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First North Korean troops killed in Russia, says Lithuanian source


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/21405263

The first clashes between Ukrainian forces and North Korean troops took place in the Kyiv-controlled Kursk region in Russia on October 25, according to sources available to Jonas Ohman, head of the prominent Lithuanian Blue/Yellow NGO.


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US: "Israel, did you do Horrifying’ Strike in Northern Gaza Kills Dozens?

Israel: "Yes, why do you ask?"

US: "Nvm, i'm gonna send you even more weapons"

in reply to Peter Link

Update on this: Israel claim they saw someone on the roof. bbc.com/news/articles/c6247nwz…

Seeing someone on the roof of an apartment complex is now sufficient evidence to kill 100+ people



Hezbollah destroys Israeli Merkava tanks, downs advanced drone




Ukraine's Army Threatens to Conduct Medical Experiments on Russian Prisoner - Recording


The prisoner's stepbrother, Alexander Serikov, told Sputnik on Tuesday that Ukrainian armed forces were demanding a ransom of 1 million rubles ($10,200) from the family of a captured Russian soldier, threatening to kill him.

"He is now in a field barracks where a very large number of angry Ukrainians want to do all kinds of medical and human experiments on him, and then most of those in the same position will throw him out somewhere on the edge of the forest," a woman representing the Ukrainian side said on the recording, demanding money.





Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers.


in reply to Sauvandu60

Sounds like a pretty average day in the Linux community



Disable the *hyprland* startup logs


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/21426498

I use nixos + greetd + tuigreet + hyprland.
I missed to mention that I wanted to disable or hide the logs that gets shows when starting hyprland from tty terminal by writing Hyprland or when using greetd tuigreet. After entering my username and password, These logs show before hyprland starts, I want to avoid that
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in reply to Yash Raj

Why tho? The logs give you information & progress. After boot you don’t even see it.

I honestly wish Android booted like this.

in reply to toastal

I know... For a long and I mean long time I had it, but yk I wan't to hide it just to spice things up.
in reply to Communist

So does it mean passing --cmd Hyprland > /dev/null to Tuigreet? If so then that wouldn't work with my setup, as I use sessions instead of cmd.
Here is how I have it in nixos
    services.greetd = {
      enable = true;
      settings = {
        default_session = {
          user = "greeter";
          command = ''
            ${getExe' pkgs.unstable.greetd.tuigreet "tuigreet"} \
            --time \
            --sessions ${cfg.sessionDirs} \
            --remember \
            --remember-session
          '';
        };
      };
    };

The sessionDirs is this
modules.services.greetd.sessionDirs = ["${hyprlandPackage}/share/wayland-sessions"];

This is a link to my dotfiles where I have it:
in reply to Yash Raj

You have NixOS, it’s easy to give it a custom session path for that.

Also I would use systemd-cat so the output goes into the journal instead of nowhere.

in reply to dblsaiko

Would you be able to provide an example code? It would help me grasp the concept more effectively.
in reply to Communist

Or push it to a file, just in general. That way if something goes tits up you can still check it later.




How do you provision a Linux VM?


Hi friends, I'm back, this time jotting down some notes around my go-to way to provision VMs using Ansible. This post assumes Debian (Nix may be a future post).

Of course there's many ways to provision a server, and this is just one of them. I hope some of these notes are helpful!

If you have any other ways you prefer to set up a server, that would be cool to share!

in reply to something_random_tho

Ansible is a legitimate way to provision a VM, but that's not it's strong suit. You should look into Teraform as it's more industry standard.
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in reply to Goun

To provision VMs yes, to configure them I think Ansible works best. But you can call Ansible from Terraform.
in reply to BrianTheeBiscuiteer

I always find it tricky to understand how tools all relate to each other in an ecosystem and this is a great example of why: the fact that Ansible can do this task, but Teraform would be better suggests that they are tools that have different purposes, but some overlap. What would you say is Ansible's strong suit?
in reply to AnarchistArtificer

What would you say is Ansible’s strong suit?


configuration management; aka infrastructure as code. terraform creates the instance and then ansible sets it up and you can copy and paste your playbooks to make it repeatable into infinity and that's called infrastructure as code.

it's literally in interview questions and in take home assessments; you're well ahead of the curve.

i literally get paid to do this and; once you figure it out; you should too.

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in reply to AnarchistArtificer

Again, capable of a lot but it's best at configuration management. I like to use Ansible after I install an OS to do things like tweak SSH to be more secure, install Fish shell, set common environment variables and aliases, create a bin folder in my home directory, and clone down a bunch of custom scripts I have and a remote Git repository. You can do this kind of thing with a bash script also but with a well written ansible playbook you can run it over and over and it can fix configuration drift (in my example it could ensure my repository of scripts is up to date).

in reply to §ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ

Mac user since 1984 (also a lot of *nix experience). Switched to Fedora as my daily driver last year. Started with Gnome but got frustrated that every personal preference I tried to invoke required yet another extension. Switched to KDE and have been quite satisfied.
in reply to twoprops

Nice! Glad you're digging KDE. After Plasma 6 was released, there were internal discussions at Fedora about KDE becoming the new default DE. I'd have to think a lot of folks went through your experience, I know I did when starting with Fedora.




Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse


When we have a critical mass of people, we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way.
in reply to Cryophilia

we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way


  1. In my experience, many of the people claiming to be experts on reddit are spreading misinformation. This goes for Twitter too, and probably most other large social media sites. People love to be seen as an authority on a topic.
  2. Reddit is anything but organic, and is getting worse and worse in this regard.
in reply to Anon518

Yeah, reddit is corporate plastic these days. Fake, cheap, unhealthy.
in reply to Anon518

The eye opening moment is when one of these threads touches on a subject you know a lot about and the top upvoted comment is spouting complete bullshit. See it once and you start to doubt the credibility of every other highly upvoted comment that looks legit but could be just as wrong, you simply don't know enough to immediately disprove it.
in reply to Keegen

I have a conspiracy theory that most users who are an expert don’t post much about that.

For example I am an expert on two things most people find obscure; and for all my comments I just avoid talking about them. It’s too hard to wrap up an idea without lots of background information, there are no short posts or comments I can make about it.

Almost all the highly upvoted stuff are short. Were I to try to make an expert post it would be totally ignored. So why bother for me when I can snarky about things I know nothing about ? More fun !

I think experts who write short terse pithy comments that hit the mark, at a timely fashion, are rarer than hens teeth

in reply to Cryophilia

I see people in that thread recommending to avoid lemmy.ml - what’s up with that?!?
in reply to Blaze (he/him)

I honestly cannot find it. I find that Hexbear and Lemmigrad are frowned upon (hadn’t previously encountered them), but I actually find a few recommendations about Lemmy.ml. And many of my own subs are from there. I’d really like to understand!
in reply to Blaze (he/him)

Huh, interesting! Thanks a lot! I guess I’ll keep reading the communities on lemmy.ml but avoid joining more. And if I ever encounter the issues described I hope I’ll find similar communities elsewhere. So far everything on Lemmy is so much better than in any other platforms that I’m quite happy.
in reply to 4shtonButcher

Lemmy.ml is actively spreading malicious authoritarian propaganda, better to just avoid it
in reply to awwwyissss

I sometimes wonder if they get more power to do harm, if people that are aware just block them instead of using their votes while staying outside.
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in reply to 4shtonButcher

Yeah, one nice thing is that you can remove the problem communities and you see a lot less of them
in reply to 4shtonButcher

The hexbear folks were the worst. Like, putting all of their political opinions aside, they would just swarm posts and flood it with low quality buzzwords and memes and every formatting option to be as visually obnoxious as possible.

I don't know if I blocked them, they blocked me, or if my instance defederated from then, but holy shit my Lemmy experience got so much better when I stopped seeing their shit everywhere.

in reply to 4shtonButcher

If you're asking in good faith....
Most of lemmy.ml is a tankie echo chamber that silences or outright bans any dissenting discussion.

Try bringing up the facts surrounding Russia, China, Cuba, or North Korea...

Only lies and good vibes for tankies are permitted.

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in reply to Mjpasta710

Thanks, I honestly didn’t know! I’ve only really adopted Lemmy for almost daily use a few weeks back and mostly read tech related stuff and it’s been blissfully apolitical for the most part. Some of it is on .ml - I now understand the issue and will look out for it/support communities on other instances where possible.
in reply to Mjpasta710

I did not know this and posted a serious question on a thread dismissing starvation under Stalin as fake news. Ban was swift and responses were brutal. I thought it was just isolated trolling at the time.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

no wonder most of Google services work like shit. They always were, but now it's "Shit with AI"