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#151 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...

#152 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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

#153 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/

#154 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

#156 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

#157 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]

https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-out-this-linux-distro-that-looks-like-windows-made-by-microsoft-engineer-based-ubuntu/

#160 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

#162 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

#163 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)

#164 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"

#166 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

#167 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).

#172 Re: Devuan » Can't use MAKE command driver for installation » 2025-07-10 06:46:25

since the OP seems unable to use simple code tags perhaps we might hypothesize we are interacting with ai/llm? how would we know? could we? really?

don't get me wrong, i understand. a dear one has dementia and no longer knows who they are/was/were. it is hard to relate unless/until it is personally experienced and so one must seek out others who have both experienced it and are willing to share and talk about it as well. life is short, love them long.

#173 Re: Off-topic » The need for cooperation as central motivation in Unix and GNUproject » 2025-07-09 03:35:03

^^^Re: Global Firefox marketshare

the marketshare loss is mostly due to the continuing increase in smartphone usage which ultimately drives users to the devices default/included browser which is _not_ firefox...sad but true.

anyone here using GrapheneOS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrapheneOS

#174 Re: Off-topic » The need for cooperation as central motivation in Unix and GNUproject » 2025-07-06 03:41:19

Don Marti was editor-in-chief at Linux Journal once upon a time and his website is absolutely overflowing with very interesting intriguing thought-provoking stuff!

https://blog.zgp.org/

once on his main webpage find the "Start here" and/or the "About me" sections/sub-headings and have a go!

way down in the "Bonus links" area is a link to a long but must-read commentary regarding the sorry state of search:

https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/

#175 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How are 'live' disks that can boot on many systems created? » 2025-07-06 03:14:38

generally speaking the linux kernel continues to grow in size partially because of new devices being added as time marches on:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/driver-model/index.html

so for example, devuan installed on an ssd could be moved between different machines as long as they were the same architecture

also you might find these interesting as well:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/redbean_2_a_singlefile_web/
https://justine.lol/cosmo3/
https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

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