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  • Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode

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  • Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple /etc/nixos/configuration.nix maybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff like lib.mapAttrs, I'd say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complex overrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn't have an equivalent to that...

  • Zero Trust Architecture

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  • Well I sit kind of between these

    Like I'm not getting a dedicated router and have no server room in my apartment, and my consumer router only supports two VLANs (main and guest). But I'd say the rest is rather sophisticated with all machines defined in my NixOS config, including automated generation of firewall and reverse proxy rules for which I wrote custom modules.

    Media server isn't super full but connected to jellyseer and the rest of the stack, accessible over TLS (Let's Encrypt certificates) only, with the option to have users managed via IDM.

    However, I only have devices on my network that I somewhat trust, with an Android TV box being the worst offender. The smart TV was never connected to my network.

    Would be cool to isolate my work PCs somewhat (I work from home with company provided equipment) but it's just not worth the trouble in my opinion. Not switching out a low power device that does most for two different devices that both use more power (since you usually need a router and a modem).

  • Linux continues to grow and has reached a new peak of 3.20% in the November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey

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  • Without having tried it, I think Bazzite fits a certain user group very well, but is less suited for other users. Which is fine.

    I don't really see how it's particularly good for homelabbing, but use whatever works for you.

  • Linux continues to grow and has reached a new peak of 3.20% in the November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey

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  • My niche distribution is cooler than your niche distribution.

  • Orwell

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  • The ifunny watermark really sells it

    Edit: unfortunately I won't settle for less than ebaumsworld

  • Docker

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  • It's always a fun discussion that ultimately ends in the fact that life is too complex to fit into orderly categories and especially doesn't map to our daily language that is very influenced by morphology.

  • Docker

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  • I always thought it's a whale

  • Louvre pushes up prices for non-EU visitors by 45%

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  • Well I mean they didn't pay for most of the stuff in there in the first place

  • Google CEO Pushes 'Vibe Coding' – But Real Developers Know It's Not Magic

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  • We had vibe coded desktop operating systems, what about vibe coded phone operating systems?

  • Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter

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  • The Final Final Layer_new(3)

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  • I don't only run a reverse proxy because of having only a single public IPv4 address, but that probably is the best part

    In general, I'd say reverse proxies make things somewhat easier to manage, especially when it comes to TLS. No need for every service to integrate it.

  • JPEG XL is Dead. Long Live JPEG XL

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  • That would have been a brilliant move with wav vs MP3

  • JPEG XL is Dead. Long Live JPEG XL

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  • How would a new format be backwards-compatible? At least JPEG-XL can losslessly compress standard jpg for a bit of space savings, and servers can choose to deliver the decompressed jpg to clients that don't support JPEG-XL.

    Also from Wikipedia:

    Computationally efficient encoding and decoding without requiring specialized hardware: JPEG XL is about as fast to encode and decode as old JPEG using libjpeg-turbo

    Being a JPEG superset, JXL provides efficient lossless recompression options for images in the traditional/legacy JPEG format that can represent JPEG data in a more space-efficient way (~20% size reduction due to the better entropy coder) and can easily be reversed, e.g. on the fly. Wrapped inside a JPEG XL file/stream, it can be combined with additional elements, e.g. an alpha channel.

  • Trotz Digitalisierung: „Viele Schüler können nicht mehr als klicken und wischen“

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  • PDP-11 Mitte der 90er in der Hauptschule? Das ist auf mehreren Ebenen interessant.

  • Trotz Digitalisierung: „Viele Schüler können nicht mehr als klicken und wischen“

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  • Zumindest die, die einen Rechner hatten.

    Mein Lieblingsbeispiel ist, dass meine Generation und älter (und dabei auch durchaus welche, die sagen, sie hätten von IT keine Ahnung) oftmals wissen, was der Unterschied zwischen Partitionieren und Formatieren ist; die Frage impliziert ja durchaus etwas Wissen (z.B. dass sich beides auf persistenten Speicher bezieht und dass Partitionieren bis auf Ausnahmen eine Voraussetzung für das Formatieren ist). Beides spielt ja durchaus immer noch eine Rolle, aber eben nicht mehr für den Nutzer moderner Geräte.

  • Trotz Digitalisierung: „Viele Schüler können nicht mehr als klicken und wischen“

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  • Lol ja ich muss auch immer ein bisschen lachen wenn ich "Digital Natives" höre, die meisten jüngeren haben von der Technik bzw Technologie dahinter genauso wenig Ahnung wie meine Generation (Jahrgang '86). Es werden zwar jedes Jahr mehr, die Technik benutzen, da die ja immer zugänglicher wird, aber damit sinkt halt auch die Notwendigkeit, die darunterliegenden Konzepte zu verstehen.

  • NTFSPLUS Driver Updated As It Works Toward The Mainline Kernel

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  • Soon, the kernel will have more NTFS drivers than native filesystems.

  • functions

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  • That doesn't help you if you want to get the result of something that happened in the function without capturing stdout, does it?

  • functions

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  • I didn't mean that bash has no local variables, but rather that if you want to use a function as such without capturing stdout, you need variables that are scoped across your functions, which is usually global or at least effectively global.