Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one
Hello there!
I boost a lot of posts, but I have a few things to say every now and then.
I am largely fine with boosting posts from people I disagree with even on significant, dividing issues. I usually don't, however, if they actively advocate for these ideas... so it goes :/
#Christian #coding #HaikuOS #Linux #privacy #FOSS #Fediverse #SmashBros #SSBU #LegendOfZelda
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Oh, this is exquisite.
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
@briankrebs Is The Hacker News associated with Hacker News?
@fribbledom "I should do this"
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@molly0xfff "Stract’s About page says “if we ever become evil (maybe by changing our motto) please take our code and start a competitor. The fact that you have this ability will make sure that our values will always be aligned with our users."
This is probably one of the top reasons why I love #OpenSource.
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#HaikuOS: The #OpenSource #BeOS You Can Daily Drive In 2024
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/haiku-os-the-open-source-beos-you-can-daily-drive-in-2024/
@SolusSpider@linuxrocks.online After @ActionRetro's Haiku videos, and what he said about the state of browsers for it, I want to give it a try myself. Just need to find time and hardware for it I suppose....
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The Linux desktop is a house owned by an amateur DIY home improvement person. Floor boards squeak, the back door doesn't latch unless you close it a certain way, you have to jiggle the toilet lever, and there's tape on a light switch controlling an outlet that needs constant power.
The homeowner doesn't fix these things, because they know to jiggle the lever, how to close the door. Working around these flaws has become second nature so they don't even realize they are doing it.
1/2
@kyle I'm afraid it's true. On the bright side, though, it's your house and not an apartment etc., and things like finicky doors don't stop the house from being livable. But they're still problems, especially when it comes to getting someone to live there....
@heyfluxay Good memories for sure.
@NanoRaptor Of course, I was voting in vain ;)
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Take a few minutes to read this important blog post from @pluralistic. He got scammed, and he describes what happened. https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security
We're heading into a time when the scammers are gaining the upper hand, no matter how good we are at trying to avoid being taken by experts.
That's the thing: They are experts.
Get ready to do business less conveniently in the near future.
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We just released critical security patches for versions 4.1, 4.2, nightly, and the already discontinued 3.5 and 4.0.
If you are using nightly, you can upgrade to the `4.3.0-nightly.2024-02-02-security` tag to get the patch.
Please upgrade as soon as possible!
@arraybolt3 A deeper dive on the history of text would be interesting!
@arraybolt3 There's an 'What every programmer absolutely positively needs to know about Unicode' article or something that's useful.
Found it: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/
Any #recommendations for an open-source media player that is stable, allows opening multiple windows, has a queue, and is on Flathub (or uses Flatpak)? I used #VLC mainly, to listen to music, but it had issues with skipping around and detuning audio. #askFedi #mediaPlayer
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Time-lapse video of a flight through the eye of Hurricane Florence in September 2018, captured by NOAA's Lockheed WP-3D Orion nicknamed 'Kermit'.
Still lots of great times now that I'm older! But life seems so much more serious now....
I downloaded the Minecraft Volume Beta soundtrack from Bandcamp and have been listening. A Creative Mode song came on and gee, I miss the old times. Me and my brothers would have so much fun.
I feel like if I tried to go back and play Minecraft with them I couldn't bring the good times back.... I had to not know how good I had it in order to have it so good.
If I'm learning calculus for work, and my work is computer programming, then when I need to do calculus I have a computer handy. Some teachers say that you should learn how to do math by hand in case you don't have a calculator, but if I don't have a computer with me when I'm trying to computer program then I have bigger problems than not being able to solve some calculus, right?
Doing some curious reading on 100GB optical discs, 4K/UHD Blu-Ray discs.
Unsurprisingly, many of them were protected by Intel's #SGX, presumably to prevent piracy.
However, you would need an Intel CPU, and some newer Intel CPUs won't even work with these Blu-Rays anymore. And, as usual, people found out how to copy it anyway with some modded drive firmware and the right software.
If you have #DRM -"protected" media, understand that at some point it may be taken from you.
Hello there!
I boost a lot of posts, but I have a few things to say every now and then.
I am largely fine with boosting posts from people I disagree with even on significant, dividing issues. I usually don't, however, if they actively advocate for these ideas... so it goes :/
#Christian #coding #HaikuOS #Linux #privacy #FOSS #Fediverse #SmashBros #SSBU #LegendOfZelda
#fedi22
Note: social.librem.one doesn't support DMs
Joined Jul 2022
