ruination 7 months ago • 100%
Does "pay for privacy" mean "pay to not be tracked on Facebook and Instagram" or "pay to not be tracked on the whole internet"? I can somewhat see a reasoning for the former, but the latter is absolutely inexcusable: Meta doesn't own the internet, and it never should be allowed to.
ruination 8 months ago • 100%
Also, I'm pretty sure the argument is more about the unequal enforcement of the law. Copyright should be either enforced fairly or not at all. If AI is allowed to scrape content and regurgitate it, piracy should also be legal.
ruination 8 months ago • 100%
That's one thing, but I think regurgitating it and claiming it as your own is a completely different thing.
ruination 8 months ago • 100%
Even with XWayland?
ruination 8 months ago • 100%
Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?
How do you go about setting up XMonad with XMobar on Void? Installing it via XBPS results in errors about not being able to find the module 'XMonad', and using Cabal fixes that, but leads to XMobar not being able to find my font and uses a pixelated font instead.
ruination 9 months ago • 0%
This sounds egregious. I don't really have any knowledge on the subject, but to play the devil's advocate, could it be possible that the train was bricked because while it can technically still run, it might have some things broken that could lead to hazardous consequences? Again, I have no knowledge on this, I would love if someone who knows more about trains could shed light on this.
I've been thinking of moving my personal bookkeeping to Emacs, and I found out about Beancount, which seems perfect for me. I was wondering, though, if I could (and should) use it with Org-mode and noweb like the ledger tutorial in Worg. If so, what does such a workflow look like? Can I also use capture templates to quickly record transactions?
ruination 10 months ago • 100%
Ah, so effectively the standard installation. Alright, thanks!
I've seen people use nix-doom-emacs, have it set up standalone, and some have fancy Nix code that's way beyond my understanding for now to set it up. Which one is the recommended way to set it up? Also, how do you get completions in nix-mode?
ruination 10 months ago • 100%
My general approach to this tends to be to identify what makes me happy in life, splurge on those, save on everything else. For example, I love computers, so I'd splurge on parts, but religiously meal prep to save on food.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
Install cameras in their bedroom that streams to YouTube or Twitch 24/7. See if they really have nothing to hide.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
It doesn't make sense too, like it's bad enough even if just one died.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
Say it louder for the people at the back: adblock is a basic cybersecurity measurs
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn't seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
Same. I'd rather they not exist, but if they must, better that it isn't under big tech's grubby palms.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
Technically true, but in practice, it's very vulnerable to conglomeration of power by a few. Social media, for one: it's not exactly a matter of quality to get users to use your platform. Beyond a certain threshold of minimum quality, people use and stay on a certain platform because the people they know are on it, such that it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Other than that, Google have such a ludicrous market share of web advertising (which unfortunately remains the primary method of monetising the web) that it's very difficult to not use Google's advertising, giving them immense power to surveil and monitor people. Google Chrome, which remains the most popular browser for reasons that elude me, has so much sway over the internet that it had the courage to even propose the idea of WEI. The infrastructure on which the entite internet runs are controlled by just a handful of massive ISPs, yet another centralisation of power.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
I'd imagine if, say Signal, refuses to comply and gets banned from the EU, one could always use a VPN. I think that nothing short of either a full global ban or implementing a version of The Great Wall of China would allow these ridiculous laws to be enforced. Even then, there will always be ways around it for those willing to go the extra mile.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
Honestly, they could at least wait and see what happens in the UK before proposing something similar. They literally have a free guinea pig next door.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
It's such a shame though, since as far as I know, the EU have had such an amazing track record. I'd expect no less from big tech, but not the EU.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
I wish people who proposes laws and regulations that violates human rights with provable intent to do just that would be fined or imprisoned.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
Even more reason for me to never get a car!
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
Are adblockers even illegal? I didn't think it was.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.
ruination 11 months ago • 100%
I tend to think of it this way, personally: stealing is wrong, but it's more acceptable to steal when you're poor than when you're rich. Both sides are committing attrocities, but one does so to opress while the other to liberate themselves from opression. I will acknowledge that my understanding of the conflict is very limited though, so this might be oversimplified or outright incorrect.
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
Don't forget about malvertising, that's probably a more imminent danger. If Google and other ad companies don't give enough of a shit about user to actually filter out malware ads, why should I give enough of a shit about their revenue to not use uBO?
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
Time to poison their data, I guess.
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
Ah, that's understandable. My native tongue doesn't really have gendered pronouns so they/them feels right at home for me (though ironically, the people in my country are mostly conservative and bigoted and wouldn't accept nonbinary)
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
I keep it simple and default to they/them unless they mention some specific preference. Doesn't matter if they appear to be very traditionally masculine or feminine, or anything in between.
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
I agree, but I don't think the studies themselves are to blame though, they're simply reporting the facts. OP just simply misinterpreted it, knowingly or otherwise. The studies back up the point that 'vaccine injuries exist' which I don't think anyone is arguing against. The important point is rather that 'Covid is significantly worse than any vaccine injury, and our system can take care of the latter but not the former'.
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
Thanks! I'll be copypasting all of these to my notes haha
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
I don't think the point is that it's not a threat. I think it's more like if you set fire to a house before robbing the neighbouring house, if that makes sense. It's not that the house on fire isn't important, but more so that it was meant to distract everyone.
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
I only did a quick skim through the abstracts so I might miss some important details, but from what I can tell, they're all rare/one-off events. Sure, they exist, but the rate at which these vaccine injuries exist is eclipsed by that of Covid itself; there's a reason why the hospitals were overloaded by Covid and not vaccine injuries. The point is not that the vaccine is 100% safe, it's that the downsides of Covid far outweigh that of the vaccine (not to mention that, at least from what I understand, vaccine injuries are not contagious, unlike Covid, and hence you are protecting others who are immunocompromised). Tl:dr is that unlike what you see with the overloading of hospitals during covid, they have no problem handling a couple of vaccine injuries here and there.
ruination 12 months ago • 100%
Is GrapheneOS affected?
ruination 1 year ago • 100%
I should start marketing cyanide as a painkiller too, goddamn.
ruination 1 year ago • 100%
What a coincidence, I'm trying to learn SELinux too! Any tips?
ruination 1 year ago • 100%
Wayland have worked flawlessly for me, but I do understand that I have a very simple use case, so ymmv.
ruination 1 year ago • 100%
Fair enough, I was being too idealistic. I just wish we can have them see reason instead, but if we can't, making them shut up and not spread their idiocy would perhaps make for the next best thing.
ruination 1 year ago • 100%
Really fasttracked my Linux learning experience too. If you're starting out Linux and are predisposed to masochism like I am, using Gentoo as your first distro really catalysed my understanding of Linux (at the cost of a week's worth of crying and self-loathing lmao).
ruination 1 year ago • 100%
That is very much a plausible argument, but I did start out by drinking tea instead of coffee when I was younger because my parents fearmongered me about coffee. Stayed a morning person throughout.
ruination 1 year ago • 100%
I drink black coffee and am a morning person
ruination 1 year ago • 100%
A Tater Tot is a mindless follower of some very punchable asshole called Andrew Tate. Also in regards to your second point, while that is true, they will and already do have that stupid stereotype ingrained in their racist minds anyways. Might as well take advantage of it.
I've been hopping around Gentoo and Void the past few days with musl on both, and I'll be going back to NixOS in a bit due to not having enough time to set up either of them. I've realised how little RAM either systems use on musl, though, and I was wondering if there is any chance of replacing glibc with musl on NixOS?
Posted something similar on the NixOS sublemmy, but it basically boils down to the fact that I tend to switch back and forth between both distros, and I enjoy both very much as both Gentoo and NixOS provide an immense degree of control over my system and allow me to go wild and do whatever I want. But I feel the need to settle on one system and tinker with the other on a VM instead, as this switching back and forth is becoming a time sink and hindering my studies somewhat. The question is, which to use as the main desktop system? Gentoo feels more intuitive to me, but NixOS is definitely powerful at managing complex systems, but then again, I only have a simple desktop system. Another thing that I thought of is that maybe I can somewhat replicate NixOS' rollback feature, which is my absolute favourite feature of it, using a combination of Git and ZFS snapshots? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
This is more of a personal dilemma, since I keep finding myself switching back and forth between NixOS and Gentoo every now and then. I've done this twice for each so far ever since I immediately started off my Linux journey with Gentoo, making a quick stop at Arch once when I didn't have enough time to set either of them up properly. Both of them provides a massive amount of control over my system and lets me build my system in weird and interesting ways, e.g. musl, clang, and/or SELinux for Gentoo and impermanence for NixOS (it still kind of blows my mind right now). Personally, I find Gentoo more intuitive, but NixOS is more powerful for managing complex systems, but then again, I don't have any complex systems to manage, only a singular desktop system. I'd love to keep switching back and forth, but I feel like it has become sort of a time sink for me, somewhat hindering my studies, and thus I feel the need to decide which one to settle on, and which one to keep in a VM to mess around with. That brings me to the title of the post, which do you think is better for a simple desktop system? Also, I don't know how viable dual booting is, given that I manage my dotfiles almost entirely with home-manager, and I like to have secure boot.
I was looking at ryan4yin's new NixOS book and stumbled upon [nixpak](https://github.com/nixpak/nixpak), a neat project that , as far as I understand, acts like a sandbox for Nix packages, similar to Flatpak. I've been wanting to try using it for myself, but haven't found any dotfiles I could ~~steal from~~ use as a references. If anyone uses this, I'd love to hear how, and what your experiences are with it.
I've heard that you should be using the appropriate stage3 archive for the profile you want to use, but what exactly are the differences between them? I'm asking this because I want to try doing a Hardened/SELinux/Musl/LLVM install, and there's a profile for that, but not the stage3 archive. I was thinking of starting with either Hardened/Musl or LLVM/Musl. Any thoughts on that?
I don't quite understand how to set up AppArmor on NixOS, and I can't seem to find anyone's dotfiles which has AppArmor configurations. Is AppArmor support not a thing on NixOS, or is it just configured the regular way and not declaratively?
I've seen a lot more people start to use Lanzaboote for secure boot recently, and I want to try it myself. However, I have a ZFS fiesystem, and I've heard that you can't do secure boot on ZFS, and the ZFS wiki itself says that you need to disable secure boot or the ZFS kernel module won't load. I'm planning on moving my root to tmpfs for impermanence tomorrow anyways, but my home will still be on ZFS. I'm not too knowledgeable in these areas, but I can't see why I can't just sign the ZFS kernel module. Anyone has secure boot on ZFS? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
What RSS feed readers do you use? I've been trying out several of them, namely Newsflash, GNOME Feeds, and Newsboat. All of these fits my use case, but each with their own minor but unique issues. Newsflash has the best feature set of them from what I've seen, but it doesn't seem to follow my GTK theme, and I don't really know why (kind of new to Linux).GNOME Feeds do follow the GTK theme except for the reader panel itself which retains its own colour theme for some reason. Newsboat is otherwise perfect but doesn't seem to support images, which I guess is to be expected from a command-line program. I'm sticking with Newsboat for now, but I'm looking for suggestions for what else I could try.
I've been reading some articles regarding impermanence in NixOS, particularly [this](https://xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-2021-07-18), [this](https://guekka.github.io/nixos-server-1/), [this](https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/), and [this](https://elis.nu/blog/2020/05/nixos-tmpfs-as-root/), and I want to set up impermanence on my desktop system. Since it involves deleting my entire root, however, I figured I'd ask for advice here to learn what the best practices are for doing this to minimise risk of data loss, though it isn't too critical since it's a new setup. For reference, I have a Flake + home-manager setup on ZFS root, though I didn't think to do a snapshot when the disk was empty since I didn't know about impermanence when I started out. I also have separate ZFS datasets for /, /home, /nix, /var, and /var/lib. I want to set up impermanence for both root and home, with some persistent directories on home, but I'm not sure if I should set it up on both at once or if I should do root first and then home. Any advice or help is appreciated!
Anyone here uses Org-mode for PKM? I'm planning on moving to it from Obsidian, primarily due to Org-babel and the fact that it's open source, and would like to know what your setups and workflows are like with it (plus points if you're a student because I am too)