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electricprism

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  • Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows

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  • Yes, thank you, exactly. The centralized model has its benefits but it also can act as a single point of failure.

    If I was going to analyze from an engineering perspective I would focus on when these inevitable events occur due to human error do we have adequate tools to roll back updates? Do we snapshot OS drives before updates? Is there adequate Safe Mode or Fallback Tools to diagnose which files are offending in order to allow the user to remove them.

    In my view the windows user isn't dignified to have the skills or intelligence needed to workaround a "setback" issue like the one yesterday.

    It doesn't help that NTFS is missing modern capabilities, or that there isn't easy to use DIFF for the layman to understand which files were added to the filesystem that may be causing the breakage.

    To be fair though even with those pot holes filled the entire design paradigm of Windows and a proprietary platform is part of the problem. Software is not broken up into package modules that can be assembled into a functioning system it is encumbered with "anti-piracy" boogie man where the software treats the user as an enemy and is designed to break.

    Linux isn't like that. I've cloned many distro drives and swapped them into new machines and with 1 or 2 tweaks they JustWork

    I see many people on the net defending Microsoft as blameless for technical reasons.

    My criticisms were that Microsoft just sucks as you interpreted correctly and offered a eloquent summary. Thank You.

    Where I think the entire conversation should move is --

    What are the design flaws that allowed this to happen?

    "More Rust & Less C" I see some people suggest as this was allegedly a null pointer issue.

    And is Windows Broken By Design? My opinion answer - Yes.

    (Okay, and what to do about it before the next billion dollars is lost. I would think critical infrastructure should have a model similar to NixOS in immutability but that's just my opinion.)

  • Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows

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  • Microsoft has many faults and I'll criticize them as I please. And if Linux is a culprit in a global outage someday I'll contemplate criticizing them too.

    This "Not Microsoft's Fault" comes off as white knighting for Muh Billion Dolla Corporation.

    Do we really need to SIMP for the company town.

    Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and others deserve every ounce of vitrol they earn through their shitty practices. Again I am criticizing them for being shitty not for the particulars of System X vs System Z but for the aftermath.

  • Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows

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  • No because Windows Indoctrination starts with Academia.

    There will have to be heavy monetary losses before IT is forced to leave their golden goose that keeps them employed with "problems" to "fix" that soak up hours each.

    But maybe they will notice the monetary losses and competitors not using their trash will pull ahead -- that will get their attention. Still they require the cognition to understand the problem and select a solution and the Linux Jungle is hard for corporate minds to navigate without smart IT help.

  • Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows

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  • Every system has its faults. And I'm still going to dogpile the system with the most faults. But hell Microsoft did buy GitHub, Halo, MineCraft, and a million other things they will probably find a way to buy Linux and ruin it for us just like they ruin everything else.

    Let's see, ...we are somewhere in between Extend and Extinguish on the roadmap.

    Edit: Case & Point, RIP RedHat & IBM and GitHub CoPilot, what a great idea. RIP Atom Editor and probably a million other things. Do we have a KilledByMicrosoft website yet? I hope people in the pharmacy could get their prescriptions or we might have to add peoples names to the list.

  • [Question] Font fingerprinting -- even tor browser is vulnerable!?

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  • There's something beautiful about the simplicity of Gemini in Kristal and LaGrange.

    You set your font and colors offline and it's universal.

    Hyper Text Web is great but I wonder if we will see a return to simplicity in high tech circles now that the Net is the new "Television Rules The Nation"

  • Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service

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  • Someone should sue the Roads Company for not stopping speeding and exchange of mp3 CDs.

  • Gimp in IT@school 14

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  • Ye Old GIMP

  • Right up until the firewall blocks it at least

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  • Boten Anna's does

  • LindowsOS, 2001

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  • I remember their "1 Click Install"

  • Hey guys, check out Duckduckgo! Its a privacy essentials search engine with its own browser, it is used by TOR browser aswell

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  • DuckDuckGo censors just like Google.

    Their CEO is trash.

    Federated is the only way.

    Edit: To clarify, they are controlled opposition who serve the same master.

    The best be right now is https://searx.space like https://searx.garudalinux.org or similar.

  • New release Thunderbird 128 "Nebula"

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  • Not to be that guy, but they fixed the IMAP data eating bug in 128 right? Somebody put me at ease please.

  • Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?

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  • Reminds me of how Thunderbird does Matrix, IRC, Pidgin, RSS and others.

    I think there is room for something like this.

    My only request would be that I can have filters in my feed to remove posts with certain words or emojis or profiles with descriptions including emojis of people I don't want to converse with online.

  • How do we replace YouTube?

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  • My bad needed more coffee

    The prior verbiage threw me off.

    how do we distribute videos and watch them without data collection?

    So opinion answer to the latter. Opinion answer. Don't ignore YouTube.

    Steam didn't ignore Win32 and ask 10k devs to port to Linux. They partnered up with CodeWeavers, WINE and others to create Proton and it made the former task largely unnecessary.

    Expand federated video services to cache all videos they stream in case the original gets dunked on. And then at the same time grow the platform.

    A subsection of FOSS hates wealth, but people need to be able to lift themselves out of poverty, there has to be a profit motive and that profit has to largely go to the content creators.

    Without motives and incentives you can build the most beautiful codebase ever and it won't take off.

    Mass censorship is coming, so platforms that don't censor and host in countries where this is legally protected will have the advantage of growing new mega sites.

  • How do we replace YouTube?

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  • Is there a linux distro (or just a DE) that can be used like a Smart TV

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  • Also recommendations for a good remote to go with these?

    I was so desperate I was thinking of reprogramming a wireless number pad cherry MX low profile or something.

    It should have volume buttons, arrow keys, previous, next, pause, etc... Something a old person could understand.

    Numbers and alphabet not required.

  • Zed on Linux is out!

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  • Smooth scrolling? Maybe I'm wrong

  • Easy

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  • Yeah I totally agree, I love Photoshop UX colors and general function. It's been a while though.

    On the other hand GIMP has a HUD command palette with hotkey / and you can search for all image functions which is fine with me as I use my keeb a lot.

    And I did import PS hotkeys to go with my many years of memory and it helped me feel at home much better.

    I have used many image editors over the years and I can at least say for basic functions, cropping, scaling, art it opens fast compared to wine and the pre 3.x UI is so much nicer to use.

    I would definitely not recommend a cold switch for anyone at a job, the transition would be frustrating and problematic. But learning the "life raft" as a backup seems sensible.

    It was a hard hit to my ego going from a PS God back to a peasant in terms of output, but I'd say the last few years the tooling has improved tremendously and I can say I'm a novice or mid tier photo editor in GIMP.

    The text tool is nowhere as robust as PS, I felt like PS was a all in one printer one stop shop. But then there's Inkscape so I am okay with dividing my functions up among a few tools instead of only 1.

    I've designed concepts for houses in GIMP as weird as that may seem.

    God do I hate 2.8 and 2.10 UX it was soo bad in terms of getting out of my way and an embarrassment at work, 2.99.xx thankfully is light years apart.

    Edit: Also the GEGL non destructive fx stuff is really interesting and G'MIC Qt addon filters

  • Zed on Linux is out!

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  • New Editor, by Atom Devs, Rust

  • Easy

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  • I used to feel that way about it 10+ years.

    If you haven't used it in a while (1y+) don't even bother with the 2.10.xx -- I use Krita, GIMP, Inkscape -- did some image editing in GIMP yesterday and it went good.

    Since the latter 2.99.xx releases my position & criticisms have changed. New UX, Non-destructive Layer Filters and the workflow has improved the software a lot. There is a ton of activity on their gitlab.

    Its still not perfect but easily beats Photoshop Wine at all basic operations.

    https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/

    And since this post is about Photoshop. Don't pirate it. Be the change in the world you want to see. Let Adobe Rot in Pieces for decades of being anti Linux and anti FOSS despite popular demand and big Hollywood bucks.

    Make them a relic of a long forgotten decade. The sooner we can move on the better.

  • Is there a better way to browse man pages?

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  • I read man in nvim, there is a alias on the arch wiki IIRC (and syntax highlighting)