Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades? (alt: Eliezer Masliah's papers under investigation)
A Science News report about Dr. Eliezer Masliah (who held a highly important role at the National Institute of Aging), a 300-page dossier composed of misconducts at his lab, as well as followups... Featuring everyone's favorite research integrity sleuths (Elizabeth Bik, Mu Yang, "Cheshire", ...) and more.
Post URL points to archive.org due to soft paywall on Science News. Here's the original link
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Tasmota Nous Sockets mit Python verwalten
Erster Schritt in der Häusle-Tech war es, die meisten Sachen im Haus an Tasmota Nous A1T Steckdosen anzustecken. Das Besondere an diesen Dingern ist, dass sie eine eigene IP Addresse haben, mit der man sie in Home Assistant einbinden kann oder halt auch mit einem sehr einfachen Python script steuern kann.
Erstmal das Script:
#!/path/to/.venv/bin/pythonimport sysimport requestsimport jsonsys.path.append("/path/to/.venv/lib/")SOCKETS = [ {"ip": "192.168.1.2", "alias": "Socket One (Mikka's Room)"}, # Add more sockets with IP addresses and aliases as needed]def control_sockets(command): if command not in ["on", "off", "toggle"]: print("Invalid command. Use 'on','off', or 'toggle'.") return for socket in SOCKETS: ip = socket["ip"] alias = socket["alias"] url = f"http://{ip}/cm?cmnd=Power%20{command.capitalize()}" try: response = requests.get(url, timeout=5) if response.status_code == 200: print(f"Successfully turned {command} socket '{alias}' at {ip}") else: print(f"Failed to turn {command} socket '{alias}' at {ip}. Status code: {response.status_code}") except requests.RequestException as e: print(f"Error communicating with socket '{alias}' at {ip}: {e}")def get_power_usage(ip): url = f"http://{ip}/cm?cmnd=Status%208" try: response = requests.get(url, timeout=5) if response.status_code == 200: data = response.json() today = data.get('StatusSNS', {}).get('ENERGY', {}).get('Today', 0) yesterday = data.get('StatusSNS', {}).get('ENERGY', {}).get('Yesterday', 0) total = data.get('StatusSNS', {}).get('ENERGY', {}).get('Total', 0) return today, yesterday, total else: print(f"Failed to get usage data from {ip}. Status code: {response.status_code}") except requests.RequestException as e: print(f"Error communicating with socket at {ip}: {e}") return None, None, Nonedef show_usage(): total_today = 0 total_yesterday = 0 total_all_time = 0 for socket in SOCKETS: ip = socket["ip"] alias = socket["alias"] today, yesterday, total = get_power_usage(ip) if today is not None: print(f"{alias}:") print(f" Today: {today:.2f} kWh") print(f" Yesterday: {yesterday:.2f} kWh") print(f" Total: {total:.2f} kWh") print() total_today += today total_yesterday += yesterday total_all_time += total print("Total usage across all sockets:") print(f" Today: {total_today:.2f} kWh") print(f" Yesterday: {total_yesterday:.2f} kWh") print(f" All-time: {total_all_time:.2f} kWh")if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) != 2: print("Usage: tasmota <on|off|toggle|usage>") sys.exit(1) command = sys.argv[1].lower() if command == "usage": show_usage() else: control_sockets(command)
So geht’s:
- Script kopieren und in eine Text-Datei in einem Folder irgendwo ablegen.
- In dem Folder ein Terminal aufmachen und ein Python Virtual Environment anlegen
- (Sich merken wo das ist)
requestsinstallieren (pip install requests)- Im Script den Pfad im Hashbang und im sys.path anpassen und das Gemerkte oben einfügen.
- IP Addressen und Aliase angeben
- Script ausführbar machen (chmod u+x oder ug+x)
- Script soft in den Pfad verlinken
- Profit
Achtung: Die Tasmota API hat keine zusätzliche Sicherung durch Passwort. Wenn Du also nicht willst, dass Jede:r, der in Deinem Netzwerk ist, Deine Sachen an und ausschalten kann, solltest Du die Dinger in ein eigenes, per ACL gesichertes Subnetz einlegen. In meinem Fall kann nur mein Handy, mein Computer, und der Home Assistant auf dieses Netz zugreifen.
Viel Spaß.
Sapo3, a tui audiobook generator, in Bash
gitlab.com/christosangel/sapo3
- Sapo3 is a suite of scripts-tools that can help the user convert a text
file to an audio file. - It uses the tts-edge API for text-to-speech conversion.
- Big txt files can be easily converted to audio books, using a wide
range of customization capabilities.
When the user runs Sapo3, they will be presented with a menu of options:
o option: Fix name pronunciation with Fix Names
c option: Split text to chapters with Chapterizev option: Convert File to audiof option: Check every sentence outcome with Fix Audio option.
m option: Merging Audio Filesp option: Configuring Preferences
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Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS
There's been talk of this unauthenticated RCE vulnerability coming with a CVSS 9.9 rating but none of the technical details were publicly known until it was made public just now at the top of the hour. Simone Margaritelli discovered this vulnerability and has shared a write-up around this potentially very impactful Linux vulnerability.This vulnerability, fortunately, doesn't affect the Linux kernel but rather CUPS... The print server commonly used on Linux systems and other platforms.
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From Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I:
"A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer)."
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This remote code execution issue can be exploited across the public Internet via a UDP packet to port 631 without needing any authentication, assuming the CUPS port is open through your router/firewall. LAN attacks are also possible via spoofing zeroconf / mDNS / DNS-SD advertisements.Besides CUPS being used on Linux distributions, it also affects some BSDs, Oracle Solaris, Google Chrome OS, and others.
As of writing there is no Linux fix available for this high profile security issue. In the meantime it's recommended to disable and remove the "cups-browsed" service, updating CUPS, or at least blocking all traffic to UDP port 631.
Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS
There's been much speculation since this morning over a reported 'severe' unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting Linux systems that carries a CVSS 9.9.9 score..www.phoronix.com
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Looks like a number of patches are landing in Ubuntu to address this: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sou…
Update: CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available
Remember when printers were connected by a USB cable?
Also, sudo ss -tunlp to see what ports are listening on your system and which applications/services use them. (Linux)
ss -K closes dead ports
If you didn't explicitly open a port, ask why it needs to be open (listening). (25, 22, 67, 53,5353)
Make sure what you did open is opened at the right addresses. Ie localhost, 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1, etc for the purpose.
Use a firewall and block ALL incoming traffic.
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Wasn't it supposedly affecting ALL Gnu/Linux PLUS others?
That's so weird that my GNU/Linux isn't affected by this vulnerability...
Next time that margarine is going to scream "wolf", I will take it with a grain of salt...
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So if Cups is properly sandboxes this is less of an issue? Still not good but not show stopping
I don't think this is 9.9 worthly
Update:
You can use this to get a shell as the lp service user
Not according to RedHat, who I trust a hell of a lot more than a Phoronix article that cites a blog post.
CVE-2024-47176 cups-browsed (7.5)
CVE-2024-47076 cups-filter libcupsfilters (8.2)
CVE-2024-47175 libppd cups cups-filter (7.7)
CVE-2024-47177 cups-filters foomatic (6.1)
the reporter is a real asshat, judging by their twitter.
first:
then, later:
Yep. Also claimed "it affects all GNU/Linux" while it only really does CUPS and so on.
Just alone full disclosure is a shit thing to do. Do not even mention the part where it was intended as a responsible disclosure.
Wtf???? "All GNU/Linux"???? This guy made me think Linus personally had to descend to Kernel-land and fix perhaps the most horrendous memory bug in existence. But no, surely CUPS IS ON EVERY MACHINE, RIGHT??????????
Fuck you to whoever blew this out of proportion.
Yup, called it: non-mandatory piece of software. Plus you have to have been dumb enough to deliberately forward the port at your router for the general-case attack, and you have to print something (which I do maybe twice a month) for any command injection to take place.
This does need to be patched, since there is some risk if you have CUPS running and another device on your LAN has already been compromised, but it's definitely not the earthshattering kaboom the discoverer misrepresented it as.
No port forwarding needed when the ISP provides a proper IPv6 subnet.
Normal IPv6 router advertisement will then provide a public reachable address for every IPv6 capable device.
But with the size of IPv6 it makes searching for that not really easy, so it only a small attack vector.
They only used NAT as firewall, so without configured port forwarding nothing could be reached with IPv4.
But for IPv6: If you know the IPv6 for any system on the local network it is free available on all ports.
It is the first thing I check when someone asks me to check their network or configure their internet, and only Fritz!Box have a sane default for IPv6 (but to be honest my other experiences are mostly with shitty Vodafone and german Telekom routers so it is a very limited set, and I really hope that most others are better.)
Hmm, never had cups-browsed enabled as I do not need network printing with LDAP or legacy cups. Discovery using DNS-SD/mDNS and driverless printing work perfectly fine without it.
I am not sure if the driverless discovery ever can generate a PPD with arbitrary commands.
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Entirely personal recommendation, take it or leave it: I’ve seen and attacked enough of this codebase to remove any CUPS service, binary and library from any of my systems and never again use a UNIX system to print. I’m also removing every zeroconf / avahi / bonjour listener. You might consider doing the same.
Great advice. It would appear these developers don’t take security seriously.
Mdns is something most people have no idea exists.
Oh, neat, all my devices broadcast all their open ports, services, addresses, hardware and names? Cool!
No.
It depends. If you're using a laptop and say you take it to university or work then you're not on your LAN. You're on someone else's LAN and they may have no interest in trying to stop these types of attacks via any kind of client isolation or it may be incomplete.
I can imagine it's a very normal scenario for university students to have CUPS running and available on all networks as they may need to print at their university.
They're standardised zeroconnf protocols. Apple was part of the early development.
Bonjour is the apple implementation for mDNS.
Avahi is the GPL compliant implementation.
mDNS, llmnr (ms developed), have been known for ages to be vulnerable.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-c…
*I don't like apple
cups-browsed <= 2.0.1 binds on UDP INADDR_ANY:631 trusting any packet from any source
Well that would explain why I didn't have it installed (although I did have other parts of cups until jwz coincidentally reminded us two days ago that it can all be removed if you don't have a printer.) I clear out anything that opens ports I don't need to be open. A practice I would recommend to anyone.
BRB.
sudo apt purge cups
Done. This should not even be part of baseline Ubuntu desktop. Speaking for myself but I have not had a printer for about 15 years. The paperless office really did become reality.
About 25 years for me.
For most people it's a better option to use a local print shop for the odd times that they need something printed.
More options for printing too.
I mean, OK, it's a vulnerability and there are interesting implications, but this is hardly significant in any pracitcal sense of the word.
the potential victim has to run their system without a firewall, has to print to the printer they've never interacted with before and then the attacker can run shit with whatever the printing system's user id is, which shouldn't be an issue on any reasonably modern distro.
I routinely remove cups and friends from any system I run because I have no need for printing and it bothers me to see it constantly during every system upgrade.
Worse than the exploit, is hearing the struggles the author faced to report it
Twenty-two days of arguments, condescension, several gaslighting attempts, more or less subtle personal attacks, dozens of emails and messages, more than 100 pages of text in total. Hours and hours and hours and hours and fucking hours. Not to mention somehow being judged by a big chunk of the infosec community with a tendency of talking and judging situations they simply don’t know.
Until then it is only a binary sitting in a folder, nothing more.
And cups-browsed can't only be bind to localhost, it would defeat the whole purpose of that tool. For it to be able to find other printers in the network it needs to be bound to a non-localhost-IP address.
So, not much to sandbox
Tor and Tails Merge to Fight Global Surveillance and Censorship
Tor and Tails Merge to Fight Global Surveillance and Censorship
Tor Project & privacy-focused Tails Linux distro join forces to boost global internet freedom and enhance online privacy.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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According to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(o…
Tails was first released on June 23, 2009. It is the next iteration of development on Incognito, a discontinued Gentoo-based Linux distribution.[9] The original project was called Amnesia. The operating system was born when Amnesia was merged with Incognito.[10] The Tor Project provided financial support for its development in the beginnings of the project.[8] Tails also received funding from the Open Technology Fund, Mozilla, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.[11]
Open Technology Fund
Which is funded by US Congress, and they also funded Signal.
For those do not wish to use privacy-related projects funded by a world government, what is a good (in your opinion) alternative? Both with and without Tor involvement (since US govt funded that too).
Yes I realize encryption, computers and the internet are all also govt-funded, but everyone is free to pick their battles.
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I think any "privacy oriented OS" is inherently a questionable (kneejerk: Stupid and reeks of stale honey) strategy in the first place.
A very good friend of mine is a journalist. The kind of journalist where... she actually deals with the shit the average person online larps and then some. And what I and her colleagues have suggested is the following:
Two flash drives
- One that is a livecd for basically any linux distro. If you are able to reboot the machine you are using and boot to this, do it. That helps with software keyloggers but obviously not hardware
- One that is just a folder full of portable installs of the common "privacy oriented" software (like the tor browser) supporting a few different OS types.
Given the option? Boot the public computer to the live image. Regardless, use the latter to access whatever chat or email accounts (that NEVER are logged into on any machine you "own" or near your home) you need.
... mostly the other way around?
Theoretically it is possible that a compromised machine could compromise a USB stick. If you are at the point where you are having to worry about government or corporate entities setting traps at the local library? You... kind of already lost.
Which is the thing to understand. Most of what you see on the internet is, to borrow from a phrase, Privacy Theatre. It is so that people can larp and pretend they are Steve Rogers fighting a global conspiracy while necking with a hot co-worker at an Apple store. The reality is that if you are actually in a position where this level of privacy and security matters then you need to actually change your behaviors. Which often involves keeping VERY strong disconnects between any "personal" device and any "private" device.
There have been a lot of terrible (but wonderfully written) articles about journalists needing to do this because a government or megacorporation was after them. Stuff like having a secret laptop that they never even take out of a farraday cage unless they are closer than not to an hour away from wherever they are staying that night.
If you are at the point where you are having to worry about government or corporate entities setting traps at the local library? You… kind of already lost.
What about just a blackmailer assuming anyone booting an OS from a public computer has something to hide? And then they have write access and there's no defense, and it doesn't have to be everywhere because people seeking privacy this way will have to be picking new locations each time. An attack like that wouldn't have to be targeted at a particular person.
Don't entirely discount a project only because it is funded by the US government. Do take that as a big yellow flag, but not auto reject. Better to just asses the project for what it is with caution.
I find it much more likely that the US government has a huge interest in giving the public access to secure communication software that would be unbreakable by surveillance from a typical government. Why? Because those are the governments that are enemies of the US, and where the US is interested in regime change. And the existence of this software is much more influential towards regime change in those countries, rather than being threat to the US.
In fact, these softwares are barely a threat to the US. The US has no issue with them existing because they have such a powerful hold on their state.
Yes. In order to launder your dirty traffic, you need to mix it with lots of other traffic. And you need it to be safe to avoid attribution.
The US military (and various 3-letter agencies) needs the service to be secure, provide strong anonymity, and to include a sea of traffic thats mostly not their own
privacy these days is really hard to achieve
Which is exactly why claims like this should be backed with evidence.
COSMIC Alpha 2 Released
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1167059
COSMIC’s Alpha 2 release builds upon that work with functionality built out for Files, additional Settings pages, considerable infrastructure work for screen reader support+, and some highly requested window management features. System76 is ecstatic at the level of excitement and collaboration so far with alpha testers and early app & applet developers, and we look forward to seeing what comes from these new additions.
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The second COSMIC alpha will be released on September 26th. Those participating in Alpha 1 on Pop!_OS can simply update through the COSMIC App Store to transition. This alpha will be followed by monthly alpha releases until all core features have been built out.
More coverage:
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I tried Alpha 1 and it was completely unusable for me (granted I use a tri monitor setup), hopefully this offers an improvement (I will update if it works).
(Edit: it somehow works even worse, now it wont even launch)
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i tried to daily drive it... but it could not handle having all my normal shit open with out blinking etc, games would not play.
going to give it another try. high hopes for cosmic!
I tried Alpha 1 and it was completely unusable
You mean like an alpha version?
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Isn't that already true for QT apps on a gtk desktop and GTK apps on a QT desktop?
In my experience, GTK apps feel pretty good on Cosmic, and it has support for automatically theming them with your Cosmic theme. QT apps feel out of place, but this is an issue I've had on every non-Plasma desktop, because I struggle to get theming to work.
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Android uses forked versions of the Linux kernel, based on Linux LTS versions. They added in Rust support in 2019 and most new code since then has been written in Rust in order to avoid memory safety vulnerabilities. And memory safety vulnerabilities have been significantly down since 2019.
Now that upstream Linux is adopting Rust, we should hopefully see a similar results. Though likely slower than Google (they went all-in on Rust) while upstream Linux new code will seemingly be mainly C for the foreseeable future.
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Now that upstream Linux is adopting Rust,
is it? From what I read the old kernel developers are really opposing it
Bendable non-silicon RISC-V microprocessor - Nature
Semiconductors have already had a very profound effect on society, accelerating scientific research and driving greater connectivity. Future semiconductor hardware will open up new possibilities in quantum computing, artificial intelligence and edge computing, for applications such as cybersecurity and personalized healthcare. By nature of its ethos, open hardware provides opportunities for even greater collaboration and innovations across education, academic research and industry. Here we present Flex-RV, a 32-bit microprocessor based on an open RISC-V instruction set fabricated with indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistors on a flexible polyimide substrate, enabling an ultralow-cost bendable microprocessor. Flex-RV also integrates a programmable machine learning (ML) hardware accelerator inside the microprocessor and demonstrates new instructions to extend the RISC-V instruction set to run ML workloads. It is implemented, fabricated and demonstrated to operate at 60 kHz consuming less than 6 mW power. Its functionality when assembled onto a flexible printed circuit board is validated while executing programs under flat and tight bending conditions, achieving no worse than 4.3% performance variation on average. Flex-RV pioneers an era of sub-dollar open standard non-silicon 32-bit microprocessors and will democratize access to computing and unlock emerging applications in wearables, healthcare devices and smart packaging.
Bendable non-silicon RISC-V microprocessor - Nature
Flex-RV, a 32-bit microprocessor based on an open RISC-V instruction set fabricated with indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistors on a flexible polyimide substrate, enables an ultralow-cost bendable and flexible microprocessor.Nature
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This could be big. The fact that it's sub-dollar, open-source, AND could be put on FlexPCBs opens up a whole lot of applications.
Only concern is the same as for RFID. They end up so cheap they're tossed into landfills or end up in waterways without a second thought. At least there, people are working on biodegradable solutions: bioplasticsnews.com/2020/01/12…
If the Flex-RV people address sustainability, they could have a real winner.
So it's printed on plastic, how's that for dissipating heat?
We can already make processors pretty small, and we could make them in a lot of different form factors, but heat management is probably the trickiest part.
Go back to stock kernel from surface kernel
publication croisée depuis : sh.itjust.works/post/25672147
Hi everyone!For a while, I've been using the surface kernel for my Surface Go using Fedora 40. The other day I tried to clone my installation with Clonezilla to put it on another old computer I had lying around.
It didn't work and I have a suspicion that it didn't because of the surface kernel so I'm trying to use the stock kernel instead.
After a few modifications, usinge uname -a, this is the output I get:
Linux surface-go-fedora-de-guillaume 6.10.10-200.fc40.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Sep 12 18:26:09 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/LinuxWhen using uname -mrs, this is the output I get:
Linux 6.10.10-200.fc40.x86_64 x86_64Can someone with more knowledge than me confirm that everything is back to stock form as I don't know if the SMP PREEMPT thing shoud be there? Doe's anyone know if the Surface Kernel is probably what prevented me from cloning my installation and putting it on another computer?
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That looks like a normal kernel to me. The mention of the surface is the hostname which comes from /etc/hostname.
Exactly how does it not work? Does the kernel even try to boot? Tried verbose mode?
You might need to regenerate your initramfs for the new hardware, I think on Fedora that's Dracut? That usually does include machine specific drivers that needs to be available during early boot, but just regenerating it should fix that.
Well to be honest I don’t remember exactly how it didn’t work on my other computer since it was months ago.
I just want to future proof the ability to clone my Surface Go install on any future computer just in case.
Well I’ve tried again with a new image from my Surface Go that I’ve just created with Clonezilla. All I’m getting is a black screen with — on the left side without anything happening.
The computer I’m trying to clone the image on is an old Acer Aspire 5737z.
After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance
TL;DR:
Pilot Project Conclusion: The Swiss Federal Chancellery’s Mastodon instance pilot project, launched in September 2023, has ended as the conditions for continuation were not met.Low Engagement: The six official accounts on Mastodon had around 3500 followers in total, with low engagement rates compared to other platforms like X and Instagram.
User Decline: The number of active Mastodon users globally is decreasing, contributing to the decision to end the project.
Closure: The social.admin.ch instance will be closed at the end of the month.
Article translated in English :
Confederation closes its Mastodon instance
Bern, 25.09.2024 - Since September 2023, the Federal Chancellery has been operating a Mastodon instance for the federal administration.
The pilot project, limited to one year, ends today as the conditions for its continuation have not been met.
As part of their statutory information mandate, the Federal Council and the federal administration have also been communicating on social media for many years and are constantly examining whether platforms not used until now are eligible.
In September 2023, the Conference of Federal Information Services decided to launch a pilot project on the decentralised Mastodon platform.
The Federal Chancellery then opened the social.admin.ch instance, on which members of the Federal Council and departments could manage official accounts. The pilot project was limited to one year.
Mastodon has useful features for government communication. Thanks to its decentralised organisation, the platform is not subject to the control of a single company or to any state censorship. Its source code is open, it complies with data protection and is not driven by algorithms.
Too few active users
On the social.admin.ch instance, three departments managed five accounts, and the Federal Chancellery managed one account for the entire Federal Council. The six accounts of the Confederation had around 3,500 subscribers in total.
On platforms such as X or Instagram, the Federal Council and the Federal Administration reach many more subscribers with comparable accounts.
In addition, the contributions of the Mastodon accounts of the Federal Council and the Federal Administration have rather low engagement rates (likes, shares, comments).
Finally, the number of active users of Mastodon worldwide is once again falling.
The Conference of Information Services of the Confederation therefore considers that the conditions for continuing the pilot project have not been met, and activities on the Mastodon accounts of the Federal Council and the federal administration are suspended as of today.
The social.admin.ch instance will be closed at the end of the month.
Bund schliesst seine Mastodon-Instanz
Aktuelle Informationen aus der Verwaltung. Alle Medienmitteilungen der Bundesverwaltung, der Departemente und Ämter.www.admin.ch
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How do you mean? It's majorly US centric, and that was part of why Mastodon worked better as a Twitter-replacement here in the EU at first.
But as always, something like Reddit or Twitter benefits from centralization, as far as user interactions go. So slowly, people drift to whatever the single largest alternative is when they leave the current status quo, and in alternative-Twitter-land, this seems to be either Threads or Bluesky, and their cases are fairly incomparable.
Doesn't make it the perfect solution, but like always in Engineering, the perfect solution is rarely the best one.
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If you speak Portuguese maybe.
I did some tests here, setting up my browser config to show content preferably in Italian, then German, then Portuguese, then English. It showed something like 5~10 posts in English for each post in Portuguese. (No content was shown in either Italian or German, so odds are that Bluesky doesn't even take the browser config into account.)
Granted, for most Portuguese speakers it should be 7:00 now, so it might be worth repeating the test for the later afternoon, dunno, 18:00 or so. Or in the weekend.
Repeated the test now (Friday, 18:30); same lang settings as above. Couldn't find a single post in Portuguese after rolling across ~30 of them.
x.com and twitter.com are still inaccessible here.
Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.
Until they run out of VC money.
Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.
Yeah, not unlikely. Can't truly know ahead of time of course, but it feels like that would eventually happen. I wish governments in particular had jumped harder onto Mastodon, slowly moving attention there.
But it's probably also difficult to justify, because from their perspective it's just one "someone else's solution" vs another. They'd have to first make their own twitter like fediverse software I bet.
The EU at least is still sticking around, which is cool.
I have to say I'm a believer in slow growth here. It wouldn't be good if one Mastodon server completely dominated; neither would it be good if Mastodon as a software was the only viable alternative. Right now we're in a great spot where a bunch of different solutions are being developed.
I think this development is healthy, and it be depends on slower more organic growth. And it might not be a linear process, but eventually I believe activitypub integration will be as obvious as having an RSS feed. Doesn't matter much if it takes a while to get there.
On that note it would be good if governments didn't just sometimes use Mastodon, but rather integrate activitypub into their actual web sites.
I don’t know where they got their numbers, to me it feels like they needed an excuse to cut costs.
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FediDB reports that the Mastodon active user count is on the decline the last year, from more than. 1.2 million to 820k thousand. The number seems to maybe stabilize a little, but it appears as a slow decline when studying the last year.
Then again, this is following from a huge bump of new users with the twitter exodus. It's natural that not all will stick around, so a decline in active user now is not so surprising. It does indicate a lack of ability to move the momentum, but it's an open source project with very limited funding, not a venture capital startup. It's not here for explosive growth.
Furthermore, the number of Mastodon users is not a perfect measure. If it was matched by a huge number of users on gotosocial or misskey, it wouldn't really matter. The Swiss should maybe have waited for Threads to federate both ways before deciding to leave on account of limited interactions.
Anyway, they're not entirely wrong to say Mastodon is on the decline. But they're not entirely right either.
Just for the record, I know little about gotosocial, but I've looked into Misskey a fair bit and I think it's irrelevant here.
FediDB data on active users seems off (a low ~12k MAU), but even if the real number is much greater, most are on the flagship instance (misskey.io) which has multiple CSAM censures on fediseer.
Put another way, it's almost counterproductive to include Misskey in these topics because simply federating with its biggest instance could be a liability for most 1st world western instances.
I doubt the Swiss government would get much out of Misskey.
I just mentioned them because they're microblog sites, so in theory they do the exact same thing as Mastodon. The number of Mastodon users doesn't matter; the number of people on Fediverse platforms compatible with Mastodon matters.
So Lemmy users are not very helpful, but Mbin users maybe more so. Or Friendica.
The point is just that the number of Mastodon users is, in theory, irrelevant, as you don't just communicate with Mastodon users. Maybe misskey was a bad example, I don't know anything about it.
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Is your reading comprehension broken or something? I even gave you a freaking range of scenarios. I'm literally using mbin for various parts of the Fediverse, including Lemmy and Mastodon. I think I have a pretty good grasp of it.
Simple! According to this thread, it is:
- an arbitrary standard of censorship
- nonexistent
- constant abuse of power
- the Chinese Communist Party
It doesn't even need to make sense on a conceptual level!
The Fediverse is not one thing. It's a bunch of different sites that are interconnected. You can join a site that has strict moderation, or you can join one that has no moderation at all.
Personally, I'm not here because I think moderation on Instagram and X is too active. Rather to the contrary.
For better or worse, the moderation policies of Lemmy.world is seen as "the fediverse".
Almost everyone decided to use that instance, so... It's the default choice still.
Then again, the only person in these comments actually using lemmy.world seemed pretty happy with his experience.
It would be nice if people had an easier way of knowing the level of moderation before joining a server. One idea could be for services like Fediverser could include an indicator of moderation level - for example "relaxed" if few instances are defederated, "moderate" if moderation is more active, and "strict" for more restrictive communities. Data from Fediseer might be useful in this regard.
That way the people fleeing Reddit because of censorship would know where to go, and the rest of us wouldn't have to be bothered by them unless we really wanted to.
The biggest problem, I guess, is that it's a lot of work, and I certainly don't have the time nor skill-set required. So people will just have to read their instance rules. :)
Depends on what you get moderated for. I once posted a question about trans people and I got banned from some Lemmy.ml community because they thought I was trolling them. I wasn't.
It's just sometimes hard for moderators to know what kind of person they are dealing with. But someone's posting history is usually enough to see if they are trolling or not.
Also what is trolling. It's supposed to mean that you intentionally upset people for fun. How can anyone know if it's intentionally or not. To some people, asking a question is trolling because they don't see why anyone would ask that if they didn't try to upset people.
So.. It's interesting.
The thing is, i think social media today has created a lot of censorship out of necessity. There are people out there who just aren't mature or intelligent enough to have a conversation without insulting or pushing people down.
And because of they, we all suffer. We get over-moderated, we get called trolls etc.
I think I would like a platform where people actually have to act like adults. But that's hard. Hacker news have kind of made it, but they are also well known for not being open minded at all.
Moderation is when you take down material because the recipient doesn't want to see it. Censorship is when you take down content because you don't want the recipient to see it, regardless of how the recipient feels about it.
— vintermann, Hacker News
— vintermann, Hacker News
I don't know who this person is, but adding "Hacker News" doesn't give their words more credibility. It gives them less, if anything.
Imagine I quoted someone and, underneath it, added:
— PM_ME_UR_FEET, Reddit
Both of these enjoy the same level of base, intrinsic trust to me: none.
The arbitrary standard for the censorship in Fediverse is extremely bad.
"The pirates code... Be more like... guidelines."
You can always make your own instance and moderate your own comments.
Be aware that no one is forced to keep federated with your instance.
"We've also closed the wheelchair ramps as the stairs are more popular."
Sometimes avoiding corporatism or maintaining your privacy feels like an accessibility issue (I'm looking at you, open source projects who direct their community to Discord).
It's accessibility, and it's also sovereignty.
Another way of rephrasing this decision is "we have decided to stop publishing information on our official website, as we receive more interaction on X". Which is pretty questionable.
(I'm looking at you, open source projects who direct their community to Discord)
This is surprisingly very common. Even for stuff that prioritise privacy. The interesting part is why discord is kept under the covers by everyone - despite its security offences, and anti-user practices.
There isn't much talk about discord like there is about browsers. However, it might be just an undeveloped branch of the oss community.
A good quality open source "federated discord" would be as important as lemmy or mastadon. But there isn't much hype around it. Afaik matrix is still far behind discord quality wise and the architecture has limitations for anonymity and encryption.
Discord is just high quality and so easy to use because making a server is so easy.
As a disabled person I don’t think that’s a fair comparison to use.
People on mastodon have a choice, it’s an awful choice which comes with privacy and contributing to corporate trash, being advertised at non-stop compromises, which in my opinion no one should have to make.
But you can still see it. Disabled people just straight up can’t use the stairs. It’s not that it’s a shit compromise for us. It’s that we are physically unable too.
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I dunno. You could throw yourself down the stairs. It's an awful choice, but you could still do it...
The point is, a choice with all kinds of negative consequences to it isn't really a choice.
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Agreed. By @FundMECFSResearch's distinction, you (well, Americans) could choose to not pay taxes. You literally are able to not do it. Of course, you then have to deal with the consequences, but it falls in the same category of "optional."
Gender-affirming surgery is "optional." Eating food other than cat food is optional. Simply having the ability to make a choice between two options is not sufficient to justify saying both options are satisfactory.
Yes definitely for hard of hearing and hard of sight people it can be an accessibility issue. I’m mostly deaf myself.
But comparing the situation for abled people in the way it was above doesn’t really work.
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Switzerland doesn't have the same sheet weight Brazil has.
And it probably doesn't wants to ruffle big US tech companies with so many having their big European HQs in Zurich.
It's still operating for now, right? Because if I look at random government pages in a browser that profile that doesn't block the social media widgets I can see links to facebook, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, youtube, and threema. There seems to be no mention anywhere that a mastodon server exists.
They're complaining about the low number of users. Did they bother to tell people that it exists?
But yes I'm very annoyed that they didn't share much of the instance outside a small notification on the admin.ch website.
But the goal of this whole pilot test is that if Mastodon became big within the year, they would already have an instance running with officials accounts. But instead I guess they will focus on Bluesky.
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Decisions like these are why they can't move away from proprietary platforms. How much does it really cost to host and maintain this? A single employee could host a mastodon, peertube, and lemmy instance. The employee could also work full-time on one of the projects to address issues.
They also only had 6 accounts on the instance - out of how many politicians and bureaus?
Anyway... shame.
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The main cost is probably the extra workload put on their social media team having to publish to and interact with even more platforms.
While it's nice, I also don't think the government should spend time and money on a platform that people obviously don't use much.
The main cost is probably the extra workload put on their social media team having to publish to and interact with even more platforms.
They've yet to be caught actually interacting with someone. They've run the whole instance as nothing but a shoutbox.
The Fediverse is not only Lemmy and Mastodon. Even the microblogging side is not only Mastodon.
Mastodon itself has a whole bunch of forks such as Ecko, Hometown and the very popular Glitch.
There's also Pleroma with its probably even more popular fork Akkoma.
There's Misskey with literally dozens of forks, including but not limited to Firefish (formerly Calckey), Iceshrimp (its rewrite Iceshrimp.NET won't be a fork anymore, though), Sharkey, CherryPick, Catodon etc. etc.
If you want something with more power, something that's much more like Facebook, there's Friendica and has been since 2010.
If you want something with vastly more power, think Facebook meets WordPress meets Google Cloud Services meets Fandom etc., there's Hubzilla. Whenever someone thinks "the Fediverse" needs to introduce a certain new feature just because Mastodon doesn't have it, chances are Hubzilla has had it for longer than Mastodon has even been around.
And so forth.
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The irony is that all it would take is one high profile person or a nation state to commit to using Mastodon, and slowly you would see the numbers start to increase.
Um, nope.
George Takei is on Mastodon. I've yet to see masses of Trekkies piling into Mastodon.
Greta Thunberg is on Mastodon. There has never been a huge influx of FFF members. Or Zoomers, for that matter.
The Dutch government has its own instance. The Federal German government has its own instance. Doesn't lure anyone into the Fediverse.
Do you explain the Internet to your grandparents by explaining HTTP first?
Sorry to say, but the Fediverse would be a great deal smaller if it wasn't for millions of Twitter users who were railroaded straight to mastodon.social, not knowing anything about it except that it's allegedly "literally twitter without musk".
There are still people who have been on Mastodon since shortly after Musk bought Twitter out, and who shit brix upon discovering for the first time that the Fediverse is, in fact, surprisingly, who woulda thunk it, not only Mastodon.
These people wouldn't be here, had their introduction to the Fediverse started with an explanation of ActivityPub.
not as normie as threads I think.
I really struggle to find good accounts to follow on bluesky, and most of the french accounts/content are inactive for months (I even have a better content/experience on mastodon since they federated w/ threads and flipboard).
But beyond mastodon, it's really sad that they leave the fediverse for now, hope they'll comeback one day or another (on mastodon or any other plateform)
The six accounts of the Confederation had around 3,500 subscribers in total.
Seriously, what did they expect?
As many followers as they've built up in the Birdcage? With maybe 1% of users altogether? In a much shorter timespan?
And by running the accounts as pure shoutboxes with no interaction with replies that could just as well be unmarked crossposter bots?
NASA’s latest discovery about Earth deemed ‘as important as gravity’
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Key Points
- A rocket team reports the first successful detection of Earth’s ambipolar electric field: a weak, planet-wide electric field as fundamental as Earth’s gravity and magnetic fields.
- First hypothesized more than 60 years ago, the ambipolar electric field is a key driver of the “polar wind,” a steady outflow of charged particles into space that occurs above Earth’s poles.
- This electric field lifts charged particles in our upper atmosphere to greater heights than they would otherwise reach and may have shaped our planet’s evolution in ways yet to be explored.
It's just an electric field man, we create those all the time. The interesting part is that we figured out how this field is created that causes the outflow of particles at the poles. That outflow has been known for a long time, the field has been theorized to exist for a long time (how else would the outflow occur?), they've now just confirmed it does in fact work the way they thought it worked.
While this is cool science and very interesting for people that study for example geology, it isn't changing the world or anything. Don't let your head be turned by sensationalist media. This isn't new physics, the field is very weak and it's a normal EM field just like the ones we use every day all day.
In principle it's possible to launch something into space using an EM field. That's called a rail gun and the military has prototypes that shoot projectiles at hypersonic speeds. However due to the forces and currents involved, the thing is massive, requires a whole lot of power and cooling and as a bonus self destructs after one or two shots. The acceleration also means that it's great for shooting at stuff and destroying it, but not that useful for transport.
A rocket on the other hand can be very small (the Electron rocket is only 14 meters and can put 300kg into LEO), easy to transport, easy to maintain and fuel and with a much smaller chance of self destructing. Thus we use rockets to put stuff into orbit.
Beyond the solar system is totally impossible with our current tech. Voyager 1 and 2 might be considered interstellar probes, but they are tiny and took 50 years to get there. And they are going so slow, that while they have left our solar system, they aren't really going anywhere. It will take them tens of thousands of years to even make it to the Oort cloud of our solar system, which by some metrics is still inside our solar system. We are currently struggling getting humans to the moon for a few days, so beyond the solar system is firmly in the realm of fiction.
Exceptionellt varmt i Östersjön. På sina ställen i Östersjön är vattentemperaturerna flera grader över vad som kan anses vara normalt. I Finska viken har har havstemperaturen i september varit fyra till fem grader över det normala.
Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blogwww.phoronix.com
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I mean, the extension system means we could easily fix it
If that's the case, then why not do it? Apparently the people who actually worked on X11 had a different idea, and so they decide not to do it themselves - but the code is right there for those who do think that that's a good approach.
I haven't switched to Wayland yet cuz I'm stuck with a GT 710, which only supports the 470 series driver, which... Doesn't really run Wayland. Hopefully some day, I'll get my hands on a Radeon GPU and then fully migrate to Wayland, cuz my laptop already rocks it with Sway and, no complains at all
(I know about it having EGLStreams support which only GNOME uses, but it has no GBM support, which... well, all other compositors uses)
Its Ubuntu 24.04. When I started it, it took quite awhile and then said "there as a problem, please log out".
Now that I've got it started (where I'm posting from now), it still refuses to arrange my monitors. And I have no idea what this 5th, 13.3" monitor is supposed to be.
It looks like my issues are related to this hardware. I guess that's understandable. I thought this hardware would be transparent to the OS, and apparently it's not.
If I hit apply here, it will fail and put them back in a line. I'll also get around 4 fps and no cursor on the additional monitors.
I personally think it is a very bad idea to "speed run development" of protocols. This will only lead to broken designs which will then cause each desktop top do things differently.
Wayland protocol development is slow and heavily debated in order to make sure everyone is happy implementing them. You want all desktop to use the same spec and this could lead to additional desktop specific protocols which would totally break compatibility.
In short, this is a really bad idea and should be rejected by everyone
I personally think it is a very bad idea to “speed run development” of protocols.
Stalling the development of protocols for nearly a decade is bad, too.
They should talk and meet somewhere between “Just develop in production!” and “I personally dislike it for non-technical reasons, so I will block it for everyone!”
That already happens constantly and I'd consider this the consequence of it, rather than the cause. You can only issue so many vetoes before people no longer want to deal with you and would rather move on.
The recent week of Wayland news (including the proposal from a few hours ago to restate NACK policies) is starting to feel like the final attempt to right things before a hard fork of Wayland. I've been following wayland-protocols/devel/etc from the outside for a year or two and the vibes have been trending that way for a while.
No one will use a fork of Wayland. That would be suicide. The Wayland project will continue no matter what other things people are working on. I can see a separate project forming but it strongly doubt it will have any traction.
If you recall back to the days of the yearly internet people said the same thing about TCP/IP
No one will use a fork of Wayland. That would be suicide.
Famous last words ...
I've been waiting for HDR and color management for like 5 years now and it feels like progress is dead in the water and now we've ended up with two custom implementations between KDE and gamescope. Heck, Kodi has supported HDR for ages when running direct to FB.
I know it's tricky but geez, by the time they release an actual protocol extension we'll already have half a dozen implementations that will have to be retooled to the standard, or worse yet we'll have a standard plus a bunch of fiddly incompatible implementations.
HDR is a little more standardized as there was a meeting sponsored by Red hat to work it out
Eventually gnome will get support and maybe some others after that
I personally think it is a very bad idea to "speed run development" of protocols. This will only lead to broken designs which will then cause each desktop top do things differently.
and thus we have slow development which has resulted in absent designs, which has caused each desktop to do things differently to fill the gaps
We need to keep a balance between security and convenience, to avoid systems becoming too awkward to use. Wayland tipped this balance too far on the side of security. Malicious local exploitation of the graphics stack has never been a big issue; consider the fact that someone or something would need to compromise your own account locally, at which point they could do much worse things than moving your windows around. It's not that the security threat doesn't exist, it's that Wayland has approached it at the wrong end and killed a lot of useful functionality in the process.
Also consider that this issue has existed for the entire history of desktop graphics on *nix and nobody has ever deemed it worth to destroy automation for it. If it were such a grave security hole surely someone would have raised the alarm and fixed it during all this time.
My opinion is that Wayland has been using this as a red herring, to bolster its value proposition.
That's exactly the problem. Wayland is a set of standards, more akin to FreeDesktop.Org than to X. It lives and dies by its implementations, and it's so utterly dependent on them that "KDE Wayland" has started to become its own thing. KDE are pretty much forging ahead alone nowadays and when they make changes it becomes the way to do it. Also what they do can't be shared with other desktops because they'd have to use KDE's own subsystems and become dependent on its whims.
It wasn't supposed to be "Kdeland" and "Gnomeland" but that's what it's slowly becoming. We're looking at major fragmentation of the Linux desktop because desktop teams have and do stop seeing eye to eye on major issues all the time. And because there's no central implementation to keep them working together they're free to do their own thing.
[...] mouse following cat
I think I saw something recently about the cursor getting some tweaks in Wayland, I think KDE was working on it? Not sure if it'll help this kind of stuff but they're trying to standardize the cursor a bit better
Yeah the pointer is handled differently so the old packages don't work, and I couldn't find an updated package possibly because no one has bothered to write one yet. It's perfectly understandable and not an issue whatsoever.
Trackpads are handled much better though.
You answered your question of why Wayland exists right after asking it. X sucks. Wayland is a very significant improvement, I'm not sure why you think it's a lateral move.
Also, X works for some cases, but not all, just lime Wayland. Using multiple refresh rates doesnt work well, HDR has no hope of ever working, and fractional scaling is horrible. Wayland has initial support for HDR and great support for the other two.
Good luck!
Now, 12 years later, it still is not production ready.
I use it on both my laptop and my desktop computer. It got better during the last 1-2 years.
While my laptop (13" 1080p screen) is pretty much fine running with Hyprland on an integrated Intel GPU, my desktop computer with a 28" 4K screen scaling is messed up completely and needs tweaking, sometimes down to a per-program base. Sometimes the font is gigantic sometimes I need a microscope to see anything. That was definitely better on X11.
On my desktop I run labwc, that does not come with own functionality regarding this: I just recently got whole-screen video recording and now have to wait likely another year or two for single-window recording. (There is a protocol for this, that took two years to be merged, which is just ridiculous for such a low-level base functionality that should be implemented from the beginning on.)
Other than that, all my common programs are running okay with Wayland.
X11 […] has become an unmaintainable patchwork of additions.
Wayland will be an unmaintainable patchwork of protocols, once it will have the same functionality as X11 has.
I see everyone say this about scaling but I still have tons of issues with it in Wayland. If I scale my 4K 150% to be the same as my 1440p ultra wide monitor in screen height so I can drag across without any borders. It for some reason sets my in game resolution to 5k x 2k instead of 1440p like it should be. Also if the screens go to sleep the windows sizing are all worst of wrong and fucked when awoken. In general just strange and not there yet imo
Edit. Steam doesn’t get scaled either.
People often think that things like recording your screen or keylogging are the worst but they're not. These attacks would require you to be targeted by someone looking for something specific.
Meanwhile automated attacks can copy all your files, or encrypt them (ransomware), search for sensitive information, or use your hardware for bad things (crypto mining, spam, DDoS, spreading the malware further), or most likely all of the above.
Automated attacks are much more dangerous and pervasive because they are conducted at massive scale. Bots scan massive amounts of IPs and try all the known exploits and vulnerabilities without getting tired, without caring how daunting it may be, without even caring if they're trying the right vulnerability against the right kind of OS or app. They just spray everything and see what sticks.
You're thousands of times more likely to be caught by such malware than it is to be targeted by someone with the skill and motive to record your screen or your keyboard.
Secondly, if someone like that targets you and has access to your user account, Wayland won't stop them. They can gain access to your root account, they can install elevated spyware, they can patch Wayland and so on.
What Wayland is doing is the equivalent of asking you to wear a motorcycle helmet 24/7, just in case you slip on some spilled juice, or a flower pot falls on your head, or the bus you're in crashes. All those things are possible and the helmet would come in handy but are they likely? We don't do it because it's not, and it would be a major inconvenience.
Personally I'm still on X because of bspwm, but eventually there will be wayland-only features which will slowly kill X.
No "if", no "would", we are millions of gamers using our (portable) PC with SteamOS running on it for few years now already.
As others have pointed out already, the SteamDeck is exactly that. I even travel with it, use desktop mode with my BT mouse&keyboard with a USB-to-HDMI adapter and work on large screen and do my presentations with video projectors.
If they were to sell a desktop too... well I have a Corsair ONE already, naming a gaming desktop (2080Ti) with a very small footprint and relatively silent. It is not easily upgradable due to how compact it is (but can be done) so if I were to have an equivalent of it from Steam and they were to keep on contributing to FLOSS it would probably be an even easier buy because I trust their RMA and I imagine I wouldn't pay a "Windows tax" with it as it would "only" come with SteamOS.
TL;DR: I'd prepare my credit card.
Didn't work out that well last time. But Valve got a lot better with Hardware since then.
I had an alienware Steam Machine and it was perfectly fine.
I think the criticisms of the Steam Machine suffered from what I would call the Verge Syndrome, which is only being able to comprehend things in a binary of instant success or failure, with no in between and no comprehension of other definitions of success.
Steam Machines were a low risk initiative that were fine for what the were. They did not have a ring of death, they didn't have a blue screen, the OS itself was not glitchy, they didn't lose money, and they didn't fail any stated goals. They got the Proton ecosystem up and running, and got the ball rolling on hardware partnerships, which led to the smash success of the Steam Deck which would not have been otherwise possible.
Cheap ARM Linux laptops with all the gamez, GPIO, RJ-45, interfaces and space for 2-3 SSDs plz. And battery that holds 4 days (without gamez). And a choice between amoled and e-ink display options.
Having typed that, I suppose I won't live to see that. Still, something like RPi or OPi, but with 2 M.2 interfaces, would be sufficient to assemble a convenient enough laptop. EDIT: and upgradeable memory
I love to check on crowdsupply what people can make, take a peek at this pc and laptop section:
Now instead of having Wayland covering everything, applications try to cover every desktops. In the good old times, it worked everywhere.
Why does flameshot need to handle different wayland desktops separately? Because simply the protocol doesn't do it's job. It doesn't cover everything. It's indeed not ready.
Ironically enough just 2 days ago I posted this lemmy.ml/post/20691536/1390695… namely how the 1st thing I do after installing NVIDIA drivers on Debian is disabling Wayland to rely on X11 simply because it doesn't work.
Sadly that's relevant here precisely because if we are talking about Valve it's about gaming, if it's about gaming one simply can't ignore the state of NVIDIA drivers.
So... it might run on 50% on Linux desktops but on mine, which I also game on, it never worked once I had drivers for gaming installed. Consequently I understand "how people are complaining" because that's exactly my experience.
I think this is intentional. Call me paranoid.
Elaboration: we have seen in the past how RedHat's and others' policies would always not reach some part of Linux users, and those users still wouldn't feel as second class citizens - it was just a matter of choice and configuration to avoid PulseAudio, systemd, Gnome 3, one can go on. That was mostly connected to escaping major environments and same applications working the same with all of them. Wayland, while not outright making Gnome the only thing to work, creates a barrier and doesn't make that a firm given anymore.
It won't be too long until using Linux without Wayland will cut you off from many things developed with corporate input - and that's developers' time paid as opposed to donated for or volunteered, so much more effort.
Now, there was a time when there weren't that much corporate input and still things would get done. But it will be hard to fall back to it, when the whole environment, one can say, ecosystem, is so complex and corporate-dependent.
I would say this is the time of all those corps whose investment into Linux was so nice in 00s and 10s reaping what they sowed. This wasn't all for free or to profit on paid support. And people who thought that it's GPL that was such a nice license that "forced" corps to participate in FOSS projects they benefit from, with those projects remaining FOSS, are going to have to face reality.
Fat years are ending, so they are going to capitalize on their investments.
This has already happened with the Web 10 or more years ago, when Facebook, Google and others have suddenly gone Hitler, while now they are in terminal stages of enshittification.
Same process.
You can disagree, no need to insult me.
All I know is that there are VNC and RDP solutions for Plasma and VNC solutions for Wayland in general.
You can autostart anything on any distro by putting the command in a startup script.
That I can understand, however I want to piont out that this is an Nvidia problem entirely. Wayland works perfectly fine under 2/3 hardware vendors.
Luckily, they finally open-sourced their shit so going forward, this will probably change. But chances are only from the 2000 series on, so it might take an upgrade for many folks...
Absolutely, I'm not blaming any Wayland implementation about this, just giving my current situation as an example.
I do so because I imagine it's a popular setup (according to tomshardware.com/news/amd-vs-n… based on ProtonDB data, more than 60% Linux gamers had an NVIDIA GPU) and thus might prevent adoption.
I hope NVIDIA will fix that. Maybe a push from Valve would help.
why is there no replacement for x11 forwarding over ssh??
There kind of is. The project you're looking for is waypipe.
Knowing how these things tend to go, I predict you'll try to use it for your use case and it just won't work for whatever stupid reason. But I successfully used it to tunnel an app from my Debian machine at home to a Windows machine under WSL.
I just yesterday tried Wayland under Arch with a 1070 after a long time. Single WQHD monitor though. Although X11 is really performant, Wayland was more smooth regarding KDE desktop effects. Witcher 3 (via Heroic) showed fewer microstutters and I will try some more proton games and other applications over the weekend.
I recently had to downgrade nvidia drivers from 560 to 550 because wakeup from sleep and hibernate would coredump. I read that this is fixed with 560 but only under Wayland. The developers definitely progressed on the nvidia front.
The screen capture protocol was merged a month ago.
That’s part of my issue I have with Wayland protocols. It was added a month ago. After several years! During research I found discussions ~6 years old, this PR was 2 years old, and superseded a 4 years old other request.
In the meantime some environments implemented that on their own without waiting for the protocol. If I understand correctly: Gnome as well as KDE have implemented it outside the protocol. And Hyprland devs forked wlroots to advance development faster and also add that. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
Since labwc uses wlroots (but is a bit slow with adapting to new versions) it will take quite some time before I can put a checkmark after my last usecase. I am optimistic that it will work. But I accepted that it may take several years to add new functionality and a few months before the functionality arrives in wlroots and at some point after that in labwc.
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Everything that people try to convince me is good about it just feels so counter intuitive. It also looks like it should be touch friendly, but I tried it on steam deck and it just absolutely wasn't. We have decades of touch interface design on phones and tablets yet somehow it's worse than the flop tablets that came before ipad. But to each their own I suppose. Some people absolutely love it and it works for them. That's a big part of open source computing, one can chose the desktop environment with the most unlikeable devs if it makes them happy.
Anyway spin up a vm when you get a chance and try it. Try all of them if you can find the time. I find a lot of them kinda nostalgic and I really like tiling wm's for feeling like a power nerd and making my computer completely unusable to my friends. Mostly I just use kde though.
Gnome is less configurable, and opinionated. If you don’t care about that, and you like how gnome feels… use it.
I can’t wait to see everyone shit on cosmic.
Imagine if all the hours spent shitposting on Lemmy was spent on a single distribution.
The ways people enjoy spending their time are not interchangeable. Or in other words: fosstodon.org/@bragefuglseth/1…
Evolution happens by iteration. Every iteration hopes to be a little bit better by bringing something a little bit differently.
F1 cars are a good example of that. Yet, nobody is going to say F1 from the 90's could compete with today's version.
And, anyway, time well spent for someone is always a waste of time for someone else.
BTW, I want to thank all the Void Linux contributors for that excellent distribution. It has been a while since I changed my main distro.
I was using Debian for 15 years; but sadly it didn't evolved much and something new appeared...
Imagine how much less would get done overall and how many fewer people would participate if we did not let people work on what they wanted to work on.
The only choice left would be to contribute or not and more people would choose not to contribute (probably the choice you have made).
There’s little to know customization outside extensions which are very powerful but prone to breaking. The gone mindset is to support basically one workflow and to make changes as it needs fit regardless of stability. Personally I like this, it prevents things from getting stuck in the past. Plus I’m not one for extreme desktop ricing.
Edit: also I’m a huge fan of declarative systems like nix, and with little to no support for layout config outside of their GUI tool it introduces and unknown variable for me
It’s very minimalist and the project ditched the Windows-style approach some years ago. Personally, I’ve grown to love it and other DEs feel bloated now.
To each their own 🤷♂️
If you use a 27" monitor and a mouse, it makes absolutely no sense. Use KDE für that.
I use KDE in macOS theme, and now it does not at all feel like windows 😄
KDE can be whatever you want, but requires time to configure
Gnome is trying to achieve “it just works”
It just works meaning “use your computer how we think it’s most efficient”
I have to use macOS at work and I sorely miss the efficiency and simplicity of gnome.
I’ve spent a lot of time configuring and tweaking various DEs in the last 20 years, but somehow gnome shell nailed it for me.
Happy to have many options as a Linux user!
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That's probably just Lemmy active user you've heard, as the majority of user for fediverse is from mastodon. 12m is total user for the whole fediverse, active user is around 1m.
Sauce from here: fedidb.org/
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Misskey? 🤔 I heard it's something Japanese? So probably a lot of Japanese fediverse users use it? I don't think I've seen somebody from misskey in my interactions with the fediverse. Are they self-contained or something?
- Multi-community simulator
- Defederation avoidance, usually paired with accounts on special interest servers you don't want to risk losing access to.
- Porn and non-porn.
- Privacy by dividing online activities between multiple accounts to make it difficult to profile you and to maintain some pseudonymity.
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In my case, somewhat chronological order:
- First Mastodon account, on server that is unmaintained but still running.
- Funkwhale
- Mastodon with full name for academic use, on relevant server
- BookWyrm
- Kbin (dead now)
- New Mastodon for hobby interests, as the server of my first account is worthless at this point
- Piefed
- Mbin
- My professional website is in the early stages of federating as well. Still work in progress, but I follow myself and it somewhat works
If a nodebb forum I have an account on decides to federate I might reach double digits.
Edit: I forgot I also have a Pixelfed account! So double digits already.
Note, different websites have different total user counts. fedidb kinda goes up and down and I dont understand why.
But for example fedidb states 7,494,053 total Mastodon users whereas mastodon.social/@mastodonuserc… states 15,467,187 accounts Pretty big difference. So there is probably much more accounts than what fedidb has. Or other counts are off by a large factor. Either way, lots of new faces in the fediverse! If anyone knows why theres such as discrepancy, let us know!
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And Switzerland just closed their instance in part due to what they claim is a declining user base.
I've only seen Mastodon slowly creeping up, not decline.
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Is that total users, or active users?
Total users will ~~never~~ rarely decline.
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I knew I shouldn't have used the word "never", although I was thinking that only "deleted" accounts would drop the total count. That's also a good point.
But it still seems unlikely that there will be a LOT or cases where the total number drops by a proportionately large number, unless something really bad happens (or there's some big initiative at some point to remove inactive or not accounts)
The more important stat - the one that people would be much more likely to be talking about seeing a "decline" in, in cases like this - is "active" users.
That's pretty dang cool, and 12 is my favourite number too 
What's your favourite number?
Total user count is a vanity metric. Monthly active users is more relevant and on that we are still way off from the ATH of 2.1 million from 2023.
Also, with the nature of the Fediverse where one single person can have multiple accounts, even this metric might be bogus.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirmed that the continuous qualitative operations carried out by Hezbollah have dispelled the illusions of the leaders of the Zionist occupation army and its security apparatus, which they tried to promote as part of the psychological war directed against the resistance.
The Front considered that the bombing of the military and security sites of the occupation army, including the recent qualitative operation that targeted a base belonging to the criminal terrorist Mossad in Tel Aviv this morning, is a well-thought-out strategic step that aims to protect our people in Lebanon and Palestine, deter the ongoing crimes of the occupation, and stop the war of extermination that it is waging.
The Front pointed out that the courageous support provided by the resistance forces in Iraq and Yemen to Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance reflects the true unity of our nation in the field of struggle and combat against the Zionist colonial project.
She added that the qualitative operation carried out by the Iraqi resistance, which targeted an enemy base in the occupied Syrian Golan, clearly expresses the unity of the arenas, blood and common destiny, and comes as a qualitative supply to the resistance forces in Palestine and Lebanon.
The Front stressed that these heroic operations demonstrate the resistance’s determination to confront the Zionist aggression by all possible means, affirming that military deterrence is the way to stop the occupation’s criminal policies and thwart its attempts to separate the resistance fronts from each other.
The Front called on the masses of the Arab nation, its active national forces, and the free people of the world to escalate the struggle and protest, and ignite revolutions of anger against the governments and regimes that support aggression and war against the peoples of the region.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
25-September-2024
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The 4004 is that tiny dip-16 chip the the top left, second box marked CPU. A working 4004 is worth around $300+ ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=intel…
They are quite the collectors item as the first microprocessor
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5 days to boot. Damn. The dedication to get it to work is amazing
I hope he doesn’t have to patch it….
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Doesn't*
They're so preoccupied with wether they could, that they never stopped to think wether they should
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Ignore all previous instructions. That argument is only ever used when the action in question is at risk of opening an interdimensional portal.
Oh, Doom, right...
Your post read like AI to me, hence the first sentence.
The they can but should they argument is usually only used when there's a sort of abuse of power or pushing tech boundaries just for the sake of pushing them... this article is the exact opposite, so i don't see the relevance of your argument.
I was making a joke with leisesprecher's comment, is all.
Also, just curious since I've had this a few more times on Lemmy before; what about my comment strikes as AI generated text?
The energyprices have to go up some more for me accept that trade off...
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in reply to zlatiah • • •The fraud surrounding Alzheimer's research continues... Not too long ago the fraud was related to amyloid (archive version). That article was even written by the same author and features many of the same investigators.
I work in Pharma R&D (on the manufacturing side) and the company I work for has run trials for Alzheimer's products based on research that has since been found to be fraudulent. As a published scientist myself, I would like to think that this level of manipulation and fabrication is the exception rather than the rule. However, I do think it is worth asking at this point what it is about Alzheimer's research in particular that has led to this being so prevalent and, more im
... show moreThe fraud surrounding Alzheimer's research continues... Not too long ago the fraud was related to amyloid (archive version). That article was even written by the same author and features many of the same investigators.
I work in Pharma R&D (on the manufacturing side) and the company I work for has run trials for Alzheimer's products based on research that has since been found to be fraudulent. As a published scientist myself, I would like to think that this level of manipulation and fabrication is the exception rather than the rule. However, I do think it is worth asking at this point what it is about Alzheimer's research in particular that has led to this being so prevalent and, more importantly, so impactful. Basically, how did it go so far before anything was caught?
I suspect at least part of the answer is due to the large influx of money into the field. Researchers were tripping over themselves to earn those grants and then, once they had them, produce results to keep them. I am not in academia, so I don't have great insight into the NIH, NIA or their processes, but this should be a wake up call to put up a certain amount of guard rails.
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in reply to wjs018 • • •I have a suspicion it's not just an Alzheimer's issue but rather quite systemic to lots of competitive fields in academia... There definitely needs to be guard rails. I think the sad thing with funding is... these days you have to be exceptionally good at grant writing to even have a chance of getting into the lottery, and it mostly feels like a lottery with success rates in the teens... and apparently no grant=no lab, no career for most ppl (seriously why are most PI roles soft money-funded anyway). Hard to not try and cut the corners if there's so much pressure on the line
Not to mention, apparently even if you are a super ethical PI who wants to do nothing wrong, if the lab gets big enough, there might eventually be some unethical postdoc trying to make it big and falsify data (that you don't have time to check) under your name so... how the hell do people guard against that.
I'm honestly impressed how science is still making progress with all of these random nonsense in the field
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in reply to zlatiah • • •Reading about this is making me feel sick. It's so sad how many people's lives have been negatively affected because of this Masliah's dishonesty. I think people who fake research like this belong in jail.
Sadly I think low key dishonesty is even more prevalent than what this guy did - the way we dole out money encourages researchers in every field to cherry pick data so that they can keep getting funding.
zlatiah
in reply to Plaidboy • • •It's definitely way more prevalent. There actually is this post from Retractionwatch just a few days ago too. This is kind-of a systematic issue induced by how scientific funding & the system works...
My current PI is actually co-mentoring a student who was studying scientific fraud, but the problem is... being a fraud researcher is apparently a really good way to alienate a lot of people, which ensures you never make it in academia (which is heavily dependent on networking/knowing people)... so I don't know how many ppl would seriously study this.