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2023 lanserades ett tillägg som gjorde det möjligt för publiceringsverktyget WordPress att kommunicera med hjälp av ActivityPub-protokollet. Det innebär att en WordPress-sajt kan bli en instans i Fediversum på samma sätt som en exempelvis Mastodoninstans eller en Pixelfedinstans.
Åklagare har väckt åtal mot koranbrännaren Salwan Momika och hans kompanjon Salwan Najem för hets mot folkgrupp efter fyra koranbränningar på olika platser i Stockholm under sommaren 2023.
AlternativeTo: a resource I wish I would have had when I started using Linux
AlternativeTo is a site I use quite a bit. Personally I use it when I get fed up with an Android app having too many ads / creepy network behavior or want to find a self-hostable version of a freemium service.
It has filters for free, open source, platform type, etc. From my understanding it's all crowd sourced, so if you disagree with a rating put in a vote! Sharing this in hopes that others find it as useful as I do.
If you know of similar or better resources I would love to hear about them.
Edit: many people are noting that the comments and reviews are out of date. I agree! Despite that I still find it to he useful. It would be great if this little bit of visibility gets more folks engaged over there to improve it.
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I've also found great options in the awesome lists on github. Especially awesome self-hosted if we're talking software.
I thought I remember an alternativeto-like site geared towards cli, but I couldn't find it last time I looked. LMK if that rings a bell for anyone.
GitHub - sindresorhus/awesome: 😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics
😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics - sindresorhus/awesomeGitHub
Awesome Privacy
Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.awesome-privacy
The best thing I have found on there:
How to navigate F-Droid and the huge number of apps.
alternativeto.net/list/28655/t…
*disclaimer: I am not the author of this list
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F-Droid Security Issues
F-Droid is a popular alternative app repository for Android, especially known for its main repository dedicated to free and open-source software.PrivSec.dev Contributors (PrivSec - A practical approach to Privacy and Security)
Thanks for the links, something I have not really thought about. I pretty much assume very low security/privacy on all modern smartphones anyway(commercial or FLOSS ecosystems).
F-Droid is a handy way to find and support devs who are sharing their expertise.
Certainly, use the download-channels that you are comfortable with.
As mentioned on that page, F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid can link you to many decent FLOSS apps. It's an easy way to be exposed to a large amount of free software.
I always thought this and all the other sites like it were just SEO bait. The quality of the alternatives is no better than random, though I guess you can discover software you didn't know existed. One example: I'm always looking for an alternative to Roon. Like Plex for music, plus you can add in tidal or qobuz, so you can essentially listen to anything on your own library, or the streaming services, from anywhere. It also has an incredible metadata system, letting you view for example, all the players on a jazz album, view bios of every one, and easily start to check out some new music that way. It's unbelievably flawed and poorly run though.
What is alternativeto.net's suggestion as a replacement? Fucking VLC Media player. The only real contender is PlexAmp, or if you want something similar but only for classical music (and without self hosting your own library), there's idagio. results like that make me think it's totally useless
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It's mostly that it's just an older site and the voting/review system goes back by over a decade. Much of the information you're gonna get on there is just dated, pure and simple, and that reflects in the rankings.
And as you said, the categories aren't curated well enough. Too many unrelated suggestions.
AlternativeTo is crowdsource, so one individual might find software A as suitable alternative, while others are not.
The same way that some people find GIMP enough to replace Photoshop, while others prefer Affinity Photo, Paint.NET, or Photopea.
I personally find so many cool underrated FOSS software, such as Inochi2D, AB Download Manager, Miria, OpenUTAU, Our Paint, Mihon, and Wick Editor.
Wikipedia can also be useful to find software - e.g.:
or look at the Wikipedia page for whatever you want to replace and see if it's in a category such as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category…
You can even do this with things that aren't software, e.g. Homebase -> UK home improvement stores -> Screwfix.
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It is actually useful?
In my experience it just looked like SEO farm that polluted my search results with irrelvant machine-generated content.
Totally. I often go directly to it to find applications.
It's how I found kdenlive, it's how I found audiobookshelf, etc.
Yep! There are so also many niche applications people never heard.
I regularly checking it for any FOSS alternative to any closed-source software. For example: Inochi2D, AB Download Manager, Miria, OpenUTAU, Our Paint, and Wick Editor.
Only issue with alternativeto is the comments and reviews are all dated, some by over 10 years, and often don't reflect the current state of the software.
A lot of the information on the site just feels very stale in general.
For that, one should test all the software personally.
Of course if you use something with only the old reviews, leave a new one! But the fact is, utility of the service is often dampened due to this fact.
That's not really how the comments on alternativeto work. They are relative.
If you got to spotifys page, it will list similar services, each with their own comments, and the comments under youtube music, for example, will be about how it compares to spotify.
So, to leave useful comments, you only have to know how a given piece of software compares to what you used before. You don't comment on how a given thing compares to everything else, only to one thing at a time.
Then, as other people browse the alternatives, they can use those individual comparisons to navigate their way to what they need. Stuff like "this can't replace that for this use-case, because reason, but it does this other stuff" is extremely useful when looking for something that does what you're looking for.
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End-of-life (EOL) and support information is often hard to track, or very badly presented. endoflife.date documents EOL dates and support lifecycles for various products.
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End-of-life (EOL) and support information is often hard to track, or very badly presented. endoflife.date documents EOL dates and support lifecycles for various products. endoflife.Trade-Free Directory
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Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements
Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative. Let's take a look at 10 FOSS tools designed to replace popular tools like MS Office, Notion, Heroku, Vercel, Zoom, Adobe, and more.
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LibreOffice
LibreOffice related projects. LibreOffice has 26 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.GitHub
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Makes a post about FOSS alternatives
Links a YouTube video
Ironic.
I don't like statements like "paying for software is stupid". Developers for Free software have this long standing issue that many people don't want to pay them. Paying and using closed source proprietary software is stupid, especially if there is good free and open source libre alternatives.
We need to figure out a monetization plan how to make people want to pay for free software. This will not only incentivize doing Free software, it also makes it possible for people making a living out of it. Everyone benefits from it!
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Public Money, Public Code
Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Softwarepubliccode.eu
aGPLv3 is a good business model. If companies are using your kit in their closed source projects, they need to pay you
donationware is abandonware. We brand it Apache2.0 or MIT
I just want you to know how much I appreciate the fact that you typed out the list of repos mentioned in the video, since you know many people are not going to watch the video but still want the information.
I mean this. Thank you. You are awesome and deserve cake.
eg LibreOffice and Adobe apps.
But I guess it only requires a different title as the list itself is useful
SAAS isn't about subscription perse although they have them of course. Its about "not needing to take care of".
It's software on "someone else's computer" just as with public cloud.
In a SAAS construct a provider does the hosting, computing, connection, install, configuration and maintenance. Absolving clients from that burden.
Comparing proprietary desktop applications (even with a subscription) with FOSS alternatives is useful, it's just not SAAS.
My understanding is roughly, for example:
- Microsoft Word desktop application: not SAAS.
- Microsoft Word online: SAAS (just like any other service accessible by browser but not a "localhost")
- Onedrive: SAAS, storage with local explorer integration.
- Exchange server on prem: not SAAS, increasingly diffucult to do.
- Exchange server by MS: SAAS
- Microsoft Outlook Classic for desktop: not SAAS.
- Microsoft Teams for desktop: SAAS although local install but its just another frontend instead of browser.
- Office365: SAAS but really a container for every tool in the MS online toolbox together.
Some caveats: Word handles spellchecker in their cloud and clippy 2024 (Copilot) integration blurs the line.
Paying for software is stupid… 10 free and open-source SaaS replacements
Find all the best dev content at https://daily.dev/fireshipOdysee
Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative
CAD. Free solutions compared to commercial ones (SolidWorks, Inventor, Fusion360, Onshape) are like comparing Photoshop to an open source Paint clone.
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An alternative video client. Mostly known for pulling add free youtube. But you can have several sources like patreon or nebula.
The app is free and source available but they ask you to buy a license if you like it.
It's made/supportes by futo
Edit: changed "open source" to "source available"
Ah thanks
A bit more context would have been nice but anyway
I was not aware of the distinction.
Grayjay is source available. But you are essentially not allowed to do anything with/to it.
Not triggered by this emotional outrage bait
it either costs your time or money or both. There is no situation where anything is free.
I'm currently fixing, not mine, repos. I have the skill level to fix other coders design issues. One at a time.
This is costing me time. Not just in doing the work, but all the time leading up to gaining the skillset to be at this level.
Put a price tag on that. (i'm not boasting; actually having to do this grind)
It’s very misleading to say “paying for software is stupid” and not consider the total cost of ownership. TCO includes things like infrastructure and maintenance. As an exec, I am constantly faced with two choices: free software that might do what I want or paid software that sort of does what I want. At face value, you would immediately tell me to get the free stuff. That’s where you miss TCO.
(Read the last paragraph if you think the business lens is bullshit)
Every FOSS solution I run requires me to deploy and maintain it. I only have so many hours in the day so at some threshold I have to hire more and more people to deploy and maintain. Integrating? That’s on me too because I’m using free software so now I need a resource to glue things together. My “free” option actually costs a portion of my engineering resources. I’m also on the hook for failures. Running my own ERP? I need to have support staff on-call to handle outages.
Every paid solution I run costs can require some of those things. Let’s ignore paid licenses and just focus on things I can completely outsource. This means I’m no longer on the hook for deployment and maintenance, so if I can show the cost of the paid software is less than my TCO, it’s a better deal. If I have a good relationship with the vendor, I might be able to delegate my integration needs to their product pipeline. I might be able to purchase a support contract that’s cheaper than running my own.
At some point every company will outgrow certain software. It’s a constant reevaluation of the costs of paid vs TCO of free and when I need to spend resources making it do something it doesn’t. A managed telemetry stack like Sumo or New Relic allows me to scale quickly but cheaply until I have the revenue to build an in-house team to instrument fucking everything.
The exact same logic applies to my time. I could run free everything. That comes with a higher TCO (usually). I say this as someone who has rebuilt dot files repos on the dot every three years and been running Linux since you could get it in a book at B Dalton at the indoor shopping mall so my tolerance for personal TCO is very high. However, I don’t change my own oil. It’s free! I could do it myself! I don’t want to. I buy certain things, like software, in my personal life because the TCO of FOSS is higher than I want to pay. I have outgrown Windows and Mac so I have some level required cost in Linux. I pay for some things like storage and routing solutions even though I could build and deploy and maintain all of that myself. Sometimes I just want my shit to work and not have to do it myself.
The problems and shortcomings of Cosmic (According to Hyprland Dev, Vaxry)
My first impressions with cosmic were terrible to say the least. Amongst the sea of complete dealbreaker issues (horrible stutter and lag, inability to use 240hz, mouse sensitivity not working, etc) the general implementations atm are janky to say the least, tons of empty menus, wasted space, small annoying bugs.I do realize it's an alpha, though, so I won't focus on the "small bugs" that can probably be fixed in 15 mins and will be fixed... in the future.
The current design language, IMO, is one of the worst I've seen in a while, but I don't wanna focus on this as it's all subjective, after all.
In this blogpost I want to focus on the broader ideology behind it, the direction and selling points.
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Are we out of our minds? It's a barely functional alpha. All those quotes (and those are just a few) are at best running on "hopes and prayers" and not the actual experience. What foundation? Moving floating windows? MS Windows 3.0 had that. What potential? To... add more code? Just like to... anything at this stage?!
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Cosmic is a desktop that, for now, to me, has no goal. Is not catchy. Has not much to offer. I don't know where System76 wants to take it, but if this doesn't change, it's not difficult for me to imagine a future where Cosmic ends up like Unity or Mir. Forgotten and barely used.It's receiving a lot of overly-positive reviews based on hopes and prayers, with little to be based on reality, or what we have right now.
This, adding to the aggresive marketing, makes the developers already quite hostile to negative feedback.
Cosmic is, in my opinion, on a not-so-good path at the moment, despite what those news outlets might claim.
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Even though this is a quite negative blogpost, if any of the developers at Cosmic are reading this: Stop riding on the great reviews. Accept criticism, because you know full well Cosmic is very rough at the moment. Criticism is the thing that will drive your code forward.
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Vaxry is yes, and also is a nazi sympathizer.
Which is one of several reasons why FreeDesktopOrg banned him from using any resources
New information for Vaxry's toxicity: He is a Nazi · Issue #3775 · hyprwm/Hyprland
In the wayland discord server, Vaxry has just admitted that he thinks Nazis should be included. Do with this info what you will.GitHub
He was actually banned for condoning a toxic anti-trans culture on his Discord. Violating FreeDesktop's code of conduct.
He also once said "I do believe there could be arguments to sway my opinion towards genocide."
Hardly
Even on github, it doesn't take long to find an example of them just acting like an ass.
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FakeFullscreen would currently send the fullscreen state but not alter the geometry. What I want is I want to alter the geometry to be fullscreened, but not the state. The main usage for this would...GitHub
I wouldn't consider that acting like an ass... users often make loads of super-niche requests that most people will never use, and then they're ungrateful when you don't do it, so I'm not really surprised at the tone of responses I read in that thread.
It's easy to judge someone when you haven't walked in their shoes.
This is a pretty clear cut case.
Vaxry is:
- a nazi sympathizer.
- openly supporting and giving space to hateful people
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New information for Vaxry's toxicity: He is a Nazi · Issue #3775 · hyprwm/Hyprland
In the wayland discord server, Vaxry has just admitted that he thinks Nazis should be included. Do with this info what you will.GitHub
The first link doesn't show what you say it does.
I read the entire second link and I do not agree with your conclusions. Do you have any specific examples that illustrate them?
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I'm not here to persuade you.
If the fact the FreeDesktop.org and Void linux have outright refused to interact with Hyprland over this is not enough and you still dont see how this is problematic to developers that might be alienated by how vaxry carries themselves, then you're not going to be convinced. Either that or you support the toxicity.
Edit: I fixed the link above now, but here it is directly
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New information for Vaxry's toxicity: He is a Nazi · Issue #3775 · hyprwm/Hyprland
In the wayland discord server, Vaxry has just admitted that he thinks Nazis should be included. Do with this info what you will.GitHub
I'm not here to persuade you
Then what was the point of your original comment? Saying "this person is awful because X" sounds an awful lot like persuasion to me...
That first link doesn't have anything like what you describe
Edit: they changed the link, the new one is at least relevant. The old link was just some random comment.
So basically "there weren't enough mean spirited reviews on Cosmic so I'll write my own". The OP can say he doesn't like it without making fun of the fanbase and trashing the company for checks notes reporting people's positive experiences.
Sooo... Cosmic is for the tiny sliver of users that want a DE... that tiles? Or those that buy a System76 machine and never change the DE?
Those that are fed up with GNOME and/or are looking for an alternative DE are a huge chunk of the Linux userbase. That's literally why they created it. With Gnome reducing customizability and having 5-year old bugs never get fixed and breaking necessary extensions every update, it was warranted.
it feels like the developers are already riding on the endorphins from all the praise and forget their software is after all in a rough state.
Why? They have public milestones and bug trackers while things seem to move at a good pace. At no point are they just sitting on praise doing nothing.
As you may know, I am the creator and lead developer of Hyprland and the entire ecosystem around it. You might say I'm biased, but I try to approach this from a quite objective side.Cosmic is not my direct competitor - Hyprland is a compositor for advanced users, Cosmic is (what it's meant to be, at least) a user-friendly DE.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Cosmic has Wayland and tiling, it has the backing of a profitable company, and he's very obviously salty about it.
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The Hyprland devs (or one of them, I don't exactly know who) is toxic and known for it. Is that person this guy? But I give him his critique, regardless of who the person is. He even acknowledge his bias. Because we should look it from every angle; something we Linux should take this to heart and not forget in general.
I've seen a few posts / videos that criticize Cosmic get downvoted and bullied to hell, especially on Reddit.
As if it is a Cosmic only thing. This happens with everything.
System76 is not helping either, as they will proudly claim every 30 minutes that another person said "cosmic looks cool hehe!" and quote it on their twitter and website.
I don't understand this statement. What does he expect? That System76 talks shitty about Cosmic? What help does he refer to System76 should have done?
Are we out of our minds? It's a barely functional alpha.
Are you even a developer not recognizing what has been accomplished in such a short time? The team behind Cosmic not only works on a window manager, but on a whole desktop environment. And they needed to build the foundation by working on iced first (the GUI library behind Cosmic).
Basically, System76 will | grep "modern|cool|good" > ~/posts/newBlogpost.txt.
Ah, your toxic comments are so helpful. We are grateful for such a brain shit. (Commenters note: I just try to communicate with him, as that's the language he speaks.)
... At this point I have enough. I gave him the benefit of doubt, but was disappointed.
The Hyprland devs (or one of them, I don't exactly know who) is toxic and known for it. Is that person this guy?
Yes, it's this guy.
Couldn't finish it: too much whining, not enough substance.
I haven't tried hyprland yet but if this is the guy developing it than maybe I'm good.
Cosmic seems promising. Best of luck to system76, happy to see an alternative opinionated desktop getting some momentum.
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I tried hyprland. It's okish and very (very) colorful.
For a tiling wm it's just over complex and does not integrate well with other tools. The configuration is a nightmare tbh.
If you want to get your fingers dirty on tiling WM using Wayland Sway is just fine. It's minimalistic and feels almost like i3.
There are valid criticism to be made about cosmic desktop, like
- their very liberal customization options that doesn't stop users from ruining the look of the desktop
- their insistent to theme libadwaita apps disregarding app developers wishes against supporting custom themes.
But those are just subjective criticism and it's still in alpha. All his "criticism" amounts to is whining about the software having glitches in alpha stage.
their very liberal customization options
That's a good point and makes it worth considering
There are valid criticism to be made about cosmic desktop, like*Lists two positives*
If that's the best example of criticism to be had about COSMIC, then it's practically flawless. Except of course, though, it isn't. Aside from the general lack of polish, I'd argue that there's not enough customization. E.g. things that should really be a slider or spin control (or better yet multiple sliders/spin controls) like corner radii are multiple choice button things (not to mention that the 'square' style is anything but.) Some of the sliders that do exist (particularly the size ones) have very few set points that make them essentially disguised drop downs. I could probably find dozens more things to criticize if I cared to sit down and nitpick everything.
their insistent to theme libadwaita apps disregarding app developers wishes against supporting custom themes
Libadwaita theming is not enabled by default. It involves going into experimental settings and I believe there is a warning about enabling it. This does not conflict with Don't Theme My App, that initiative's problem is that it's a problem when distros do it, not individual users who know the downsides.
I don't completely disagree with him on some points. Here's what I have to say:
Cosmic is not my direct competitor
Okay, I know what I just said but I completely disagree with this. COSMIC has tiling (sort of), has pretty much all the features of a tiling wm, is more user friendly to configure than Hyprland, is on Wayland so "modern", and has animations, rounded corners, etc so it's in direct competition with the main thing Hyprland brings to the table.
My first impressions with COSMIC were terrible
Umm.... alpha much? Or should I remind you of the sorry mess Hyprland was in its own early days?
I've seen a few posts / videos that criticize Cosmic get downvoted and bullied to hell, especially on Reddit.
It's Reddit. It's either tribalism or hivemind. Pick your poison. Eather way, the result is as you describe.
All those quotes (and those are just a few) are at best running on "hopes and prayers" and not the actual experience.
Man, I kinda wish nobody believed in Hyprland now. Those same points could have been applied to Hyprland but people believed and here we are. It almost sounds as if you're jealous of the team, or resources, or pace of development they have?
Someone might say "oh what are we supposed to say then", to which I say: simple. Say what you see. Claiming this is the next coming of God will hurt it more than help it.
Okay, I kinda agree. I think it's important not to be brutal to them. They have written not just a WM like you, they've written an f-ing Desktop! Apps, settings, and even the entire GUI library it's all written on, and based it on a completely new Compositor library, smithay, which they've also had to heavily contribute to. What you did can be done by any one person with enough drive, motivation and knowledge (except the independence rewrite, that would take an absolute doofus who can't simply apologise and treat humans normally. I often find myself hating people too, but I still give them the benefit of the doubt and a basic level of respect until they lose it. Maybe Hyprland could have been a leading force, a representative for tiling WMs in wlroots, pushing innovation forward and providing another point of view, but you fucking blew it. But I digress.)
Where do you go Cosmic? And why would you want to? So far, all I can see is three reasons: Rust, Tiling, "We'll implement what GNOME won't"
Is that any different to why other DEs exist? GNOME exists cuz simple, default, polished, GTK. KDE Plasma is powerful, modern, QT. Cinnamon is simple, more customisable, GTK. XFCE is minimal, customisable, GTK. COSMIC is Rust, Iced, Smithay, Tiling, customisable, Wayland-only (and thus Wayland-first), "We'll implement what GNOME won't". The way I see it, COSMIC has a lot going for it. But even if it didn't, wouldn't Tiling, A new voice for Wayland, and the first Wayland-only DE be enough?
Okay, I think I'll end it here, because I'm devolving into cheap bickering and personal insults. But what I see is that Vaxry is likely jealous and is trying to undermine what COSMIC has achieved.
Ignoring the original post, I wanted to pick up on what you said right at the end.
Something I've never understood is, what impact is using iced going to have on app compatiblity? Are we going to need compatibility layers for GTK and QT, like with Cinnamon displaying QT apps, with the associated jankiness?
COSMIC is Rust, Iced, Smithay, Tiling, customisable, Wayland-only (and thus Wayland-first),
what is iced? i dont care about smithay, why should I? customisable as a feature? ever DE is except Gnome, I guess?
Vaxry tries to shit on another project.
The current design language, IMO, is one of the worst I've seen in a while, but
Qed. His posts should not get any attention. He is as narcissistic as toxic.
…he knows it’s an alpha, right? Right?
Can someone tell him that the main reason hyprland sucks is that there’s no metaphor for hiding a window, but leaving the app running? And tossing it to a not-currently-visible workspace isn’t a solution and is pretty damn asinine.
Also, create a settings GUI. This isn’t the 1960s.
Fedora KDE suddenly wont boot properly
I am running Fedora KDE 40 alongside Windows 11 23H2, (the PC in question is also sometimes used by a few other family members, which is the reason I still have Windows) When I tried restarting into Fedora today, everything appeared fine, I selected the normal boot fedora option in GRUB, and the normal loading screen showed up. to be then followed by the cursor appearing for a while before it simply disappears, the screen goes black & turns back on stuck on a screen which is completely black with a terminal-like cursor in the very top left, It will then stay stuck thet way until you forcibly turn off the power. This hasn't happened before. I tried a live boot and checked the partition... It dosen't seem any different than normal. One thing I did notice is that yesterday on the login screen the sleep and restart option where bugged out, but I wouldn't think that's relevant? Can anyone help. I'm not sure what could be happening.
EDIT: here are some pics of the logs, I still dont know why this happened or really what to do, I'm still fairly new to this
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That's not what I mean. You can just switch to a different tty console. Your default on boot is a graphical interface, but there are others ready and available.
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This article describes how to switch to console tty on Fedora Linux as the "normal" shortcuts don't seem to workwww.dhiller.de
Could be anything. Driver issues, memory issues, config issues..who knows.
Just check logs once you get logged in, and it should be easier to figure out.
alongside Windows 11 23H2
Wasn't there news of a Windows update breaking dual booting recently? Could be that?
Yeah but that broke GRUB and had a pretty specific error message associated with it. I don't think problems with grub look like what OP is describing (although I don't know enough to say for sure).
Anecdotally, I'm running a Fedora Atomic-based OS alongside Windows and that Windows update didn't cause any problems for me.
I checked the logs & found a few relevant entries. But it basically says that for some reason it cant initialise OpenGL backend, then stops wayland followed by all Qt processes failing causing any GUI elements to completely fail after that. What should i do now? I can't use dnf since the wifi isnt connected yet in the tty3 so should I try a repair from the live boot?
Are you using the rpm-fusion mesa drivers or Fedora's (assuming you use Intel / AMD card)?
You can connect to wifi via tty using nmcli command: nmcli --ask dev wifi connect CoolNetwork123
I'm not sure what is going on here, but in a way it almost sounds like they are calling server side decorations legacy.
From the article it says "As of today, Mutter will style legacy titlebars (i.e. of X11 / Xwayland apps that don’t use client-side decorations) using Adwaita on GNOME."
If I'm reading this correctly they will style X11 / XWayland apps that depend on server side decorations? What about wayland apps that depend on server side decorations? Will those still just be broken windows that you need to know about the "meta + left click" shortcut to move?
Looking Glass is apparently broken on GNOME + Wayland in this exact way.
Ideally there would be a bare minimum server side decoration for Wayland apps (like Looking Glass) that don't provide any CSD. Hopefully that's on the horizon if it's not what's being discussed here.
Tumbleweed Faces Regression with Wicked as Network Stack
Tumbleweed Faces Regression with Wicked as Network Stack
With the switch to dbus-broker as D-Bus implementation in Tumbleweed Snapshot 20240825, a regression was introduced: When using Wicked for network configurat...openSUSE News
Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1040526
A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI.The lawsuit was initiated by a group of developers in 2022 and originally made 22 claims against the companies, alleging copyright violations related to the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant.
Judge Jon Tigar’s ruling, unsealed last week, leaves only two claims standing: one accusing the companies of an open-source license violation and another alleging breach of contract. This decision marks a substantial setback for the developers who argued that GitHub Copilot, which uses OpenAI’s technology and is owned by Microsoft, unlawfully trained on their work.
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Despite this significant ruling, the legal battle is not over. The remaining claims regarding breach of contract and open-source license violations are likely to continue through litigation.
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I have to admit - my initial outrage over Copilot training on open-source code has vanished.
Now that these networks are trained on literally anything they can grab, including extremely copyrighted movies... we've seen that they're either thoroughly transformative soup, or else the worst compression and search tools you've ever seen. There's not really a middle ground. The image models where people have teased out lookalike frames for Dune or whatever aren't good at much else. The language models that try to answer questions as more than dream-sequence autocomplete poetry will confidently regurgitate dangerous nonsense because they're immune to sarcasm.
The comparisons to a human learning from code by reading it are half-right. There are systems that discern relevant information without copying specific examples. They're just utterly terrible at applying that information. Frankly, so are the ones copying specific examples. Once again, we've advanced the state of "AI," and the A went a lot further than the I.
And I cannot get offended on Warner Brothers' behalf if a bunch of their DVDs were sluiced into a model that can draw Superman. I don't even care when people copy their movies wholesale. Extracting the essence of an iconic character from those movies is obviously a transformative use. If some program will emit "slow motion zoom on Superman slapping Elon Musk," just from typing that, that's cool as hell and I refuse to pretend otherwise. It's far more interesting than whatever legal fictions both criminalized 1700s bootlegging and encouraged Walt Disney's corpse to keep drawing.
So consider the inverse:
Someone trains a Copilot clone on a dataset including the leaked Windows source code.
Do you expect these corporations to suddenly claim their thing is being infringed upon, in front of any judge with two working eyes?
More importantly - do you think that stupid robot would be any help what-so-ever to Wine developers? I don't. These networks are good at patterns, not specifics. Good is being generous. If I wanted that illicit network to shamelessly clone Windows code, I expect the brace style would definitely match, the syntax might parse, and the actual program would do approximately dick.
Neural networks feel like magic when hideously complex inputs have sparse approximate outputs. A zillion images could satisfy the request, "draw a cube." Deep networks given a thousand human examples will discern some abstract concept of cube-ness... and also the fact you handed those thousand humans a blue pen. It's simply not a good match for coding. Software development is largely about hideously complex outputs that satisfy sparse inputs in a very specific way. One line, one character, can screw things up in ways that feel incomprehensible. People have sneered about automation taking over coding since the punched-tape era, and there's damn good reasons it keeps taking their jobs instead of ours. We're not doing it on purpose. We're always trying to make our work take less work. We simply do not know how to tell the machine to do what we do with machines. And apparently - neither do the machines.
Zionist occupation forces launched an aggression, that is expected to be the largest in 22 years, on several governorates in the occupied West Bank late on Tuesday night.
The Zionist military command said that its forces had initiated a “wide-scale operation” in the governates of Tulkarm and Jenin, targeting Resistance fighters.
At least two Palestinians have been martyred since the start of the incursion on Jenin. In Tubas a drone strike killed two Palestinians and injured 10 others. Nearing Wednesday morning, a Zionist strike targeted a vehicle to the south of Jenin killing another 3 Palestinians.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that occupation forces are blocking emergency workers from recovering the bodies of the martyrs who were killed in Tubas.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the two martyrs in Jenin are Qassam Mohammad Jabarin and Issam Walif Balo’ut. Three others were injured in confrontations.
Zionist media outlets said that the extensive incursions into the West Bank would involve a division’s worth of occupation forces, including special Mista’arvim forces who act as undercover Palestinians.
Reports also indicate that occupation forces have blocked pathways leading to hospitals in the occupied territories.
In detail, the aggression targets the Jenin refugee camp, the al-Far’a refugee camp, and the Nur Shams refugee camp, in Jenin, Tubas, and Tulkarm respectively.
Reports also indicated that occupation forces conducted an air landing via a military helicopter in Tubas amid a large presence of ground forces in the area. Thousands of occupation troops are participating in the aggression which is expected to last for several days.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades – Jenin Brigade announced that its fighters are engaging occupation forces across several axes in the city of Jenin and the refugee camp.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (PFLP) Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades in the West Bank also said that its fighters are confronting occupation forces in the city.
Zionist occupation forces also launched an incursion into the al-Aroub refugee camp in northern al-Khalil, a city in the southern West Bank. Local reports revealed that an invading force was targeted with an improvised explosive device at the entrance of the camp.
The al-Quds Brigades – West Bank released a statement amid the ongoing aggression, saying that it has dubbed its defense of the occupied territory “The Horror of the Camps.” The announcement comes in response to the military command’s announcement of its operation in the West Bank which it dubbed the “Summer of Camps,” in reference to the refugee camps it is invading.
Palestinian Resistance factions promise, call for escalation
On Monday, a warplane struck a building in the Nur Shams refugee camp where at least five Palestinians were martyred. Airstrikes in the West Bank are rare and the incident marked an unprecedented escalation, which Palestinian Resistance factions were quick to condemn and promise action against.
“The escalation of crimes by the Zionist entity and its settlers in the occupied West Bank over the past few hours is a decision for an undeclared open war against our Palestinian people,” the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said in a statement following the airstrike and settler attacks on Wadi Rahhal.
The movement said that Monday’s events show that the regime has shifted its war machine from the Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank.
Early on Wednesday, the PIJ released another statement to address the wide-scale aggression on the West Bank.
It explained that the “criminal aggression” on all the cities of the occupied West Bank amounts to an “unproclaimed open-ended war.”
The movement added that the regime is attempting to transfer the weight of the ongoing war on Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in order to enforce a new status quo in the occupied territory.
Putting today’s events in their context, the PIJ said that the invasion of several cities in the West Bank comes in line with the regime’s attempts to impose its control on the city of al-Quds and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
The al-Mujahideen movement also released a statement where it held the United States administration responsible for the ongoing aggression on the West Bank due to its continuous support of the Zionist regime.
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How to install the game CLAW from Internet Archive
Hey guys,
Recently I wanted to play Claw but I lost my old cds. So I decided to get the game from Internet Archieve.
When downloaded I got these files from it
- CLAW_2018_meta.sqlite
- CLAW_2018_meta.xml
- CLAW.BIN
- CLAW.CUE
- __ia_thumb.jpg
- Claw_1997_Game_Cover.jpg
I have no clue how to use theses files. If it is possible to convert to an exe, then I might be able to run through bottles.
Thanks for all the help
Claw : Monolith Productions : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Claw is a 2D side-scroller platform video game published by Monolith Productions in 1997 about an anthropomorphic pirate cat who sets on a quest to find an...Internet Archive
The .bin and .cue file are the parts of the actual game disc that you want. The .bin file contains almost all of the data and the .cue file contains some extra information about the structure of the CD. All the rest is Internet Archive stuff (and an image of the game cover of course).
To open it, you can convert it to a .iso disk image instead, which any Linux distribution can open as if it were a real CD. This blog post talks about how to do that. The last paragraph about mount you can probably replace with double-clicking the .iso file in the GUI I would guess.
HowTo: Mount Bin/Cue files in Linux
Okay, so I I lied a little bit. I’m not sure how to mount a straight bin/cue file combination in Linux, but I do know that it’s really easy to convert them into an ISO file, and then mount the ISO …Going GNU
the bin and cue files are a cd/dvd image. IIRC you can't mount those directly, but you can convert them to iso with bin2iso (there are probably other tools too)
iso file you can mount something like mount -o loop /path/to/my-iso-image.iso /mnt/iso and then pull the files out from there.
As for directly pulling files out from bin/cue.. dunno.
I don't know if this applies to CLAW, but many games back then had their audio stored as CD Audio Tracks. If that is the case, you might want to actually emulate a CDROM drive instead of just extracting the files. There is a CDROM emulator for Linux, called CDEmu, which can read CUE/BIN CD Images.
Oh, and that game seems to have an ancient 16-bit installer, which might not work on modern systems. However, according to WineHQ Appdb one can just copy the files from the CD and it works.
WineHQ - Claw
Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.appdb.winehq.org
Fyra personer dömda för mord i Västberga och Tullinge. Södertörns tingsrätt har dömt fyra personer för inblandning i skjutningar i Västberga och Tullinge. Anstiftaren och skytten dömdes till fängelse o 10 år respektive 12 år trots att de vid skjutningarna endast var 15 år respektive 16 år.
Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧
Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.StatCounter Global Stats
Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match
- Paleontologists found matching Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints in Brazil and Cameroon, showing where dinosaurs walked before Africa and South America split.
- The footprints, mostly from three-toed theropods, date back 120 million years and reveal how dinosaurs migrated across the supercontinent Gondwana.
- Geological evidence supports that these areas were connected before the continents drifted apart, forming the South Atlantic Ocean.
Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match | Popular Science
The tracks from a once-unified landmass are now 3,700 miles and an ocean apart.Laura Baisas (Popular Science)
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in reply to xelar • • •threads.net(and optionally all instances that do not do the same).like this
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in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
in reply to In #Flancia we'll meet • • •Ais defederated from Threads, but federates withB. AndBfederates with Threads. Now Meta can cash out on your data viaB.like this
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in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •In #Flancia we'll meet
in reply to copygirl • • •yes, I also get the feeling this would not work in a compliant setup but it seems like a good idea to test this in e.g. a federation test suite.
Maybe @evanprodromou would know how this should work, or would know of someone who might be testing this kind of scenario.
smeg
in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •Everything we're posting is public, anyone can cash in on it regardless of who you defederate.
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in reply to smeg • • •ddh
in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •Michael Vogel
in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •Threads has about 200 million monthly users, 33 million daily users. The fediverse has just under 1 million monthly users. Do you really think that 0.5% has any relevance to Meta?
Also: What data do you think Meta will be able to use - and for what? They can't use this data to serve you ads, simply because they don't know you. They can't track you around the web because you don't have a Meta account.
𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Do you really think they would care about those users when they extend and extinguish the Fediverse?
Michael Vogel
in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •Bilb!
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •Taleya
in reply to Michael Vogel • • •The 0.5% on fedi are more likely to be the technical users that actually produce usable content.
How many thread users are bots or passive consumers? They may be good for serving ads to, but they're not so food at retaining and attracting users
muzzle
in reply to In #Flancia we'll meet • • •haui
in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •Exactly. Proudly presented by fedipact.veganism.social/ and fedipact.online/why among others.
You can read the human rights abuses that meta is facilitating above.
#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net
fedipact.veganism.socialjust another dev
in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •So... Instances like lemmy.world, that this is posted to?
yes, I'm federated with them as well, but shit like this is why I dislike them being so big. In the end all the smaller instances can either have strong morals and integrity, or have access to the largest amount of content in the fediverse, but not both.
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in reply to MrScottyTay • • •Also I think that one should ask the question, what Meta could do with the data and what it is doing with the data of their users. For their users they use the usage data to present them a feed that the users appreciate. Also they use it to place ads inside of their apps. Also they use the data to serve you ads outside of their system on ad networks that use data from Meta.
All of this is technically not possible for Fediverse users.
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in reply to MrScottyTay • • •just another dev
in reply to MrScottyTay • • •Public is not the same as public domain.
I'm not a lawyer, but Federation would probably imply consent to sharing the data. Whereas defederation would strongly imply you're not okay with sharing the data with that entity.
MrScottyTay
in reply to just another dev • • •just another dev
in reply to MrScottyTay • • •What I think or what they "may" do is irrelevant regarding public data. What matters is sending a clear signal what you are and are not okay with.
Whether you actively participate in helping them get your data or not might not effectively matter in them acquiring it, but it may heavily impact the fine they get for it afterwards. You might be okay with them getting your data for free, but I'm not, sweet summer child.
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in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •troed
in reply to kerthale • • •Dessalines
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in reply to troed • • •troed
in reply to Taleya • • •RuBisCO
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in reply to RuBisCO • • •Who's the artist of the image? I like the art style
Also the scared Lemmy and mastodon :( I feel bad for them
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in reply to khaleer • • •P4ulin_Kbana
in reply to RuBisCO • • •RuBisCO
in reply to P4ulin_Kbana • • •Looks like Sepia (Peertube), 藍 'Ai' (Misskey), Mastodon, Fox Tan (Pleroma), and Lemmy.
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in reply to brown567 • • •lemmyseizethemeans
in reply to xelar • • •THE ENSHITIFICATION OF EVERYTHING MUST NOT INCLUDE THE FEDIVERSE PLEASE
thank you for coming to my Ted talk
VolumetricShitCompressor
in reply to xelar • • •Fuck the Zucc
This won't affect the Fedipact instances like dbzer0, right?
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in reply to beliquititious • • •beliquititious
in reply to woelkchen • • •On a technical level, no. You're right. It would not be possible to capture the protocol entirely. But meta has serious cash to spend on marketing Threads. If they can capture enough of the ActivityPub market and were to collab with Bluesky and use their protocol (I forget the name), or make their own, it's only a matter of time before the drop activitypub and force users either to join threads or lose access to their users.
Threads and Bluesky are kind of an existential threat to ActivityPub given Meta and Twitter's track record with Open Graph, bootstrap, and public api's.
istanbullu
in reply to xelar • • •__matthew__
in reply to xelar • • •Unpopular opinion: Threads deepening ties to the fediverse is actually a really good thing for the fediverse as a whole.
I feel like realistically the fediverse will never gain mainstream adoption on its own. People like to believe in this beautiful future where the fediverse "wins out" and beats all the major social media networks, but I just don't see this happening. This is why I think Threads is actually really important for the growth of the fediverse and realistically one of the only paths to broad adoption.
Beyond this, I also separately really like the idea of being able to use a platform like Threads with my irl friends while still having access to open source clients etc. (ie. preventing situations like the Twitter API debacle which fucked over 3rd party clients)
orcrist
in reply to __matthew__ • • •__matthew__
in reply to orcrist • • •Sure, to be pedantic, I could clarify: "I think the fediverse will realistically never gain mainstream adoption without a large organization with either a massive existing userbase or the ability to invest in large organized marketing efforts."
This could be technically through some Fediverse collective that receives a large amount of donations, but I don't see this as very likely to happen and even with organized marketing efforts there's no guarantee of effectively converting this into adoption.
troed
in reply to xelar • • •It's awesome that Threads federate with Mastodon. I follow several accounts on Threads I otherwise wouldn't be able to, just as I bridge with Bluesky.
Me federating with Threads makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to what they could or could not do with my data.
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in reply to Dessalines • • •davel
in reply to troed • • •dessalines - Overview
GitHubtroed
in reply to davel • • •just another dev
in reply to troed • • •just another dev
in reply to just another dev • • •troed:
Also troed:
I understand activitypub better than creator of Lemmy
troed
in reply to just another dev • • •What has argument from authority to do with facts?
You only get posts from those you subscribe to. That's the "pull" part.
Kraiden
in reply to troed • • •oxjox
in reply to Kraiden • • •Other than general assumptions and track-record and being a business that sells user data, is there any actual evidence or clear and present ways that Meta could do harm to the Fediverse / its users?
All I've read is that it seems suspicious and we shouldn't trust them. I totally agree with that but I'd like someone to give some examples of what they could do as a member of the network. I've read how they could post advertising – how would that work?
I ask because, like the previous comment, the idea of following people from other, more popular, federated platforms from the comfort and security of "open source" (?) platforms is appealing. At the same time, if this is leaving me and my platform vulnerable to something specific, I'd like to either proceed with caution or not proceed at all.
The biggest loss for me when leaving Twitter was losing access to so much happening in my community and local news and government organizations. They're all still posting on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and not moving to the open social web. More and more ar
... show moreOther than general assumptions and track-record and being a business that sells user data, is there any actual evidence or clear and present ways that Meta could do harm to the Fediverse / its users?
All I've read is that it seems suspicious and we shouldn't trust them. I totally agree with that but I'd like someone to give some examples of what they could do as a member of the network. I've read how they could post advertising – how would that work?
I ask because, like the previous comment, the idea of following people from other, more popular, federated platforms from the comfort and security of "open source" (?) platforms is appealing. At the same time, if this is leaving me and my platform vulnerable to something specific, I'd like to either proceed with caution or not proceed at all.
The biggest loss for me when leaving Twitter was losing access to so much happening in my community and local news and government organizations. They're all still posting on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and not moving to the open social web. More and more are moving to Threads though so it would be nice to maintain / regain exposure.
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in reply to a1studmuffin • • •CommanderZander
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