Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs
As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts.www.phoronix.com
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Regeringen inför ett nytt bidrag till gängkriminella. Sverige behöver arbetskraft då det finns brist på arbetskraft. Då vill regeringen att människor som finns i Sverige ska lämna landet. De genomför en utredning som säger att bidrag till folk för att lämna landet är en dålig idé. Regeringen skiter i utredningen och inför ett bidrag på 350 000 per person för att lämna landet.
An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises
An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises
This paper examines the potential of the Fediverse, a federated network of social media and content platforms, to counter the centralization and dominance of commercial platforms on the social Web.arXiv.org
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They define decentralisation as an even distribution of users? Or did I get that wrong skimming the paper?
This seems arbitrary. Mastodon is a decentralised network, no matter how big Mastodon.social is. Lemmy is equally decentralised, even though there's a dominant actor.
The other hubs in the network don't revolve around mastodon.social/lemmy.world. they connect to each other bilaterally - if the central hubs disappeared over night it wouldn't affect them all that much.
I think the notion that decentralised networks can't have hubs of varying sizes is plain wrong, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what decentralized means.
LibreOffice 24.8.1, released, fixes 89 bugs
LibreOffice 24.8.1, the first minor release of the recently announced LibreOffice 24.8 family, is available for download - The Document Foundation Blog
The LibreOffice 24.8 family is optimised for the privacy-conscious office suite user who wants full control over the information they share Berlin, 12 September 2024 – LibreOffice 24.8.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 24.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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Polismyndighetens nationella operativa avdelning, Noa, har identifierat runt 600 gängkriminella svenskar i utlandet som bedriver organiserad brottslig verksamhet riktad mot Sverige. De befinner sig i 57 olika länder över hela världen.
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Yeah, the pitchfork crowd manages to shut down everyone who tries to do something genuinely good for the community, while leaving all the bad actors running wild in the background.
I mean, we always knew loud voices in the open source community were toxic as fuck - that's obvious enough from the Linux mailing list. Giving these people their own social network to ruin was wildly optimistic from the beginning. It's a wonder it hasn't gone worse.
It's amazing how computer nerds posting on the fucking fediverse can be so sceptical of seeing their content leave the platform they're currently on. Like that's not the whole goddamn point of posting here in the first place.
Also, Bridgy.fed rules. Anyone out there on Mastodon or Bluesky: Please opt in! :)
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It’s amazing how computer nerds posting on the fucking fediverse can be so sceptical of seeing their content leave the platform they’re currently on. Like that’s not the whole goddamn point of posting here in the first place.
It was more about the unability to defederate if necessary (e.g. conspiracists or crypto bros becoming the majority users here), and the bridge not being opt-in at the beginning.
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but bad actors can just migrate to a new one, or spin up a new hostname.
Then you defederate from it too. I just went through some instances list, some servers have been defederating Mastodon instances like crazy
Then you defederate from it too.
Okay, let me create an account on mastodon.social and use it to scrape content from every other instance.
Better yet, let me create an account on "i-want-privacy-in-a-public-internet.example.com" and access the federated timeline directly, then I can go and push the content from everyone into this discovery service.
What are they going to do? Unless they go to the point of asking for physical evidence behind the person asking for accounts and/or only give invitations to people they already know, and completely shut down their own servers to the outside world*, they will **never be able to avoid data leakage.
And if they do get to do any of this, then what is the point of using anything based on ActivityPub? They will be better off by just using any of the existing group chat servers like Discord (or Matrix/XMPP if they still care about FOSS.)
The point we were discussing was not data leakage, it was the inability to defederate from a huge instance which would overflow the number of users, similar to the way people imagined what would happen if Threads federated, and Lemmy is suddenly overflown with people usually on Facebook.
It's not a bad thing per se (anyone can make their own opinion), but not having even the option to defederate is the issue.
No, admins might think of defederation as a way to avoid interaction with larger instances, but in the case of the bridge it was mostly regular users crying "I don't my content going in a place that I do not control", with "lack of opt-in" and "this violates GDPR" being the main reasons cited to be against it.
With Threads is the same thing. The whole thing with users asking their admins to block threads is not because they were worried about Threads pushing too much to the smaller instances, but to block Threads from mining data from the Fediverse to their profit.
I think what you are talking about is instances that may have a large population of marginalized groups, and the fear that someone is creating a database that could be used to easily seek them out and use it for trolling and such. Which I think is a very valid concern.
And as mentioned above, you have the crowd that wants to take an instance and give all their posts over to for-profit corporations like Threads and Bluesky, that should not even be called part of the fediverse IMHO.
I don't know how you make a global search for the fediverse that avoids both of those issues though.
marginalized groups, and the fear that someone is creating a database that could be used to easily seek them out and use it for trolling and such.
The fear might be justified. I don't question that the issue exists, but the belief that they can stop it.
Let me repeat: there is no real privacy in any social network. If people are genuinely afraid of being targeted because of what they write online, the solution is not to give them a false sense of privacy, but to educate and empower them to use messaging platforms that are provably secure.
Those that are telling marginalized folks to use instance XYZ because "they don't federate with threads and therefore are safe" think that they are being helpful, but in reality are putting them at even more risk because they are telling all of them to concentrate in the same place and make the targeted tracking even easier for malicious actors.
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The author (who isn't OP) is using federated wordpress blogs, so expect to see this pop up if you are subscribing to them.
That being the case, and also considering the rough edges around the fediverse right now, I think the link sharing is reasonable. I'll add that this isn't the first time I've seen it shared.
Nice article,
Kind of funny to see a very recent comment from @nutomic@lemmy.ml highlighted
Otherwise, nice article
Why does VirtualBox keep launching on boot?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/28766034
Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?
Based on recommendations in that thread, I also checked:
/etc/systemd/system
/etc/default/
vboxautostart.service
KDE "restore session" settings
Any ideas are much appreciated!
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Secondly, I’d attempt to write a bash script to walk a directory tree, cat out files, pipe it through grep and get every instance where VirtualBox is mentioned in a file. Trying the name of proccess, or of the executable too.
Move to the top of the tree you want to search and do something like this:
find . -type f -exec grep -iH "virtualboxexecutable" {} \;
That will give you what you want without the need for a script. -type f makes the find command only search files, and -exec has it run the grep command on any files it returns with -iH giving you case insensitive results showing you the file it's found in. Substitute 'virtualboxexecutable' with whatever the process name is that is being run. If you want to ignore binary files, the add in "| grep -iv "binary file matches" to the command. That will strip out any results where it has searched a binary file.
STF Opens Up Maintainer Fellowship Application Process
STF Opens Up Maintainer Fellowship Application Process
Last month Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund announced they would be opening a fellowship program for open-source maintainerswww.phoronix.com
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P/f Jupiter är ett fiskeriföretag med huvudkontor i Kollafjørður på Färöarna är ett företag som kan kopplas till ett nederländskt storföretag i fiskeribranschen. Det är dock majoritetsägt av färöiska ägare, närmare bestämt Jógvan Martin Ferjá Joensen
Had a little spark of glee looking at a fellow nix user in the wild
Defined in /nix/store/vicfr
I had a spark of glee seeing another fish shell user.
I used "job control" a lot but never called it that. And I mostly would background or foreground tasks. I didn't know about a few of those additional commands talked about. Disown will be pretty handy.
Hello fellow fish user.
Disown is. I even have a fish function written so I can do 'launch foo' and it'll run foo, redirect everything to /dev/null (not sure that's necessary, but doesn't hurt), and then disowns the process. Mostly because I have a habit of running stuff using whatever terminal I happen to have in front of me.
ut never called it that. And I mostly would background or foreground tasks. I didn’t
yeah I had no idea about disown, Jesus the number of times I could have used that, I might have never learned tmux or screen :)
Åtalad polis dömdes för flera brott. Två polisanställda och två civilpersoner åtalades för flera olika brott. En kvinna åtalades för grovt narkotikabrott för att ha hanterat över 50 kilo hasch. En man åtalades för grovt narkotikabrott för att ha hanterat 150 kilo cannabis.
Rymlingar från HVB-hem misstänkta för mordplaner. En 16-åring har åtalats för förberedelse till mord, grovt vapenbrott och ringa narkotikabrott. Detta sedan han greps beväpnad med en halvautomatisk pistol inne på en pizzeria i Farsta den 25 maj 2024.
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Would it have helped Cohost survive?
Well in theory if cohost was decentralized, the instance that is now shutting down would just be one of many. As it is, it's one of one, the only one.
Plenty of Lemmy instances have shut down, some less abruptly than others. One cohost instance shutting down is not that remarkable, all things considered. It's only remarkable cause there's just one instance.
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In theory, I doubt development would continue. For a federated cohost to survive long term, it would also need to be open source, with a developer community that could fork the project and carry the torch. That's a very different cohost we're envisioning, even excluding required UX changes to make it possible.
At that point, one might as well imagine a cohost that explored better ways to make money, or attracted more users, or ran a tighter ship. Both scenarios lead to this discussion never happening.
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How Lemmy could interop with Mastodon, as imagined in Frontpage + Bluesky
Hey 👋 if you don't know us already, we're building Frontpage; an AT Procol based federated link aggregator. We shipped an initial MVP in closed beta recently and have since been thinking about the road to general availability.This post is an RFC (Request for Comments) targeted at technically minded folks who are interested in seeing the progression of atproto for non-Bluesky/microblogging use cases. All that's to say the language that follows assumes some knowledge about how Bluesky and atproto work! I've tried to include links to explain what all of the jargon means though, so hopefully it's not entirely nonsense for folks a little less familiar!
When you post on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror post will also be created in your Bluesky account. When you comment on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror reply will be created in your Bluesky account.
Conversely, when you reply to one of these mirrored posts in Bluesky - we will show it as a reply in Frontpage.
Additionally, Bluesky likes will be translated to Frontpage votes and vice versa.
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The Great Sellout to Meta.
Is this Great Sellout in the room with us right now? Because Meta did implement an open protocol into Threads, but it has been widely blocked by other ActivityPub instances. That is not a "sellout".
Sounds like your principles will only lead you off social media, perhaps the internet entirely?
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The 2 largest mastodon instances both misrepresented involvement or intent with Meta to their users, then turned around and federated.
Those were/are the best chance for the fedi to leap forward.
They are the most popular and also now the keast likely to be used by tech people, both because if the association and because they misled their users.
The admins of those, one of which is the masto dev, have arguably done more harm to the fedi than anyone else. People left for bluesky right after the bragconfession and openly posted about why.
So it's not in the room with me, because I dropped their scene and closed all my accounts.
It takes a moral village idiot to compromise the whole environment just to grab some cash for their subsequent honeymoon. Not unlike current Twitter management thinking, and not unlike social media thought-levels in general.
Though luck, they are interpretations already and have been doing it since the beginning.
The first comment I ever made to a Lemmy community was via Mastodon - that's how I found out about Lemmy in the first place.
VirtualBox 7.1 Released with Qt 6 GUI, Wayland Support for Clipboard Sharing - 9to5Linux
VirtualBox 7.1 Released with Qt 6 GUI, Wayland Support for Clipboard Sharing - 9to5Linux
VirtualBox 7.1 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with Qt 6 GUI and Wayland support for clipboard sharing.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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What ever you happens, do not use this for commercial purposes. Virtual box is free and libre but the guest addons are not. They will find and bill you for every single person in your company. Not per active user but per employee. This has cost companies millions
Under Linux you can just use KVM. Gnome boxes or virtual manager should work fine.
And they DO NOT CARE if you don't actually use or install the extensions (unless something has changed, the guest add-ons are part of the free open source part, it's the extensions for things like USB 2 support that aren't free for commercial)
You can use it freely, by license, but they'll come after you anyway
I'm still pissed that they bought Sun, so many great products now controlled by those assholes... Virtual box, MySQL, Solaris, Java...
The only license that VirtualBox and the Guest Additions are even released under is GPL3. I do not even see a dual license.
What remedy are they proposing when they come after you? I am not sure I would even take their call or respond to their letter. If I did, I would just send them the GPL text, announce that we are complying, and tell them to pound sand.
I suppose it might be fun to tell them that I got it via IBM or Red Hat or something and to take it up with them. But I probably would not actually be dishonest about. As above, if I got a letter asking me to pay for their GPL software, I would just mutter “idiots” and throw it away. If they want to persist, it would only cost them money and I would continue to respond the same way.
The extension pack does cost and is licensed differently from the core product
I did try that tact, more or less, but the fact is they kept harassing our licensing people and it just wasn't worth it so we removed every copy of it and used something else
And the truth is, Oracle can throw an ungodly amount of legal hassle at people if they want, right or wrong... Just because you're in the right and should win doesn't mean there'll be anything left of you on the other side, and they won't have felt a thing while destroying you out of capriciousness
They're pure evil and even their fully open source products should be avoided like the plague that they are. Hopefully someone will fork them at some point so we don't have to be tied to that shitty company, but until then, better to just leave them alone, because it's just not worth the hassle.
I do not believe I have had to accept anything. I am installing it from the AUR and it builds from source. Pretty sure it just went straight into the UI the first time I launched it ( without a EULA ).
I will have to look into it. Thank you for the answer through.
I just looked all this over and, just to clarify, both VirtualBox itself and the Guest Additions are free and released under GPL3.
virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_…
What is not free is the separately downloadable “VirtualBox Extension Pack”.
As long as you stay away from the “Extension Pack”, you are ok.
Kairos
in reply to petsoi • • •That'd be cool.
I mean, can't you just run it with qemu-user anyway?
M500
in reply to Kairos • • •Let me know if I don’t know enough about what you are talking about, but I think your saying to use qemu to o run windows.
This is about running x86 code on arm processors, like what Apple does with Rosetta.
Penta
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in reply to Penta • • •bruce965
in reply to Penta • • •boredsquirrel
in reply to Kairos • • •I guess it is more performant.
discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
Possibly linux
in reply to Kairos • • •WhiteHotaru
in reply to petsoi • • •It is crazy how many highly skilled people put a lot of free work into pushing Linux forward, because of „let’s see, if we can get this thing working!”
I love the free software community.
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gravitas_deficiency
in reply to WhiteHotaru • • •Caveman
in reply to petsoi • • •aard
in reply to Caveman • • •potustheplant
in reply to aard • • •aard
in reply to potustheplant • • •I've been using an Arm notebook with Windows for over a year now (not as main system, but development system for a customer project). I'm running a lot of x86 software (like Emacs) as a gcc port for Windows/Arm is being developed only now - with no problems. It integrates nicely into the native stuff - which is one area where you run into issues on the Mac: If you start a shell in rosetta it's annoying to make calls to native arm binaries.
The only issue I ran into were some drivers not available for Arm - emulation layer (unsurprisingly) just is for userland, not kernel drivers. Also x86 emulation isn't working well if Windows is running in a virtual machine on MacOS - but supposedly that'll be fixed in the upcoming Windows release.
All of this only applies to Windows 11 - if for some reason you decide to run Windows 10 on Arm you're in a world of pain.
potustheplant
in reply to aard • • •aard
in reply to potustheplant • • •potustheplant
in reply to aard • • •NutWrench
in reply to Caveman • • •(Or became all that was left of Windows).
utopiah
in reply to Caveman • • •Just ran a VR game for Windows just this morning, worked like a charm, didn't tinker one minute (using Proton and SteamVR, Valve with NVIDIA, just for context).
Then you also read things like forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelh… on non technical websites... and can't help but wonder if it "will" be easier or... if it's already done.
Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
in reply to petsoi • • •theshatterstone54
in reply to petsoi • • •Imagine it becomes easier to run Windows x86 programs on Linux, than on Windows. And I won't be surprised at all if performance is better.
Imagine if THAT becomes Linux' killer feature.
A more lightweight system without the crazy system requirements, certain systems more stable and easier to get into for gaming, no ads and no spyware out of the box, no extra cruft nobody needs out of the box, and better support for x86 emulation on ARM.
Now THAT is a checklist to getting people interested.
There is also the free of charge aspect, but I'm not sure how appealing that would be, with Windows being bundled in.
Anything else I missed, feel free to let me know.
aStonedSanta
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in reply to Grass • • •Grass
in reply to thedeadwalking4242 • • •yeah I think I have an orange, a mango, a nanopi, and a couple entirely written in chinese that are different from each other. Just before reddit went senile I was planning on posting images to try to ID the unknown ones but I didn't and got busy with stuff less likely to be a dead end.
Can anyone confirm if it is indeed the case that you can't just put whatever os you want on these things, or if it is possible by jumping through some hoops that google would never show me in favour of showing me other shit that makes them more money?
thedeadwalking4242
in reply to Grass • • •Usually you need to patch some stuff as a lot of the hardware doesn’t have mainline support. For the mango pi I found this
github.com/boosterl/awesome-ma…
The nixos link there works but it’s a bit out dated
LiveLM
in reply to Grass • • •Grass
in reply to LiveLM • • •LiveLM
in reply to Grass • • •Ah, well in that case, fair enough.
I've done my fair share of ridiculousness to keep free crappy hardware running.
I will say, try running Alpine Linux on a container.
I've managed to extract some usefulness out of a borderline e-waste Android tablet running some flavor of Jelly Bean, so outdated you couldn't connect to most websites due to bad TLS certs, by running a Alpine Container on it.
Alpine was the only distro I found that could run up-to-date software on such a ancient version of the Linux kernel, everything else failed to work at all.
mvirts
in reply to petsoi • • •We can already run arm seamlessly on x86 Linux, why not use Qemu-user + binfmt misc the other way around? I guess FEX must be much faster. Im also not super keen to run binaries that can't be recompiled anyway so probably not the target audience.
Take that Java, everything is a portable binary now.
lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)
in reply to mvirts • • •mvirts
in reply to lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr) • • •lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)
in reply to mvirts • • •Until you try to run Android app without Android :)
But I got the point.
geneva_convenience
in reply to lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr) • • •havocpants
in reply to lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr) • • •billwashere
in reply to lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr) • • •I hate Java with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. It is baked into so many admin tools for hardware (Dell, Cisco, etc) and trying to connect to older hardware that requires a security model that isn’t supported anymore or has expired certs that are never getting updated is a giant pain in the ass. Run anywhere my ass. I have to keep special VMs with just the right version of Java and all the necessary tweaks (like having to tell it that certain older encryption methods are ok) to even access some of these tools. I’ve even had to surplus hardware that was perfectly fine accept for the fact I could configure it because of some stupid Java thing. In short Fuck Java with a rusty wire brush.
I’m not bitter at all 🤣