[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 51 points 2 months ago

Is this a joke?

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ITT entitled people, who would never pay a single cent for rsync nor ever contribute to it, having a big mouth about it.

Also the analogy is crap. It's free soup on somebody's compound that anybody can walk in and take at their own accord. People walk in, take it, build a business or dependency around it, and get pissy when the recipe changes. They don't want to take the recipe and fix it themselves, instead they demand the cook change it for them. "My customers are unhappy with the soup you make in your backyard". The cook is well in his right to tell them to fuck off.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 49 points 5 months ago

Hey, he is right. He reason why so many places are dependent on US tech is simply because it's there and it works. Remove that and those places will suddenly innovate to what they had and more.

Trump and his people thought it would cripple China to isolate them, and that Europe would just accept their position as a vassal of a belligerent state. Look at what's happening now: China is making their own chips, poaching talent and also has their own humungous pool of talent that is now dedicated to developing alternatives instead of building on US tech. Europe is discovering opensource now. Africa and Asia are seeing China as more valuable trade partner and buying a lot more renewable energy and building their own industries free of US tech.

Pulling out of a market to focus on "MAGA" and America First" was strategic mistake, but we should all be glad they made it. The more competition, the better. If Europe also starts producing chips and Africa learns starts building processing their natural resources to multiply value, instead of selling it, consumers and businesses will have many choices. The US might face actual competition on every front.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 49 points 10 months ago

KDE Connect

Allows connecting to other devices with KDE connect and sharing files, controlling media players, sending text messages, controlling the mouse and keyboard (if the device has that), and much more.

I install it by default on every device I have and even setup a computer as a media player in my living room that I control with my phone. Just connect an old laptop or desktop with Wake On Land or with autosleep and autologin and you won't need a firestick or whatever.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

I've inherited a systemd service and it uses BindReadOnlyPaths to make certain paths available to the service (doc)

A bind mount makes a particular file or directory available at an additional place in the unit's view of the file system. Any bind mounts created with this option are specific to the unit, and are not visible in the host's mount table.

The service is running using a specific user and I would like the user to access those read-only paths outside of the service. Is there an possibility within systemd that would allow me to do that?

Edit: solved it with a systemd bind mount

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IRL, I once listed my favorite bands across metal, rock, hip-hop, electronic, and drum n bass and was hit with "that's standard programmer music".

As someone with little physical human contact outside of work and actually meeting devs outside to find out they listen to the same music was a little surprising. That was a tiny sample though and this is the web though and people are from all over, what kind of stuff do you listen to? Favorite genres, artists, or just "everything" even noise?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/i2p@lemmy.world

The device with I2P is behind a NAT router without UPnP. The device has a firewall but has opened the UDP and TCP port for internet facing communication. The ports from the router are forward to the device's ports. Are there any ports missing?

Edit: I finally figured it out. The port forwarding was only for TCP. It would be good to have logs or some kind of status window stating why it thinks it's firewalled though.

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addition to the USB updates and big staging flush merged yesterday for the Linux 6.13 kernel merge window, the "char/misc" pull was also honored for that catch-all of various kernel changes. With the char/misc pull there are some notable additions for those wanting to write kernel drivers within the Rust programming language.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

They slowly started locking down the platform for people without accounts and it has been really annoying to use the website since. First it was not possible to search for code, then even searching for issues got more and more difficult with it randomly failing, and now it's gotten to the point where I can't search for a fucking project anymore!

Github's search is becoming as bad as reddit's, where if you want to find anything, a secondary service like SourceGraph, GrepApp, or even a dumb search engine is better. Sometimes those haven't indexed what I need (especially code search), so I have to download the bloody tarball and rg for whatever the fuck it is I was looking for. Sometimes it will also block the VPN I'm using, so I have to proxy to a non-VPNed machine. The world could do without these unnecessary roadblocks.

What also grinds my gears is requiring an account to contribute. There is no way to send in a patch, raise an issue, or anything without an account there, so by if a project being on github, you have no choice but to give Microsoft your data to participate in opensource. Don't get me wrong, mailing-lists are filth, but and I'd rather claw my eyes out than participate in any project demanding their use, but Microsoft being the "lesser evil" is not a good look.

Please, for the love of opensource, get your project off of github, please. It's a monopoly at this point and doing microsoft things. This isn't the end and they'll probably do more stuff to see how far they can push it. We'll all be the boiled frogs.

Yes, I know they have a CI and some other features, but if all you're doing is hosting your code, please consider an alternative.

Possible alternatives in alphabetic order:

  • Codeberg (could have federation in the future)
  • Gitlab (has CI)
  • ~~OneDev (no git SSH clone but feature-rich)~~ not an instance for the public
  • Radicle (no CI, but federated)
  • Sourcehut (minimalist, but fast as fuck)

or maybe others will suggest more.

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Right now their page https://upgradefromwindows.com/ just redirects to https://www.fsf.org/windows which has a wall of text and an infographic. Even I, who doesn't have windows and will never reinstall it unless forced, clicked away from the page within 5 seconds. The FSF desperately needs help with marketing and design, plus it would be great to have tooling for brain-dead linux installation (no, find distribution, backup, put linux on a USB-stick, reboot, hit some button to get into the BIOS, select "USB stick", reboot, click through installation, find alternative software, is not brain-dead).

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Many might've seen the Australian ban of social media for <16 y.o with no idea of how to implement it. There have been mentions of "double blind age verification", but I can't find any information on it.

Out of curiosity, how would you implement this with privacy in mind if you really had to?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/25405532

Qualcomm engineering director Trilok Soni recently confirmed that the company's Linux team published Linux kernel updates for the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor. Qualcomm unveiled the SoC earlier this month, targeting a new generation of flagship phones and tablets supporting Android and Linux.

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Scientist Jim Wild has traveled to the Arctic Circle numerous times to study the northern lights, but on Thursday night he only needed to look out of his bedroom window in the English city of Lancaster.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 50 points 2 years ago

Folks... is it happening? Is M$ giving people undeniable reasons to leave their shitcosystem?

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 51 points 2 years ago

Germany doing its utmost best to drive away innovation. Genius.

But why go to the USA? The EU has 27 members and Switzerland is a neighbor...

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 51 points 2 years ago

30+ years after death. Better than 70+ years of copyright 🤷

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 50 points 2 years ago

Year of the linux handheld then?

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 49 points 2 years ago

After what the USAians achieved with a net positive output, hopefully they can match and surpass that. Fusion is one of the few technologies that can get us to 1 on Kardashev scale.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 49 points 2 years ago

Sounds like management problem, not an engineering one, but management doesn't have to pay: everybody else does. Typical.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 49 points 2 years ago

Android is opensource. You can get phones that support ROMs like LineageOS (would recommend a FairPhone) or /e/ (godawful name, good ROM) for example - you can buy the Murena phone for this.

Linux phones are about 5 years away from mainstream usability, IMO.

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