k8svet

Erm. I fail to see how this moves the needle unless usb-if is doing extreme firmware level source analysis and deterministic compiles and checking them against shipped firmware. Which I doubt is happening, with every atom in my body.

Bruh. I mean this as a genuine ask. Have you heard of Nix and is there a reason it didn't land on your radar or was rejected?

Because what you want exists and has a thriving community, and a package set that outclasses, well, statistically every other package manager in existence.

I swear, it's a daily occurrence for me to see software engineering challenges posited here as damn near impossible that Nix has been solving for over a decade.

What if you could run a single command and have exact insight to the source you're using for every single package on your system with the context of the dependency graph it exists in.

I cannot wait for this wave to crash and for people to realize how much engineering effort is reduced by using Nix. And that all of these things they know they want for years, already exists. But hey, the syntax takes time to get used to and how do you compare that against the countless blog posts and hours and institutional knowledge you need to actually use docker properly. And then later on some Go-based SBOM tool made by a VC-backed startup that fundamentally still does an inferior job to Nix. Sigh.

Well anyway I guess nix will keep being used by hedge funds, algorithmic traders, "advanced defensive capabilities" companies, literal (launched, in space) satellites, wallet manufacturers, etc, while everyone else listens to the syntax decriers.

It means we can build the same thing and check the output hashes. In terms of deriving a method for trusting build infra, it's basically the end all-be-all. I almost don't know how to answer it.

I'm sure you've heard this before, and I'm sure you don't give a slim shit, but like 3 minors a year undergo gender reassignment surgery. After countless consultations with physicians, therapists, parents, etc. And hormone blockers aren't given out trivially either. But I have no doubt that you know this.

So, really, pretty laughably not comparable. And to directly answer your question, the answer is duh, no.

I'm sure you're equally upset about young kids being put in beauty pageants or the countless (Republican) states that have recently defended child marriage. Right? Right?

You know, someone had previously written that Meta should be held accountable. Which I guess I didn't consider too strongly.

I'm sorry, but Meta knows why "adult-run minor accounts" make them revenue. Fucking disgusting. I'd love to see some discovery on their internal metrics and how they build out that feature to drive up engagement from these horny creeps.

Its pretty simple. The parents almost surely would've been more cautious about their daughter getting married. But turning her into a marketing content mill on the internet was done with next to no consideration of the consequences.

And yeah, I guess if you don't care about tens of thousands of men perving on your daughter every day, upload away! Good thing men are never incredibly harassing or anything.

There's videos online of me doing stuff that would probably end my father's heartbeat in about 10 seconds. I'm not a prude. I'm someone that wishes people would think instead of playing this surprise Pikachu face constantly.

This general ignorance of long-term consequences, and this behavior of men... Neither are limited to Americans. I mean, I wish, it'd be an easy solution for me to avoid both, but alas.

But have we weighed the social impact of teens not publishing themselves online to pervs? /s

This, like every other problem with pervasive brainrot technology, and hell good old fashioned ways to shut a brain off, will be talked about for years. Nothing will be done. Things in 10 years will feel normal and be unimaginable now. Thus is humanity for the 30 years I've been here so far.

Don't. Put. Your. Kids. On. The. Internet. I'd say "don't put unwitting strangers on the internet" too, but it's less targeted unless you're stalking a stranger, and I suspect too many HNers are Instagram users for that to be popular.

Also this is your too-often reminder that child beauty pageants are still popular in many places. Anyone taking attendance at those? Seriously, the status quo and what people are accustomed to biases people's norms in extreme ways and we just never seem to put that in context.

My point being, we have fucking pageants for children to get dolled up and pranced about for adults to watch, and here we are, off to the next horror-porn-horror travesty we all know is likely going to continue slowly getting more and more wack, as the norms shift.

I hate how 99% of the planet has no ability to consider long-term reprocussions of decisions, or worse, are incentivized to self-deluded about them. "Let's appeal to things that work in marketing and put our teenage daughter on the internet". Sounds like a god damn comedy sketch.

I am not sure I will ever stop being weirded out, annoyed at, confused by, something... people asking these sorts of questions of an LLM. What, you want an apology out of the LLM?

I almost want one of these, except I have no use for it nowadays. Ventoy didn't even work the one time I tried it, probably because it couldn't hook nixos's initrd properly.

But also, I'm insanely frustrated that (1) Google doesn't allow USB Gadget mode to do this from stock Android (2) the app that appeared to work for LineageOS/rooted devices is abandonware.

There's no good reason why your phone can't serve up ISOs with gadget mode.

I already travel with my ancient Pixel 3a as a backup (which has come in handy, clumsy me). It would be slick to have that as a portable ISO host, and backup phone. (Ignore the USB2 USB-C port, it's fine.)

Huh? This entire subthread is about Freenet and moderating the medium. The analogy is that if USPS were trying to do so, it would be absurd.

It also highlights why I think this is nearly intractable. Distributed, censorship-resistant designs lend themselves to resiliency and permanence. I just have this gut feeling you don't get both. And frankly I think the people trying to shove the cat back into the bag are a bit naive.

Uhhh. Look I think this is sort of an intractable problem. Technology is advancing. Humans are terrible. No technical or political solution is going to stop atrocities. That's of course not to say we shouldn't try to educate, prevent, serve justice, etc.

But... Are you implying that random people being unwittingly exposed to CSAM is somehow going to cause a reduction in production of CSAM? Because good lord, I'm not sure I can understand that train of thought.

Nothing about the described scenario is remotely unique to Freenet. By a long shot.

Huh. You think you'd proofread the copy in your lead marketing image.

Fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing this. Good read.

I can't decide a tone for this comment. But comments like yours make me want to go make a new "distro" that is just triggered when nixos updates and publishes an iso with Nvidia pre-installed. Lol maybe even do it for every major distribution. Nvubuntu, fedoria, etc. And then we can be done with this? Idk.

Like you, I find the "hopping" nature of Linux enthusiasts to be exhausting. it's almost always nearly the same fucking bits at the end of the day. Great, you know how to use the package manager? Everything you like about NewShinyDistro's defaults can probably be hadon the distro you're on already.

Christ maybe the better approach is my other idea - customnixos.org. You always get nixos, but you get to pre-pick the desktop environment, theme, background, etc, and then it slips you an iso with those options set.

This is quintessential MSFT. I have absolutely less than zero doubt that there is a informal/formal agreement that they're called such. They always pull this crap. And then their OEMs realize later that the "Windows 8 Ready" sticker is almost more of a pariah.

Okay. Now they have a distro from someone that doesn't care to respect licensing terms. And an end user who apparently can't be trained to click a few times in an app store...

Yeah, let's imagine how they react to their entire system being broken and some rumblings of "well maybe if you change time". Yeah, sure, okay, I'm sure a user that can't install a package will be able to handle that. /s

Maybe it's simply because I AM a distro maintainer, that I just roll my eyes at all of this. What's pre-installed is so trivial it's almost nothing to me when I think about why I chose my distro. How fast can they react to security reports? Are they abreast of developments in the Linux ecosystem and adjusting and experimenting with defaults? Really truly? Because even in (my distro) where I can tell you the names of owners of specific areas, there's still some gaps we could cover better.

The curse of knowing too much. Or maybe my empathy meter is way off tonight. Idk.

"how many clicks does it take to install Nvidia or steam" is not a good measure of a distro. I will stand by that statement strongly, I think. Let imagine a totally-not-real distro that definitely isn't pushed on noobs constantly. Let's imagine that include that said distro has, multiple times, let their SSL cert expire and at least once recommended users roll back their clock. Is that a "good distro" for noobs because it slips the Nvidia package in?

Fuck. No.

I'm sorry but if the way we handle accessibility of Linux to non-Lijux-aware folks is to just push them to the latest flavor that has the most shit crammed in, well, I'm not sure what we expect the outcome to be.

Such a good reply. Even if somehow you avoid even creeping bit of AI (I'm trying as hard as I can), you will inevitably live amongst others that don't have the same information literacy or skepticism as some of us. And while using a chat bot might be personally innocent, any such users are absolutely feeding and training the beast and enabling OpenAI's next oversteps.

Give me a break. Its the kernel, drm, mesa, and proton. The distro haw scant all to do with it except a bunch of newbies loudly claiming "new distro" is the best because it includes one single extra package pre-installed or something.

I will never stop being annoyed at conversations around distros. Ever.

(I was thinking about this, and maybe it's intentional. Make Chrome a first class citizen on formerly-ChromeOS. Make ChromeOS a generic base for AVF VMs. Maybe they even have cros working so well that they can do crostini inside an AVF VM?

So it would be Android, Chrome-on-ChromeOS in an AVF VM, Linux-on-ChromeOS in another AVF VM, Windows in a third AVF VM, etc.

And now this submission is just gone. Rather disappointing, this was an interesting topic.

(if this gets restored and someone wants to remove these comments, feel free)

Why did the other submission, with good conversation, just disappear into oblivion with this one in its place? :/

I think these are quite interesting questions. Chromium just spent a lot of effort to get stock Chromium working as a ChromeOS client, rather than it purely being available as part of ChromeOS itself. Is that ... pointless now in the face of a rebase on Android? Seems like it will end up being a win for a narrow window of devices?

Well, this is a slap in the face. ChromeOS has had a long-standing tradition of requiring device kernels to be in their tree. Giving them a better shot at long-term/community/Linux support.

It's hard to not cynically read this as "we're making it easier for our partners to ship devices with vendor kernels".

I'm pretty shocked. I would've bet good money at this having gone the opposite direction, with ARC already on ChromeOS, etc.

Yes. There's like a partial frankenbuild of Wallet built into the Google app, and you can get to it, somehow.

They should've left it disabled, and then "accidentally" enabled it, or nagged people into enabling it. I think it would've boiled the frog slower and been more successful.

Alternative cynical take: they needed to have a compelling story for press/launching the laptops they've been working with software/hardware partners on for years. They got to announce "Copilot+ PCs with Total^H^H^H^H^H Recall"! And now they get to walk it back enough controversy will die down and they can still do the first bit I mentioned. Hm.

WTF?!?! The one bit of data I let Google track, because that map is so insanely useful and cool. Seeing where I was standing on a given day of my Europe tour, and being able to trace my steps on that day where I remember "I started at the market and walked west and found that cute cafe".

Somehow this is the first product shutdown by Google I'm affected by. Good thing they're letting us export this data in an open format /s.

Even after I've read and enjoyed it, I skim the title in the list and still think that's what it must be.

How does that work? Can authorities compell Microsoft to surreptitiously have only my computer randomly unencrypt and submit stuff? If so, couldn't the authorities just tell MS to activate a tool like recall anyway?