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How feasible is privacy-respecting personalised search engine results?
  • There's YaCy. I've run a node for a while but it ended up filling up my server's drive just indexing german wikipedia and the results were terrible.

    And it's still not private because you have to broadcast the query across the network.

  • Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent
  • I got asked the same. I simply pointed out the test is a reproduction of last week's bug that took down prod at 2am and got paged to fix, and is therefore as realistic as it gets of what they'll need to be able to handle.

    It's always DNS, everyone should know that.

  • Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent
  • I went through hiring several times at several companies, being on the interviewer side.

    Typically it's not the talent pool as much as what the company has to offer and how much they're willing to pay. I referred top notch engineer friends, and they never made it past HR. A couple were rejected without interview because they asked too high of a salary, despite asking under market average. The rest didn't pass HR on personnality or not having all the "requirements", because the really good engineers are socially awkward and demand flexibility and are honest on the résumé/CV, or are self taught and barely have high-school graduation on there (just like me).

    I've literally seen the case of: they want to hire another me, but ended up in a situation where: I wouldn't apply for the position myself, and even if I did, I wouldn't make it to the interview stage where I'd talk to myself and hire myself.

    Naturally the candidates that did make it to me weren't great. Those are the people that do the bare minimum, have studied every test question (without understanding), vibe code everything, typically on the younger and very junior side. They're very good at passing HR, and very bad at their actual job.

    It's not the technology, it's the companies that hire that ultimately steers the market and what people study for. Job requirements are ridiculous, HR hires engineers on personnality like they're shopping for yet another sales associate, now it takes 6 rounds of interviews for an entry level position at a startup. VC startups continue to pay wildly inflated wages to snatch all the top talent while established companies are laying off as much IT staff as possible to maximize profits.

  • Trouble setting Let's Encrypt certificates for Pangolin
  • The email used to be used to send you notices if your cert wasn't renewed and other communications. They've just discontinued that feature, so the email isn't super important.

    It's a good idea to provide a valid email address, but it's not that important and doesn't really matter for the purpose of issuing a certificate. It's not part of the problem you're having.

  • What computer life hacks are your most used?
  • Keyboard shortcuts in general.

    • Alt + left right (previous/next page in browsers)

    • Windows + 1 (2, 3, ...) on Windows and KDE focuses the window at that position in the taskbar

    • Alt + Tab to switch windows (hold shift to go backwards)

    • Windows + Tab to switch windows within the same application (like, all browser windows if you're in a browser)

    • Alt + 1 (2, 3, ...) on Windows/Linux usually selects the corresponding tab

    • Ctrl + Tab to cycle through tabs like Alt-Tab does for windows (hold shift to go backwards)

    • In most browsers or things with a URL/go to bar, Ctrl+L will focus that. No need to click the address bar, Ctrl+L, example.com, Enter.

    • In Discord and Slack, you can press Ctrl+K to open a box to quickly type a channel/DM name to go to it quickly

    • If you have them, the Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys are actually pretty useful. Press Home instead of scrolling all the way back up.

    • F1 is usually help

    • F2 is usually rename

    • F3 is usually search

  • Elle se fait voler 3 500$ par virement Interac
  • D'après moi il n'a pas intercepté en tant que tel, l'un des deux côté est infecté et quelqu'un dans les courriels ou active la fonction pour transférer tous les courriels entrant à une autre addresse. Ils pourraient aussi avoir ajouté l'adresse courriel dans une autre banque et supprimé les messages de confirmation, ni vu ni connu. Reste plus qu'à accepter le virement avant la vraie personne, puis virer l'argent dans un compte à l'étranger.

    C'est possible d'avoir un compte avec plusieurs banques, alors quand tu reçois un virement tu veux pouvoir choisir quelle banque et quel compte, ouvrant la faille.

    Ou bien, y'a pas eu de bug, se sont fait arnaquer. J'aurais jamais payé deux fois: c'est clairement le problème du propriétaire. Je te paye tu te fais voler ton portefeuille 2 min après, c'est pas mon problème.

  • ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
  • At the very least I hope it's hosted by someone outside the US so it's out of reach to the authorities.

  • Daily driver work-from-home on Bazzite? Or something more mainstream (Debian?) and install Steam/proton?
  • The main issue you'll run into is nicher proprietary software being hard to install, but that's what containers are for. The main one I see is if you need to install some proprietary VPN client it gets annoying, but since you'll be running a VM anyway you can do some network trickery. My work's antivirus only works on Ubuntu and RHEL, proprietary kernel modules so it's got to be at least one of those kernels.

    Linux is Linux, nothing's impossible to solve even with Bazzite's immutability. Worst comes to worst you make your own images and it's not that hard, you basically just fork it on GitHub and let the CI do its thing.

    But do you have time to fiddle to make it work and take the risk, or do you want to play it safe? How confident are you with Bazzite's more advanced topics?

  • Trump says he's ending 'all discussions on trade with Canada' effective immediately
  • Ah yes, he's the only government allowed to collect taxes.

  • When did you go full Linux nerd?
  • Ubuntu 7.10 so late 2007, but I guess the nerd part came when I installed Arch in 2011. Still running that very same install.

  • Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork
  • My own personal example: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/8FM1ZvXi68

    It just doesn't look great nor serious nor welcoming.

  • Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork
  • The guy gives a ton of "I don't care about anyone's use cases except mines" vibes too. Also called Gnome and KDE teletubbies DEs when I mentioned xcomposite being an important feature. Basically considering the widely known issues around multimonitor vsync and mismatched resolutions and all as basically not real issues with Xorg.

    XLibre is 100% a political fork because the guy claims Xorg is deprecated by a big tech conspiracy pushing inferior software onto users. There's nothing wrong with wanting to continue Xorg's legacy but come on we don't have to pretend Xorg is this perfect thing that always works. Xorg has been hated for decades for a reason. This xkcd exists for a reason: https://xkcd.com/963/

  • A FOSS Android project looking for a 15-minute help
  • It's been a while, but I believe you do need the annoying new XML/SVG thing as it also doubles as the splash screen animation when you open an app as well. You can embed a PNG in those but vector is preferred because of screen resolutions.

    Wishing you great success with your app, disabilities are wildly underserved especially in open-source.

  • Stretching a lower resolution to fill the screen under KDE Wayland?
  • Wine has always done that, last seen on Plasma 5 (I switched to Wayland with Plasma 6), and I remember that being a thing way back in 2007 too. Valved patched the scaling in Proton as well I believe so that might be why it didn't do that.

    It behaves how fullscreen apps work on Windows, takes over your whole display and messes with the resolution and all.

  • Stretching a lower resolution to fill the screen under KDE Wayland?
  • It's supposed to scale correctly, but otherwise Gamescope will take care of that particular issue.

    Kinda annoying on Xorg when the game just decides my screen should be 800x600 and then proceeds to crash and leave me at 800x600 on a 4K display with scaling set to 200%.

  • 38% support some privatization of Canada Post
  • I think it's also made much more apparent when that demographic that had no interest in computers were forced to be chronically online due to the lockdowns and quickly found the anti-vaxx groups, and suddenly felt like their opinion matters and that everyone is an expert if they do a little bit of "research".

  • Do you think lemmy.ml content should be reposted to lemmy.world alternatives?
  • Why though?

    We can just subscribe to the community on lemmy.ml, there's no point reposting when it's already there ready to federate.

  • Have any of you ever actually done the cost comparison calculations for cooking vs buying pre-made, including cost of energy?
  • It depends on your overall energy use but generally that would be negligible when compared to heating and hot water, especially during winter when the furnace runs 24/7.

    In particular, during the winter, all excess energy from the oven is heat the furnace doesn't have to provide so it's basically free: you'd use that energy anyway.

    Generally the economy of scale should technically favor the prebaked bread, at least before the store slaps its value added surcharge for it. The store still needs to pay for the energy (but probably gets it cheaper than you), but also needs to pay to maintain a factory, equipment, employees. So you kinda need to factor in the price of your oven too and its wear and tear.

    I just buy the loaf because one thing I know for sure is if I factor in the value of my time, it's way better and easier to work an hour than spend an hour baking a loaf of bread. The time to bake the bread costs more than if I used that time to work the equivalent time and buy 5 loaves of bread with the money.

  • PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)

    Cross-posted from "PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)" by @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me in !linux@lemmy.ml

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    I don't normally watch him but this popped on my feed, and I'm pretty impressed. Dude really fell the Arch+Hyprland rabbit hole and ended up loving it.

    Probably one of the largest YouTuber switching to Linux, and is very positive about it.

    That Hyprland rice is pretty sick too.

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    Test 0.19.4 comment nesting (after DB fix?)

    Testing, I broke the database so bad my posts were federating out but not saving on my local instance, fun stuff

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    Wayland windows can apparently vsync to multiple monitors at once at different refresh rates

    Neat little thing I just noticed, might be known but I never head of it before: apparently, a Wayland window can vsync to at least 3 monitors with different refresh rates at the same time.

    I have 3 monitors, at 60 Hz, 144 Hz, and 60 Hz from left to right. I was using glxgears to test something, and noticed when I put the window between the monitors, it'll sync to a weird refresh rate of about 193 fps. I stretched it to span all 3 monitors, and it locked at about 243 fps. It seems to oscillate between 242.5 and 243.5 gradually back and forth. So apparently, it's mixing the vsync signals together and ensuring every monitor's got a fresh frame while sharing frames when the vsyncs line up.

    I knew Wayland was big on "every frame is perfect", but I didn't expect that to work even across 3 monitors at once! We've come a long, long way in the graphics stack. I expected it to sync to the 144Hz monitor and just tear or hiccup on the other ones.

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    Wifi circuit breaker : a terrible idea

    All the protections in software, what an amazing idea!

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    [Bug] Viewing a comment (eg. from Inbox) doesn't have a "view parent" option

    It only shows "view all comments", so you can't see the full context of the comment tree.

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    [Feature Request] Sharing and copying links should let you copy a local instance link as well

    The current behaviour is correct, as the remote instance is the canonical source, but being able to copy/share a link to your home instance would be nice as well.

    Use case: maybe the comment is coming from an instance that is down, or one that you don't necessarily want to link to.

    If the user has more than one account, being able to select which would be nice as well, so maybe a submenu or per account or a global setting.

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