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Updates to our storage policy on Dropbox Advanced
  • Any all-you-can-eat policy is going to attract people who abuse it, and storage isn't cheap so this isn't really a surprise. Looking at the limits they're pretty generous for any real use case and people who need more than that should probably just accept that big storage is going to cost money.

  • No More Windows! Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux 🦾
  • I'm always amazed that any foreign government handling sensitive information or dealing with defence would consider using windows. Linux has been competent for all common tasks for a long time now and won't hold any hidden surprises.

  • Trust me bro!
  • That's amazing that they would consider auto-generated responses to be appropriate in something which is supposed to be reference documentation. We are a good way from that type of querying and explanation being reliable.

  • Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out - Lemdro.id
  • This isn't what it sounds like. If you go through to the original article then the AI usage is for generative AI which you can add to your meetings (eg generating subtitles). It's an opt-in service and you're notified on the call if someone enables it. They're not just collecting your call data.

  • What kinds of light are you guys using?
  • I use a cheap USB recharageable rear light from Amazon which have worked great and are nice and bright. For the front light those don't work so well if you need to illuminate the road ahead (rather than just be seen by others). I use a LifeLine pavo 720 lumen light which has been great. I don't think they sell that particular model any more but something like this is very close.

  • Please delete empty, opportunistic magazines created during the rexit
  • I'm in the same position but I'm trying to post some content to try to induce some.people.to participate. I'm going to give it a few months where it can be my personal link farm and I'll rethink after that if it gains no traction.

  • Which famous person do you think gets an unfair bad reputation?
  • Regardless of the merits of their respective cases she was very much a victim of a poor choice of legal representation. The contrast in the degree of preparedness and competency between their legal team couldn't have been clearer. The future careers of way more than Amber and Jonny were determined during that trial.

  • AlmaLinux gives up being 1:1 RHEL compatible
  • To be fair, the transfer from Cebtos8 to Alma couldn't have been easier. Just ran a script to update the RPM sources and a dnf update and we were done.

    Moving to a different distro with different package managers and filesystem layout is a whole other level of hurt.

  • Wisconsin judge sides with 11-year-old trans girl over her right to use school toilets
  • The best compromise for neutrality and efficiency is to keep gender neutral stalls but also retain an area with urinals which will be much quicker for large numbers of men to pass through then using stalls, and also saves water.

    The other consideration would be that the stalls will need to be sufficiently screened that people in them don't feel overlooked or vulnerable (I'm looking at you USA with your weird gappy stall building!).

  • AlmaLinux gives up being 1:1 RHEL compatible
  • I don't think this will be viable for the people who really are looking for direct RHEL compatibility, but lots of people like me just use the basic structure of RHEL because we're familiar with the config locations and tooling, and we like the stability over time. If Alma can replicate that aspect then it's still good for me even if they're not bug for bug compatible. Rocky still seem to be going for 100% compatibility and I think that will be harder to maintain over time if RedHat actively fight it.

  • AlmaLinux gives up being 1:1 RHEL compatible
    almalinux.org AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System

    An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.

    AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System

    In case you missed it, Red Hat announced they will no longer be providing the means for downstream clones to continue to be 1:1 binary copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Very quickly, both Jack and I shared some initial thoughts, but we intentionally took our time deciding the next right step for AlmaLinux OS. After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible

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    Are teeth considered healthcare in your country?
  • That's true in theory, but less.so in practice. In our area there are no dentists accepting adult NHS patients so unless you're registered already then your only option is to go private. This seems to be increasingly common and is making dentistry private by the back door.

    https://healthwatchsuffolk.co.uk/news/dentalcrisis/

  • How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There’s a Test You Can Take
  • Indeed - the test seemed to be largely determined by our susceptibility to headline grabbing language rather than by being able to judge the content of the article. People are always going to try to have enticing headlines, but you can only really judge the quality of the information by reading the article itself.

  • Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses?
  • The legal loophole RedHat found I'm guessing is something that might trigger GPLv4 to stop this behaviour (effectively punishing someone for exercising their GPL rights).

    You're right that most use of OSS doesn't involve modification so it doesn't really matter, but packaging changes are still useful.

    I know Stallman was the strongest advocate of the GPL but personally I like the principle of reciprocity which it enshrines. For all of their contributions it's important to realise that companies like RedHat are very much building on the work of OSS developers.

  • AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
  • It's a bit more than that unfortunately. Changes in conf file location, selinux Vs apparmour etc. There are a lot of little things which can catch you out if you're building something relatively complex.

  • Open source developers - have the recent moves by RedHat changed your opinion of using non-GPL licenses?

    The new license terms for RHEL are structured to stop subscribers from exercising their rights under the GPL. For now they are still providing source code albeit in a less convenient form, but technically they only need to do this for GPL licenses packages and they could remove code for BSD /MIT / Apache licensed packages.

    Do these developments make you more.inclined to distribute your software under a copyleft license or are you happy with something more open?

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    AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
  • I'm still in two minds about this. We have a lot of infrastructure build on RHEL rebuilds and there's no way we're buying enough RHEL licenses to cover it.

    I can look at Devian based alternatives but switching is going to be a time consuming process. If Alma and Rocky get this figured out then I'm still tempted to stick where I am. These distributions have been very stable, and I don't need support for them. Even if RedHat don't like this I'm fine with doing it on the basis that they have an obligation to release the source (at least for GPL code).

  • So where are we all supposed to go now?
  • Maybe it's different on Lemmy, but signing up to the fediverse via kbin couldn't have been easier. Pretty much the same as signing up for any other web site and the federated servers just show up automatically in the search. Once you're subscribed local and federated communities look pretty much identical.

  • CentOS Stream for HPC work?

    I've been running an HPC system for a science group for a while now and have built a couple of different systems based on common HPC infrastructures (ROCKS or Open HPC). These have been built on top of the rebuilt RHEL distros (mostly CentOS), but I don't really need the level of stability that these provide and would actually like the sort of updates that you get from something like CentOS stream, so this seems like a time to try this.

    The problem is that I haven't found an HPC framework which would natively support this so I'm potentially going to have to roll my own. I don't need anything fancy just some way to automatically deploy nodes and set up slurm to get jobs queued.

    Any pointers to suitable frameworks or tools which would help with this and which aren't tied to older distros?

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