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2026-07-04 20:13:52 UTC

Remember, if Linux wasn't guarded by gpltards, it would have advanced filesystems for servers that are actually usable, like ZFS, in the kernel and easily usable.
Instead everyone is stuck either playing btrfs lottery or doing dm-integrity+lvm-raid+lvm-vdo and not even getting all the functionality while being dumb to setup.

2026-06-05 22:00:48 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag People overextended on speculative value. Although these crashes are like a yearly thing at this point.
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2026-05-29 20:15:50 UTC

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@nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…csn2 @nprofile…euty Reviewing every diff isn't doable I think, unless you actually bring llms into the equation which could go through those. But you also have to manage that as well, not including the various questions about llms which I won't go through. I mean it more in terms of automated testing and checking that upstream didn't do something completely stupid. Netdata suid binary path traversal comes to mind for example, which should have been caught by any distro trying to be serious and packaging it.
On the matter of size, software is getting larger and won't stop. IMO sizes like Linux, LLVM, Firefox, Chrome should be an exception and are a problem in an of itself. Those codebases are all unauditable.
Also on the topic of OP, borgbackup is nice although written in python/cython. Definitely don't use tar ;)

2026-05-29 19:54:04 UTC

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@nprofile…csn2 @nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…euty That ain't happening simply because of scale. Instead distros should start doing what they should have been doing for years, vetting upstream and not taking upstream completely at face value.

2026-05-22 15:43:28 UTC

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2026-05-01 09:23:18 UTC

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@nprofile…hu5l Nevermind it's lolicon, deserved.

2026-05-01 09:09:40 UTC

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@nprofile…hu5l she had arrestable thoughts.
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2026-04-21 20:23:13 UTC

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2026-04-16 14:10:57 UTC

Is there actually any Linux distro that isn't governed by retards that want to keep breaking things?
Yeah, we will just drop this very popular package in a month, because we are autistic about dropping Qt5 and are removing packages using it.
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2026-04-13 20:05:54 UTC

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2026-04-13 20:00:11 UTC

He returned
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2026-04-13 15:55:29 UTC

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@nprofile…nptm Since you are on Codeberg, have you considered asking them to enable the Woodpecker CI for you, so Docker images and release binaries can be built automagically? I think they might allow the usage of the "packages" registry from CI.
@nprofile…p3lz

2026-03-31 22:02:52 UTC

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@nprofile…xsag @nprofile…dcn3
>Germans

2026-03-31 21:03:25 UTC

>Dear GitLab User, Effective April 27, GitLab.com will enforce mandatory Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all password-based sign-ins to enhance account security. Your account is included.
>To facilitate an easy transition, we have introduced email-based MFA. If you do not enable another form of MFA before April 27, your account will automatically use email-based MFA. Email-based MFA is easy to use - you’ll enter a code sent to your inbox when you sign in. No app or device required.
I literally have MFA enabled. :lainangry:
Also amazing that this went to my spam folder.

2026-03-28 17:36:54 UTC

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2026-03-25 17:04:14 UTC

Minecraft Anti-P2W community having a normal one.
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2026-03-23 18:42:22 UTC

Burnt my cofe by not putting water in the moka pot award.

2026-03-23 16:11:33 UTC

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@nprofile…d73q In fact I would argue that GNOME in the v2 days didn't act like that. Which was when they were still GNU I think. Ironic.

2026-03-23 16:11:01 UTC

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@nprofile…d73q I can still feel the smugness and "the only right way is our way" years later. Both projects share this attitude.

2026-03-23 16:08:38 UTC

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@nprofile…d73q Those can fight for all I care. GNOME was a GNU project and still very much acts like a GNU project.

2026-03-23 16:06:50 UTC

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@nprofile…d73q At least KDE still usually puts a K somewhere, but that is also dying.

2026-03-23 12:46:25 UTC

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@nprofile…cext @nprofile…uhv9
>librsvg
>mesa with OpenCL
>pycryptography
>rav1e
>git

2026-03-23 12:44:03 UTC

And you thought that the X11 IM is insane. On Wayland the situation is even worse.
http://dorotac.eu/posts/input_method/
At least the XMODIFIERS env seems to be gone and a program can ask the compositor to be the IM instead of X11 going down the path of looking at an env variable and doing nothing when the IM in the env isn't actually available.

2026-03-21 22:50:48 UTC

No wonder that audiophiles say that streamed/downloaded music sounds worse. The fiber-optic cables aren't gold plated for maximum light conductivity.

2026-03-19 15:15:24 UTC

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@nprofile…m82g @nprofile…20he A worldwide registry of GNU/People. I would be down for that, finally a definitive way of cleaning up my TL.

2026-03-19 15:02:06 UTC

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@nprofile…20he systemd-kerneld

2026-03-19 09:54:11 UTC

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@nprofile…cext @nprofile…q5n4 @nprofile…pfpm
>because in linux you can patch this shit out.
Watch this get integrated deep down in GNOME/KDE so you can't easily patch it out in two places (systemd and one place in the DE).

2026-03-10 17:05:46 UTC

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@nprofile…muw4 @nprofile…hmqg @nprofile…p9a6 @nprofile…xsag @nprofile…alxm https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24

2026-03-09 21:06:36 UTC

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@nprofile…nptm It's nothing serious or severe. You could see posts you weren't supposed to if you were blocked and probably not a follower. And an HTTP signatures bypass.
https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/merge_requests/1275

2026-03-08 13:22:58 UTC

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@nprofile…s24j @nprofile…zjs5
>I do not run proprietary software microcode updates.
Key point being updates. You are still running proprietary software an always will unless you use something older than the Pentium Pro.

2026-03-08 13:20:35 UTC

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@nprofile…zjs5 @nprofile…s24j He's autistic about the fact you can't remove Intel ME from everything since the first iX CPU. But willfully ignores the fact his CPUs that he uses still run proprietary microcode and always will.

2026-03-06 21:59:55 UTC

Anti-AI slop cult
Who really benefits from all the infighting in free/open source software regarding any use of LLMs in development?
With all the recent and non-recent "discussions" and mostly just nonsensical noise around random large and small projects using some sort of an LLM for any purpose and how "bad" this is, I've decided to write my thoughts in a small-ish post while the thoughts are still fresh.
https://evilmaid.net/blog/anti-ai-cult/index.html

2026-02-27 20:15:37 UTC

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@nprofile…y6jc @nprofile…xsag @nprofile…t3h7 @nprofile…tsag I disagree.
Look, Pleroma is in no position to bake a feature, and say "take it, or leave it" and expect everyone interested to take it, or pull a Mastodon and force it on everyone through, the shear number of users. If you want to do groups properly, for which there is interest in the FEP community and also in the Mastodon community which used guppe quite a lot. I think it would best not to half-ass it and deal with the consequences later.
This mentality is how we got to the point where there are 3 different ways to federate emoji reactions (Pleroma EmojiReact, Misskey's _misskey-emoji and someone else already did Like with an emoji field in JSON). Same issue with quotes, Akkoma/Pleroma quoteURI, Misskey _misskey-quote and now Mastodon's Quote Activity. How did we get here, nothing was ever documented and no specification how it works written so someone that lived in the Mastodon vacuum had no idea that Pleroma does EmojiReact.
That's the whole point of FEPs. It's a place for discussion about AP extensions for people that care. There's no process to get in besides write a spec and implement later. If we want to fix this messed protocol and do it properly, collaboratively, and not waster our time, this is the way to go. It doesn't have take years, because the window for a FEP to be "finalized" is a year after the last update or there abouts. It won't take literal years.
I don't think Pleroma Chats are dead, nor do I think they are bad, but there is no documentation on how they are supposed to work in AP, so very few implemented them. And how will you notify others that they exist if not by making a FEP and a somewhat high frequency issue tracker and announce them on activitypub.rocks.
cc @nprofile…nptm just because I've seen you talk about how good groups could work and I think my post above isn't completely stupid. And also sice FEPs got mentioned.

2026-02-27 19:47:29 UTC

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@nprofile…y6jc @nprofile…xsag @nprofile…t3h7 @nprofile…tsag It's not that easy anymore of you want cooperation from others. A FEP with a reference implementation would be ideal.
Otherwise it will end up like Pleroma Chats, nobody except Pleroma users know it exists.

2026-02-27 18:33:13 UTC

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@nprofile…xsag @nprofile…t3h7 @nprofile…tsag Who said invite only? I agree, a requires_approval true/false field would also work and would need to be exclusive with the manual/automatic approval arrays in the JSON. Want a public group open to anyone, fine, but you can at least still moderate it unlike an auto-repeater.

2026-02-27 18:23:35 UTC

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@nprofile…xsag @nprofile…t3h7 @nprofile…tsag Because the posts aren't from the Actor, it isn't their Objects, then why should have an Actor have Objects of someone else in their outbox. AP is extensible to stupid levels, why abuse an endpoint with data it shouldn't have just for the sake of reusing it.

2026-02-27 18:19:51 UTC

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@nprofile…xsag @nprofile…t3h7 @nprofile…tsag I fundamentally disagree with how groups currently work and it's probably a good idea barely anybody knows that Pleroma has them. They are a prime target for uncontrollable spam. Kinda like relays, but the effects can get delivered directly to a user's sometimes even home timelines.
If I were to design groups for AP, I would make a Group Actor with a posts OrderedCollection and a list of Actors who can manually Add and Remove Objects to the Collection. With the ability to set certain instances/Actors as automatic approval. You POST to an inbox, if you are in the auto approve list, the instance automatically adds that Object to the Collection. You aren't in the auto approve list, you get put in a mod queue. Viewing that group would be simply fetching the first X number of pages/posts in it, which can remote instances keep in some cache.

2026-02-27 17:04:12 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag @nprofile…t3h7 Mastodon has trending hashtags, but I think they are network wide, for the "known network" of that instance. Hashtags could have been really great for trending and tagging posts, but Mastodon ruined it by making the search utterly unusable. Ideally there would also be "local trending tags" and "global trending tags", so an instance has more of a community feeling besides it just being a way to communicate with the whole network. The "instance" being a generic thing instead of a community building block hurts this network I think.

2026-02-27 16:12:08 UTC

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@nprofile…t3h7 Still have no idea what Evan of SWF meant by "creator content" lacking on fedi.

2026-02-19 14:32:21 UTC

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@nprofile…d73q @nprofile…r2m8 @nprofile…yfzn How's your CTS doing?

2026-02-19 14:28:17 UTC

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@nprofile…d73q @nprofile…r2m8 @nprofile…yfzn
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2026-02-19 12:56:13 UTC

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@nprofile…vpvm @nprofile…5vpa
>there isnt the technological capability to make these complex webbed databases involving repeat analysis and scanning of every single person's profile
This has been possible for decades. NSA's XKeyscore is just one of the many examples of such technology.

2026-02-13 14:01:02 UTC

Another "fediverse research by scraping" dropped. Of course using year old data.
https://github.com/TerryShenty/DOSN
cc @nprofile…9683

2026-02-05 20:34:48 UTC

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@nprofile…5vpa They are a super serious business, don't forget.
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2026-02-02 09:36:20 UTC

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@nprofile…f32c @nprofile…s24j @nprofile…20he GNU = Generally Not Usable

2026-01-31 14:24:16 UTC

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2026-01-27 10:20:36 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 Can't, stuck home and sick from running in the rain.

2026-01-26 12:20:23 UTC

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@nprofile…d73q @nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…lese Nope, still the best power user distro if you don't need the use flag autism of Gentoo. Everything else including Debian is a bad joke (except Mint for newbies).

2026-01-26 10:31:52 UTC

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@nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…lese @nprofile…d73q It is packaged and it gets updated when you update the system, but when you don't update for a long time, new packages can be signed with keys that aren't in your old system keyring and there's no automatic pre-upgrade step for updating that keyring. Hence why the manual update is necessary.
Gentoo solved this issue by force-updating the wkd on every update before it emerge even resolves dependencies.

2026-01-26 10:11:03 UTC

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@nprofile…d73q @nprofile…8m52 @nprofile…lu27 @nprofile…pzxv pacman never does anything with a bootloader. There are two (three) main failure modes that pacman has:
- distro keyring not up to date, failing package authenticity check (archlinux-keyring needs to be updated first)
- pacman deletes initrds on transaction start meaning that if your system fails in the middle of an update, you not only have a system in an unknown state with half-extracted packages, but also no kernel to boot
- when using BTRFS, the free space check can fail because free space as reported by BTRFS isn't actually real and it doesn't use the specific btrfs library for getting free space

2026-01-10 19:14:23 UTC

@nprofile…vu6q Real programmers know how to balance both sides in all four.
#nevent1q…vs9w

2026-01-10 12:25:47 UTC

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2025-12-31 19:02:20 UTC

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@nprofile…3gt0 @nprofile…tkyz Let it process. I don't know why posts from before my instance existed are getting federated to me, but whatever. Magic.

2025-12-31 18:58:31 UTC

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@nprofile…3gt0 @nprofile…tkyz Stuck jobs are getting processed in Oban thanks to Lazarus.

2025-12-27 17:58:17 UTC

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2025-12-23 09:44:09 UTC

Average slavic house with a cat right now
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2025-12-22 23:21:40 UTC

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@nprofile…pvqa Arguments about which toolkit should have been used incoming.

2025-12-21 22:59:54 UTC

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@nprofile…d97z @nprofile…p09k
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2025-12-21 16:02:37 UTC

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@nprofile…00ws
>doesn't the fetching via followed's favorites already add enough things?
Not really. To give you an example of my usage, lets say that I don't follow that many people, because I don't like an overly crowded home tl and I have a single-user instance. In other words I prefer my home tl to be exactly what I find interesting. I also like posts from users on other instances like SPW and FSE, but not enough to follow those people, so I subscribe to the relay.
In this way when home tl gets boring or slow, I can check twkn with much more posts from instances I'm interested in and therefore posts I'm probably interested in. And I don't have to rely on someone else to interact with the post before I see it.
I don't see relays as a way to get as much posts as possible from as many people as possible, but as a way to get posts from instances where users I'm interested in are.
Its benefit kinda wears off when you establish yourself some kind of a fedi circle, but they are a great way to find people on other instances you didn't know about when starting a small instance without an established list of accounts to follow. And a way to "just fill it up with something interesting". Personally they helped me greatly to find interesting people when I returned to fedi and all I remembered was Moon, Pete of FSE and that was it.
Also I think it's a way better solution than what we had before (followbots).
>What relays are there?
Every Pleroma instance has a relay enabled by default. Mastodon side has some pretty big ones I think @nprofile…2wy3 follows (don't remember the domains of those).

2025-12-21 15:42:31 UTC

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@nprofile…00ws Yes? Since they are the only good way to fill up your twkn with posts you might actually want to see on small instance.

2025-12-21 10:14:33 UTC

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@nprofile…waf0 @nprofile…zvj0 I also remember the backend not handling unreliable networks reliably in the websocket streaming mode and it skipping notifs sometimes. :/

2025-12-20 20:06:51 UTC

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@nprofile…c76x @nprofile…37az It's apparently written in libadwaita, so it is already dead before arrival because nobody except gnome users will use it.

2025-12-20 19:30:59 UTC

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@nprofile…c76x @nprofile…20e8 @nprofile…m6zn Not really. His software has like 90+% adoption rate in Loonix and is probably payed a good bag at Microsoft for keeping the wheels turning, because they need systemd to work (Azure is running on Loonix).

2025-12-20 19:27:46 UTC

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@nprofile…c76x @nprofile…20e8 @nprofile…m6zn Poeterring is now a Microsoft employee and the other main maintainer of systemd (also a Debian developer) also is.

2025-12-20 14:58:00 UTC

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@nprofile…00ws
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2025-12-19 22:48:15 UTC

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@nprofile…c2yc @nprofile…7gzz A cookie has been dispatched to your location :)

2025-12-19 22:38:55 UTC

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@nprofile…te8u @nprofile…3z0s @nprofile…c2yc
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2025-12-19 22:31:03 UTC

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@nprofile…c2yc @nprofile…7gzz
>might just do cloudflare
amazing way to leak you home ip btw. 10/10 Wiz would recommend.

2025-12-17 23:39:57 UTC

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@nprofile…kjy4 @nprofile…u5xy
>dude, you're shit-talking about the project that was invented to publicize the only known defense against software enshittification.
And then promptly failed at doing so once the development funding stopped going in.
>if it weren't for that philosophical leadership, we'd all be in much deeper shit.
Not sure about that, since almost every so-called free software project has been going down the drain for about a decade. You'll hate this, but BSDs are becoming very tempting for me just due to the sheer number of broken software I had to deal with in the last year or two. The only thing that has not gone down the drain is the Linux kernel and maybe gcc thanks to clang becoming competitive.
>if you have alternatives that aren't getting enshittified, it's for the same reason.
BSD is older than GNU and pretty much the only thing GNU contributed to their success is gcc until the GPLv3 upgrade.
>don't shit on the plate you're eating from, it's gross.
Once again, I don't necessarily depend on GNU. It was very tempting to build an LLVM and musl based Gentoo install a month ago, but the only thing that stopped me from doing so was unironically Steam. Yes, proprietary software stopping me from switching to non-GNU core libraries and compiler. Or maybe I can install FreeBSD 15 which added support for my WiFi card in my 3 year old laptop :).
You are kinda proving my whole point. Instead of acknowledging the reality that things were better before and are going kinda going downhill, you instead chose to recoil and try to attack. That's actually my whole problem with GNU, they are stagnant, refuse to acknowledge reality and as a result the whole movement starts to fall apart and rot. And I'm getting serious late 90's gcc "vibes" from it.
I'll say it again, things worked better 10 years ago then they do now and that includes everything in userspace.

2025-12-17 22:57:08 UTC

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@nprofile…kjy4 @nprofile…u5xy Correct, that's why I try to avoid the pioneers of enshitification in the free software "industry", GNU, and instead choose to use software not made by people whose main focus is to add a bunch of extensions to existing software in dumb ways (1) or dramafork a project while knowing absolutely nothing about what they are doing (2).
(1) https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/surprising-behavior-in-gnu-tar/
(2) https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot/

2025-12-17 18:26:32 UTC

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@nprofile…083c Good mascot

2025-12-17 15:57:22 UTC

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@nprofile…083c Good thing I stole most of the Pleroma images from there :)

2025-12-17 15:37:51 UTC

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@nprofile…0pwv
>fdo
So it's dead.
VR gaming looks like a great time 😂_ #shorts-h4TwcVuPBo4.webm
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2025-12-17 15:35:33 UTC

@nprofile…083c Did you shutdown your booru?

2025-12-17 15:32:21 UTC

I love dramaforks.
I love downstream that cannot be bothered to notify upstream of shared issues.
I love general lack of communication.
Born to maintain infra.
Forced to dig through commits.

2025-12-17 15:25:34 UTC

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@nprofile…u5xy Hey Free Software, stay in your half-broken pile of 30 year old software castle, because you pretend you are above everyone else.

2025-12-16 22:13:27 UTC

finding-old-chip-datasheets.mp4
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2025-12-16 21:43:20 UTC

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@nprofile…d97z @nprofile…mvkf
do-not-speak-polish.jpg
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2025-12-16 13:59:10 UTC

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@nprofile…t390 Should be the Debian logo and "Advanced Persistent Threat" under it.

2025-12-15 22:47:22 UTC

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@nprofile…3gt0 Ah, they are still the same as they always were. You could make a new version just out of the isolated Mastodon side. Plenty of jokes could be made there, but I feel like that wouldn't be funny. Part of the fun in the original is the familiarity with the instances in it.

2025-12-15 22:39:25 UTC

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@nprofile…3gt0 Kinda. I don't even understand 1/4 of the jokes made in it anymore. Problem is, not many instances stand out that much in this part of the network anymore outside of xenofeme and Cyberia. It all mostly settled down.

2025-12-15 21:33:15 UTC

fediverse servers slander-neckbeard-poast-fse.mp4
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2025-12-15 17:40:20 UTC

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@nprofile…t390 @nprofile…lhe9
Flashing ROM on a chinese bluetooth receiver to remove annoying sounds [YUDDaQqw1Bk].mp4
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2025-12-15 13:53:11 UTC

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@nprofile…ea7y
>GRUB offers a full graphical menu selection.
bloat
>GRUB1 even offered the ability to play animations on the boot screen; https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Animated_penguin_GRUB_splash_screen
bloat
>ability to play sounds
bloat

2025-12-15 13:44:31 UTC

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@nprofile…ea7y Ok, then LILO. If BIOS text output is bloat, a pseudo-graphical menu selection is also bloat. Therefore both syslinux and grub are bloat.

2025-12-15 13:36:16 UTC

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@nprofile…ea7y GRUB is bloat, you should use syslinux.

2025-12-15 13:17:51 UTC

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@nprofile…ea7y Your GNU/Booted system doesn't allow pausing BIOS text output with it? Sucks to you. You should use a real BIOS like real men do.

2025-12-13 18:20:26 UTC

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@nprofile…sl3y @nprofile…lhe9 And Windows 7/Server 2008

2025-12-13 16:39:52 UTC

cloud-init has been a disaster for the hosting industry.

2025-12-06 12:55:54 UTC

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@nprofile…pvqa Think of it this way. When the bubble bursts, which it inevitably will, you'll probably be able to buy data center systems for cheap-ish, if you want to train/run a bigger model on you own. So you'll be able to make your own.

2025-12-06 12:48:46 UTC

Watching from the distance as half of the internet gets their mind broken by the existence of AI. The biggest divide I've seen and yet both extremes from both sides are getting affected by it.

2025-11-28 18:08:41 UTC

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@nprofile…c76x @nprofile…lhe9 @nprofile…sl3y Yeah, I miss the assistant and translator more than their search :D

2025-11-28 17:58:33 UTC

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@nprofile…c76x @nprofile…lhe9 @nprofile…sl3y Which is somewhat weird, because I switch to Brave/DDG at the start of November to try to recalibrate my sense of reality and it hasn't been that bad. But also I didn't search for anything technical which I used to do a lot on Kagi.
For image search, I almost always turn to bing or yandex.

2025-11-28 17:51:26 UTC

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@nprofile…c76x @nprofile…lhe9 @nprofile…sl3y I've noticed a decline in results quality on :niggakagi: 2-3 months ago and after the addition of continuation prompts to the quick answers, quality went completely downhill.

2025-11-24 19:19:57 UTC

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@nprofile…d97z @nprofile…jgyk @nprofile…083c @nprofile…0fnf
https://www.youtube.com/@ElishaLong/videos

2025-11-24 10:07:09 UTC

Hyprland drama still going strong in certain circles it seems :drewloli:

2025-11-06 19:01:06 UTC

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@nprofile…3749 @nprofile…p2ej @nprofile…wdmr So it's the same stupid way as in EU.

2025-11-06 18:59:39 UTC

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@nprofile…wdmr @nprofile…p2ej Is there at least an option to disable this once engine has started? EU mandated this bullshit years ago, but you can at least always turn it off every time you start the engine.

2025-11-01 11:48:26 UTC

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@nprofile…3wwf @nprofile…6wnw I've cancelled my Kagi subscription few days ago just to try out how bad search actually is for a month. My guess is that I'll hate it.

2025-10-26 17:55:53 UTC

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@nprofile…m6zn @nprofile…faa5
the hacker known as 4chan.webm
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