velox_vulnus

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Want more GNU in Linux, so Guix, btw. पूंजीपति will be sent to corrective labour camp.

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velox_vulnus , to Linux in Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features

There's this assumption that these features in some way create some exploitable security issue.

I get the theory behind it: more code and more interoperability and more features &etc. generally leads to more bugs than the alternative, sure.

But there's also a line beyond which that principle stops making sense from a practical standpoint. Like, I could put my laptop into a furnace and melt it into slag. Now it will have no features, and that will make it very secure!

Lmao

velox_vulnus , to Fediverse in Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative

No, it can't be. I may be using robots.txt on, say, lemmy.ml, but those posts will still be broadcasted on lemmy.world, or hexbear.net.

velox_vulnus , to Fediverse in Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative

  1. In the Fediverse, everyone gets access to the data. However, if privacy is what's bugging you, then you're free to use a forum - which is going to be archived by someone on the internet, so in a way, the stuff you post on the internet is not going to be private - there's nothing that can be done about it, except for going under a pseudonym. However, the same cannot be said for Stack Exchange. Will they let you parse their site for free, when Reddit and other private platforms are charging money for the same? They're using 16 years worth of free volunteer work to make lots of bucks.

  2. In their quest for integrating AI, now the new site will vomit verbal diarrhea. Humans don't do that. These language models are absolutely terrible in their tasks. They can't replace humans, at least for now, we know it.

  3. Earlier, the site was free, and their means of earning was through some sort of enterprise solution, but now that they're going to add AI, it is going to be very resource-intensive. Who is paying for all of that? We have to, from our own pockets, for low quality answers, with no respect to the question asked by the user? Yeah, welcome to paywall 2.0!

  4. Their lofy model will use answers from 2010s to train their data, most of which isn't applicable in today's time. Will you be using X11 configs for Wayland on Linux? Or GTK+ solutions for GTK4?

velox_vulnus , to Gaming in President of Xbox at Microsoft asked about the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, spends close to a minute saying almost nothing

Now that they have purchased the IP for Evil Within series and Hi-Fi Rush, they destroyed their competitor, and at the same time, no more series will be produced for fans of their games. Fuck capitalism.

velox_vulnus , (edited ) to Fantasy books, stories, ＆c in I just watched this little documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin. I never heard of her before this. Does the community have one or two books they recommend?

I'm reading the Book of Earthsea! Her sci-fi books are known for being pro-anarchist, but I've yet to read them.

velox_vulnus , (edited ) to Linux in Cool distros to try

NixOS, Guix System, SerpentOS, Bedrock and T2 Linux? Meta-distributions (could be either simple config-based reproducible systems, immutable atomic distros or functional transitive-dependency package managers), micro-kernels and distributed systems are the next cool, bleeding-edge stuff in FLOSS OSes, and most of those projects are still in development.

By the way, NixOS and Guix System use Stores, instead of FHS (File Hierarchy Standard). To take it up one notch, Guix uses shepherd instead of systemd, so if anyone over here dislikes Lenning or systemd for some irrational reasons, you've got a nice distro, I guess. But do note that you don't get to swap init systems in both NixOS and Guix System - you're stuck with systemd and shepherd respectively.

velox_vulnus OP , to Books in Who is Stephen in Howl's Moving Castle?

I was going to start reading - well, actually, I read the first few pages, but it was more like skimming, so I am restarting my progress again. The movie was really nice, I'd say, but it was focused on world-building to the point that I was not able to grasp details about the characters. Like for example, I never knew that Lettie and Fanny Hatter were two different characters.

Spoilers I've read from wiki pages

I also learnt about Howl being a Welsh child from Earth in the 80s, who was summoned to the out-worldly city of Ingary. Then there's also modifications about the story of Prince Justin who was originally the sibling to the current King, but in the movie, he was portrayed as a wizard-prince from a neighboring country. There's also a third sister that we never meet, I think?

Since I've not read the book, I can't be sure if there's more to it. There's so many stuff that's just missing, or outright changed.

velox_vulnus , to Memes in Linkedin

I am Indian myself, so I have a better understanding about the internet sub-culture intrinsic to my country. This is a neutral stereotype about 'WhatsApp Unkils'. It is a counter-reaction to ageism towards younger people, whose intelligence is mocked, simply because they're younger - the Asian culture of "elders are always right" snubs Gen-Y, Z and younger folks. Now that internet has blown up in India, old people who are literate and take pride in this sort of elitism are embarrassing themselves with their "confidently incorrect" takes on the internet.

velox_vulnus , to Linux Gaming in POP_OS: Stam VAC Anti-cheat prevents me from playing DOTA2

Never had issues with Dota 2 on Linux. I wasn't using any sandbox, by the way. System's package manager for almost all applications, with the exception of Bottles on Flatpak.

velox_vulnus , to Memes in Linkedin

Let me guess, some Indian boomer? They come up with the wildest shit.

velox_vulnus , to Linux in Uuh grub?

That doesn't look like GRUB, more like GWYAGH.

velox_vulnus , to Asklemmy in What do you think about this?

There's no such thing as telepathy. Those spirals and visions happen when you put pressure on your eyes, don't do that. If they appear without pressure, then those flying stuff are called floaters, basically dead cells floating inside your eyes. About the red dot, that's an illusion. I can show you another picture and make you believe in Flying Spaghetti?

velox_vulnus , (edited ) to Memes in Israel gotta go

The USA is a settler state, tf are you talking about mate? Or does it require someone from a ex-colony to explain you the what's and how's?

  • Ecocide? Very much visible, many lakes and forests have been destroyed and polluted, lands have been turned into concrete jungle of highways.
  • Linguicide? Obviously, no one speaks and practices the language and culture of the native Americans in their own land. Can you? No, English is not their language.
  • Apartheid? Areas where the native Americans live are very underdeveloped. Their right to vote is suppressed. Access to healthcare is abysmal. Isn't that apartheid?
  • Poverty? Yes, the Native American is the most impoverished groups in the USA.
  • Political representation? Almost nonexistent compared to other groups. Name a few popular native American politician, I'll wait.
  • Right to self-determination? Most of their lands are under the control of imperialist white men and their crony capitalist buddies.

The USA is the most unhinged form of evolutionary neo-colonialist project, a produced of primitive capitalism gone rogue and rabid, mimicking the "success" of the East India companies by colonizer European states. Death to imperialism, death to America.

velox_vulnus , to Linux in Lix - a new fork of Nix

Right now, I am struggling because of unemployment and job shortage in the tech-market, but I'm planning to share my own patches to essential software, like you've mentioned - probably within the end of this month. I think projects like Node, Ruby and Python need to be maintained well enough.

So if I have a chance to, I'll probably work on either one of them, especially Node - that seems to be quite dated, and they've also skipped on v16, which hurts people who are still on it and don't want to migrate immediately - because there's no inferiors to pin to - while there's multiple commits at least for 10, 14 and 18. Working on it would make Guix convincing as a third-party system package manager. I don't know the state of Ruby or Python, but Zig seems to be in a decently good condition. Rust may be removed probably to avoid trademark violations, or they'll probably create a fork and rename it.

About the FOSS extremism, it is not that bad, and I honestly like it the way they've maintained it - in a way, it is very similar to how Fedora separates their free and non-free repositories. This is not to say that there's provisions for no non-free drivers - in fact, I personally use them for my Wi-Fi drivers to work correctly. Given the state of FLOSS-respecting Wi-Fi hardware, Wi-Fi 5 devices still don't have their respective open-source drivers, so 6, 6E and 7 are still going to be unsupported for a long time with the libre kernel. For folks who want to setup a working system easily, nonguix ISOs are readily available, so that would probably be the best place for anyone to start at.

velox_vulnus , to Linux in Lix - a new fork of Nix

Oh, so from what I see, Aux is responsible for working on the Aux tooling, which is basically Nix CLI fork. And Lix is the operating system itself, including infrastructure and clones of Nix essentials like Nixpkg, Hydra, etc? I could definitely see these folks collaborating with each other.

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