iByteABit

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Yet another reason to hate on the worse DB in existence

Larry Ellison and his two friends and former co-workers, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, started a consultancy called Software Development Laboratories (SDL) in 1977, later Oracle Corporation. SDL developed the original version of the Oracle software. The name Oracle comes from the code-name of a Central Intelligence Agency-funded project Ellison had worked on while formerly employed by Ampex;[7] the CIA was Oracle's first customer, and allowed the company to use the code name for the new product.[8]
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iByteABit ,

I'd say nukes, as they are the only human invention so far that can end all of life as we know it in an instant.
I still can't blame the countries who built them as a response to the US wanting to use them to become world ruler, which they absolutely would have done if the other countries didn't also build nukes.
But simply as an invention leaving politics aside, fuck nukes.

iByteABit ,

I absolutely hate those, I feel such a strong need to clear them even if I know that I'll waste my time by clicking them. They are useful when there's something you actually want to read behind those notifications, but it's ridiculously abused by all mainstream software.

iByteABit ,

Still, there have been really close calls historically which were only avoided because of some good decisions by individuals (e.g. Vasily Arkhipov. These could happen again with less wise decisions made. Not saying that any countries having them today could be getting rid of them realistically without the US waiting outside their door, but one day when we will hopefully be living in more peaceful times without imperialists, we should be putting them in the time capsule of history along with the system that made them necessary in the first place.

iByteABit ,

Not sure why you have a snarky tone about it, but there definitely have been times in human history that were not using war as a means of carving out resources and spheres of influence. Comparing tribes fighting to today's reasons for war is pretty pointless, and so is defining a immutable "human nature". If anything, the nature of humans is to change their nature.

iByteABit ,

Wish I could see a society that uses AI resources with respect to the resources, and not having multiple companies compete over who makes the best slop flinging machine, but instead diverting all that extra workforce to actual research that advances this technology instead of leaving it at the 'produces decent codes sometimes' and 'good for generating targeted ads' level

iByteABit ,

How does a zero click hack even work? Let's assume the ISPs and phone companies are all willing to collaborate on an attack against you, your Signal chats are still local and encrypted, how do they get in?

iByteABit ,

I assume they mostly mean petty bourgeoisie, like landlords etc, because the big capitalists don't even have any taxes to complain for usually

How much influence does Red Hat/IBM/US government actually have over Fedora? ( ahmadhaghighi.com )

I've been using Fedora for many years now. Recently, I've stumbled upon a blogpost that I'm linking here and it actually made me wonder and dig a little deeper. And I'm starting to worry over how much influence does IBM or US government have over so-called "community distro". The blog post makes a pretty clear cut case - a guy ...

iByteABit ,

This is exactly the post I was trying to find today as I wondered the same thing about Red Hat and IBM having leverage over these projects.

I don't know to what extent that happens, but any FOSS project being used to benefit a profit driven company (the software engineering giant IBM in this case) is a big red flag for me.

Anyone else notice that middle click is the first thing to fail on their mice?

Middle click failure plagues nearly every mouse I've owned, OEM, Logitech, wired, or wireless. I take full advantage of the middle click shortcuts like opening links in new tabs, but I don't think I'm putting it through undue stress either. As far as I can tell, I'm clicking it with the same force as I would the other mouse ...

iByteABit ,

Didn't really use it that often, and it stopped working right as I was playing Sekiro, which was annoying because I had to remap the target button elsewhere

iByteABit ,

There are many valid reasons to have moved to the US decades ago, either running away from poverty like people from Latin America, or simply finding better job opportunities. Unequal exchange in capitalism can lead many people to work for the imperialist powers because their home country is worse economically, often due to them being taken advantage of.

iByteABit ,

And if you're looking for an answer, you can find it in the video below:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ba63bd65-ac02-44dd-b5e5-c4641d0bdaff.png

iByteABit ,

instructions unclear, painted my balls blue

iByteABit ,

Quoted from the Arch wiki:

The current situation of anti-malware products on Linux is inadequate due to several factors:

    - Limited Variety: Compared to Windows, there are fewer users/clients resulting in limited interest for companies to develop products for Linux.

    - Complacency: Many believe Linux is inherently secure, leading to a lack of awareness and focus on malware protection. This creates a gap in proactive defense mechanisms.

    - Lack of Features: Existing tools often lack advanced features which are common in Windows anti-malware products, making them less effective on Linux.

This is especially bad because the amount of malware on Linux is increasing just as the possible attack surface due to the increasing number of Linux-based servers and IoT devices.
Currently on Linux one of the few existing and actively developed anti-malware solutions is ClamAV.

There is no inherent mechanism that makes your system secure to viruses just because it's Linux.
This is mostly said because, Linux being a small percentage of desktop users, it's not yet common for hackers to target Linux systems because it's not worth the hassle when you can just target a much larger audience on Windows that is on average much less tech literate too.

But as Linux popularity grows, viruses will start popping up on Linux as well, so it's never a bad idea to use ClamAV.
You are already more protected when you use package repositories instead of downloading executables from websites like you do on Windows, and Linux has better file system permissions, but you still need to be careful what you're downloading and running.

iByteABit ,

Really good idea!

iByteABit ,

Pretty unhelpful to the discussion, OP is looking for a fix, not distro suggestions

iByteABit ,

China 1984 authoritarian CCP -racist slurs and stereotypes for good measure-

iByteABit , (edited )

It's one thing for a company to train a model with your code and then create a better copy of what you made and sell it for profit (which I think is an unrealistic thing to happen if their codebase is depending on AI slop code), and it's another thing that an AI is providing access to public information (the code) that you previously monetized to help people understand it better. I really don't see how that monetization model would have worked regardless of AI existing, at some point there are going to be enough people out there that understand the code that can build documentation of their own for free. I'm not a lawyer but I don't see how this violates a GPL license either.

The only thing FOSS projects have to be wary of about AI is slop pull requests, but code review still had to be done before LLMs existed anyway.

Also my two cents about the threads regarding Tailwind is that, what FOSS devs wanting to live doing what they do should really hate is not AI making it harder for them to monetize their projects in odd ways, but capitalism requiring them to monetize anything they do for them to be able to live while doing it. FOSS devs should be able to hand out their creations to society without worrying about putting food on the table, their work is no less valuable than that of any engineer working for the big corporations.

iByteABit ,

Nature is healing

iByteABit ,

apologies for the english I am an american

lmao

iByteABit ,

Maybe there'd be some hope for that to happen if everyone in the EU hadn't been conditioned to be racist as fuck against anyone to the east or south for centuries

iByteABit ,

I know it would be ridiculously ironic, but if any CSAM is in there could the authorities get you in trouble over its possession or even distribution?

iByteABit ,

Don't know if it's your taste, but my most recent favorite is The Dispossessed which is a political sci-fi kind of book about a brilliant mathematician who lives in an anarchist world

iByteABit ,

Hating on the humanities has been a talking point of the right wing for a long time, specifically because the empathy it nurtures leads to solidarity instead of survival of the fittest mentality. They say that these studies are useless to society, while capitalists are the only class that truly sits on top of society and leeches off of it

iByteABit ,

Really unfortunate wording in the title lol

iByteABit OP ,

ujust is not a package manager, the way I understand it from this thread is that it's just a convenience script that internally will use one of the other methods shown in the doc you mentioned (brew or flatpak for example). So it still seems risky to me not to have access to common linux package managers besides brew

iByteABit OP ,

This is usually a good idea, but I think Arch would be a bit too much for him

Still, any Debian derivative would be just as easy for me to help and also for him to find help online, so that's the main reason I'd choose Mint over Bazzite

iByteABit OP ,

I’d say Bazzite but I would warn him (and since he’s a developer already it might not be a big deal) if he’s looking to do any sort of dev work or whatever with Bazzite then prepare to utilize stuff like distrobox, flatpaks, etc to accomplish stuff like that

That's what I figured, I would be very annoyed to have to use images for software I would simply do an apt install for in other distros, so I'll leave out Bazzite from my options definitely

iByteABit OP ,

Nobara does seem pretty cool

iByteABit ,

Still, adding feds to a group chat is a management issue, same as inviting people to your home

iByteABit ,

Considering moving to France so I never have to use the rotting garbage that is Microsoft Teams every single day

iByteABit ,
iByteABit ,

I think the technology itself has great potential, though capitalism using it for the worst reasons imaginable and making it as inefficient as physically possible will never show us the true potential of this technology.

Under different social structures, it could possibly be a pretty great foundation for new kinds of monetary systems

iByteABit ,

Much of historical research was seemingly useless for a very long time until some progress in unrelated fields enabled them to suddenly become very useful. I prefer to be open minded about technology, not tying it to the way its used by the current time and political system we are living in

iByteABit ,

Not talking about its usage as a speculative gambling asset, I'm talking about the blockchain as a part of computer science

What is a product or renovations that actually made your life simpler

I have recently made changes to increase productivity and reduce friction to prepare for a child that will be born soon. We now have made tons of convenient upgrades, and are looking for more. Robot vacuum was for instance a worthy upgrade, even if I thought it was gimmicky initially. ...

iByteABit ,

that looks really cool, but I'd never risk it malfunctioning and hurting my cats, no amount of good reputation would be enough for me to risk it

iByteABit ,

A 70 euro KVM Switch that I use to switch all my peripherals between my work laptop and my home desktop at the press of a button. My work has a hybrid office policy, so on the days of the week that I need to pack my laptop or plug it back in, all I need to do is remove or insert three cables from the laptop's ports only, no need to bend under my desk and move the desktop cable to the laptop. It also means that I can very easily switch between work and personal things when there's not much to do or I'm waiting for a build etc.

What is one small, positive interaction you've had with a stranger?

The other day, I was on a crowded bus for an intercity commute, and was sat beside someone who was reading. So I got my book out and started reading as well. At the end of the trip I asked her what she was reading and what it was about, and added the associated series to my reading list. I also told her about my book. We parted ...

iByteABit ,

Was on vacation to Italy waiting for the train to go to another city, and we met another couple there from Mexico that made some small talk. They told us that they're going to get married after this trip, then we then talked about our countries and the economic and political struggles of them both, and they gave us a Mexican peso which we had never seen before.
Despite it being a pretty small moment compared to all of the amazing things we saw in Italy, this is still one of the fondest memories of that trip

iByteABit ,

The AI crash could be a good bet

iByteABit ,

Rawtherapee is really fucking good, I used it on Windows before discovering Linux

iByteABit ,

I used to experiment around with various distros some years past until I got into Arch.
Haven't distro hopped once since, I've completely erased Windows from my life and I'm gaming exactly as I would if I was on Windows.
I never have trouble finding a package since almost everything exists either in the official repositories or in the AUR, and I get the latest versions with all the new features and fixes.
Rarely some things do break because of the rolling releases, but it's almost always just a matter of a single google search to fix.
For me it's worth it for having all the latest versions of everything.

My opinion would be different for a server or a work laptop where stability is much more important.
For servers I would pick Debian for sure, for work laptop I'd consider Fedora probably

iByteABit ,

I don't think anyone is gonna hack you because of bash being a larger codebase

If I absolutely had to pick one as insecure, it would be anything other than bash since it has been around for so long, has its code read by so many people, that there's no way that a major hole exists in it

Overall though I don't think security or performance is a good metric for you to pick something as simple as a shell, just pick the one that gives you the best experience and features. Being compatible with bash is a big plus because it's the industry standard, like zsh for example

iByteABit ,

Even tagged them, wow

Your arrogance is beyond words, personally attacking the devs that created and tirelessly maintain the very platform you're using to write this garbage comment.

Go use reddit, it will align with your worldview much better since it is run by corporations that sell your data for profit, making use of their god given right to "personal freedom" as defined by the CIA, and don't allow anything left of Mussolini on their platform.

iByteABit ,

Not new, and I'm fine with lemmygrad but thanks for the concern. I'll make sure to avoid the likes of you instead

iByteABit ,

It's so dystopian that I grew up knowing most of the famous brand logos but didn't know where to place most countries on the map until I was old enough to care

iByteABit , (edited )

First off, political "extremism" is a very flexible term. For some, it's extremism to support a system that leaves people dying of hunger and treatable diseases while a tiny class becomes rich beyond belief and at the same time funding wars and bombings all over the globe for profits. For others, extremism is wanting to materially overturn the former, and not just on words or the imaginary marketplace of ideas.

You can block the political communities if that's not your thing, but creating a nice capitalist neoliberal bubble that never challenges any world perceptions is not the goal of most instances here, unlike Reddit.

The sign up process is a small extra difficulty, but it's also part of the reason why you're not interacting with bot farms instead of people like you do on any big platform.