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And you think they’d lift a finger to make that new technology accessible to the rest of us? As always, we’d be lucky to get the crumbs they leave us.
We might benefit, but only if they could not keep it entirely to themselves…
Given the events of the last 4 years I’m done with offering any benefit of the doubt to billionaires. Default judgement is ‘they are evil, selfish pricks who will throw everyone else to the fire unless there is something in it for them’.
Nah, 100 years of extra life (even more if they are randomly selected more than once) would give them plenty of time to exploit us all to colonize Mars and beyond in order to flee there and become emperors of a new planet, so they’d still destroy the Earth. You underestimate their shittitude as ‘human’ beings.
Neat, will try it out.
Has anyone written an android desktop search widget for it? A quick search only foumd one veeery old experimental project.
Writing a kernel in two languages when it has for its entire history been written in one is just asking for needless complexity.
If Rust wants to have a kernel, then perhaps port or re-write Linux in Rust from scratch as a separate project. Once it’s reached a point of being self-hosting, let ‘the market’ decide in an open competition.
If the Rust version is demonstrably superior and more secure, then it’ll naturally supplant ‘legacy Linux’.
As someone posted on the forums there,
FFS….the world is literally CRAWLING with billionaires made rich and richer still on the backs of these very open source products. Can not one…ONE…of these bastards much less a small group of these global leeches set up a permanent fund so these projects can go forward into the future without bullshit like this ?
Maybe they should just do nothing, and wait for the shitstorm. After a week or so, put it out there, that maybe one of the big rich companies that have leeched off the work of open source for literally decades should, you know, STEP UP and support this critical infrastructure.
A sort of ‘general strike’, if you will. Since that seems to be the Zeitgeist these days.
I admit I may misunderstand the situation; I hear there’s a compatibility layer or something named xwayland – will that allow older apps linked against x11 to run on a wayland desktop?
I’ll have to give wayland a try again soon – if it’s stable on my laptops and I can figure out the custom keyboard layout stuff (I posted on another thread recently asking about that – sounds like there are good solutions for that) then I’ll feel comfortable moving to it finally.
Things must move on eventually, I suppose. I just really hope they reach feature parity before then. It sounds like most of the annoyances that have kept people from migrating are being tackled, so I’m hopeful.
The blog post says they’re just deprecating X11 APIs at this point; GTK5 will remove them.
I’m still very worried about this. Wayland still has many rough edges and I think forcing a move to X11 is premature. One of the main benefits of the Linux ecosystem has always been that it strived to run on hardware far longer than commercial vendors, who have gotten even worse at forcing obsolescence of hardware for purely revenue-focused reasons (looking at you, Microsoft – Win11 refusing to work on chipsets it is perfectly capable of running on…)
I’ll look into those, thank you!
(I currently set up my APL keymap via .Xmodmap with xmodmap, and setxkbmap for X11 terms, and with ‘loadkeys’ for console.)
Great info! I will try it when I decide to trial-run Wayland again, thank you!
(Some things I had read online suggested that Wayland did not use the x11 configs. If it does, that’s good news.)
As someone who hasn’t yet moved to Wayland, how good is support these days for alternate keyboard mappings? Is this something that each individual window manager needs to support, or does Wayland itself manage them?
Not just “international keyboard” support, but truly arbitrary keyboard/symbol mapping support. I muddle in programming with APL, which needs its own key mapping with Unicode symbols.
I recall KDE had its own mapping support which used some system APL layout but I’d rather not have key mappings tied to a specific window manager.
Yeah… and unless you really, really enjoy configuring your own stuff and tinkering, a hosting service is much easier.
I happen to be insane, and enjoy that stuff. And it’s not a business server (well, not anything big anyway).
If you’re in Canada, Rogers (nee Shaw) and Telus small business plans both offer ‘static’ IPs (Shaw’s residential plans aren’t officially static, but they rarely change on a residential modem unless you are always switching out hardware). Telus business fibre 1GB plan offers up to 5 static IP addresses.
Then you must purchase one or more domain names and assign them to your IP address… depending on your business’s needs even small consumer hardware can run a web server just fine.
Have a backup strategy though! And be sure you actually test the restore procedure on a periodic basis!
Linux backups can range from home-grown ‘rsync’ scripts and hot-plug external drives as backup, to more fancy ‘Time Machine’ like backup things (I honestly forget what’s out there for Linux right now, I have my own rsync scripts to back up to external drives).
My home server is my own, but if money is on the line you want proper backup and failover even. Most Linux distributions are easy-peasy to set up with Apache or nginx web servers but if you’ve never set those up you’ll need to study lots of tutorials and manual pages.
If you don’t want to tend to security and backups yourself though, it might be best to find a hosting service.
exile to the orbital asteroid mining colonies.
Can we start with Sam Altman please? Hah.
I was amazed at first with ChatGPT, outpainting, and the early stuff; it was fun making ‘paintings’ and playing with other imagery, but the main uses are taking such a dark turn I really think we’re going to regret this technology’s existence.
With modern face recognition, … If you want anonymity then don’t include your face (or signature) in the video.
Duh, good point :)
Web of trust – it’s always been so hard to make easy enough to use for the non-technical public, sadly… but yeah that might be the only/best way to really give attestation.
This is scary indeed. We may someday soon need something like an active tattoo on our face, or a badge on clothing, with a pattern that changes each second based on a private/public key pair, so videos can’t be easily faked of our own likeness with a valid visual signature.
That could actually work – a QR code that updates at regular intervals, encoding an ever-changing signature. It could be validated to certify the video of a person was genuine.
Of course that would also mean any authenticated video can never be truly anonymous :(
Xerox?! In my day we only had those faded-ass mimeographs, stinky sheets of blurry purple letters :P
…and we learned phonics in Canada in the late 70s.
Streisand Effect engage!
Hercolobus Or Red Planet, by V. M. Rabolou… it’s ‘interesting’.
Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It’s point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box “this is a mirror”.