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[–] pmk 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

As others have said, lemmy.zip might be a better instance for you than .ml.
In general, I'd say people are nicer here, more arguments in good faith, which I like.
Politics range from socialism to anarchism. Any thread on any topic is a good place to discuss Linux. No one cares about how many upvotes people have. You may need to actively explore communities and join them if you want. It's a bit like free software, if you think something is lacking, participate with more content and build up the community. Free software is great, what's your favorite distro?

[–] pmk 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a quote from the movie Blade Runner. It's meant to produce involuntary emotional responses in humans, to tell them apart from robots.

[–] pmk 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you want something with a game/tech black mirror like feeling, I recommend Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez.

[–] pmk 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Gael Duval (/e/os) wrote as a response:
"I'd like to state *very clearly* that Murena and e Foundation are not related in case to this ridiculous and pseudo-drama.

What we seek is to totally ignore these guys, and have nothing to do with them.

And again, and again, despite what they are repeating, we are NOT competitors, as we are not in the hardened-security market spaces."

[–] pmk 2 points 2 months ago

What makes you go back to stock?

[–] pmk 6 points 2 months ago

Currently, only the Pixel hardware has all the hardware security features GrapheneOS wants. They could support other devices, but then they would have to compromise on security, which is something they don't want to do. A while ago it was reported that they were looking to partner up with another manufacturer, but I haven't heard anything about that since.

[–] pmk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have not been able to find this again, but I swear that I once read a study where they had measured oxytocin levels while stimulating a badgers nipples. I just want to see the person who did this. Anyways, it worked as expected, and they had some data on which frequency worked best. Iirc it was one slow stroke every 1.5 seconds. Which is kind of the pace I pet cats to relax.

[–] pmk 2 points 2 months ago

Iirc, the list is of operating systems that the FSF recommends. You could have a system running 100% free software, but the FSF won't recommend it if the distro makes it easy to theoretically install proprietary code. It's fine to run such a system, but the FSF won't recommend it.

[–] pmk 8 points 2 months ago

I respect how OpenBSD seems to work. Like "we do this for ourselves, but if you want to use our software, go ahead, we don't mind (or care)".

[–] pmk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Steve, I just read this whole exchange between you and the other person, and I just want you to know that it was beautiful. You are the kind of person that we need for the public discourse and democracy to work.

[–] pmk 4 points 2 months ago

My family will never ditch proprietary apps. It's either me having to have a complicated setup with multiple phones or profiles in grapheneos to talk to them, or being able to use a third-party app I can be ok with having on my main phone. Even if our communication is not private, I'd love to be able to just not have whatsapp installed in any way. That would be good for me.

[–] pmk 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This post led me down a rabbit hole (no pun intended) investigating the etymology of "bunny" and now I am convinced the artist did this on purpose. Bunny used to be "coney", pronounced to rhyme with "money" or "honey", but the pearl-clutchers back in the day thought it sounded too close to "cunt", so the words "bunny" and "rabbit" replaced it. Historically, there was a clear connection, and in this picture, where is the bunny? It covers up what is deemed too explicit to show! This picture has so many layers to ponder and also it makes me a little horny tbh.

 

I've been looking for an overview of how different fediverse services interact in practice.
For example, what happens if I follow a lemmy account from mastodon, or if I send a dm to a writefreely blog, or use gotosocial to comment on peertube, etc?
Is there something published on this subject? If not, would it be of interest to other people?

 

I'm trying to understand the way Mastodon works. Back in the day I started with IRC and then the many php-based forums and then reddit which led to lemmy. I never used twitter or similar platforms.
My understanding (and this is where I need help) is that all of the above are topic-based, whereas Mastodon is person-based? What I mean is that on lemmy I subscribe to things based on topic and I don't really care about usernames or user profiles, I only care about discussing a topic. It seems to me like Mastodon is the opposite? You follow persons and what they might say about any topic?
Is there something I'm missing here? Are hashtags close enough to sorting it by topic that it works just like a topic based platform? Is this difference inherent or just in my head because I don't understand Mastodon?

 

... what should we do?
I guess it all depends on how it would be implemented, which is something I have a hard time imagining at this moment. How do you imagine day to day online life in a post-Chat Control EU world? Which ways of communicating would still be private? Is there anything we can do at this point to prepare for the worst outcome?

 

A video from openSUSE Conference 2024 about using distrobox on openSUSE Aeon.

 

I've been trying to navigate the differences and limitations in practice between the Arduino Nano ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico, and I'm at a point where I just want to get one of them and start experimenting. Possibly some other brand ESP32. My goal is to learn micropython and hopefully make some simple projects. My question is: is there a big difference for a beginner which I get in terms of online resources and ease of use, any pitfalls to be aware of or useful tips?

 

Turns out a misaligned mirror made the laser hit the lens in a weird way, and then bouncing off something on the way out to produce this double line. Probably. What kind of strange troubleshooting have you done and what was the reason/fix?

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About the bear... (self.mensliberation)
 

So, I'm just assuming we've all seen the discussions about the bear.
Personally I feel that this is an opportunity for everyone to stop and think a little about it. The knee-jerk reaction from many men seems to be something along the lines of "You would choose a dangerous animal over me? That makes me feel bad about myself." which results in endless comments of the "Akchully... according to Bayes theorem you are much more likely to..." kind.
It should be clear by now that it doesn't lead to good places.
Maybe, and I'm open to being wrong, but maybe the real message is women saying: "We are scared of unknown men."
Then, if that is the message intended, what do we do next? Maybe the best thing is just to listen. To ask questions. What have you experienced to make you feel that way?
I firmly believe that the empathy we give lays a foundation for other people being willing to have empathy for the things we try to communicate.
It doesn't mean we should feel bad about ourselves, but just to recognize that someone is trying to say something, and it's not a technical discussion about bears.
What do you think?

 

Congratulations to Andreas!
It seems like he has lots of ideas for how to improve things in packaging, and for communicating with other distros. Debian is a big ship to steer, and I personally hope the leader can facilitate people working together to reach our goals.

 

For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system".
I also think we could learn website design from.. looks at notes ..everyone else.

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DPL candidates (self.debian)
submitted 2 years ago by pmk to c/debian@lemmy.ml
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submitted 2 years ago by pmk to c/openbsd
 

The download page leads to install75.img, but the front page still says 7.4.

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