Kangie

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I'm sorry, but no. PluralKit only really impacts a tiny minority of the userbase to begin with. It isn't enough to cause people outside that group to choose the platform, nor is it enough for people outside of that minority to avoid moving to whatever the next big thing is.

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It's mostly water, but so are you.

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I spent so much of my time in the Gentoo community fixing things that have gone wrong through newbies taking his advice as gospel. I'd be happy if he never made another video, and that's outside of, well, everything else.

That's a great point, however it ignores just one inconvenient fact:

Tritiated water cannot bio-accumulate in the environment

Source: "Current understanding of organically bound tritium (OBT) in the environment" S.B. Kim, N. Baglan, P.A. Davis

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for file in $(find . -type f -iname '*.json'); do
  sed -i 's/"verified":"10"/"verified":"11"/' $file;
done
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This is tritiated water, that is water with tritium (aka hydrogen-3 , regular hydrogen [a proton] with two additional neutrons) in place of regular hydrogen.

Tritium has a half life of 12 years. The incident was in 2011, so there's been one half life already. The remaining tritium will be diluted with seawater and naturally decay over a few more half lives until it's indistinguishable from background radiation.

Edit: the decay product is helium and an electron +and strictly speaking a neutrino, but those don't really interact with much so we can ignore it). Nothing to really worry about!

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there is no good answer

There is clearly a worst option.

TLDW of this video from ChatGPT

That's a lot of trust to blindly place in a GPT...

As long as you don't have ls aliased to ls -la in your brain...

A software platform that makes it nearly impossible for Beehaw to host, in any way, CSAM.

I hate to say it, but you'll need to find a text-only platform. Allowing any image uploads opens the door to things like this.

Besides that, if your concern is that no moderator should be exposed to anything like that, well on a text-only site you might have to deal with disguised spam links to gore, scam, etc. You'll still have to click on links to effectively moderate.

Maybe you should consider if this is a position that you want to put yourself in again. It sounds like this may just not be for you.

As a sysadmin that's a terrible analogy:

  1. Shared email Blocklists are the norm, not the exception
  2. As a professional IT admin I would absolutely blackhole any vile hives of scum and villainy rather than dealing with their BS. If someone is going to do that for me I'll use the tool.
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i was thinking about re-writing the bluetooth daemon, in order to...

The NIH is strong with this one.

IMO you'd be better off putting that enthusiasm into fixing BlueZ - you might actually be able to fix some real issues and improve things for a great number of users relatively quickly.

Writing a new, competing, piece of software is going to take a while to achieve both feature parity and see any adoption by major distros.

retro-compatible (exposes the same D-Bus APIs as BlueZ)

Is there any reason for this? I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would require it. It's an admirable goal but make sure it's worthwhile doing this and that there aren't actual benefits that could be achieved by breaking compatibility.

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Gentoo. It's amazingly customisable, easy to configure and write packages for, has an extraordinarily good wiki (and installation instructions), and is always seeing new and active development.

There is also official binary package support for architectures as of recently too, which makes it easy to mix and match compiling from source and binary packages.

Any thoughts or comments are welcome

If this is a corporate decide your cyber security team have really dropped the ball by enabling you to change the boot order.

IMO opinion

You know what 'IMO' is an acronym for, right?

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TL;DR is that wine doesn't yet support WoW64 (Windows on Windows64), which enables the running of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system - it's conceptually similar to multilib on Linux. You can't run 32-bit Windows bins on a purely 64-bit WINE as I understand it.

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The burden of proof is on those who want to know the truth

The burden of proof is on the one making the claim. No exceptions.

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Yes. I'm actually doing so right now at work, and run multiple Beowulf clusters for a research institution. You don't need or want this.

In a real cluster you would use software like Slurm or PBS to submit jobs to the cluster and have them execute on your compute nodes as resources are available to keep utilisation high.

It makes no sense for the home environment unless you're trying to run some serious computations and if you have a need to do that for work or study then you probably have access to a real HPC.

It might be interesting and fun, but not particularly useful. Maybe a fun HCI setup would be more appropriate to enable you to scale VMS across hosts and get some redundancy.

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IMO running through a Gentoo installation is a great way to learn.

The handbook is well documented and walks you through all of the steps that an installer would traditionally do.

You can do it in a VM or bare metal if you're feeling adventurous!

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Have you tried? Linux works really well for most games and frankly if you haven't had a gaming PC in two decades there's plenty of backlog to work on.

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If you don't have root is it really a VPS?

Anyway, unpack the binaries to ~/local/usr/bin and add that to your PATH.

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There are no viruses for Linux.

Blatant lies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware

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The UI is just there for ... automation

Wut?

I've never gone to a UI when I want to automate something, a sane CLI is much more predictable and consistent.

Oh look an essay full of fearmongering that adds nothing to the discussion. Thanks for contributing!

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Methane is easier to store and doesn't embrittle the pressure vessel.

Boomer spreadsheet program.

Not literally, it came out in 83 - it was the original 'killer app', and was behind the widespread adoption of microcomputers into business in the pre-network and internet days.

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I love it. I have a pool of 9x10tb spinning rust as bulk storage (background target in bcachefs terms) and 6x3.84tb SSD as cache and metadata (foreground, promote, metadata targets). It's proven to be incredibly solid, I've written tons (on the order of 50+tb) to the FS and actually hit a few edge cases during my early testing in terms of scaling limits and the like.

This ~100Tb array replaced a Synology-flavoured btrfs 30Tb which had been running up against capacity limits for a while. I looked into alternative FSes: btrfs RAID wasn't quite there for me, and zfs won't be mainlined.

The only 'not 100% stable' feature is Erasure Coding, which I look forward to enabling at some point in the future.

IRC is fine, so are mailing lists; I use both, plus various git forges, to contribute to open source projects.

IRC is still going strong on OFTC and Libera.chat

I get that the younger folks like discord, but seriously it's a proprietary mess that locks everything behind a wall and tries to extract payment from each and every user.

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I run all of my containerised services behind Traefik which does LetsEncrypt for me as well as handles fun stuff like routing to different containers / reverse proxy. It's fantastic if you want to take your new knowledge to the next level!

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I maintain packages and fix bugs for my distro

also wanted to have a logical partition as expansion, ended up corrupting the boot file

I've been using Linux for decades and my response to that is 'wut?'

using linux is backbreaking

It really isn't. What do you struggle with? I might be able to point you in the right direction.

best way to approach this is to run both OS's, according to ur needs.

Disagree, Linux in 2023 is perfectly usable outside of DRM for games and proprietary crapware (e.g. Adobe, certain CAD software)

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not doing anything during and after install

You know that those of us who use Gentoo as a daily driver don't just stare there and watch things compile, right?

Maybe once during the initial install but on a modern system kicking off updates before bed and coming back in the morning to an updated computer isn't unusual (just read any news and postinst messages).

Why link to twitter and not to the source article?

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Lmao, it does not.

I'm sorry to see so many "Don't expect Linux to work the same way" responses.

Have you tried logging a bug requesting the functionality? It seems reasonable.

I'd like you to consider another workflow, too - if you take the knowledge that you've gained about using find and -exec you might find that you don't even need to move them all to one place to preprocess - you could probably find, convert to cbz, and run through the webp conversion all in-place. You could probably even use find ... | xargs and some trickery to do it in parallel quickly.

It's not unreasonable to expect bash skills on a server; it's incredibly uncommon for servers to even have GUIs, and your use case probably hasn't been considered by the developers.

I would just mention 'I want to select and copy/move multiple search results' as the bug and ignore your specific context though. :)

Edit:

It's the rather snappily named cbz_jpg-to-webp by azuravian and the Github page is here:

https://github.com/azuravian/cbz_jpg-to-webp

I'd suggest reading the docs though; it supports cbr and cbz.

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Fuckin weird that you seem to think 'leftist' is a cogent insult.

it's never failed me

Are you sure that it's never failed you? Because that's not what this sounds like; you may have Stockholm syndrome.

There's a whole specification for sharing /boot and /efi partitions across multiple distributions. GRIB doesn't implement it. Give systemd-boot a go, the transition is painless.

There are still no viruses for Linux ... because it's not possible.

Here is just one example that proves your assertion wrong.

https://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/slapper.shtml

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You have conflated two statements.

  1. You're better off not fragmenting the ecosystem
  2. If they decide to go ahead with the rewrite, consider whether or not maintaining API compatibility with BlueZ is actually required / desirable.

This has been answered a bit already but:

So, in summary, is a binary Gentoo functionally equivelant to Arch Linux, but with more control over the system?

Perhaps, if that's how you view the world. I'd argue that it's better as I've never seen Gentoo ship a version of curl that broke Portage...

I would like to know more about the following:

  1. Does the OS installation change, and, if so, how?

You basically unpack a tarball, select a kernel, install a bootloader, and go. It's no different to before except that you can optionally choose to enable the use of binary packages.

  1. Does package installation, updates, and maintenance change, and, if so, how?

If comparing to arch, you use portage to handle that but the concept is the same.

Gentoo has a great system for managing configuration changes when a package updates a file that you've customised.

  1. Do system updates change, and, if so, how?

This question doesn't make much sense to me. What is a "system update"? Isn't that just updating all of your packages at once?

  1. Do you lose any potential control over the system when using the binaries, rather than compiling from source, and, if so, what?

Yes and no. If you customise your USE flags the binary won't be suitable and instead portage will build the package as you requested it

  1. Are there any differences in system stability? Can I expect things to break more readily on a binary Gentoo compared to Arch Linux?

Hahahahaha. Hahahahahaha. Hahaha. Ha.

Arch is notorious for shipping barely tested software to have the higher version number in their repo.

Gentoo enables users to select the stable or testing path, on a per package basis, so you have to opt into packages that haven't been well tested and even those are typically better tested than arch.

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