Snot Flickerman

Have you messed at all with macs “under the hood” so to speak?

Part of the reason my Linux nerd friend swears by them is because command line, they’re super similar to Linux since it’s actually certified UNIX.

So, it’s definitely not 1-to-1 but I’d say macOS is closer to Linux than Windows, including being able to fix shit via CLI.

Ok, that made your analogy make more sense to me. I can agree with that. Thanks.

Maybe it’s a good idea, but it’s understandable that some people are reluctant.

I understand that position. I also understand how the words and phrases that the C community has used to communicate with the Rust community seems to be completely dismissive, not just reluctant.

I quoted what I did explicitly because of how a statement like that comes off to the person it’s aimed at. It doesn’t make them feel like they’re on an even footing working on the same project with the overall goal of it becoming better.

memory safety is more akin to changing languages from English to Esperanto because it has gender neutral pronouns.

I mean… not at all? Memory safety is huge for cybersecurity, buffer overflows and the like are common attack surfaces. C requires you to have deep knowledge of safe memory management practices and even then you can end up with memory issues. Rust was developed to avoid such issues entirely. I understand the reluctance but it feels to me like arguing “we should just stick with COBOL because it works.”

Here’s the thing: you’re not going to force all of us to learn Rust.

That’s precious coming from Linux developers.

I am a heavy Linux user. I run multiple microservices on multiple headless devices all Linux.

This sounds like every fucking Windows user you’ll ever encounter.

“Here’s the thing: you’re not going to force all of us to learn to use Linux.”

So, yeah…

Quality reference.

Or the purposeful incompatibility between Android/iOS and others.

Like how Google pulled miracast from Android to push Chromecast as the standard. Now I can’t stream to an Amazon FireStick even though it’s also fucking Android at its core.

A lot of these private companies purposefully put in “pain points” to get you to spend more money in their ecosystems.

The “pain points” in Linux are “you have to learn something.”

At the same time, schools and workplaces have taught people the design language of Windows, and the network effect of having so much of the world’s end-user PCs running on Windows means that there are vast resources available targeted at people without technical knowledge. At this point, for better or worse, Microsoft’s design language is the global default for non-technical people.

People forget that this was purposeful, too.

Why did Microsoft not do really do anything about pirated Windows in the 1990s?

Because they were banking on the network effect of everyone being used to their operating system. It’s part of why they started essentially giving it away in the modern era to end-consumers.

It worked.

After all, Linux is mine. I care for it. Grow it like a garden.

We live in a world where the idea of community has been destroyed by rampant capitalism and the death of third spaces.

While there is indeed a lot to be said for something that “just works,” that “just works” demand is borne from a capitalist/consumer process that is literally in the process of going off the rails.

Why do we get so mad at Windows? Because it isn’t ours. Microsoft grows it like a weed on our property. Its roots begin sticking out new places all the time (“hey what’s that new bullshit on my taskbar?”) and has zero respect for your needs as opposed to its needs. Windows only cares for Microsoft’s needs, and it makes that readily evident in how you’re forced to use it.

Linux is the communal kibbutz, Windows is the corporate city.

In other words, Linux is better than we think it is.

Lots of screenshots on Google Play and F-Droid pages, which are linked to from the gitlab.

Nice, I hadn’t heard of them until now, either.

I’m just excited that end-to-end-encrypted services have become in such high demand that we’re seeing lots of different implementations.

It took a while, but it looks like Veilid finally has a basic chat built in their protocol as well. It says it’s secure, but I can’t find any info on its particulars.

https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilidchat

Beyond the fact that security on Telegram is a joke (E2EE not enabled by default, only available in 1-to-1 chats, groups chats are all unencrypted, homespun encryption algo), they have never had a full, independent audit of their encryption standard.

It looks like there are a handful of papers that looked at parts of the earlier standard Telegram used (MTProto 1), but nothing on the current version (MTProto 2).

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2017/project/19.pdf

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

Anyway, long story short, Delta Chat has had independent audits several times. I’d say that says it all, really.

https://delta.chat/en/help#security-audits

(Also, thanks for introducing me to Delta Chat, was unaware of the project up to now. Neat stuff.)

Pretty sure Discord keeps tons of data on their users and readily complies with warrants.

I mean, they shut down tons of Yuzu and Yuzu clone discord servers for Nintendo.

I think they’re already in the good graces of those kind of folks.

God they’re always such whinging fucking pussies any time they have to deal with the same shit as anyone else in fucking society.

“They’re going to extend that to their NFL family partners to use your information should they need to. That branches into a lot of places that your biometric data could be exposed to, a lot of people that you may not want it to be.” Grammas says raises fears that biometric data – i.e., a selfie – could fall into the hands of “people who are anti-cop, that support a different agenda from what law and order supports.”

Literally cry me a fucking river when you yourself constantly use facial recognition to drum up cases.

Cops are the biggest fucking pussies you can find. They need body armor to even step outside of their Safe Space of the Precinct building.

Unrelated But Relevant Cop Crying Over Nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H2wZg8ICMo

Have you considered adding a manually configured route for each of these networks to find each other?

If the auto-generated routes aren’t able to find it, I would personally manually add the route on both ends (give 192.168.11.0/24 a path to 192.168.10.0/24 and vice versa) to see if that changes anything.

Occasionally, you just have to tell computers what to do.

EDIT: said “path” when I meant “route”

I have an old laptop running some basic services.

I have taken it apart before to replace the hard drive with an SSD, but I never replaced the dead CMOS battery because you have to literally completely disassemble it to get at the battery.

So I have a cronjob that runs on startup to change the system clock to the right time-zone.

Republicans have such a fucking easy job.

Run on “Government doesn’t work! We need less of it!” and then once you have the job, do fucking nothing except obstruct, obstruct, obstruct to make sure jack shit gets done so you can turn around and say “See, the government doesn’t work, we need to get rid of it!”

And for the cost, they get to retire with nice government pensions and better healthcare than any of their voters will ever see.

I hate this fucking planet.

Have you tried running Wireshark or something similar so you can see what’s happening on the back-end?

Lamina1 is enough to prove Stephenson is kind of full of shit.

It’s such a joke it doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia entry. It’s just a footnote on Stephenson’s.

I’m just gonna call it like I sees it:

I put Stephenson in the same camp as Orson Scott Card.

He had a single book with some really brilliant and thoughtful ideas… and that’s about it. People need money to stay alive, and can always be swayed by it.

https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/

A lot of Chromebooks can have Linux natively put on them.

I see a lot of pooh-poohing of the idea in this thread, but I think there’s people who are willing to do so.

I just took an old Lenovo ThinkCentre Chromebox 10H5 and modified the UEFI firmware with the walkthru from MrChromebox to put Xubuntu on it. It’s actually pretty snappy despite its limited hardware.

Also, I upgraded the 16gb M.2 SSD into a far more sufficient 256gb size.

The shortage of RAM is rough, but it can still be a workhorse in a lot of ways. I plan on replacing Xubuntu with a server version to get a little boost out of running it headless to drop the RAM going to rendering a GUI.

I already have a MagicMirror and Immich set up, and I’m debating trying to fix the tablet I have, or trying to get a new one like the chap who started this thread.

However, I had nearly literally the same plan in mind for it. I have a friend who does woodworking who is open to making a frame for it once I’m done. Throw MagicMirror and MMM-ImmichSlideShow on there and it’s a digital picture frame.

EDIT: Also, if the tablet is too underpowered (like my old one) you can always run MagicMirror on a different machine/vm and just run Electron to load the page from that machine remotely, reducing the overall load on the tablet itself. If I fix my old tablet, this will have to be the solution because it’s too underpowered for MM on it’s own.