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  • Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two

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  • systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative

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  • Accurate, but not bad, yes. It turns out standardized base systems and ABIs are important to an ecosystem.

    Linux tried the disorganized free-for-all for two decades, and what we got was fragmented "Ubuntu admins", "debian admins", "redhat admins", "suse admins", and a whole shitload of duplicated effort in the packaging ecosystem, only for half the packages out there to be locked to Ubuntu or RHEL. So the corporate interests, and a fair number of the community efforts, centralized their problems and solutions into a small standardized suite in Mesa+Wayland+systemd+Pipewire+flatpak, etc

    The result is a ton more interoperability, a truly open ecosystem where switching your distro doesn't mean hiring different people and using different software, and a lot more stability and maturity.

    And hey, if a user or distro wants to do their own thing, they can make and own their niche, same as before. Nothing lost.

    It's been kind of wild to watch over the past 15 years or so, makes me very hopeful for the next 15.

  • Freenginx: A Fork of NGINX

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  • No no you don't understand. The evil corporate overlords abused their power to force a choice on a developer, even though that choice was objectively the right choice and the developer was throwing a tantrum.

    This is truly awful. We must not let evil corporations, no matter their credentials, expertise, and decades of beneficial partnership with open source, tell immature and short sighted developers how to develop.

  • Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.

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  • I use FreshRSS. Can't say I love the interface, but with the open and standardized API, there are dozens of beautiful front ends to choose on any device.

  • Traefik 3.0 GA Has Landed: Here's How to Migrate

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  • For real? Damn it that's going to be painful.

  • No one is being ‘marooned’ by Debian focus - TrueNAS

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  • If you're trying to use it as a workstation or a laptop, you won't find much compelling. It's built with the intent to act as a server. In fact, as a web server or networking server it's second to none.

    Administrating BSD is lovely. It's well documented and everything is very stable, understandable, and predictable.

  • No one is being ‘marooned’ by Debian focus - TrueNAS

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  • “We had a huge chunk of our engineering staff spending time improving FreeBSD as opposed to working on features and functionalities. What’s happened now with the transition to having a Debian basis, the people I used to have 90 percent of their time working on FreeBSD, they’re working on ZFS features now … That’s what I want to see; value add for everybody versus sitting around, implementing something Linux had a years ago. And trying to maintain or backport, or just deal with something that you just didn’t get out of box on FreeBSD.”

    I still hold much love for FreeBSD, but this is very much indicative of my experience with it as well. The tooling in FreeBSD, specifically dtrace, bhyve, jails, and zfs was absolutely killer while Linux was still experiencing teething problems with a nonstandard myriad of half developed and documented tools. But Linux has since then matured, adopted, and standardized. And the strength of the community is second to none.

    They'll be happier with Linux.

  • Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

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  • Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?

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  • I was actually surprised to find out QUIC is fairly close to being default.

    Wikipedia

    HTTP/3 uses QUIC, a multiplexed transport protocol built on UDP.

    HTTP/3 is (at least partially) supported by 97% of tracked web browser installations (thereof of 98% of "tracked mobile" web browsers), and 29% of the top 10 million websites.

  • 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com

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  • Never ask a man his pay, a woman her weight, or a data horder the contents of their stash.

    Jk. Mostly.

    I have a similar-ish set up to @Davel23 , I have a couple of cool use cases.

    • I seed the last 5 arch and opensuse (a few different flavors) ISOs at all times
    • I run an ArchiveBot for archive.org
    • I scan nontrivial mail (the paper kind) and store it in docspell for later OCR searches, tax purposes etc.
    • I help keep Sci-Hub healthy
    • I host several services for de-googling, including Nextcloud, Blocky, Immich, and Searxng
    • I run Navidrome, that has mostly (and hopefully will soon completely) replace Spotify for my family.
    • I run Plex (hoping to move to Jellyfin sometime, but there's inertial resistance to that) that has completely replaced Disney streaming, Netflix streaming, etc for me and my extended family.
    • I host backups for my family and close friends with an S3 and WebDAV backup target

    I run 4x14TB, 2x8TB, 2x4TB, all from serverpartsdeals, in a ZFS RAID10 with two 1TB cache dives, so half of the spinning rust usable at 35TB, and right now I'm at 62% utilization. I usually expand at about 85%

  • Kaspersky: Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern | CNN Politics

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  • You found one video supporting your viewpoint. Kaspersky's role in Russian intelligence has been an open secret since the mid 2010s. This is Facebook Anti-Vaxxer "research" methodology.

  • NSFW

    George Lucas did whaaaat???

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  • Quora is a lawless and godless place.

  • NSFW

    George Lucas did whaaaat???

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  • What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

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  • Have We Reached Peak AI?

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  • Author doesn't seem to understand that executives everywhere are full of bullshit and marketing and journalism everywhere is perversely incentivized to inflate claims.

    But that doesn't mean the technology behind that executive, marketing, and journalism isn't game changing.

    Full disclosure, I'm both well informed and undoubtedly biased as someone in the industry, but I'll share my perspective. Also, I'll use AI here the way the author does, to represent the cutting edge of Machine Learning, Generative Self-Reenforcement Learning Algorithms, and Large Language Models. Yes, AI is a marketing catch-all. But most people better understand what "AI" means, so I'll use it.

    AI is capable of revolutionizing important niches in nearly every industry. This isn't really in question. There have been dozens of scientific papers and case studies proving this in healthcare, fraud prevention, physics, mathematics, and many many more.

    The problem right now is one of transparency, maturity, and economics.

    The biggest companies are either notoriously tight-lipped about anything they think might give them a market advantage, or notoriously slow to adopt new technologies. We know AI has been deeply integrated in the Google Search stack and in other core lines of business, for example. But with pressure to resell this AI investment to their customers via the Gemini offering, we're very unlikely to see them publicly examine ROI anytime soon. The same story is playing out at nearly every company with the technical chops and cash to invest.

    As far as maturity, AI is growing by astronomical leaps each year, as mathematicians and computer scientists discover better ways to do even the simplest steps in an AI. Hell, the groundbreaking papers that are literally the cornerstone of every single commercial AI right now are "Attention is All You Need" (2017) and"Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge -Intensive NLP Tasks" (2020). Moving from a scientific paper to production generally takes more than a decade in most industries. The fact that we're publishing new techniques today and pushing to prod a scant few months later should give you an idea of the breakneck speed the industry is going at right now.

    And finally, economically, building, training, and running a new AI oriented towards either specific or general tasks is horrendously expensive. One of the biggest breakthroughs we've had with AI is realizing the accuracy plateau we hit in the early 2000s was largely limited by data scale and quality. Fixing these issues at a scale large enough to make a useful model uses insane amounts of hardware and energy, and if you find a better way to do things next week, you have to start all over. Further, you need specialized programmers, mathematicians, and operations folks to build and run the code.Long story short, start-ups are struggling to come to market with AI outside of basic applications, and of course cut-throat silicon valley does it's thing and most of these companies are either priced out, acquired, or otherwise forced out of business before bringing something to the general market.

    Call the tech industry out for the slime is generally is, but the AI technology itself is extremely promising.

  • Fanless linux laptop

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  • Used to be the best way to get performant graphics on Linux.

    Like, 8 years ago.

  • What's your favorite terminal?

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  • I like kitty, but it's configuration system is completely nuts.

    Alacritty was good, but had weird issues with fonts for me.

    I ended up on Wezterm. Lots of modern features, performance, stability, and awesome configurability.

  • Russia claims full control of Avdiivka after Ukrainian retreat

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  • Tbf, Russia has been sourcing ammunition from North Korea.

  • Spam posts

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  • Yeah honestly no idea regarding moderation. But the codebase is maintained by a team.