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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076048
>When vibecoders meet sane package management standards
As a daily Gentoo user, this kind of situation can only get worse with time
Nearly all rust projects already ship thousand of (sometimes in-tree) pinned dependencies, all lto'd into a big static blob for "reasons"
Even Debian has mostly given up, package management is a dying art


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The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news here

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>>34547
if there is a spec, then implementation is trivial. And there is a spec of PSD files, because you know, if you want other programs to use your file format (make it "standard"), then spec is necessary.

Said spec: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/

>>34552
in theory it should do "clean room" implementation, where one LLM writes a spec based on data publicitly available (no no decomp), while other LLM implements a program based on that spec. Since the spec writing is most likely incremental and the guy behind it claims to have an actual experience, the code review is partially manual. This also why the suite doesn't have all of the features of ps as >>34553 points out.
It also steals a shitload from FOSS projects but not directly.

>>34557
Even GIMP can open PSD files, what exactly is novel here?

>>34559
the only novel thing is that it's aping all the UI across all the adobe creative suite, which is presumably what is locking people to that specific provider - switching to photocraft should have no learning curve in theory. there was a gimp branch that used photoshop's UI, but afaik there was nothing for illustrator, premiere and after effects as well.

>>34559
Nothing, that is precisely the point. Making a program PSD-compatible is not a big deal.


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One person controls the single global signing key.

Every update pushed to 400000 devices is signed by Daniel Micay. He already proved in 2018 he will destroy signing keys and brick thousands of users devices on purpose when he feels wronged. That same key can push any code, silently, automatically, to any phone, at any time. verified boot guarantees the device will accept it.

You would have no way to know what was added
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If you want to understand why certain products are constantly shilled in the "privacy community," you need to know Grapheneos' financial ties. The principle is quite simple: everyone listens to what Grapheneos has to say; Grapheneos is the ultimate authority in the privacy community. If Grapheneos says, "Mullvad is the best VPN," then this wisdom is regurgitated by everyone, whether on Reddit, X, 4chan, YouTube, etc. But why does Grapheneos recommend certain products/companies? Because they are sponsored by certain companies, meaning they are financially dependent on them.

>>34376
>anon discovers marketing

>>34363
Mullvad corporation got a chuckle out of me, the creators look more like your average tech schizo (including being right-wingers, so ultimately supporters and pawns of their own enemies) than like fat cat capitalists.

there is no better alternative

This thread seems to have uncovered nothing substantial to me.
The fact that you need an entity to harden etc. isn't full-proof.
This is just about the only argument that I can think of.
Some people need apps, and some people aren't techies.
e.g. maybe your community uses a secure messenger that's mobile only.
Installing GrapheneOS may really be the best option.


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(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.
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>Sudo apt upgrade on kubuntu system
<kde all broken

ubuntu is by far and large the fucking worst distro I ever had to touch, they deserve to go bankrupt

>>34418
Fixed, guilty party was chromium, removed it and everything works again https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565132857

Am I wrong in wondering how the fuck a glaring bug like this gets pushed through? How did they not notice this? Is this because they just don't even bother anymore with snap?

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Learned zswap and cgroups with memory caps can make even 4G "usable". You make a cgroup, can contain both torbrowser and firefox, then OOM killer just kicks in and crashes select tabs once you've exceeded your threshold e.g. max 2560M swap.max 0 restoring balance. Sounds bad, and it sort of is, but it's better than the machine freezing or slowing down, even with this NVME.

An old tutorial is available here, have to change a bunch of stuff to get it to work with cgroup v2:
https://gist.github.com/hrishikeshrt/dab05d42fc60144909cdbde2cc3f4d2c

/etc/cgroup/cgconfig.conf
```
group browsers {
perm {
task {
uid = jugaad;
gid = jugaad;
}
admin {
uid = jugaad;
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>>34518
>OOM killer just kicks in and crashes select tabs
Reducing the number of processes firefox spawns will further reduce its total memory and cpu time. You would only need to turn off overcommitment, so jemalloc can deliver a proper out of memory condition. You could also tune the memory limits in about:config or experiment with LD_PRELOADing mimalloc and tcmalloc.

>>34523
>memory.swap.max = "0G";
This was causing freezing and crashing…
Guess I'll just have to tolerate a slow browser for now…
At least the window manager still works.

>turn off overcommitment
Done


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https://omarchy.org/patrons/

give me your take on omarchy. whats the deal? why are corpos funding it? why are the same people who finance grapheneos are also funding a fascist linux distro? what is this?
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https://stopomarchy.org/

Reads like detournment in reverse.
A co-opting by a segment of the rich as a sign of their future.
A guess: it's super-profits over (skilled) labor.
Still wonder where they plan to put them?
Just pulling from what's in the milieu currently:
Could it be they make room at the bottom.
Blame a necessity of competition.
Hoist it on the young hoping they know no better.

>>34527
what?

>>34527
"Recuperation" is term you are thinking of.

>>34528
lol. I write sort of small. Let me try again.

>>34527
>A co-opting by a segment of the rich as a sign of their future.
<A co-opting of commons and turning them into a symbol (or more) of what they want.
>A guess: it's super-profits over (skilled) labor.
<The motive of capitalist automation. AI being a prime example.
>Still wonder where they plan to put them?
<Wonder what they plan to do with the leftover skilled labor - they will need new work.
>Could it be they make room at the bottom.
<Just deport a couple million people leftovers into the new/old jobs.
>Blame a necessity of competition.
<Make it a political necessity in order to remain competitive in markets.
>Hoist it on the young hoping they know no better.
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>>34527
>>34530
Actually on the question, guess all I meant was it's a symbol of this sort of future.
The one you're already familiar with.


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The internet is inherently hierarchical and tends toward giving already established and popular entities undue voice.

In the real, physical world, people encounter things that they are physically close to and can sense through their sight, hearing, etc. This is the concept behind protesting out on the street.

On the internet, there is no built in discovery mechanism like there is in the physical reality. People never just type in domain names to se what's there, especially these days. You could own "starmer.sucks" and maybe get like two visitora a year.

Discovery on the internet is based on network effect and platforms. You are at the mercy of other people linking to your site or whatever platform you're posting on choosing to recommend you.

In contrast, the material world has discovery built in. You pass a street protest, you hear their chants, you see their faces. You see some graffiti. You didn't search for it. The people who did tjat didn't have to pay Google for the privilege of being seen.

This is why real life is so important. Touch grass my Marxbros

>>34516
I like your post.
I don't claim to know anything about the topic.
There might be an analogue in outreach.
Setting up collabs, and convos and that sort.
Probably difficult to find the right audience/creators.
Where you've got lots of potentially sympathetic actors.
Even I know some organizations make this their occupation.
And then there's the rest of us.
So there's real institutional pressure like you say.
I must touch grass…


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Thread for watching rocket launches and shit.
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>>33456

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space exploration is like the uncontroversial, bipartisan, reddit-friendly iteration of "make america great again". america had this peak moment of great hope and national pride in the 1960s where astronauts walked on the moon in the most expensive political theater photo op of all time and will never, ever reach a peak like that again because the empire is in its twilight years and everything else in the solar system is hundreds of millions of miles farther away than the moon and just as boring and useless as the moon and there's no reason to go there, but people can't let it go, they so badly want to relive that past glory and to believe that it could happen again and that the naive 1960s optimism about the future space age will actually come to pass. and all the rocket launches are just obscene displays of extravagance and waste, like some trillionaire neo-nazi tech ceo just basically burning billions of dollars in cash on national television while americans watch and applaud like dopes as the entire world turns to shit HAHAHAHA LOOK IT WENT UP OH WOW

>>34415
CHYNA is going to land on the moon in our lifetimes so that's pretty neat

>>34416

they'll probably just build their own moon that costs like $50 and land on that

>>34415
Funny thing is according to polls the space program in the 60s-70s wasn't that popular, people wanted spending on more terrestrial concerns.


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For those of us painstakingly trying to produce music on Linux workstations

Pipewire tips:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-is-the-pro-audio-profile
https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-02-configure-pipewire-low-latency-audio-ubuntu/view

DAWs:
https://ardour.org/
https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html
https://lmms.io/
https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/qtractor-index.html
https://www.reaper.fm/
https://www.renoise.com/

FX plugins:
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>>34384
The suffering was never in the audio server. JACK on alsa plus realtime kernel was always amazing compared to windows. The moment you go for anything under wine whether it's plugins or DAW it's a bad time. The new pianoroll looks good in Ardour, but that wasn't there when I was shopping around for a DAW. I also prefer to have a grid sequencer for my drum machine as well.

https://www.discodsp.com/
Linux native but proprietary

It is amazing how the best softsynth in existence is free and Linux native/open source. You can do basically anything in it. I've actually been using it as basically a subtractive synth, and there are presets that emulate a bunch of historical synth sounds as well. Oh, and what's even more amazing is that the 2nd best softsynth in existence, Surge, is also free and Linux native. https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/manual/

>>34386
>I also prefer to have a grid sequencer for my drum machine as well.
Bitwig has one of those built in IIRC.

https://www.linuxmusic.rocks/
https://linuxsynths.com/
Couple of Linux plugin databases. Linuxsynths.com seems to have slightly out-of-date info.


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Take a moment to find a website you didn't know about before, or ones you just think are neat, and share them here.

The thread from last year on /siberia/ didn't get archived, unfortunately, so posting here so it lasts longer.
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https://www.zounoashi.com/#/game/karaage?card=square2

Put any image you want in a deep fryer

ich weiß gar nicht, wie ich das internet in zukunft überhaupt nutzen soll. also wenn wir davon ausgehen müssen, dass langfristig alle kleinen/alternativen foren/diskussionsräume sterben werden wegen gesetzen (kids act), KI und weiteren äähh… externalitäten, dann bleiben nur noch die großen, ultramanipulativen corpo plattformen. ok. ich benutze seit einiger zeit wieder xitter und mein "for you" feed besteht zum größten teil aus titten, schwänzen, muschis und ärschen. was ich ja mag, aber ich kann doch nicht permanent horny sein, wenn ich durch den feed scrolle?? ist das wirklich die zukunft?

>>34288
AI text detection has gotten much, much better. It's an arms race, but at the moment Pangram is so good at detecting AI text that if it flags something as AI it's basically certain that it is.

Somehow all of my search results turned to slopsites or silos.
Imagine you could only search blogs and universities.
If you needed to query a silo, you go to them directly.
https://wiby.me
https://marginalia-search.com/
https://kagi.com/smallweb
https://hister.org/

Recently queried for a fairly obscure topic: "no-mind" and found an interesting page.
Something documenting Chinese philosophy of mind, or lack there of.
The central idea as I read was that heart-mind, and dao fail to distinguish either:
  1. a duality between reason and affect/
  2. a duality between social and personal.

Plus there were some later innovations.
https://philosophy.hku.hk/ch/mind.htm

>>34490
Thanks for Marginalia anon, it's awesome for finding things like small blogs and solutions to niche problems


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Just got this ad on xitter.

Basically, there's a financial incentive to kill the internet. The dead internet is a direct result of capitalism.

some more words.
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grundrisse the fragment on machines

>>34434
Shit like this is why ID verification for using social media or purchasing electronics is being pushed by the elites, yes it helps expand the surveillance state, at least the ways they're pushing to implement it, but for some it's also a sincere well-meaning attempt to fight back against the dead internet phenomenon.

>>34449
Funny how this website pushes the same thing. They do everything in their power to try and make posting anonymously here impossible for the same reasons as "le elite."

>>34451
>Funny how this website pushes the same thing.

leftypol? how exactly?

These farms existed for years before AI, but in the past they were mostly limited to shitholes like Russia or India. Now that copyright is dead and CFAA in the US is valid only if you're not doing anything related to AI - we're about to witness an explosion of these things.

Captcha evasion through services like 2captcha, phone proxies bought from some shady vendor without KYC laws… That's the thing about dead internet theory. It's not like it was just a theory prior to the invention of LLMs. Mass social media manipulation is something that has existed for nearly 13 years. AI just made it cheaper than sliced bread.


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