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  • Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: 'Maybe the problem is you'

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  • I live in the UK where it's practically impossible to get fired.

    In the UK you only get employment protections after working at a company for two years. Up until then you can be fired without reason

  • Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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  • Is it definitely the MP3 format at fault here? Was your MP3 from an official source or could it have been from a faulty source or improperly transcoded?

  • Mod of a similar comm deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm

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  • It's not harmless. They're maliciously using downvotes and as a consequence lemmy's algorithm will rank OPs content lower.

    This isn't a case of downvoting individual statements you disagree with, it's harassment.

  • Mod of a similar comm deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm

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  • The mod took down my post without any comment, reply, or reason.

    This is definitely enough reason to post in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

    It also opens up an interesting debate about what is appropriate. While the mod action is understandable (they don't want rival communities), it's a bit of a misuse of mod tools to delete it in my opinion.

    Then separately they're harassing you by following you round downvoting everything you post. That's the sign of somebody unhinged. They are able to compartmentalise actions that occur inside their community from the wider Lemmy.

  • Systemd (apparently this issue is still so hot that a D or a d makes a difference, whatever)

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  • understand what is the common idea about the fact that systemd could be a critical part of Linux which is in the hands of IBM and Microsoft and what this means for the linux community overall.

    Either nobody cares, or it's too much complottistic to be real.

    I wasn't familiar with the word complotism but yes I think this is the case - It's just an unsubstantiated conspiracy.

    Even if were true that Microsoft had taken over systemd by stealth. What is the harm? If they suddenly do something malicious with it then all the distros will just fork systemd and continue without the malicious elements.

  • Systemd (apparently this issue is still so hot that a D or a d makes a difference, whatever)

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  • I've read the update you made to your original post.

    So I now understand your concern is Microsoft control systemd and the proof of that is that the project lead works for Microsoft? Is that the only proof?

    I think it's quite a grasp. There is no money in open source so the developers need jobs. In this case the developer happens to be employed by Microsoft.

  • Systemd (apparently this issue is still so hot that a D or a d makes a difference, whatever)

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  • I was impressed they resisted calling it micro$oft. That's the usual sign of somebody adopting the tribal views of others.

  • Systemd (apparently this issue is still so hot that a D or a d makes a difference, whatever)

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  • In that case why not share your opinion?

    Instead you've claimed you're neutral and shared links to the views of 15 other people.

    You haven't even provided any context on these articles. Or quoted anything from them that you are concerned about.

    Everything about this screams you're asking in bad faith just hoping to waste people's time or start an argument.

  • Systemd (apparently this issue is still so hot that a D or a d makes a difference, whatever)

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  • You provided 15 links.

    Are you seriously expecting somebody to walk you through each one?

    You're claiming not to care either way about systemd and yet you've provided 15 sources against it and apparently done zero research into why it has been so widely adopted.

  • Why are energy bills going up, if there is more green power? - BBC News

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  • Capitalism. If the market is able to pay more then the company will demand more

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  • Well, the latest development I've seen is they're deleting (censoring) comments calling out the political bias of their CEO on their post about how they're fighting against censorship:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/1ij4qn9/behind_the_scenes_of_proton_vpns_fight_against/

    Here's an evidenced account of part of what their CEO asserted:

    This is what the CEO posting as u/Proton_Team stated in a response on r/ProtonMail:

    Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot:

    Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.

    Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.

    At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.

    By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.

    Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.

    Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

    Source: https://archive.ph/quYyb

    To call out the important bits:

    1. He refers to it as the "official response"
    2. Indicates that JD Vance is on their side just because he attended an event that other invited senators didn't
    3. Rattles on about "corporate Dems" with incredible bias
    4. States "Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses" which is immediately refuted by every response

    That was posted in ther/ProtonMail sub where the majority of the event took place: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/

    However be aware that the CEO posting as u/Proton_Team kept editing his comments so I wouldn't trust the current state of it. Plus the proton team/subreddit mods deleted a ton of discussion they didn't like. Therefore this archive link captured the day after might show more but not all: https://web.archive.org/web/20250116060727/https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/

    Some statements were made on Mastodon but these are subsequently deleted, but they're capture by an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115165213/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

    I learned about it from an r/privacy thread but true to their reputation the mods there also went on a deletion spree and removed the entire post: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/

    This archive link might show more but I've not checked: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115193443/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/

    There's also this lemmy discussion from the day after but by that point the Proton team had fully kicked in their censorship so I don't know how much people were aware of (apologies I don't know how to make a generic lemmy link) https://feddit.uk/post/22741653

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  • Can you share more info about it? Why did you choose it, any pros or cons? It's the first time I've heard of it.

  • Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware

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  • The article specifically states rackspace are only moving 50 VMs.

    The client moving 40,000 is unnamed.

  • Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware

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  • Why would a company have 40,000 VMs?! The scale of computing resources is always astronomically different to what I think a service would need.

  • GitHub - TUVIMEN/torge: A shell script for searching for links on torrent sites

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  • So, you don’t know Python at all AND you don’t know Bash, but you feel compelled to talk about how one is so much better than the other?

    I have plenty of experience with Bash, hence why I was eager to question the implication that bash was less complicated than other solutions.

    You're correct that I don't know python, but I do have plenty of familiarity with PHP, JS, C#, and Rust. From my experience with those languages I guessed that python probably has similar libraries for making API calls.

    Thanks for providing the actual examples. Looking at them I'm curious if you still think I'm wrong?

    In my opinion the bash is much more difficult to understand than the python and therefore it's more likely for bugs to creep in. For example I think curl_exit_code=$? should be called immediately after the curl command as the way it's presently written isn't it capturing the exit code of the tail command?

    You've explicitly called --connect-timeout and --max-time. imo it only comes from experience that you need to add these options. I had a script that had been funcitoning without issue for months then suddenly started to hang and it was a while before I figured out that the defaults for curl had no timeout so it didn't gracefully fail like I would expect.

    These are the kind of traps that I fall into all the time with bash and it's painful to debug. 

     bash
        
response=$(
  curl \
    --silent \
    --write-out "\n%{http_code}" \
    --connect-timeout "$CONNECT_TIMEOUT" \
    --max-time "$MAX_TIME" \
    "$API_URL"
)

http_body=$(echo "$response" | sed '$d')        
http_code=$(echo "$response" | tail -n1)

curl_exit_code=$?

  • GitHub - TUVIMEN/torge: A shell script for searching for links on torrent sites

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  • Show us on the doll where the shell script touched you...

    Everywhere.

    I believed bash would be enjoyable, I believed we'd have fun. But all it ever gave was pain. I was young and naive.

  • GitHub - TUVIMEN/torge: A shell script for searching for links on torrent sites

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  • That's profoundly untrue. Scripting in bash is an indescribably painful experience.

    You have absolutely no idea what version of a binary the user will be running so you're limited to using only options that have been well established.

    I've never worked with python but I understand it has at least got some semblance of package management providing assurance that methods you're calling exist, and I imagine it has some standardised mechanism for handling errors unlike bash.

    A simple example is making a GET request to an API and deserializing a JSON response if its successful, handling a timeout if the server can't be reached or handling the HTTP status code if it's not a 200 response.

    JS, python, Rust, C#, Java etc will all handle that simple scenario with zero effort but in bash it's a nightmare.

  • New PC build -- which version of Windows 11? LTSC, IoT, ??

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  • To run virtualization and and WSL in a debloated manner you may as well just dual boot Linux and Windows. It'll remove so much headache that WSL creates.

    Dual booting is well documented and you get the best of both worlds. If you later find it's not for you then you just erase the Linux partitions and stick with windows

  • UK seeks smoother trade with EU but customs union is ‘red line’, Cooper says

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  • Close ties between the UK and the EU is of interest to both parties.

    However, there's a very loud minority of the UK populace supported by a lot of the right wing press, who will have a hissy fit if the government shows any indication of collaborating with the EU.

    Therefore what you're suggesting just isn't possible. What is possible is a bespoke deal. It doesn't have to provide unique benefits, that other countries don't enjoy, it just has to be labelled sufficiently different to quash the overreaction of the right.

    Basically, it has to be "special" and "privileged" but only in the sense of wrapping right wing snowflakes in cotton wool. In reality it'll be a worse deal than the UK once enjoyed, and worse than if the UK rejoined, but at least it would be better than the fuck all we have now.