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  • What could be the best way to introduce the world of computers to a kid, let's say of 6 years old, so that he learns to handle it like a toy and stops dreading it like some esoteric, arcane and

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  • Take away his other toys lol

    Idk what got me into it, but I do remember that I would frequently play around with MS Paint at my mom's workplace when I was very young. I don't remember how frequent my trips to her job were, but obviously I didn't have anything else to do while there. So when we finally got our own computer at home, I immediately knew what I wanted to do on it. From that point I would start learning more and more.

    I don't have kids, but lots of young children in my family. I've tried getting them into computers too, but they also seem scared of them. I think where I went wrong was trying to show off all the cool things it can do too quickly, as they might have gotten intimidated by the arcane rituals I did to make them happen.

    Regarding games, idk. My first exposure to games was on consoles, and I didn't play any PC games until we got internet at home and I stumbled across flash sites. I remember spending WAY more time looking for funny videos/animations than games.

    So... I have no real suggestions, just a few personal anecdotes.

  • 'Keep Android Open' Campaign Pushes Back on Google's Sideloading Restrictions

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  • Nah, it's 100% a response to the antitrust lawsuit they lost recently (Epic Games v Google) where they were ordered to offer third-party app stores on Google Play for X number of years. So if they can't have their app store monopoly anymore, they can use this to maintain control and insight into apps sold by competitors, and pretend it's for security.

  • Delta chat criticism against Signal

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  • but scaling is hard, and distributed tech is hugely inefficient

    How is it inefficient for a chat app? If anything, a distributed architecture is the ideal for this use case. It's only potentially a problem if you need to have huge group chats, which is definitely not the common use case for a chat app, but even then I think Delta Chat's optimized relays can handle that.

    see how it goes, and when the solution has scaled in the real world to what it’s competing against then you can feel superior as the one that had the vision to see it

    Delta chat uses existing email infrastructure, which has already proven its ability to scale. Nigerian princes probably send more emails per hour than the entire global Signal network.

  • Delta chat criticism against Signal

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  • From, the only info that's leaked is:

    • message date
    • sender/receiver addresses
    • message size

    So not nothing, but probably not a serious risk for most people, unless you decide to use an identifiable address for sending/receiving. Idk how Signal protects metadata, but it requires a real phone number, so it's probably not as secure as people think.

  • Can Linux save this tiny laptop from 2010

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  • Nothing can save this tiny laptop from 2010.

    2010 comes for us all.

  • Truck carrying aggressive monkeys infected with hepatitis, herpes, and COVID crashes in Mississippi

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  • Ape Escape!

  • Docker Alternative: Podman on Linux

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  • Check out this blog post which details how uids work within rootless containers. It's useful troubleshooting knowledge to have.

  • Docker Alternative: Podman on Linux

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  • You sound like you work at us-east-1

  • Code like a surgeon

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  • I predict that the "reframe vibe coding as something that sounds impressive" industry will explode in the next couple of years. All these LLM tools are dangerous sycophants, and the snake oil people will catch on and adapt to serve the market too.

  • A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

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  • some good old fashioned free market competition

    This kills the billionare

  • Docker Alternative: Podman on Linux

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  • Afaik it works perfectly. Podman can use Docker hub with zero issues, and is sometimes configured as the default repo for fetching images without a qualified name. Conversely, I think Docker works perfectly with the Podman ecosystem repos too (like quay.io)

  • Docker Alternative: Podman on Linux

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  • The way quadlets work is just such a struggle, if you have been using compose for years

    Learning new things is hard, sure, but quadlets are not that complex. Take a few hours to sit down and read through the manual or a tutorial, and you'll find they're easier to maintain, write, and deploy.

    Hot take: Docker compose is poorly designed, and very little thought went into the deployment side. It only 'won' because it was there first, and bad habits are tough to break.

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

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  • Begone, tankie.

  • Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

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  • You didn't get my point. AWS is incentivized to offer the best product they can sell to their customers, regardless of license. If the Rust core utils reach feature parity with GNU core utils, then Rust's memory safety makes it the superior product (at least on security) and an easy sell to customers.

    That is the point at which the license choice matters for what I said: when it's widely adopted by AWS customers. If it isn't GPL, then AWS is free to do what I described, and incentivized to do so.

    Sure, if AWS customers widely adopted the BSD tools for whatever reason, then it'd be the same situation. I just don't see any particular reason for that to happen.

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

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  • I don't think a Linux anti virus program would be such a big security win. Phishing is the biggest security threat to most users, and no amount of software can prevent that.

    Sure, downloading and running random shit is a concern, but people in that group are a bit of a lost cause. The best solution for that is to harden the OS, prevent running executables through the GUI, or from user folders (I think SELinux could do that), disable sudo on the user account, and only allow installing Flatpaks. The security of Flathub may not be perfect, but it's a smaller attack surface than the whole internet.

    But even if you do that, an Indian call center scam is still going to manipulate your grandma into buying Amazon gift cards, so... It's a lost cause.

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

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  • Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

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  • A rust rewrite of these tools has a lot of potential commercial value, and I can totally see a cloud provider like AWS putting this into some "hardened cloud AI distro" or whatever. They'll be able to do exactly what they did to Elastic Search, or do the EEE thing and add bugfixes/features that they don't contribute back in order to make their offering more competitive, make minor changes to the CLI as a lock-in strategy, etc.

    Not licensing this as GPL will inevitably lead to the erosion of freedoms for everyone.

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

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  • I installed Opera and used it exclusively.

    Why do people use Opera? It's a proprietary Chrome fork owned by a Chinese company.

  • A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

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  • This is stupid fear mongering, and the same shit we saw with Google Glass back in the day. Recording people without their consent is easier to do with your phone, and the video will be higher quality. If anything, what makes these glasses seem scarier from a privacy POV is that they're harder to be discrete with than a phone because they're on your face (regardless of the LED)... Which ironically makes them more privacy friendly.

    Don't get me wrong, nobody should buy this crap, and it is not privacy friendly at all. Every single sensor/camera on that shit will be uploading data straight into Mark Zuckerberg's veins 24/7. You are stupid if you buy one, simple as that.

    But this type of fear mongering is also stupid, and nothing more than click bait. If you want to raise the privacy alarm, focus on the important part: Meta.