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Virulent ,

I don’t have a source but I think it is safe to say given the large corporations and government institutions that rely on XZ utils. I’m sure Microsoft, Amazon, redhat ect are in talks with the federal government about this

Virulent ,

Not exactly - it was in the source tarbal available for download from the releases page but not the git source tree.

Virulent ,

The drm-free marketing that gog does has been successful, but it is just marketing. While It’s true that games sold on gog are drm-free, every game sold on gog that I’ve looked into is also drm-free on steam. The only real benefit is that the gog installers are more convenient for backups than using a steam back up tool.

Virulent ,

You just run the executable

Virulent ,

No, init systems sucked before. It was a bunch of poorly documented and poorly managed shell scripts

anders , to linux

Enterprise Linux on desktop?

Anyone using enterprise Linux on their desktop such as RHEL, Alma, Rocky, CentOS etc.?

I'm curious if it's easy to use for this purpose or if the older packages are a pain.

@linux

Virulent ,

You can’t really use it with redhat. You can swap the kernel and install the user space tools, but then you won’t get support from redhat.

Virulent ,

Yeah but if they’re smart they will work on this anonymously. You can’t force someone to show up to court if their identity is secret

Virulent ,

“profiting off their work” this is the equivalent to banning wine.

Virulent ,

Small enough this probably ends them

Virulent ,

You think Nintendo is just going to stop? They can get an easy couple of million now by going after anyone with an emulator. I’m sure they could even go after discontinued console emulators too now they have a shitty service to play their old games.

Virulent ,

They were not actively enabling piracy at all. Piracy discussion was banned on all their platforms as well as any information on how to get software title keys illegally. They did everything right and were still bullied out of 2.4 million

Virulent ,

FOSS emulator developers need to learn that since the DMCA was passed, the state is hostile to them. It isn’t fair and it doesn’t matter that the Sony v Bleep lawsuit set precedence that emulators are legal because the DMCA is so vague that a judge can rule can rule it is impossible to legally emulate copy protected games. Developers need to start exclusively contributing and maintaining their projects through a pseudonym with no ties to their real identity or move to countries where shit like this doesn’t happen.

Virulent ,

Google Gary Bowser if you think not affording it means Nintendo won’t go after them

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ (www.vice.com)

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government’s vape reform.

Virulent ,

Yes but unless they ban cigarettes first, banning vapes will likely just have a negative effect

Virulent ,

Ironically a lot of US states have banned reusable vapes but allow disposable ones making the problem worse

YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions (www.businessinsider.com)

YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google’s refusal to negotiate with the union.

Virulent ,

Contactor staffing companies exist solely to get around employment regulations. Demonic industry

Virulent ,

On the books, that is the case in the US too but it is almost never enforced

KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released (kde.org)

Today the KDE Community is announcing a new najor release of Plasma 6.0, and Gear 24.02. KDE Plasma is a modern, feature-rich desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Known for its sleek design, customizable interface, and extensive set of applications, it is also open source, devoid of ads, and makes protecting...

Virulent ,

Use gamemode

Google to pause Gemini AI image generation after refusing to show White people. (www.foxbusiness.com)

Google to pause Gemini AI image generation after refusing to show White people.::Google will pause the image generation feature of its artificial intelligence model, Gemini, after the model refused to show images of White people when prompted.

Virulent ,

No, the problem is that they filter prompts and inject new parameters into prompts specifically to avoid creating white subjects. It’s so bad that, when asked to generate a chessboard, Gemini would only make one with black pieces.

Virulent ,

Atomic desktops make all of that way easier though

Virulent ,

Because all changes are transactional so you can easily revert to a previous system state if you break anything

Virulent ,

I think that’s a Samsung feature

Virulent ,

The admin politics is exactly what turned me off to mastodon. It’s like the worst people are in charge of everything

Virulent ,

At this point the only thing that could save Firefox is a rewrite

Snap Trap: The Hidden Dangers Within Ubuntu's Package Suggestion System (www.aquasec.com)

Aqua Nautilus researchers have identified a security issue that arises from the interaction between Ubuntu’s command-not-found package and the snap package repository. While command-not-found serves as a convenient tool for suggesting installations for uninstalled commands, it can be inadvertently manipulated by attackers...

Virulent ,

Only appimages follow that model and the problem being solved is real and has nothing to do with any of that. The problem being solved is the huge amount of wasted work that distributions do by having to package and support every single project in existence for their various targets. Giving developers a single target like the freedesktop.org runtimes (in the case of flatpaks) and having them package and support applications is a much simpler and more efficient model.

Virulent ,

A noob shouldn’t have to think about any of this. They would install from gnome software or discover and not know the difference between flatpaks or rpms or debs.

Virulent ,

At this point, Linux game compatibility is much better than 60%. More like 99%

'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends (techxplore.com)

‘Better than a real man’: young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends::Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he’s kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.

Virulent ,

The issue is that society is so atomizing and broken people are turning to chatbots for affection

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. (insideevs.com)

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here. All seven of its California...

Virulent ,

Hydrogen never made sense. It is simple thermodynamics.

Virulent ,

This looks very similar to trilium

Virulent ,

It is more of an academic project than anything. It isn’t really useful yet and might never be.

Virulent ,

The map is actually really small, you just walk insanely slowly at realistic speeds at lower levels

Virulent ,

It’s great but not for everyone. I don’t know how to properly describe it but it’s like Minecraft if it were extremely pedantic.

They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens (www.techspot.com)

They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician’s cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens::undefined

Virulent ,

The people who fall for shit like this don’t know what any of that means or would understand it if you tried to explain it to them

Virulent ,

Flatpak should not be adding directories to $PATH. That is for the distribution or user to do

Virulent ,

Valorant has cheats, they’re just more expensive. With advances in AI, all anti-cheat will be circumvented via hardware soon so it wont even matter

Virulent ,

Until act 3 😬😬

Virulent ,

That’s not true at all. AI can in fact generate novel techniques and solutions and has already done so in biotech and electrical engineering. I don’t think you understand how AI works or what it is

Virulent ,

If they released a handheld it would absolutely be locked down, Xbox branded and only using the Xbox store

Virulent ,

Nah, gog doesn’t do anything to suppory Linux. Valve is the reason Linux gaming is as good as it is. Pretty much all the games that are on gog are also drm free on steam.

Virulent ,

You can usually just copy the game files

Pirated video games SOURCE CODE

So there are multiple sites&groups that pirate video games especially on PC. I was wondering if there are places on the internet where you find source code for games especially the highly modifiable ones like Half Life 2/Portal and Skyrim. Or groups that crack into the source code of games (or even software in general), not only...

Virulent ,

It’s called “source available”

Virulent ,

Where I live, only single use vapes are legal.

Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)

Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’::Beeper, like Sunbird and Texts, sought to find a way to bring iMessage to Android users. Its app, Beeper Mini, worked well. But a few days after it launched, Apple took steps to shut it down.

Virulent ,

Most of this isn’t true, at least not for Google’s implementation of RCS which has e2e encryption, delivery and read receipts, the ability to send messages from the Web app ect. Maybe you need a SIM card, I don’t know.

Virulent ,

Still no fsr3?

Virulent ,

Nissan leaf, Chevy bolt (which won’t be sold next year) and…??? Everything else is at least 35k starting.

Virulent ,

Or just… Charge at home? How often are people driving more than 250 miles in a day?

Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)

Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

Virulent ,

I mean, how many people still use wired earbuds? I’d be surprised if it is 5% of users

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