They’re not talking about the language of the Fox presenters. They’re talking about the journalists who report on what the Fox presenters said.

Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.

Preferring to avoid the mouse is a pretty common attitude among Linux users, just because keeping your hands on the keyboard is quicker.

Well, only the base OS in /usr is immutable; /etc is writable for making system-level config changes, and your entire home folder is of course yours to do what you want with, including installing software into it. So that’s what you do: use Discover to get software, mostly from Flathub at this point in time, but Snap is also technically supported and you can use snap in a terminal window (support in Discover may arrive later).

That’s fine for apps in Flathub and the Snap Store, but what about software not available there? What about CLI tools and development libraries?

Containers offer a modern approach: essentially you download a tiny tiny Linux-based OS into a container, and then you can install whatever that OS’s own package management system provides into the container. KDE Linux ships with support for Distrobox and Toolbx.

It sounds like more work for the user than a single system-wide package manager. And in my experience there are some applications that are not designed for sandboxed installations, where you have to fiddle around with the sandbox settings to get things to work. I’ve become frustrated by this in the past and ended up going back to system-level, unsandboxed packages. Likewise, managing containers for CLI applications can be great or it can be a pain for similar reasons. Some things are just easiest when fully integrated with the OS, though it brings security and stability risks. So I haven’t been won over by immutable distros yet but I’ll be interested to see whether KDE Linux can soften some of these hard edges for the user. It sounds like they do want it to be viable for non-experts coming from Windows.

The ethics of sabotaging AI are even less murky than the ethics of what Luigi did. We need tech Luigis.

They’re fine if they make money for the right billionaires.

Yes, I hang on to a number of old devices for this reason. Almost anything from the last 10-15 years can still be pretty useful if it isn’t broken. And when you install an appropriate Linux distro you see how fast the old device can go.

Cory Doctorow warned in 2011 of “the coming war on general-purpose computation.” Ordinary people being able to control their electronic devices is a threat to entrenched power, both governmental and corporate. Since he gave this speech we’ve been on a continual trajectory of all the major tech corporations giving users less and less control over the devices they use, both in hardware and in software. It’s only a matter of time before there’s an attempt to make it impractical to run Linux on a device of your choice.

This is one reason open-source hardware is so important. We need it so there’s always some kind of computing device we can run Linux on and tinker with. Otherwise we could be locked out completely in the end.

I’ve had good luck with Antix on very old machines.

Then you will still find MAS useful.

It’s fascist eugenics and they all see themselves as the Übermensch and epitome of the master race. They’re really ignorant but too ignorant to see it, and their wealth and the way they surround themselves with like-minded people and ass-kissers ensures they’ll never learn.

Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s circle.

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Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and “efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you,” according to The New York Times.

Whole new dimensions of creepiness from Trump’s best friend.

Actually, I’d be surprised if the US govt didn’t already have access to twitter.

Edward Snowden basically proved they did with his revelation of the PRISM program plus the NSA’s use of backdoors in 2013.

I’ve moved Linux SSDs (not Debian) between disparate machines a number of times and it has always just worked. There’s a good chance Debian will just run.

Bony eared assfish

There are loads of cheap Chinese mini-PCs based on Intel N95, N100 or N150, and they’d make the job easier than a phone or a Raspberry Pi. Spend a little more and you can get some pretty cheap AMD Ryzen-based models with much more capable CPUs.

From the article:

To put that in context, the new MicroSD Express cards that work with the Nintendo Switch 2 top out at a theoretical 985MB/s, less than a third the speed. And while a full-size SD Express card could theoretically beat Mini SSD at 3,940MB/s, it would be nearly twice the size of Biwin’s creation.

So: because it’s smaller.

If artists get a break from competing against plagiarized AI slop, that’s not petty vengeance.

If artists see generative AI companies going bust, that will be something.

according to data from the password security website called NordPass all of which would take a hacker less than a second to crack. Take a look at this quality design to learn about popular passwords that you definitely shouldn’t use such as 123456 which was used 3 million times, 123456789 which was used 1.6 million times, 12345678 which was used 885 thousand times, “password” which was used 692 thousand times and qwerty123 which was used 643 thousand times.

Is it normal for a password manager to be able to recognize which passwords are being used? Does this reflect badly on NordPass?