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Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:
To finish off the year in great style: kzimmermann's State of the Distro 2023 https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/state_of_the_distro_2023.html I've decided to list my favorite #distro s for my use cases every now and then. What would you add? number 49 in #100DaysToOffload, almost at the halfway mark!
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Chucho :gnu: :freedo: :guix:
@kzimmermann Guix for desktop, despite the high learning curve and all the problems I had. My alpine got broken for power outages in my home, then I tried to install FreeBSD in my raspi but the Sdcard never booted so I went back to Alpine.
ckoul
@kzimmermann I think <a href="https://mslinux.org">MX-Linux</a> will tick all the boxes for you as a desktop distro, even possible as a USB portable distro!
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:
#TIL that when you're using `less` to view a text file, you can edit it directly by pressing `v`. Very nice to do quick updates to it without having to break out of it and issue another shell command. It launches vim for me, but that might be because it's what I have as my $EDITOR. This seems to work with GNU coreutils version (busybox one provided by default in #AlpineLinux, for example, doesn't). I wonder how I didn't discover this in the past ten years or so!
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:
"But it's only #metadataโฆ" they say.
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Account: Politics
@kzimmermann The concern is real but the comic is trash. It clearly advocates the point of "you have nothing to hide if you do nothing wrong." If the "Congressman" character in the comic weren't deceiving his wife, there would be no comic, isn't that right? Just another example of strip writers not thinking things through when writing to an agenda - even a laudable one.
Simon
@kzimmermann Also anonymized. Can't possibly be misused, right? https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:
#Poll time: in your opinion, is a #fediverse corporate takeover by one or more corporations possible? And I mean in more or less the same way that happened to email nowadays. If so, would it be likely? Or not because of lack of corporate interests or technical difficulties? #Boostswelcome to increase the size of the sample Anonymous poll
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Possible, and highly likely.
10
35.7%
Possible, but not technically attractive
4
14.3%
Possible, but not financially attractive
9
32.1%
Not possible or likely.
28 people voted. 5
17.9%
Voting ended 15 Mar 2023 at 20:13.
wizzwizz4
@kzimmermann It wouldn't be financially attractive, but it would be power attractive. A corporate takeover would destroy the Fediverse, create little-to-nothing of value, and probably cost the taking-over corporations money โ but it would be attractive to the decision-makers.
Adrian Cochrane
@kzimmermann I voted "Possible, but not technically attractive", though I'd prefer to phrase it as "Possible, but not socially attractive". If they succeed in shifting most of the newcomers into EEE silos, things won't be that different from before Musk bought Twitter. I doubt most of the people like me who were here before would move to those instances.
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LucifarGundam
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Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:
#TIL that the #Debian team has put some considerable effort to deploying federated services: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial Nice initiative! Especially for the instances of services you don't see quite often around like Matrix, Jitsi, Plume. Long life the #fediverse!
FediThing
Excellent :) Does anyone know if they have an official Fediverse account, or are they concentrating on providing official instances for unofficial accounts?
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:
Irresponsibility with data that you shouldn't even have in first place https://tilde.town/~kzimmermann/updates/20220814_1013.html
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@kzimmermann Mastodon, by default, keeps IP addresses for an entire year, which basically tracks each user's IPs, as long as they've been used within 12 months. This was made configurable by me recently, but there hasn't been a new release including that change. |