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ozoned

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Father of 2; husband; FOSS & Linux lover and willing teacher; absolutely cynical. In that order.

Ex-Red Hatter focused on supporting services such as systemd, dbus, rsyslog, secvuln, openssh, etc.

social.ozoned.net/

stream.ozoned.net

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ozoned,
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I host my own Joplin and wife and I sync our notes to it and we love it. She’s non-technical and has no issues figuring it out, but we use minimal features. It did just get the ability to draw pictures as well, but we use that mostly just for the kids to play with.

ozoned,
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I have been for years and haven’t regretted it. Run my own micro-blog with go to social, tilvids is an excellent peertube, beehaw for lemmy, and matrix is the only option when talking to family imo.

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At this point just get a rasbperry pi, or some similar device, and run it as a regular computer. Firefox, ublock origin, don’t worry about ads, and turn it into a machine that is capable of soooooooo much more. Hell, any PC will work. Steam Deck, NUC, that old laptop you have laying around? Been running little NUCs on my TVs for years and so happy I don’t have to put up with that nonsense.

ozoned,
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I’m a linux nerd and I jut run stock Fedora. It’s desktop is like a phone UI, so lots of folks are familiar with it.

I then use a wireless keyboard and trackball. T

here are tons of remotes out there,but I don’t have any experience with then. Let me know if you find a good remote though. 😁

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As someone that watches Twitch through MPV, I can confirm watching “Ad Playing” is preferable to actually watching an annoying ad.

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Invidious still wotks great for me.

There’s also Piped.

Peertube is also gaining traction and I personally enjoy that, just needs more content creators to stop worrying about chicken and egg and start protecting their content.

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Linux Cast: tilvids.com/c/thelinuxcast_channel/videos

Chris Were: share.tube/c/chrisweredigital/videos

Veronica Explains: tilvids.com/c/veronicaexplains_channel/videos

Techlore: neat.tube/c/techlore/videos

Linux Lounge: tilvids.com/c/linux_lounge/videos

Nicco’s videos mentioned in the article: tube.kockatoo.org/c/niccolo_ve/videos

FYI: I’m linking to their home location, but you can follow them from any Peertube instance. I’m on Tilvids and follow all of these folks from there so I don’t have to jump around to multiple places.

ozoned,
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The Linux Experiment is also on the Fediverse.

Mastodon: tilvids.com/accounts/thelinuxexperiment

TILVids (Peertube instance): tilvids.com/w/995NqXZXXshptUnwZNcbKi

ozoned,
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Coukd it also be that he used to work for them and is just familiar with it?

canonical.com/blog/author/popey

ozoned,
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So if the work they used to train it isn’t a copyright violation canthr things it creates be copyrighted? I hate copyright. It doesn’t protect the people it should. Public domain everything that these AI create, companies will stay away, and we support creators directly.

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Probably the best gaming hardware purchase I’ve ever made. Play weekly, take it with us on vacation so we can hook it to hotel tvs and not put up with cable or smart tv BS. Absolutely love it.

ozoned,
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According to OSM, they’re complementary and they kind of work together:

blog.openstreetmap.org/…/views-from-the-openstree…

heyfrancis, to asklemmy
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What can we do to keep the web open?

@asklemmy

ozoned,
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Use tech and services outside the big tech. Just Fedi over standard social. Use Peertube instead of Youtube.

Run Firefox.

Set up your own servers for yourself or start a community. Matrix, Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.

Run SearXNG as your search or help others by hosting.

If you can work of free and open source code that helps decentralize and give the power back to the people or create something new. Even if you can code, learning a project and helping others with it or helping create docs, etc.

Spread the word, but don’t be annoying. Help less technical folks get decentralized.

It’s very difficult and can be disheartening, but you don’t have to cold turkey all of it. Each drip in the bucket helps until we’re all united and become a tidal wave.

When all the power is centralized that’s when those central players think they can do whatever they want.

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I’ve never heard of yacy.net but I will check it out. Thank you for the info!

Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web) (github.com)

Hey everyone, thank you for your patience, and thank you to everyone who engaged constructively. It is clear based on the feedback we’ve received that a bigger discussion needs to take place, and I’m not sure my personal repository is the best place to do that - we are looking for a better forum and will update when we have...

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This is the part that caught my attention:

Privacy features like user-agent reduction, IP reduction, preventing cross-site storage, and fingerprint randomization make it more difficult to distinguish or reidentify individual clients, which is great for privacy, but makes fighting fraud more difficult.

And we do those things, not because we’re fraudsters, but because we’re trying to protect ourselves from the likez of YOU!

YOU did this, change your model and maybe it’ll be better? Oh! But! Mooooooooney! I forgot. Stupid me.

This is the fucking bully telling the nerd that if he doesn’t just HAND OVER his lunch money, that he’ll get beat. It’s YOUR fault! Not OURS!

Edit: Formatting and added about bully

Edit 2: fixing the formatting of the formatting edit. :-D lol

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lol are you on my machine? :-D

News: Biden supporters exploit Republican’s $1 donation cashback campaign pledge: ‘I gave $1 to you and $20 to Biden’ (www.independent.co.uk)

Republican presidential candidate and North Dakota Gov Doug Burgum is offering $20 gift cards to donors who give $1 to his campaign — but some supporters of Joe Biden say they have been funneling the gift card money to the president’s re-election campaign.

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This is why I now have my own domain. Do a catch all and I can create any address I want at any time and then just throw it away if it won’t stop spamming me. Also helps to ID those that sold my info. Or use Anonaddy ( anonaddy.com ). I use it with Bitwarden.

ozoned,
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Please NEVER stop asking questions. As other have said, there really are no stupid questions.

If someone else acts like it’s a stupid question, then it’s their issue and not yours. NOTHING is easy until you understand it. The only way to understand it is to ask questions.

I’ve told numerous folks at work that before they do something if they have a question then let me know, because I’d rather answer a question then spend an hour or more fixing something broken.

I ask a LOT of questions. So many questions that when I first started in IT I had a lead that got used to me being in the office 2 hours before him so he knew I’d have a million questions and before he’d even go to his desk he’d stop by mine and ask if I had questions, which I always did.

Please please please please please ASK QUESTIONS.

I have been in IT for 12 years now, I have been on Linux for 16. Before this post I literally was in another thread and asked about BTRFS. I looked it up and it wasn’t making sense to me, so I asked a question. You can NEVER know EVERYTHING. And when you start to get comfortable that’s when something new comes out or you start digging deeper and have more.

ozoned,
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Where can one find that episode? … FOR A FRIEND OF COURSE!

ozoned,
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Good news! Save it for 20 years and read it again! 😁

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Question about the video. I’ve never used btrfs or Timeshift, so maybe this is just a thing with them, when he jumps to the CLI and unmounts, remounts RW, changes the @rootfs @, adds a dir and then mounts the subvolume on /dev/sda2 to /target.

This is totally new to me and I was wondering if anyone had an explanation as to why this was necessary?

I’m used to EXT4 and that’s what I run. But if BTRFS has FINALLY gotten stable and usable and I can take snapshots and roll back to older ones, kind of like branches in ostree, then maybe it’s worth this little extra work.

From what I find subvols are their own isolated branch with their own hierarchy. Is this how they’re meant to be used? Manually creating them and mounting/unmounting?

ozoned,
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Also anyone know if JustALinuxGuy is on Fediverse/Mastodon or a way to reach them about uploading these incredibly instructive videos to Peertube such as TILVids?

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YouTube Shorts comments can now be turned into YouTube Shorts: The YouTube team is now announcing one such new experiment coming to a small group of Android and iOS users wherein viewers can use a comment from a clip they're watching and create a separate Shorts video from it.
https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-shorts-comments-into-short-experiment/

ozoned,
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Google loves them because MONEY!

Bluesky CEO responds | 2023-07-22 Letter to the Community (blueskyweb.xyz)

The social media platform Bluesky recently had an incident where a user created an account with a racial slur as the handle. The Bluesky team quickly removed the account but realized they should have had automated filters in place to prevent such issues. They are now implementing a two-step automated filtering and flagging...

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NO! No bugs! Be perfect!

Seriously though, I’ve seen way dumber shit in “production” ready code.

I won’t use Bluesky, but this happens all the time. I also don’t see the issue.

I’ve told folks before, once and last time in front of developers (they didn’t find it funny) , that all code is shit. Not because they’re bad at it, but because it’s impossible to account for EVERY possible factor. They always make a better idiot. US: “Here’s this square.” Them: “I cut the corners off to fit it into the round hole and it no works!”

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We don’t know they didn’t design and implement it. Happens all the time where you imolement a feature, it works, there’s a regression and you have no clue. 40 min to resolve means it’s there, no way you’re building that completely, testing it, oushing it in that tineframd.

I coukd be wrong.

ozoned,
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I misinterpreted that part or missed it. With you now. Thank you!

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“In essence, the accuracy is entirely dependent on the difficulty of the test.”

AKA doesn’t work for shit. Don’t bother with it. And even if it did work, it’ll be an arms race and right now the deepfakes have the nuke and Intel has a musket.

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They also gave me crippling anxiety. Sure showed me!

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Can’t argue with that logic.

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I just created a helper for this new build system, I plan on getting angel investors for my startup.

I’ve also created my own license so anyone that views it is now working for me. The wrapper:

#!/bin/bash

g++ *

Molly v.s. Signal

I am not comfortable that signal depends proprietary google library. However, I find that Molly lags significantly behind signal (around 1 to 2 weeks, so maybe not as significant as I thought), but I am just concerned that if there is a security fix in signal, molly will not be able to react as fast....

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XMPP or Matrix. I’m on Matrix only because I have my family there and I was there before I knew of XMPP and at this point I can’t turn that boat.

Signal was/is (idk if they still are) into crypto, they don’t let you run your own server or client, and they have a proprietary shim in place to combat spam (or so they say, it can’t be audited because it’s proprietary).

I was all in on Signal until the above.

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I was worried there for a second. The oak trees I’ve seen are green ans brown.

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Debian

[Fortune] Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds (archive.ph)

Researchers found that ChatGPT’s performance varied significantly over time, showing “wild fluctuations” in its ability to solve math problems, answer questions, generate code, and do visual reasoning between March and June 2022. In particular, ChatGPT’s accuracy in solving math problems dropped drastically from over 97%...

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I’m ok with this.

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Pandora has amazing stations that randomize like music. I’ve found lots of new artists this way and love it.

What's your opinion on telegram from a foss and privacy perspective?

I see i can find a foss version on f-droid, and that’s something not a lot of social networks can have, i don’t really like all the crypto bullshit and ads testing they’ve been up to lately, but still looks better to me compared to what Reddit have done lately or what other platforms have done in these years…...

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My opion is I won’t go near it. Matrix via Elementor it’s many other clients is for me and my family.

ozoned,
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Arrest those parents for child abuse! No not the alcohol!

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I actually had an argument while in college with my Comp Sci advisor. I argued I shouldn’t have to take a foreign language, that I couldn’t pass, because I was learning so many programming languages. They didn’t buy it. I didn’t complete the program. :-D lol

Impossible nuggets are pretty wild (kbin.social)

I had them air fried before, and if you really inspect them and think about it you can tell they aren't chicken (from the texture but the taste is identical IMO). But I had them fried in a deep fryer this weekend and they were indistinguishable from real chicken nuggets. I am flexitarian so it's not like I haven't eaten a...

ozoned,
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Actually just bought a bunch of different impossible meats. The chicken nuggets are GREAT. Absolutely buying more of those, I don’t care if they’re a buck more for a bit less. They’re so good.

The steak tips, wife couldn’t eat them. She doesn’t like fatty meat and they REALLY had the consistency of fatty steak tips. I’d eat them, but meh.

Had an impossible burger the other day at a restaurant and it was REALLY good as well. I had one waaaaaaaaaaay back when they started at one of the fast food places and it was just like chalky. This was REALLY good. Probably going to have that when I want a burger and they have that as an option.

I am NOT a vegan or vegetarian or any of that. I just think if I can do this little thing to get away from meat, maybe it’ll help. The fact it tastes quite good is a win.

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Flatpak works on Steamdeck.

flathub.org/apps/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

ozoned,
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Flatpak works on Steamdeck.

flathub.org/apps/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

ozoned,
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Firefox is the only choice for me at this point.

ozoned,
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This isn’t a converstaion. This is comments be slung back and forth. I argue you can’t really have a conversation on these kinds of platforms and at this pointit’s pandering at the best and downright insulting any other way as every step the mods attempted to speak out and they ignored everything including forcing them open back up.

Honestly i understand how these folks don’t want to walk away fron communities they helped build, but how bad does it have to get before you do walk away?

Sadly communities rise and fall faster than the tide on the internet. Find something for you that you control and contribute to that, no some douchebag exec that sees you as a dollar sign.

Also there were no answers or conversation there. Just 3 comments from the admin, 1 saying he’d take the feedback on the lowest scored post and then 1 refuting something and the last pointing to that refutinf post.

ozoned,
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Not sure how I move it, but I’ll keep that in mind for next post. Thank you for the recommendation.

ozoned,
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Peertube has RSS. I hope this pushes folks to Peertube. I personally recommend and love TILVids. You can set up an account on TILVIDs and even follow folks on other instances. Or spin up your own Peertube if you’re brave enough, I could never figure it out but I plan on trying again some day. :D aNot that I want the alt-right stuff, but if they go on their own server everywhere else just DeFederates them and I never have to see it.

But yeah, LBRY was all in on the Crypto BS. Honestly kind of hoping this is just the tip of the iceberg for the crypto companies playing in the arena.

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I actually talked to the admin of TILVids about this. And he realizes the double standard, you can still access things from RSS, but he’s worked hard to get YT content creators to come over and the biggest concern those folks had was protecting their content. So he did turn off Federation to assuage those fears. He does push folks to spin up their own instances when they get big enough and even helps them with that if needed. He doesn’t want TILVids to be a silo either. I definitely understand the feeling and even had to think through that as well.

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