skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl

It is, as of a few hours ago according to the Manjaro website. Looks like the problem finally solved itself!

This usually happens when Manjaro doesn't carry a package that Arch does carry (and that the package you're trying to install from the AUR depends on).

This is always a risk when combining Manjaro with the AUR, as Manjaro is a few weeks behind Arch when it comes to packaging. You can try if the beta repositories have the package, but otherwise you'll just have to wait for Manjaro to update its packages. It'll probably resolve itself, eventually.

You can try looking on the Manjaro forums (I don't see a workaround other than switching to testing/unstable) to check if there's a fix, but please don't bother the Arch/AUR people, they can't help you.

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And then, as I've heard reported in several European countries, when they notice your broken grammar they switch to English for both of your conveniences. Caught myself doing that to some poor student a while back because I was in a hurry and couldn't parse what they were trying to say.

And then there's the other language students, who studied very very well and now sounds like the voice of a kids' TV show with their perfect "standard" pronunciation. I love seeing immigrants who were so dedicated to their language skills that they end up speaking the local language way better than any local you'll meet. Sometimes it's difficult too, because random words won't have been part of their vocabulary training and they end up talking in-depth about the geopolitical landscape but don't know what "backyard" means.

Learning languages is cool, if only I had the patience to do it.

Threadly reminder that "German fairy tales" were as much for adults' entertainment as they were for kids. Just because a story has a moral, doesn't mean it's intended for toddlers

It's kind of the old school "cartoons are for children" vibe of stories. Don't let the evil mouse corporation trick you into believing fairy tales always have a happy ending!

Looks like the maintainer has better things to do

In post on the Gradience Discord, the tool’s primary developer David Lapshin (daudix) explains: –

“Archiving the project […] will make it clear that Gradience is, well, unmaintained, and will prevent the issue tracker from being filled with duplicates asking when new release will be out/why nautilus sidebar is white.”

“And, if someone will want to maintain it one day, it can always be unarchived with a press of a button.”

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Many fairy tales are. Especially the oldest. Some of them have direct references to historic people. This is what I got out of the story:

I think the sausage is supposed to be the rich class, safely hidden away, in a life of luxury, having others do most of her work. Leaving the safety of their own land without protection was no safe task for many nobles, especially with warring nobles around waiting for a chance to seize more power. With an excuse, the dog took out their neighbouring queen and left society to crumble.

The mouse may be an allegory for the church (as the church, nobility, and the laymen were often grouped together). Though the sausage clearly had an easy life, the mouse had control in the end, and could be persuaded by the bird (the common people doing the hardest work). The second bird was a (foreign?) revolutionary, infecting the bird's mind with dangerous ideas.

In other words: stay in your lane, just do your chores, and everyone is better off. Start shit and society will collapse, and everyone will suffer. Probably written by someone well off.

Am from the Netherlands. Can confirm TikTok hasn't been blocked yet. I think the ban only applies to some government officials, and I don't think it's enforced well for most of those.

Administrator is not root. NT AUTHORIRY\System probably comes closest. You rarely need to interact with that account because Window's security system doesn't have the same mix of authentication systems most Linux systems have (users + container APIs + PolKit).

Windows also supports mixed case filesystems just fine. It's not the default, so your programs will probably screw up, but it's just a flag. You can also mount filesystems like ext4 and btrfs on Windows (though booting from them doesn't really work).

Also, Windows runs Libreoffice and GIMP just fine. You don't need to, because you have better sofware available (pirated or paid).

As for security, Windows is MUCH better unless you're a cybersecurity specialist with too much time in their hands. Most major distros don't even come with a firewall enabled by default, let alone a firewall for outgoing traffic. And the best AV I've seen for Linux is Microsoft's enterprise version of Windows defender. In terms of hacking tools, they're mostly written in languages Python, most of them work on either platform.

For development, Linux has a slight edge, but with WSL2 it really doesn't matter much.

They're teachers, they already have a full time job, they don't need a side job of syadminning their own laptops.

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Running Linux on computers with Nvidia hardware proves that Linux and Windows both have their problems dealing with device drivers. Linux' benefit is that is has higher standards because the kernel devs need to sign off on driver, but that has downsides of turning away potential driver developers (as getting your code into Linux is a quite a complex thing just on its own). Linux also doesn't have many drivers in general it seems, unless your device has some kind of generic fallback that disables any special features.

My kernel panics generally don't display anything, the display just freezes and I need to force reboot the computer.

Revanced has that, as well as a load of other features. Can be used without root access these days.

Why would they need threads for that? A whole bunch of companies are already doing that without running actual social media services.

They can analyse your likes and you wouldn't even know it. All they need to do is follow the same servers you do here on Lemmy. On Mastodon they can set up a basic puppet domain, follow every user they can find, and then your Mastodon server will deliver your posts, likes, and re-tweet for them, no scraping or interaction necessary.

If you're trying not to get analysed, the Fediverse is not for you. It's simply not designed for privacy.

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Looks like people are finally finding out they've been using AI all along.

Seems to me that employing the use of AI to alter an image should be labeled as "made with AI". It's not made by AI, AI was merely one of the tools used.

If you don't like admitting you used AI, just strip the metadata, I guess. This feels like something you should be able to turn off in your editor's settings, but I guess Adobe hasn't implemented that.

This comment was made with AI, as my phone's keyboard uses AI to automatically complete words, in a process strikingly similar to how ChatGPT works.

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Gimp is what you use for image editing if you're poor or Stallman-like. It's good at being scripted for programmers that want to automate their image processing workflow.

Krita is what you use for drawing stuff if you don't want to spend money on software or are Stallman-like.

Photoshop is what you use if you do photo editing or digital art for a living. Paid, proprietary options exist if you don't do photo editing.

There's one tool that comes close to competing with Photoshop and it's Photopea, a subscription based/ad ridden website clone of Photoshop.

Recommending GIMP as a Photoshop alternative is like recommending LaTeX instead of Word. It'll work for some people, and it'll do some things much better even, but it's ridiculous to assume any normal user of the proprietary product is going to be able to use the open source alternative without weeks or months of training.

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Damn, they really overfit their music models. With image generation and text prediction it's very hard to prove a direct connection, but with four or five of those songs it's unmistakable that the original songs were used to generate the music output

I wonder what the effect will be of fixing the models' overfitting. I'm guessing it'll generate worse music, or they would've done so already.

Quite sad that it took the music industry to notice before any lawsuits with a chance of succeeding got off the ground.

Even if they're marketing BS, some decent mainline support for Qualcomm chips is always welcome. It'll help projects like postmarketOS and mobile Linux distros massively to have more usable Qualcomm code.

The difference between servers and countries is that servers aren't countries and countries aren't servers.

Servers aren't a democracy. Well, most of them anyway.

The difference between a violent, oppressive authoritarian regime and a fee Fediverse server is that you're free to join other servers. Multiple at the same time, even! You can just leave, no passports, no refugee status, no paperwork.

You can even set up your personal little server where you decide on the rules. A server for you and your friends can cost as little as ten dollars per month. Try that in any real country and you'd be considered an insurrectionist or a traitor, do it online and it's just everyday business.

The unfortunate reality of most "everybody is welcome" servers is that hey generally attract a lot of people who have been banned elsewhere. Some for stupid reasons (like calling any criticism of the CCP "orientalism"), some for very valid reasons. You need some form of moderation, or your server is going to be a cesspool. Some server admins preemptively decide to block servers that don't have moderation that's up to their standards, others wait for abuse to spread to their server.

A factor in favour of jet fuel is that as the plane burns fuel if becomes lighter, thus consuming less fuel. Batteries stay the same weight. The difference between a full plane and an empty plane can be 18 metric tonnes. Super cheap operators tend to carry only a small extra margin of fuel over the amount technically necessary to make a trip, because it makes a real difference.

That means the energy density you need in this comparison isn't really linear. If you're doing Taylor Swift flights to the couch and back, you can save a lot of weight by having a minimal amount of fuel in the tank, but with an electric plane you'll always have to have the full battery in case you need to go somewhere further away.

Seems to me like they just want to greenwash (open wash?) their company by making it work with others. Saves a hell of a lot of trouble with legislators when it comes to stuff like the Digital Markets Act.

I'm sure they're selling ads to their users, but I think that's about it. There's no money to be made analysing random internet accounts if you can't show them ads when you're big enough for EU regulators to care.

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Votes federate, but only for communities followed. I won't see your votes in a community that I don't follow, but I can see when you upvoted or downvoted what post in the community.

A scraper could simply follow every community on a Lemmy server and, barring Lemmy performance issues, will receive all comments and votes.

Just a quick and dirty SQL query of which votes of yours are in my server's database:

select comment_like.score as score,comment_like.published as when, person.actor_id as who, comment.ap_id as what from comment_like join person on person.id = comment_like.person_id join comment on comment.id = comment_like.comment_id where person.actor_id = 'https://lemmy.ml/u/GolfNovemberUniform' order by comment_like.published desc;

The same info is also available for posts, of course, I just didn't want to bother making the query any longer.

Server admins/mods on Lemmy also have a button to see who upvoted and downvoted each post. This is just the inverse of that.