Pregnancy completely rewires mothers' brains — study
The researchers found sweeping changes in overall brain neuroanatomy which unfolded week by week during the pregnancy.Inside Chrastil's brain, grey matter volume, cortical thickness, white matter microstructure, and ventricle volume all changed.
The changes were all over the brain too — "over 80% of my brain regions showed reductions in grey matter volume," Chrastil said.
Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy. Published by Pritschet, L., Taylor, C.M., Cossio, D. et al. in Nature Neuroscience (September 2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-017…
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Cool.
At this point, I wish there was a wiki for things that can rewire one’s brain. Ya know, beyond everyday experiences. This is hardly the only experience which does, and a database should be created of what can, how, why, etc.
I've used this term before in a different context: It's what happens when someone is about to do something that both scares and excites them at the same time. Like when a person suddenly finds themselves extremely attracted to someone and they want to make a good impression. That's when their brain seems to be both there and not there at the same time.
When observing someone in this sort of situation you quickly come to the conclusion that the brain has gone but then later--upon reflection--it may seem like it may have actually been present. The only way to know for sure is to find out how the events eventually concluded; opening the box as it were.
That's when you find out whether or not the person was a pussy.
this is the first study to consistently map brain changes during pregnancy, write the study authors in their paper."It's 2024 and this is the first glimpse we have of this fascinating neurological transition. There is so much about the neurobiology of pregnancy we don't understand yet. It's a biproduct of the fact that biosciences have historically ignored women's health," said Jacobs.
I knew that there were fundamental neurological changes that occurred during pregnancy, but had no idea that there hadn't been a comprehensive brain mapping study done yet. There is a surprising amount of sexism in academia.
The changes were all over the brain too — "over 80% of my brain regions showed reductions in grey matter volume," Chrastil said.Grey matter is brain tissue with high concentrations of neuron cell bodies, where information is processed. Reductions in grey matter volume are sometimes associated with reduced memory and cognitive function.
However, the study authors say a reduction in grey matter during pregnancy isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's more like a wave of brain refinement as the brain prepares for motherhood — like the process of chiseling a block of marble into a sculpture.
Seems like an overly positive framing of the effect.
De exploderande personsökare som Israel har använt vid sin terrorattack i Libanon var av en modell, AR-924, som tagit fram av det taiwanesiska företaget Gold Apollo har inte tillverkats i Taiwan. Enligt företaget ska tillverkningen ha lagts ut på det ungerska företaget BAC Consulting KFT.
PeerTube 6.3 released
- Separate audio and video streams for more flexibility
- Browse subtitles in the transcription widget
- Set up Youtube-dl for smoother imports
- And much more!
PeerTube v6.3 released! | JoinPeerTube
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...JoinPeerTube
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Krypterad kommunikationstjänst har slagits ut i en internationell polisoperation. Svensk polis har i en internationell polisoperation tillsammans med Europol, Eurojust och rättsvårdande myndigheter i åtta länder slagit ut en krypterad kommunikationstjänst som möjliggjort grov organiserad brottslighet.
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PeerTube v6.3 released!
PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.
Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.
If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.
The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!
Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.
If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:
- report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
- submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
- Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
- Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.
Let’s improve PeerTube!
We need your input! Bonjour, we are Framasoft. Our small French nonprofit maintains and develop PeerTube (among 50+ other projects), with only one (1!ideas.joinpeertube.org
I guess I'm asking this before I register.
I still don't get PeerTube. Is it like Lemmy, where signing up to one "platform" gives you access to other platform's content with the same login? Or is each platform separate and only videos there will be shown?
It's federated like Lemmy, so each platform has 'local videos' and an 'all videos' section. E.g. fedi.video/videos/local and fedi.video/videos/overview
Of course, since it's federated, it means other platforms like PieFed, MBIN and Mastodon can access the same stuff, so you don't need to register anywhere if you're on one of them.
Why can't peertube use lemmy accounts too?
Couldn't they just join the fediverse like masterdon?
Åtal väckt för omfattande narkotikabrottslighet. Åklagare har väckt åtal mot en 27-årig man för två fall av synnerligen grov narkotikasmuggling och två fall av grovt narkotikabrott. Vidare för ett fall av försök till grovt narkotikabrott, ett fall av synnerligen grovt vapenbrott och grov smuggling.
Kvoten för sill (strömming) i Bottenhavet kan öka. Forskningen är klar på denna punkt. Internationella Havsforskningsrådet (ICES) har kommit med sina råd om fisket i Bottenhavet år 2025. Rekommendationen är en kvot av sill (strömming) på mellan 66 466 och 74 515 ton.
Those who have followed my health update and original posts know that I was hit by a car while crossing the street in late June. It’s now been 12 weeks, and I want to give an update on the update.
Just a couple of months ago, I was in really serious pain, with 9 rib fractures, and even with opioid painkillers taken every couple of hours, every movement was excruciating. My left wrist was in a brace and I couldn’t write or type. My face was bruised and numb, with broken bones in my jaw, cheek and eye socket.
Today, I’m mostly better. It’s astounding how resilient my body is. I have a hard time with standing and sitting, but not with the kind of blinding pain that made me want to faint. I rarely wear my brace, and I’ve started running daily.
I’m seeing an occupational therapist, a psychotherapist, and an acupuncturist for better circulation and healing.
My broken wrist is still very stiff; I can barely bend it. The orthopaedic surgeon says that I may need another surgery at some point, but I am hopeful. I can type, write, and do most household tasks. It still can’t take a lot of weight; I need to push myself up with my other hand, for example. I am not yet back to the weightroom, which is a bummer, since it was an important form of bonding with my son before the accident.
I have a hard time remembering just how scary and all-encompassing my injuries were that first weekend. I felt like my pain was everything; all I was was a pain-haver. I kind of gave up at some point even imagining what it would be like to get back to normal.
I talked to my therapist about this; I’ve kind of realised that I’m never going to go back to how I was before the accident. I’m always going to have a body that had a really violent set of injuries, forever. But that doesn’t mean it has to be worse. She said, “How do you know it isn’t better?” I’m trying to hold onto that thought.
Legal and financial issues still loom, but they feel like they’re starting to resolve. I kind of realised a while ago that the reason people get pain and suffering payments from legal settlements isn’t to compensate them for the pain they had during the accident; it’s to compensate them for the pain and complications they’re going to have for the rest of their lives. It’s a way to pre-pay for chronic, recurrent medical issues.
I’m doing some household chores, gardening, and other light hand work. I’ve been trying to do extra stints of dishwashing to make up for all the chores I skipped, but I’m literally 3 months behind, and I’m probably never going to catch back up.
Thanks to everyone who’s had kind words about my accident; it’s meant a lot. I’m probably not going to make any further updates, except in that creaky way that people with pins in their bones complain about oncoming storms. No words of wisdom to share except please be careful crossing the street.
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Sverige mot organiserad brottslighet“ (SMOB) är ett initiativ som syftar till att stärka Sveriges samlade förmåga att bekämpa den organiserade brottsligheten med särskilt fokus på den kriminella ekonomin.
Personsökare exploderade. Hizbollah vill kunna kommunicera utan att bli avlyssnade eller spårade. Det betydde att det bytte utrustning regelbundet och dessutom tycks ha valt använda äldre teknologi och personsökare istället för mobiltelefoner och krypterade chattprogram.
Bigfive Personality Test
Just wanted to highlight this project because I've had to take many personality tests for school and work and things, and this is the most accurate one I've seen, and the only one where I feel I'm actually learning about myself from the results.
So if you need a personality test for any reason this one's pretty good.
Free open-source BigFive personality traits test
Take a free, open-source Big Five personality test. Learn to know your personality traits and compare yourself with your partner, colleagues, friends or family.bigfive-test.com
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The README in the repo indicates it's based on the NEO-PI, which is kindof the gold standard in personality tests at least right now from what I understand.
Book recommendation for folks who might want to know more about the topic of personality psychology. Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being by Dr. Brian Little.
I thought that these personality tests had been debunked?
We had the myers briggs test back in the day, and I've heard on couple podcasts that these tests (including MB) are highly questionable.
As it happens, the latest maintenance phase podacst is about the MB test:
podcastaddict.com/maintenance-…
Not listened yet, but will.
It's pretty good for self improvement. I scored kinda high on neuroticism but after learning some psychology stuff like mindfulness/meditation/neuroplasticity/stoicism/ACT i managed to reduce it significantly after about 2.5 years. there was even a study recently that showed how using a app to change your personality and it's not easy and require serious training like learning a language or a musical instrument. I hope we will get eventually some open source version of that app.
and of course you need to be open to it, humans have a documented bias toward not believing what might hurt there self esteem.
I scored kinda high on neuroticism but after learning some psychology stuff like mindfulness/meditation/neuroplasticity/stoicism/ACT i managed to reduce it significantly after about 2.5 years.
Dang, good going!
It's hard to know how objective these tests are. You feed it results, and it reflects those results back to you, so you aren't likely to be startled by the results. A selfish person who thinks he's generous will be told he is.
But I think there is value in self-reflection, and just asking yourself these questions can be of value.
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Followed shortly by ‘oh shit’ and ‘we dropped two weights’ then ‘guys, it’s getting kind of wet in here…’
Just kidding, mostly.
Serious question: how does a submarine know how much it weighs?
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No joke, I was in the hospital with a heart attack back in January, waiting on my stent.
Woke up at 6 AM and was fiddling on my phone such as you do. Nurse comes in:
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
"Um... thank you? I'm not sure what to do with that information..."
Yup! I love the whole pro life "abortion stops a beating heart!" thing. The heart doesn't really mean much, you can make a heart beat in a petrie dish, that doesn't make it "alive".
Now... Which dialogue choice did he take?
- "All good here"
- "All good here" (Lie)
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Operation Reptil, the execution of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle “Tachito”.
On September 17, 1980, at 10:20 a.m., a little more than a year after July 19, 1979, the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle “Tachito”, 54 years old, was executed in Paraguay by a group of seven guerrillas who were members of the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) led by Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, militant and leader of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party and the People’s Revolutionary Army (PRT-ERP).
Operation Reptil was prepared for a year and ended the life of the last tyrant of the Somoza dynasty that had been started in 1937 by his father, Anastasio Somoza García, who ordered the killing of the revolutionary Augusto César Sandino in February 1934.
Coordinadora Simón Bolívar vindicates 44 years after that historic event, Operation Reptil, neither forgiving nor forgetting.
Recovering Historical Memory.
Up with those who fight!!!
The only fight that is lost is the one that is abandoned!!!
Only struggle will set us free!!!
From Venezuela 🇻🇪, Land of Liberators, 532 years after the beginning of the Anti-Imperialist Resistance in America and 214 years after the beginning of our Independence.
Coordinadora Simón Bolívar
Caracas – Venezuela.
September 2024.
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano
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Ergonomic? Maybe
Accessible? Well, when you need to be able to do yoga-aasanas just to get it in view; you tell me
Reminds me of Reef sandals, at least some of which have bottle openers on the sole.
Using them for that purpose seems ... Ill advised.
Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
Mozilla announced it will shut down its Mastodon server, Mozilla.social, on December 17, allowing users to download their data or migrate to another instance.
This decision follows Mozilla’s strategic shift to focus on Firefox and AI, scaling back on other projects like VPN, Relay, and its involvement in the fediverse.
Mozilla.social had only 270 active users at the time of the announcement, and Mozilla plans to take a more modest approach to participating in the Mastodon ecosystem in the future.
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COSMIC Alpha 2 is landing on September 26th
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1129664
COSMIC Alpha 2 is landing on September 26th. Repositories will be tagged with the new release for distribution packagers.Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 2 ISO's will also be available for download! #COSMICdesktop #COSMICDE
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Tbh as long as COSMIC lacks 1:1 theming support for KDE apps, it is not usable.
I love KDE Apps. There are also some GTK Apps I use, but the big ones (Dolphin, Okular, Gwenview, Ark, Spectacle Editor) are all KDE.
All those apps are tied to Plasma, pull Plasma as a dependency, and as such, are not what you'd want to use unless you want to keep 2 DEs around. Okular is an exception, but I know for a fact that Dolphin pulls all of Plasma with it. For an Ark alternative, just use xarchiver (contrary to the name, works perfectly on Wayland). Gwenview is just an image viewer. Use ristretto or something else. COSMIC comes with its own screenshot utility as Spectacle replacement (and COSMIC Screenshot is quite good in my experience). And just replace Dolphin with COSMIC files (for a simpler experience) or Thunar (for something more powerful) and you're good to go.
Edit: But I agree QT theming should be added. IIRC, they've talked to the Plasma team, but it was just too time consuming so they've put it of for now, but will have this done eventually. It's a promised feature, it just probably won't happen soon.
Already did that. Those apps are themed horribly and are thus unusable. Afaik there is also no scaling setting for 3rd party toolkits in the COSMIC settings.
Ark can do more, like compress in detail, from the filemanager.
Gwenview is an image editor with many basic features you want.
Spectacle has another image editing feature, for some reason KDE has 4 implementations of that, Spectacle has the only good one. This can be used standalone with the Dolphin extension "annotate it".
Dolphin is waaay better than COSMIC files, absolutely no comparison. If it is just a customizable GUI, custom icons for everything, extensions.
I dont ger Thunar. pcmanfm-qt is the best alternative to Dolphin I know. At least the theming works on KDE, may be different on other desktops
I explained KDE Apps.
COSMIC is fine and a really great project. But they are simply lacking like 10 years of development behind KDE.
Not gonna say that once ready it could simply be better, faster, more streamlined, no cruft. But yeah, not in the next few years.
Interesting, thanks!
I know Fedora has some meta-theme package, they should add that to Workstation too.
It includes the breeze themes.
Then a flatpak env var or /etc/environment could work
They probably fixed all the bugs they considered essential, and the rest is just nice to have fixes that can be moved to the next cycle if necessary (and they still have a week to work on them before release, although they might be careful not to introduce severe bugs now).
The general idea with this approach is that it doesn't make sense to block a release on a few bugs worked on by only a subset of available developers and having the rest idle - the project can be finished faster by moving the remaining tasks over to the next release and accepting the bugs in the meantime.
Oh wow, I didn't expect another release so quickly! Props to the COSMIC team! I can't recall where the roadmap for the features and their targeted releases went, but I hope we can get Night Light/Blue Light filtering soon.
I also did not know they had a Mastodon account, thanks for the shout so that I could give 'em a follow.
Microvascular and Immunometabolic features of Post-Exertional Malaise in Long COVID and ME/CFS
Background
A considerable number of patients who contracted SARS-CoV-2 are affected by persistent multi-systemic symptoms, referred to as Post-COVID Condition (PCC). Post-exertional malaise (PEM) has been recognized as one of the most frequent manifestations of PCC and is a diagnostic criterion of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Yet, its underlying pathomechanisms remain poorly elucidated.
Results
Upon physical activity, affected patients exhibit a reduced systemic oxygen extraction and oxidative phosphorylation capacity. Accumulating evidence suggests that these are mediated by dysfunctions in mitochondrial capacities and microcirculation that are maintained by latent immune activation, conjointly impairing peripheral bioenergetics. Aggravating deficits in tissue perfusion and oxygen utilization during activities cause exertional intolerance that are frequently accompanied by tachycardia, dyspnea, early cessation of activity and elicit downstream metabolic effects. The accumulation of molecules such as lactate, reactive oxygen species or prostaglandins might trigger local and systemic immune activation. Subsequent intensification of bioenergetic inflexibilities, muscular ionic disturbances and modulation of central nervous system functions can lead to an exacerbation of existing pathologies and symptoms
Towards an understanding of physical activity-induced post-exertional malaise: Insights into microvascular alterations and immunometabolic interactions in post-COVID condition and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - Infection
Background A considerable number of patients who contracted SARS-CoV-2 are affected by persistent multi-systemic symptoms, referred to as Post-COVID Condition (PCC).SpringerLink
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And now in English?
Seriously, is this important information relevant to the general public who has no idea what this is describing?
I might also add that currently this word soup looks a lot like the gibberish coming from chatgpt..
From ChatGPT:
This passage describes how certain patients have trouble using oxygen efficiently during physical activity. Their bodies can't extract enough oxygen or produce energy effectively because of problems with mitochondria (the parts of cells that generate energy) and poor blood circulation. These issues seem to be linked to a lingering, low-level activation of the immune system.As a result, their muscles and tissues don’t get enough oxygen when they're active, which leads to symptoms like a fast heartbeat, difficulty breathing, and the need to stop exercising early. Over time, harmful byproducts like lactate (from incomplete energy production), reactive oxygen species (that can damage cells), and prostaglandins (involved in inflammation) build up in the body. This triggers more immune system activity, which worsens the energy problems, disrupts muscle function, and can even affect the brain. This makes existing health issues worse and leads to more severe symptoms during physical exertion.
There’s a feature of some Long COVID cases (~50%) which is also the defining feature of an illness called ME/CFS which has been caused by various forms of viral infections throughout history. (It is thought that a lot of Long COVID cases are ME/CFS). Anyways this feature is, Post-Exertional Malaise, a worsening of the illness after exertion beyond a certain threshold, which can entail hundreds of symptoms and be permanent.
This paper is a review of some of the biomedical studies looking at what could possibly cause this, and finds there is repeated data of Microvascular (blood vessels) and immunometabolic (metabolic markers relating to immune function) differences with healthy controls.
The leading hypotheses are that this is caused by mitochondrial dysfunction which is mediated by a dysregulated immune system.
Some of my colleagues were co-authors on this paper. I’ll forward the feedback that it is jargony.
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Science communication is hard. If the audience is scientists in the field, the text is probably digestible, but for anyone else, it's just not.
Note that I'm not saying anything about the content itself, but in my experience, considering who is reading is useful in most cases.
Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months
While this is true, it only requires the shim and grub to be copied for another distro.
From other comments there are a lot more blobs than just these two.
Seriously this. Any comment about a complicated system that starts with "just" can be ignored 99% of the time.
Also, there are 4k forks of Ventoy already. Obviously forking it isn't helping. Actual work needs to be done.
Part of the point behind Ventoy is that you don't need to prepare the USB to be bootable. You can just copy/paste the whole iso into Ventoy and it will be bootable.
New release comes out? Just copy it onto your USB drive. Don't even need to remove the old version of you don't want to.
Makes things much easier in the tech world for having a single USB with 50+ bootable tools and installers on there like with MediCat (which uses Ventoy as a base).
Only thing I've had issues with booting from Ventoy is the ProxMox install iso. Everything else has worked first try.
IODD makes some. I had the older HDD version that stopped working after it got dropped, so now I use this one:
Makes me wonder how far the closest alternative, glim, could be upgraded to match Ventoy given the confines of GRUB.
Someone had mentioned that Fedora fails to verify when booting from Ventoy. Now I'm thinking if I could dd the media loaded via Ventoy and compare with an original copy to see what changed.
There's a subset of the Linux/FOSS/etc. community who are Conservative, misogynistic, racist, and/or otherwise general bigots. Compare the Ventoy-bros against the Elon-bros, and you'll see a similar pattern of behavior.
I don't personally understand it, since development is still sometimes seen as "work for weirdo nerds," so you'd think they would understand what it feels like to be rejected or bullied, but here we are. They manage to stay under the radar, because there's usually no reason to discuss politics or philosophy when you're debugging code.
There’s a subset of the Linux/FOSS/etc. community who are Conservative, misogynistic, racist, and/or otherwise general bigots.
right, the hackernews set...
The IODD is basically a small drive enclosure, not a "stupid" USB drive.
I was more thinking of devices like this, this or this. Which have the simplicity of a normal USB device (just plug it in and go) and come with an automatically updating label so you can find the correct dongle.
But yeah, nowadays, I'd probably prefer the IODD thing.
And even the blobs in the first point there are source and build instructions in their respective folder.
No it is not. It is supposedly the built result based on the instruction provided. If they can just provide that instruction, why not provide the source as well?
The issue thread also highlights the stubbornness and hostility of the project maintainer toward possible contributors.
I firmly believe there are no backdoors or anything dodgy going on here
OK but that's hardly reassuring.
Years and years ago I worked on a project where the logo was the outline of a head and an inward swirl for the brain.
For the website, if you held your mouse over it for 9 seconds, it would spin and flush. No one ever found that one that I know of.
I used Ventoy (its still on my USB stick). Its actually a pretty cool concept. Normally without Ventoy, you would flash your Linux distribution on the USB stick. And then you can boot from it, right?
Ventoy instead allows you to have a folder where you put an ISO without flashing it, and then you can boot from it by selecting in the menu. You just need to flash Ventoy once, as the base system, then you can put as many ISO files into that directory. I tested it and have 7 different Linux distributions (ranging from 1 GB to 4 GB variants) on the same USB stick, and I can boot any of them without flashing again. Replacing ISO is extremely easy, just delete it and copy a new one. Filenames does not matter, anything can be found.
Binary Large OBject
Basically any binary file, often objected to in open source repos because of the lack of source and 'openness'. See also the recent xz backdoor.
Search engines are websites that people used to go to in order to get helpful information. These days, they just spam out a bunch of SEO garbage, AI-generated bullshit, and ads.
Google, probably
It’s the other way around I think. We are progressing. More voices are heard which “should” be a good thing. Right? Right…?
/s
The Ventoy advertisements on Reddit looked too suspicious, so I never checked it out.
That's ok if we are talking about malware publicly shown in the published source code.. but there's also the possibility of a private source-code patch with malware that it's secretly being applied when building the binaries for distribution. Having clean source code in the repo is not a guarantee that the source code is the same that was used to produce the binaries.
This is why it's important for builds to be reproducible, any third party should be able to build their own binary from clean source code and be able to obtain the exact same binary with the same hash. If the hashes match, then you have a proof of the binary being clean. You have this same problem with every single binary distribution, even the ones that don't include pre-compiled binaries in their repo.
I remember this thread! Before I saw this comment, I had already gone to look it up again:
Here's the initial post of Verionica's video on booting from ISO files: linuxmom.net/@vkc/112905487325…
And here's the post on 'The Ventoy conspiracy": linuxmom.net/@vkc/112906968594…
Well, it is an "ah-ha, see!" moment, because it shows the benefit of open source.
Its more like pointing at the absence of a glacier on a mountaintop and saying "yep, see, climate change does exist"
Yes, and that’s what is being called out here. But your original comment makes it sound like you are advocating for closed source software and that somehow open source software is bad.
This is the system working as intended. When potential issues arise, it’s openly discussed and ideally resolved. And if not, trust is lost and people will stop using it.
I don't know about the history of the project, but it sounds like those blobs have been there for quite some time. When in reality, the PR that added the blobs in the first place shouldn't ever have been approved.
Actually just checked 3+ years.
are you sure?
there could be thousands just waiting for a failure to come out and say “HEY THIS IS DODGY”
Yea because I tested it myself. Nobody else seems to care, and if they did, I would think there would be a public way to see regular test results regardless.
I know this exists for some projects, but somehow nothing privacy-sensitive
Even then, he's still allowed to provide binary blobs. He doesn't have to provide it as source code. If that was the case, we'd all have to build from source and package managers like apt, dnf and flatpak wouldn't exist.
All he has to do is make the source code available, i.e. just link back to the original Github Repo.
Only kind of. That’s a backronym.
If you don't like it, ~~don't use~~ fork Ventoy.
You think they’d call up devs who left them just to ask if they happen to know about a random file?
I mean, that’s what op said happened. Literally with the verbiage of “file we found” and not “file you committed”
Actually you can and should Gordon Ramsey all over it. It is the duty of audience members to express how they feel honestly about the artwork.
Open Source can and do understand that and open source software becomes better for it.
Yes, that's why im saying that this kind of problem isn't something particular about this project.
In fact I'm not sure if it's the case that the builds aren't reproducible/verifiable for these binaries in ventoy. And if they aren't, then I think it's in the upstream projects where it should be fixed.
Of course ventoy should try to provide traceability for the specific versions they are using, but in principle I don't think it should be a problem to rely on those binaries if they are verifiable.. just the same way as we rely on binaries for many dynamic libraries in a lot of distributions. After all, Ventoy is closer to being an OS/distribution than a particular program.
Is this not rude:
I checked the code and I’m appalled. There are more BLOBs than source code
No. The commenter is voicing their own feelings and explains why they have them. There is neither blaming nor rudeness here.
And this:
I understand that removing BLOBs isn’t a priority over new and shiny features. But due to recent events, this should be rethought.
It would have been nice if you had explained why you think this is rude. The author expresses understanding that the maintainers’ priorities don’t align with the author’s. This seems to be an uncontroversial statement to me.
Then the author explains (I agree, it’s more a hint than an explanation) why they think the priorities should be changed. In my view their argument is sound. Again, there is no blaming or rudeness here.
They should have opened with a complement
I assume you mean “compliment”.
I’ve often heard of the “sandwich technique” – start with a compliment, then voice criticism, end with another positive thing. I find this is an appropriate procedure when voicing open feedback, that is, good things and bad things. However, this is a Github issue. Its whole point is to point out a perceived problem, not to give the maintainers a pat on the back or thank them.
maybe everyone here is just a rude little shit.
Or maybe you’re just a snowflake that can’t handle criticism.
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in reply to 7uWqKj • • •I've never actually done it, because the only extension I use is Blur My Shell, and the dev is so quick at updating that extension that even when I immediately update to a beta release it's already marked as compatible, but here it is:
gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation trueAnd if you want to revert back to normal and have extensions be validated again:
gsettings reset org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validationI don't know if there's a GUI way to do it in one of the extension management platforms, I've never really looked
infeeeee
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in reply to John • • •Still just experimental fractional scaling...
I don't think the rounded circles for buttons in the file dialog looks good, but that's hopefully just the default theme.
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in reply to 1984 • • •Yeah, strange design choice since the other buttons in theUI are not pill shaped.
Aside from that things look very nice.
1984
in reply to threeganzi • • •Yeah I think that round shape looks seriously out of place. You would never see something like that outside of gnome, in any app.
But alright, it is what it is.
Ham Strokers Ejacula
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