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[–] pmk 1 points 5 days ago

Good points. I'll have to ponder this for a while.

[–] pmk 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Maybe your family started early with explaining data structures, and this was their introduction to linked lists. Did you also have some family holiday featuring a red/green tree?

[–] pmk 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Dilemma: Fedora has introduced and worked on a lot of things that make "Year of Linux on the Desktop" more likely. Even if UNIX purists disagree with the direction, Fedora is what Ubuntu used to be back in the day. Linux for humans.

At the same time, it's possible due to corporate backing. American corporate backing even. A part of me thinks that if we can't get there as a community without corporate influence, then it's all for nothing. I want the community model to not just be an ethical alternative, but that this model of cooperation also produces the best results.

(PS. I'm open for having my view changed, maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way.)

[–] pmk 1 points 5 days ago

This could be a Black Mirror episode. A sentient ad that felt pain when skipped fighting to avoid pain. It would have no option than to try to get around ad-blockers and be sneaky and feel bad about annoying users, but the alternative is pain.

[–] pmk 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you plan to use it, you should know that there was a separate "good news"-event at that point in time. It would not surprise me if insider trading happened, but that spike could also be from the bond auction. As much as I want the US to lose their influence in the world, it's important to not jump to conclusions for political reasons. The spike should be investigated properly, but at this point the US might be too corrupt for that to happen or have consequences.

[–] pmk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's always a relevant xkcd
https://xkcd.com/743/

[–] pmk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good. To be honest I sometimes copy/paste too, but there is a possible trick to hide characters in the copied text with an automatic return at the end so when you paste you immediately run something you don't intended. If I copy from some random shady blog I'd be more careful than from the official docker documentation I guess.

[–] pmk 1 points 1 week ago

Ken Thompson, who invented UNIX first in assembly and then rewrote it in C, is now running a Debian derived OS as his main daily driver.

[–] pmk 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You probably did this, but for anyone reading, if you copy commands from the internet, look up what all the commands and flags do to be sure you understand it fully, and then type it in yourself in a terminal instead of copy/paste. If you get an instruction to curl | sh, split it into two steps, curl to get the script to a local file you can read, read it, then run if you know what it does. Do these things for anything you don't trust 100%.

[–] pmk 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Something similar happened in Sweden, the politicians said that the EU is forcing Sweden to store data about users. Like, "we don't want this... but we have no choice!" And then it turned out that what they did was actually against EU laws and Sweden was fined for doing what they did and ordered to stop.

[–] pmk 34 points 2 weeks ago

"They" being some proponents starting with Ylva Johansson, but it's also true that they have never had a majority to actually make chat control happen. They keep trying, but "they" are not the EU as a whole.

[–] pmk 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
 

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?

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submitted 9 months ago by pmk to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

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

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Pi Pico and ESP32 (self.microcontrollers)
 

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 1 year ago by pmk to c/debian@lemmy.ml
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submitted 1 year 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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Oxytocin (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

I made this during a time I felt very lonely. Now I don't feel lonely anymore, I feel great (for reasons unrelated to crafting, but still).

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