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CookieJarObserver, in SUSE To Be Taken Private By Its Largest Shareholder
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

After Red Hat now that…

DieterParker,
@DieterParker@feddit.de avatar

It’s about delisting from stockexchange, not about proprietization of source code.

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

For now…

Tartas1995,

What do you think, does he want to go private? What are the advantages? Why are you concerned?

smay, in How to Switch Between Java Versions in Ubuntu

I don’t have much experience with Java but my solution to this issue was to make a symlink called java8 and a symlink called java16 to run the two concurrently without needing to remember various commands to change versions. It’s worked pretty well so far.

Mattol,

Could also use Nix as package manager on Ubuntu. It does essentially what you say (symlinking) with guaranteed isolated dependency graphs.

Tartas1995, in Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider

Looking at the times and reading the article tells you one thing really loudly, performance doesn’t really matter and there is no “good” way to measure performance of browsers.

Firefox might be faster there and google there, but one is actively trying to make it easier to track you and actually tracks you and tries to put DRM on websites. BUT PERFORMANCE!!!

JoCrichton, in OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is

Dumb question:

If I have a zfs mirror I created with a ZFS 2.1 kernel, do I need to recreate it in order to take advantages of 2.2 features like overlay support ?

MrMonkey, in Debian Turns 30 Years Old, Happy Birthday!

Thanks, Ian, for this wonderful gift. RIP

over_clox, in Debian Turns 30 Years Old, Happy Birthday!
thecam, in Ubuntu 23.10 to Debut a New 'Ubuntu Store' Based on Flutter
@thecam@lemmy.world avatar

Flutter is awesome but I am not sure if it is best for a Linux only application which the Ubuntu Store will be.

I wish the Ubuntu creators and give up on snaps and just embrace Flatpaks and Nix packages.

thecam, in So much for CAPTCHA – bots can do them quicker than humans
@thecam@lemmy.world avatar

I never like captchas for privacy reasons. However bots are a big problem in cyberspace.

Laitinlok,

You should use privacy pass extension.

jack, in So much for CAPTCHA – bots can do them quicker than humans

mission accomplished

BlemboTheThird, in So much for CAPTCHA – bots can do them quicker than humans

They’re still useful. For one, this study appears to focus solely on “distorted text field” captchas, which I’m pretty sure have been known to be solvable by bots for years now. For another, they can still provide useful metrics to determine whether a user is a bot or not depending on how much telemetry is available. Even text distortions can factor in whether cursor movement and typing cadence appears human. The article mentions that bots can solve captchas in under a second, which sounds scary but is something humans would not be able to do–so that can be used as another filter.

Plus, just because some bots CAN solve them doesn’t mean ALL bots can. It’s another layer of work for anyone trying to create bots accounts to deal with.

Cube6392,
@Cube6392@beehaw.org avatar

Yeah captchas havent been about “can a computer do it” for years, and for a long time now have been a question of “how humanlike is the entity performing the captcha in how they perform the captcha”

And just like spam filtering, basic filters still do the majority of the work. Even if there exist machines that can crack your captchas, you don’t just get rid of them, because there are still a ton of machines your captchas are stopping. Captcha cracking is a game of cat and mouse, and just like in a game of cat and mouse, you don’t get rid of the cat because you saw a mouse. That’s a quick way to get overrun with the mice the cat was catching

Laitinlok,

If websites can block you from solving captcha too fast then it should block a lot of bots. If the solving time is faster than human reaction time then it is fairly certain a bot.

beeng, in Ubuntu 23.10 to Debut a New 'Ubuntu Store' Based on Flutter

How can you trademark “App store”, I find it too generic to be able to prohibit others from using it. Won’t stop Apple trying though I guess!

CyberEgg,

Under German law it is possible that a brand name becomes a generic name if the population uses it enough. It happened to Tempo, for example.

Dreizonk, in The Top 8 Best BitTorrent Clients for Linux in 2023
@Dreizonk@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Is there still content in the BitTorrent network, apart from Linux distributions??

abs_solution, in Pimp your Bash skills!

YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!

hummel, in Speech Note: Text to Speech, Speech to Text App for Linux

Works great!

recursive_recursion,
@recursive_recursion@programming.dev avatar

I wouldn’t fully trust it though as they’re not respecting eSpeak NG’s GPL-3.0 license

eSpeak NG Text-to-Speech is released under the GPL version 3 or later license.

The getopt.c compatibility implementation for getopt support on Windows is taken from the NetBSD getopt_long implementation, which is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.

Android is a trademark of Google LLC.

DogMuffins, in India launches competition to build a homegrown web browser

Bureaucracies always do such a shit job with tech. A complete failure to understand the nuance.

I’m not a fan of capitalism generally, but it does have it’s virtues - foremost is figuring out whether a project is economically viable. If an indian browser could be successful then it would already be a thing. A competition isn’t going to change the long term viability of a project like this.

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