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@ sxan @midwest.social

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Ceterum Lemmi necessitates reactiones

  • GTK ported to Android — here we gooooo!

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  • You just need to wait for the proof of work to complete

    I will never find the irony in this anything other than pathetic.

    The one legitimate grievance against Bitcoin and other POW cryptocurrencies - the wasteful burning of energy to do throw-away calculations simply to prove the work has been done... the environmental cost of distributed scale meaningless CPU cycle waste purely for the purpose of wasting CPU cycles, has been so eagerly grasped by people who are largely doing it to foil another energy wasteful infotech invention.

    It really is astonishing.

  • 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' first look welcomes cadets, Paul Giamatti's alien (exclusive)

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  • Great. ST continues its descent into gritty realism that betrays Roddenberry's vision.

    "If you're going to do a show about a young generation facing the future and you want it, as all Star Trek does, to be a mirror that holds itself up to the world as it is now, to situate the show in the halcyon days of the Federation would, in some ways, be dishonest,"

    Bull Fucking shit. TOS was at the height of the cold war. People were still building fallout shelters.

    Our children are facing a lot of challenges right now and they are our hope for the future

    So give them a show about hope, about how things could be better, how we could be better, not the same shit they could get by turning on the news.

    Hard pass. Lower Decks was the one bright spot in the current franchise.

  • Bcachefs Lands Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.16

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  • I'm sure he's very clever, but jesus fucking christ why can't he get his shit together?

    I'm mad, because I was really looking forward to bachefs, but now I'm going to hold off. btrfs is great, and they've got their process under control. Call me when bcachefs switches maintainers and can follow the Kernel merge process. These last minute pushes are sketchy.

  • The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

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  • E2E usually suffers from the same thing HTTP does: the MITM might not be able to read what you're saying, but they know who you're saying it to, and they may know in what context. This is a lot of information that can be used in profiling.

    So you end up with systems like SimpleX, where everyone has a different UID for every contact, but that has its own problems, as anyone who's used systems like that are aware. We haven't really solved making that a good user experience for messaging; I don't see it translating to broader social media any time soon.

    Nostr has some really good specs and tooling that neatly addresses these topics, including great cryptography support, signing, ad-hoc IDs, and an entirely voluntary simple naming lookup; it doesn't exactly solve zooko's triangle, but it provides a toolset sufficient to mix and match characteristics for whatever your threat model is. Sadly, Nostr is utterly dominated by the crypto crowd (and is associated with some controversial personalities), and even if you're not cryptocurrency-hostile, it's a really dull echo chamber with little other content that has prevented people who might otherwise build interesting platforms in it from doing so.

    Mastodon was around for ages before (the in practice centralized) Bluesky; why did it take Bluesky to open a mass exodus from X?

    This is a hard problem to solve. Throwing E2E at it doesn't make it easier; it's just tossing a buzzword in.

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • Someone brought up religion, or god. Is it the athiests?

    I will absolutely push back if something brings up religion.

    It would be silly if a Christian tried to convert you, an already converted Christian. Maybe there's some confirmation bias at work?

  • Devils Panties 07/24/2025

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  • Or 3 California votes, if you live in fly-over country.

  • Is it okay to store Backrest/Restic within the stacks managed by Dockge?

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  • What do you mean by "all right?" What are your concerns?

    restic backups are encrypted by default; it should be safe to store them almost anywhere in the cloud. The container needs the credentials, but you can improve security with something like OpenBAO (Hashicorp Vauly fork, github.com/openbao/openbao), SOPS (gitgub.com/getsops/sops), infisical (github.com/Infisical/infisical), or any number of other secrets management tool.

  • Authentik vs Authelia?

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  • Why don't you like LDAP? OpenLDAP is a PITA (necessarily, I guess, to be considered "enterprise"), but lldap has been pretty nice to me. I mean, it's the identity protocol, it's just that the server software has been complex until relatively recently.

    What would you use instead? A SQL DB with some custom schema, that just re-invents LDAP?

  • Authentik vs Authelia?

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  • I like the motivation behind this, but have a allergy to running critical infrastructure like authentication on node.

    To each their own, though, and good luck with the project. Diversity is life.

  • I Wish This Would Happen 🎉✨

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  • It's the same thing, dahling.

    Tosses $120 champaign flute into the fireplace

  • koto v0.16.0 released (koto is a scripting programming language)

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  • Can we add a community rule that mentions of software releases at a minimum say what the software does? The category, if nothing else, but ideally an elevator pitch.

  • Plato's Noble Lie

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  • "I figure that's just the human material, and him that finds in it cause for anger and dismay is just a fool for expecting better. "

  • Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

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  • I agree; the OP article comparing it to AUR was off the mark.

  • Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

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  • AUR has centralized control. You have to have an account to post packages. When malicious software is found in AUR (as it was recently), the packages can be removed and the user who submitted them, banned (in the recent case, two packages were submitted by the same contributor).

    The OP article compares the GUIX distribution mechanism to AUR. What they described is decentralized and distributed. It's less like AUR than it is like having people run wget https://url.com/install.sh | bash.

  • GNU gettext 0.26 released

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  • When do y'all think the sea change was, the turning point, when software stopped being "done", and people started believing that if there were no updates, or updates were infrequent, that projects were considered abandoned or dead?

    Because it didn't used to be, not for literally everything. OSes, yes; DEs, Feature programs, suites like word processors, sure. But you got awk, and sed, and they were "done." You didn't expect updates to old, established code. I only just realized this because I was surpassed gettext got an update. I'd have expected it to be baked software.

  • Microsoft's Secure Boot UEFI bootloader signing key expires in September, posing problems for Linux users

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  • = for "not equal" is an abomination. It _should_ be the ASCII equivalent for ≈, "approximate to". Bash gets it right with = for pattern matching.

  • Aging 🫠

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  • Yeah, that's the secret. All of the crap you shrug off as a kid just bides its time to come back when you're old. Like, 30.

    Hahaha! Yes! You may live until you're 90, kids, but 60 of those will be spent suffering! You'll be old by 30! Boomers! Hahaha! Boomers everywhere!

  • Aging 🫠

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  • We are legion.

  • Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

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  • And in a way where malicious programs can't be removed from the repos, like in AUR? Where people who repeatedly publish supply chain attacks can't be banned?

  • Plato's Noble Lie

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  • He was right only about the numbers.