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What VPN should I get for Linux?
  • Pick one that has a wireguard config generator, so you don't need to use any client software besides the normal linux wg client.

    I'd also look for one that accepts anonymous payment methods. Even if you don't intend to go to the trouble to use that yourself, it's probably a good sign if it's available. Mullvad is pretty safe and served me well until they stopped doing port forwarding. Proton, windscribe, azire, and airvpn were the ones that seemed most recommended when I went to look for a new one a few months ago.

  • *Angry programmers noise getting louder and louder*
  • I think that's just some scrabble players angry at all the non-words

  • Deepfake: China clones Ukrainian girl to push Russian propaganda --- (video, 15 min)
  • I spent a small moment wondering whether or not this was the real Olga Loiek in the video, but I guess the heuristic that says the real one is probably the one who's not telling you how great China is or which brand of makeup to buy still works for now.

  • Three new polls suggest a growing number of Canadians want more money spent on defence
  • Polls show that approximately one third to two thirds of Canadians think that Canada should increase its defence spending, depending on how you phrase the question. It remains unknown how many would answer positively if asked "would you like to pay more in taxes to have higher government spending on defence?"

  • Linux 6.8-rc7 Released With The Stable Kernel Potentially Coming Next Week
  • It was rc6 that finally fixed the amdgpu bug that's been annoying me for the past two months after I switched to a newer kernel than my distro came with in order to make some stupid ML stuff work. Probably it was the change described as "fix the runtime resume failure issue" I suppose. Whatever the problem was, it's gone now. If your graphical session sometimes fails to come back after the monitors were powered off for a while, 6.8 may be the kernel for you.

    That's the problem with going out of your way to get a newer kernel. It has some new features but also some new bug and before you know it you're spending Sunday nights compiling the latest rc builds straight from Linus.

  • Uh...oh....
  • Only 1 in 100 Americans knows that HTML was named for "hot metal" after a type of ancient torture device.

  • Ranked ballots: A false promise for democratic progress
  • ranked ballots will not lead to more representative governments

    Perhaps not. The only thing we can be certain they'd give us would be a better voting system.

  • AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features
  • Did they change the headline, or did you come up with the more click-baity one just for us?

  • Signal's Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as 'parochial, magical thinking' | TechCrunch
  • Well, she's not wrong that we need more influential people fighting back against this latest push in the global coordinated effort to put an end to communications privacy. It's really quite alarming how little attention it seems to get most of the time. Civil society seemed much more robust when it fought off similar attacks in the 1990s. I do hope that the "VC community" isn't our only hope.

    But of course Signal can’t interoperate with another messaging platform, without them raising their privacy bar significantly

    Signal is supposed to be free software. You could probably manage to interoperate at least with other operators of actual Signal-Server instances, if you wanted to.

  • Mercedes won't rush F1 driver decision amid Verstappen rumours
  • No wonder people sometimes say F1 is hard to follow. Are these unaccountable rumour-mongers trying to fuel the scandal for the benefit of Mercedes, or are they trying to make it look like someone else fabricated the scandal for the benefit of Mercedes?

  • Nuclear is Not a Viable Solution
  • It'd have to be pretty long to get all the way to a conclusion that meaningless.

  • Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out
  • I would not blame this on the new CEO unless there's some evidence to support it. Wanting to incorporate more ads into the browser is one of the things the previous CEO was known for, and maybe that brilliant idea being met with hostility was one of the things that persuaded her to depart from the role. Whatever this new feature was to be, it most likely had its origins during her tenure.

  • Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out
  • It seems highly likely that you have mischaracterized the meaning of browser.shopping.experience2023.ads.userEnabled but it doesn't matter. The mere existence of browser.shopping.experience2023.ads.userEnabled is damning enough on its own.

  • Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out
  • That's not the difference between this and the usual kind of enshittification. The users are one side, the advertisers (and google) are the other. Nothing unusual there. The difference is that this time it's driven by desperate grasping at straws, rather than barefaced greed.

  • Whats your thoughts on Ai in your terminal?
  • To help make skittish people feel at ease with the concept, why not give it a friendly on-screen avatar? Perhaps something like a cute little animated paperclip.

  • $LANG variable
  • localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

  • You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes
  • More importantly, you don't need to be on an airplane to use airplane mode.

  • Is it worth buying the Mac keyboard for a dedicated Linux PC instead of the windows one?
  • Well, if what you want is inexpensive, simple, and durable you might be looking for my favourite keyboard which apparently they're still selling. I haven't needed a new one in 15 years or so but it doesn't look like they've changed the design at all.

    Whether a "mechanical" keyboard is worth it just depends on your taste, but in my experience they do wear out much more quickly than this thing I'm typing on.

  • Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.
  • Kids should focus on the one thing AI can't do: Stand-up comedy.

  • Maybe now that traditional memes are well on the way to being drowned in a sea of low-quality propaganda made by idiots, the cool kids will move on to text posts.

    Maybe now that traditional memes are well on the way to being drowned in a sea of low-quality propaganda made by idiots, the cool kids will move on to text posts.

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