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1 day ago“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw
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1·2 days agoI’d like to know water and electricity usage too, but frankly, I’d rather have a separate smart flow meter and current sensor.
101·2 days agoIf you live in the US, Graphene (because fascism).
Also, I’d go for Graphene anyway just because it’s easier to install and I don’t know of any particular killer features Lineage has that Graphene doesn’t (other than working on many more devices, which isn’t relevant to you).
David Attenborough butting in: “That’s when they should have realized it, but did not. A fatal mistake.”
Okay Mr. Moneybags, with a house so big you can’t just hear the ding from the other end.
(I’m just kidding; even in my small house it’s possible to miss it when the laundry closet door is closed.)
Sentiment analysis on product reviews, I guess?
5·3 days agoI would almost suggest some kind of system where you could set aside a certain amount of money, and it would donate automatically to all your installed packages, with some kind of weighting system I suppose.
Welp, now you know what Free Software project you should start!
5·4 days agoIf you drive in an area covered by an ALPR-networked camera, your vehicle’s movements may already be in a searchable database.
YSK that at least some of the cameras are capable of tracking people, not just license plates on cars.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/privacy/2026/09/flock-cameras-are-tracking-people-as-well-as-cars
As a mod on Lemmy, I try to be a little more lenient on comments directly replying to me than I am on others.
As for my opinions about how moderating (and voting) on Lemmy should change, I, for one, kinda miss Slashdot’s system with the limited mod points and meta-moderation.
what’s called Logithèque in French, and maybe Software manager (or “repository”) in English?
Sounds like the distribution’s “package manager,” or rather, one of the GUIs for it. (Not sure which one because I don’t know what distro you’re using).
In order to understand what things like “AppImage” and other types of “packages” are, I think it helps to know the history.
TL;DR:
Since GNU/Linux is a Free Software OS, in the beginning, everybody had to compile their software from source and manage the dependencies for it manually. This sucked, so Linux distributions started curating the software and “packaging” it to reference its dependencies (that’s why they’re called “distributions” in the first place, BTW). The package manager (e.g. Debian’s dpkg/APT and Red Hat’s RPM) can recursively check for and install all those correct dependencies before installing the program you actually asked it for.
But even that wasn’t good enough (apparently) because it happened on a per-distro basis and because (generally speaking) all the software on the system shared the same version of each dependency, so all the software had to be kept updated in lockstep. So now people have come up with systems like Flatpak and AppImage that are designed to work across distros, include the dependencies with the apps themselves so they aren’t shared with the rest of the system, and in some cases also run the program isolated in a container for better security.
Bottom line is, now there are several ways to install software, with various tradeoffs:
- Using your distro’s package manager: easy one-command install, integrates with the system
- Using a universal package, like Flatpak, AppImage, or Snap: easy one-command install, keeps the program relatively isolated from the rest of the system
- Compiling from source, the old way: complicated, but occasionally necessary in very niche cases, such as when the program is really obscure or when you actually want to take advantage of the whole “Free Software” thing and modify it yourself.
One last thing: GUIs for this stuff started out as interfaces for the distro’s package manager, but are increasingly designed to work with universal packages as well. With the command line it’s generally obvious what kind of package you’re installing (because you’re typing a different command entirely), but with the GUI you have to pay close attention if you actually care whether you’re installing a dpkg or a flatpak. Also, if you see an app listed twice, that’s probably the reason why.
my point is I can mask my online activity as well or better than anyone with endless funds
For now. But we’re not talking about the status quo; we’re talking about a future with comprehensive age verification schemes that render all your current masking tactics impossible or illegal.
No you can’t, because you don’t have the money.
My account was suspended sitewide by the admins – not just banned by some mods – for reporting misinformation in r/conservative. Apparently stating the truth is “mod abuse” for those fascist snowflakes and the Reddit admins support them.
No, the OSI’s definition and the FSF’s definition are similar enough (basically differing only in connotation/emphasis, not denotation) that I don’t think there is even a single license that meets one definition but not the other.
Yes, it’s not legally open source, but maybe it could be functionally open source, if everybody has relatively easy access to the source code.
“Open Source” is specifically a legal term, entirely concerned with permissions and licensing. Misusing it when you really mean “source available” does nothing but cause confusion and harm the Free Software Movement as a whole.
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5·6 days agoI have to admit, “AI copyright laundering Mexican standoff” isn’t an angle I had considered.
Nah, that’s just what corporate bad actors like Microsoft want you to think. Lots of entities have an ulterior motive to dilute the term “Open Source” to make their proprietary stuff seem more open than it is, but that must be resisted.
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You should modify the controller or buy a third-party one with Hall-effect or TMR joysticks.
I’ve edited the post accordingly.
Every woman I’ve worked with (in software engineering) has been excellent at her job, presumably because the ones who aren’t don’t last in the industry at all.