Notices by Oook (oook@im-in.space)

@bmacDonald94 so true.

New 165mm cranks + testing 700c wheels

#biketooter #gravel #gravelbike #cycling #bicycle

@lxo @lfa Let's be specific. Show me a documented exemple of a change being pushed forcefully in say, Debian, without a debate?

@lxo If you want to fight against that, it is in the laws. People will be naturally drawn to use tools that they feel is helping them achieve things.

Humanity has done that since the dawn of time. From inventing the wheel, building tools, using animals to pull a plough in a field, making machines, vehicles, then the very computer you are using here to troll on the fediverse. At every step it had effect on improving efficiency and subsequently making people lose job.

You can't just say CORPORATE BOOO, LLM BAAAAD and hope it will change anything.

@lxo @lfa So according to you debian is run by muppets who don't find any value in systemd and wayland but whose strings are pulled by corporate entities?

That is not really my observation. X11 has been abandoned by its own developers as a solution for the future because they know it fits usages that are long past and virtually no security model. SystemD do provide interesting features (units, timers, spawning containers) that fits current usage of Linux OS and helped reduce boot time. Wayland is improving the security model, quality and performances. There are still areas of improvements and areas where X11 works best for now (i.e. accessibility), but that doesn't mean it won't get worked out.

@lxo Your opinion and mine do not really matter.

Fact is there are people who are:
- anti LLM
- pro LLM

And a whole lot of others who are somewhere in between in the spectrum:
- sceptics
- cautiously curious
- those who don't mind as long as LLM is run locally
- those who believe in ethically trained models
- those who feel they are useful but are afraid of becoming intellectually lazy and losing skills in the process
- those that feel they can't fight it and would rather know how to leverage it to not be left behind
- a combination of all these sentiments above.

Life is not black and white and you can't paint it in a "corporate / pro LLM / BAD", "individual people / against LLM / GÖOD" there are people anywhere in these spectrum be them open source or proprietary developers or users. So there is no reason all distros would have the same politics/guidelines regarding LLMs and this is independent of corporate influence.

@lxo @lfa The fact there are debian developers paid by corporate companies such as Cannonical doesn't mean it is not run democratically. But maybe you prefer subscribing to anti corporation / communist dictatorship...there are many distros/open source projects running under benevolent dictatorship, you should be able to find something fitting for you quite easily.

@lxo @lfa That only explain those based on redhat / ubuntu based oned (I don't know many Suse derivatives).

What about Debian, Archlinux, openmandriva and those based on it?

Slackware is still going strong and gentoo still allow one to build his system without systemd.or wayland and I am glad for it but most distro builders don't mind. And they would not based their distro on Fedora or ubuntu if they did mind as they have plenty to choose from.

@lxo How is that relevant? You like it or not there are people interested in LLMs outside of big corporations. Code forge are full of LLM related hobby projects for instance. I think you are stuck in an informatiom bubble.

@lxo @lfa The most important part is :

- an overwhelming majority of distros, many that aren't financed by these "exploiter corporations" chose to use these technologies, because they have benefits.

- there is still choice, linux is just a kernel and you can build a distro around it without systemd, wayland or even the glibc.And such distros exist.

@lfa I see a pattern. One would ask why you didn't choose to use BSD system 28 year ago already!

@lfa I don't think the word enshittification apply here. Wayland and Systemd may not be your cup of tea but their goal is to improve the state of the linux OS and the distros would not include it if it really made their distro objectively worse.

Keep in mind that wayland was created *by the X11 dev*, not against them. Because they realized the tool didn't meet the demand of the current and future desktop usage and the code was deemed difficult to maintain. There are areas were we have - hopefully temporarily - lost something, like in accessibility, but a lot of users enjoy scrolling a text or moving a window without the typical screen tearing of X11 for instance.

Systemd has also been widely adopted because a number of distro maintainers and system administrators do like its features.

Anyway I like that we still have the choice. Nothing prevents you to run xorg + a traditionnal window manager + an old init system, regardless if you are using a linux or BSD kernel.

@lfa This is traight complotism. Regardless of who they are, those that sign the checks have no interest in making linux worse than it was. There is no BIG LINUX trying to inoculate poison in your veins through wayland and systemd. Just different technical choices and goals.

Some people want stability, other want evolution. Anyone place the cursor where they want but it is always a compromise.

@tk @biketooter @cycling @mastobikes imho the point of a gravel bike is not to be more/as efficient as a mountain bike off the road but to bring the feeling of a road bike while having dirt roads capabilites. I am saying this as someone who did MTB marathon events on a cyclocross bike back when gravel bikes weren't already a word.

For that reason, even if it might be slower I prefer riding a gravel bike with 650b wheels as the outer diameter feels closer to a 700c wheel with 28mm tire. The bike might not be as fast as a gravel bike with 700x 45mm tires but I don't care, especially as I am not racing any more. 650B feels more playful and lively. Count me as uninterested.

If I want better off road capabilities, I just ride my 27.5fat or 29+ mountain bike.

@tk I wonder how owners would find a replacement rim today.

@solene It is not much different than stock android except you get more fined grained control on the app you install (storage scopes, network access or not).

@nicosomb Moi ça fait seulement 2 semaines et demi.

C'est marrant j'ai eu une expérience similaire avec une infirmière d'un âge certain qui a insisté pour me couvrir suivi de transpiration horrible pendant l'intervention [1], je me suis même excusé auprès de l'autre infirmière (plus jeune) qui m'a essuyé après avant de m'aider à remettre le calbut.

[1] lié à une certaine anxiété? Comme je l'ai dit à l'urologue qui intervenait, on sent comme une sorte de réaction reptilienne qui tente de protéger cette zone (pour la survie de l'espèce?) et nous dit de ne pas nous laisser faire.

@GossiTheDog and the fault is shared with their customers who blindly set their production computers to autoupdate at the same time as their non production computers.

Any company who has sane practices would have a large enough time window between updates of test and prod machines to find out about the issue and disable it before it impacts prod.

I presume there is a major #football / #soccer competition happening right now for people yelling all over the neighborhood at thr same time?

@puniko In Switzerland right? I don't think there is a LGBTQ+ at the top of that mountain. Gay is a common last name in the southern part of Switzerland and sadly that part is not exactly known for its open minded folks.