Even if they owned the whole LF, the Linux Foundation does not develop systemd lol

How is that inconsiderate? That’s just informal

(Using “bi” to mean “bisexual”, I mean, not “business intelligence” lol)

Why on earth do they need to know hostname? MAC addresses?

I don’t have many so I just put them all in ~/own_repos (as opposes to another directory I have for other people’s git repos). Maybe if/when I have more projects I’ll have a more elaborate system.

Finally, the year of the Linux desktop

Well I know that, that’s kind of the point of any encryption at rest that isn’t also E2EE. I am the server admin in this case so I trust my own pinky promise that I’m encrypting emails at rest.

Yeah you should turn it off, Mullvad’s DNS servers already give you DNS privacy. I forget which DNS servers Firefox’s DoH uses, but it will use some other DNS servers for Firefox with DoH enabled, which presumably you don’t want if you went out of your way to set your DNS servers to Mullvad’s.

Fuuuuck there goes my plan to get this monkey to write Hamlet within the lifetime of the universe…

Thanks for all the links!

I read it as a jokey community and maybe you took it too seriously. Regardless that’s a kinda silly comment to leave. That’s a community for, ironically or seriously, hating Linux, so obviously it’s not in the spirit of the community to leave a serious comment defending Linux.

I see a lot of Windows hate on Lemmy. If someone made a post here complaining about how much they hate Windows, and a Windows fan replied explaining why Windows is so great, I would say it’s kinda heavy-handed but not totally ridiculous for a mod to ban them, since a Linux community is probably not for this person.

When the workplace is assisting the genocide of the people the vigil is for.

Well “AI” is a broad category. Usually used to refer to GenAI, so:

• Creating quick stand-in art for a game before I’ve got proper sprites for it (not because “muh art theft”, just because the AI art I’ve generated does not look very good to me)

• Summarising articles, like you said so I can decide if I want to read them in full

• Formatting text I’ve copied from pdfs

• More complex searches that require comprehension of grammar and natural language syntax. Any answer I get to these I then fact check using search terms a classical search engine can understand.

I read a paper a while back that found that people who used AI assistants for coding, who only used the assistants to generate small functions where the prompt already included the function declaration and the programmer already knew how the function should be written but just wanted to save time, in these cases the use of an AI assistant did not negatively impact the “correctness” of the produced code. So I guess I might one day use an AI coding assistant like that, but thus far I’ve never felt the need to use AI-generated code.

Article link not requiring you to sign up: https://archive.ph/Th1Sq

Everyone who disagrees with me is a paid russian troll of course. Nobody would oppose blacklisting people based on nothing but their nationality unless they were getting paid for it.

Aside from the fact that it’s pretty insane to suggest to kick someone off a project for no reason other than their nationality (the article doesn’t say any of these maintainers supported the invasion or had any ties with the government), even if these people actively supported the government, as far as kernel development is concerned… I don’t really care? If their contributions are good then I want their patches to be merged. Tor was made by the US government, which I in no way condone, but I still use Tor.

If there’s anything sensitive I’m communicating with someone digitally, I make sure that the person in question has basic tech security skills and knowledge about privacy, including telling them to stop using Windows. Including taking the time to teach them basic stuff (like full disk encryption, VPN and Tor usage, explaining E2EE, etc) myself. If you have a high threat model but are talking to non-techy people, you should be taking the time out of your day to do this.

If you’re thinking “wow I can’t be bothered to do all that”, your messaging is probably not sensitive enough for this to be a significant concern. Not that “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”, but just “the amount of time you put into security and privacy should be proportionate to your threat model and the cost of compromise”.

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Anna’s Archive has some torrents they ask people to seed. I’m seeding a smaller one right now. You can look into that if you want to help out—nobody’s expected to mirror the entire archive!

It’s not paranoid to complain about the unnecessity of javascript when all you want to do is read a public text post on a social media platform. I have javascript disabled on some browsers, and it’s annoying to have to whitelist a site that really shouldn’t need it.

idk about “favourite”, but the ones I use, which are all perfectly adequate for my needs: LibreWolf on desktop, Mull and/or Vanadium on mobile, DDG