lsd is written in Rust, which I personally have no problem with but there are people that do

Huh? Do you mean to say it’s non-GPL? Some people have been going around rewriting GPL C/C++ utilities in Rust, but publishing them under non-GPL licenses, and that has been controversial. I don’t think I’ve seen people having a problem with Rust specifically.

I don’t think this is accurate. If your only interaction to Americans is the terminally online dipshits, I can see why you’d think that. Americans are just ignorant, especially now with how consolidated mainstream media has become. Fox News is never going to report on the real tragedies the American military creates when it bombs civilians, and for a lot of people Fox, CBS, CNN, etc are their only source of news. They’re very effective propagandists.

But try as they might, not even the most adept propagandist can hide the gas prices. It’s an inconvenient truth not even Trump can lie his way out of.

I wonder if the “protect the children” crowd will do anything about this?

I guess they found it difficult to resist the temptations of the data broker industry, and are now trying to pivot to a being iPhone style security theatre while profiting off selling their customer’s data?

Either that, or they have reason to think their users are stupid enough to fall for this? Personally, I have the same opinion of /e/os and fairphone users: they bothered to spend the time researching alternatives to the duopoly, yet they made the wrong choice anyways lmao

Graphene just can’t stop winning.

• Most people are poor
• Most people use Windows

Coincidence?

What do you mean by “IDLE”? That it’s sleeping or hibernating, or that you’re just not actively using it? Just because you’re not using it doesn’t mean it isn’t doing anything. Even if you have no apps running, modern operating systems tend to have plenty of background tasks that run periodically.

Open a terminal window, type “top” and press enter. That will show a live view of the processes running in the background (press Q to quit).

Maybe this will help you?

Idk about xinput, but my first assumption is that the reason it doesn’t work in some apps is because of Xorg vs Wayland. An evdev based solution should work universally.

Coil whine can come from your power supply, and it’s a fairly common phenomenon with low quality ones. I don’t think it has anything to do with your OS, unless maybe some background process is increasing power consumption and triggering the issue.

Use top or some other process monitoring tool to see if there’s anything running in the background while you hear it making the noise.

The solution would be to replace the part making the noise, whether that’s the PSU or something else. It’s ultimately a hardware defect.

Or, it could be the new disk(s), too.

I’ve never heard of an NVME with coil whine, but maybe they increase power consumption enough to trigger the issue? Or having extra disks in the system triggers some periodic background tasks that increase power usage. If you’re on Suse, that likely means you’re using Btrfs, which tends to do that.

My biggest struggle in life has been finding a mouse that has side buttons (full numpad, aka an “mmo mouse”) and a heavy duty scroll wheel. Maybe there’s something wrong with me, but that seems to be the primary part that craps out in my mice.

Recent brands that failed me have been EVGA, Corsair, and Red Dragon.

Currently, I’m using a Steelseries Aerox 9 Wireless. One year in and the scroll wheel is creaking, which is not a good sign. To make things worse, it isn’t designed to be disassembeled, so I can’t easily take it apart to clean or repair it, unless I wanna destroy the body.

I assume the creaking is because of dust, but I’ve tried blowing compressed air into it with no luck. It still works, but I don’t have faith in it’s remaining longevity. I’m also adding Steelseries to my do-not-buy list for selling unrepairable ewaste.

I’ve seen ploopy and a few other DIY open source mice before, but haven’t found one that has the numpad side buttons.

Anyways, sorry I don’t have any recommendations, except to avoid those brands. I know you said no gaming mice, but there are a lot more options in that category.

Also, the dev’s github profile pic looks like a 12 year old lol

This is kinda weak IMO. Here’s the “conflict of interest” they point out for Lennart Poettering:

Co-founded Amutable seven months earlier. Amutable’s stated mission is “cryptographically verifiable integrity for Linux workloads.” Every new identity field in systemd strengthens the market case for commercial integrity tooling. Poettering made no disclosure of his commercial interest.

So apparently his eyes turned to Looney Tunes dollar signs when he saw one new identity field? That’s ridicuolous, especially since he can add whatever he wants to systemd, whenever he wants.

Another conflict they point out is that systemd has no community steering committee or voting structure. Everyone knows this, it’s not new, and it’s part of the reason why people dislike systemd. It’s also why the previous conflict doesn’t make sense.

The rest of the article is a dump of random facts and timelines, likely designed to build credibility in the minds of people who are already pissed about the age verification thing, and are looking (uncritically) for anything to make them more pissed. Aka, this is ragebait more than anything substantial.

The only part that I think is actually worth pointing out is that the person who merged the PR is a Microsoft employee, and Microsoft is one of the companies that has lobbied for age verification. Idk if that’s legally actionable, but it sure is useful context I didn’t have before (although I’m sure many people did know that)

Edit: LMAO and I forgot, Devuan is an anti-systemd distro. That’s a conflict of interest they didn’t disclose in this article either

And just imagine how high it could go this year if fucking RAM prices weren’t exploding and Steam Machine/Deck/Frame could be sane

I wonder how true that is. The author of this blog post seems to just be taking this guy’s word for it. Did Anthropic actually confirm the bug exists by trying to trigger it on real systems, or are they assuming it’s real because it looks plausible? The report claims you cam do it with two cooperating NFS clients, so did they actually do that, or are they just assuming it’ll work?

Do you work for Zed or something? Why are you against this?

If you’re just a user, then when (not if) the project fully enshittifies, you’ll be happy Gram exists.

I self-host forgejo on a spare machine in my home. I also set up automatic encrypted backup using Restic on Backblaze (but any S3 compatible host will work). It might not be a perfect backup strategy, but it’s good enough for me, and perfectly manageable with my limited skills. Using wireguard, I can easily access it from outside my home. I also get much better uptime than Github lol

Importantly, I do NOT share this with anyone. It’s purely for my own private development and personal projects (I have a ton of these). Even when contributing to something on github, I work in a mirror on my private forgejo, and only push to github to create the PR when it’s ready.

Any open source projects I’ve released (I only have a few) go on Codeberg, but I still have a lot of projects I contribute to and rely on that are on Github. That’s really the hard part: getting other people to migrate to something else.

Why the fuck do people who know what a “github” is, much less how to post issues use Telegram?

A bullshit report from commercial CI company peddling AI?!

Sony is a close second, BTW

Do you have any examples? I’m not familiar with any major acquisitions Sony has made. Afaik the “acquire company, fire everyone, and run the business into the ground” strategy is mostly an American phenomenon.

Zed is on the typical VC tech company path, which we all know can only end in one way: enshitification.

Yes and no. It depends on how you manage symbol visibility. There is such a thing as a “private” dependency. For example:

• libA uses a patched version of libZ, and breaks ABI compat with the upstream version
• Your program links with libA and upstream libZ dynamically

If LibA links with libZ statically, and doesn’t expose any internal libZ structures through its own APIs, then there’s absolutely no problem. Your code will never directly interact with the internal libZ of libA.

If LibZ is exposed by LibA, or LibA dynamically links with LibZ, then you have a problem. I’m not an expert on dynamic linkers, but they’re might be some platform specific workarounds you can do.

Something else I’ve seen before is some libraries use preprocessor macros for their namespaces. That way, you can change the namespace (and thus symbol names) at compile time. That way, you can have multiple copies of the same library coexisting, even with type safety at compile time.