Manitoba (rural) driver here. No electric buses whatsoever out here in the redneck sticks. A few very fucking annoying propane ones cause hey why not.

It’s rather deliberate at this point. They are at war with general purpose computers, because we depend on those in order to have GNU/Linux, just as we depend on a free and open Internet to have this platform. If they can get the herd to fully embrace these locked-down infernal machines, that will be it, on a certain level. We will have RISC-V and the ability to deploy to FPGAs, but the voice of Little Brother will be heard only on their whim.

I was reminded the other day that JMS was involved in Sense8, and a full five-year arc was planned, and I am angry all over again.

No.

Why not rsync directly? Why insert a network share to muddy the process?

Anyways, this is pretty much the “good” use of AI, as I see it. Indeed, if models are more tightly trained to focus on one specific bit of data, such as the manual for an application, a locally-run LLM could transform the help menu into a chatbot that teaches you the app.

This could be the future reality, if the “throw a firehose of money and a bunch of horrible code at it and hope we can charge people who have no money a lot of money to rent our bullshit” brigade are guillotined.

Whichever side of this you land on… confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

We are a nation of people who have no choice but to spend our workdays side by side with our high school bullies. Eventually, under them.

Someday, everyone will have always been against this.

It’s a question of people caring. Many do not.

My response was clearly addressed to people who give a shit, which by your own words, you do not. Why are you bothering me?

“FOSS” is itself Newspeak.

RMS created the concept of Free Software, which has an ethical basis regarding freedom, community, and your ability to use your hardware in any way you like.

“Open Source” was invented by a corporate scumbag who noticed that Free Software was taking over all the server rooms and desperately needed to keep things on a profit-seeking basis. So he lifted the methodology and jettisoned the ethics, and called it Open Source.

If you give a shit, don’t go along with the gaslight. Never say FOSS - software is either Free as in speech, or Open as in corporate bullshit.

The video linked in another comment is just a guy with an annoying voice reading the manifesto, which you can do yourself here. You can even follow down the thread and get a sense of where things are going. It looks to me like a fork is in the offing.

This: https://mwl.link/run-your-own-mail-server.html

I don’t have this book by MWL, but, when I got my first Sysadmin job in 2015, I took over a network almost entirely run on FreeBSD, and I was gifted a couple of other books of his, in particular his ZFS volumes with Allan Jude, and I can say that his work is easy to read and good at giving you the most basic raw facts of the matter. If you really want to understand email, read this book and I guarantee you will get all the information you need.

I am not his marketer, just a person who was helped immensely by his work. He’s on the Fedi as well, you can search in Mastodon.

Writer steps on their dick out of the gate - Pipewire sits on top of alsa, just like Pulseaudio, and emulates pulse and jack and even alsa apis as needed.

Pulse had to go. This will have pains, but Pulse was teh badz

If you have a fridge with an app

GET OUT

They’re not handing over private crypto keys here. It’s a database entry that the person installing the system can put whatever they like in.

I like Wab.

Ahh, well, they’re kind of an ongoing thing, they don’t get everything, they die off or leave before the whole job is done, so I ended up in a cycle of buying them, keeping the spidermites from totally fouling the process, but never getting rid of them entirely. If Thrips are your problem, Spinosad is your solution, end of sentence.

Understand what a Reverse Proxy is, because you will not escape reading that phrase.

Host things with Docker for now. If you don’t start hosting until you understand everything, you won’t start for a long time and that is silly.

Use Cloudflare for now, because they handle a lot of security stuff for you that you definitely don’t want to screw up. If you don’t know what Cloudflare is, read up on CDNs and why they exist. Their Zero Trust Tunnel is the easiest and safest way to go, as long as you don’t plan to do anarchy or sedition on it, just talk about your household plants and dogs and what not and you’re fine.

I never spray, just adding to your watering can in the correct amount does it.

Mites are a different matter though, Spinosad doesn’t do those I don’t think. When I got mites I killed everything, sanitized, let it sit for a few months, before starting again. They’re the bedbugs of indoor growing.