onlinepersona

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Gaming lemmy.world

I just looked it up and - x means one filesystem. But does - v give you a progress bar or just a lost of stuff copied?

IIRC rsync also treats the trailing slash in a special manner that I always have to look up.

1w ago

cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp

How do you get the progress bar?

1w ago

cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp

It's a damn pain to remember all the flags. How many flags can a program friggin have? I'm always afraid that some flag I enter will reverse the sync and delete everything in the source folder because the target is empty.

I use rsync only when all params have been reseasrched and tested. cpx presumably just requires cpx - r source target instead of 5 rsync flags.

1w ago

FOSDEM 2026, one of the world's largest software meeting will start in 2 days in Brussels 🇧🇪. This edition features 1176 speakers and 1063 events

Will they finally be uploading their talks to peertube? Or will I need to use YouTube again?

1w ago

Virgin Framework vs Chad ThinkPad

There are better linux laptops for less. No need to send tour money to the US.

1w ago

Systemd Creator Lennart Poettering Joins New Linux Integrity Startup

Based on NixOS maybe? Wouldn't surprise me

1w ago

I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software

That doesn't solve funding as there doesn't seem to be any provisions for that.

1w ago

I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software

I like this idea. Good on him.

1w ago

I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software

https://postopen.org/about-post-open

I think if they succeeded to write a licence that made sense and were legally enforceable, they'd be worth using. But I also wish the EU put up some lawyers to formulate a licence with the goal of sustainable opensource development.

1w ago

Help with uploading images on Linux Mint & Librewolf

They have to enable webgl. @Geodes_n_Gems@lemmy.ml

1w ago

France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

What do you mean by "diverse competitive market of providers"? All I can imagine is religious schools like Catholic, Presbyterian, Suuni, Shi'ite, Taoist, Satanist, and then language schools, vocational schools, universities, sport schools, etc.

Also what do you mean by a "natural geographic monopoly"? Schools are neither natural, nor geographic, nor monopolies. Take Gemany for example. It has 16 different school systems. France has one school system but schools are given quite some leeway. The Netherlands has an extremely complex system with multiple exits and entries. And as for monopolies, there are often multiple schools in the same city, town, village or neighborhood.

I'm curious to read what you mean by those statements.

1w ago

I'm struggling with Python, as someone who started with C, Java, PHP and JS

Why so many different ways to declare an array-like structure? Tuples, Sets, Dicts, Lists? Dude... ffs, I know each one supposedly has a "different" purpose, I literally don't see any good benefits on it. It just makes me more confuse.

They are called data structures. Dude, if you can't tell the difference between them, I question the kind of code you're writing. Did you learn writing php first?

It sounds like you didn't study computer science but picked up coding as a side hustle and have yet to understand the absolute basics. Maybe pick up a book or follow a course someday. Things will make more sense then.

2w ago

"Why is your phone in airplane mode?"

And the country. I had a number from a country I visited and it lasted 2 years. I've had multiple different ones over the years in the places I lived and it's always varied from 6 months to a year. But a simple top up of even 1€ is enough to extend it again. And topping up can be done in cashbon multiple places.

2w ago

France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

IMO, it's a matter of time. They will learn eventually. We're just at the beginning and mistakes are being made and will continue to be made. However, I'm much happier with them doing is as FOSS instead of some proprietary, closed source crap that has to be rewritten for millions by some external company a politician happens to know.

Baby steps.

2w ago

France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

The problem is what they see as inefficiency. Social services, education, and a bunch of other things that are actually beneficial to society they consider a waste of money. There is overlap in what I consider inefficient and waste, but it is small. This does make the cut though.

2w ago

France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

They rewrote a messenger and the entire office suite. They could've collaborated with the Germans in making OpenDesk. Imagine all the dev time going into making Forgejo federated instead of rewriting everything a different way that isn't interoperable with another government's tools.

Maybe it has to start with way, every government making their own FOSS tools, features and code getting closer and closer together until they finally merge or dump one FOSS tool over another FOSS tool. 🤷

My thought is: at least its FOSS

2w ago

Supporting Open Source in 2026: Why It Matters More Than Ever

Funding has always been a challenge in open source. Projects can be more successful than ever while the people who maintain them can not afford to keep the lights on.

And yet, there are OSI zealots who cannot and will not accept any license that tries to solve the problem of funding. They will quote from the holy pages of OSI as if funding were already a solved problem. It's like talking to hardcore believers who cannot think that their religious text might not be the answer to everything or gasp* wrong.

2w ago

The state of Linux music players in 2026