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[?]Sohrab Behdani :freebsd: » 🌐
@sohrab@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Today I talked about GNU Guix at MashhadLUG, our local Linux User Group. I’ve published the presentation files on GitHub. (Sadly, GitLab is unavailable for my country due to sanctions, and Codeberg is blocked by the Iranian government, otherwise I would have preferred to host them there.)

I’m a big fan of Emacs and Org mode. This presentation was written in Org and delivered using org-tree-slide. It was a really enjoyable experience :)

github.com/behdanisohrab/prese

emacs with my presentation

Alt...emacs with my presentation

    [?]Mark Stosberg » 🌐
    @markstos@urbanists.social

    To devs who celebrate time zone bugs getting fixed:

    An almost decade-old bug in systemd's handling of Daylight Saving changes is getting fixed:

    github.com/systemd/systemd/iss

    Before timers (cron jobs) scheduled to run during the transition could get stuck.

      [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
      @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

      Today, the Linuxulator did its job, and it did it very well.
      A client is experimenting with moving from Docker to FreeBSD and jails, and they seem very happy with it so far.
      The issue is that part of their build process - as so often happens - relies on Node dependencies that only compile on Linux, macOS, etc., but not on FreeBSD, due to a missing binary that isn't provided for it. Currently, they build on their local machines and push the output to the server, but sometimes they need to make quick changes on the fly.

      So, I set up a Linux jail (Ubuntu) using BastilleBSD, installed the dependencies, set up a bind mount, and granted them access to the jail. The result: now they can compile right from there too, improving their overall workflow.

      The Linuxulator - and even more so, illumos's lx zones - are truly remarkable pieces of technology.

       

        [?]SLIMBOOK (Official) » 🌐
        @slimbook@linuxrocks.online

        💙 Anniversary Deal

        Our 11th anniversary celebration continues with a very special laptop.

        The KDE Slimbook is the result of a close collaboration between @kde and Slimbook, designed to deliver the best possible KDE Plasma experience right out of the box.

        🎉 During our anniversary campaign, you can now get it with €120 off.

        And remember... this is just one of the exclusive deals we'll be unveiling throughout our anniversary.

        👉 Discover today's offer and get your KDE Slimbook before the promotion ends: slimbook.com/shop/product/kde-

        @kde_espana

        Promotional graphic for the KDE Slimbook VII on a black background. An open laptop displaying the KDE Plasma desktop is centered in front of the large blue word "PROMO." A blue badge in the bottom-right corner highlights a €120 discount. At the bottom, the image lists the laptop's key features: AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor, 16:10 2.5K 165 Hz display, and durable aluminum chassis. The graphic is part of Slimbook's 11th anniversary campaign.

        Alt...Promotional graphic for the KDE Slimbook VII on a black background. An open laptop displaying the KDE Plasma desktop is centered in front of the large blue word "PROMO." A blue badge in the bottom-right corner highlights a €120 discount. At the bottom, the image lists the laptop's key features: AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor, 16:10 2.5K 165 Hz display, and durable aluminum chassis. The graphic is part of Slimbook's 11th anniversary campaign.

          🗳

          [?]Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen » 🌐
          @mxchara@seattle.pink

          OK let me run up this flagpole. now I KNOW there's so many UNIX-style desktop environments that I can't possible make a really comprehensive poll but I'm genuinely curious as to what folks use. We first experienced Xfce quite a while ago (late 1990s when it was new) and after spending a while with KDE and other things instead we settled back into Xfce. It gets the job done and that's what matters.

          So, your / / desktop environment!

          GNOME:34
          KDE:74
          Motif (hey I used it and liked it!):1
          Xfce:25
          LXQt:9
          uh...Enlightenment?:1
          twm:0
          other:51
            #netbsd boosted

            [?]BorgBackup » 🌐
            @borgbackup@fosstodon.org

            borgbackup 2.0.0b22 was just released!

            First release with packs and also other exciting changes - do not use with production repositories!

            github.com/borgbackup/borg/rel

              [?]The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 [any/all (agender)] » 🌐
              @thevhswizard@retro.pizza

              I know it's a Cheap Pop, praising here on Mastodon, but I have to say... I think Microsoft may have made a massive "Video Game Crash of '83" level fuck up with Windows 11.

              If people don't like one of their decisions, their entire value, up until now, has been the *somewhat* valid argument of "what are you going to do, switch to Apple?"

              And to be clear, I am not shaming Mac users (a thing that I really wish they would also try not to do back, looking at you, iPhone snobs).

              But even though Unix/Linux have been around since the dawn of time, Microsoft's never really considered Linux a threat, due to the multiple barriers of entry - the complicated install, difficulty of overall use, lack of support and drivers, incompatibilities, and there being a certain (let's be honest, sometimes justified) stigma against Linux users.

                [?]nixCraft 🐧 » 🌐
                @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                Just using sed to make indexes for books. This art of writing awk or sed from scratch is now vanishing. Sharing just in case if you love reading such stuff about and CLI/scripting

                pement.org/sed/make_indexes.txt

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                  [?]AA » 🌐
                  @AAKL@infosec.exchange

                  [?]Akseli [Any pronouns (lizard, not dragon)] » 🌐
                  @aks@scalie.zone

                  Union QtWidgets update:

                  It looks broken, but it's getting there. At least now it's mostly reading data from Union and standing on it's own: It's not just modified Breeze QtWidgets style anymore, but actually reading the CSS and trying it's best to look similar.

                  There are a lot of things still missing. Some elements here are wrong size or are using the QCommonStyle items, which is basically "unstyled Qt" because I have not yet created drawcalls for them. For example scrollbars and tabs.

                  But it's slowly shaping up. I have had to tear this apart and rebuild multiple times due to there not being good information on how to create a QStyle out there. A lot of trial and error and investigating what Breeze is doing.

                  It will need more time. But I really really hope I can get it for 6.8. No promises, but I am really trying.

                  Screenshot of Dolphin with quite broken but still somewhat working Union styling

                  Alt...Screenshot of Dolphin with quite broken but still somewhat working Union styling

                    [?]Neville Park [ze/hir] » 🌐
                    @nev@status.nevillepark.ca

                    recently figured out that gnome-terminal (the default in Linux Mint) stores its settings not in dotfiles, but in a binary you can only view/edit with gsettings/dconf-editor. i am vexed

                    anyone got a terminal emulator of choice that uses dotfiles and whose devs aren't fascists or LLM users?

                    i realize this is a tall ask, however, i don't need fancy features, just tabs and basic font/colour scheme customization

                    #linux #LinuxMint #terminal #CommandLine #cli

                      #netbsd boosted

                      [?]JdeBP » 🌐
                      @JdeBP@tty0.social

                      @cks

                      The sad thing is, as I was saying last year, all of this is unnecessary. The kernels, , , , and , all maintain almost all of the stuff that 'who' needs, and have done since the switch to POSIX sessions and process groups in the 1980s.

                      There aren't any needs for a parallel database outwith the kernel. A few sysctl/procfs extensions for reading the kernel's own list of sessions, and we'd be away.

                      tty0.social/@JdeBP/11450544357

                      @ariadne @ska

                      [?]JdeBP » 🌐
                      @JdeBP@tty0.social

                      @ska

                      It's interesting how close but still how frustratingly far off is in this regard.

                      The setlogin() name is per-session, not per-process. But whilst there is a sysctl() for snapshotting the process list, there isn't one for snapshotting the session list.

                      Apart from session objects lacking a creation timestamp and a "hostname", everything "who" needs is actually already maintained by the kernel, just inaccessibly.

                      github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src

                          [?]Linux Professional Institute » 🌐
                          @LPI@fosstodon.org

                          For most of the history of digital computing, people communicated almost completely through email.

                          This article by Andrew Oram explores what did for email, the role of , and BSD’s impact on modern operating systems & programmer tools.

                          Read it here: lpi.org/1v8r

                          @FreeBSDFoundation

                            [?]Leanpub » 🌐
                            @leanpub@mastodon.social

                            [?]Leanpub » 🌐
                            @leanpub@mastodon.social

                            NEW! The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Learn Linux TV, Author of Switching to Linux: A Practical Guide for Windows and Mac Users

                            youtu.be/dBJ-PvUJHaw

                              [?]TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️ [any/all] » 🌐
                              @TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems

                              New article, although this one is a controversial one based on the situation of GNOME Calendar and Linux Mint. I present to you: How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers?

                              tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-w

                                [?]Pete Orrall [Pete/Pete] » 🌐
                                @peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                So for the folks in the room:

                                What do you run for a and what projects are you working on?

                                  [?]Root Moose » 🌐
                                  @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                  "Twasn't me..."

                                  "Well... it was teh case's fault!!!11!!!"

                                  🤡

                                  If you ever wanted a good reason to keep around your failed hard drives, scavenging screwed up logic boards is a good reason. Ha!

                                  Image of a HDD with the logic board removed and showing broken and bent interface pins.

                                  Alt...Image of a HDD with the logic board removed and showing broken and bent interface pins.

                                    #netbsd boosted

                                    [?]vermaden » 🌐
                                    @vermaden@mastodon.social

                                    Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/07/20) available.

                                    vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07

                                    Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                      [?]vermaden » 🌐
                                      @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                      Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/07/20) available.

                                      vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07

                                      Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                        Liam Proven boosted

                                        [?]Lobsters » 🤖 🌐
                                        @lobsters@mastodon.social

                                        [?]nixCraft 🐧 » 🌐
                                        @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                        The death and rebirth of my home server

                                        sgt.hootr.club/blog/home-serve

                                          [?]Jon Yoder » 🌐
                                          @jonyoder@mstdn.social

                                          Is it weird to have 2 favorite desktop environments?

                                          I discovered that GNOME on my laptop is nothing short of an amazing Zen. On my desktop with a secondary monitor to the left of the main one, it feels very much less than ideal, but the different layout and interaction model that Cinnamon has the same no-thought-needed interaction.

                                          Also Debian requires more work for gaming than Mint, but they're both equally amazing for different reasons.

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                                            [?]gaby_wald » 🌐
                                            @gaby_wald@framapiaf.org

                                            "COSMIC 1.3 : ce nouveau bureau Linux en Rust fait passer la concurrence pour de vieilles reliques"

                                            ...

                                            goodtech.info/cosmic-1-3-linux

                                              [?]David Culley » 🌐
                                              @davidculley@hachyderm.io

                                              RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924

                                              Linus Torvalds has repeatedly said that LLMs are "clearly useful" and "just a tool" and that the kernel maintainers will use LLMs for Linux development.

                                              He fails to acknowledge that LLMs are based entirely on the theft of intellectual property and that they are destroying our habitat and the future of our species as a whole.

                                              I find this extremely frustrating, coming not just from some random tech bro but the man who controls arguably one of the most important pieces of software in the world.

                                              Ted M. Young boosted

                                              [?]tante [he/him] » 🌐
                                              @tante@tldr.nettime.org

                                              "In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough."

                                              tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-

                                                #netbsd boosted

                                                [?]BorgBackup » 🌐
                                                @borgbackup@fosstodon.org

                                                1.4.5 was just released!

                                                Some fixes, including a low severity security fix, some new features, some other changes.

                                                github.com/borgbackup/borg/rel

                                                  [?]Chris » 🌐
                                                  @chr1stian@mastodon.social

                                                  quicktipp #118: curl can be used to send emails with smtp

                                                  printf 'Subject: Test\n\nHello\n' | \
curl -s --ssl-reqd --url 'smtp://myserserver:587' \
  --user 'myuser:mypassword' \
  --mail-from 'picard@enterprise.starfleet.ufp' \
  --mail-rcpt 'sisko@ds9.starfleet.ufp' \
  --upload-file -

                                                  Alt...printf 'Subject: Test\n\nHello\n' | \ curl -s --ssl-reqd --url 'smtp://myserserver:587' \ --user 'myuser:mypassword' \ --mail-from 'picard@enterprise.starfleet.ufp' \ --mail-rcpt 'sisko@ds9.starfleet.ufp' \ --upload-file -

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                                                    [?]TronNerd82 » 🌐
                                                    @TronNerd82@mastodon.social

                                                    Happy 33rd birthday to

                                                    @volkerdi thanks for all the awesome work you do, and may there be many more years of Slackware to come :)

                                                      [?]ARGVMI~1.PIF » 🌐
                                                      @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                      In light of all the drama lately, I thought I'd glance at what are the equivalents to the various software I use.

                                                      Well, the network configuration story is very not good. You know how Linux has NetworkManager? On FreeBSD, if you want to configure network interfaces by GUI, you…run a GUI app as root via sudo.

                                                      github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr

                                                      Which then shells out to sysrc to apply configuration settings:

                                                      github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr

                                                      You've got to be kidding me. That all's insecure as hell.

                                                        [?]PurpleGengar » 🌐
                                                        @Purplegengar25@lgbtqia.space

                                                        I'm itching to start using a new . As a recent user '#Mint' since a few months ago, I started to feel the urge to try a new distro with a new . I have in mind to try with .

                                                        My search said Debian is community-driven, their is , , and more aligned with values than other distro out there.

                                                        If I want the same values, I should choose . But, I really don't want to currently. I'm finding myself curious about Gnome ATM. I'm in despair if my combination is fit. 😅

                                                          [?]OSNews » 🤖 🌐
                                                          @osnews@mstdn.social

                                                          Follow the money, especially in open source

                                                          Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel and git, is employed by the Linux Foundation. This Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to, as the name obviously implies, the promotion of Linux. The primary use of the funds it collects is to "help fund the infrastructure and fellows, including Linus Torvalds, who help develop the Linux ker

                                                          osnews.com/story/145548/follow

                                                            [?]Jason Yip » 🌐
                                                            @jchyip@mastodon.online

                                                            "I realize that some people really dislike , but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

                                                            is not one of those anti-#AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the thing and fork it."

                                                            lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CA

                                                              [?]Bradley M. Kühn » 🌐
                                                              @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org

                                                              @glyph

                                                              If wins in the case and Vizio complies with the & , we should have the bare components ready to build an alternative firmware that can run something like Kodi instead on their TVs (aka their computers with a giant display attached).

                                                              I wonder if LG's are still -based? I did an enforcement action about 15 years ago and they were back then, and were in compliance, so you could rebuild & install the base operating system.

                                                                [?]Jessica Dail » 🌐
                                                                @JessDail@caneandable.social

                                                                I’m a current @1password subscriber, but given my recent difficulties using the application with the screen-reader, I thought I’d give @bitwarden another shot, but that experience was even worse, due to the number of unlabeled buttons contained within the computer application.
                                                                To that end, my question is:
                                                                What’s everyone’s favorite?#Accessible -platform that works across , & , specifically ?

                                                                  Liam Proven boosted

                                                                  [?]AA » 🌐
                                                                  @AAKL@infosec.exchange

                                                                  Warning: never judge a book by its cover.

                                                                  The Register: Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' theregister.com/os-platforms/2 @theregister @lproven

                                                                    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                                                    [?]Nohamux » 🌐
                                                                    @nohamux@piaille.fr

                                                                    hep ! besoin de conseils système.

                                                                    je souhaite installer en dur NetBSD sur mon PC. j'ai quelques interrogations après avoir regardé la doc (mais mon anglais est pas fou fou).

                                                                    En gros, comment je fais pour l'installer à côter de mon Nux ? Mon disque est partitionné en GPT, j'ai une ESP classique avec un amorçage avec Grub 2, et à côté des partitions BTRFS, une pour chaque Distro et une pour mes données (monté avec FSTAB)(pas de gestion LVM).

                                                                    Quel procédure et type de partitionnement ?
                                                                    Est-ce que mon Grub2 peut gérer le boot avec NetBSD ?
                                                                    Même ESP pour BSD et les nux ? ou je dois chainer les bootloader ?

                                                                    merci !




                                                                      Liam Proven boosted

                                                                      [?]jbz » 🌐
                                                                      @jbz@indieweb.social

                                                                      [?]Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: » 🌐
                                                                      @onepict@chaos.social

                                                                      "Open source by definition keeps the door wide open, legally to boot. But a fork only gives you the code. An open source project is more than its code, it's the sum of its maintainers, infrastructure, trademarks, dependencies, and trust. You can copy the code in seconds, the rest you would need to rebuild from scratch in most cases. The people invoking the right to fork already know this."

                                                                      - @tarakiyee

                                                                      tarakiyee.com/fork-it-or-walk-

                                                                      H/T @jbz

                                                                        [?]Rik Viergever » 🌐
                                                                        @rikviergever@mastodon.social

                                                                        Wie kan mij in contact brengen met developers in de @Rabobank@mastodon.nl en Funda? Beiden werken sinds kort niet meer op het grootste Europese mobiele OS, /e/OS (>100.000 gebruikers en snel groeiend). We komen graag in contact met de ontwikkelaars van deze apps, want dit is absoluut niet nodig (voor veiligheid of andere redenen) en we zouden hen graag hen een guide toesturen die deze alternatieven beschrijft.

                                                                        @rabobank

                                                                        @murena

                                                                          🗳

                                                                          [?]yoasif » 🌐
                                                                          @yoasif@mastodon.social

                                                                          Is in a social [justice] warrior project, or is it simply better technology?

                                                                          Please boost for reach! 😉

                                                                          Open Source in Linux is about technology:8
                                                                          Open Source in Linux is about freedom:79
                                                                          Show me the results:7

                                                                            [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                                                                            @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                            #Linux #Meme #Memes

                                                                            "Wojack" "Gaussian Curve" meme

Dumb left-of-curve guy is saying "Linux is Perfect for Games," and has logos of steamos, valve proton, and bazzite around him.

Middle-intelligence uptight guy is saying, "Nooo! You have to do serious programming and self-hosting!!!"

Smart monk-looking guy on the right of the curve is also saying "Linux is Perfect for Games," and has screnshots of NetHack and Netrek around him.

                                                                            Alt..."Wojack" "Gaussian Curve" meme Dumb left-of-curve guy is saying "Linux is Perfect for Games," and has logos of steamos, valve proton, and bazzite around him. Middle-intelligence uptight guy is saying, "Nooo! You have to do serious programming and self-hosting!!!" Smart monk-looking guy on the right of the curve is also saying "Linux is Perfect for Games," and has screnshots of NetHack and Netrek around him.

                                                                              #netbsd boosted

                                                                              [?]ARGVMI~1.PIF » 🌐
                                                                              @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                              @radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H @geospacedman @marcusxms

                                                                              All of the major ⁠s allow AI code. Even . codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open

                                                                              In light of all the horror stories of vibe coders getting hacked, this seems really really really bad for security. I don't know what OS to use now.

                                                                                Lisi Hocke boosted

                                                                                [?]Brage Fuglseth » 🌐
                                                                                @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

                                                                                RE: sunny.garden/@bragefuglseth/11

                                                                                Because of the recent paragraphs that have surfaced from the kernel mailing list, I feel inclined to bring this 2 days old post up again.

                                                                                People need to stop viewing Linus as some kind of figurehead for the Linux desktop / free software. Not because of his recent statements in particular, he's entitled to his own opinions, but because he generally just has never represented the values or mindset everyone seems to think he has.

                                                                                He oversees an important technical component of the desktop stack, but that component is used in so many other places as well, and he probably couldn't care less about the success of Linux on personal devices in particular. He's not coming to save any of you from the technological apocalypse or whatever.

                                                                                  [?]Shawn Webb [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                                  @lattera@bsd.network

                                                                                  We're number two! We're number two! Wahoo!

                                                                                  Screenshot of largest repositories on storage, sorted by size. Linux is number one and HardenedBSD is number two.

                                                                                  Alt...Screenshot of largest repositories on storage, sorted by size. Linux is number one and HardenedBSD is number two.

                                                                                    [?]Ω 🌍 Gus Posey » 🌐
                                                                                    @Gustodon@mas.to

                                                                                    Linus Torvalds is no hero.

                                                                                    That was hard to learn.

                                                                                      [?]VoidZeroOne :tranarchy_a_genderqueer: :v_trans: :v_pan: [They/Them] » 🌐
                                                                                      @TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt

                                                                                      Maybe Linus Torvalds is right.

                                                                                      Maybe it's time to fork the kernel and clean it up.

                                                                                      Get rid of all the stuff that's in there because of company x shifted the burdon of maintenance to the public and all the slop.

                                                                                      Concentrate on systems that a normal person actually can buy and use today.

                                                                                      See how small a code base we can get and start from there.

                                                                                      Maybe do the sane thing and develop the libc with the kernel like the BSDs do.

                                                                                      Maybe look at all the other systems out there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis
                                                                                      and implement everything in the best possible way .

                                                                                      Let's not do the "Not Invented Here" dance.

                                                                                      Keep POSIX compatibility as the baseline.

                                                                                      As it stands right now the only people who are kinda happy with the kernel project as is are the big iron vendors.

                                                                                      Oh and while we're at it let's fix the licence so it actually reflects the values of the community and not the intrrests of big tech and the egos of some cis het well-off white dudes.

                                                                                        [?]Pete Orrall [Pete/Pete] » 🌐
                                                                                        @peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                        @rl_dane

                                                                                        This is the second post where you'd dropped the F bomb....for good reason.

                                                                                        I have so much to say but not sure how to say it but I will do my best. For *years*, I've enjoyed using both as a hobbyist and professional . The OS is definitely not the one I started with 20+ years ago. Since at least COVID has....well, it's turned into a full blown corporate-controlled high speed sprawling mess. Not necessarily matured just grown exponentially wherever the various powers see fit. For this and other reasons, I am leaning more and more towards .

                                                                                        Lastly, I will admit there are some niche use cases which do interest me (related to my own hobbies) but shoving it into everything is not a good idea.

                                                                                        @patrick

                                                                                          Lisi Hocke boosted

                                                                                          [?]Tinker ☀️ » 🌐
                                                                                          @tinker@infosec.exchange

                                                                                          The argument that "AI works therefore we should use it" is akin to "Torture works therefore we should use it."

                                                                                          I don't mean that as hyperbole.

                                                                                          The underlying purpose of AI is at least twofold:

                                                                                          1) It puts a layer of abstraction over information.
                                                                                          - Primary Source: Raw data (eg video footage of an event)
                                                                                          - Secondary Source: Analysis (eg Low bias news and analysis of what this event means in the context of other events)
                                                                                          - Tertiary Source: Meta Analysis (eg Encyclopedia entries summing up Analysis)
                                                                                          - Quaternary Source: News Opinion and Propaganda (eg a "News Entertainment" channel that tells you what to think regarding the event)
                                                                                          - Pentanary (?) Source: TLDR summations divorced from underlying sources (eg AI summations, guides, etc that describe events or provide recommendations and guidance but follow behind the scenes algorithms that control the output)

                                                                                          The purpose of this layer of abstraction is control of information and removing the distribution of information from the actual events. This allows for influence campaigns, tuned marketing, tuned propaganda, and therefore control.

                                                                                          2) Centralization of compute power
                                                                                          - Computers in our hands that we control allow us a lot of power.
                                                                                          - Moore's Law no longer applies to localized compute power so we are in an era of repair and maintenance.

                                                                                          That means two things for corporations. Loss of income and loss of control.
                                                                                          - Forcing us to use centralized compute forces us to continue to spend money
                                                                                          - Localized AI engines still allow for centralized algorithms. (open sourced algos and localized engines dont factor in here as use and usecases are low)

                                                                                          AI is being pushed so heavily because both governments and corporations need it to further their wealth and power.

                                                                                          They push it via both making it cheap and accessible and having a veneer of usability.

                                                                                          This is a similar pattern to "Underpricing competition to drive them out and then jacking up rates when you have a monopoly", "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and similar approaches.

                                                                                          So.

                                                                                          I am not arguing whether AI is useful. I am arguing that its use is detrimental to us. In fact, the more it becomes useful the worse it becomes BECAUSE more people adopt it. It hurts us as we use it. It hurts us more as we use it more.

                                                                                          Tying it back, I don't care if torture is useful and gets your desired results. Torture is bad and it hurts us.

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                                                                                            Damn. This quote from Linus Torvalds is... well... damning.

                                                                                            In response to a discussion around use of generative AI as it relates to contributions to the Linux code base, Linus (creator and lead contributor to Linux) firmly states that AI contributions are welcome.

                                                                                            But then he goes on and concludes with this:

                                                                                            "The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

                                                                                            Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.

                                                                                            This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

                                                                                            In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

                                                                                            And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

                                                                                            Linus"

                                                                                            A lot of us are on Linux specifically because of the social and political positives. Closed source is control. Open source is democracy.

                                                                                            Linus doing the typical tech-bro "i don't think of politics, I only think of tech" harkens back to any number of "science without ethics" atrocities.

                                                                                            Linus is and has always been a tech-bro (or proto tech bro). He has his throne of power and is happy where he is. Other tech-bros want money and influence. They're all the same.

                                                                                            But Linus is wrong.

                                                                                            Tech is politics.

                                                                                            And his stance and guiding influence with Linux is wrong.

                                                                                            Linus just made a political statement and has shifted the politics and societal approach of Linux.

                                                                                            Source: lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CA

                                                                                            screenshot of Linus' remarks stating: The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.

This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

Linus"

                                                                                            Alt...screenshot of Linus' remarks stating: The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology. Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project. This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools. Linus"

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                                                                                              Gods, I've had my head down these last few months with family and life stuff, so I've not been kept fully abreast.

                                                                                              But Canonical doing the most Canonical thing and fully embracing AI just plain hurts.

                                                                                              I'm such a (classic) Luddite. It feels like the world is collapsing around me.

                                                                                              And its not just "new tech bad".

                                                                                              I love the advances we're having in balcony solar, and cutting edge hydroponics, and non-LLM automation, and machine learning as it relates to medicine and accessibility, and meshnet communication standards and tech.

                                                                                              I hate surveillance tech like Palantir and Flock, just like I hated blockchain and NFTs, and Generative AI LLMs, etc.

                                                                                              I'm just going to core out a space in my life and find folks who do the same and try to strengthen them.

                                                                                              Looks like I'm going to move to OpenBSD soon though, so that's nice.

                                                                                              neowin.net/news/ubuntu-is-goin

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