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  • Linus Torvalds with Linus Sebastian (Linus Tech Tips)

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  • Interviews do typically count, it just has to be citable. Videos are sufficient in that regard as well, not just articles or books. It would be different if Torvalds had edited his own wikipedia page, but an editor who updates the page and cites this video would not be in the wrong.

  • KDE Plasma 6.8 Set to Drop X11 Support Completely

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  • I'm all for this. Wayland has its downsides, and X11 has its place, but I appreciate much more that Wayland is built for a desktop experience, and the broad support for different display technologies that KDE has made a priority in Plasma 6 is a large reason for why I made the jump over to Linux full time.

    XWayland hasn't caused any significant issues for me either. As far as the experience goes, it's pretty much transparent to the user. For the average person, the biggest difficulty still to solve is probably the XWayland video bridge that doesn't quite work as seamlesly as it should yet.

  • Linus Torvalds with Linus Sebastian (Linus Tech Tips)

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  • I mean, I feel like he outright confirms it in the video. It's his distro of choice since it allows him to easily use his own compiled kernels in testing. Anything else is an inconvenience to his work.

  • My hard drive keeps clicking like files are being accessed but I'm not doing anything in that filesystem and the indicator light doesn't indicate any usage.

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  • How's the overall health of the drives? You might want to get a quick SMART report.

    Otherwise, this sounds like pretty normal drive activity. It could be the result of anything from indexing tools to casual background processes doing a read.

    If it's periodic in a way that's consistent, then it's almost definitely something in software. What docker services are you running? Do you have any auditing tools or security processes that might be actively logging activity?

    It's pretty unlikely you've contracted malware unless you've gone out of your way to expose the server to outside sources, so I think you can alay those concerns.

  • Bottles 60.0 Launches with Native Wayland Support

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  • This is convenient. I've found that for most software though, especially legacy software, Heroic seems to work more often than not. Not having to configure some of the parameters myself that are required to get DX7 games to scale properly is appreciated.

  • I created some WAF Cloudflare rules and now my server is smooth and FAST

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  • There's some serious irony in posting these today of all times but I appreciate the writeup nonetheless.

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    Opening the door: Making self-hosting friendly for newcomers

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  • A couple points:

    • Your website does not properly convey the technical context of Safebox. Docker is a complex platform, and asking someone to install it point blank on any OS, while also championing ease-of-access feels at odds here.
    • There is a severe lack of documentation about the tool. Discord is not an appropriate means to find these documents if they exist. It is rarely okay as a support channel.
    • I saw your post from a few days ago, but it was framed as a question about about gatekeeping specifically. The post also advertised Safebox. Given that the post no longer exists (but the comments sure do), I'm inclined to think you didn't get quite the answer you were looking for.

    I dove into self-hosting several years ago and ultimately I think I found the experience quite welcoming. I also don't know that Safebox has a lot to offer over well-established alternatives these days like Unraid or TrueNAS, which have large user-bases and a depth of support articles to help admins better understand what they're doing and how to do it. It's true that not everyone would want to do this as a hobby. No one wants their services to break, or their data to be lost, and more tools that make it easier to prevent these scenarios are helpful. With that in mind, I am not left with a clear understanding of how Safebox is meant to provide safeguards here.

    I used the word "admin" in the previous paragraph for good reason. Self-hosting makes you the administrator, and it means that you, the administrator, have the power to make mistakes. My recommendation is not to talk down to your users. Someone interested in self-hosting should be aware of the potential security implications of what they're taking on, alongside the risk to their data and that breaking changes are something they can and will make along the way. If you really want to make self-hosting accessible, then the documentation for your tool needs to be accessible too.

    Safebox runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, supports both x86 and ARM64 (including Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, and others), and handles domain/subdomain setup, Let’s Encrypt certificates, DNS configuration, reverse proxy (nginx), and also offers WireGuard-based remote access.

    A user should be able to learn why these elements are important and how they work together. Talk about the limitations of running it on a raspberry pi vs a workstations or server. What's a reverse proxy? Is WireGuard good? This doesn't mean the average person needs to know how to configure detailed permissions or application configs, and if the goal is to provide a repository of pre-hardened Docker configs for use then that's cool too, but there should never be a barrier to the information itself. Especially as it is relevant to the tool you've built.

    I think that fundamentally, you've built a good tool that simplifies things someone who is already familiar with its components, and where it needs to improve is by expanding to help new users familiarize themselves. Education is as big a part of accessibility as the ease-of-setup.

  • Linus vs Linus

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  • If this is based on the GamersNexus videos, those are pretty absurd hit pieces that seemed to come from some bizarre place of resentment. They've had process issues when it comes to how they benchmark hardware, but never anything paid or purposefully misleading.

    I'm honestly wondering if you've confused it with something else.

  • iPhone Pocket: $229.95

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  • I mean, they have done it. When I was looking at phones a few years back, it was genuinely a toss up between a Pixel 4a and an iPhone SE. If all you need it to be is a cameraphone, then both were good options.

    Even now, the iPhone 16e is a relatively inexpensive phone when considering its featureset, but I would prefer a "mini" or newer SE variant instead.

  • Trump in Stable Condition After Being Told He Could Not Lick His Own Elbow

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  • Brother you have eaten the onion

  • swww renamed to awww, due to the author's guilt from obliviously naming it "final solution"

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  • Something KDE has done seems to have resolved the issues I used to have with DPI related scaling problems in Wayland. Once Plasma 6 hit, it's been nothing but rapid improvements with Wayland as a focus and man does it feel nice.

    That said, there's virtually no downside to still using X unless you have explicit display features you need from Wayland like HDR or the per-display scaling. Xfce is stupid lightweight and still my default for anything where battery life is a benefit.

  • Microsoft's ambitious new Xbox: Your entire Xbox console library, the full power of Windows PC gaming, and no multiplayer paywall

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  • Since 2013, both Sony and Microsoft have been using custom variants of AMD's consumer chips for CPU and GPU. These consoles are basically just laptop boards with some custom architecture, but at this stage most of the "Console" design is some software level features and a consistent baseline hardware spec to shoot for.

    Sony still does seem to put mor effort into the hardware portion, but Xbox hardware has been little more than an SFF PC for a couple generations now

  • Counter-Strike Skins Market Plummets $2 Billion as Valve Makes Trade-Up Change

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  • Interesting effect of this seems to be a brief rush to buy up skins, inflating their prices as a result. My inventory of cheap junk saw a massive spike in market pricing as the price of knives flatlined

  • Counter-Strike Skins Market Plummets $2 Billion as Valve Makes Trade-Up Change

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  • Not until now. Covert was the highest level item you could receive in a trad-up contract. Knives and gloves have been exclusive to the cases.

  • Portabrule Document File

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  • PDFs are the scariest file type. They can execute JS, include 3D models, hold hidden fields and metadata you haven't invented yet. Design fillable fields and then format them with CSS. Every page is an image with text that was scanned with OCR instead of just holding text data. You can embed videos for playback or audio to irritate your unfortunate victim. You can apply digital signatures, or encrypt your document.

    Who the fuck designed this thing. No document format was ever made for this. It's madness.

  • The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums.

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  • That's not really fair, I think. Smaller organizations are especially dispositioned here. Think small businesses, charities, local municipal services, etc. Small IT budgets, low staff (if any) and just enough to pad out a subscription cost to a service provider that fits their needs.

    AWS is an incredibly low cost solution, and it's probably where most of these low cost services point themselves at when building platforms at scale. Not everyone can build and maintain a datacentre or home server for their every need.

    This isn't to say that there are definitely idiots who pad their resume by chanting a prayer to SaaS and boasting about having moved their company to the "cloud" via a cheap and unreliable AWS rehoster, before failing upwards though.

  • Snapdragons. Pink ones.

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  • What was this shot on? Looks remarkably filmic, but much cleaner than my typical stock.

  • Downdetector spiking hard overnight

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  • Using the old interface seems to yield better results there. It appears to be their newer API model that's suffering.

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    Has the "recertified" hdd market dried up?

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  • In my experience, they come in waves. They come either as data centres seek to replace or renew existing drives, but as a result, there aren't as many lower capacity drives available. Lately, I've only seen 10+TB drives under a recertified banner, though you can find lower capacity drives that are "refurbished" instead. They will have the power-on hours to match though, as these are the refuse from those sorts of drive replacements.

    You may find better luck with local used marketplaces if you only need cheap storage. Otherwise, they do seem less common if you don't need large capacity drives.