Notices by m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)

@kaia
Ah, the golden days when "the complex problem of information gathering" required solutions more elegant than the annoying surveillance beacons we carry with us today 👴

@nyanide
It might turn black as a result and it won't count 🤔

@nyanide
O-oops, totally not my jam — physically taking the target system over would probably be easier for me than making Java thingies run on a musl system 😆

@nyanide
Stock 1.8 of what? Asking for a friend 😏

@annika
I might take some crackers, but under no circumstances I'm giving you my pet skeleton!

@sun @nyanide @eriner
Yeah, precisely! On the surface it doesn't look that bad, it even has an obligatory point about not influencing the operation of federal agencies and departments, but AFAIK DOGE was created with a similar executive order and look!
And of course I'm no expert on US government and can't tell how this might unfold, but being Russian I know all too well where this "he means well, but they prevent him from acting, he just needs more power" line of thinking might take 😏

@nyanide @eriner @sun
I won't call it a power grab per se, but it does look like a move to shift some power away from a well-established (albeit often criticised by Trump supporters) federal agency and to bring more loyal people on board. This means more relaxed checks and balances and more power to the president — those who do not support Trump are perfectly reasonable to be worried in this case IMO 🤷

@nyanide @eriner @sun
One side sees batshit insane things, the other doesn't see past the careful wording of high-profile legal experts. That executive order has nothing to do with eugenics of course, but nothing about stopping the poisoning either — it's about creating a new body with functions similar to those of the FDA, and for come reason having the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (wut? 😲) on board.

Oh, fuck this! I'm downgrading to ESR 115!
Is there a way I can have up-to-date Firefox without having to patch to option to disable WebP support back it? 🤬
I wonder if there are ESR 115 builds for Android… 🤔

@phoronix
Nothing of value was lost, my stance on Asahi Linux remains the same: https://m0xEE.Net/gemlog/posts/2024-09-05-asahi-linux-is-pointless.gmi
It's a waste of effort that'd better be used elsewhere, nowadays we have plenty of hardware that's way more open than that of Apple, and hardware based on reverse-engineering effort would always remain far from perfect.

@autolycus
Most of my hardware is also Apple hardware, you don't have to tell me what it is. Even 10 years ago this hardware was supported better than average PC hardware because it was the same commodity hardware based on Intel chipsets. And we have e.g. hardware video decoding support not because someone reverse-engineered it on their spare time, but because a qualified engineer on Intel's payroll *with access to the spec* have contributed it.
@phoronix

@autolycus
The MacBook Pro I'm typing this on has Broadcom wireless adapter that has an opensource reverse-engineered driver and a proprietary one from Broadcom and the former is not useable — it can associate with a wireless network, but it's not something I would use on a daily basis. It's a 2011 MacBook and reverse-engineered driver *NEVER* caught up, I'm speaking from experience here.
Should I explain why it would be worse in case with ARM-based Macs?
@phoronix

@autolycus
In case with these Macs there would be no Intel engineer and no driver from original hardware maker!
It would always remain a best effort implementation from someone who might abandon the project sooner or later: people burn out, people can simply change hobbies — this isn't something new, this is happening all the time. They have no obligations to support your hardware.
People should stop fooling themselves into thinking that this works.
@phoronix

@kaia
You can always have Elon Musk type of assholette who lives with an Asian woman in the Switzerland, but stands against same-sex marriages in Germany 😏

@s8n @nyanide
In favour of Galaxy Gas Z Fold? 🫠

@lain @kaia @romin
How does this even qualify? The girl has a halo over her head and ZERO horns! 😠

@kaia
The kind of wisdom you lack when you are young: NEVAR update your software!

@bonifartius
> you just don't have to follow through?
Why?
> you will likely be able to do so years later
Most married couples manage even without taking such tests early on 😅

"Not having sex" isn't something valuable in its own right, you aren't getting any bonus points for that — you're just depriving yourself (and presumably the other party too) of some fun and for a rather spurious reason 🤷

@kaia

@bonifartius
So having sex with the one you like and who presumably likes you is wrong because "sixties propaganda" and because smoking crack is wrong? That makes a lot of sense!
How does this interfere with your long term goals though?
You aren't getting sex out of the way with this, it's the opposite — you might be fueling interest solely with unfulfilled promise of sex, which might play a cruel joke with young people not good at communicating their intentions.

@kaia

@bonifartius
> you can just communicate that you don't want to have sex
Sure you can! But with this we are back to square one: if one of you genuinely wants physical intimacy and the other one doesn't, of course this isn't suitable for long term relationship, neither it is for short term — and you won't turn it into long term by sleeping in the same bed, it simply doesn't work and it's best to not get romantically involved at all, this was @kaia 's original point!