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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 18:28:17 JST 
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@dcc @dj @ryan @djsumdog @Suiseiseki @p @ins0mniak @verita84_automata @lanodan Honestly it's a really good deal if you live in a cold climate. Heats up a room in mere minutes. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 09:33:33 JST
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@Silefigs @ins0mniak @dj @ryan @p @lanodan
>The subject of the lawsuit are six antisemitic and illegal comments that X had initially not deleted even though they had been reported.
Typical EU DSA witch hunt. Big social media companies have to take down content reported by law enforcemeent and "independent fact checkers" in 24 hours, or they face hefty fines for not complying. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 08:25:55 JST
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@fluffy @p
>distros
I view distros as tools that get me somewhere where I want and I rate them based on how much they get in my way and how many things they patched from upstream with zero added value. Redhat has stupidly small repos, installing ffmpeg requires enabling multiple repos for "patent" reasons and paranoid SELinux, but at the same time Debian changes default config locations and behavior for zero benefit, created the multiarch hell and ships non-standard scripts to fix the problems they themselves created with their "features".
>laptops
I have a work 16" Macbook Pro and it's "fine". The software drives me crazy sometimes and the hardware looks nice and makes the impression that it's sturdy, but in the end it's made for the Starbucks cofe crowd. We are at the point where all business class laptops are good enough (consumer ones are complete garbage) and the thing that drove me to a Macbook was the battery life and that was basically it. However I wouldn't buy one as a personal laptop. I had a work ChinkPad X1 before this and the battery life was awful. Not to mention Leninovo's awful management and config software.
Overall modern laptops sucks. Including the "repairable" Framework.
>but @fluffy why don't you just hackintosh it
You won't have support for non Apple ARM architectures in a few years, so it's waste of time. It always was a novelty thing and a fun project with minimal actual work potential. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 06:34:56 JST
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Using ancient software versions chads keep winning.
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 06:07:21 JST
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@RustyCrab @Linux_Is_Best He works for Meta and shills Vivaldi. Do you really think he cares about Linux? -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 06:02:37 JST
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@silverpill @sendpaws @tadano
>Hiding users and posts is a good idea, I'll add that to my list
Please make remote and local posts a separate config option as blocking access to local posts effectively breaks federation in one way. Other instances can't then fetch the remote object unless it was pushed directly to them. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 06:01:44 JST
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@Linux_Is_Best @icedquinn Imagine how desperate you must be, when you like your own post. Twice.
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:41:43 JST
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@lina Likely correect...
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:38:13 JST
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That will teach the chuds
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 00:50:33 JST
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@mint @sun I have a hard time trusting :francisco: after the whole BuyVM buyout with almost zero transparency. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 23:00:27 JST
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@WhitestTemplar @LukeAlmighty ...while we try to synergize. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 22:59:14 JST
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@SuperDicq @theorytoe You would be surprised how many modern zoomie developers work. Chrome is their OS and the flawed GUI around git in VSCode is what they think "git" is. Bonus points if they use Github Desktop for downloading and managing repos. If you don't work in a sweatshop full of these people, that's very good news for you. But considering you work with PHP, I don't think that you will see this mainly JS webdev brainrot for a few more years.
However this is the sad reality of many "programmers" with CS uni degrees. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 22:25:29 JST
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@sun Namecheap and Porkbun if you don't mind Porkbun's TOS ambiguity at times. Certainly don't even try using Epik. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 21:57:50 JST
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@p @dj @ryan @Suiseiseki @ins0mniak @lanodan
>I don't think they make GNUboot for ARM SOCs/SOMs.
ARM booting is such a mess that it's very likely not worth the effort. Every SOC manufacturer does their own thing without publicly publishing the specs for it. For example even the reset scheme and vector are implementation specific. At least when you get out of hardware bootstrap, things are somewhat normal, but at that point it's already the bootloader's job to boot the system, the firmware has mostly done it's thing.
And from what I know about RISC V, they haven't learned from this. -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 21:29:03 JST
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@Suiseiseki @dj @ryan @p @ins0mniak @lanodan
>installing GNUBoot
Then you are left with a CPU vulnerable to almost all sidechannel attacks which are a bigger threat than an IME backdoor. Literally the only way to not be vulnerable to known vulns and backdoors is to make the CPU yourself from public die designs. Only then you can be sure that nobody played with it. Or use TTL hardware from the 70's. It's too much cost for barely any benefit. Modern hardware for the past several decades is untrusted by default and nothing can make it trusted.
And before you go, I don't run untrusted code on my computers and block JS. What happens when there's a JS block bypass for your browser? GNUBoot won't save you from an exploitable CPU. But a browser with JS not even implemented might (links/lynx/...) -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 18:10:14 JST
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@p @dj @dcc @ryan @ins0mniak @lanodan
>They make it hard to actually compute and we'll be back to that shit again.
You will use your webapps and you will be happy.
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 18:06:54 JST
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@dcc @dj @ryan @p @ins0mniak @lanodan
btw one of the reasons MS wants you to have TPM is because they by default enable a dumbed down version of BitLocker when you create an online account when setting up Windows. That's also why it's barely possible to create a local account on W11.
In typical MS fashion, it's just security snake oil as most of the physical TPMs in consumer and even business oriented computers don't use encryption on the bus and thus can be trivially sniffed. It's one of those scenarios where even a firmware TPM is safer, because you can't easily sniff data happening inside the CPU.
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 18:06:15 JST
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@ins0mniak @dj @ryan @p @lanodan
>Clinton wanted to put a freaking spy chip in everyone's computer.
If they at least weren't so boring about it. pic related
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 15:26:24 JST
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@p @fluffy
>looks like every laptop can now ship with RHEL??
Very likely only a subscription loicense. I don't think they even have perpertual licenses now.
>I hate Ubuntu and I think probably it's better to stick with Ubuntu than RedHELL.
If it weren't for my never ending hate for Debian and the junk Canonical put on top of it, I would agree. It sucks as a desktop OS (GNOME-only). And every fucking utility that makes RHEL sysadmin-friendly is a pile of slow python. Package manager frontend. Python. iptables frontend. Python. SELinux utilities. Coded in Molasses (probably Python). -
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Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 05:35:42 JST
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@ins0mniak @dj @ryan @p @lanodan Remember, memes are harmful.
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