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Molokroid said:
Useful idiots like this need to either be clowned on enough to disappear or be re-educated in the wonderful and essential aspects of personal liberty and the right to privacy.
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Well from what I've heard he was pretty quickly doxed, and people have been using that information as an opportunity to share their opinion on the matter, to put it lightly. So I think the bullying is happening.
 
Ntpd-rs: it’s about time!
I am thrilled to announce the next target in our campaign to replace core system utilities with memory-safe Rust rewrites in Ubuntu. In upcoming releases, Ubuntu will be adopting ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server, eventually replacing chrony, linuxptp and with any luck, gpsd for time syncing use-cases.

ntpd-rs is a full-featured implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), written entirely in Rust. Maintained by the Trifecta Tech Foundation as part of Project Pendulum, ntpd-rs places a strong focus on security, stability, and memory safety.

To deliver on this goal, we’re building on our partnership with the Trifecta Tech Foundation who are behind sudo-rs, zlib-rs and more. We will be funding the Trifecta Tech Foundation to build new features, enhance security isolation, and ultimately deliver a unified, memory-safe time synchronization utility for the Linux ecosystem. This work meshes well with the Trifecta Tech Foundations goals to improve the security of time synchronization everywhere.
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This actually made me think: with all this push to replace everything with Rust (and change the license to MIT while you're at it), why is there no systemd-rs yet?
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gpg said:
EndeavorOS has made two statements which suggest, rather strongly, that their "Arch-based, terminal-centric" Linux distribution will not be implementing Age Verification functionality.

"Besides the fact that [Age Verification] goes against FOSS fundamentals, we simply don’t have the manpower or resources to take on this near-impossible task."

"We don't even track how many users have downloaded the ISO, let alone track how many users are actually running the distro. So, we don't have plans to add such a thing."

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They need to watch their dependencies then. It is not individual distros people should be worried about, but the core software that they rely on.
An example would be if Mozilla implements age signal requirements in Firefox and defaults to the lowest age bracket when it can't get a signal from the OS.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
Funny enough, Rust isn't named after literal rust, but after an order of fungi (named that way because it tends to look similar to rust on plants) because it's said to be "over-engineered for survival"... and itself is a fungi that acts like a parasitical disease on plants and is considered a major concern in agriculture.
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Yeah it's the fungus because Moz wanted to be quirky and obscure I guess.

I found Rust to be pretty decent from what little I've written of it (outside of work I usually only write Go and C these days). It seemed like a much better attempt at a "modern C++" without being the abomination current-year C++ is, though that's a pretty low bar to be fair. I even said I'd much rather write it professionally than the languages I've had to deal with (C#, Java, mostly).

I then found out its upper-case C community is infested with troons which is not too surprising because Mozilla have been huge faggots in recent years. And then I found out that LLMs are able to write it passably well unlike your average low level language like C/C++. Then the screaming began.
 
you know. I'm kind of thinking if nothing else, and they do successfully force age verification on everything. And everything possible to undo it fails. I should at the very least gloat to people that were basically asking for this early on about how I was right. Remind them they're retards that fell for propaganda talking points, to literally ask for move government oversight in a place it had no business being.

Because at that point at least I can get enjoyment out of that. I wish I was wrong back then, and I wish this would get stopped in it's tracks, but as of now it's not looking good. So I might as well at least make the most of it.
 
Squishie PP said:
They need to watch their dependencies then. It is not individual distros people should be worried about, but the core software that they rely on.
An example would be if Mozilla implements age signal requirements in Firefox and defaults to the lowest age bracket when it can't get a signal from the OS.
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Mozilla can and will continue to tongue my anus. I have not updated Firefox in well over a year at this point, and I see no reason to unpin anytime soon. Muh seekurity is a null argument thanks to NoScript + uBlock.
 
gpg said:
EndeavorOS has made two statements which suggest, rather strongly, that their "Arch-based, terminal-centric" Linux distribution will not be implementing Age Verification functionality.

"Besides the fact that [Age Verification] goes against FOSS fundamentals, we simply don’t have the manpower or resources to take on this near-impossible task."

"We don't even track how many users have downloaded the ISO, let alone track how many users are actually running the distro. So, we don't have plans to add such a thing."

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Have any distros done otherwise?
 
Ferryman said:
Mozilla can and will continue to tongue my anus. I have not updated Firefox in well over a year at this point, and I see no reason to unpin anytime soon. Muh seekurity is a null argument thanks to NoScript + uBlock.
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Was just an example. Another could be any of the numerous package management utilities themselves, as some of these laws are tailored for what the boomerjews call "app stores", an umbrella that covers any semi-centralized system that allows the distribution of software whatsoever.
If your distro's package manager is compromised by this, then the maintainer has extra work to do.
 
Zeftax said:
They'll just go through the standard cycle they do on anything.
Wtf you're an insane conspiracy theorist → *it happens* → Yeah bro, of course, everyone knows that. Who cares?
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It wasn't even people saying I was an insane conspiracy theorist. They just didn't care about all the other implications that were obviously going to come with what they wanted.

They wanted there to be some kind of government level censorship on certain parts of the internet, and they didn't care what that would actually mean. They just laughed at everyone who had a problem with it, and said they are trannies or leftist redditors.

But hey, I guess fucking yourself over, ruining the entire internet, operating systems, and computing as a whole is worth it if you make some tranny seethe for 5 minutes. Totally nothing "drop kiwifarms"eque and retarded about that.

Bro, I honestly hate people that thing like that as much as the trannies. They are literally the same thing to me, just horseshoe theoried. I hate trannies because they are a corrosive force that only destroys, and to me these people are basically the same thing.


Funny someone was just talking about an issue for them with apparmor. It looks like there was a recent exploit in it
 
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Been moving into a new place can't setup desktop yet while I wait for renovations
So using a Dell rugged laptop with omarchy for the next few days
Problem with omarchy is its really freaking buggy so I'm not gonna enjoy my computing for a bit here
 
acid_ra1n said:
Problem with omarchy is its really freaking buggy so I'm not gonna enjoy my computing for a bit here
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I'd recommend using a different distro. CachyOS is the best noob-friendly Arch-based distro if you don't want to use Arch itself. It has many different DEs and WMs to choose from, including Hyprland. If you want something more vanilla, then try EndeavourOS. Don't bother with Manjaro or Garuda.
 
gpg said:
can someone here recommend me a good music player? it would also be nice if it had plugin support/discord rpc, the only one i found that has it needs 6 different libraries to work? or maybe im being retarded
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I am unsure about plugins for Discord since I don't use it, but for music I just use Winamp Classic through WINE as I am used to it. Luckily it works on Linux without problems. The different windows can be moved individually and even snap onto other windows of non-WINE Linux software as if they were native Windows applications. No notable regressions.

There is also Elisa which is a music player by KDE that I have heard good things about.
 
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