https://youtu.be/DrYRpPxBEaU

there’s nothing open about OpenAI

Never heard about it, but seems like it is, indeed. Thank you.

cool 👍

• Panel 1: You know these.
• Panel 2:
  • OS: ZorinOS, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Fedora
  • Browser: Brave, Firefox
  • Apps: Telegram, Signal
• Panel 3:
  • OS: Debian, Arch, VoidLinux, LineageOs (Android ROM)
  • Browser: qutebrowser, Librewolf
  • Apps: Jami, Briar (first time hear about them), Fdroid, Element (Matrix client)
• Panel 4:
  • OS: Tails (Live distro for privacy), Gentoo (DIY distro)
  • Browser: Tor
  • Apps: IRC (text chat rooms), XMPP/Jabber (messaging protocol), self-hosted community (applications you can put on your own server, I presume)
• Panel 5:
  • OS: Trisquel, Parabola, Guix (all three approved by FSF as “actually free”)
  • Browser: Icecat (gnu firefox fork), lynx, w3m (both terminal-based browsers), (missed opportunity to put emacs here as well =))
  • Apps: Emacs, Emacs, Emacs (powerful os with built-in text editor)
• Panel 6:
  • OS: Garuda, No idea (something arch-based), Arco Linux, Arch Linux
  • ???
  • Apps: Kvantum (qt theme manager), Latte (macOS style application dock for KDE), Plank (also app dock)
• Panel 7:
  • OS: Temple OS
  • Browser: Bible
  • Apps: Racing game, Tanks game from TempleOS, Amen.

Not sure where I fall into this chart =)

Favorite OS: OpenSuse Tumbleweed
Favorite browser: Librewolf
Favorite Apps: Vim/Neovim (not even close to anything else)

• I’m not paranoid, though. (It’s not paranoia if everyone agrees with you, most people just don’t care)
• I love FOSS culture and hate corporations with passion.
• For messaging I use Discord and Telegram
• Use old netbook from 2007 and my desktop PC is around the same age.
• I do watch Luke Smith and “Richard Stallman was right”!

Least cluttered Windows Desktop:

Duck me in the ark tonight

Goated movie. They don’t make them like that anymore.

You can put egregious amount of cheese on anything and it would taste atleast half as good as pizza.

Hey, why isn’t China more green? I’d think the CCP hates western spyware OSes.

I remember seeing lemmy maybe 4+ years ago on some open-source subreddit. It had practically non-existent user base, so I’ve ignored it. After that, I remember a first wave of people making mastodon accounts (even before elon). There I’ve first heard of concept of “fediverse”. I liked the idea but I honestly thought it had zero chances to compete with mainstream social media.

And then everything turned to shit, making a gap between something like lemmy and reddit a lot smaller. So I’ve jumped the ship with everyone after the API shitstorm.

Oh, and GBA rom is included with game files.

I believe for many companies, developers work on giant codebases with many hundred thousands or even millions of lines of code.

With such large codebase you have no control over any system. Because control is split between groups of devs.

If you want to refactor a single subsystem it would take coordination of all groups working on that part and will halt development, probably for months. But first you have to convince all the management people, that refactor is needed, that on itself could take eternity.

So instead you patch it on your end and call it a day.

Meanwhile Nim:

echo "I am still worthy"

let a = r"I hate the ugly '\' at the end of " &
         "multiline statements"

for x in 0..9:
  if x == 6: echo x

echo x # this is error in Nim, but not in python. Insane!

assert false + 1 # this is an error (python devs in shambles)
assert true - 1 # see above

Thanks for coming to my Ted-talk.
More here: Nim for Python Programmers

Ubuntu: 😮why?

For a lot of people Ubuntu is the linux. Canonical is just good at marketing. For all it worth, Ubuntu is not the bad choice for average user who’s not into ricing and not bothered by bloat.

Manjaro: haven’t you managed to kill it yet?

I’ve been using Arch and Manjaro for couple years each and in my experience they both break regularly. But, for some weird reason, Arch Linux is praised, when Manjaro is shamed upon.

Mint: ex windows guy?

Aren’t we all?

The most stable rolling distro.

Viscera Cleanup Detail

Then you just wait until somebody enters in.
When the person opens the door you run to them and yell “wait wait wait” while frantically gesturing. After you enter - say quick “thank you” and disappear.

Zip is fine (I prefer 7z), until you want to preserve attributes like ownership and read/write/execute rights.

Some zip programs support saving unix attributes, other - do not. So when you download a zip file from the internet - it’s always a gamble.
Tar + gzip/bz2/xz is more Linux-friendly in that regard.

Also, zip compresses each file separately and then collects all of them in one archive.
Tar collects all the files first, then you compress the tarball into an archive, which is more efficient and produces smaller size.