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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 22 points 2 hours ago (3 children)
[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It may seem like somewhat of a detour, but demonstrating as a first practical example that all problems are recoverable can serve as a big confidence boost, helping people feel more confident messing around with all the other little things and being more comfortable potentially breaking them. For didactic purposes, I would split the exercise into two sections.

1: Place some "precious files" (some funny memes) on a sacrificial machine, then render it un-bootable by some means (deleting the EFI bootloader, corrupting / deleting some OS files, etc.). The purpose of the exercise is to prepare a bootable USB media and demonstrate that file recovery (under mundane circumstances, when the computer simply stops booting) is not some wizardry requiring the expertise of computer forensics experts. All you need is the ability to point a functioning OS at the filesystem. A second USB drive can be formatted as a destination to place the recovered files.

2: After exercise one, OS re-installation and restoration of the recovered files. While Linux is great, and likely will be a requirement of exercise one, the focus here should be on installing whichever OS the user is comfortable with. The point is to demonstrate that installing an OS and starting from scratch is easy, which is true regardless of if it is Windows or a mainstream Linux distribution. Either way, several tasks from exercise one will be repeated: flashing a USB image, formatting drives, selecting an alternate boot device in the UEFI firmware.

2.1: If using Windows, demonstrate how simple it is to use the MassGravel Windows Activation Scripts, so users understand they never need to worry about what happened to their original installation media or license key sticker as a pre-requisite for OS installation.

I think beginning these demonstrations on PC hardware is a better option than some more locked-down devices like video game consoles, routers, or mobile phones - where the tools are often reverse-engineered / experimental, and mistakes potentially can lead to permanent damage.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 52 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (6 children)

Seeing a bunch of reports / footage today about a large-scale federally-coordinated operation in/around MacArthur Park, LA (oof, come up with a better name). Lots of military vehicles moving around, mounted ICE units, and reckless endangerment of the public.

Naturally, somebody has sent some relevant documents to Ken Klippenstein. This "show of presence" appears to be part of what they are referring to as "Operation Excalibur." The documents indicate the involvement of nearly a dozen "law enforcement" agencies coordinated in a mission to stamp out alleged activities and lawlessness which read like the fever dreams of a Fox News comment section.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Library Genesis is still down powercry-2

Tried Gentoo once, it was stupid.

monke-rage

Yeah I checked the ReadMe. Their recommendation, Project64-EM (and the original, Project64) do not have any ports for non-Windows platforms. None the less, I have found success using Parallell Launcher, which runs the ParallellN64 libretro core sans RetroArch. The game is running well for me now.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are a LOT of absolutely incredible level packs out there. I recommend checking out Doomworld's Cacowards Archive (running annually since 2004) for a sampling of the absolute cream of the crop.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

HARM anti radiation missiles

I fucking hate these weapon systems marketing lanyards. They are almost as bad as Congress when it comes to acronyms.

There should never be any updates to libc (glibc or otherwise) unless there is a new C standard. i-think-that

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago

Trump had his own personal Vietnam. Chuck Schumer can have his own personal 9/11.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 48 points 4 days ago (15 children)

You're the CEO of a polling institution. Run a poll asking "Do you support 'doing 9/11' to the Democratic Party?" you coward.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 56 points 4 days ago (16 children)

this is a 911 moment for the Democratic Party

sicko-wistful

 

I've been working on these parts in the machine shop for the past week where I need to bang on them with a dead blow hammer to return the outside diameter to the print tolerance of +0.0000 -0.0005 inches. Every time I bang one of these things I go like "ba doing doing doing."

These things suck. I hate them.

 

(Blink 182 Cover)

 

I posted the wrong song earlier, THIS is the one I was looking for. The one with TWO totally improv solos in it (completely unique to the studio recording) and a sudden temp change at the end.

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X.Org Drama (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net
 

As the sun continues to set on the X11 display protocol, X.Org - the premier implementation - has been forked by a former developer who accuses its maintainers of "abandoning the project, and letting it rot forever."

He's not exactly wrong. X.Org is essentially mothballed. It is an enormous, complicated piece of deprecated infrastructure, with a very limited amount of resources and experienced maintainers. The corporations which sponsor Free Software development don't particularly care about desktop end-users, and the resources which are being spent on desktop experience are largely being spent on Wayland compositors. On the other hand, it appears many of his commits on X.Org were reverted for sloppy management of licensing / attribution, as well as some regressions which were introduced.

It is worth noting that when Wayland was introduced in 2008, X.Org developers were among its biggest advocates and contributors. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now, and the work of building an alternative is mostly complete.

That said, Wayland is not at all a 1 to 1 replacement for X, and like with the introduction of Systemd, there are a lot of people with strong feelings about this, a lot of conspiracy mongers cranking out YouTube slop. People throwing out accusations about how "they" are trying to ruin Linux yet again.

I personally have fond memories of X. Especially in the later days when the whole "unix porn" phenomenon bloomed and there was a sort of renaissance of customization. I miss herbstluftwm terribly. That said, I've been running Wayland for something like 6 years now and I do not really get why people hate it. It works fine, and it actually has a future.

Update:

It's also worth noting the author of this fork is a chud. Some excerpts from the README

This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.

This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.

Together we'll make X great again!

 

If there is one thing the workers can't stand, it is occasionally getting paid to go fishing or crack open a cold one and grill outdoors.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net
 

Retweeted by Majority Report

Insurrection is GOOD, fucking morons. Months before this picture was taken, demonstrators had surrounded the White House and were ripping away the barricades set up by the capital security forces. It was based as hell and Trump was ushered to hide in his bunker as a result. The problem with J6 was not the method, or the utter disrespect for the Capitol. It was that they were reactionary freaks. Look at them. They're waving a SOUTH VIETNAM flag! Fucking losers. uncle-ho-2

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_482

Kosmos 482 (Russian: "Космос 482" meaning Cosmos 482), launched 31 March 1972, at 04:02:33 UTC, was an attempted Soviet Venus probe which failed to escape low Earth orbit. It is expected to crash back to Earth sometime around early 9 to 10 May 2025.[1][2] Its landing module, which weighs 495 kilograms (1,091 lb),[3] is highly likely to reach the surface of Earth in one piece as it was designed to withstand 300 g of acceleration and 100 atmospheres of pressure.

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