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@ Neptr @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.

Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I'm nearly done with an IT Security degree.

TL;DR I am a nerd.

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    AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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    • Most "Open source" LLMs are really just open weights, which is useless without the training data. This dilutes the definition of OSS. There is no way to train the model as a normal person (aka not Google or Meta, etc)
    • LLM producers don't credit the OSS they trained on, no attribution. Most models violate the licenses of all their training data (eg. GPL).
    • LLM scraper bots put high stress on server infrastructure, creating a DDOS attack.

  • Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton

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  • Yeah, I already understood that. I just thought the comment above was saying it already had ARM emulation, but it was bad or something. I just misunderstood what the above comment was saying.

  • Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month

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  • IIRC, it is a current limitation of rpm-ostree, which results in an ISO that is nearly double in size.

  • Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton

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  • Pretty sure Waydroid uses the x86 image of LineageOS, cus last time I used it (like a year or more ago) I had to get x86 version of APKs I wanted to install.

  • Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave

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  • If I had to guess, they probably don't use the APIs, inside using scrapping of some sort.

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  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • I moved an older relative to Mint and I regret it. Weird lagging and display server crashes sometimes, probably because of X11. Plus it's release cycle is very slow, so old packages. Ubuntu is far from my favorite distro, but at least it uses a DE with first class Wayland support.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Good Dinosaur reference?

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  • Thanks

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  • I couldnt upload as an image :(

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  • Everything evolves over time. Ginko just hasn't changed visibly in structure.

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    How do you deal with LUKS?

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    How do you deal with LUKS?

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  • You could setup LUKS TPM unlocking.

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  • Switch to a Fully free Operating System

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  • I agree with PrivacyGuides on why to avoid Libre Kernels

    https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/linux-overview/#choosing-your-distribution

    Linux-libre kernel and “Libre” distributions

    We recommend against using the Linux-libre kernel, since it removes security mitigations and suppresses kernel warnings about vulnerable microcode.

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    Proprietary Firmware (Microcode Updates)

    Some Linux distributions (such as Linux-libre-based or DIY distros) don’t come with the proprietary microcode updates which patch critical security vulnerabilities. Some notable examples of these vulnerabilities include Spectre, Meltdown, SSB, Foreshadow, MDS, SWAPGS, and other hardware vulnerabilities.

    We highly recommend that you install microcode updates, as they contain important security patches for the CPU which can not be fully mitigated in software alone. Fedora and openSUSE both apply microcode updates by default.

  • Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset

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  • You can think yhat Wayland adoption was artificial, bit X.Org is unmaintained software and no developers are picking up reigns of X11. X is dead.

  • GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades

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  • It is possible on both GNOME and KDE iirc. I never use that feature, but i am sure i saw it in the settings.