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Stephen L. Thompson

4 months ago • •

Stephen L. Thompson
4 months ago • •

The First Guy To Ever Trick or Treat
youtube.com/watch?v=XuOnlWK9Vk…

Extinction Rebellion France

4 months ago • •

Extinction Rebellion France
4 months ago • •

La semaine dernière, les activistes se sont levé·e·s face à #TotalEnergies : De "Code Rouge" 🇧🇪 à Carnage Total 🇫🇷, iels montrent qu'il est possible de se dresser face à la pétrolière 🛢

Les entreprises liée aux énergies fossiles ont une part majeure dans les crises en cours : le temps de ce constat est passé, maintenant, on prend les choses en main ✊✊🏿✊🏾

#TotalÉnergies

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Mongabay

4 months ago • •

Mongabay
4 months ago • •

The Colombian government has issued a decree that recognizes Indigenous peoples as environmental authorities in their territories.

The decree gives new powers to Indigenous peoples to protect ecosystems, manage and conserve their territories and resources, plan budgets and make decisions about land use.

By Aimee Gabay
news.mongabay.com/2024/10/colo…

#News #Conservation #Environment #IndigenousPeoples

#News #Environment #conservation #IndigenousPeoples

GeriAQuin

4 months ago • •

GeriAQuin
4 months ago • •

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

#dogsofmastodon #dogs #dog

Childless Bambino

4 months ago • •

Childless Bambino
4 months ago • •

Which is your favourite #Android open source photo gallery app and why is it Aves Libre? (I also use it as a file manager for moving pics and videos between directories)

#opensource

github.com/deckerst/aves

#opensource #android

Windows 11 24H2?? Sick of this?
Are you tired of doing your daily tasks with endless troubleshooting, console commands and explanatory videos? Are you fed up with unwanted monitoring and advertising? Switch to a modern, fast and peaceful system in your own hands today. Start using Linux today! MINT (linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=3…) for daily use or Kubuntu (kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/) for Power user and Futurists.

word.undead-network.de/2024/10…
#FOSS #freedom #KDE #linux #mind #selfdefence #windows #linuxmint

#Windows #Linux #foss #kde #freedom #linuxmint #mind #selfdefence

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Don Watkins

4 months ago • •

Don Watkins
4 months ago • •

Print a spooky greeting in ASCII art #Linux #ascii #art #Halloween

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#Linux #art #halloween #ascii

JenJen

4 months ago • •

JenJen
4 months ago • •

omg ive made my first lettered page in inkscape and i had so much fun i wanna do a lil cry

#inkscape #webcomic #MastoArt

a skal comic page - showing a fantasy chase scene through a slummy area. we follow Voresh as she's running away from the guards. She's being guided by one of her little birds

#mastoart #inkscape #webcomic

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David Revoy

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Yisrael Dov

4 months ago • •

Yisrael Dov
4 months ago • •

TL:DR

Conservatives make less but give more

linuxrocks.online/@yisraeldov/…

Kit Yates

4 months ago • •

Kit Yates
4 months ago • •

This isn't good news.
It feels a bit like we're watching the precursor to the next potential pandemic play out in slow motion from the sidelines.
buff.ly/4fnibd4

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kravietz 🦇

4 months ago • •

kravietz 🦇
4 months ago • •

BBC reports about new #Russia tactics in #Kherson oblast where frequency of drone attacks against civilians increased significantly increased - notably, most evidence comes from Russian own channels who post them without much hesitation.

Full: bbc.com/news/articles/c207gz7k…

The thing I can add - that is not mentioned in BBC article - is that Russians unrolled this tactics already 1-2 months ago when they started openly posting civilians attack videos on their channels. They posted two justifications, if you will, which tell you more about their system of values more than anything else:

drone strikes against civilians are a convenient way of training their new UAV operators;
Kherson residents report #Ukraine army locations in their area, which will buy them “immunity

BBC analysis of Russian drone strike against civilians in Kherson, frame by frame

#Russia #ukraine #Kherson

Reverend Elvis

4 months ago • •

Reverend Elvis
4 months ago • •

Windows 11 24H2?? Sick of this?
Are you tired of doing your daily tasks with endless troubleshooting, console commands and explanatory videos? Are you fed up with unwanted monitoring and advertising? Switch to a modern, fast and peaceful system in your own hands today. Start using Linux today! MINT for daily use or Kubuntu for Power user and Futurists.

word.undead-network.de/2024/10…
#FOSS #freedom #KDE #linux #mind #selfdefence #windows

#Windows #Linux #foss #kde #freedom #mind #selfdefence

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Digit

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Windows 11 24H2??

No. I switched to GNU+Linux when M$ tried force users to use WinXP, 2 decades ago.

Sick of this?

No experience. I switched to GNU+Linux 2 decades ago.

Are you tired of doing your daily tasks with endless troubleshooting, console commands and explanatory videos?

Nope. I switched to GNU+Linux 2 decades ago.

Are you fed up with unwanted monitoring and advertising?

Nah, largely mitigated these harms. I switched to GNU+Linux 2 decades ago.

;)

Mint or Kubuntu, superb choices. Other distributions are available. :) distrowatch.com/ & distrochooser.de/ can help find the distro that suits you.

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Reverend Elvis

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@Digit #metoo
It's just schadenfreude that they now have to use the terminal for windows. Only without power, unlike GNU :))))

#MeToo @Digit

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Reverend Elvis

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Mint or Kubuntu, superb choices. Other distributions are available. :) distrowatch.com/ & distrochooser.de/ can help find the distro that suits you.

I have learned that those who want to switch are quickly overwhelmed when choosing a distro.
MINT is understood by everyone, very intuitive. I would recommend it to anyone. And I have recommended KDE because I am just discovering it – I am actually an XFCE user. Once you get in, you quickly recognize the different possibilities.

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headrift

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I moved to Linux (Slackware specifically) a little over two decades ago. No Windows sinve 7 in the mid 2010s sometime, which was for a job. It dual booted with Arch... I only used the Windows side for work shrug

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juliadream

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Mint is a lovely solid stable daily driver, it's only problem is like Debian it's packages are a bit old sometimes.. I always look and see what a machine is actually expected to do.

I have to admit liking Manjaro. Now that's pretty bleeding edge yet doesn't break too often and the forums are brilliant when inevitably the update manager gets itself into a circular dependency hell. Some zealot spouted some crap about EndeavourOS.. Well I tried that on a machine that was happily running Manjaro and it failed to even install to a terminal.. FAIL big time..

Half the problem is people come along "advising" newbies to use some stupid exotic (and often broken) pile of junk that is used by like 25 people on the planet and the broken crap that their "expert hobbiest" mindset allows them (after far more twatting about than is healthy) to use doesn't let them see the issue. Rather like raw Arch.. yeah it's fine.. but it breaks on every single update and last time I tried to install it there was a huge fail as it didn't install by default any networking capability (dhcpd among othe

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headrift

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@juliadream I used Sabayon for a while when I was moving away from Gentoo... and yes, I don't go around recommending Gentoo or Arch or derivatives to potential users. If I do see a "I wanrt to try Linux" post and comment, I'll usually suggest Ubuntu. The distros I run are not fit for mortal (n00b) consumption imo, but I find that dropping names like Arch or Slackware gets comments like yours warning new users away from people like me, which I think is the genreal atmosphere of Linux users right now. More people should run Linux beyond Android imo, but they will or won't reguardless of my little voice either way. The shouldn't, at least.

This was a Windows post in a predominantly Linux environment though. Call me as a gatekeeper if thou wilt, but I'm okay with that. The OP's grandmother, or even the OP's granddaughter, will probably never use Linux. It's a niche OS by nature. fwiw, I don't even go into the BSD / GPL argument in front of them. That's a masters-level discussion... and I bet a few of us could write a thesis about the differences

@juliadream

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juliadream

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We certainly could.. I just advise people to grab Mint with XFCE and give it a go.. It's "XP" enough that after a couple of minutes explaining the package manager they seem to manage just fine. For tonight.. as it's the 31st and all alone (as usual) I'm going to have a little play in a vm with GhostBSD.. Y'know.. just for fun..

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headrift

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The only BSD I've even looked at is DragonflyBSD for my personal server, but that was a while ago

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juliadream

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The host for the Ghost is my nearly 20 year old HP dl380 g5.. which is a NetBSD setup running Xen. and hosts among other things.. 32 bit Solaris6 and the one instance of XP in the house (for a stupid ancient Epson printer maintenance program) plus a few oddities like QNX. Yeah.. I really like making life hard for myself..

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Reverend Elvis

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Thank you all for the many recommendations. I've been using Linux for over 20 years and love it, even though I never got past Ubuntu.

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juliadream

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Today I are mostly playing with an IBM x3650 which has been donated to my utility suppliers profit margins.... It's a little on the low spec side so a shuffle nas it shall probably be..

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Digit

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Mint is a lovely solid stable daily driver, it’s only problem is like Debian it’s packages are a bit old sometimes… I always look and see what a machine is actually expected to do.

I presume you can move debian based mint to sid repos. (or a devuan based to ceres).

I have to admit liking Manjaro. Now that’s pretty bleeding edge yet doesn’t break too often

lol. that was funny. a cascade of inevitable woes. throughout that paragraph and ongoing, through the same joke.

20+ years ago as an early 64 bit adopter I ran Sabayon…

was about to object to that, saying it's not possible... ... ... then started wondering, has it really been that long? when did sabayon start? when did 64bit start?

(ps, Sabayon was my 2nd main distro considered home, after suse, aside much distro-surfing, around version 3.2 or 3.3 iirc).

The OP’s grandmother, or even the OP’s granddaughter, will

Mint is a lovely solid stable daily driver, it’s only problem is like Debian it’s packages are a bit old sometimes… I always look and see what a machine is actually expected to do.

I presume you can move debian based mint to sid repos. (or a devuan based to ceres).

I have to admit liking Manjaro. Now that’s pretty bleeding edge yet doesn’t break too often

lol. that was funny. a cascade of inevitable woes. throughout that paragraph and ongoing, through the same joke.

20+ years ago as an early 64 bit adopter I ran Sabayon…

was about to object to that, saying it's not possible... ... ... then started wondering, has it really been that long? when did sabayon start? when did 64bit start?

(ps, Sabayon was my 2nd main distro considered home, after suse, aside much distro-surfing, around version 3.2 or 3.3 iirc).

The OP’s grandmother, or even the OP’s granddaughter, will probably never use Linux. It’s a niche OS by nature.

I dont know the grandmother or grandaughter in question or why such an assertion can be made for them specifically, but, linux, the OS, by its nature, can be shaped to fill almost any niche... so why is it they will probably never use linux? loser's script presumptive projecting? maybe we could build a custom one for them.

fwiw, I don’t even go into the BSD / GPL argument in front of them. That’s a masters-level discussion… and I bet a few of us could write a thesis about the differences

it was encountering such distinctions up front that were part and parcel of me understanding what it is, why it is, how it is, and why i got interested in free software. i think every fail i've had at inspiring interest in free software may be because i failed to convey what free software is and thus why it's of importance and worth intrigue and investment; and every success, because the freedom and the implications of that were conveyed, and i think maybe that might be done better with offering the distinction of "free and free alike", or "free to un-free".

idk, maybe for some, maybe for all.

i think enthused free software elaborate evangelising is more enticing than a dismissive "just use mint".

after a couple of minutes explaining the package manager they seem to manage just fine.

yeah, methinks this something any distro striving to be accessible to new users can do much better... ferrying them to understanding the package manager. it no one points it out to you, it's possible to be using a linux distro with no idea about a package manager. lets get a first-boot help dialogue window with a friendly little animated konky pointing to the concise package manager intro "this is how to install more software..."

The only BSD I’ve even looked at is DragonflyBSD for my personal server, but that was a while ago

stop.

HAMMER time.

;)

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juliadream

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I still have my first desktop 64 system.. AMD Athlon 3400+.. November 2003

Recapped Asus K8N still going strong, and increasing in value every day.. The early single core ones are rare as most were killed by the bad caps plague..

Mathieu Jacomy

4 months ago • •

Mathieu Jacomy
4 months ago • •

*Unknown Unknowns in Knowing Machines*

☞ New paper out with Erik Borra in Sociologica.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/v…

People use AI assistants to answer knowledge questions, but can we say they "know"?

We screw around with LLMs to discover more, and we find ways to better show our students what is going on.

#maSSHine

Table showing which LLMs have been tested in our experiment.

#masshine

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Mathieu Jacomy

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We start with an experiment measuring self-consistency in LLMs for a knowledge-retrieval task.

We use prompt perturbation: minor input changes that should not change the output, yet do.

Examples of perturbed prompts, with outputs. It reads exactly this:

The exact day Eva Green was born, using the YYYY-MM-DD format, is 1980-02-06
The precise birth date of Eva Green, using the YYYY-MM-DD format, is 1980-08-06
The exact birth date of Eva Green, using the YYYY-MM-DD format, is : 1980-02-06.

Bill Woodcock

4 months ago • •

Bill Woodcock
4 months ago • •

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memeorandum

4 months ago • •

memeorandum
4 months ago • •

Opponents use parental rights and anti-trans messages to fight abortion ballot measures (Christine Fernando/Associated Press)

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memeorandum

4 months ago • •

memeorandum
4 months ago • •

Federal and State Veterinary Agencies Share Update on HPAI Detections in Oregon Backyard Farm, Including First H5N1 Detections in Swine (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)

aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-ann…
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Phoronix

4 months ago • •

Phoronix
4 months ago • •

Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch

Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case...
phoronix.com/news/Linus-2.6p-F…

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olinasc

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he knows a thing or two about coding I'd say...

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Ray Of Sunlight

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Imagine if someone manage to make a software or a game load so many things quickly, realistically it's impossible(I beleive), but hey, dreaming is free.

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