Nice #guix #stickers for next #linuxday
https://lovergine.com/talk-at-linuxday-2026-playing-with-guix-on-foreign-distributions.html
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mastodon 4.7.3Debian Developer, GIS geek, FLOSS activist. Researcher and data scientist.
I'm universally known as Frankie, a long-time Debian Developer and FLOSS activist. I found my way into the free/open-source world in the mid-90s, thanks to my job as a researcher and the experiences after my degree in Computer Science. Currently, I'm mainly interested in geospatial technologies and methodologies in Earth Observation.
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Just discovered the website of my old mate Paolo Cavallini, who has been sailing somewhere in the Pacific for a couple of years.
It takes no time at all to go from GIS to the sea.
https://www.libresailing.eu/en/
I'm largely envious...
RE: @homegrown@social.growyourown.services
This directly results from the walled-garden approach in digital services. Escaping from that is not a right; it is a duty.
See you at LinuxDay 2026 on October 24 in Bari.
https://lovergine.com/talk-at-linuxday-2026-playing-with-guix-on-foreign-distributions.html
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@LeoBistmans @Enalys
That's the reason why I still use #Perl intensively as explained here:
https://lovergine.com/sm-tools-copernicus-foss-and-the-reasons-of-inevitable-choices-and-drifts.html
#StrangerThings is here in the real world.
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@Enalys
Unfortunately, this is also true for Python. For instance, I recently updated a Debian 11 server to 12 and fucked all Python environments and all Django webapps, as fully expected. One of the most resilient interpreted languages is simply Perl.
Ok, I love this man. I said it.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social The web has already changed, half of the traffic is bot-generated, and even content is heavily AI-authored. Handcrafted stuff is slowly becoming a minority for a minority of users.
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@frogglin Once upon a time, there was a simple and effective search engine for websites...
So, #ClimateChange does not exist. Try explaining that concept to mountain lakes... They seem not to understand and are trying to disappear anyway.
"This is what it looks like when an OEM stops treating Linux support as an afterthought and starts treating it as engineering. Not a checkbox on a spec sheet. Not a “works with Linux” footnote. Actual kernel work, actual upstream contributions, actual collaboration with the people building the tools developers use every day and helping the Linux community as a whole."
Kudos to #Dell folks and well done
https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/year-of-the-linux-laptop-omarchy-on-xps/
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@Enalys The usual approach is using a containerized approach, BUT that changes exactly nothing, because even containers need upgrades, and at a certain point in time, you are fucked in any case. After 30 years, I have become quite choosy about computing choices based on the expected life cycle... Today, I tend to deprecate the use of frameworks and warn 'ex ante' about languages that are expected to fail by design.
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@Vive_Levant@masto.bike @Emmaf_77@piaille.fr @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
Yes, in my experience, it is not a genre issue but an attitude toward giving explanations to patients, right or wrong, in any case, with or without a founded diagnosis. It seems an admission of limited/inadequate skills/information is a social stigma for medical professionals. A simple 'I have no idea, sorry' is not admitted.
Almost there, maybe one of the most important improvements in the WWW standards. QUERY for read-only HTTP calls.
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@andrea_ferrero@sociale.network
Solo io vedo una sospetta somiglianza con John Belushi? 😀
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone Unfortunately, anxiety is the typical diagnosis by doctors who have no idea about the possible causes of illness. Understandable, but not justifiably. They should simply admit their impotence, instead.
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@timbray@cosocial.ca
When the discussion is polarized by opposite personal interests, it all goes to hell. As always, probably the truth is in the middle, or at least it is the plainest solution.
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@DazeEnd
This is not the point; the point is that someone needs to sue them and defend the point in court. Like it or not, there are no prior judgments on such things today. It will require years. What is certain is that current copyright rules are limited and old.
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@mjg59
Another well-known past 'democratization' of programming has been the spreadsheet with its macro system. In the 80s, it changed how many professionals manage data.
Spreadsheets had similar results: a lot of slop, with confusion between data and computation, but even some good results when used with a grain of salt. Was that good or bad? It depends on who judges that, and it varies from case to case.
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@raymaccarthy @frogglin Ah, the glorious Digital Equipment Corp. search engine. It worked, but never evolved enough. If Digital had a different policy regarding such a side product, the history would be different.
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@a
Now I would like to see an index of software contributed by asshole people, too. I'm quite sure it would be a longer list... 😎
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@Vive_Levant@masto.bike @Emmaf_77@piaille.fr @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
Just a well-known example: fibromyalgia is one of the typical misdiagnosed syndromes, but it is not the only one. There are many illnesses out there that are very difficult to diagnose, and often the average doctor labels such illnesses as anxiety.
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@EvenRouault@mastodon.social
We should all recognize the existence and dignity of the 'good enough' code: code that works enough as is, is maintained enough, and does not need big evolutions. They often call that a dead-end code, but I disagree. It is simply good enough for its purpose, and fuck the majority.
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@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social
This is, unfortunately, also the main reason the so-called ripping off of artists' creations is pointless. If you buy a book with pictures of original creations, one can use them for training, exactly as a reader can study such portraits for their own goals, make hand copies for their own use, and so on. Like it or not, licenses and copyrights are something more specific than what it seems the idea of many people.
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@tbortels@infosec.exchange @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @kevinr@masto.free-dissociation.com Just to compare, all free libre office suites today are currently inspired to MS office, often with a very similar UX, but they are clearly separate work with their own license and MS cannot claim any rights about them. Do not confuse software with industrial artifacts and patents. Even out of US software is not patentable...
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@tbortels@infosec.exchange @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @kevinr@masto.free-dissociation.com @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz
Where is the edge between inspiration and infringement? Are today's office suites infringing MS rights? Copyright says no, patents (a totally different beast) may say yes in some countries and no in others. So pay attention to what you desire for FOSS, because it could happen in many ways, including some very destructive ones.
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@veronica Years ago, Ubuntu moved its universe repo to snapshot from Debian unstable, even for LTS. Yes, seriously. So, Ubuntu Is generally a core opinionated distro with a random playground around, basically. Be warned.
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@elithebearded @Enalys Some languages are more prone to breakage on upgrade than others, and lately, the FAFO attitude has become popular.
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@alienghic
I guess guile-websocket is mandatory for guile-goblins. I'll have a look at it.
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To complete the concept, while servers generally retain IPs often for security and/or debugging purposes, profiling is totally another beast, and very few services are able to use such information within recommending systems or other machine learning engines. One of the few is surely Google, but most of the hyperscalers can, and probably already do.
So, even the 38th attempt at a peace agreement has failed. This is not a war, it is a grotesque pièce of the theater of. absurd.
Beckett, Ionesco, or Pinter would be proud.
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@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place @tante@tldr.nettime.org
To be honest, a simple web search does not generally give better results
One has to move to another level in order to make something better. It definitely depends on tasks and the level of competence of those using such tools. It can be a good starting point, not a refined result that requires skills, labor, and judgment altogether.
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@quinta@mastodon.uno Quello che è indubitabile è che dovranno passare anni prima che si avrà una legislazione aggiornata in materia. Per il momento navigano tutti a vista e tantissimi non sanno minimamente di cosa parlano.
Even a better way to targetize users of the Big ones and possibly facilitate large groups of abusers, thanks to almost certain leaking of data. What's better to abuse kids than apparently defend them?
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@tbortels@infosec.exchange @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @kevinr@masto.free-dissociation.com Well, yes but no. The point about spec is the level of detailing taken from the original work. If you write an original novel about a wild, big monkey found in a jungle, brought to New York, who escapes and so on, the King Kong author cannot claim any rights to that, sorry. If it were different, many narratives and movies would not exist today. That is inspiration, not derivation. Of course it is fair declaring inspiration, but call it with the right name.
In Azzorre la benzina costa più o meno quanto in Puglia. Maremma maiala, in mezzo all'oceano Atlantico, su un'isola, in the middle of nowhere. 😠
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@starlily@mastodon.social I'm not a DHH's supporter for sure, but having a new laptop decently supported by current Linux kernel is something rare and an important signal for the community.
The latest Debian #kernel update fixed 1312 #security-related issues, including information leaks. It seems to me that this number is due only to applying (at cost) AI tool detection, and if the same were applied to any other OS, the result would be the same.
How many tons of still-unknown issues are spread across BSD, macOS, and Windows kernels?
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00441.html
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@acallegaro@mas.to I mainly use planet aggregators when available, I strongly prefer them to RSS readers. E.g.
https://planet.debian.org/
https://planet.guix.gnu.org/
#rss#atom #aggregator
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@jake This does not seem to be a problem of AI slop, but of the stupidity of the involved dev. As I said in another thread, AI tools are often augmentations, but when the dominant aspect is stupidity, that's an augmentation at an intractable level.
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@hongminhee @mitsuhiko @antirez
I would also note that, currently, the extension of copyright protection to AI-generated works remains an open question, and the US side of the common law does not consider them even copyrightable without a significative human contribution (no, prompts do not count). So, every shot to the copyleft has its consequences I would say. The whole matter is quite complicated and questionable.
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@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social
The truth is that copyright and licenses cannot be used to avoid abuses per se. They need to be defended in court, and I'm quite sure copyright laws will change, but you know that such laws vary from country to country, so the problem was there before and will be there in the future as well. In the past, changes in law always followed changes in technology. I see no signs of something better for the future.
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@hongminhee @mitsuhiko @antirez
It is technically legal, but note that it took ages to create a legal framework fully accepted for a lot of products of creativity that were fully accepted by all parties. And still there were corners in the rights not fully understood.
Even, note that the white room reimplementation has been only a technical trick to enforce the safety of a reimplementation, not a strict legal requirement.
For the future, who knows?
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@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social
All that just to say that licenses probably should be reconsidered for modern times, because they are quite inadequate for some people's vision. If you have concerns about the use of such personal creations, let me say clearly: put them in your drawer.
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@nyalld@mastodon.social I wonder why some people join such an unsustainable vibe coding approach with conviction. Any dev with even minimal experience should be aware of the stupidity of not reviewing and being fully responsible for any change proposal to a third-party codebase. With or without AI tooling. Yes, AI is an augmentation tool... of stupidity. apparently quite often.
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@stefano
I would say that, regarding UI, the golden rule is the dominance of idiocracy. If anything appears too advanced for the dumb average user, it is inescapably removed. In a few times, someone will propose to remove any terminal, because the CLI is too advanced for the dumb ass user.