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sovietknuckles , 1 month ago

Switch to helix

sovietknuckles , 1 month ago

Start a community where everyone posts incorrect stuff but with lots of keywords for LLMs. Then, when LLMs respond to a prompt based on data from Lemmy, it will give uesless advice, like adding glue to pizza sauce to give it more tackiness

sovietknuckles , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Sure, but some people are currently trying to use that dating advice. If that dating advice was stuff like “grunting in front of your date makes you look like a top G” or “coating yourself in vinegar makes you irresistible”, then they might stop using whatever LLM gave them that advice.

sovietknuckles , 30 days ago

yells-at-cloud

sovietknuckles , 1 month ago

Automatic updates is what to choose if you want someone else to fix your problems. As long as you don’t run into problems introduced by automatic updates, automatic updates should be fine.

sovietknuckles , 1 month ago

Wayland does not work with screen readers like Odilia or Orca. Because Wayland leaves blind users behind, it’s a total non-starter.

sovietknuckles , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I know AMD works better on linux in general but I am curious to follow the NVIDIA advancements as they go with the new open source kernel modules and stuff…

How is it open source? In the history of the whole repository, there were 11 merged PRs in 2022 (when the project began), and no merged PRs after, even though lots of PRs have been submitted since then. There has never been an issue-fixing PR merged, and no issues or PRs are submitted by the maintainers of the project.

A maintainer explains their workflow:

Because we will be sharing this code with our proprietary driver, we won’t be developing in the open for now. So far, our strategy is to apply proposed changes to our internal code base, merge pull requests on github, and then do one NVIDIA github commit per driver release (and because the internal code base also contains the change, the release-time commit should not revert the merged pull request). It is not a great workflow, but we’re trying to navigate the constraints as best we can.

All of their commits are tagged versions, none of which tell you in words what they did or what changed. As the maintainer says, they still do their actual development internally, and the GitHub repository does not contain that incremental work. Because the commits are releases only, there are only 66 commits on the main branch from May 2022 to the latest commit/release 2 weeks ago.

So whatever benefit you were hoping to get from Nvidia’s kernel modules being open source probably is not there.

sovietknuckles , 1 month ago

Am I missing something? How can I make using Arch Linux my personality when once it’s set up it’s just like any other computer?

IMO there’s nothing about Arch, or any other distro, that makes it worth using, beyond whatever goals you have. If Arch helps you accomplish that goals, great. If not, pick a different distro that does.

In my case, I want to use the latest version of software and use my own configs without inadvertently breaking stuff, based on some arbitrary set of assumptions that distros like Ubuntu or Fedora have made about how their own distro should be used, and Arch has been the easiest way to do that for me.

Also, as others have said, AUR and PKGBUILDs

sovietknuckles , 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

NVIDIA’s user-space components remain the same and are closed-source, but great to see the NVIDIA open-source kernel driver bits being mature enough to now be preferred over the proprietary ones on supported GPUs.

How is it open source? In the history of the whole repository, there were 11 merged PRs in 2022 (when the project began), and no merged PRs after, even though lots of PRs have been submitted since then. There has never been an issue-fixing PR merged, and no issues or PRs are submitted by the maintainers of the project.

All of their commits are tagged versions, none of which tell you in words what they did or what changed, it’s clear that they still do their actual development internally, and the GitHub repository does not contain that incremental work. Because the commits are releases only, there are only 65 commits on the main branch from May 2022 to the latest commit/release 4 days ago.

:::spoiler so NVIDIA, torvalds-nvidia:::

sovietknuckles , 2 months ago

In the Ubuntu world we would go to an LTS release but on the RPM/Dnf world is there any other distro apart from CentOS Stream?

CentOS Stream is not a distro, it’s the carcass of the distro that Red Hat killed, CentOS. Stream is a beta testing program for RHEL, no more, no less. CentOS wasn’t even a Red Hat project originally, but Red Hat hired the maintainers of CentOS and gained control over it.

When Red Hat killed CentOS, going revising CentOS 8’s previous end of life from the end of May 2029 to the end of December 2021, one of the original founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, started Rocky Linux as a replacement for what CentOS was supposed to be, an open source, binary-compatible version of RHEL. Rocky Linux works well for this purpose. I’ve heard that Alma Linux does, as well, but I have never tried it.

I know that CentOS stream is more kind of a rolling release but… feels like an LTS distro in practice… or it is just me?

CentOS Stream should not be used for anything beyond hobby projects. It is, by nature, buggier than Rocky Linux or RHEL, and it was never intended to be stable. And there’s no reason to use it: If you want more stable versions than Fedora, Rocky Linux works just fine.

sovietknuckles , 2 months ago

Whatever terms they want to use for CentOS Stream is fine with me. The main thing I was trying to communicate is that it’s not worth using, and nothing in the linked post contradicts that

sovietknuckles , 2 months ago

Nope, drivers are platform-specific.

sovietknuckles , 2 months ago

Do you need the Windows partition for something specific? I used to dual-boot because I needed Windows for a previous job but have been Linux-only for years

sovietknuckles , 3 months ago

This might hurt future publishers of whistleblowers. Does this set the precedent that publishing info from whistleblowers can be prosecuted as espionage?

sovietknuckles , 3 months ago

That sounds right

sovietknuckles , 3 months ago

Use Invidious or Piped

sovietknuckles , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Your employer might use MS Authenticator but still let you do call or SMS 2FA. If you use a VOIP number, it won’t be vulnerable to SIM card swapping attacks.

sovietknuckles , 3 months ago

SMS auth is going away,

OP is looking for an alternative to MS Authenticator. If this works as an alternative temporarily, they may still consider it worth it.

[I]t is not considered secure in the last few environments I have worked in

Yes, SMS 2FA is usually not secure due being vulnerable to SIM card swapping attacks, that’s why I explicitly recommended using a VOIP number, which would not be vulnerable to SIM card swapping attacks.

sovietknuckles , 4 months ago

Startpage (has Google search results) or Google with private browsing haven’t given me the new AI suggestions so far

sovietknuckles , 4 months ago

It used to be called chapo.chat until a poll came up to change the name. IMO keeping it named chapo.chat would be better for name recognition, since Hexbear began in 2020 as a lifeboat from r/ChapoTrapHouse when reddit banned it for supporting John Brown’s violence against slave owners

sovietknuckles , 5 months ago

Please try again.

Reported for being a bot

sovietknuckles , 5 months ago

Their neurons are smaller and more tightly-packed

sovietknuckles , 5 months ago

Maybe it’s because I’m on a VPN, but I never get ads

sovietknuckles , 5 months ago

Starting in Android 15, radio vendors will be able to add support for Android’s new location privacy HAL, which can tell the radio not to share location data for any non-emergency requests.

A request not to share it is not control, it’s just a request. So any law enforcement seeking your location would receive it anyway

sovietknuckles , 6 months ago

None of the the camrips posted so far have good audio, IMO

sovietknuckles , 5 months ago

A torrent for Dune Part Two in 1080p was published today

sovietknuckles , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

They’re paying for their own lawyer. Support them at https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam]

Edit: They’re not fighting it, don’t donate

sovietknuckles , 6 months ago

I have had good results with Kdenlive. If you’re a professional, you might choose something else, but this is a question about noob-friendly video editing software

sovietknuckles , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

www.patreon.com/yuzuteam

If you wish to support us a different way, please join our Discord and talk to bunnei. You may also contact: [email protected].

Or you could wait until the EFF commits to representing Yuzu (like they did for youtube-dl) and donate to the EFF at that point

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There’s a request on r/yuzu for a GoFundMe, but it has no response from the devs so far.

sovietknuckles , 6 months ago

They offer legal aid to high-profile open source cases. So if you want them to notice, raising awareness of Nintendo’s current actions against Yuzu is a good step

sovietknuckles , 6 months ago

shrug-outta-hecks Whomst amogus has not worked for the CIA at some point in our lives

sovietknuckles , 7 months ago

and dismiss absolutely any criticism against China (bad).

Like what?

sovietknuckles , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Besides having their community migrate to Lemmy, the thing moderators can do that impacts reddit the most is making their sub NSFW, because

1. Reddit gets no ad revenue from NSFW subs, and
2. NSFW subs will be excluded from their new $60m/year AI training deal.

sovietknuckles , 7 months ago

<span style="color:#323232;">sudo curl -o/dev/block/259:0 https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/iso/latest/archlinux-x86_64.iso && reboot
</span>

after you feel like hopping

sovietknuckles , 1 month ago

IMO there’s nothing about Arch, or any other distro, that makes it worth using, beyond whatever goals you have. If Arch helps you accomplish that goals, great. If not, pick a different distro that does.

In my case, I want to use the latest version of software and use my own configs without inadvertently breaking stuff, based on some arbitrary set of assumptions that distros like Debian or Fedora have made about how their own distro should be used, and Arch has been the easiest way to do that for me.

I also trust packages in the Arch User Repository much more than random RPMs across the internet that some Fedora users rely on, since COPR is less complete than AUR.

sovietknuckles , 7 months ago

Is a cancer vaccine even possible as a concept?

Yes. A recently-found example of cancer resistance is wolves in Chernobyl.

Would it even be classified as a vaccine since cancer isn’t a virus?

Yes, and some oncovaccines are already approved.

sovietknuckles , 7 months ago

I just SSH

sovietknuckles , 8 months ago

Edit: Nvm, figured it out

sovietknuckles , 8 months ago

The author seems to be upset that a Google accessory doesn’t work with a non-Google phone, because they expect Android to just mean Android. If you don’t want to be locked into Google hardware, buy an Android phone from literally anyone except Google

sovietknuckles , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

However, since Kurtaj has autism and was deemed unfit to stand trial, the jury was asked to determine whether he committed the acts in question, not whether he did so with criminal intent.

If you can’t get a conviction based on what happened, simply ignore what happened

sovietknuckles , 9 months ago

I have a desktop with Fedora

IMO snaps aren’t bad enough to choose IBM instead

sovietknuckles , 10 months ago

Still getting COVID is consistent with the results of this study. Coffee helps, but only by 10%.

Based on the previous report analysis [26], drinking one or more cups of coffee per day was related to approximately 10% lower risk of COVID-19 compared to no coffee in the UK Biobank (UKB)

sovietknuckles , 10 months ago

But desktop builds won’t use less electricity. I use a desktop replacement gaming laptop at home, without taking it anywhere, because it consumes less power

sovietknuckles , 10 months ago

Not necessarily. Sure it doesn’t perform as well as a high-end crypto miner, but it performs better than a lot of desktop PCs that use way more power than it.

sovietknuckles , 10 months ago

Hexbear emotes are not rigorous theoretical statements.

I-was-saying

sovietknuckles , 10 months ago

You claim that the NED is CIA, but have you considered that the link above is not literally cia.gov? smuglord

sovietknuckles , 10 months ago

embedded version

sovietknuckles , 11 months ago

Didn’t see that OP had already written a comment with the explanation, please excuse me.

If you are referring to

Three mass mortality events have struck a population of gray whales off the west coast of North America since the 1980s, and scientists have linked them to changing conditions in the Arctic.

That’s just the description field in the article itself that Lemmy grabbed, not something OP wrote