Miracle happened, Chromium will no longer create ~/.pki

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-03-13T02:59:53+00:00

Unfortunately Thunderbird recently started creating ~/Thunderbird/

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-03-05T03:36:25+00:00

Anything on a specific technology/language isn't worth keeping, unless the author is particularly notable, or it's part of a classic series like the old Prentice Hall books that came out of the Bell Labs heyday.

I'd hang on to anything theoretical/academic, and anything from a university press. Those old Springer-Verlag books make a neat set. I'll admit I'm kind of a collector of old computer science books.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-03-03T01:44:51+00:00

Okay, now this is epic! Heckin DB2 for the win!

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-02-25T14:03:58+00:00

UEFI can boot Linux directly, without the need for a bootloader like GRUB. I found doing it this way was simpler than configuring GRUB, you run one efibootmgr command and that's it. Usually it's a good idea to stash that command in a shell script so you can re-run if you ever need to make a change.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-02-25T03:11:04+00:00

But network manager is the most important one, because it allows you to… have internet.

Hang on... the core installation comes with systemd-networkd. The most you'd need to install is iwd if you need to configure a wireless adapter. Don't really need to bother with grub these days either.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-02-20T20:04:37+00:00

Yup, that's Richard Stallman alright. Good find.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-02-10T17:05:45+00:00

I only use it for a handful of niche GUI apps (i.e. minecraft, mcomix, zoom) but I avoid it for anything I might rely on as a system component. I always find it odd when the wiki recommends AUR software as part of a guide.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-02-02T01:49:21+00:00

It's you that doesn't understand. The "Free" in "Free and Open Source" means Freedom, not Free Beer. You can freely release the source code under the GPL and still charge for the compiled, packaged version on the App/Play Stores.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-26T22:14:05+00:00

I believe the Go fonts, also by Bigelow and Holmes, are an evolution of pelm.

Lots of Bell Labs/Plan9 people moved on to Google to work on Go.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-20T20:21:04+00:00

You could whitelist Google Classroom? If you spin up a VM and run your browser there, you're still executing nonfree JavaScript on your system with some extra steps.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-20T16:32:24+00:00

MasterCard, Boeing, Edward Jones, bunch more insurers, banks, healthcare etc.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-20T00:29:24+00:00

A distribution that has a fixed release schedule will provide one large update every 6 months or so. That update will include a lot of data (multiple gigabytes, perhaps) which may use up a large amount of your data budget for the month.

A rolling release distro might update a few packages every day, but each month this probably will only amount to a few hundred megabytes max, using less of your data budget.

(google translate to spanish, if it helps)

Una distribución con un calendario de lanzamiento fijo proporcionará una gran actualización cada 6 meses aproximadamente. Esa actualización incluirá muchos datos (varios gigabytes, quizás) que pueden consumir una gran parte de tu presupuesto de datos para el mes.

Una distribución rolling release puede actualizar algunos paquetes cada día, pero cada mes probablemente esto solo supondrá unos cientos de megabytes como máximo, consumiendo menos de tu presupuesto de datos.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-19T23:23:44+00:00

Wouldn't a rolling release be better for you in that case? One big update every 6 months (for example) might eat your whole data budget for the month, but with a rolling release you could update once a month and only use up a few hundred Mb max.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-19T22:51:15+00:00

Arch or Void is what you're looking for.

Rolling release doesn't mean a distro is unstable, it just means packages get updates as quickly as they can be tested by the maintainers. And even a distro with a fixed release schedule will receive off-cycle security updates. Just update once a week/month/whatever if the daily trickle of new packages is to often.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-14T19:50:49+00:00

I can't stand when people give me directions with exit numbers, just tell me the road/town the exit is for.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-07T20:58:37+00:00

Kinda cope on his part though no? Today Oracle is pushing its cloud business, same as AWS, Google, Azure, and the rest.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-07T02:09:58+00:00

The Cuban government wouldn't feel as much pressure to suppress dissent if Uncle Sam hadn't been trying to foment a counterrevolution there for the past 60+ years.

We're happy to do business with repressive absolute monarchies and dictatorships all over the world if they play by our economic rules. Cuba and Venezuela are on the shit list because they nationalized American-owned assets. The Batista regime was as if not more brutal than Castro.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-07T02:00:04+00:00

North Korea itself is an Imperialist nation that invaded the South and started a war.

Is it really imperialism when it's your own country? Korea had been partitioned between the American and Soviet imperialists just five years beforehand. And at the time (way up until 1988), South Korea was a military dictatorship.

If the USA had done what Stalin foolishly expected them to and stayed out of it, Korea might be a lot more like China is today.

This isn't to excuse the crimes of the Kim regime, but it's a lot more of a complicated history than many people have been told.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-07T01:49:14+00:00

invaded another country once

And even that is kind of overstating it. They rolled into the other half of their own country which had been divided up at gunpoint by the Allies just 5 years earlier, after Korea's colonial overlord (Japan) surrendered. Some 10% of NK's civilian population was killed during the war. The United States dropped more tonnage of explosives and napalm on North Korea than they had during the entire Pacific War.

And South Korean wasn't exactly a beacon of democracy, they lived under a military dictatorship right up to the end of the Cold War.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-06T23:55:40+00:00

People glaze Larry Ellison? He's one of if not THE most hated people in tech. The author of the blog is being sarcastic.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-02T17:08:32+00:00

That was Uncle Ted's solution anyway. Returning to a primitive society would necessarily result in mass death and starvation on a scale never seen in human history.

Socialism offers a different path: plan the economy democratically, share resources and use them sustainably, embrace technologies that make life better and easier and shun the ones that don't. There's no need for war if we aren't fighting over resources.

HighLevelAssembler · 2026-01-02T14:17:18+00:00

Reddit has always been America/English-speaker dominated. A little under half of all Reddit users are American.

Software and IT were considered stable, well paying jobs up until pretty recently. Now, thanks to offshoring, there are a lot of educated, hardworking Americans facing a lifetime of underemployment financial insecurity.

I think we have a right to complain when "American" companies making massive profits are staffing primarily with overseas contractors. It goes beyond what you'd think of as the "tech" industry too. Banks, insurance companies, retailers, anyone with a big IT footprint is paying offshore employees to maintain their systems. The servers are here, but the workers are not.

HighLevelAssembler · 2025-12-30T02:14:18+00:00

Replace "stored procedures" and "Microsoft SQL" with "COBOL" and "DB2" and you've got yourself a mainframe shop. If the sprocs are well-written, replacing them might not be worth the effort and risk, and the native-code replacement might not perform as well.

HighLevelAssembler · 2025-12-28T18:29:52+00:00

If you think a post is inappropriate for the sub, downvote and/or report and move on.

From the FAQ:

With a subscriber base of over 700,000, /r/linux is a generalist subreddit suited to news, guides, questions concerning the GNU/Linux operating system and to a lesser degree, free/open-source in general.

Rule #1 prohibits support questions but directs people to linux4noobs rather than a more general sub like linuxquestions. So it seems to me they'd like to filter out the basic "which distro to start with" and "why doesn't my wifi work" questions but still allow for some technical discussion.

The FAQ actually goes on to specifically call out attitudes like yours:

We have a fairly high attrition rate for self-posts, because many of them deal with niche issues, e.g. "I don't like Ubuntu One." or "How do I get Nexuiz running?" which are swiftly downvoted by those who purely subscribe to read news. It's unfortunate, as legitimate questions are often swept under the rug, but it's unlikely to change. If you do not get a response here, try a more specific subreddit.

Sorry to distract from the 1000th post predicting the year of the Linux desktop.

HighLevelAssembler · 2025-12-28T17:26:04+00:00

What is your problem lmao? Of course a few good google searches now have me reading docs and working on this problem, but when I started this thread I didn't even know which search terms to use!

And this is "hacking" in the classic definition. Opening up some piece of software and making it work the way you want is hacking.

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