Yeah, probably it doesn't make things better that the vendor is Lenovo. I think for some models fwupdmgr might work but not for everything.
The value of UEFI is surely dubious. I recently had to update my BIOS using Windows PE since there was no way of doing this on Linux. Of course my default boot was reset. The funny thing was though that I could repair…
Yes I also had this in Uni at some point. Just going through the homework can be a huge effort. If the course is small enough, you probably don't want to hand in obvious junk/slop, especially if you're asked to present…
2009 Ecosia was founded and advertises with planting trees, according to their website 257,444,718 as of now. (> 1 M per month) At the same time Google fell 250,000 trees in a few months. (~0.1 M per month)…
It's Microsoft 365 Copilot ;)
I'm having a blast with AoE I on Linux, in this case the Definitive Edition. I don't think it looks like Office though ;) But what is true, it's tricky to get running on WINE. With Proton which I use the configuration…
Programs installed in my home directory end up being run as my user. There is usually no clean way to do it differently. But if programs are installed in the filesystem hierarchy and optionally split into multiple…
Most system installed software can normally not access everything because of the filesystem permissions. It works surprisingly well. I think the problem is the trend of installing everything in the home directory. Ruby…
Yeah that's an interesting point of view. In my studies I got comfortable with the fact that there's always someone smarter than me. At the same time it should be considered that with physical labor workforces lost…
Ubuntu is surely controversial but no, security updates aren't paid. ;) Well, unless you need an LTS that cannot be updated for whatever reasons for 10 years. Or for people that need an extra FIPS approval.
I think this is now an interesting part about LLM based automation. The scientific community is quite strict on references. Even with its most advanced model ChatGPT isn't reliably able to tell me if an online shop has…
I think this is why FVWM is around for so long, OpenBSD even still ships it as the default. The configuration is painful but every tiny thing can be adapted. I stopped using it though because other DEs were more…
I've been asked to do take homes for different companies recently. Each time I was very confused whether using AI is acceptable, desirable, required or unacceptable. One time I asked just in time, the other time I…
> Both will pale compared to the amount of time you spend dealing with SCIM inconsistencies between IdPs anyway. I think that's the real problem. Just tying up things with custom, system dependent configurations would…
It's strange working on Opensource these days. I've mostly worked on my own stuff alone which usually doesn't get much attention/additional contribution. Then I see on Reddit, HN or LinkedIn someone creating a major App…
Well as mentioned it was in the 2000s. Compiling KDE alone took several days. Also there was no automation/script, so you really had to go to ftp.gnu.org and look in which folder the coreutils package is ;) I realize…
Interestingly AOL, Compuserve and similar ones originally ran without Internet. In fact it took a while until the Internet catched up with the level of interactivity, mostly through Flash. It's absurd that nowadays many…
On the Desktop fine-grained partitioning is a bit questionable but on a server it's still quite practical. E.g. preventing the database or excessive logs from filling the disk space. The latter is also an attack vector…
> I wonder how many of these are false flag operations. If I may ask, could you elaborate on what you mean?
The first thing that came into my mind was the fragile ecosystem up there. All considered this doesn't sound like a very thoughtful process. And of course as pointed out elsewhere, Norway isn't even EU. I wonder how…
> GrapheneOS actually recommends against using Aurora and instead just using the Play Store, so this shouldn't really hurt users. Interesting, I never tried Aurora on Graphene. For me the combination of Play Store and…
The graph actually peaked in 2014. That's a decade before AI became a thing while the Software engineering workforce grew a lot since then. I think Stackoverflow was the last incarnation of romanticized old-school Q&A…
> So depressing to read the non-stop political comments here. Grok is specifically trained on political input/output. Therefore I have trouble parsing your comment. > Where have the hardcore nerds gone? How is the…
> a photo is pretty much required which would be considered illegal in other countries like the UK I work since over 15 years as SWE and have been job hopping most of the time. Only during one job hunt I put a…
I'm no expert but to my knowledge metal cases always need to be grounded. Which is what I did with my 10" rack. I just bought a socket with a ground connector from an online store, although I'd be curious which exact…
Yeah, probably it doesn't make things better that the vendor is Lenovo. I think for some models fwupdmgr might work but not for everything.
The value of UEFI is surely dubious. I recently had to update my BIOS using Windows PE since there was no way of doing this on Linux. Of course my default boot was reset. The funny thing was though that I could repair…
Yes I also had this in Uni at some point. Just going through the homework can be a huge effort. If the course is small enough, you probably don't want to hand in obvious junk/slop, especially if you're asked to present…
2009 Ecosia was founded and advertises with planting trees, according to their website 257,444,718 as of now. (> 1 M per month) At the same time Google fell 250,000 trees in a few months. (~0.1 M per month)…
It's Microsoft 365 Copilot ;)
I'm having a blast with AoE I on Linux, in this case the Definitive Edition. I don't think it looks like Office though ;) But what is true, it's tricky to get running on WINE. With Proton which I use the configuration…
Programs installed in my home directory end up being run as my user. There is usually no clean way to do it differently. But if programs are installed in the filesystem hierarchy and optionally split into multiple…
Most system installed software can normally not access everything because of the filesystem permissions. It works surprisingly well. I think the problem is the trend of installing everything in the home directory. Ruby…
Yeah that's an interesting point of view. In my studies I got comfortable with the fact that there's always someone smarter than me. At the same time it should be considered that with physical labor workforces lost…
Ubuntu is surely controversial but no, security updates aren't paid. ;) Well, unless you need an LTS that cannot be updated for whatever reasons for 10 years. Or for people that need an extra FIPS approval.
I think this is now an interesting part about LLM based automation. The scientific community is quite strict on references. Even with its most advanced model ChatGPT isn't reliably able to tell me if an online shop has…
I think this is why FVWM is around for so long, OpenBSD even still ships it as the default. The configuration is painful but every tiny thing can be adapted. I stopped using it though because other DEs were more…
I've been asked to do take homes for different companies recently. Each time I was very confused whether using AI is acceptable, desirable, required or unacceptable. One time I asked just in time, the other time I…
> Both will pale compared to the amount of time you spend dealing with SCIM inconsistencies between IdPs anyway. I think that's the real problem. Just tying up things with custom, system dependent configurations would…
It's strange working on Opensource these days. I've mostly worked on my own stuff alone which usually doesn't get much attention/additional contribution. Then I see on Reddit, HN or LinkedIn someone creating a major App…
Well as mentioned it was in the 2000s. Compiling KDE alone took several days. Also there was no automation/script, so you really had to go to ftp.gnu.org and look in which folder the coreutils package is ;) I realize…
Interestingly AOL, Compuserve and similar ones originally ran without Internet. In fact it took a while until the Internet catched up with the level of interactivity, mostly through Flash. It's absurd that nowadays many…
On the Desktop fine-grained partitioning is a bit questionable but on a server it's still quite practical. E.g. preventing the database or excessive logs from filling the disk space. The latter is also an attack vector…
> I wonder how many of these are false flag operations. If I may ask, could you elaborate on what you mean?
The first thing that came into my mind was the fragile ecosystem up there. All considered this doesn't sound like a very thoughtful process. And of course as pointed out elsewhere, Norway isn't even EU. I wonder how…
> GrapheneOS actually recommends against using Aurora and instead just using the Play Store, so this shouldn't really hurt users. Interesting, I never tried Aurora on Graphene. For me the combination of Play Store and…
The graph actually peaked in 2014. That's a decade before AI became a thing while the Software engineering workforce grew a lot since then. I think Stackoverflow was the last incarnation of romanticized old-school Q&A…
> So depressing to read the non-stop political comments here. Grok is specifically trained on political input/output. Therefore I have trouble parsing your comment. > Where have the hardcore nerds gone? How is the…
> a photo is pretty much required which would be considered illegal in other countries like the UK I work since over 15 years as SWE and have been job hopping most of the time. Only during one job hunt I put a…
I'm no expert but to my knowledge metal cases always need to be grounded. Which is what I did with my 10" rack. I just bought a socket with a ground connector from an online store, although I'd be curious which exact…