Skull giver

ActivityPub is actually a good way to authenticate things. If an organization vouches for something they can post it on their server and it can be viewed elsewhere.

AP has some pretty big issues when it comes to moving servers, expiring and re-purchased domain names, and other such edge cases. Servers either blindly accept new keys after a certain time, or are vulnerable to enabling key ransoming after hacks (the reason HKPK went nowhere).

We could just move to a “watermark” system where everyone takes credit for their contributions.

North Korea actually has this embedded in their government Linux distro and it works well as long as everyone who opens the file runs a supported OS. Not for AI, but to track who wrote what unpleasant documents, but still, it proves the idea can work.

On the other hand, how do you determine trust? I can generate a million plausible names and digital addresses on my computer. Half the images I see online are screenshots or screen recordings already (because “save as” isn’t available on “modern” websites).

In theory, we can solve this by simply having digital stuff be signed, but setting up a web of trust will be difficult. Especially since most of the internet is semi-anonymous.

Funnily enough, the Fediverse already signs most data, so this scheme is already active unintentionally here on Lemmy! But for all I know, you’re not really “Kevon Looney” and just a fake from another server.

The nice thing is that it already runs Linux. The less nice thing is that it’s running some ancient Linux 2.6 kernel with Android on top of it.

It should be doable to install Linux in some form or another onto it, but it won’t be easy like installing Linux on a PC.

There is a limited amount of creativity, but a properly “creative” AI, should not keep repeating the same design pattern over and over.

It’s generative AI, not magic. Repeating the patterns it was trained on is what it was designed to do, even if those patterns aren’t always entirely obvious.

I think the model has been overfitted on its training set, but you can’t expect the types of generative AI we have today to be creative.

Corporate stuff is probably already running on unsupported and unpatched Linux distros if they still haven’t migrated to Python 3. I doubt the new version of Fedora removing the binaries will make much of a difference.

Then you should tell that to the several brands that leave their caps sticking forward partially no matter how much you bend them backwards. I don’t care, but there are plenty of brands with much shittier bottle designs than the ones that stay out of your face like they should be designed to.

I think what I saw was the full version of this segment: https://youtu.be/Z9PM14qKhe4 Although, I think it may have been about the 1.5L/2L bottle as well, and this video is about the dangerous bottles that remained after a bunch of them got off the market.

The shots in the video you linked seem rather fake (and kind of artsy, I love old Dutch television sometimes), the video I recall had bottles treated rather normally.

I think the people complaining about this stuff fall into several categories. One of them is depicted well by that GIF. A second group is just upset about environmental regulations existing. There’s probably a third group out there with some kind of hypersensitivity for things touching their face. And maybe a fourth group who hates it when things change even if there are good reasons for it (can relate, was diagnosed as autistic).

I feel bad for the people with hypersensitivities but the rest should just suck it up already. Maybe some bamboo or metal straws can help these folks get used to the new bottles? They’re available online for cheap.

There’s a good reason why many carbonated drinks stopped being sold in glass bottles. When you go over a certain volume, they become bombs. There are videos online or 2L soda bottles falling over and sending shards of glass flying everywhere. I’d rather not have that back.

Glass bottles are also great at starting fires when they’re left outside by trashy people. Looking at how often I still find plastic trash in the woods, I’m not sure if switching to glass would make that much of an improvement.

Plus, you’d still have the same problem with the bottle cap.

That’s just a normal weather app. Google’s weather widget looks very close, and Samsung’s isn’t very different.

One or two overviews and a bunch of info blocks is all you’ll get from the popular weather APIs, so it’s hard to get creative. Maybe it could’ve added a map of sorts to make the weather stand out? But then you’d probably be copying some other weather app in the process.

Unless you have some kind of knockoff SSD, that ūsung SSD looks like something is corrupted to me. usb 1-10 device descriptor read/64, error -71 might be unrelated.

This could be a problem with RAM defects or overclocking. If your computer is overclocked, try setting it to stock configuration. Also run a memtest to check if your RAM sticks aren’t going bad. I don’t know what might’ve changed between 6.8.9 and 6.8.10 to cause this, but it could just be a coincidence (i.e. the kernel defaulting to a different RAM page that suffers from corruption for whatever reason).

These messages are actually part of the systemd startup sequence, so the kernel has already loaded at this point. This means the problem may not be the kernel, but the initramfs installed/generated for your computer. You can try regenerating your initramfs on Fedora by running dracut --regenerate-all as root. Before you do that, you may also want to double check your /etc/fstab to make sure nothing accidentally added a swap device for some reason.

Restart your ssh server to be sure (probably sudo systemctl restart sshd). No need to reboot your server for this.

I don’t know how reliable this is, but I usually go into htop to check if stuff needs to be restarted. Processes in red have been replaced or removed since starting.

That said, regular server reboots are a good idea to make sure kernel patches are applied. Can’t go wrong with a reboot just in case.

It is, as of a few hours ago according to the Manjaro website. Looks like the problem finally solved itself!

This usually happens when Manjaro doesn’t carry a package that Arch does carry (and that the package you’re trying to install from the AUR depends on).

This is always a risk when combining Manjaro with the AUR, as Manjaro is a few weeks behind Arch when it comes to packaging. You can try if the beta repositories have the package, but otherwise you’ll just have to wait for Manjaro to update its packages. It’ll probably resolve itself, eventually.

You can try looking on the Manjaro forums (I don’t see a workaround other than switching to testing/unstable) to check if there’s a fix, but please don’t bother the Arch/AUR people, they can’t help you.

Looks like the maintainer has better things to do

In post on the Gradience Discord, the tool’s primary developer David Lapshin (daudix) explains: –

“Archiving the project […] will make it clear that Gradience is, well, unmaintained, and will prevent the issue tracker from being filled with duplicates asking when new release will be out/why nautilus sidebar is white.”

“And, if someone will want to maintain it one day, it can always be unarchived with a press of a button.”

Administrator is not root. NT AUTHORIRY\System probably comes closest. You rarely need to interact with that account because Window’s security system doesn’t have the same mix of authentication systems most Linux systems have (users + container APIs + PolKit).

Windows also supports mixed case filesystems just fine. It’s not the default, so your programs will probably screw up, but it’s just a flag. You can also mount filesystems like ext4 and btrfs on Windows (though booting from them doesn’t really work).

Also, Windows runs Libreoffice and GIMP just fine. You don’t need to, because you have better sofware available (pirated or paid).

As for security, Windows is MUCH better unless you’re a cybersecurity specialist with too much time in their hands. Most major distros don’t even come with a firewall enabled by default, let alone a firewall for outgoing traffic. And the best AV I’ve seen for Linux is Microsoft’s enterprise version of Windows defender. In terms of hacking tools, they’re mostly written in languages Python, most of them work on either platform.

For development, Linux has a slight edge, but with WSL2 it really doesn’t matter much.

Running Linux on computers with Nvidia hardware proves that Linux and Windows both have their problems dealing with device drivers. Linux’ benefit is that is has higher standards because the kernel devs need to sign off on driver, but that has downsides of turning away potential driver developers (as getting your code into Linux is a quite a complex thing just on its own). Linux also doesn’t have many drivers in general it seems, unless your device has some kind of generic fallback that disables any special features.

My kernel panics generally don’t display anything, the display just freezes and I need to force reboot the computer.

They’re teachers, they already have a full time job, they don’t need a side job of syadminning their own laptops.

If you still use MBR, and Windows has an update to its bootloader, yeah.

I don’t even know if Windows 11 still supports MBR, though. Maybe it’ll happen if your firmware is broken and always boots from the fallback bootloader instead of the normal boot entry? But in that case Windows is right and the firmware needs an update.

Even if they’re marketing BS, some decent mainline support for Qualcomm chips is always welcome. It’ll help projects like postmarketOS and mobile Linux distros massively to have more usable Qualcomm code.