[-] losttourist@kbin.social 35 points 6 months ago

Legally a citizen (assuming born in the US) because lack of paperwork doesn't change the law - but with no way of actually proving it.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 31 points 6 months ago

Without a published POC there's a slightly longer window before clueless script kiddies start having a go at exploiting the vulnerability, though.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 40 points 6 months ago

From the sidebar

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.

Nothing there saying it's specifically for Linux News.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 45 points 8 months ago

That all seems ... incredibly complicated.

Why not use fwupd? (link is the Arch wiki but should be relevant for any distro). I've been using fwupd to keep my Dell XPS15 BIOS updated for the last few years, with no problems at all.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 19 points 8 months ago

I'm not sure why Docker would be a particularly good (or particularly bad) fit for the scenario you're referring to.

If you're suggesting that Docker could make it easy to transfer a system onto a new SD card if one fails, then yes that's true ... to a degree. You'd still need to have taken a backup of the system BEFORE the card failed, and if you're making regular backups then to be honest it will make little difference if you've containerised the system or not, you'll still need to restore it onto a new SD card / clean OS. That might be a simpler process with a Docker app but it very much depends on which app and how it's been set up.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago

The internet that we invented was a good internet. It's only later on it became a place for misinformation and adverts.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 79 points 1 year ago

There is a long abandoned (but it still runs) project called eDEX-UI (https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui) which basically provides a working, useable terminal surrounded by all sorts of the crap visual appearance of hacker terminals in the movies. Pair that with a terminal editor and you've almost got a movie IDE!

It's kinda fun for a while although I'd be amazed if anyone actually used it as their main terminal emulator program. But you could.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

It's not a perfect analogy, but a good way to think about it if you're not a programmer is to say "why do we need recipes when we can just buy a product in the store and read the ingredients list".

Just because you know the ingredients, that doesn't mean you know how to put them together in the right order, in the right quantities, and using the correct processes to recreate the finished product.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

How is that any different from what we have now?

Threads has launched, but has federation disabled. So right now Threads is a standalone system, and it and the Fediverse cannot intercommunicate.

If Threads later adds in federation but all the of the Fediverse blocks them, we're in exactly the situation that exists right this minute. And that doesn't seem to be hurting the Fediverse at all.

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Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita (www.youtube.com)

I don't know if this was a hit in the US, but it was absolutely massive in Europe in 1983

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Yes, once I've had a few ideas that we like the sound of, we fully intend to offer the sub's users a genuine vote on its future. If nothing else, it will stop Reddit admins from simply saying that we're going against the members' wishes.

Either way, once the new rules are in place and the sub is open I'll personally be quitting as a moderator and leaving Reddit completely because I no longer wish to devote my unpaid labour to such a company.

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 93 points 1 year ago

We're not actually that small, we have about 90k subscribers. But we're still small fry compared to many that are closed.

In the spirit of malicious compliance, if anyone has any suggestions for what /r/Commandline could become, I'd be delighted to hear them!

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As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit.

So they've reopened in order to start moving the entire community of 810,000 subscribers to somewhere else.

As you can imagine there are a number of legal professionals who moderate that sub, and they really don't take kindly to being threatened. They sign off their reopening message with "Fuck /u/Spez and long live John Oliver." but for the real fun you might want to look up a very famous British legal case they reference, Arkell v Pressdram 1971.

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Reddit has told r/pics mods to open the sub, and to be the sub their users want it to be. So they ran a user poll. By overwhelming mandate, r/pics is now a sub for pics of John Oliver looking sexy. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rpics/

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Trying to subscribe to https://mcr.town/c/manchester from kbin.social. So far no luck - I've tried searching for that exact url, and also going to "Magazines" and just searching for "mcr.town". But both return no results.

So I'm going to see if just making a post with that link in it somehow kick-starts the federation between the two instances.

#fediverse

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'What Is Love' makes the shareholders happy [June 13, 1993]

Plus: UB40, Green Jelly, Manics, and Slowdive

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An open source website to watch subreddits going dark

[-] losttourist@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

Apple in the 21st century are exactly like Microsoft in the 20th: they view open source and public protocols as an active threat to their business model and will go miles out of their way to ignore any FOSS project even if it could be hugely beneficial to them.

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