China launches Shenzhou-19 manned spaceship
China launches Shenzhou-19 manned spaceship
China on Wednesday launched the Shenzhou-19 manned spaceship, sending a crew of three astronauts intBastillepost (Bastillepost 巴士的報)
Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years
Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years
CVE-2024-9632 was made public today as the latest security vulnerability affecting the X.Org Serverwww.phoronix.com
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You always have to consider the sources of such whispers, otherwise it means very little. The devs, who are few and works on evenings because they have day jobs, a well-know open source issue for many projects, were clear about when they started in earnest on getting 3.0 done, less than 3 years ago. Until then they've spent most of their time adding features to 2.10 and the 2.9 branch was more of a long lived testing ground with occational test releases that cause talk sometimes. The aim was RC primo or medio this year, they're only slightly late.
But I get the feeling more devs are starting to contribute now it's near 3.0, maybe because the new architecture actually makes it easier. So there's hope a lot will start to happen. There's even a UI working group.
I'm running the 2.9 nightly, it's better in a multitude of little ways as well as having a number of new features.
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Does anyone know if PDFs still cause crashes? I should switch again. Used the beta for a while but had some issues and removed it.
Btw, here is how you get the Beta Flatpak (flathub beta)
here is how you get the Nightly Flatpak (GNOME nightly)
There have been so many announcements that a release candidate of a release will be coming out /soon/. It's utterly pointless non-news.
Please can this drivel be banished.
Wait until 3.0.0 is actually released and then post it for discussion.
Georgia: Election was just as much about the economy. Closer ties to Europe have not helped Tbilisi on the fiscal front, just look at the numbers.
Georgia: Election was just as much about the economy
Closer ties to Europe have not helped Tbilisi on the fiscal front, just look at the numbersIan Proud (Responsible Statecraft)
Georgia: Election was just as much about the economy. Closer ties to Europe have not helped Tbilisi on the fiscal front, just look at the numbers.
Georgia: Election was just as much about the economy
Closer ties to Europe have not helped Tbilisi on the fiscal front, just look at the numbersIan Proud (Responsible Statecraft)
Billionaires Spew More CO2 Pollution in 90 Minutes than Average Person in a Lifetime
Billionaires spew more CO2 pollution in 90 minutes than average person in a lifetime
"The extreme emissions of the richest, from their luxury lifestyles and even more from their polluting investments, are fueling inequality, hunger, and—make no mistake—threatening lives."Jessica Corbett (The Real News Network)
Can't imagine them tasting very good.
I spose if you wrap um in bacon, pretty much anything taste good. But at some point. It's just a waste of good bacon.
Western media has perpetrated a dangerous myth: that individual actions alone can solve the climate crisis. This narrative deliberately ignores the systemic roots of the problem, shifting the burden onto individuals while corporations and oligarchs continue with business as usual.
Individual actions are utterly dwarfed by the impact of industrial pollution, unsustainable agriculture, and fossil fuel extraction. We've been tricked into focusing on recycling while the planet burns. The truth is, our entire economic system, built on the insatiable hunger for constant growth and consumption, is fundamentally incompatible with a livable planet.
The powerful have masterfully manipulated public perception, diverting attention from the true drivers of the climate crisis. This propaganda campaign protects their profits while undermining the urgent need for systemic change. We're being gaslit into believing we're the problem, not the system.
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Have those emissions results been verified by an independent third party?
I agree that at least on paper China is taking much stronger action than many other countries.
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The analysis was done by an independent third party:
Emissions from the world’s most polluting country have rebounded this year after the Chinese government dropped its Covid restrictions in January, according to analysis undertaken for Carbon Brief.
Furthermore, I'm not sure what basis there is for being skeptical here. It's universally acknowledged that China has created massive renewable infrastructure, and it follows that as clean energy production increases the emissions would fall.
Raspberry Pi OS improves touchscreen support and now uses Wayland by default
Raspberry Pi OS is a Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution that’s developed by the Raspberry Pi team and designed to run on the company’s single-board computers. The latest version brings a big change that causal users might not even notice: it uses the labwc Wayland compositor by default on all Raspberry Pi models rather than the wayfire compositor or X Window system.
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What Is Israel’s Elite Ghost Unit That Was Targeted in Gaza?
The Israeli army today confirmed that four members of its elite Unit 888, also known as the “Ghost Unit,” were eliminated during a resistance operation in northern Gaza. This ambush, led by Palestinian resistance fighters, resulted in the elimination of a commanding officer and three soldiers, with another officer critically injured in Jabalia.
Unit 888, established in 2019 as part of the “Tnufa” (Momentum) Plan spearheaded by former Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, is an elite combat unit designed for rapid, multi-dimensional warfare. Known for its versatility, the unit combines forces from various branches of the Israeli military—including infantry, armor, intelligence, and aerial units. Trained for all terrains and equipped with advanced weaponry, each Ghost Unit fighter is armed with personal drones, advanced night vision, and a real-time operational intelligence platform, the ZID 750, which integrates information from multiple fronts.
The Ghost Unit’s Key Features and Capabilities
Ghost Unit 888 operates on a unique, high-speed combat philosophy called the “kill chain,” aimed at instantly detecting and killing targets. Its rapid response strategy is designed to close the detection-to-elimination cycle in mere seconds, far faster than traditional combat timelines. For instance, recent conflicts like Ukraine demonstrate a five-minute detection-to-response time, yet Unit 888 seeks to compress this to near-instantaneous action.
Security expert Omar Ashour describes Unit 888 as a multi-dimensional force capable of integrating five dimensions of warfare: ground, electronic, cyber, aerial, and subterranean. This high-level integration allows the unit to adapt swiftly to urban warfare challenges, such as those encountered in Gaza’s densely populated areas, where resistance forces like Hamas deploy complex underground networks.
A High-Stakes Debut and Strategic Significance
Unit 888 first gained operational experience in 2020, focusing initially on Hezbollah-related activities near Israel’s northern border. However, Gaza has tested the unit in unprecedented ways, underscoring both its combat prowess and the high risks involved. During the October 7 military operation, Ghost Unit’s commanding officer Roy Levy, training chief Yotam Ben Bist, coordination officer Yonatan Gotin, and officer Itay Nahias were killed by Al-Qassam Brigades fighters. This loss underscores the true balance of power between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli army when modern technology is set aside.
What Is Israel’s Elite Ghost Unit That Was Targeted in Gaza?
The Israeli army today confirmed that four members of its elite Unit 888, also known as the "Ghost Unit," were eliminated during a resistance operation in northern Gaza. This ambush, led by Palestiniaeditor qudsnen (Quds News Network)
The Ghost Unit’s Key Features and Capabilities Ghost Unit 888 operates on a unique, high-speed combat philosophy called the “kill chain,” aimed at instantly detecting and killing targets. Its rapid response strategy is designed to close the detection-to-elimination cycle in mere seconds, far faster than traditional combat timelines. For instance, recent conflicts like Ukraine demonstrate a five-minute detection-to-response time, yet Unit 888 seeks to compress this to near-instantaneous action.
In short, they don't take time to discern whether or not the target is a civilian or combatant.
Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt
Article by Mike Masnick
Last week, Bluesky, where I am on the board (so feel free to consider this as biased as can be), announced that it had raised a $15 million seed round, and with it announced some plans for building out subscription plans and helping to make the site sustainable (some of which may be very cool — stay tuned). A few days prior to that happening, Bluesky hit 13 million users and continues to grow. It’s still relatively small, but it has now done way more with a smaller team and less money than Twitter did at a similar point in its evolution.I’m excited with where things are trending with Bluesky for a few reasons, but I wanted to actually talk about something else. Just before I joined the board, I had met up with a group of supporters of “decentralized social media,” who more leaned towards ActivityPub/Mastodon/Threads over Bluesky. Even though I wasn’t officially representing Bluesky, they knew I was a fan of Bluesky and asked me how I viewed the overall decentralized social media landscape.
Basically bluesky works with pds's, that host account data, (i actually host my own), appviews, which manage the post sorting/algorithm and ui, and relays, that sit between the two and make it easier (theyre not strictly necessary, but make At-proto services much faster and more reliable).
Relays are expensive, and so bluesky's relay is the only real one currently, not because theyre shutting other people out, because a relay is expensive. So currently you kind of have to use bluesky's servers to use the AT protocol, but thatll change whenever someone has the resources to setup a good relay.
Totally agree.
Builders care about the nuts and bolts of a building. Most people just care about whether they can get a decent hot shower, how cold it gets inside at night, or whether the smoke alarm goes off every time they fry onions.
The killer feature of decentralization, I suspect, does not lie in a singular interaction with a user, but (as Mike notes) in harnessing the power of the distributed group to do something amazing.
To add to this, I think as long as decentralization involves having to know how to and have the money to operate a server, it's not going to reach the point some may hope for. The monetary costs may be lower than ever, but that doesn't address the knowledge requirements (not to mention time for setup and upkeep).
Even one of the more user friendly attempts at this so far (AT Protocol) doesn't address this in a meaningful way, as one still has to get into the weeds of server config, domain leasing, etc.
The key to every “killer app” on a new system, even ones that start out mimicking the old paradigm, is enabling something that couldn’t be done on the old system.
This makes me think of my biggest gripe with the social media I use and it's the lack of feeling safe, and I don't mean that I want to be sheltered or have content hidden from me. I'm tired of living in the giant melting pot.
Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions
Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions
Russia plans to establish an independent Linux development community after the removal of Russian contributors from Linux kernel development.Alex Lekander (CyberInsider)
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All of those freedoms were directly impacted bozo.
And as for "Linus didn't do it", not only did they choose to comply with an order that directly violated the GPL, but in doing so he then followed up by gloating about Russian maintainers who have worked diligently on the kernel for years for the betterment of open software AND Linus' paycheck.
Calling your former volunteer contributors bots and state assets because of their home country is just straight up racist, especially when the only evidence of state-sponsored tampering in the Kernel has come from American institutions (that we even know of).
First, you’re acting like the decision was made by Linus or another member of the team and that they weren’t following the law.
Second, even if that weren’t the case, it’s still completely free. Unless you can name one of the following freedoms that was impacted by those actions:
- Freedom 0: The freedom to use the program for any purpose.
- Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
- Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute and make copies so you can help your neighbor.
- Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Literally none of those freedoms were impacted. Everyone is still free to use the program as they wish, fork it, make changes, etc.. Linux doesn’t have a new license that says “anyone but Russians” can use it.
he then followed up by gloating about Russian maintainers
How did he gloat? He explained the change. If your complaint is that he was abrasive, I feel like you’re not familiar with Linus.
Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.
It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting
reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to
"grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change
anything.
And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm
accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US
thing.
If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read
the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian
state-sponsored spam.
As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call
brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian
aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of
history knowledge too.Sounds a lot more like he’s frustrated than delighted to me.
Calling your former volunteer contributors bots
He didn’t call the contributors bots.
He called the people submitting reverts and complaining about those maintainers, who weren’t contributors themselves, “troll farm accounts.”
and state assets because of their home country
When did he call anyone a state asset? To be clear, being a troll or a paid actor doesn’t make you someone’s property.
He also explained that this was a legal matter:
> Again -- are you under any sort of NDA not to even refer to a list of
> these countries?
No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that
I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers.
I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random
internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have
been riled up by them.
personally i don't agree with sanctioning foss communities.
but fuckit, bring on more forks i say.
among other benefits, the scifi-type scenario of nations trying to patch eachothers backdoors and slip in new backdoors (and hopefully innovations). could make for an exciting OS space-race type scenario
personally i don't agree with sanctioning foss communities.
Foss communities aren't being sanctioned. Whole countries are. It's the same limitation whatever enterprise you're in.
If Olympians have to renounce their country to take part in global competition, why do you not think a software developer wouldn't have to do the same to be involved in a global project?
Do you think it's acceptable to make olympicians first bow to the west before they can take part in games?
Should Isn'traelis first denounce the genocide before being able to contribute to the linux kernel or take part in olympic games?
Not the west. The global community.
...and should Israel be under sanctions? Absolutely.
Lol global community
It will do what the US says or else it gets the hose again
this is a complex topic and probably belongs in a different thread.
essentially i don't personally believe in punishing citizens of a country for the actions of its politicians.
at best its misguided, at worse it basically empowers politicians on both sides who draw power from friction between citizens of different nations. typical divide and conquer bs.
why do you not think a software developer wouldn’t have to
wouldn't or shouldn't? if you mean wouldn't, it's not surprising and its not the dev's fault they have to comply with policy, so the criticism is not with them.
if you mean shouldn't, i don't agree with punishing athletes either, but regarding foss specifically, isn't the "friendly competition" of olympics equivalent to that? sort of. in some ways yes. in other ways its actually the opposite.
collaboration is actually the opposite of competition.
and while there's a case for the benefits of healthy sports competition, i don't believe it truly fulfills the spirit of international goodwill to the degree it says on the packaging. foss an other forms of international collaboration for the betterment of greater society are definitely on a higher rung - in my opinion at least.
Disregarding the parent comment, but hosting a soft fork is easy enough but it'll quickly become a spaghetti mess of local patches that conflict with upstream changes. It's not like there's an argument for preserving access to Russia either since the nature of the kernel being hosted across torrent trackers makes it impossible to deny Linux to any one country.
It seems like the better solution (imo) is to work on a different kernel receptive of these maintainers, so that the companies employing them can still have a kernel that is developed for their use-cases whilst supporting projects that don't so openly collaborate with hostile states.
To be clear, being a troll or a paid actor doesn’t make you someone’s property.
Ok, I give up, I have no idea if you're doing a bit. Like I felt kinda confident you were serious, but this leaves me floundering. Purposely obtuse because you've talked yourself into such a stupid corner, or just that incredibly obtuse that you unironically think asset means property? Absolutely no way to tell which one it is.
Before I reply to your comment, I’d like to share this link. It didn’t change any of my existing understanding because Linus’s comment already made it clear that this was out of their hands, but maybe it’ll help clarify something for you.
I realize now that this comment on that post was made before this one (“What's free about delisting maintainers based on their country of residence?”) by the same person. It’s disingenuous for someone to act like this is about “country of residence” when they already engaged with a post clarifying that it’s because of sanctions against specific companies.
that you unironically think asset means property
I unironically think that because it does mean that:
- assets plural
a. the property of a deceased person subject by law to the payment of his or her debts and legacies
b. the entire property of a person, association, corporation, or estate applicable or subject to the payment of debts
3.
a. an item of value owned
b. assets plural the items on a balance sheet showing the book value of property owned
When I do a search for “state asset,” the results I get are all related to property, resources, etc., things that belong to and can be exploited by the state - for example epa.gov/dwcapacity/state-asset…
Searching for “asset” specifically I see a tertiary definition reading “A spy working in his or her own country and controlled by the enemy” as well as the wikipedia definition, but that still means “spy,” not “paid lobbyist.”
just that incredibly obtuse
I’d apologize for not being well versed enough in counter-intelligence lingo to properly interpret the comment, but even with a proper interpretation, the comment I replied to was still incoherent, so I’m not really sure what you expect here.
It feels weird to say that it was incredibly obtuse of me to not spend more time trying to figure out what someone meant when they were, as far as I can tell just mad that Linus and other Linux maintainers didn’t ignore what their attorneys advised, regardless of what impact that might have had on them personally, and spouting a bunch of nonsense as a result.
Maybe I’m wrong, though. If so, would you care to explain how this was a violation of the GPL and/or how all of the 4 freedoms I listed were violated?
- assets plural
a. the property of a deceased person subject by law to the payment of his or her debts and legacies
b. the entire property of a person, association, corporation, or estate applicable or subject to the payment of debts
3.
a. an item of value owned
b. assets plural the items on a balance sheet showing the book value of property owned
Hey now, something strange is going on here - see, when I visit that page, there aren't just 3 items. Now, you wouldn't be selectively ignoring parts of your own source to paint a certain narrative, would you? Because the 4th item I see is
4 : something useful in an effort to foil or defeat an enemy: such as
a : a piece of military equipment
b : spy
I'm sure you simply... overlooked it in your excitement. Now you're aware though, I'm sure you'll be happy to correct your comments.
- I was showing that my understanding of the word “asset” was based in fact. The 4th definition wasn’t relevant to that.
- I literally talked about the 4th definition in the next paragraph.
If anyone’s operating in bad faith, it’s you. Are you drunk? You’re being an intentionally obtuse pedant and a liar (by your own definition). Try replying once you’ve sobered up, clown. Once you reread and realize how much of a dick you were, I’m sure you’ll apologize - unless I’m right about you being too much of a coward to admit when you’re wrong about something.
Right? It’s weird how so many people upset about the situation in this thread are incapable of explaining why it’s a problem without lying.
Like, I get that it sucks to be removed as a maintainer because of reasons outside your control. But being, or continuing to be, a maintainer of a project isn’t a right that’s integral to that project being free.
I've reached for some complex awk when I am looking to parse snippets of code where breaking out a full language parser would have been too much.
One example is parsing statements from a Dockerfile but only within certain stages of the image. So I reach for regex range in awk and I can make something that works everywhere.
Of course I probably could have done the same thing in python by controlling the beginning and end via variables, but I like awk sometimes.
The CUPS Vulnerability
The CUPS Vulnerability
The Announcement Late last month there was an announcement of a “severity 9.9 vulnerability” allowing remote code execution that affects “all GNU/Linux systems (plus others)”…etbe - Russell Coker
This seems very one-sided. Sure, the disclosure was not handled perfectly. However, this post completely ignores the terrible response by the CUPS team.
The point on NAT is certainly fair and prevented this from being a much bigger issue. Still, many affected systems were reachable from the internet.
Lastly, the author tries to downplay the impact of an arbitrary execution vulnerabilty because app armour might prevent it from fully compromising the system. Sure, so I guess we don't need to fix any of those vulnerabilities /s.
As far as I'm aware, the exploit requires someone to try printing using a malicious networked printer. It is a vulnerability, yes, but it affects essentially nobody. Who tries manually printing something on a server exposed to the internet?
Although for local network access, like in a corporation using Linux on desktops, the vulnerability is an actual risk.
Ukraine is now struggling to survive, not to win
Ukraine is now struggling to survive, not to win
Russia is slicing through Ukrainian defences in parts of the battlefieldThe Economist
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To think Ukraine could have been in a better place if Biden wasn’t an Israel-first president. I am surprised China didn’t take advantage of the US’s distraction to retake Taiwan.
At this rate I think what will happen is that Russia will keep the Russian speaking regions in the east and Ukraine will join NATO. Neither side will get all of what they wanted.
What do you mean "survive"? We will win a moment, there are millions of volunteers willing to fight in the name of our glorious leader Zelensky. Here is a fresh video of a volunteer signing up to fight for our country files.catbox.moe/x3oyu6.mp4
Just send more money to Zelensky please.
EDIT: And even if that wouldn't help, our women and kids will join the fight, and then we will surely win: m.antikor.com.ua/en/articles/7…
My Russia vs Israel take:
Russia gives Ukrainians Russian citizenship and resettles them away from warzone with all the social security preserved: food, medical, shelter etc.
Israel just wants to murder all Palestinians: no medical, bombs hospitals, doesn't let food in, kills people indiscriminately
How can some people even see these conflicts as the same category? Israel is doing straight up hateful genocide, Russia is fighting for people they see their own.
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Europe Is Not Prepared for the Looming Lebanese Refugee Crisis | naked capitalism
Conor here: I don’t understand why this is so hard. If Europe doesn’t want or is unprepared for so many refugees, it should stop with the destruction of societies in the vicinity of the “garden” walls. The media always seems to ignore Europe’s role in creating these crises. The way the EU and/or some of its member countries keeps launching or supporting these bloody messes (Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon) is enough to make one wonder if it’s actually a conscious policy in order to bring in more exploitable refugee labor. But to believe that, you’d have to believe the current crop of European officials and their benefactors have the ability of such foresight.[...]
Europe Is Not Prepared for the Looming Lebanese Refugee Crisis | naked capitalism
Maybe European politicians who oppose refugees should stop supporting wars that create refugees.Conor Gallagher (naked capitalism)
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Europe hasn't politically recovered from the last few refugee crises, nor have national collectives been able to properly integrate or adjust to the fact they're there, it's been ran as a pressure point, and adding even more pressure will certainly enable those politicians to hit this button with greater effect.
I don't fucking understand why no European leader is looking at what Israel is doing with realpolitik and go "why the fuck are you creating another migrant crisis", unless that is exactly what they want, to get power for themselves. Urgh.
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Apparently, the mods at Linuxsucks are really sensitive?
Saw a post without noticing the community and commented a genuine comment with good intentions.
Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.
Original post:
My (removed) comment:
And yeah, the last comment was sarcasm.
I just don't really understand why is there a community for shitting on Linux? Like I can get not liking it, and hating the Linux die hard fans, but it really is an amazing thing that is integral to almost all modern computing... Kind of like hating social media by having a facebook page for it.
So: you posted a serious contribution in an unserious community, and got treated unseriously. It's not very newsworthy.
As for that community's existence, why is that even up for discussion? As a Linux user I'm happy for people to say what they like about Linux. If the jokes are funny, all the better.
I use Ubuntu btw and it doesn't suck. Well, not that much.
Even so, why post this and not any one of countless other things?
Like I feel that you're missing a clear sign here. Most people would roll their eyes and move on. This is quite possibly the most "leopards ate my face" post in this community and yet it's being upvoted because "hooray tribalism" over something as asinine as OS (really kernel) choice.
Because they found it interesting and wanted to discuss it with people?
Just because it's low priority doesn't mean it lacks any interest, we can exist between extremes
Most people would roll their eyes and move on
Quite famously 1% of the community are posters, after all. Who the fuck cares what a normal person would post? OP wanted to
and yet it's being upvoted because "hooray tribalism" over something as asinine as OS (really kernel) choice.
Lol, it's being upvoted because most of us recognize the sub and it's pathetic mod and are laughing at being reminded of them, if the comments are anything to go by
Deciding Linux isn't for you is one thing. Even deciding that you hate Linux is... Digestible. But what kind of internal self esteem and validation issues do you need to unironically participate in a community called "Linux sucks"?
Hating Linux is one thing. Putting in extra effort to justify to everyone that Linux is hate-able is a different kind of crazy.
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Not content with unasked for evangelizing in Windows communities and posts, this Stallman's Witness tries their hand in an even less welcome locale.
Injured by the failure of their attempt, they seek sympathy back in friendlier climes.
Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.
Sounds like they've done you a favour. Now you don't have to see their random hater circlejerk community again.
I don't understand why so many people take the existence of linuxsucks communities so personally, the reddit version has more linux users defending it than actual hate, but that one was more meant as a "legitimate grievances against linux" community as opposed to what the lemmy version seems to be.
Just block and ignore like anything else. Its okay if there are people that don't like the thing you like.
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There was a time when there was an annual "Linux Sucks" presentation that I liked because it was a roundup of candid, yet constructive criticism of Linux (and then at some point the person running that went off the deep end and started yelling about woke agendas).
I wouldn't mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken when running linux, and we as a community then try to fix them or find workarounds.
But as others have pointed out, that community isn't a community, it's literally just one account hanging out by themselves.
I wouldn’t mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken
But isn't that every linux forum?
Yeah, but I think it can feel too much like a circle jerk around here sometimes. I get that people want to win over new users, but some of it goes too far I think. The fact is Linux isn't perfect, and while no OS is, there are some critical things you can do on Windows that are still a pain in the ass on Linux. Some of that is a vendor/proprietary software problem, but a good chunk of it is just people being willing to overlook a thin layer of jank in their normal workflows.
I think we'd all be better off to all acknowledge and clean up the jank rather than try to pretend it's fine as is.
To be fair, Windows has its own jank. As someone who is forced to use Windows 11 for work, I'm much happier putting up with the minimum Linux jank I've experienced compared to the Windows jank.
If any of that made sense.
" that community isn't a community, it's literally just one account hanging out by themselves."
Is it though? Here's a screenshot from comfy@lemmy.ml showing 2 other contributors (and this isn't chat; I'm not here to 'hang out').
It's also new and trending. Even on Reddit's r/linuxsucks, I was a prolific poster, and continue as such on r/desktoplinuxsucks.
Maybe just admit being butt-hurt or mute, because you aren't the intended audience and it brings you discomfort. -Thanks
I got into mostly posting rather that commenting because of the hostility of Linux evangelists / brigaders. -Posts can't yield negative karma on reddit. My comment is typically in the form of the title or in the customization / creation of the meme.
Maybe you're still thinking back to when it was new; there are some posts from today (or a matter of a couple hours) with 3 comments already. It's funny how people are criticizing it when there's some adjustment (getting the right audience / parcipation) to be done in the face of a brigading / evangelizing issue from people it's not meant for. I didn't bring a community, and I'm not going to recruit for here from the reddit subs.
It's unlikely that anyone is going to come along and contribute anywhere near as much as I do. -I don't see the problem with that. Progress is happening and we are continually on the trending lists. IMO it's working.
I read it as a jokey community and maybe you took it too seriously. Regardless that's a kinda silly comment to leave. That's a community for, ironically or seriously, hating Linux, so obviously it's not in the spirit of the community to leave a serious comment defending Linux.
I see a lot of Windows hate on Lemmy. If someone made a post here complaining about how much they hate Windows, and a Windows fan replied explaining why Windows is so great, I would say it's kinda heavy-handed but not totally ridiculous for a mod to ban them, since a Linux community is probably not for this person.
Hummm... Guess you're to sensible? I mean I'm die hard linux lover for 3 years now and will never switch back to Windows... EVER!
However, I found some of those posts quite funny !
That whole community is just one guy posting memes. Some are funny but mostly its just odd how much he hates Linux.
Whatever :)
- Find a pattern (preferably with the trans flag)
- Manually compile
- Post on unixsocks
For this exact reason i feel the fediverse should operate on #hashtags and the user should subscribe to their mods who will mark content for exclusion and filtration.
Meaning that instead of a ultimatum users can participate regardless of if bad mods ruin a community as per reddit /r/linux being ruined by loco mods.
This fiefdom format where topics are arbitrated and drum headded by fief lords is archaic and antiquated.
When the wrong man uses the right means, then the right means work in the wrong way.
Its our job to create systems that prevent this as much as possible through good design.
That's how aether works kind of.
It's P2P/decentralised rather than federated.
Anyone can make a community. With enough participation in a community one can become a mod. Mods can be impeached by vote of active participants.
Anyone can see nod actions and anyone can decide to disable the actions of any mod.
I love the system, I was active there before moving to Lemmy. I wish it had taken off/absorbed some of the Reddit fallout rather than Lemmy.
AFAIK it is not maintained or at least updated much less frequently than Lemmy/ActivityPub.
Yeah.. I am in my Arch comfort zone, till I was forced to move on as the newest kernels of Arch triggered kernel Panics at my Starlite V device. Even the LTS version (and for some weird reason the rt kernel was the only one working without panics).
So someone said "Use NixOS, its great"... it felt cool at beginning, but sucked very soon as everything should be written into stone if you want changes on your system, and then reboot, because the switch command didn't really trigger enough changes. Netbeans was without Maven till I rebooted. I thought I sucked at adding it properly. Frustrating it was.
Then I tried MX Linux, just to realize that Debian has Ancient packages with many many bugs, like Okular having a broken Pinch-Zoom which is fixed after 23.31 or smth. Debian had version 22 of Okular. And I disliked that MX Linux used Plasma 5...
Another one recommends Void Linux, Gentoo, KDE Neon, OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Holy fuck pls filter it by Systemd only Operating Systems. (But still cool having lots od Linux users in my university group)
I finally decided to Install Kubuntu and actually... it feels like it will last forever (till a new Ubuntu Update comes in and destroys itself by its own Updating system. It never worked for me)
Yeah, that guy's not joking.
It's not some kayfabe act. He is sincere in all of that posturing assholery.
Block and move on.
people who are new should be using immutable distros exclusively unless they're looking at this as a major project where they learn everything about it, IMHO
i've been helping people switch for a long time, all the dumbest things that have happened to people have been stopped by immutability.
I just switched from Windows to Linux recently. Have gone from Zorin to Linux Mint and my friend likes Ubuntu. I would like to think that I watched a lot of videos and read a lot of articles before switching, but I've never heard of immutable distros. Could you please explain that term?
Edit: Grammar.
Yes, the short version is that immutability means that the filesystem (except for your home folder) is read-only and updated all at once.
This makes it so that updates never break the machine, and you can roll back to previous versions of the machine all at once, seamlessly.
For new people I always recommend fedora kinoite, but if you're highly experienced, immutability provides little value as you can always just chroot and unbreak the system yourself.
I don't see irony there. I think calling this FOSS community 'filled with Linux-crazed people' is a stretch, but even then, it's very different to:
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or even just hating a niche product whatsoever. It's not like Linux is EEE'ing or being invasive, so it's hard to equivocate being a passionate fan to being a passionate hater.
When I was on reddit the ones spouting the most linux hate seemed to fall into two main categories.
1) those that tried it like 15 years ago and still hold a grudge.
2) dudes who heard people rave about linux but they themselves struggled with certain concepts when trying it out. And rather than realize they need to read instructions and learn new things, instead would rather blame linux for not working as expected.
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x (formerly twitter)... you mean twitter (desperately x)
even elon calls it twitter dude why are people still pretending they have to honor a rebrand of a company by a dipshit who deadnames and misgenders his own kid.
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If you're using Twitter, fuck you.
I don't care why you're still on some fascist manchild's propaganda box. Leave. You're already here - you know alternatives exist. Stop visiting the Nazi bar.
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WhatsApp running through android-translation-layer (no container!) on Linux desktop
Since reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1g… got a bit of traction yesterday, this is WhatsApp straight from Meta running on Linux desktop using android-translation-layer.
android-translation-layer (ATL) is a Wine-like approach to run Android applications on Linux. Rather than running an Android container like for example Waydroid does this instead implements the Android API. Note that right now it's very much work in progress and almost no app will work yet, but the fact that they have apps like Newpipe and WhatsApp running already is very promising!
Join the Matrix chat at #android-translation-layer:matrix.org and follow along!
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Edit: because some apps completely block wine or is distributed only from the Microsoft store
The people from Heroic are already working on this.
Source: gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/ubun…
The talk gives a brief overview on what they've been working on like UWP/WinRT in Wine, Comet for GOG multiplayer features and more. But Lidwin also does a quick little sneak peek intro on a new project called Maxima Launcher, an open source replacement for EA Desktop / Origin that will eventually get Heroic integration too.
Nice!
Do I need to run my own instance for this, or is it possible to do this without control over my instance?
There is slightly more openness to androids layers than the win32 layers as well.
I still remember symlinking to binaries in my windows system folder back in the late 90s to be able to run office 95 under Linux. (The MSFT system files permitted some things to work properly that just didn't with the wine provided libraries back then)
Didn't it take off in the late 90's within Linux communities?
So I'd give this a few years, then.
I don't see how it could ever be misunderstood.
A missing comma can change the literal meaning of a sentence; “let's eat, grandpa” vs “let's eat grandpa” comes to mind.
But even then anyone would understand what the second sentence is supposed to mean.
Given that, this apostrophe really wasn't an issue.
Think of the phrase: about music. “90’s music” would imply music from specifically 90 (probably 1990 where we assume the writer was lazy about the initial apostrophe)—possessive form. “’90s music” uses ’90s as an adjective for the entire decade—and with the preceeding apostrophe makes it clearer 19 is omitted. 1 year versus 10 years as a big difference. Using an apostrophe in the right place clearly removes the ambiguity.
It was an error. It happens, and too many people do it so next time maybe you won’t with a good habit being formed.
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