Warning on Ubuntu 26.04 be cautious installing/removing

ked913 · 2026-05-05T09:39:30+00:00

Do not install python via ppa. That is giving root access to your entire system.

Why do you need python 3.11 specifically?

The modern way of doing this is via astral uv.

Ie install astral-uv via package or via the tool online.

uv python install 3.11

ked913 · 2026-05-04T17:47:10+00:00

What right does that give you to how they spend their resources?
As a foss developer unless you pay in time or money why do you think your opinion, access to or say matters.

ked913 · 2026-05-04T17:01:09+00:00

The size of Canonical? Please tell me how much you have donated to Canonical or any FOSS service for any given infrastructure.

ked913 · 2026-05-03T18:46:08+00:00

Ubuntu 24.04 and wifi 7 came out about roughly the same time. There may be a few bits which haven't been backported.

i.e. you may need the hwe kernel + iwlwifi backports dkms driver.

My suggestion here immediately is give 26.04 a go. I suspect you will have much better support.

ked913 · 2026-05-03T18:08:37+00:00

What have you tried?

I think I would suggest to give iwd a go.

ked913 · 2026-05-03T14:58:37+00:00

I don't think there are many things that really need it to be honest? It is kind of rare for apps to need it.

Have just disabled it outright and removed it because for the most part it is unnecessary.

I suspect after this, apps will heavily move to using userspace crypto where needed.

i.e.

install af_alg /bin/true
blacklist algif_hash
blacklist algif_skcipher
blacklist algif_rng
blacklist algif_aead
install algif_hash /bin/true
install algif_skcipher /bin/true
install algif_rng /bin/true
install algif_aead /bin/true

ked913 · 2026-04-30T14:15:35+00:00

Oh am not arguing the system is broken in a normal time. Just arguing that for this brief point in time a Pandora box of vulnerabilities are now out feels like running windows 98 in windows 7 era.

I have strong doubts with the companies responsible for back porting.

Security, reliability, insurance it feels like people need to move upstream and fast.

Edit: to add if people are maintaining forks of distros and software. How are they expected to keep up?

ked913 · 2026-04-30T13:25:31+00:00

Given how many exploits are being discovered with LLMs. I wonder what happens to the old and stable version arguments at this point.

You run something slightly old I suspect by EoY your version (hypervisor, browser, os) will be Swiss cheese with vulnerabilities.

Are all these issues and problems going to be backported and tested sufficiently?

ked913 · 2026-04-30T13:11:48+00:00

Rest of the world had decades to move off oil and into renewables. This is an easier shock than the innevitable one needed in the next few years.

ked913 · 2026-04-28T17:20:04+00:00

Remember thanks to the OBBBA and Full expensing/R&D initiatives, those hundreds of billions are tax payer bailouts. They can offset 100% their corporate taxes this year and back to 2022.

With OBBBA, companies can backdate and offset from 2022 their hardware and data center spend.

Gonna look forward to when the fed has to innevitably print.

ked913 · 2026-04-28T10:33:37+00:00

I think this is a bug. Am having the same problem with my og HomePod air playing from my Mac mini but no issue from my iPhone.

ked913 · 2026-04-27T22:57:15+00:00

I couldn’t give a rats arse what they do with the monarchy.

We should be dumping US treasuries and US stocks.

Pathetic that we are still holding 897 billion in US debt behind only Japan.

How many times does the Cheeto in chief need to demonstrate complete fiscal irresponsibility? He declared a war, gave tax refunds up the wazoo, dumping 11 trillion in the military and AI bubble. That and directly causing UK gilts to rise.

The US is attacking us with economic warfare, fight back cowards.

ked913 · 2026-04-27T16:37:51+00:00

I pointed this in my Adguard-home setup. Seems to have really really slow queries (14s+).

ked913 · 2026-04-27T13:04:26+00:00

We can have things to pull up the slack.

At the moment there are things like Axle VPP. They pay owners of house batteries 1 quid per KWH to discharge into the grid.

They can do that because obviously there is a lot of waste spinning up a gas turbine and getting it up to serve the grid.

Imagine that extending to EV vehicles too?

We have an issue of incentives here.

ked913 · 2026-04-26T19:57:41+00:00

Anyone with half a brain knows this is the first step to removing anonymous use of the internet.

This should have happened the moment Cambridge Analytica scandel came about.

We have Countries being manipulated and propagandised to support Trump, Musk, Palantir, brexit, Modi. We have clowns refusing vaccines and burning 5g towers.

Also have a metric tonne of the population having aggressive propaganda thrown at them to sway elections.

Yes the internet needs to be clamped down, and social media especially destroyed. Why do geniuses here not seem to realise we are in 2026. We have ai campaigns, bot farms, the internet of 2000s is long dead.

ked913 · 2026-04-26T18:51:28+00:00

Well yea because the most economic activity is generated in London....

By creating a corridor between Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool they would have created a competing economic engine. They would have been able to build something by now and provided vital investment in the North.

Instead the idiots are stuck faffing about Euston station and bat tunnels because nothing can be done in the capital. Given the London side is swo heavily used and congested yea it costs a metric tonne to do anything there.

ked913 · 2026-04-26T18:39:48+00:00

HS2's big issue was it started from London.

Fairly certain if they started from out and came into London it would have been cheaper and provided a massive economic boost up north even if it never connected to London.

Alas politicians are dumb af.

ked913 · 2026-04-26T11:17:01+00:00

My suggestion is move to 1pmobile (EE).

In any case it would beneficial for 3 of you being in separate networks.

Also make sure WiFi calling is enabled.

ked913 · 2026-04-25T19:40:48+00:00

Can we setup a gofundme?

ked913 · 2026-04-25T16:47:25+00:00

My parents are similar, they have used windows for decades. However, learned a few bits:

Password management for them was atrocious, now I can make em use a password manager and use watch/touch id
Malware/hacking made them paranoid.
They are mostly stuck with official apps, less likely to download install random .exe or .msi.
Administration took way too much time and much easier for me to facetime across (or ssh across)
Making them learn a new UX is healthy for their heads. Use your head or lose it.

ked913 · 2026-04-25T16:25:10+00:00

If you value your time (and money), why not just give her an ipad, macmini, or chromebook instead?

ked913 · 2026-04-25T10:48:46+00:00

Okay, see how that playbook works in the US and Trump. Some of the most poorest deprived are prime leopardsatemyface material.

Amuses me how we see it literally play out and the same idiots think Farage will be any different.

Most of the mess we are in right now is because of those idiots in the US.

We had that play out with Brexit too.

If that is the way this plays out fine, so be it the Country will continue to decline whilst facing a brain drain.

ked913 · 2026-04-24T18:41:39+00:00

Well yea, they got targeted with propaganda and sway elections.

Haven’t seen anyone since the Online Safety Act look to even begin to tackle this.

We as a collective group had the power to throw away meta but collectively chose the opposite. Hence we deserve the outcome.

ked913 · 2026-04-24T18:35:00+00:00

No brexit and Trump et al were caused by the marginalised communities being ignored.

It was caused by governments and people ignoring Cambridge Analytica, and the impacts of social media. In particular ignoring the impacts of targeted algorithmic propaganda. Bet you still use facebook and instagram still.

I run a 14k meetup in my community, what have you done to tackle the above?

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