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> Alma is not a clone of CentOS Stream.

I'll kindly disagree on this with you. Reading the blog post titled "The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright", located at [0]:

> After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be binary compatible with RHEL.

> The most remarkable potential impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle.

> We will also start asking anyone who reports bugs in AlmaLinux OS to attempt to test and replicate the problem in CentOS Stream as well, so we can focus our energy on correcting it in the right place.

So, it's just an ABI compatible derivative distro now. Not Bug to Bug compatible like old CentOS and current RockyLinux.

TL;DR: Alma Linux is not a RHEL clone. It's a derivative, mostly pulling from CentOS Stream.

> I agree that communication was bad. But why do you believe that Red Hat isn't able to screw up on their own?

Absorption and "Rebranding and Repositioning" of CentOS both done after IBM acquisition. RedHat is not a company anymore. It's a department under IBM.

Make no mistake. No hard feelings towards IBM and RedHat here. They are corporations. I'm angry to be rug-pulled because we have been affected directly.

Lastly, in the words of Bryan Cantrill:

> You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end.

[0]: https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
I have been wanting to love Mozilla for a while, but let's be honest: I use Firefox because Mozilla is the least shitty of those companies. I don't like Mozilla, I just hate them less than the alternatives.
In order to define "national service", one must first ask, "what is the nation"? And no answer comes.
Do you have a source for real world sites broken? It’s extremely rare for me and I exclusively use Safari and Firefox.
It’s just sad that everything eventually comes to this.

Is it an inevitable law that everything eventually enshittifies? Firefox has had a good run, but it still pisses me off.
Do you really? Seems you can wait, as do many of us. By waiting, what behavior do we encourage in software makers?
Apt is basically just a bad package manager:

nix run nixpkgs#librewolf

But I do agree, it's hard to find these alternatives, and have them be "just works". Librewolf still sometimes have weird issues (for good reasons!), but it means I don't recommend it to "normies". I just tell them to use firefox and most importantly adblock, giving up ads is a huge ROI both in terms of quality of life and data privacy. Everything else is almost marginal in comparison.
That's still possible, although not as seamless as it was on Google Play music where you could upload music to Google's servers and stream just like their official library.

In Spotify, you have to point the desktop client to a local folder with your music. I have then made a special playlist where I put those songs and mark that as available offline on my phone. I'm pretty sure it only syncs while on the same LAN. I have some of that local music in other playlists as well, and it mostly works fine. I don't use it a lot, but I think the key is to make sure it's available offline on the device you want to play it on.
They could, theoretically. But just imagine what that actually means. Unless you cease merging upstream/the project you've forked, you'll have to resolve all conflicts caused by this divergence.

And that's a lot of work for a multi million LOC project, unless the architecture is specifically made to support such extensions... which isn't the case here.

And freezing your merges indefinitely isn't really viable either for a browser
I think that must have been the logic. I just contend that it was a stupid approach! They damaged their consumer brand badly to give an imperceptible boost to the business product their customers were already locked into.
They falsely advertised that creators who didn't opt in (or even knew about this) could be supported by donating BAT, and then kept it once it remained unclaimed.

BAT is also different from adblocking, because it monetizes other people's content. It's about as close to stealing as you can get in the ad business, aside from the Honey affiliate highjacking.
Note, the type `PropertyKey` is shorthand for `string | number | symbol` in Typescript
> This is a poor analogy. There are thousands of people to meet and bond with, so you do have a choice. But there are less than a handful of fundamentally different browsers.

This is because users decided that they want a browser that spies on them.

At least in Germany in hacker and IT-affine circles, you will often be frowned upon if you voluntarily use Chrome or Edge (except if you have a really good reason).
"A few years" is at least 10 years, though. That's a lot of time to pivot or get morally sounder funding sources (users for example).
I don't like that week numbers are (documented as) mandatory. I wouldn't see myself grepping on a week number. I'd end up constantly looking up the correct week number in order to annotate each event properly, with no benefit in return. Then again, could write a macro/plugin thingy for one's editor of choice, to fill in the week number for you (ditto for day of week, which I would at least find quite useful, but which would similarly be a right pain to have to fill in manually all the time).

Also: claims to be "one thing per line", yet allows and encourages multiple events on one line (as long as they're on the same day). This is a calendar - is an event not the main "thing" we're dealing with?!
I guess MCPs have the biggest impact on platforms that are currently being used by users ( canva, figma, notion, atlassian) to create/manage content. slowly we might see a world where in theese platforms - users can just hire/buy/try agents to do the stuff they do today. simpler manual work being replaced with agents that are fine tuned to do that specific simple task.

Example: It can be as simple as creating a youtube thumbnail in canva - I just pass the video-transcript to canva & a certain agent thats good with youtube thumbnails should write a title & give me a choice of canva-outputs I can select
Zoom is a thing in Germany.
Yes. I switched to it a couple of months ago. Saw no difference in usage compared to regular one.
What are your favorite design posters from "the good old days"? haha. Can you share the posters you have made? It's cool that you make such things.
What is happening to hacker news? I can understand skepticism of new tools like this but the response I see is just so uncurious.
I use Fish as a user shell everywhere I can and end up using Bash daily for scripting and on servers/VMs/containers at work, I've also been using Nushell a lot recently for personal scripts.

Biggest drawbacks for me is mixing up a few bits of syntax and some software doesn't ship Fish completion scripts, although I never write scripts in Fish which reduces the syntax I actually use.

In my opinion Fish is worth it just for the auto complete suggestions alone, but I also really like the way it handles editing config, it's sane default config, understandable error messages, and plug-ins.

Nushell is very nice, but I find it doesn't match the usability of Fish for interactive shells. Love it for scripts though.
Either you control the software, or the software controls you, yadda yadda...
The magnetic field passes through a Faraday cage, so even then there are no guarantees if the phone uses unconventional modes of communication. Ultrasonic audio is another one.
They are[1][2]. It makes them billions every year[3]

[1]: https://ads.apple.com
[2]: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/control-how-apple-del...
[3]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/15/apple-ad-business...
User explicitly requests connection to a specific server (e.g. navigates to debian.org), so browser makes a connection to debian.org: Not telemetry.

User explicitly requests a connection to a specific server (e.g. navigates debian.org), then browser makes a connection to mozilla.org to upload metadata: Telemetry.

In general telemetry is when the software connects to a server chosen by the developers and not telemetry is when the software connects to a server chosen by the user.
Thank you for giving the current state, post recent elections.

Rather than a selective memory, perhaps you could recall when people were getting booted off social media and fact checked for daring to claim that COVID could have been man made etc 4 or 5 years ago.
It can, you just need to pay and go though Apple's screening process.

I'm all for sideloading, but saying you can't do stuff that you actually do feels bad. You might want to revise the way you write your complaints to avoid misinterpretation. There's a limit to how much detail you can add to a message until it becomes way to big to read, but I think you stopped too early by skipping "I can't distribute without paying apple a developer license".
Does anyone know if any of the Firefox forks avoid this problem? Librewolf, Waterfox, etc. I know this might not be a long-term solution if Firefox continues to degrade, but it does seem like a valid short term measure.
That and regional differences. The amount that people in many regions would be able (not even willing) to pay would be tiny for the company running the site in many cases.
I had visions of the customer at a teller machine, trying to withdraw $81 trillion in cash
Proton has Proton Pass, even supports passkeys if you're into that.
That's all! Thanks for watching folks.
They still haven’t released an API for 3
You can really tell they abandoned it by the lack of references to Copilot on the website.
Org-mobile exists[0], but I have yet to meet anyone actually using this protocol in the wild, and requires you to have your own server to mediate from, as well as emacs running on your phone.

An alternative is to use Git(hub) as the mediator, and here Orgzly is a decent Android app with Git support[1]. It just has a tendency of clobbering your git log with automatically generated commit messages. It has WebDav capabilities too, so you could use Nextcloud as the mediator instead.

There's also Syncthing, which is probably what everyone wants: all devices haves the same info, you commit to VC what you want when you want.

My personal workflow? Accept that my desktop is where I do the real planning, and that the mobile is just for quickly looking up stuff in my notes. If I have ideas, I can email them to myself and process them later when I'm back on my desktop. Is it perfect? Far from it. Does it work? yes.

0: https://orgmode.org/manual/Org-Mobile.html

1: https://github.com/orgzly/orgzly-android/pull/1037
That is a distro problem not a software problem. Librewolf is available as a flatpak meaning on every Linux desktop distro.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.librewolf-community

If you want to be pendantic again:

apt -y install flatpak && flatpak install io.gitlab.librewolf-community
> The funny thing is that sometimes we need to machine-read documents produced by humans on machines, but the actual source is almost always machine-readable data.

Yes, but it's not possible to connect all systems' backends with each other without some big ramifications, so here we are. :)
>legitimate

Logical? Yes. Legal? Not necessarily.
That started long before ChatGPT though, so you need to set an earlier date then. ChatGPT came about 3 years after GPT-3, the coding assistants came much earlier than ChatGPT.
> Saying "switch to a privacy-first fork" is not a long-term solution.

You're 100% right while operating in an environment that is hostile to
privacy. In these conditions security/privacy remains mostly tactical,
not strategic. In fact, against a predominant tyranny it is
insurrectional. Free Software will have to learn to adapt with more
intelligence-sharing and opportunistic manoeuvres.

As an aside though, one might generalise to say there are no long
term solutions in tech, period. And therefore advocates of freedom and
privacy are at no particular disadvantage relative to any opponents.
I haven't read the article. All I know is, Firefox changed their TOS.

> That clearly indicates some "other" future motive

It's training data, isn't it?

(It's always training data).
Hey everyone, just spotted this. I am part of the Metabase team, if anyone has questions or feedback about the SDK, I am all ears.

Thanks for sharing Antho_FR
https://www.tvinsider.com/1171396/cnn-trump-jim-acosta-wolf-...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-plots-bury-anchor-trump-04315...
There used to be some sort of forum they had, I don't remember what it was, MSDN forums or Technet or something, but it used to dominate search results, and all the answers were from like, senior hobbyists who couldn't suggest much more than restarting or suggesting checking for updates. Maybe that was before every search result was Reddit or SO though.
Generate Git commit messages using AI
One difference is that this is mult that comes before cards-in-hand get scored, so steel cards (or 1.5X for kings in hand joker) have something to work off.
> The repos aren't themselves doing harm

Yes they are, they're distributing malware

> are valuable for research

Marginally, at best

> and would be distributed some other way if GH removed them

Another way that wasn't so well SEO-optimized and didn't carry the Github halo.
Also have Facebook's money and army of lawyers.
interesting data point. someone born in the 90s thinking like someone born in the 40-60s... i guess the 70-80s generation really misplaced a lot of hope on the latter generations on these matters.
Programmable computers will accept any amount of complexity you throw at them. Therein lies the problem. The challenge is not packing more complexity, the challenge is getting rid of all but inessential complexity.

Every silver bullet is seeking a way to pack in more complexity. Yet old hands have been warning for several decades. The trick is to keep it to a minimum, and well confined.

That takes a lot of thinking, a lot of learning, a lot of communication. It takes effort to distill all the apparent complexity into what is essential and what is not. Seeking ways to avoid this and just packing all the complexity inside the computer is always going to be a one way route into systems that cannot be maintained, will degrade their performance over time, will accumulate vulnerabilities, etc.
It is possible to improve the distribution and that is the thing being requested.
Funny that written summaries of voice calls are actually a really useful feature. One of those easy wins of applying AI tech: unobtrusive and useful.
Feels like Google never built anything successful themselves after the Search engine (maybe GMail), but rather bought stuff that became successful (e.g. Google Maps).

Conversely, Microsoft has built successful products (Windows, Office, ...), but it feels like whenever they buy something, they break it. Remember Nokia?

That's probably wrong, but it's how it feels to me now :).
You're overestimating people's willingness to pay for software when free and arguably better alternatives are available. Preferring Firefox to free Chromium alternatives requires a level of nuance and tech literacy that most people will never have, and even with that tech literacy, people may still prefer Chromium.

You're basically talking about asking for donations from people that prefer to ad-block YouTube instead of paying for Premium.
3FS: 180 nodes, 2x200Gbps InfiniBand and 16x 14TiB NVMe SSDs per node, ~500 clients, 6.6 TiB/s of read throughput with training jobs workload

Ceph: 68 nodes, 2x100Gbps Mellanox and 10x 14TiB NVMe SSDs per node, 504 clients, 1TiB/s of FIO random read workload
For reminders and other automated actions,
pydry suggested "orgzly revived with org mode"; and kruffalon suggested 'remind'. I have not tried those, but they might be better options for notifications and reminding than calendar.txt.

I use calendar.txt on a cell phone with Markor text editor. For my desktop, I just use micro editor on terminal, the same I use for most text editing tasks.

Bookkeeping using plain text files sounds both interesting and challenging.
Everything is a monoculture if you squint hard enough.
I don't see how a regulated entity is better in any way than an individual.

We repeatedly see attacks on freedom and privacy by the people who are supposed to protect them, those so-called "regulators": chatcontrol, recent UK backdoor wishes, repeated French proposals to enforce DRM even on opensource. And I wouldn't even google Russia, China, or other less democratic states.

Regulated is probably worse than some anarchistic who-knows-by-whom software, but FOSS and auditable these days, tbh. Especially as everyone's audit capabilities grow day by day with AI. It's kind of good at grinding tons of code.

A heavily regulated entity with all licenses in the world might be more hostile toward users than some niche project.
Chrome officially supports Manifest V2 extensions until at least June 2025, hidden behind an enterprise flag: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

I expect Brave to easily support it until then and then drop it very quickly as you described.
What does that mean for the Tor browser [0] which is based on Firefox?

[0] https://www.torproject.org/
I proposed a similar idea (before WASM was a thing) in 2015 on the W3 TAG mailing list, where I simply said why can't the site owners tell the user's browser what browser engine, including specialized ones, should be loaded to render and interact with their site/app. It was dismissed with idiots from the browser vendors saying it's impossible because of ABI compatibility etc. I kid you not, 10 years ago, and then someone from Meta tweeted the same idea 2 years later (the guy behind Slick Carousel) when WASM was a thing, but he did not specify WASM, and I told him that I had brought it up, too. This is not a new idea, but I'm glad to see renewed interest and WASM as the way to do it.
If you want to improve the distro go ahead. But it's fantasy that every distro will support every software => flatpak
Emacs Writing Studio
RAM is supposed to be used. "Saving" it doesn't bring any value, it's actually just waste.
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I would expect that the default search engine deals that Firefox mostly relies on for financing could be interpreted as such.

Mozilla gets money, and as a result of the deal, the searches (data) of anyone who didn't change the default go to the company running the default search engine.
can anyone find this?
Thread about the article and some information about other aspects:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@simon@bne.social/114072503442359536
It's times like these I look forward to the likes of the Ladybird browser [1] making progress.

[1] https://ladybird.org/
Let's start off by saying totally clearly, CSAM is terrible and anyone distributing or purchasing it is a horrible person. The harm, trauma this causes to children worldwide is indescribable.

That said, what is the actual crime they are going to be charged with? There are no actual laws preventing this, the article even states:

Operation Cumberland has been one of the first cases involving AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), making it exceptionally challenging for investigators, especially due to the lack of national legislation addressing these crimes.

And even if it was, surely you must look at the model makers themselves as well. Further on, the article even states the following:

Even in cases when the content is fully artificial and there is no real victim depicted, such as Operation Cumberland, AI-generated CSAM still contributes to the objectification and sexualisation of children.

In the most honest manner possible, is there anyone that could explain what factual laws are broken here? There may even be an argument to be made that this is better because no actual children are harmed?
Voting within the plurality system gave voters access only to the inputs of the Nash Equilibrium decision matrix, not the outputs. All it took was everyone being focused on winning by making the other side lose, and suddenly "we" all lose.

If instead we voted with permutations of {+1, +0.5, -0.5} assigned to a single combination of up to 3 candidates without duplication of score or candidate, we would be voting for the outcome of the decision matrix and avoiding the tragedy of the commons.

But we didn't, and won't, so we brave the new world of tragically aligned AGI known as government. If the pattern isn't recognized, real AGI (rather than the metaphor of government) would definitely learn from it and wipe out humanity at this rate.
No. We are talking about legality. Quote the whole bloody thing. If you don’t get to say “I picked out the bit I like” in court, then you don’t get to do it here. If you’re so right, then it’s not worth taking out in the first place.
Portugal is launching a new €20 a month national rail pass
Yep. For the first few months after the rebranding, you could change a Windows registry setting to get the old Lync interface back.
As another data point: MSFT have some sort of open mail server/service called onmicrosoft.com which (in my experience anyway) is only being used to send out fraudulent paypal messages. Because it lets the spammer set the From to service@paypal.com and also contains valid DKIM etc, it sails past spam filtering. There are so many complaints about this on (real) paypal.com forums, but Microsoft are apparently unable to do anything about it.
So far, most of these sites that try to exclude adblocker users don't detect uBO on Firefox.
I completely forgot about Nightfire! What an amazing game it was.
> What I said is thst a traditional computer program (say Excel) is not intelligent in itself, as it cannot, itself, without further input from a human, adapt.

Excel is as capable of adapting to new input as any AI, and the input need not come from a human specifically: the act of adapting to input is an automatic consequence of being able to perform linear regression.

In fact, this is the real value of a spreadsheet over a piece of gridded paper where the sums are done by hand.

If "adapting to input" is your test for intelligence, however, it is a test which a thermostat will pass.
What if AI just works? (Thomas Wolf on Ted) [video]