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refalo

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  • "Why is your phone in airplane mode?"

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  • Airplane mode doesn't necessarily turn off the baseband radio, it can still work even if the application OS isn't talking to it, so you can still be tracked. Also some phones actually have a mux on the camera/mic/GPS so that the baseband can talk to it even if the application OS is shutdown.

  • How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

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  • So 1 month becomes... 2 years?

  • FreeBSD is a No-Go for KDE's Plasma Login Manager

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  • I know it's not BSD but, gentoo already does similar with elogind to support all init systems with gnome, so maybe they could use something like that too.

  • FreeBSD is a No-Go for KDE's Plasma Login Manager

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  • gentoo uses elogind to emulate the systemd interfaces required by gnome

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • You can alter your PAM configuration to require both: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/572841

    On my system, by default it lets you use either one to authenticate any time a password is needed, but this can be changed to require successful authentication using BOTH methods if desired.

    I wasn't sure if you were wanting to require both, or just allow either one to be used, but both scenarios are trivial to configure.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Most of the games I play don't work on wine (Teknoparrot), and multiple machines I have are either missing or have broken essential drivers for built-in peripherals like wifi/BT, fingerprint readers etc. So... I had to go back.

    One of my laptops has a 10+ year old unfixed kernel bug for the bluetooth not working... and the wifi only uploads at 1mbps under Linux, but works fine on Windows.

    I'm sure people that don't happen to have random hardware/software incompatibilities are enjoying linux, but there's also still lots of people that can't switch.

  • A nice CSS framework located between Pico CSS and Bootstrap?

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  • Some (many) people find it easier to learn a small number of predefined class names that accomplish what they want without having to know hundreds of different CSS incantations when they're just trying to make a simple site.

    Sorta like how people use a command-line instead of just writing the code themselves.

  • How FOSS Won and Why It Matters

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  • Open source is the very worst thing currently going on because it is so incredibly exploitative, it's far more exploitative than any actual company is of the workers who work at the company.

    Even the people who are getting paid in open source are getting massively underpaid to do it compared to how much the people who are using their code are making, it's nothing compared to the power that is accreted by the people who have co-opted that work thanks to the open source model. And then mark zuckerberg gets to define how the internet works despite having paid for almost none of the software that his company actually needed to make that work.

    It's like feudalism or serfdom, these people did the work and got nothing for it. It's like you took the worst aspects of capitalism for workers and the worst aspects of socialism for workers and put them together, that's open source. You get no power and you get no money.

    It's exploitative whether the people chose to be exploited, just because someone chooses to let you exploit them does not mean that you didn't exploit them. And for the record that's how most exploitation works; convincing people to do something that turns out to be very bad for them and very good for you, and that's exactly what the open source movement has turned out to be.

    I really don't see the "we post stuff on github under a gpl2 or lgpl or apache or mit license", all that is to me now is just exploitation. You can say that there's solutions but until someone demonstrates that those solutions work, it's the standard "real communism has never been tried" argument. AGPL is the only thing that I've seen so far that's an attempt to fix these fundamentally unfair compensation practices.

  • GenAI has started to kill open source projects

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  • Would you recommend this privacy tool?

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  • AI slop strikes again

  • A program to make good-looking tables with images in cells?

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  • Isn't it Shift+Enter on PC?

  • Writing Windows 95 software in 2025

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  • I could not even view it on firefox as I got endless captcha loops.

  • Writing Windows 95 software in 2025

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  • You don't need open-watcom to compile 9x applications from other OSes... both gcc and clang, as well as wine, have multiple options for cross-compilation, no VM or docker needed.

    I routinely use all 3 methods for compiling my own 95/98 applications from Linux.

    For gcc I use the mingw toolchain, which is available as the mingw-w64 package on Debian-based systems, or https://mxe.cc/.

    For clang I use clang-cl with the VC6 SDK. clang-cl pretends to be the Microsoft cl.exe compiler and actually works quite well if you know the right options to give it.

    And finally, using wine you can either run the original MSVC toolchain compilers, or versions of gcc that were compiled to run on Windows directly; there are both old and new gcc versions that can produce Win9x binaries if you know where to look.

    Some resources that have helped me over the years as well:

    https://glizda.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/compiling-programs-for-windows-95-and-pentium-in-2021/

    https://web.archive.org/web/20230905023821/http://www.nosubstance.me/post/coding-windows-cpp-on-linux-2/

    https://github.com/fsb4000/gcc-for-Windows98

  • Reminder: System76 is not to be trusted

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  • Yea this is some BS... gnome doesn't need any help to burn their own reputation to the ground, this is just a hitpiece by yet another one of their out of touch high and mighty contributors.

  • 2026 is THE year of the linux desktop

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  • lol, lmao even

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • What I've seen lead to success:

    • Arrogance
    • Overconfidence
    • Schmoozing with the right people
    • Doing flashy work, whatever that means in a given situation

    What I have seen lead to failure or, at best, being undervalued and ignored:

    • Caring about teammates and your future self
    • Caring about the end user and the business itself, when it conflicts with something sales, marketing, or a PM want
    • Creating resilient, well-engineered systems

    It's the same problem as anywhere else. Well-crafted systems are invisible and taken for granted. Saving the day by putting out a fire is applauded, even when you're the one who laid out the kindling and matches. Managers at all levels care about their own ego more than the company, product, or team.

    Maybe I just spent too much time with ex-Microsoft hacks.

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • Sorry but I have no idea what you're talking about... and I wasn't referring to any specific company

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • I just want them to stop acting like egotistical know-it-all jerks all the time. They love to speak in black-and-white absolutes and IMO it just shows how much they really don't know.

    I think Dunning-Kruger also applies to smart people... you don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Rustdesk Server Pro allegedly violates AGPL license by not distributing source

    github.com /rustdesk/rustdesk-server-pro/issues/781
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    F-Droid has received funds from US Congress (via OTF), just like Signal

    f-droid.org /2025/02/05/f-droid-awarded-otf-grant.html
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    ICPP – Running C++ in anywhere like a script

    github.com /vpand/icpp