Linux jokeyrhyme • 5 months ago • 97%

My desktop PC is the only machine in the house having Wi-Fi connectivity issues (connects fine, but drops out randomly after a few minutes or sometimes a few hours) I _think_ wpa_supplicant is getting confused and thinks signal strength is poor (I have a Netgear mesh, but this seems increasingly common, so it's weird for that to be the issue) I did pick up a TP-Link USB Wi-Fi adapter, but can reproduce the same connectivity issues The fix was switching away from wpa_supplicant in favour of iwd, which seems rock solid in comparison I'm sure there's a way to fix wpa_supplicant, but it's man pages only seem to list the options without actually describing what they do, which seems sort of poor considering how old the project is 🤷

Privacy jokeyrhyme • 1 year ago • 98%

signal.org

> We believe that the key encapsulation mechanism we have selected, CRYSTALS-Kyber, is built on solid foundations, but to be safe we do not want to simply replace our existing elliptic curve cryptography foundations with a post-quantum public key cryptosystem. Instead, we are augmenting our existing cryptosystems such that an attacker must break both systems in order to compute the keys protecting people’s communications. > > ... > > Our new protocol is already supported in the latest versions of Signal’s client applications and is in use for chats initiated after both sides of the chat are using the latest Signal software. In the coming months (after sufficient time has passed for everyone using Signal to update), we will disable X3DH for new chats and require PQXDH for all new chats. In parallel, we will roll out software updates to upgrade existing chats to this new protocol.

Rust Programming jokeyrhyme • 1 year ago • 100%

opensource.googleblog.com

> Rumor 1: Rust takes more than 6 months to learn – Debunked ! > > ... > > Rumor 2: The Rust compiler is not as fast as people would like – Confirmed ! > > ... > > Rumor 3: Unsafe code and interop are always the biggest challenges – Debunked ! > > ... > > Rumor 4: Rust has amazing compiler error messages – Confirmed ! > > ... > > Rumor 5: Rust code is high quality – Confirmed! > ...

Privacy jokeyrhyme • 1 year ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1073275 > Great explainer / FAQ > > I'll probably still use my Precursor and Yubikeys for the most part, but I'll definitely enable Passkeys wherever they are an option

Security jokeyrhyme • 1 year ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

Great explainer / FAQ I'll probably still use my Precursor and Yubikeys for the most part, but I'll definitely enable Passkeys wherever they are an option

Android jokeyrhyme • 1 year ago • 100%

blog.google

> That’s why later this summer, we're launching a refreshed Find My Device experience that makes it easier than ever to locate your devices and belongings quickly and securely by ringing compatible devices or viewing their location on a map in the app – even when they’re offline. The new Find My Device network will harness over a billion Android devices across the world to help you locate your missing belongings like headphones, tracker tags, or even your phone via Bluetooth proximity. This earlier announcement about a joint effort with Apple to work out how stop stalkers and other criminals from abusing these networks now makes a bit more sense: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-and-apple-lead-initiative-for.html

Android jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 92%

arstechnica.com

> We can take a few guesses as to why things are so big. First, Samsung is notorious for having a shoddy software division that pumps out low-quality code. The company tends to change everything in Android just for change's sake, and it's hard to imagine those changes are very good. > > ... > > Unlike the clean OSes you'd get from Google or Apple, Samsung sells space in its devices to the highest bidder via pre-installed crapware. A company like Facebook will buy a spot on Samsung's system partition, where it can get more intrusive system permissions that aren't granted to app store apps, letting it more effectively spy on users. Urgh, it's so frustrating that Samsung is the leading Android manufacturer, the market is rewarding greed and incompetence

Science jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> In fact, all the “easy” versions of supersymmetry have been ruled out, and many of the more complicated ones, too. The dearth of evidence has slaughtered so many members of the supersymmetric family that the whole idea is on very shaky ground, with physicists beginning to have conferences with titles like “Beyond Supersymmetry” and “Oh My God, I Think I Wasted My Career.”

Science jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> Archaeologists have confirmed that a papyrus scroll discovered at the Saqquara necropolis site near Cairo last year does indeed contain texts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead—the first time a complete papyrus has been found in a century, according to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt. The scroll has been dubbed the "Waziri papyrus." It is currently being translated into Arabic.

Android jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

Huh, I have mixed feeling about Google doing this Yay that Apple isn't the only game in town for this functionality But then it's this functionality in particular with all the horrible stalking that it facilitates

Late Stage Capitalism jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

www.theverge.com

Great interview and great book What's great about the proposed solutions here, is that they don't require us to teardown capitalism, we just need to make a few very practical reforms

Technology jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

www.theverge.com

Great interview and great book What's great about the proposed solutions here, is that they don't require us to teardown capitalism, we just need to make a few very practical reforms

VIM - Vi Improved jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

github.com

I switched over to the completion plugin that is part of https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim and I'm impressed with how suitable it is for my use case without any configuration Sure, it's not as extensible, but it's so set-and-forget and still gives suggestions from LSP

Late Stage Capitalism jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 87%

www.youtube.com

oof

Green - An environmentalist community jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 91%

restofworld.org

> What is happening in Indonesia is part of a recurring global pattern in countries where battery materials are abundant. Local residents in Chile, Argentina, Congo, and elsewhere complain of environmental destruction, and dangerous or exploitative working conditions. The RLS study’s authors argue that it is crucial to look at the material footprint of the EV industry against the promised decrease in carbon emissions. In the Global South, where most of the raw materials for EV batteries are sourced, “the rising demand for electric vehicles is threatening to worsen existing injustices in the extractive industry,” they wrote.  > >And while these places bear the brunt of the immediate environmental fallout, they are not set to benefit the most from the extraction and manufacturing of rare earth minerals — areas mostly dominated by Chinese businesses.

Green - An environmentalist community jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> It remains to be seen whether innovations like these can really get the concrete industry to a place where it emits no net carbon dioxide. Yet industry observers and insiders alike find plenty of room for optimism, if only because the momentum for change has built so rapidly. Remember, says Andrew, that as recently as a decade ago there seemed to be no feasible, climate-friendly alternatives to Portland cement at all. The stuff was cheap, familiar, and had a huge infrastructure already in place—hundreds of quarries, thousands of kilns, whole fleets of trucks fanning out to deliver pre-mixed concrete slurry to building sites. “So for a long time, decarbonizing cement production was in the ‘too hard’ basket,” he says. > > Yet today, says Bohan, “because of this intense attention to the climate issue, people are now going back and saying, ‘Wow, we didn’t realize all these options were available.’”

Technology jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

> Entropy is an unavoidable fact of life. "Just don't drop your laptop" is great advice, but it's easier said than done, especially when you're racing from one commitment to the next without a spare moment in between. > > Framework has designed a small, powerful, lightweight machine – it works well. But they've also designs a computer that, when you drop it, you can fix yourself. That attention to graceful failure saved my ass.

Technology jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 85%

> Over the years, the web deteriorated to the state it is in now - a highly destructive force. Much of the damage is driven by the monetization of users and every aspect of their lives. Enterprises capture our preferences, our friends, our families, the information we consume, and the information we create. They manage and maximize for their benefit our preferences, our opinions, our purchases, and our relationships. The web can poison individual opinions, freedoms, and political and social institutions. It steals from us, addicts us, and harms us in many ways.

Linux jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

> This is my report from the Netfilter Workshop 2022. The event was held on 2022-10-20/2022-10-21 in Seville, and the venue was the offices of Zevenet. We started on Thursday with Pablo Neira (head of the project) giving a short welcome / opening speech. The previous iteration of this event was in virtual fashion in 2020, two years ago. In the year 2021 we were unable to meet either in person or online. > > This year, the number of participants was just eight people, and this allowed the setup to be a bit more informal. We had kind of an un-conference style meeting, in which whoever had something prepared just went ahead and opened a topic for debate. Neat summary of topics discussed around nftables

Rust Programming jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

www.phoronix.com

> The UX team has been carefully designing widgets and applications over the last year. We are now at the point where it is critical for the engineering team to decide upon a GUI toolkit for COSMIC. After much deliberation and experimentation over the last year, the engineering team has decided to use Iced instead of GTK. > > Iced is a native Rust GUI toolkit that's made enough progress lately to become viable for use in COSMIC. Various COSMIC applets have already been written in both GTK and Iced for comparison. The latest development versions of Iced have an API that's very flexible, expressive, and intuitive compared to GTK. It feels very natural in Rust, and anyone familiar with Elm will appreciate its design. The main jumping-off point for COSMIC is this repository, I think: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch The iced crate is here: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced Other GUI tookits for Rust can be found here: https://www.areweguiyet.com/

Linux jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 97%

www.phoronix.com

> The UX team has been carefully designing widgets and applications over the last year. We are now at the point where it is critical for the engineering team to decide upon a GUI toolkit for COSMIC. After much deliberation and experimentation over the last year, the engineering team has decided to use Iced instead of GTK. > > Iced is a native Rust GUI toolkit that's made enough progress lately to become viable for use in COSMIC. Various COSMIC applets have already been written in both GTK and Iced for comparison. The latest development versions of Iced have an API that's very flexible, expressive, and intuitive compared to GTK. It feels very natural in Rust, and anyone familiar with Elm will appreciate its design. The main jumping-off point for COSMIC is this repository, I think: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch The iced crate is here: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced Other GUI tookits for Rust can be found here: https://www.areweguiyet.com/

Rust Programming jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

thenewstack.io

Not really a "sky is falling" sort of post, but it seems like there is room for further exploration and improvement of practices here

Linux jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

gitlab.com

Today's Rust and Linux project is up :) I built this plugin so that I could see NetworkManager controls in results that come back from [`pop-launcher`]( https://github.com/pop-os/launcher) I'm using [`onagre`](https://github.com/oknozor/onagre) to query/display/action those results

Rust Programming jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

gitlab.com

Today's Rust and Linux project is up :) I built this plugin so that I could see NetworkManager controls in results that come back from [`pop-launcher`]( https://github.com/pop-os/launcher) I'm using [`onagre`](https://github.com/oknozor/onagre) to query/display/action those results

Open Source jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 96%

> This is where the supply chain metaphor — and it is just that, a metaphor — breaks down. If a microchip vendor enters an agreement and fails to uphold it, the vendor’s customers have recourse. If an open source maintainer leaves a project unmaintained for whatever reason, that’s not the maintainer’s fault, and the companies that relied on their work are the ones who get to solve their problems in the future. Using the term “supply chain” here dehumanizes the labor involved in developing and maintaining software as a hobby.

Green - An environmentalist community jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

There's a lot to like here I hope efforts like this become increasingly common-place

Science jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> Imagine being a preteen or young teenager in Borneo 31,000 years ago. Your small community survives by hunting and foraging in the mountainous, cave-riddled tropical forests. And then it happens: You get an injury so severe that cutting off your leg offers the only chance of saving your life. Most likely, something has cut off circulation to your lower leg, some of the tissue is now smelly and gangrenous, and it’s spreading fast. What’s your prognosis? > >Based on Tebo 1, that situation was less dire than you might expect, although it almost certainly wasn't easy. > >For one thing, the severed leg bones show no signs of inflammation, which means that if Tebo 1 suffered any infection after the amputation, it wasn’t serious enough to reach the bone. Without antibiotics, infection is a major threat; most of the casualties in American Civil War field hospitals died of infection, not of their actual injuries. > >The fact that Tebo 1 apparently didn’t face serious infection suggests that whoever performed the amputation understood how to keep the wound, the surgical tools, and their hands clean and understood that they needed to do so (which puts 31,000-year-old hunter-gatherers ahead of European and American surgeons just a century ago). It also suggests that someone took very good care of Tebo 1 after the operation.

Green - An environmentalist community jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> Downs’ findings have already prompted legislators to act. Although just published in July, much of the research for the paper took place back in 2019. By the end of 2021, two of its authors, Kelly King and Tamara Paltin, both members of Maui County Council—and whom Downs invited to join the research project to build community engagement on the issue—had already spearheaded an ordinance banning all chemical sunscreens. Admittedly, it has never occurred to me until just now that sunscreen is pollution, huh

Green - An environmentalist community jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 96%

arstechnica.com

> Indeed, when independent researchers at Johns Hopkins University decided to get the best estimates they could by combing through the published literature, they found that in the 11 life cycle analyses they turned up, the average greenhouse gas footprint from plant-based meats was just 7 percent of beef for an equivalent amount of protein. The plant-based products were also more climate-friendly than pork or chicken — although less strikingly so, with greenhouse gas emissions just 57 percent and 37 percent, respectively, of those for the actual meats. > > Similarly, the Hopkins team found that producing plant-based meats used less water: 23 percent that of beef, 11 percent that of pork, and 24 percent that of chicken for the same amount of protein. There were big savings, too, for land, with the plant-based products using 2 percent that of beef, 18 percent that of pork, and 23 percent that of chicken for a given amount of protein. The saving of land is important because, if plant-based meats end up claiming a significant market share, the surplus land could be allowed to revert to forest or other natural vegetation; these store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and contribute to biodiversity conservation. Other studies show that plant-based milks offer similar environmental benefits over cow’s milk. ... > Soy milk, for example, requires just 7 percent as much land and 4 percent as much water as real milk, while emitting only 31 percent as much greenhouse gas. Oat milk needs 8 percent of the land and 8 percent of the water, while releasing just 29 percent as much greenhouse gas. Even almond milk often regarded as a poor choice because almond orchards guzzle so much fresh water—uses just 59 percent as much water as real milk. > > But not all plant-based milks deliver the same nutrient punch. While soy milk provides almost the same amount of protein as cow’s milk, almond milk provides only about 20 percent as much—an important consideration for some. On a per-unit-protein basis, therefore, almond milk actually generates more greenhouse gas and uses more water than cow’s milk.

Technology jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> The new type of USB4 will continue the USB-IF's questionable naming scheme that only its members and a thumbtack-and-string-covered corkboard can truly appreciate. When it's all said and done, it seems you'll be able to find USB-C ports that are USB4 Version 2.0, USB4 Version 1.0, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 3.2 Gen 1, or USB 2.0, plus some will opt for Intel Thunderbolt certification. And in the case of USB4 Version 1.0, you'll still need more information to know if the port supports the spec's max potential speed of 40Gbps. **screaming intensifies**

Technology jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

daringfireball.net

> - “The age problem”: Young people aren’t using Facebook at all and are using Instagram less, but the success of both platforms as advertising revenue bonanzas is predicated on usage by the youth demographic. > - “The innovation problem”: Facebook hasn’t invented a new hit since the blue app itself and its other successes were all acquired. > - “The metaverse problem”: They’re betting the company on AR/VR, but it remains to be seen whether that’s going to be a big thing. > - “The antitrust problem”: No summary necessary. I really hope Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg runs out of money and goes away forever

Technology jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 83%

blog.cloudflare.com

> Just as the telephone company doesn't terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things, we have concluded in consultation with politicians, policy makers, and experts that turning off security services because we think what you publish is despicable is the wrong policy. To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of cases before doesn’t mean we were right when we did. Or that we will ever do it again.

Technology jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> Japan's newly appointed Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, has declared war on the floppy disk and other forms of obsolete media, which the government still requires as a submission medium for around 1,900 types of business applications and other forms. The goal is to modernize the procedures by moving the information submission process online.

Android jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

I think the pointlessly-wiggling media progress bar is fine :) I predict that the new virtualisation framework will be used for DRM (urgh), or potentially even a remote-management "feature" (double-urgh)

Linux jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

> On the whole, I would rate the Poco F1’s bull**** level as follows: > - Initial setup: miserable > - Ongoing problems: minor

Linux Phones jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

> On the whole, I would rate the Poco F1’s bull**** level as follows: > - Initial setup: miserable > - Ongoing problems: minor

Linux jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their US visit was going, and dropped off hundreds of lines of code that could add Unicode support for AWK, the text-parsing tool he helped create for Unix at Bell Labs in 1977.

Open Source jokeyrhyme • 2 years ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their US visit was going, and dropped off hundreds of lines of code that could add Unicode support for AWK, the text-parsing tool he helped create for Unix at Bell Labs in 1977.