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Want more GNU in Linux, so Guix, btw. पूंजीपति will be sent to corrective labour camp.

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The brand name is terrible. They should stick to Nokia.

velox_vulnus ,
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/c/technology@lemmy.ml is the right place to post, but Elon Musk? Really?

velox_vulnus ,
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  • Makes goods in China
  • Adds "Designed in San Francisco" instead
  • Profit?
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Parallel reality could be the next zodiac sign. That, or the n-body problem could become a FUD, with scientists proving that all it required was watching separated oil bubbles in lava lamp or something, I don't know.

What do you think of the term "short king" as a term that's supposed to champion body positivity for men?

Body positivity is such a strange concept to me. There's efforts to reclaim words while simultaneously calling them bad if used as an insult. Ideally, people wouldn't be offended by someone describing their body with common descriptors, but socially there is so much value attributed to certain body types that it's almost...

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I hate those pseudo feel-good tokenism bullshit, like "dad-bod", or "short king". Since they were said with good intentions, now I'm going to have to pretend that I appreciate a cactus slapped on my face.

Edit: Should've mentioned my height - it's 5'6". I've been fat-shamed since I was a child, and it continues even to this day for being between normal and over-weight. I have social anxiety, I hear whispers towards me, and when there's a loud laughter from some group in public, it puts me in a panicked state.

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This is the most unhinged Monty Python level of madness I've read.

Most unique looking celebrities?

I'm working on a side project studying variations in human facial features. It's been helpful to study celebrity faces because it's easy to find numerous reference photos. I've actually got a fairly good range of weird looking white men, turns out Hollywood is pretty flush with those, but it's been harder to find unique looking...

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"Baby, will you love me if I turn into an alien with a really huge head?"

"Yes..."

"Omg, you're so thoughtful I love y..."

"Become alien, now." 👽

velox_vulnus ,
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Is this a red/blue state reference I'm too non-American to understand?

velox_vulnus ,
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Ventoy does not work for distros like NixOS and Guix. You're going to have to use dd.

velox_vulnus ,
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I have experience with both the distros, and I've used them extensively for my personal projects in both of the machines I have. It's a hit-and-miss, according to the NixOS forums. Using Ventoy causes Stage-1 boot to fail, and in both the machines and distros I've tried, it hasn't worked.

velox_vulnus ,
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Intrusively, I was going to ask where I can see the pics of art.

velox_vulnus ,
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If you're talking about building from source, that is possible in quite a lot of distros.

velox_vulnus ,
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But why? That's the most pointless screen ratio I've yet to see.

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The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a substitute and that’s a problem?

Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the .

That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.

Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?

@fediverse

velox_vulnus ,
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Lemmy can do it just fine. I ask all my programming-relates questions over here.

velox_vulnus ,
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In South Asia, we have lots of different giant squirrel species. Maybe they're not that common in East Asia?

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There's three different species of Ibises in India:

  • Red-naped Ibis
  • Black-headed Ibis
  • Glossy Ibis

But we don't see them as garbage birds - they're quite rare in cities, and you can only see them in towns, villages and forests.

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They'll probably go even more nuts once they start seeing the Indian Giant Squirrel. They look like something out of a Studio Ghibli movie.

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The word "monkey" does not do justice to the diversity of primate species. What are commonly referred to as monkeys are actually macaques. With that being said, India is also popular for langurs, lutungs, lorises and gibbons.

As far as bovine species are considered, people often forget gaurs. They're quite jacked.

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There's this assumption that these features in some way create some exploitable security issue.

I get the theory behind it: more code and more interoperability and more features &etc. generally leads to more bugs than the alternative, sure.

But there's also a line beyond which that principle stops making sense from a practical standpoint. Like, I could put my laptop into a furnace and melt it into slag. Now it will have no features, and that will make it very secure!

Lmao

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I'm reading the Book of Earthsea! Her sci-fi books are known for being pro-anarchist, but I've yet to read them.

velox_vulnus ,
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  1. In the Fediverse, everyone gets access to the data. However, if privacy is what's bugging you, then you're free to use a forum - which is going to be archived by someone on the internet, so in a way, the stuff you post on the internet is not going to be private - there's nothing that can be done about it, except for going under a pseudonym. However, the same cannot be said for Stack Exchange. Will they let you parse their site for free, when Reddit and other private platforms are charging money for the same? They're using 16 years worth of free volunteer work to make lots of bucks.

  2. In their quest for integrating AI, now the new site will vomit verbal diarrhea. Humans don't do that. These language models are absolutely terrible in their tasks. They can't replace humans, at least for now, we know it.

  3. Earlier, the site was free, and their means of earning was through some sort of enterprise solution, but now that they're going to add AI, it is going to be very resource-intensive. Who is paying for all of that? We have to, from our own pockets, for low quality answers, with no respect to the question asked by the user? Yeah, welcome to paywall 2.0!

  4. Their lofy model will use answers from 2010s to train their data, most of which isn't applicable in today's time. Will you be using X11 configs for Wayland on Linux? Or GTK+ solutions for GTK4?

velox_vulnus ,
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No, it can't be. I may be using robots.txt on, say, lemmy.ml, but those posts will still be broadcasted on lemmy.world, or hexbear.net.

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NixOS, Guix System, SerpentOS, Bedrock and T2 Linux? Meta-distributions (could be either simple config-based reproducible systems, immutable atomic distros or functional transitive-dependency package managers), micro-kernels and distributed systems are the next cool, bleeding-edge stuff in FLOSS OSes, and most of those projects are still in development.

By the way, NixOS and Guix System use Stores, instead of FHS (File Hierarchy Standard). To take it up one notch, Guix uses shepherd instead of systemd, so if anyone over here dislikes Lenning or systemd for some irrational reasons, you've got a nice distro, I guess. But do note that you don't get to swap init systems in both NixOS and Guix System - you're stuck with systemd and shepherd respectively.

velox_vulnus ,
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Let me guess, some Indian boomer? They come up with the wildest shit.

velox_vulnus ,
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I am Indian myself, so I have a better understanding about the internet sub-culture intrinsic to my country. This is a neutral stereotype about 'WhatsApp Unkils'. It is a counter-reaction to ageism towards younger people, whose intelligence is mocked, simply because they're younger - the Asian culture of "elders are always right" snubs Gen-Y, Z and younger folks. Now that internet has blown up in India, old people who are literate and take pride in this sort of elitism are embarrassing themselves with their "confidently incorrect" takes on the internet.

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That doesn't look like GRUB, more like GWYAGH.

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Amnesty International does not call Hamas a terrorist group. Reactive violence is an expected outcome towards an apartheid state. Who are you and I to decide if supporting Hamas is good or bad, when their people have lived in the dark for seventy years, and counting? When basic healthcare, education and right to self determination was snatched from them?

And if you weren't aware of this before, Indian communists have kidnapped and slaughtered high-ranking officers from the colonizing states. We are proud of their actions, in fact we brag about it, and make movies too. Should have thought twice before colonizing and treating people like trash.

What do you think about this?

Someone told me that if you keep your gaze fixed and imagine a completely black circle right above someone's head, what you are actually doing is telepathy... so far I haven't researched more about it but I have noticed that some strange things happen when I do that, I see spirals and the vision looks different, could someone...

velox_vulnus ,
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There's no such thing as telepathy. Those spirals and visions happen when you put pressure on your eyes, don't do that. If they appear without pressure, then those flying stuff are called floaters, basically dead cells floating inside your eyes. About the red dot, that's an illusion. I can show you another picture and make you believe in Flying Spaghetti?

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The USA is a settler state, tf are you talking about mate? Or does it require someone from a ex-colony to explain you the what's and how's?

  • Ecocide? Very much visible, many lakes and forests have been destroyed and polluted, lands have been turned into concrete jungle of highways.
  • Linguicide? Obviously, no one speaks and practices the language and culture of the native Americans in their own land. Can you? No, English is not their language.
  • Apartheid? Areas where the native Americans live are very underdeveloped. Their right to vote is suppressed. Access to healthcare is abysmal. Isn't that apartheid?
  • Poverty? Yes, the Native American is the most impoverished groups in the USA.
  • Political representation? Almost nonexistent compared to other groups. Name a few popular native American politician, I'll wait.
  • Right to self-determination? Most of their lands are under the control of imperialist white men and their crony capitalist buddies.

The USA is the most unhinged form of evolutionary neo-colonialist project, a produced of primitive capitalism gone rogue and rabid, mimicking the "success" of the East India companies by colonizer European states. Death to imperialism, death to America.

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What makes this different from https://aux.computer? And with just ten people - such a small community, to maintain what, a parallel fork that will eventually be forced to accept patches from Nix repos? How does it protect against, let's say, corporate decisions? Wouldn't that seep into their project too? Not trying to demotivate them, but I fear that this could be the fate of their project.

There's Guix, which is an official GNU project. If anyone is willing to learn a little bit of Guile Scheme - look, the language is great, the project isn't contaminated with multiple scripts, project skeleton is much better, the modules are well written, so why not move over there? Sure, it's still in the early version, so some stuff will be hard to work with, but personally, I think it's a really nice hard-fork.

velox_vulnus ,
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Oh, so from what I see, Aux is responsible for working on the Aux tooling, which is basically Nix CLI fork. And Lix is the operating system itself, including infrastructure and clones of Nix essentials like Nixpkg, Hydra, etc? I could definitely see these folks collaborating with each other.

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Right now, I am struggling because of unemployment and job shortage in the tech-market, but I'm planning to share my own patches to essential software, like you've mentioned - probably within the end of this month. I think projects like Node, Ruby and Python need to be maintained well enough.

So if I have a chance to, I'll probably work on either one of them, especially Node - that seems to be quite dated, and they've also skipped on v16, which hurts people who are still on it and don't want to migrate immediately - because there's no inferiors to pin to - while there's multiple commits at least for 10, 14 and 18. Working on it would make Guix convincing as a third-party system package manager. I don't know the state of Ruby or Python, but Zig seems to be in a decently good condition. Rust may be removed probably to avoid trademark violations, or they'll probably create a fork and rename it.

About the FOSS extremism, it is not that bad, and I honestly like it the way they've maintained it - in a way, it is very similar to how Fedora separates their free and non-free repositories. This is not to say that there's provisions for no non-free drivers - in fact, I personally use them for my Wi-Fi drivers to work correctly. Given the state of FLOSS-respecting Wi-Fi hardware, Wi-Fi 5 devices still don't have their respective open-source drivers, so 6, 6E and 7 are still going to be unsupported for a long time with the libre kernel. For folks who want to setup a working system easily, nonguix ISOs are readily available, so that would probably be the best place for anyone to start at.

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velox_vulnus ,
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Verdict: Not guilty.

What the actual fuck?

Decades Later, No Justice for Kent State Killings

velox_vulnus ,
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You could try getting a SATA SSD. Those are slower than M.2 or NVME-based product, but it will serve you well. Try looking for a low-storage solution for now. Maybe 128 or 250GB should work fine. Since you have a spare HDD, I think it's okay for now.

velox_vulnus ,
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Now that you've mentioned how complex they are, can you share a few alternatives, apart from run0?

velox_vulnus ,
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On later Android versions, you can "disable" apps.

velox_vulnus ,
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For a TV, those fonts are tiny as hell.

velox_vulnus ,
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Too bad I'm busy, or else I'd have configured a tiling WM in Guix. I bet you also listen to Keeravani's composition, if you're into A.R. Rahman.

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    I'm 23.

    Do you practice self care?

    Hello. Let's talk about self-care. Who practices self-care regularly? I've been making an absolute effort to practice self-care, and it's definitely improving my mood. I floss, meditate, do qigong, breathwork, etc. Yes, flossing is self-care, take care of yo teefs. What does everyone do for self-care? Bonus question: Where else...

    velox_vulnus ,
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    I do, but I'm not good at it. I trim my body hair, I don't floss because those are really expensive where I am from, but I brush twice in a day and gargle. I've recently started taking minoxidil and finasteride, so there's that too. Luckily, I was born with a great skin, and rarely do I get boils, so I don't really do anything apart from using soap and water - although I'm concerned about the formation of wrinkles and other scars when I get older. I do not do any sort of meditation, because I've not seen any improvement from it. I bath twice in a day, but because my mental health is really terrible, so sometimes I skip my morning bath. For the same reason, I also have a sedentary lifestyle. By the way, there was a /c/selfcare@lemmy.ml community I had created, which I had to delete later because no one took part in it. You can probably request the admins to un-delete the same.

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    I wish Kakoune was somewhat popular. I would love to start working on a similar project using Guile integration, but I really suck at reading source code.

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    Thank you for sharing this. I've never tried using Emacs before - since I'm on a very low-end laptop, I am curious if it would hurt the performance on my device? It's a i3-6006U with just 4.0GiB of RAM. Also, Guile Emacs and Guilemacs are two different projects, right? Because I also happen to come across this, and I've been interested in this project as well.

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    Not really. You can use a standard ISO, and you need to authorize the nonguix substitute server. Just make sure to add your channels, that's it. It is kinda similar to net-based setup in a way, though.

    velox_vulnus ,
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    So are we calling this the H5N1 "Americans made this in a lab" virus or something? /s

    For those unaware: Scientists say USDA is sharing too little data too slowly on H5N1 flu

    velox_vulnus ,
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    I'd recommend you get your eyes checked, because you have no clue what you're talking about. The above comment has nothing to do with Mull's icon - but about Fennec's name - which, again, is me nitpicking. And just stop it, because I have no interest in continuing this conversation and making an issue out of something mildly infuriating - I was pointing it, because it slightly bothers me. End of convo, peace, I'm out.

    velox_vulnus ,
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    My dear netizen, I am not talking about icon label in the desktop:

    the icon

    I am talking about this:

    the app

    I'm merely asking how you'd use a launcher to modify the text?

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