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utopiah

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  • Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried

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  • some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation.

    OK ok but hear me out, going to sound crazy, what if we could like... put a smaller cheap mode of transportation INSIDE the bigger collective one?!

    Like... I don't know... a bike on a subway or train car?! 🤯

  • Which 2FA physical key do you prefer?

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  • BentoPDF - The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

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  • Is there a simple GUI application alerting the user when a process is not running?

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  • Is there a simple GUI application alerting the user when a process is not running?

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  • With pleasure. I discovered kdialog just recently too as until now I used notify-send but as you are using KDE this gives you a lot more options.

    If you are into this kind of things check also dbus or KWin, there are a LOT of fun and powerful ways to interact with KDE.

  • I found the easiest way to transfer files to and from my Linux PC - and it's so fast [ZDNET]

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  • FWIW if it users WebDAV might want to check copyparty then as it also provides that, and a WebUI, and... a lot more.

  • I found the easiest way to transfer files to and from my Linux PC - and it's so fast [ZDNET]

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  • It also has kdeconnect-cli with e.g. kdeconnect-cli --share myfile.txt so don't think you are stuck with a GUI to use KDEConnect.

  • Is there a simple GUI application alerting the user when a process is not running?

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  • I imagine dbus-monitor should work with cron but probably if starting once DBUS is actually running (so not sure @reboot would be sufficient)

  • Is there a simple GUI application alerting the user when a process is not running?

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  • 1-liner would be something like watch -n 10 "pgrep konsole || kdialog --msgbox 'konsole no running'"

    namely :

    • watch to repeat a command at interval, e.g. every minute (could also be crontab)
    • pgrep to check if a process is running
    • kdialog on KDE to send a message to the current user (plenty more ways)

  • Antiviruses?

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  • Thanks, it's quite interesting but again IMHO it relies on bad practices. If you've been compromised and you "restore" (not in an sandboxed environment dedicated to study the threat) then you are asking for trouble. I'll read a bit more in depth but the timeline I see 1987, 1998, 2017 show me this is a very very niche strategy, to the point that it's basically irrelevant. Again it's good to know of it, conceptually, but in practice proper backups (namely of data) remains in my eyes the best way to mitigate most problems, attacks and just back luck (failing hardware, fire, etc) alike.

  • Antiviruses?

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  • 12 years ago I took "Malicious Software and its Underground Economy: Two Sides to Every Story" and it was quite interesting not so much for the technical aspect (which was still nice) but for the economical aspect that is often underappreciated. The core idea was that scammers or hackers might be doing it for fun, as you did, or learning, as I did... but the ones who keep on doing it sustainably make money out of it, consequently they are predictable. Namely they need repeatable methods that scale or that target a specific group. I really recommend taking a similar class but anyway, the big picture here is sure, maybe AV would miss such things and yet it wouldn't really matter because nearly nobody does that and/or it wouldn't propagate much.

  • Antiviruses?

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  • That doesn't make much sense to me, one backup data, not executables or system. Even if they were to be saved in the backup then they wouldn't get executed back.

    Anyway, that's still conceptually interesting but it's so very niche I'd be curious to hear where it's being used, any reference to read on where those exist in the wild?

  • Antiviruses?

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  • Funny but that's the entire point of a digital "life" if you want to use analogies : your backup is you.

  • Antiviruses?

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  • Nothing needs an antivirus if you backup your data properly.

    PS: I'm getting downvoted for this so I'll explain a bit more : if you backup properly, you can restore your data. Sure your system is fucked... but who cares? In fact if you care for your OS installation then right away it shows you are NOT in a reliable state. You install another OS and start from there. Maybe it's not even due to a virus, maybe your hardware burns in fire, same situation so IMHO a working backup (and by working I mean rolling, like TODAY it's done without your intervention) then you restore. Also please don't tell me about ransomware because even though it is a real threat, if you do your backups properly (as in not overwritting the old ones with the new ones) then you are still safe. It can be as basic as using rdiff-backup. It's fundamental to understand the difference between what's digital and what is not digital.

  • What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?

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  • It's not just for Linux but :

    • there is an error message somewhere

    It's fundamental because instead of saying "It doesn't work!" and get no useful help, people must think of it as an investigation (or whatever get them going) looking for clues. Until you get the right message and can provide the right context (e.g. what computer are you using, what OS version, etc) then you get generic help which is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Sure it's not entirely impossible if you are both lucky and patient but you are doing yourself and others a huge disservice.

    Before Linux maybe they were used to black boxes but here, nobody is intentionally trying to hide away anything from you!

    PS: bonus, notes are basically free. Jolt down notes about anything and everything you are learning. Don't just "use" a computer, LEARN how to use a computer.

  • What's a good Google Drive replacement for syncing my Keepass database?

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  • If most of your passwords are actually for Websites, Firefox has Profile letting you manage passwords across devices.

  • Intel Compute Sticks - Making them useful (or fun)?

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  • Is the a private fronteng or alternative to NotebookLM ?

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  • You did. Well my point is that nobody needs this kind of equipment in the first place anyway because 99% of "useful" stuff done by an average officeworker isn't actually LLM it's usually STT. The rest, e.g. GenAI with videos is for shit&giggles, vibe coding doesn't work except few super tiny narrow cases (e.g. transforming a file quickly without caring for 100% accuracy and when converters don't already exist) and last but not least genAI on text itself is mostly used for spam, scan and cheating at school.

    So... please don't felt "left behind" if you can't self host this kind of tools, it seems to me it's nearly never justifiable!

  • Is the a private fronteng or alternative to NotebookLM ?

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  • Very interesting, thanks for sharing https://github.com/theaiautomators/insights-lm-local-package

    Honestly though it might take 15min to configure, 1hr to let it run so that it get all images, dependencies, etc, 30min to debug GPU passthrough with the right driver version, 10min to try by getting the right endpoint... then 1min to realize that sure you can get give a PDF and "chat" with it but nothing particularly interesting or actually insightful will come out of this, especially if the paper itself if well written, namely has a proper introduction, structure, etc.

    So... I'm leaving this comment here to maybe try one day, updated my list of local AI services but most likely I won't bother anymore.