SheeEttin

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SheeEttin,

“childish trolls in this community”, “this community is full of trolls”, “90% of folks here dont get the issue and rather troll”

SheeEttin,

Yes. And that doesn’t excuse it; a moderator should be better than the community they moderate.

Will antivirus be more significant on Linux desktop after this xz-util backdoor?

I understand that no Operating System is 100% safe. Although this backdoor is likely only affects certain Linux desktop users, particularly those running unstable Debian or testing builds of Fedora (like versions 40 or 41), **Could this be a sign that antivirus software should be more widely used on Linux desktops? ** ( I know...

SheeEttin,

It doesn’t actually contribute to the discussion.

SheeEttin,

Depends. What are you planning on using a VPN for?

SheeEttin,

That’s not a meaningful comparison because it splits Ubuntu by version but all of Arch is a single category. We’d need to roll up the Ubuntu users for it to be apples to apples.

Is there a License that requires the user to donate if they make revenue?

I tried a couple license finders and I even looked into the OSI database but I could not find a license that works pretty much like agpl but requiring payment (combined 1% of revenue per month, spread evenly over all FOSS software, if applicable) if one of these is true:...

SheeEttin,

If you don’t want to give it away for free, then just don’t make it FOSS. It’s that simple. People use free-libre licenses because they want to use that license model. If you don’t want to, then don’t.

SheeEttin,

Yes. You are free to distribute it in any way you wish. Some methods, like printing books, have a raw material cost. You can choose to pay someone to distribute via that method, or if you really want to, you can do the printing yourself at no cost but your own time and effort.

SheeEttin,

The people who coined the term “open source” are the same people who founded OSI. If you don’t like their term, don’t use it.

SheeEttin,

If you’re in the position that the NSA is in your system trying to bypass SELinux, you have much bigger problems.

Besides, in that case, having it disabled is going to make it easier for them anyway.

SheeEttin,

Someone is going back over their contributions, right?

Right?

SheeEttin,

Debian and Fedora have ports, though not all packages are available, and you’ll probably be doing a lot of porting if you want anything else.

But this bit from the uConsole R-01 product page might be relevant to you:

uConsole R-01 is a highly experimental model and requires some experience with Linux systems & FOSS. We strongly recommend all beginners choose other models.

SheeEttin,

Good news, the GNU Image Manipulation Program is designed for manipulating photos

SheeEttin,

swapoff, reformat, swapon?

Also make sure the drive isn’t dying.

regarding fLoss licenses for customization on proprietary software?

I am forced to use some proprietary software at work. The software lets users export custom functionalities. You can then share these to other users. I have made some that are pretty simple, but greatly enhance the use of the application using its native tooling....

SheeEttin,

The employer doesn’t claim any intellectual property rights over my work product. I’m not able to find anywhere that the proprietary vendor does either.

You’re probably in the clear. Legalese isn’t so opaque that you would miss a section about this.

Of course, that doesn’t stop them from suing you if they decide your work could be very profitable for them.

Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?

I’m interviewing for a software dev job currently (it’s in the initial stages). If things work out, I’d absolutely prefer a work laptop with Linux installed (I personally use PopOS but any distro will do), a Mac will be second choice, but I absolutely cannot tolerate Windows, I abhor it, I hate it… (If all computers left...

SheeEttin,

Even at big companies, devs get flexibility because they need to run a bunch of random stuff that can look sketchy to security software.

I tried, I really did

I’ve been an IT professional for 20 years now, but I’ve mainly dealt with Windows. I’ve worked with Linux servers through out the years, but never had Linux as a daily driver. And I decided it was time to change. I only had 2 requirements. One, I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM and I need to be able...

SheeEttin,

Long story short, I can’t use multiple monitor RDP because I have different resolution monitors and they are stacked 2x2 instead of all in a row.

Did you try setting them up as one big display across all four, instead of four little ones? I think that’s something you can do.

Does the multi-mon RDP thing work from a Windows client too? I’d be surprised if it did, Windows’ multi-monitor support is fairly lacking in my experience too.

SheeEttin,

Why not run sed and pipe to diff to preview changes?

You’d still have to manually copy out the command line to a notes file, but I don’t think that that’s too terrible. You could use a terminal-integrated snippets palette to make it a little smoother.

I’m not aware of any program that does exactly everything you want it to, so you might write your own or extend an existing one, as mentioned.

SheeEttin,

You would probably get a better answer by asking a Rhino community. But a quick look at the documentation suggests you can choose: rhinolinux.org/wiki-rpk.html

SheeEttin,

That would probably dissolve some of the plastic parts.

SheeEttin,

And integrated GPU counts, so you could use the integrated one for the host and a discrete card for the guest.

SheeEttin,

Not my Model M.

SheeEttin,

Sure. And the number of people who would do it purely because they want to is a tiny fraction of people who do it for pay. To pay those people you need profits, to get profits you need to be special, to be special you can’t share your trade secrets.

SheeEttin,

They absolutely do fund development like this. But they keep it for themselves until such time that it no longer gives them a competitive edge.

For example, when the US sells tanks or planes to other countries, those export versions have much less fancy equipment on the inside. Or in pure science like cryptography, you can assume that when the NSA publicly approves of an algorithm, they’re confident that they can break it if they really need to (either because they inserted a backdoor, have identified a weakness they can exploit, or just have no use for it any more themselves).

SheeEttin,

Communist China and Soviet Russia would do it.

They wouldn’t be any good, but they’d do it.

SheeEttin,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace

It’s a parallel. Mao tried to create industry in people’s backyards. It took people away from food production, destroyed existing valuable metal products, deforested the areas, and for all that effort, resulted in product with quality so bad it was unusable.

While it would probably also be more like input material production, silicon ingots and wafer slicing and such, I’m sure the quality would equally be shit enough to be unusable. Especially since metalwork tolerances are usually in micrometers at best, but microchips are in the nanometers.

SheeEttin,

Yes, I understand there are orders of magnitude of complexity between the two. And no, it’s not remotely feasible, like I said, they wouldn’t be any good. If anything, I’m agreeing with you that no system of government, or system of economics for that matter, would make it practical.

SheeEttin,

The distro itself? Idk I usually just write an ansible playbook to get everything to my liking. Run it once on a new install and everything is good.

Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

I currently have a Dell laptop that runs Windows for work. I use an external SSD via the Thunderbolt port to boot Linux allowing me to use the laptop as a personal device on a completely separate drive. All I have to do is F12 at boot, then select boot from USB drive....

SheeEttin,

None of these answers talk about watching you or your actions, only the device and the network.

SheeEttin,

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I hope all your stuff supports Unicode.

SheeEttin,

I’m pretty sure you can use dots in record data. I know you can use them in zone names.

SheeEttin,

Really? I see it used in techie communities pretty often.

SheeEttin,

Surely your firewall has an audit log for denied traffic.

Or, turn off the firewall and run Wireshark while you print something.

How to see CMUS logs / get info for bug reports

Sometimes my CMUS will randomly stop playing a track or it won’t play the next track until I manually go in and hit c (for resume) or otherwise initiate playback. I would like to be able to see what happened before these instances so i could either fix my config or, if its a problem beyond the scope of my local environment,...

SheeEttin,

I have no idea what CMUS are but you can check previous bug reports, or just open a bug report and ask what they’d like to see.

SheeEttin,

I hate Lenovo and I have a Lenovo laptop. The company is shit but the laptops are great. I justify it by buying used.

SheeEttin,

Because it aligns with most people’s use case. You’re free to patch it out if you’re so inclined.

SheeEttin,

Maybe you should take it up with the maintainers. I can’t tell you what they were thinking.

SheeEttin,

If they don’t release it for the current Switch, I’m going to pirate it. It’s 95% of the reason I bought a Switch in the first place.

Linux file transfer speed bottlenecks?

I’m currently watching the progress of a 4tB rsync file transfer, and i’m curious why the speeds are less than the theoretical read/write maximum speeds of the drives involved with the transfer. I know there’s a lot that can effect transfer speeds, so I guess i’m not asking why my transfer itself isn’t going faster....

SheeEttin,

Are any of your resource monitors showing 100% utilization?

How do I create a docker container with custom programs inside?

Hello! I have a free account at hide.me and would like to try to use it with my docker compose containers. The free plan does not give me the keys for openVPN of Wireguard configuration, but only through the official client. I’d like then to create a docker container that runs the official hide.me client inside, and exposes it...

SheeEttin,

What are you running your containers on? I just put my VPN on the docker host so I could be sure I could use the firewall to block traffic from going out except over the VPN.

SheeEttin,

Oracle?

SheeEttin,

The Xbox consoles are not and never were advertised or sold as a subsidised device, but the ads are sure making it feel like one.

Yeah, because they are subsidized. Microsoft loses money on every Xbox, expecting to make it up in game and subscription sales.

ign.com/…/microsoft-loses-between-100-and-200-on-…

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