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#76 Re: Off-topic » A programmer should be a touch typist ? » 2025-07-29 01:44:28
enjoyed Jeff Atwood's post enough to repeat the link visually accurately:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmers-second/
#77 Re: Off-topic » Microsoft and data sovereignty » 2025-07-28 13:32:11
^^^@chris2be8 and @all
That is why any sensitive data should *always* be encrypted before being stored on any system you do not *fully* control. And *really* sensitive data should not even leave your systems, even encrypted, without a *good* reason.
*Fully*
*Always*
*Really*
*Good*
F
A
R
G
yep, we're farged[/sarcasm]
#78 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » trying to keep my 100yr-old father computing for another year » 2025-07-27 09:39:48
update: currently using daedalus and claws-mail and taking it slow and easy, day by day, thanks again all.
#79 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Canon LBP6020 » 2025-07-27 09:12:49
bought a brand new fancy canon multi-function 30ish years ago and it was a nightmare.
never bought anything canon again
(full disclosure, i have experimented with canon stuff that was thrown out in the rubbish by other poor souls)
#80 Re: Off-topic » Microsoft and data sovereignty » 2025-07-27 09:05:43
it is important to understand that with just the last few years of ai/llm/etc related _world_wide_web_ scraping, along with all the additional _internet_traffic_harvesting_and_storage_
it is already all in the _wrong_ hands...
#81 Re: Off-topic » A programmer should be a touch typist ? » 2025-07-27 08:53:36
imagine what the planet would be like today if ALL the humans on the ENTIRE planet lived like the americans(mostly referring to the _earth_destroying_level_of_consumerism_ with a side-dish of several hundred years of global murder and mayhem)
_who_would_jesus_nuke_
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
_slavery_is_alive_and_well_
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Williams
also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement
the whales can't wait til we're gone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_whaling
or:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY
and:
#82 Re: Other Issues » I seem to crash when I go to a certain website... » 2025-07-25 08:48:11
@all
please see both the article as well as the comments:
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/14/tackling-the-ai-bots-that-threaten-to-overwhelm-the-open-web/
Proxies for Bots / Global Proxy Networks
do a quick search for “proxies for bots” and a hypothesis develops where hundreds of millions of individual consumers/users get “free” internet access simply for willingly being an active part of a global proxy network. not sure how cloudflare or anyone will be able to distinguish quasi-random proxy-networks from naturally occurring web traffic. definitely a race to the bottom nevertheless.
would expect to see more of these types of apps:
https://geekflare.com/consumer-tech/apps-to-sell-internet-data-and-earn-money/
#83 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-18 15:28:03
^^^@zapper, thanks for your installation report! keep us posted on your experiences/observations/progress/etc
#84 Re: Off-topic » Google in trouble again » 2025-07-18 09:15:40
this was insightful(or inciteful, depending on your take) - circa 2021:
https://unixdigest.com/articles/this-is-how-you-keep-your-dignity-and-not-sell-your-soul.html
#85 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » XFCE Suspend wakes immediately, successful suspend on second attempt » 2025-07-17 03:40:26
check out this specific post and then read the complete thread to get a better idea of what you are up against:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23730#p23730
another thought is if your free hard drive space is below a certain amount, then that will cause strange machine behavior
#86 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-14 06:33:04
stumbled across this commentary which references g*
mostly sharing it because...[sarcasm]well, what we need is to be more like microsoft windows...sigh.[/sarcasm]
#88 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-14 05:51:05
more on the k* word
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/kumbaya-song-meaning
side-eye dude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lee_Jones
alternatively
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000169/
just fer fun
#89 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-13 22:25:44
tracfone unlocking webpage:
https://www.tfwunlockpolicy.com/wps/portal/home/
sad how verizon has consumed Straight Talk, Net10, Clearway, Total, Tracfone, Simple Mobile, Safelink(obamaphone), and Walmart Family Mobile
#90 Re: DIY » ALSA-only purists: Question, new GUI app for the mixer and EQ? » 2025-07-12 13:03:17
^^^@tux_99
Got sound in Firefox with only alsa and JACK!
#91 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-12 12:52:56
power and fuses and circuitboards, oh my!...beware the Magic Smoke!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
re: ... oh my!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lions_and_tigers_and_bears,_oh_my
and to get that earworm out, Bad Wolves tribute covering Cranberries Zombie rip Dolores O'Riordan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ
peace out
#92 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-12 08:00:16
re: "charging only" cables
best guess is when a batch of cables Q.C.ed bad for data at a high-enough failure rate then they magically became "charging-only" cables(ooohhh, specialty item...sigh...argh)
#93 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-12 07:50:31
mostly thinking along the lines of @golinux at reply #60 regarding "peace"
#95 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-12 05:58:11
there is no spoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXtO5dMqEI
one gives themselves peace
others mostly bring violence
refuse to engage and/or obey _enough_ and many will attempt to destroy the peacefully non-compliant
as always, your mileage will vary
#96 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Help with signing nvidia's driver with secure boot enabled » 2025-07-12 05:44:04
looks like there might be timing issues with _some_ distros
quoting from:
https://benleskey.com/blog/opensuse#nvidia
snippet:
The biggest problem with the NVIDIA drivers is updating them. With UEFI secure boot enabled, each time the drivers were upgraded I had to enroll their keys at boot time. If I missed the 10 second window (and you only get one chance, even after rebooting), the graphical environment couldn't come up and I had to recover manually by running sudo mokutil --import /usr/share/nvidia-pubkeys/whatever-nvidia-pubkey.der from the recovery environment. You can also disable kernel module verification by running sudo mokutil --disable-validation. This will ask you to set up a small password and then disable the verification at next boot time (assuming you can remember the small password you set up).
#97 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Help with signing nvidia's driver with secure boot enabled » 2025-07-11 14:17:04
did you try it in single-user?(just a casual guess)
#99 Re: Installation » How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)? » 2025-07-10 08:20:09
more re: anubis, please review:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots
#100 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-10 07:08:23
this thread reminds me to reread and rereference:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
and for those who unduly shun the message for the messenger, please see:
and search the below webpage for "lifelong activist" as you have time:
edited to add a couple more(again, as you have time):
https://www.stallman.org/articles/magellan-just-a-name.html
https://www.stallman.org/articles/what-mary-had.html
https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community
https://www.stallman.org/apple.html
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
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