Giver of skulls
I only have experience with a very old AMD GPU and an Nvidia GPU, but what does Windows do different when it comes to GPU switching? I haven’t noticed any difference, processes either start in the dGPU or the iGPU depending on if I launch them normally or right click an application and select “open using dGPU” or whatever the option is called in Gnome these days.
The impressive Asahi Linux GPU driver is also written in Rust, so hopefully the projects can reuse a lot of each other’s code. Red Hat has the advantage of Nvidia’s opens source driver being available as well.
Hopefully this will be able to finally bring usable Nvidia graphics to Linux, though only for the GPUs that run their proprietary code in firmware. I also don’t expect support for CUDA and other proprietary interfaces any time soon.
The people running the servers. Check your local instance details to see who runs the server. And yes, they can shut down at any time, so consider donating to help with the server costs if you’re a heavy user.
Lemmy: not really. Fediverse: kinda, yeah. Threads is the biggest, followed probably by WordPress and Flipboard. Tumblr is also working on joining the Fediverse. None of those companies will likely ever work with Lemmy/Kbin, though. There are also a few small companies that you can pay to set up a Mastodon server for you.
I have never seen a phone that made me think “I wish there was an ear shattering speaker on the back of this”.
Anyone got a clue about the use case for this? Is it just a way for obnoxious people to save on their Bluetooth speakers?
This would have the additional benefit of collecting output files for future debugging. I’m not sure if systemd units can run Wayland applications, though.
Putting something like this should probably work, though?
[Unit] Description=Waybar
PartOf=graphical-session.target
After=graphical-session.target
[Service]
Type=exec
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=waybar
[Install] WantedBy=graphical-session.target
Widgets are interactive elements that access system APIs to do things like show memory usage, list open programs, send kill signals, script the window manager to hide or move windows, and a lot more.
You could theoretically sandbox widgets, but I’m not sure how easy that is. I suppose you could wrap KDE itself into a Flatpak sandbox so it can only see the system files it absolutely needs, but all “sandbox every part of the UI” attempts I know of have died because compatibilities made the unusable.
If you use Sync, there’s this setting you can toggle to disable embedded images. I’m not sure if this protects against network requests, but I think it should? If you disable the, images are represented as links instead.
Links to pirated content have been deemed illegal in various jurisdictions. That said, the piracy community on Lemmy doesn’t seem to do much more than complain about DRM, so I guess the risk shouldn’t be that high?
Still, the best way to avoid annoying letters from lawyers is to avoid risky communities. Hosting anything related to piracy, gambling, porn, or crime is just a pain, even more so than hosting normal stuff.
I’m not sure, but anything doing Markdown parsing and allowing images to be embedded is vulnerable to this. I kind of doubt that the devs don’t know about this.
The alternative would be to download every image on the server and cache it until users start requesting the image files, rewriting the Markdown to link to the new image location. I can think of a few reasons why that’s not implemented.
Proxying all comments was implemented in the backend at some point, I’m not sure why this feature was removed again. I can’t find much in the repo history, you could ask the devs why the feature got removed if you’re curious.
Your client asks my server for the image, my server does a basic IP location lookup based on a free internet database I downloaded last year and turns it into an image on the fly.
There’s probably a simple explanation for this. My guess is that during testing, people left the setting on and spammed hundreds of people over a period of months without even realising what was going on.
It’s designed to take over when you’re out of office (and not using Outlook anyway). When you get back from your holiday or whatever, you probably want to turn off the auto reply if you use it the way it was designed. I guess they could’ve only shown the banner after Outlook restarts, but then you have to deal with those people that refuse to reboot their laptop for years on end.
I think that’s only a problem if your intent is to become the best player in the world. I just play chess for fun and I don’t really care much if I lose. I don’t care about memorising standard openings.
I’m not very good, but if I wanted to memorise a billion different things, I’d study a language or something. Playing online allows me to play with people who are just about as bad as I am when I have a few minutes to spare.
Lemmy makes local copies of everything when federation occurs. It’s 100% on their server. The only exceptions are images posted as part of the comments, those are loaded directly. Then again, that adds the ability to add tracking pixels, so that’s not exactly great for a piracy community either.
I turned off all the logging for this proof of concept but this could’ve been a transparent PNG pixel that tracks every bit of information your browser will give it.
I’m surprised the major Lemmy servers even permit piracy related content in the first place. Half the Fediverse seems to be hosted in Germany, probably one of the worst countries to host piracy related content.
The .world team should definitely make a statement before banning stuff just to avoid this kind of drama, but piracy communities are not worth the moderation hassle and legal risk for a silly side project like Lemmy.
If I were you, I wouldn’t expect the same privacy protections Reddit provides for their users when copyright owners start sending legal threats. These instances barely collect enough donations to cover server costs, nobody is going to pay an expensive lawyer to protect your IP address if your server gets sued.
The whole point is that the block isn’t about this particular user. Any affordable tool that can be used for anonymity, can and will be abused by malicious people. That’s why Tor is blocked on 90% of websites and why VPN users need to jump through extra hoops so often. If your network offers no way to distinguish you from the guy that keeps uploading videos of children getting raped, your network is getting blocked, simple as that.
For VPN users this is a minor issue, but for people behind CGNAT (which is the standard in many low-income countries these days) that causes huge problems.
The trick is to not make people notice, because the vast majority doesn’t care about how the fediverse works.
I’d say Threads is doing a pretty good job so far.
They’re suboptimal in any case, but at least they just work on Windows. I don’t know about Macs, maybe they need some kind of software installation too, but I’m sure the software is a lot easier to install than on Linux.
It was pretty good, but it was hell to troubleshoot.
I’ve had to set up IMAP on that app a whole bunch of times and if it decides it doesn’t like your server, it’ll grey out all the settings and show an infinite progress bar that does literally nothing, for up to minutes at a time. Settings that worked yesterday may suddenly be broken. The manual refresh button is more of a suggestion than anything else.
I don’t expect Microsoft’s new “give us your password and we’ll download your email to our cloud, you can trust us” solution to work any better, though. These “apps” make me miss Windows Live Mail and its predecessor, Outlook Express.
A bit too much faith in my autocorrect :p
It shouldn’t be too hard to work around that by either using dev tools to force the installation or by simply modifying the app to bump the required version number. It sucks that installing unmaintained apps is going to be more of a pain, but it’s far from impossible. Android’s internal backwards compatibility for this stuff is quite good.