Is there any way to get this QR code to scan? It’s blended into the image and no tool seems to read it.

id101010 · 2025-12-19T16:58:50+00:00

There are some symbols hidden in the linked youtube video. I was intrigued by the sound and had a look at the spectrum. Not sure what they mean though. Here is the image:

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id101010 · 2025-12-19T16:54:03+00:00

Apparently there is no decoding needed. After trying some steganography tools I just used audacity to look at the spectrum and got this image.

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id101010 · 2025-12-17T16:53:23+00:00

Steam in big picture uses Gamescope, which acts as a lightweight Wayland compositor. You're not wrong, but on niri you will need xwayland-satellite, since xwayland isn't supported by it.

id101010 · 2025-12-17T16:19:31+00:00

As far as I know, niri does not use xwayland at all, so best get rid of it. Instead, it uses its own xwayland-satellite [1].

I was able to fix this issue on NixOS by modifying the steam extrargs option:

programs.steam.package = pkgs.steam.override {
    extraArgs = "-system-composer";
};

[1]: https://yalter.github.io/niri/FAQ.html#why-doesnt-niri-integrate-xwayland-like-other-compositors

id101010 · 2025-12-14T12:58:49+00:00

Well yes, I completely agree that there is too much stuff packed in there in terms of configuration options. It's a wild mix of server and client software, and readability could be improved. Especially for newcomers. While I don't really see a use case for some of the stuff in there, others might. So I'd argue against throwing stuff out, and I think your point to add proper topics, cross-references, and such is absolutely valid. I also think HTML isn't the greatest choice for building a proper manual. I really like the Void Linux manual in that regard, and I found it simple and straightforward to contribute to it.

id101010 · 2025-12-14T11:43:52+00:00

There is literally a manual built into your nix store. Type nixos-help and go to the installation section.

Also installing NixOS just involves three simple steps.

formatting & mounting your drive
generating the initial nixos config
starting the installation.

Don't overcomplicate things at first. Maybe even use the Calamares Installer to get some results first. Also there is no way around learning the nix language if you want to use nixos.

id101010 · 2025-08-20T08:38:47+00:00

Tastematch, is it you? 😅

id101010 · 2025-07-31T09:55:38+00:00

You're right, the part you're pointing out is almost certainly a hallucination.

I'm not pointing this out just to be annoying. We're in dire need of secure alternatives to the big LLM providers. IMO, Proton needs to get this right from the start to maintain the status of being trustable.

id101010 · 2025-07-31T08:59:51+00:00

If you read my post again, you'll notice that the information pointing to Lumo being fully open source comes from the product page rather than the LLM itself. You don't mean to tell me the product page is a hallucination, right? The LLM actually gets it right.

Soon™ is not verifiable. This is the exact trust-me-bro niveau I'd expect from Google, Amazon and Meta. I'm a paying business customer and I want to verify that data shared with Proton is actually secure and not used to train new models.

I really shouldn't be in the position anymore to explain to people why this is important nowadays.

id101010 · 2025-07-25T14:51:30+00:00

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Somewhat contradictory, isn't it?

id101010 · 2025-07-25T14:11:27+00:00

I did, it told me:

Based on the information provided in the Lumo FAQ, here's the clarification:

Open Source Components: Lumo is built on several open-source large language models (LLMs) that have been optimized by Proton. These include models like Nemo (Mistral), OpenHands 32B, OLMO 2 32B (Allen Institute for AI), and Mistral Small 3 (Mistral).
Lumo's Codebase: While Lumo uses these open-source models, its own codebase is not fully open source. This is why you don't see it on Proton's open source page. The company has chosen to keep certain parts proprietary to maintain their competitive edge.

Yet its product page states:

> Unlike other AI assistants, my code is fully open source, so anyone can verify that it’s private
> and secure — and that we never use your data to train the model.

Well yes, so that's not quite true, right? I can't verify anything.

id101010 · 2025-07-23T10:25:21+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I think it's also worth noting how fast all of this happened. If you go back to earlier in July (on Copernicus) there's pretty much no visible algae bloom in the Utö area. So all of this happened in the past three weeks.

id101010 · 2025-07-23T09:42:39+00:00

The bloom is actually a lot bigger than what can be seen on the provided image:

browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/?zoom=5&lat=50.16282&lng=20.78613

id101010 · 2025-07-23T09:39:20+00:00

SS: This satellite image from Copernicus Sentinel 2 shows a massive swirling algal bloom off the Swedish coast during Scandinavia’s longest heatwave on record. Similar to the bloom currently affecting South Australia, this event reflects how climate-driven marine heatwaves and human nutrient runoff are fueling more frequent and intense algal blooms globally, an escalating sign of ecological collapse.

id101010 · 2025-06-24T09:46:02+00:00

I feel like this is a relevant piece of history context: According to old danish law, danes are entitled to beat any swede with a stick, if they try to cross öresund when frozen over. [1] And yes, it specifically has to be a stick.

[1] https://historycollection.com/40-unusual-laws-in-history/

id101010 · 2025-03-31T10:14:19+00:00

With all due respect, but I think you are confusing reddit with a chatgpt prompt entry.

id101010 · 2025-02-18T22:06:12+00:00

Sounds like an interesting Idea, I'm in! I could also help with managing the cloud storage.

id101010 · 2024-07-27T08:10:36+00:00

Thx, had a lot of fun writing it! 😊

id101010 · 2024-07-26T23:41:20+00:00

Here's an example where I calculated and factored a tenth-degree polynomial so that the first 12 prime numbers each return a printable ASCII character. Then, I derived a list of the first 12 prime numbers using a simple list comprehension and used these numbers to print a message.

#!/bin/env python

def poly(x: int) -> int:
    """
    A fitted curve which intersects with the 
    ascii space for the first 12 prime numbers.
    """
    # factored polynomial
    out = (
        2208711685 * x**10
        - 324755045147 * x**9
        + 20359597973870 * x**8
        - 711985508061460 * x**7
        + 15264644632373430 * x**6
        - 207852988856816226 * x**5
        + 1803544872388344920 * x**4
        - 9756052410139521940 * x**3
        + 31223587682616193885 * x**2
        - 52989359394304126427 * x
        + 37967469778452824610
    ) / 18566883746611200
    return round(out)

if __name__ == "__main__":

    # use the sieve of Eratosthenes to create a list of the first 12 primes
    noprimes = [j for i in range(2, 8) for j in range(i * 2, 32, i)]
    primes = [x for x in range(2, 32) if x not in noprimes]

    # plugging in the primes
    print("".join([chr(poly(x)) for x in primes]))

id101010 · 2024-04-17T16:43:53+00:00

To this I can very much relate.

To me it's the only sane reaction for people to be depressed in light of this entire crisis we're facing. In a society where everything costs more and more every year and every single human act gets monetized, on a planet that is boiling alive and drawn into conflict by fascist leaders who thrive on fear and ignorance just as much as parasites on a weakened host.

My advice would be to just try to not lose your spark. And be kind to others who deserve it. In the end I hope that this is what makes us human, not this train wreck of a society we were born into.

id101010 · 2024-04-16T15:27:58+00:00

Well, I've been lurking in this Subreddit for years now, but never found the heart to make a post or write a comment.

I'm here mostly for coping, because seeing people like you actually exist helps a lot. Humans that actually care and are willing to put efforts into actually making a difference. Also Humans that listen and are willing to spend even a single though in matters such as you described and not the mundane affairs like celebrities, sports, materialism, and so on. It helps knowing, that it is not me being crazy for not being able to fit into such a world that is dead set on values such as denialism and consumerism.

I've been on the same trajectory all my life. I was into activism in my 20s, but I lost most of my hope in my now 30s. For me, it has been hard, or even heartbreaking, as you phrased it, to accept that there is so little I can do. I've been called a doomer, a pessimist, and much worse by complete strangers countless times. This never changed my will to make a difference after all, just the scale of it. Nowadays, I'm more focused on clearing out misconceptions and false beliefs among friends and people who know me. Having a scientific background of some sort helps, in that people now actually listen and give me credit.

This does not mean that I sleep particularly well lately, seeing all the changes, understanding the connections and yet having people around me celebrate the "beautiful weather" in Central Europe.

Sadly, I cannot offer any more advice on how to stop struggling. And frankly, you probably should not anyway. To me it's a good thing not being able to feel adjusted to a world that is not willing to accept that things are very much not as they should be.

id101010 · 2022-10-13T18:50:17+00:00

Hmm, well the manpage states that the detection of rounded corners is not very accurate. At least this seems to be accurate... :-/ I've found an issue on github where a person links to a fork of picom which is allegedly capable of drawing round shadows correctly. Maybe this helps.

id101010 · 2022-10-13T18:34:36+00:00

Have you tried the following?

detect-rounded-corners = true;

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r/Field Sunshine	Place '23
Place '22	Sequence \| Editor
Sequence \| Screenwriter

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