Mentoning Iceweasel in 2024?! Where did you find this meme?! Debian stable?!

Sounds like you just volunteered to post Linux news and related content!

Wait… so the author displayed in “by ” is the supposed author of the software, not the one that put it on the store? That’s insane! Also sounds like you’d be open to massive liability since the reputation of the software author will be damaged if somebody publishes malware under their name.

It should be:

• Developed by:
• Uploaded by:

A good move!

I’m surprised they didn’t codify “.lan” though since that one is so prevalent.

Other comments have hit this, but one reason is simply to be an extra layer. You won’t always know what software is listening for connections. There are obvious ones like web servers, but less obvious ones like Skype. By rejecting all incoming traffic by default and only allowing things explicitly, you avoid the scenario where you leave something listening by accident.

Damn! Using .af for a LGBT+ site is insane! The country could have redirected the domain to their own servers and started learning the personal details of those on the site who I imagine wouldn’t be terribly thrilled having an anti-LGBT+ government learn their personal information (namely information not displayed publicly). Specifically, they could put their own servers in front of the domain so they can decrypt it, then forward the traffic on to the legitimate servers, allowing them to get login information and any other data which the user sends or receives.

Soooo…. the work of self-hosting with none of the benefits? It sounds like this has all the core problems of Twitter.

It does have to do with being a walled platform though. You as the Discord server owner have zero control over whether or not you are taken down. If this was Lemmy or a Discourse server (to go with something a little closer to walled garden) that they ran, the hosting provider or a court would have to take them down. Even then the hosting provider wouldn’t be a huge deal since you could just restore backup to a new one Pirate Bay style. Hell, depending on whether or not the devs are anonymous (probably not if they used Discord), they could just move the server to a new jurisdiction that doesn’t care. The IW4 mod for MW2 2009 was forked and the moved to Tor when Activision came running for them so this isn’t even unprecedented.

An Ars commenter noted that the patch fixing a CVE that was originally rejected has now been accepted: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/almalinux-says-red-hat-source-changes-wont-kill-its-rhel-compatible-distro/?comments=1&post=42051274

Link to the patch being accepted: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/iperf3/-/merge_requests/5#note_1481235739

WhatsApp claims to be E2E/not readable by Facebook and to my knowledge, all we have to the contrary is speculation provided you verify the keys on both ends (same as Signal). Facebook might know who you’re messaging but that’s also true for Signal. I’d still 100% trust Signal over WhatsApp given Facebook’s massive conflict of interest, but SMS has been known-bad and collected by the NSA for a decade now. US telecommunications companies also have a terrible reputation for privacy. The only advantage it has over any other platform is portability between providers but even that falls to the side since you can have multiple messaging apps at once.

Nice way to re-use an old board instead it going to landfil!

I wish we had something like temporary/alias e-mail addresses for physical addresses. So you go to ship something, you provide a shipping alias which the shipping company then derives the true address from and ships the item. The moment the true address is revealed, the alias expires and can no longer be used. This way only the shipping company gets to know your real address and that is ideally discarded once the order has been completed. So forward shipping without the extra step.

This is why people say not to use USB for permanent storage. But, to answer the question:

• From memory, “nofail” means the machine continues to boot if the drive does not show up which explains why it’s showing up as 100GB: you’re seeing the size of the disk mounted to / .
• If the only purpose of these drives is to be passed through to Open Media Vault, why not pass through the drives as USB devices? At least that way only OMV will fail and not the whole host.
• Why USB? Can the drives ve shucked and connected directly to the host or do they use a propriety connector to the drive itself that prevents that?

Doesn’t Steam store the game library there?

UEFI or legacy BIOS? I recently installed Windows 11 on a machine with Proxmox on NVME but installed Windows on a SATA SSD. Windows added its boot entry to the NVME SSD but did not get rid of the Proxmox boot entry.

I’ve definitely had the same issue as you on in the past on legacy BIOS and when I worked in a computer shop 2014-2015 we always removed any extra drives before installing Windows to avoid this issue (not like the other drives had an OS anyway).

System 76 laptops are probably a bit better for Linux considering they were built specifically for it. TL;DR: Research the model of computer you're looking to buy with the distro you want before making the purchase no matter who you're buying from.

I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about this. In 2018 I bought an Oryx Pro specifically because of this and because at the time JB was advertising them as "machines born to run Linux". However, this was not the case. The machine would constantly fail to resume from sleep and when it did, the wired network adapter would sometimes stop working until you rebooted the machine. This was on Pop!OS. The wired network adapter issue did not occur on Debian Testing at the time, but at this point I was just doing all the same workarounds on a System76 machine that I would have to do on any other machine, which completely defeated the point of buying a machine "born to run Linux". I ended up returning the machine despite this meaning that I would lose $1000 AUD in shipping (roughly $500 AUD each way). System76 did refund the cost of the machine as promised though and I appreciated the honesty and professionalism from their support. I believe the network issue was due to a regression in the kernel which had not yet trickled all the way down. To be fair, maybe System76 have ironed these issues out on their new machines.

Don't buy a machine from a manufacturer because they specifically sell Linux laptops hoping that it means you won't run in to any issues. Do some research on the model you're looking to buy for any issues with the distro you want to run and make your decision from there. The Ubuntu computer certifications are really useful here. I believe Ubuntu tested the ThinkPad P52 I bought afterwards and said everything but the fingerprint sensor worked, but to NEVER turn on one of the BIOS options because I would brick the machine, so I knew this before buying the ThinkPad and could make an informed decision.

The one advantage you might get with a Linux manufacturer is that they might be able to help if there is an issue, where-as you might have to hide the fact you run Linux from other manufacturers.

So who is this 4chan?

Steam hardware survey but that will skew towards gamers. That said, it would be a good indicator on how compatible Wayland is.

Original video linked in the article: https://youtu.be/zd6WtTUf-30?feature=shared

I don’t have a problem with training on copyrighted content provided 1) a person could access that content and use it as the basis of their own art and 2) the derived work would also not infringe on copyright. In other words, if the training data is available for a person to learn from and if a person could make the same content an AI would and it be allowed, then AI should be allowed to do the same. AI should not (as an example) be allowed to simply reproduce a bit-for-bit copy of its training data (provided it wasn’t something trivial that would not be protected under copyright anyway). The same is true for a person. Now, this leaves some protections in place such as: if a person made content and released it to a private audience which are not permitted to redistribute it, then an AI would only be allowed to train off it if it obtained that content with permission in the first place, just like a person. Obtaining it through a third party would not be allowed as that third party did not have permission to redistribute. This means that an AI should not be allowed to use work unless it at minimum had licence to view the work. I don’t think you should be able to restrict your work from being used as training data beyond disallowing viewing entirely though.

I’m open to arguments against this though. My general concern is copyright already allows for substantial restrictions on how you use a work that seem unfair, such as Microsoft disallowing the use of Windows Home and Pro on headless machines/as servers.

With all this said, I think we need to be ready to support those who lose their jobs from this. Losing your job should never be a game over scenario (loss of housing, medical, housing loans, potentially car loans provided you didn’t buy something like a mansion or luxury car).

Good! You wanna automate away a human task, sure! But if your automation screws up you don’t get to hide behind it. You still chose to use the automation in the first place.

Hell, I’ve heard ISPs here work around the rep on the phone overpromising by literally having the rep transfer to an automated system that reads the agreement and then has the customer agree to that with an explicit note saying that everything said before is irrelevant, then once done, transfer back to the rep.

When buying disks do some research for the exact model to ensure they are not SMR drives if you plan on using them in RAID. Some manufacturers will not tell you if they are SMR drives and this can do anything from tank write performance to make the RAID reject the drive entirely.

See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/caveat-emptor-smr-disks-are-being-submarined-into-unexpected-channels/

Invidious has been a saviour for me on mobile. The ads were so painfully long. To make it worse, I’d use YouTube to help fall asleep, adjust it to the right volume, then BAM! Loud advert. I didn’t use an ad blocker on PC for ages because I get that bandwidth is expensive as hell, but they really started taking the piss and I gave up.

Run at home/lab to learn AD and also gives you a place to test out ideas before pushing to production. You may be able to run a legit AD server with licensing on AWS or similar if they have a free tier.

It's been quite nice as a Debian user (primarily on servers) watching all this play out. On the other hand it's been infuriating watching the debacle unfold and then the solution has always been to switch to RedHat derivatives and just push the issue further down the road, only to be screwed again.

Truly, the year of the Linux desktop!

It’s a gaming machine. I mainly use a gaming VM with GPU passthrough under Proxmox, but the anti-cheat is some games (Fortnite and The Finals) don’t allow you to run them in VMs. So I run those games in Windows directly under a standard user account as a compromise.

Can you run a live CD on the machine? You mentioned Memtest but I’m wondering if an Ubuntu one would work.

My preference would be for WHOIS data to be private unless the owner wants to reveal who they are. I do think it makes sense to require the owner to provide that information to the registrar so it can be obtained by the courts if needed.

Looking in to it a bit more, it looks like they handled this extremely well, admirably even! https://rust.facepunch.com/news/updated-linux-plans

Where is Steam writing to and where is the drive mounted to? If the drive is mounted at /mnt/games, create the folder: /mnt/game/steam, run "chmod /mnt/game/steam" and then have Steam create it's library within there. So in the end, Steam's folder will probably be at /mnt/games/steam/SteamLibrary. This way it shouldn't matter what Steam is setting the permissions to.

People who do not wish to buy a GTLD can use home.arpa as it is already reserved. If you are at the point of setting up your own DNS but cannot afford $15 a year AND cannot use home.arpa I’d be questioning purchasing decisions. Hell, you can always use sub-domains in home.arpa if you need multiple unique namespaces in a single private network.

Basically, if you’re a business in a developed country or maybe developing country, you can afford the domain and would probably spend more money on IT hours working around using non-GTLDs than $15 a year.

Not like it's a real solution since it's quite unchangeable and forces everything through Tor, but Tails is probably as privacy-oriented as you can get.

EDIT: Also +1 for Debian.

I feel like there’s more to your question but here goes with the starter answer: install https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine on the computer which is running the game and https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt on the machine which will receive the game stream. I have Sunshine installed in a VMware Fusion VM running Windows which I stream to the host Mac since Discord doesn’t let you screenshare VMs with sound otherwise. I have also used Moonlight on my Mac to stream games from a cloud machine on https://airgpu.com but only played with it a tiny bit as a substitute for running my own game streaming machine in AWS or for some games that aren’t on GeForce NOW.

Oh god... I smell the desire to start using turbofuel rising...

I'll subscribe to !satisfactorygame@lemmy.ml then!

I don't post much on Lemmy and am trying to decide how I want to post without just encouraging everybody to go on the big instances, and so my posts don't disappear if an instance dies. Figured posting to my own instance and then cross-posting to a large instance and some smaller ones would be a good way to encourage growth everywhere but that's just me overthinking as always. Tis' an interesting experiment.

I used to have all VMs in my QEMU/KVM server on their own /30 routed network to prevent spoofing. It essentially guaranteed that a compromised VM couldn’t give itself the IP of say, my web server and start collecting login creds. Managing the IP space got painful quick.

Glad to see I’m not the only one getting affected by this. Running your own instance was the only way to get Libreddit to work reliably for a while and then even that started breaking.

The article seems to indicate they are using to reduce the amount of work that have to do in writing prompts, but still have translators review what the AI spits out. I think that’s different to SuperDuo which I believe is mean’t to use AI to be more conversational.

Can’t even get the ISO anymore. 😭

Client Hello is one of the ways firewalls figure out what site you’re going to in order to block it from memory (its possible I’m getting this confused for a different request). Curious to see the impact of this.