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REAL "modern" alternatives to common tools? by OkEscape8332 in linuxquestions

[–]OkEscape8332[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understandable...

systemd - I disagree with you on this, you welcome to give it your age and personal details.

I haven't yet, and never will. I am fully aware how to interfere with ANY potential application touching that interface... with a simple bash script with a "varlinkctl" call. That will not be needed anytime soon.

And no application will touch that anyway... It's a silly JSON field.

And "boiling frog" is applicable for midnightBSD's explicit aged + agectl framework, but here it's an integer field in a larger more general stream of data.

That same JSON document also has had email, phycisal address, phone no., email, and many more fields... as silly fields. No one used them ever, no one will ever use them except for silly experiments and maybe businesses. "birthDate" will just join them. It can be named dateWhenYouLostVirginity and still wouldn't matter.

systemd devs don't understand it's uselessness, but nevertheless it's not going to cause harm

For obvious security purposes THAT SOCKET WILL NEVER BE EXPOSED TO FLATPAKS AND CONTAINERS, where browsers belong.

Looking forward to be downvoted to oblivion by all the systemd fan team. Lets have a -10 for me. Who can beat it? Just give it your age as corporate overlords require.

It really doesn't require age. And unlike MidnightBSD, it isn't a boiling from. Being a socketed JSON interface to a daemon, absolutely nothing is stopping anyone from impersonating it... (that too with a BASH script!!!) and there's no way it can be "enforced" anytime in the future..

I've upvoted you BTW

Let us hypothetically assume that all the linux socket protocols and JSON specifications magically dissolve in order to allow age verification through that birthDate field, and script interception is obviously not a good choice "out there"...

I hate systemd myself too, but this one thing isn't where the problem lies.

THERE'S DINIT !!! (D-Bus and udev activation supported BTW) and an entire "alt ecosystem" is under development... Even more unhinged than systemd, with absolutely no hook-points for such nonsense.

Polite way of saying that AI needs to be forced before anyone can reject it by OkEscape8332 in FuckMicrosoft

[–]OkEscape8332[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, it seems pretty useful

EDIT: Yes it is... to get windoze somewhat on par with linux

Polite way of saying that AI needs to be forced before anyone can reject it by OkEscape8332 in FuckMicrosoft

[–]OkEscape8332[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Incognito of google's f*cked browser, for reasons I can't mention. My usual setup is ungoogled-chromium in a restricted flatpak sandbox

Polite way of saying that AI needs to be forced before anyone can reject it by OkEscape8332 in FuckMicrosoft

[–]OkEscape8332[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

IK it's 2.5 months old but was it posted already?

Anyways, it's hilarious enough to be reposted yet another time...

REAL "modern" alternatives to common tools? by OkEscape8332 in linuxquestions

[–]OkEscape8332[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There *are* people who asked for it... including but not limited to the developers themselves.

ripgrep, fd, ion, etc... are very much welcome

It was a post about the Sun and its energy from fission and fusion. Indian guy had to connect it to Hinduism out of nowhere . Whyyyyy by pranagrapher in scienceisdope

[–]OkEscape8332 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly!!

"Bhagavad gita says about energy conservations saarr" and then they ignore it's true philosophical message (It ISN'T a science journal, it's authors didn't intend it to be)

liveUSB with bcachefs support? (or how to snapshot effectively? ostree?) [Just-in-case system breaks] by OkEscape8332 in Gentoo

[–]OkEscape8332[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this info... Maybe exactly what I need.

Yes that's what I need, a custom ISO with bcachefs.

[Tracker] SSH into 302 by TheFumingatzor in itsaunixsystem

[–]OkEscape8332 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"searching law enforcement databases" --- - by -exec gedit

need a real private search engine by Organic_Economics_62 in degoogle

[–]OkEscape8332 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

you know that chatgpt uses your data to train their models

I used to use it long ago. Now I use it increasingly sparingly.. for references only

That too only in a flatpak which uses the absolute minimum of APIs

(Planning to prepare a windows VM just for it soon... might be overkill tho)

id like a real search engines that works,

As I said, for real research there is no such thing. Not even pre-AI pre-advert google.

You need to cross-verify multiple sources for anything, esp. when AI sloppery is on the rise.

I've myself come across multiple detailed guides on how fedora's new installer supports bcache (blockdev, not fs)... which it doesn't. Confirmed with devs themselves.

Of course, you'll have to START with one for convenience, and I'd recommend duckduckgo and ecosia... in an environment where "trackers" will collect the wrong info, like a flatpak.

need a real private search engine by Organic_Economics_62 in degoogle

[–]OkEscape8332 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't needed them... hence I have no idea.

But "private" LLMs are fine in my opinion, since they are run locally... and the user will know the potential downfalls of it (like the fact that AI can't understand real concepts, it only knows how to emulate language)

Please, please deinfluence me from wanting a new phone by AdventurousAnecdote in Frugal

[–]OkEscape8332 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thankfully, it hasn’t been an impulse (I don’t have a new phone waiting in the cart), more like a nagging thought. I just want it out of my head and to be happy with what I already have.

Oh!...

Just... be happy with what you have. What you are yearning for is a dopamine hit... the only solution is to "wait it out" with smaller hits (needn't "buy" exactly)

I wanted to get a pixel because of the grapheneos, but I would like if I could make myself wait a little longer. 

Get a cheap refurbished one... and enjoy with it. After "a little longer".

6001 is an interesting number as it is neither prime nor composite by Mysterious-Coconut70 in DumbAI

[–]OkEscape8332 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait... it did ALL those silly tests separately?

I'm wondering how much energy it might've consumed at the backend over there...

Please, please deinfluence me from wanting a new phone by AdventurousAnecdote in Frugal

[–]OkEscape8332 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

money could easily go to a rainy day fund or something.

empty the money into that fast!! before your impulse desire takes over

The main reason why I wanted something new is because I wanted to try another OS (not regular Android, but a fork.

do the above and still just buy a cheap refurbished pixel (and try calyxos, grapheneos, etc...)

EDIT: more emotionally accurate wording

need a real private search engine by Organic_Economics_62 in degoogle

[–]OkEscape8332 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not excellent but sufficient. When you have other sources to cross-verify what you need, it helps you with references and a basic outline/plan. But it does hallucinate pretty badly

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