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badgersnake··on Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
The need to focus on making movies not money.
badgersnake··on AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
Yeah pkg is fine if you’re using prebuilt packages. I don’t think it builds ports with custom configs for you from /usr/ports. Or maybe it does now and I missed that too.

I much prefer sway as my desktop, but each to their own.

badgersnake··on AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
No not all. I’m only on 16 for RDNA4 support, might go back to 15 once it’s back ported, if I can be bothered.

The command I referenced is not, I guess 16 only. Other examples are the service command just appearing, etcupdate being preferred to mergemaster, whatever the current preferred flavour of port upgrade tool is (poudrire, portmaster, portupgrade, something else(?)).

I also have no idea what is a sane way to do things that Linux does as systemd user services like pipewire, xdg-sessions if I want to share my screen.

badgersnake··on AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
Long time FreeBSD user on and off, currently running 16-CURRENT on my desktop for GPU support. But fwget is a new one on me. I’m gonna try it later and see what it does for me.

FreeBSD is really hard to keep up with the changes - i don’t know of a good source to keep up with what is considered the right way to do things anymore. Anyone know a good source? Linux is much better for blogs.

badgersnake··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
If we explained how dumb this was somebody would have to resign, so we’ll just sweep it under the carpet.
badgersnake··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
All they have to do is persuade the public that all politicians are corrupt, then they can be as corrupt as they like. It’s the populist playbook the world over.
badgersnake··on Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]
Exactly
badgersnake··on Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]
I currently have firstnamelastname.name which I use. I’m thinking I need to switch after this.
badgersnake··on Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
They just don’t read past the headline and the headline usually involves paedophiles.
badgersnake··on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
They used to be. Now everything’s a website or a website inside a chrome engine pretending to not be a website and is completely hostile to UI conventions like keyboard navigation.
badgersnake··on We never use AI. For anything
The hacker news echo chamber gone literal.
badgersnake··on We never use AI. For anything
So does this one.
badgersnake··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
If I were 17, but have the money I have now he means.
badgersnake··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Don’t forget, it’s the longest land border in the world, largely remote. Feels like it would be easy to work around with minimal effort.
badgersnake··on Linux 7.2
You only come here for the AI hype blogs?
badgersnake··on Linux 7.2
I hope they fix it so both of the 8k monitor users can get their displays working soon.
badgersnake··on Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Yeah, seems way better now than it was in the 90s though. They’ve improved the ventilation a lot.
badgersnake··on The Amazon tax
38% of people also think opposing fascism is very unfavourable according to that. Assuming it's real, I'm not going to put much faith in the opinions of the American public.
badgersnake··on Incident with Github.com
TeamCity
badgersnake··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
This is not surprising. I find LLMs in general have pretty limited utility, but there a niches where they are good and one of those niches is finding little snippets of information in a way that you used to have to sift through pages and pages of google results to find.
badgersnake··on Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature
How about a guest unlock where you can lend your phone to someone to do basic web browsing or make a call, but they can’t see any of your data.
badgersnake··on Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification
It’s bonkers that 50 states all decide to make their own set of rules for this. Maybe talk to each other?
badgersnake··on Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024)
Depends how remote your destination is.
badgersnake··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
I’d prefer an article actually about cooking steak.
badgersnake··on Why some people mow a lawn better than others
Correct, mowing a lawn is not an optimal path problem. It’s a making the lawn look nice problem.
badgersnake··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
If everybody thinks you’re biased, you’re probably not biased at all.
badgersnake··on What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
Small violin for you.
badgersnake··on StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping
This argument has been made a lot on this site, mainly by people who don’t understand live music.
badgersnake··on What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
I don’t think that’s even possible.
badgersnake··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
I run ZFS on Linux and FreeBSD and FreeBSD is less of a faff. If you don’t need docker on your NAS, I would go FreeBSD as well.
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