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@jerry@infosec.exchange Thanks for the heads-up.
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@Krita Oh thank goodness you release AppImages! I couldn't get Krita to compile for the life of me on Gentoo; this means I can still use it and I am SO HAPPY!
Thank you so much!
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run I honestly regret my purchase. I had such high hopes for a truly open, repairable, quality laptop that I was willing to pay the premium for it.
And then I learned so much that showed me that I pissed that money down the drain on both an ideological level AND on an actual hardware level (of the CPU cores it has, two overheat instantly under any load - I have checked the cooling, thermal paste, etc. and no, it's just the processor dying).
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems My favorite has to be that there are always alternatives. I'm not stuck with what's in one repo - I have GURU, third parties, and I can even just grab source and self compile if I really want to. There's no "one right way" to build the system - it's mine and mine alone. I make the choices as to what will be there and if I don't want to jump on The Next Big Thing (that will be gone in a month after everyone tools for it), I don't have to.
There's a lot of joy in that independence, while still being supported by a team of like-minded folks.
...Now if I could just get every package I use to build statically... ;)
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@gryphonmyers@mastodon.social @iain@kolektiva.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Or when he's not cheering on suicides and fiercely defending the major modern contributing factor to them (AI).
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@CursedSilicon It makes me laugh so hard when I block their instance and SHWOOP - it's all gone. They're screaming into a void of their own making.
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@CursedSilicon LMAO this post is giving me so many instances to block. I love it - real #FediBlock material.
Fuck fascists forever; send them into the sun.
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@mrmasterkeyboard I blocked it on both my instances as soon as I found out there was a bridge.
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@lproven @theregister And people wonder why I go after Red Hat *and* all the downstream distros (like Bazzite) for being pro-AI as well.
This is why.
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@lproven @theregister Glad I moved to Gentoo and away from SystemD, and that I never used Flatpaks. Native is always better whenever possible, honestly.
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@Bwee Thank you. This is important and good; ignore anyone who tells you otherwise. They are wrong and always will be - sometimes in life we DO suffer things out of our control and knowing we can put down the unearned guilt and shame from it is good.
You did good. 💖
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@soller@floss.social OH COME THE FUCK ON. Like I'm not super surprised, but also, fuck this.
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@adrienne RIGHT?! I literally just posted about how creepy AI folks are on my last post about leaving Bluesky; it's like some kind of psychosis-based cult and it's unnerving as all get.
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@digitalfox I do have my own XMPP platform that is quite stable; that may be REALLY useful for bridging! Thank you - never even considered that would be possible.
@digitalfox I really need to figure out how to do that.
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@deepfryed @nixCraft Gentoo is! I use it as a daily driver and love the anti-AI stance they have.
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@foone@digipres.club I think that was the iPad 2 when it came out. The idea of tablet computing was still relatively new; the freedom it gave me to consume and create (yes, I got the keyboard case) was second to none at the time. It was everything I needed (and to be frank, would still need today as long as I could use ssh) in something that was exceedingly lightweight and well designed.
I still to this day look for a tablet that could be a replacement for that.
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@nitinkhanna @adrienne That, unfortunately, is something LUKS doesn't handle. Once the system is online and the passphrase provided to unlock the volume, it stays unlocked until the system is shut down.
I'm working on the basis of "if we're at the point where the government is going to surgically remove the system from the datacenter while keeping it powered on and I get no prior notice that they're attempting that so I can't shut the system down, we're more screwed than I as a small provider can handle," to be honest.
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@Walruths@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Wait; what's up with Murena? *stares at my Fairphone*
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@nitinkhanna @adrienne I use LVM-on-LUKS and have the header backup stored with my attorney.
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@nixCraft This runs really well; I just need to get on writing an OpenRC service for it instead of their single systemd provided one.
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@Walruths@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Oh; it's the GrapheneOS claims. Gotcha; fair enough! And thank you for the link :heart_red: - I had heard some of it but this is a good summary.
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@nitinkhanna @adrienne If that's a serious question - https://bear-den.org
It's plain old normal encryption in transit - TLS (plus encryption at rest) - but it's a known, well studied technology and I don't comply with bullshit.
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@tay@tech.lgbt Signal and XMPP are my go-tos; everything else is compromised, AI-driven, or unreliable.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I had similar thoughts about that tool. He's also a suicide-by-LLM supporter too, which is special.
https://social.arthfach.com/@arthfach/statuses/01KMK138J1ZB69AMJ01VNKJBTW
https://arthfach.com/blog/mike-masnick-supports-suicide.shtml
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@KathyReid This is exactly what I am trying to do, at least in my own little corner for people willing to give it a shot with me.
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@lproven @theregister It had been about fifteen years for me and I felt much the same way. Compared to then, this time was a breeze. I did have some trouble on the first computer I installed it on (Framework 13) but it turns out that would be because it was overheating on compile, which caused segfaults. On my desktop with an actually adequate cooling system everything went just fine and I got everything I needed set up and going with minimal issues.
What helps, I think, is that modern Gentoo is using sane defaults that have good general applicability without being too large or too limited. It means you can do much less USE flag tweaking for a good, stable, functional system.
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@nileane I don't comply and never will. Even if that means keeping old versions of Linux around, or doing LFS installs on everything and using alternative EVERYTHING, I refuse to comply with this shit.
Fuck them and fuck their fascism.
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@Rycochet @zzt It's even worse than that, really - Mike Masnick himself has gone so far into AI psychosis that he actively supports suicide if it's encouraged by AI (https://arthfach.com/blog/mike-masnick-supports-suicide.shtml) it's no surprise that his staff is nearly as deluded themselves.
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@gryphonmyers@mastodon.social @cory@follow.coryd.dev Yeah. A lot of "done by humans" stuff is sneaking in clauses allowing for AI in various scenarios. It's like the "Assembled in..." manufacturing clauses - only the end product matters to them, not how you got there.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social @reddy_1975@mastodon.online Is that actually a revert? It looks like Pottering rejected the PR; am I misreading?
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@jwz@mastodon.social Oooh; thank you for this! Adding it to my own blocklist as well for my public DNS.
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@gryphonmyers@mastodon.social @cory@follow.coryd.dev I would be careful. This still allows for AI use at all; it just excludes generation.