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Telorand

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  • Loss32: An idea for a Linux designed around Win32 apps

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  • Same with CachyOS, but Loss32 isn't just trying to run an on-demand emulation layer within your DE, it's trying to be the always-on default. It's ambitious, to be sure!

  • French judges alarmed by rumors of potential US sanctions

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  • To be abundantly clear, I'm not arguing that France shouldn't play hard ball, I'm just pointing out that it's a complex game of chicken with real consequences just for playing.

    I sincerely hope everyone forces Trump to back down whenever the opportunity arises, because every time that happens, he loses credibility as "the strong man" among people who adore him.

  • French judges alarmed by rumors of potential US sanctions

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  • Except every single person would have to then move to cash-only. No more online payments or shopping; it would be like living in the 1980s all of a sudden.

    Let's assume 2/3 of France's population all have cards and accounts from American processors. That's about 44mil people. The US alone, on the other hand, has around 229mil (2/3 of current population). Visa would do nothing and just wait it out, because while it would be a blow to lose 44mil customers, they have the US and the rest of the world still using their platform. Meanwhile, the entire country has just imposed "sanctions" upon themselves. Do you think the French government could withstand the growing impatience of their people being forced to use cash for a month? Six months? A year of not being able to pay your bills or shop online?

    It would likely take the entire EU banning these processors, and it would take convincing their diverse population that it's a worthy sacrifice before that. None of that is easy, so I think the easiest path is to heavily fund a speedy buildup of their own processors. Then they can dump Visa and the rest.

  • French judges alarmed by rumors of potential US sanctions

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  • Except these sanctions actually materially affect their lives. Nearly all card transactions are run through American processors (Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, etc.), and just having those avenues blocked from use is crippling. The EU has not yet built up an equivalent infrastructure.

    All because these judges in a totally different country did something Trump didn't like. It's a badge of honor, sure, but it is not without cost.

  • News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

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  • ...OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation.

    Proof that chats are never deleted, they're just hidden and archived. Stop giving the slop bots free training data.

  • Loss32: An idea for a Linux designed around Win32 apps

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  • Similar ideas but different approaches. ReactOS is trying to essentially reverse engineer Windows, whereas Loss32 is going to run literally everything in Wine.

    I'm kind of excited about this one, because it's likely to uncover issues in Wine and upstream any improvements they make.

  • Sorry, GOP. There's no Christian revival

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  • I mean, it's not the entirety of Gen Z men, but they are the young demographic largely joining evangelicalism. The "big revival" is certainly an illusion, but cherry picking data to project an image is practically a rite of passage for evangelicals.

    Tate and the rest are just mouthpieces facilitating that shift, but I imagine people won't last long when they start to recognize that their dating pool is now limited to mostly men—and that everyone else doesn't want to be anywhere near them.

  • Sorry, GOP. There's no Christian revival

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  • Salon unfortunately glossed over a really important detail: young people are, in fact, rushing to Evangelical Christianity, but it's a very specific demographic: Gen Z men. Women, on the other hand, are leaving in droves.

    This would be alarming, except as a female former Christian pointed out: good luck running church without the women. Who runs the food pantry? Who organizes the potlucks? Who answers phones? Who schedules the weddings? Who runs the nursery or Sunday school? Because on the whole, it ain't the men.

    If they want to call this a revival, I say let them, because it will be short-lived when the men say, "Hmm, yeah. Being an office manager isn't really what God has gifted me in doing..."

  • NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court

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  • Good anecdote but this is just hegemonic propaganda. Social media has also revealed the reality behind the hegemonic narrative. That's what they're actually afraid of.

    It's not propaganda, it's a fact. The rise of conspiracy theories becoming mainstream, the rise of fascist groups that are currently undermining global peace and stability, the ability for long-debunked pseudoscience to be treated as equal with science: all of that is facilitated by social media giving an equal platform to people that do not deserve one, particularly the platforms run by capitalists. Social media has indeed done some good, but my argument was never that social media is wholly bad, just that it's a net negative.

    I agree that "they" are afraid of The People organizing and seeing through all the bullshit, but that's not something unique that social media is able to facilitate, and it's not something social media has been particularly effective at doing. People of the past were able to see through the bullshit without social media, and if we all lost the internet tomorrow, people would still manage to communicate and share ideas. We did it for decades through books, newspapers, speaking events, zines, etc.

    We don't need social media to progress, and I would argue that recent history seems to indicate the contrary.

    It's not true. What about the people in charge of this platform? The bulk of the issues arise from capitalism and this type of censorship is designed to abolish its criticism.

    There are no people "in charge" of this platform. If you wanted to, you could spin up your own instance with the sole member being you. You could fork the code and start your own Lemmy v2.0. We are collectively responsible for the operation of this federation of services, and even here, you still find the tolerance of bad actors and the spread of rotten ideas.

    Has the Fediverse been a net positive? Maybe. But we are small fish compared to the fat cats that are Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Xitter, etc., and there's no dispute that their influence has reached far and the ideas they've allowed to fester for profit have been destructive, to say the least.

    Social media doesn't exist in a vacuum; it's within the context of a global society run by greed, and the fact that it sometimes does good doesn't outweigh the capitalists who weaponize it against us.

  • [Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.

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  • Yeah, I even tried rolling my own downstream distro based on Bazzite by trying to install it at build time (when they do most of their system changes), but I kept running into trouble either with extracting the files or moving the files where they needed to go.

  • NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court

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  • I mean, it has enabled every goober and bad actor with an opinion to essentially have a megaphone and build platforms and movements. I'd argue that's a net negative. Even the Fediverse isn't immune to propaganda and conspiracy theories.

    I think putting a warning on the tin is appropriate, especially for platforms run by billionaires whose explicit goal is to get people hooked and keep them feeding the machine by any means necessary.

    It's true that the bulk of the issue arises from the people in charge of the platforms, but nobody currently in power is going to do anything about the billionaire problem. This is at least a vague gesture acknowledging that a problem exists. Also, it's just a sign. When have warning signs stopped people from doing things that are unhealthy?

  • [Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.

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  • Oh, Private Internet Access. The way it installs itself is wonky on immutable systems (i.e. it was written for mutable systems in an odd way). I remember seeing someone say on the PIA GitHub that there's a workaround, but I haven't given that a go, and my own experience trying in the past still led to problems, even if you got the client and daemon working.

    You can utilize the OpenVPN configs just fine, but you lose out on some nice features in the client, like WireGuard and some other QoL things.

  • [Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.

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  • I love them, too. Ironically, I'm not currently running one, but that's more because I need a VPN client that I haven't been able to get working on immutable distros, but I'd use one if I that was solved

  • playerctl documentation redirects to slot machine game site?

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  • I'm not familiar with this library or this dev, so I can't say if this is intended or not. There's plenty of bad actors out there who would love to get their hands on existing projects with a base of trust, which they can weaponize for their nefarious means.

  • [Help request] They say "don't break Debian" but apparently I managed to do it.

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  • I think everyone here has offered good advice, so I have nothing to add in that regard, but for the record, I fucked up a Debian bookworm install by doing a basic apt update && apt upgrade. The only "weird" software it had was Remmina, so I could remote into work; nothing particularly wild.

    I recognize that Debian is supposed to be bulletproof, but I can offer commiseration that it can be just as fallible as any other base distro.

  • NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages

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  • Batman: Return of Joker is also an amazing feat of NES technomancy. Not a supremely great game, mind you, but what they were able to achieve graphically on the NES rivals some SNES games.

    Especially with big AAA companies, I think devs have gotten lazy with their optimization passes, because bigger cards means they can just continue cramming more into a game without bothering to budget for optimization.

  • Music Solarpunk [Question]

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  • Mad Routine is incredibly climate conscious. They regularly upcycle thrifted finds and handmake the majority of their merch. They're also 100% indie, so they avoid these rich corpo labels that prop up industries that are ruining everything. Their fans also care deeply about climate responsibility and hold anti-corporate beliefs, so it's a fun group of people!

  • what exactly is the steam frame?

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  • It's not truly a discount either, it's a subsidy. That cost is recouped by the aggregation and sale of your data, which is far more valuable to Meta than a single product sale.

  • Two Linux Distributions I'm Watching Closely in 2026

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  • Wait, they are? I thought I was going crazy and missed a big shift in the latter's project goals! Thanks for pointing that out