig bitties? One-fiddie.

taanegl ,

Mirror universe Thunberg, looking like Palpatine: "How dare you!"

Two opposed sci fi franchises, coupled with - I wanna say - a 2016.. 2018 meme? That's what I call a brainrot hat trick.

taanegl ,

In 2024? Yes...

taanegl ,

If you or your loved ones suffer from NFTs, order your inside garden tray so that they can have therapy at home by increasing the likelihood that they tou h grass.

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    taanegl ,

    No, it's their latest daughter company tasked with getting rid of all the crap they have in stock.

    They're called Dropship Martin.

    taanegl ,

    Oh wow, it's like the pension system in the US is broken and now, instead of remedying this issue, the finance sector, who btw gamed politicians to "diversify" the pension money, are now saying that what they did isn't enough, that it isn't capable of withstanding recession, rent hikes and that old, infirm people will be relying on family to take care of them.

    SOUNDS LIKE THE LONG CON TO ME.

    taanegl ,

    Reject Copilot key, demand Bonsi-buddy key.

    taanegl ,

    haha but using a FLOSS system is... change my mind.

    taanegl ,

    "At least it's not Adobe" is such a cope.

    taanegl ,

    inkscape needs more contributions, both financially and in the way of code.

    The new advanced snapping system is as good or better than Affinity, path effects are an experimental feature that allows you to do batch shaping of a paths nodes using logical and mathematical parameters, CMYK support has landed and Inkscape is charting it's own SVG standard specifically for vector graphics, design and drawing.

    The font handling was my biggest gripe, but even that's gotten better.

    Besides the lack of art boards and certain other "nice to have's", I think I'll be switching to Inkscape as a replacement.

    taanegl ,

    I'm sorry, but us Europeans are balls deep in US techussy. We might consider reproaching TikTok after at least a couple of nuts.

    taanegl ,

    This is my problem, perhaps not with nixpkgs, but nixpkgs:nixos-{stable|unstable}. Throughout history the call to fame for distribution is not all the fancy bells and whistles, but the cohesiveness and stability of the stack - the entire stack.

    I'm not saying this is a flaw of nixpkgs, but rather a fair amount of technical debt on the of part NixOS maintainers and developers. It's a vast movable system of modules, while being immutable at the same time. It ain't easy. So more contribution is needed.

    I'm happy that people join and help with that. I'll still use NixOS and nixpkgs for embedded, specialised cases, even as servers, but I'm not going to run it on a workstation. But, I'm hopeful for the future. I'd like to run it, but not yet.

    It's not really necessary anyways, nix can run on any system... now onto my adventures of bringing nix to an immutable Fedora system without a container or VM lol

    taanegl ,

    What? There are plenty of communist Lemmy subs you can ask in. I just think you haven't tried hard enough.

    To answer your question tho, no - because there would be no need. Communism does want mandatory participation, but if checked and balanced correctly everyone would work within their limits and not be relegated to a lower class of living - because that's sort of the point of communism. You'd work within your means until there was time to retire without being limited in access to services and goods. Theoretically, under a functioning communist system, there would be no manufactured scarcity.

    Tbh I believe both communism and our current form of capitalism centralises power and ownership way too much. Social-capitalism, or even libertarian socialism, might be the ticket. It would undo at least 200 years of psy-ops and gamed laws designed to favour the rich and vesting power in them, which is the issue of centralised power that we're facing today - in what some call "late-stage capitalism" - or what I call the breaking point of society under a predatory, exploitative and imperialistic form of capitalism that seems more like the privatisation of the aristocracy than the supposed liberalisation of economy. Transparency, accountability and consequences for people in power and wealth is what's sorely needed.

    PS: New public management is a con-job disguised as decentralisation meant to encumber governments under the guise of checking and balancing them, being effectively a psy-op in of itself to make people hate public services and taxes. As per usual, goddamn liberals - and I include socially conservative liberals in that polifical grouping. Dems and pubs are the same, want the same institutions and promote US imperialism - not fiscal independence, no matter what justification and mental gymnastics they put in the form of spreadsheets.

    PPS: Also, additionally, commodification of the housing market was a mistake. It will always be stupid and harmful towards society.

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