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Corporate Open Source is Dead by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised that other people are surprised that for-profit companies constantly try to increase their profits; such companies only contribute to FOSS when that's more profitable than the alternative. The Linux kernel, AMDGPU, Steam, etc only exist because some part of the software/hardware stack is proprietary (which becomes a more attractive product as the FOSS portion of the stack improves).

I'm definitely not justifying the "rug-pulling", but people need to stop supporting projects with no potential for long-term profitability unless those projects can survive without any support from for-profit companies. Anything else is destined to fail.

OpenAI's GPT Trademark Request Has Been Denied by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago

It's a nightmare to search for anything about GUID Partition Tables (GPT) now.

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TIL XZ has built-in checksumming (and now threaded decompression?) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I need to transport multiple very large files over an unstable and untrusted network, and the file contents are outputted as a data stream. I wanted to use OpenSSL for streaming authenticated encryption, but they purposefully don't support that and are preachy about it.

Well, it turns out that XZ has checksumming built-in! It even has different algorithms (CRC32, CRC64, and SHA256). It's part of the same file, within/before the encryption, and automatically verified by the decompression tool. I'm already using XZ for compression before encryption, so this is just super convenient and useful. Also, it seems like XZ supports threaded decompression now, when it didn't before. Thanks XZ devs!

Microsoft published a guide on how to install Linux. by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

In exchange, FF uses Google search by default. So they're also getting direct value from the deal.

You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money... by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago

The real problem is the government not protecting consumers from such predatory business practices. It's almost certainly not legal, and if it is then it shouldn't be. After 3-4 companies are absolutely destroyed, companies will stop doing it.

Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

Ever since we found out that Grindr has been tracking their users' locations at all times and then selling that data to private companies, Grindr has been dead to me.

*Permanently Deleted* by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

OP is 13.

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Making something for everyone is so much more work than making something just for yourself (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not complaining, but I didn't realize how much work it was. It makes me really respect the people who do it on a regular basis.

For example:

You know how to use your software, but other people don't. So you need to write documentation.
You can just modify the source files, but it's impractical for everyone to do that. So you need to add a config file.
You can just drag the output files into place, but that's impractical for everyone to do. So you need to package it.
You trust yourself, but distro maintainers rightfully don't. So you need to package your source code and configure the package to compile it.
You will abide by your idea of how the software should be used, but other people might not. So you need to pick a license.

Sometimes I think there must be an easier way, but I can't think of any. I guess it probably gets easier with experience.

SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

I've thought WD was sleezy ever since they secretly switched from CMR drives to SMR drives, including in their NAS products (for which SMR drives are particularly unsuitable). So this doesn't surprise me at all.

People need to stop buying WD drives and buy Seagate instead. They had their own SMR scandal, but at least they never put them in their NAS drives.

no cap by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of lolcode:

HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
    AWSUM THX
        VISIBLE FILE
    O NOES
        INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE

How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10 by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Akshually Linus Torvalds is a prophet, Richard Stallman is our lord

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[Question] What are your computers named? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).

What are your computers named, and why?

It's not just Adobe. Now Logitech wants me to go to a random website in order to add peripherals to my computer, and I'm met with this when I go to the page they tell me to by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

If you can really overwrite your operating system with your web browser, that sounds like a security nightmare.

We don't call 911 by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

I think it's more like "we don't need big gubment, we're self sufficient".

These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor by JuxtaposedJaguar in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

I bet they said something like "we don't use most of that information, we just need access in case we add a new feature in the future that uses it". And then it'll come out that they've always been using it, and it's been associated with your identifying info. And then their server will be hacked (because the admin password was "meta123") and the all the info will leak. The modern internet sucks.

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Is it possible to run a Lemmy instance with a MySQL backend? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1374138

I'm thinking about setting up my own (bare metal) Lemmy instance to play around with it, but it seems to require PostgreSQL. Everything else on my system uses MySQL, and I don't really want to run 2 separate database services. I guess I would also be fine with using an SQLite file, but that's not ideal.

Has anyone managed to set up a Lemmy instance with MySQL instead of PostgreSQL? Are you aware of any PostgreSQL to MySQL or SQLite compatibility layers?

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Is it possible to run a Lemmy instance with a MySQL backend? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm thinking about setting up my own (bare metal) Lemmy instance to play around with it, but it seems to require PostgreSQL. Everything else on my system uses MySQL, and I don't really want to run 2 separate database services. I guess I would also be fine with using an SQLite file, but that's not ideal.

Has anyone managed to set up a Lemmy instance with MySQL instead of PostgreSQL? Are you aware of any PostgreSQL to MySQL or SQLite compatibility layers?

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Is there a way to disable live updates on my homepage? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I like to read/interact with posts directly from the homepage rather than opening all of them in new tabs, but they keep moving down the page as new posts pop up.

Is there a way to disable that behaviour?