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MonkderDritte

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  • NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s

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  • they are on a format that NSA no longer has the ability to view or digitize,” the NSA FOIA office said in a follow-up. “Without being able to view the tapes, NSA has no way to verify their responsiveness. NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology (outdated or current) in order to process a request.”

    In short, "we don't want to".

  • Just learnt these cool things existed

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  • Not like that.

  • From basement to battlefield: Ukrainian startups create low-cost robots to fight Russia

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  • More like soldiers than their army.

  • Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced

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  • Good. Now try ODF, to have a choice aside from MS Office.

  • Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced

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  • There's the difference between individual knowledge (company training) and code licenses though.

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  • Rookie numbers.

  • What is this nonsense? "The world's first Miss AI has been crowned"

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  • Same nonsense as Miss Universe and others.

  • From basement to battlefield: Ukrainian startups create low-cost robots to fight Russia

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  • They’ve a (small) army

    On hire.

  • Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you

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  • Could you send some evidence

    No i can't. All i know is that there was some uproar about this a week ago.

  • Guess how I spent my morning...

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  • Optimizing your system for space is usually wasted effort in Linux, this is not Windows. To get what uses all the space, there's plenty of storage analyzing tools like Baobab, qdirstat, etc.

  • "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again

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    • It’s an attempt to replace cross site tracking methods, which are terrible

    Doesn't work with total cookie protection anyway.

  • My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024...

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  • You can of course not give users a choice. And a lot of applications do their own thing, having their own variables like GOPATH or a cli option like --config or some way to do that in a config file like Idea IDEs. But implementing XDG from start is miles simpler for all parties, it's good practice to have your paths and variables somewhat organized in code anyway.

  • My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024...

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  • In this case it would be XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/config. That simple.

  • My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024...

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  • This standard makes your software's paths user-configurable, giving users a choice.

  • My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024...

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  • And i wish there was a separate XDG_LOG_HOME or $HOME/.local/log, with logrotate preconfigured to look there.

  • My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024...

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  • What language? Python has PyXDG.

    In shell it's simply

     
        
XDG_DATA_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-"$HOME"/.local/share}"
XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME"/.config}"
etc.

  • My fellow software engineer, It's the year 2024...

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  • Where did i read this... basically, the .file being hidden being a bug in the early unix filesystem, which got misused to hide configuration files.

    Offenders despite XDG-variables set and with no workaround:

    • .android: hardcoded in adb and i guess something in mtp too
    • .pki: some tool/library Firefox and Chromium sometimes use.
    • .steam: yes, that

    Btw, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

  • It’s Too Hot to Fly Helicopters and That’s Killing People

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  • Yeah, why would you do sports in death valley?

  • People younger than 30, what advice would you give to people over 30?

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  • Well, less people are listening new releases each year, more are listening old songs...