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How young can you be when you irrevocably mess up your life? and How?

Just a thought I had, like what can a ten year old do(besides mass murder & accidents) that messes up their life so badly that it is unrecoverable?

It has to be something that is self inflicted and not something that is the cause of others around them.

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Did the recent Linux drama change your views on how you perceived Open Source projects?
  • but then the project loses momentum, the userbase fragments, opensource projects are fragile as they are mostly volunteer work; I guess the discussion of government threat and overreach towards opensource projects is mostly discussed in the context of cryptocurrencies and other 'disruptive' software

  • Did the recent Linux drama change your views on how you perceived Open Source projects?

    I for one am going through quite a culture shock. I always assumed the nature of FOSS software made it immune to be confined within the policies of nations; I guess if one day the government of USA starts to think that its a security concers for china to use and contribute to core opensource software created by its citizens or based in their boundaries, they might strongarm FOSS communities and projects to make their software exclude them in someway or worse declare GPL software a threat to national security.

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    Found this function in my bashrc under user defined aliases; I dont remember adding it?

    I don't know bash scripting if [ -d ~/.bashrc.d ]; then for rc in ~/.bashrc.d/*; do if [ -f "$rc" ]; then . "$rc" fi done I asked chatgpt and it said this is non standard? There is no bashrc.d directory on my home folder, I have uncommented the lines for now but dont know if this is benign or malignant

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    the popup comes back even after i tell it not to?(android)
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    https://imgur.com/a/U4u0JA2 Admittedly it is just one site, but it feels suspicious because its asking for permission from port 443?

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    Is TOR compromised?
  • I didn't deny it; its akin to a first year med student reading about all the subtle little ways that the body hints something is majorly wrong and noticing symptoms exhibit in them, I guess i am just not jaded enough to accept that online anons can just send a swat team to my house if i comment on the local weather online.

  • Is TOR compromised?

    All the recent dark net arrests seem to be pretty vague on how the big bad was caught (except the IM admin's silly opsec errors) In the article they say he clicked on a honeypot link, but how was his ip or any other identifier identified, why didnt tor protect him.

    Obviously this guy in question was a pedophile and an active danger, but recently in my country a state passed a law that can get you arrested if you post anything the government doesnt like, so these tools are important and need to be bulletproof.

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    Help with Custom EDID

    Edit: Solved, while changing EDID make sure to remove the old module first and reinstall it with the new EDID

    I have a faulty DP to HDMI adapter, that unfortunately never seems to parse the EDID data, so while connecting to a TV I used this guide and a 1920x1080.bin file from the internet and it worked, but unfortunately I was unable to use the TV speakers(I guessed the EDID file didn't specify that the device had audio out)

    Using a separate pc I extracted my TVs EDID.bin file and repeated the steps but unfortunately, it just doesn't work, its stuck on the old 1920x1080.bin(I can tell because it shows up as 'Linux Foundation 23'') The issue persists even after I delete the old .bin file from /usr/lib/firmware/edid

    I am using wayland

    System info:

    OS: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Editi Host: TECRA R940 PT439V-03U02WAR Kernel: 6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 Uptime: 29 mins Packages: 2209 (rpm), 32 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.2.26 Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: GNOME 46.2 WM: Mutter WM Theme: Adwaita Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] Terminal: gnome-terminal CPU: Intel i7-3540M (4) @ 3.700GHz GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/765 Memory: 1998MiB / 7879MiB Dmesg -H

    ``` [Jun20 22:26] Linux version 6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 (mockbuild@f09cc32e12c24ed6a1a66c2a2e9f1728) (gcc (GCC) 14.1.1 20240522 (Red Hat 14.1.1-4), GNU ld version 2.41-37.fc40) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 27 14:53:33 UTC 2024 [ +0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 root=UUID=XXXXX ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet drm.edid_firmware=DP-2:edid/sony.bin

    ```

    Any help is appreciated

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    Is it worth buying the Mac keyboard for a dedicated Linux PC instead of the windows one?

    What is your personal preference based on experience? I Assume because Mac is Unix and Linux is Unix based, it would be more suited, but I have no personal experience with the layout. I am willing to try something new if i hear enough merits for it, and I also find the windows layout somewhat inadequate(The grass is greener on the other side /s)

    I dailydrive Gnome, I am not a programmer, but i am a power user

    (On a tangent: Why is gnome so restrictive, it feels like its missing a ton of UI features that are trivial without a boatload of 3rd party extensions that break every update; why doesn't Win+Shift+number launch a new instance, every other DE does, why doesn't it?; I don't use KDE because I just don't like it, I feel Gnome could be way more if it just natively integrated the extensions ).

    aesthetically the windows key annoys me and i hate putting stickers on keyboards; I like how the mac layout looks(My very minimal experience with an in store mac-book has cautioned me away from the fisher-price OS so i don't know if it is intuitive to use)

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    Passive OCR and other 'AI' tools on the Linux desktop

    With modern CPU's supposedly shipping with 'AI cores': How long do you think it will take for a proper opensource, privacy respecting productivity tools(Something like whatever M$ copilot is supposed to be?) to be available?

    Personally, i would love to see something like 'Passive' OCR integrated with the display server: the ability to pause any video and just select whatever text(even handwritten) there is naturally like it was a text document without any additional hassle will be really useful Also useful in circumventing any blocks certain websites put on articles to prevent text from being copied

    Or an AI grammar checker running natively for LibreOffice.

    What are some AI tools you think should be developed for desktop Linux?

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    Why is SYSRQ Disabled on most consumer distributions?

    I use fedora on a 11ish year old laptop(It had decent specs for its time).

    recently i encountered an issue while playing a 11 hour webm video(celluloid flatpak) i had downloaded off youtube,

    the screen froze, I could still hear the video sound playing, but the system wasn't responding to any keyboard presses(Wouldnt switch over to TTY2-4),

    I had heard about REISUB and tried it, but it obviously didnt work, after about 2:30 mins the system unfroze and i was shuffled Across numerous TTY's and the video closed as i had invoked CLTRL+Q

    I am not here for a resolution to my problem The issue is reproducible by loading numerous instances of videos whose combined watch time Exceeds about 7-8 hours

    I am more curious as to why SYSRQ is disabled and are there any consequences in enabling it(Security Wise)?

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    Possible virus?(Firefox)

    I opened firefox After about an hour of the system being in standby and in theSponsored Links row there were 2 new entries

    http:/ /bom07s30-in-x03. 1e100. net/ (I dismantled the URLs to prevent accidental clicks)

    pnbomb-ac-in-x0e.1e100

    I right clicked and searched in Google and it showed up as this

    pnbomb-ac-in-x0e.1e100 Sponsored it disappeared after a while, just to be sure I ran sudo lsof -i and noticed firefox was connected to this url

    maa05s15-in-x03.1e100.net

    I am not sure if am infected or this is just a glitch(I obviously didn't click on the links)

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    Can this be replicated with opensource software?[p2p file transfer over thunderbolt, and extremely low latency Video and game streaming (no encoding)]

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10454803

    > Further if this technology is open-sourced; can it be extended for use cases beyond that(Dual Motherboards sharing Compute power with low latency for working on a single process?); I know such solutions probably exist for servers and enterprises but i am talking about amateurs who don't have 10K lying around for specialty hardware: If possible this seems like a low cost solution to mess around with

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    Can this be replicated with opensource software?[p2p file transfer over thunderbolt, and extremely low latency Video and game streaming (no encoding)]

    Further if this technology is open-sourced; can it be extended for use cases beyond that(Dual Motherboards sharing Compute power with low latency for working on a single process?); I know such solutions probably exist for servers and enterprises but i am talking about amateurs who don't have 10K lying around for specialty hardware: If possible this seems like a low cost solution to mess around with

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    The production quality has increased dramatically but they are algorithmically being punished!

    The best LTT video i have seen in a while; It has everything

    • New and emerging experimental tech
    • Showing off progress in opensource standards
    • Nice Eli5 on what this is, why is it important, who are the stakeholders and what this means for the future
    • Linux
    • classic ltt humor and jank(they got euro truck simulator working on RISC-V running linux FFS)
    • all nicely polished and presented.

    Unfortunately by the time it took to get this video out the algorithm had already penalized them for missing their regular upload schedule as evidenced by such a low view count;

    its a shame i really like their content(especially the newer videos which have a good coat of polish)

    but it seems like they will either have to go back to their rapid upload schedule or come up with a new format that is commercially profitable and critically satisfactory.

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