debian bc i want a rock solid system that i don't have to worry about maintaining and i don't give a fuck about the most recent versions of stuff
to the unavoidable "it's been 15 years" comments: 15-year-old x11 was a piece of shit. the difference is that we had no alternative so we had to put up with it
as someone who used to develop a cross-platform (linux and windows) desktop application: the bulk of development took place on linux. i only ever booted to windows to build the app and make windows-exclusive adjustments, but never to actually develop any features
update: it seems someone is mad at matrix's ceo for some reason and wants him to step down. this is the username of the last throwaway account that did this on matrix:
on matrix, they @ everyone in the room so as much people as possible see the content. it happened on some foss-related rooms i'm in (like emacs, debian, and kde). over here, i saw it appearing in a kde community

i'm seeing regular shock content spam on matrix and even on here. what's going on?
anyone else noticed this? it started a few days ago
i'd usually agree, but in this case, it feels like a cost-cutting measure. webdevs are cheaper and more available, so it's cheaper for them to just rewrite the installer in electron than pay more expensive desktop developers to maintain their existing installer
seems like yet another electron app that only runs locally. i'm guessing that hiring traditional desktop ui developers is getting harder and more expensive over time, so they don't bother anymore and just hire webdevs instead
sure. it's not gonna come from within, though. it's no coincidence that no successful socialist revolution ever happened in the imperial core
Socialism isn’t going to take over the world without a socialist movement developing within the imperial core
yeah it will. defeating the west is far more likely and more effective for that goal. we don't need the west leading anything, it needs to lose to socialism and take the back seat
all this is just american/western exceptionalism, but it is so embedded in your mind that you don't realize it
it is far more likely that the us starts collapsing and tries to bring the world down with it than a socialist revolution ever happens. we need to defeat the usa, not hope that it brings about a popular democracy.
saying the world needs a "socialist america" is like saying we need a "socialist police force". it's an oxymoron
a revolution in the world's largest empire is extremely unlikely by virtue of it being the world's largest empire
american exceptionalism: socialist edition
seriously though, how would an us-american socialist revolution (let's pretend that's possible) be better for the world than the usa crumbling completely?
the world needs the death of the usa
in today's round of "lib or anarkiddie"...
(anyway, not sure what the comic has to do with the meme unless you think it's criticizing marxism)
thanks for the tip about src/*
skipping hidden files. i fixed that, excluded unnecessary massive files i found through baobab and copied the remaning files. everything worked and i'm now runnning debian testing
Isso deu em alguma coisa?
tenta fazer o melhor que possível que ainda seja factível
rsync
has a ton of options. any specific setup you'd recommend me?
EDIT: seems like rsync -av src/* dst
is working for me
primeiro de tudo: isso não teria que passar por conselho de ética não?
fora isso, a rigor, o que é público é público e ninguém pode te impedir de salvar o que quiser. mesmo assim, é de bom tom conseguir o consentimento de quem for afetado por esse scraping e deixar claro qual é o uso. muita gente pode se sentir exposta de ter todas suas conversas aleatórias salvas em um grande banco de dados. já fizeram coisa como um banco de dados público de busca por posts no fediverso inteiro e foi rechaçado com força.
seria de melhor tom ainda se você pedisse permissão para coletar os dados (opt-in) em vez de remover quem pedir (opt-out).

want to clone my debian install so i can test updating to trixie
i want to test debian trixie (13) so i can report bugs and troubleshoot before the release later this year. i thought about simply installing trixie alongside my current bookworm installation, but that won't be my scenario when the time comes, since i've been updating my system instead of reinstalling it since debian jessie (8) and this time it won't be different. how can i clone my current system so i can simulate an update to trixie? do i simply create a new partition and copy my files over, then chroot to it and install grub?
cool, but honestly, with all those swastikas painted on their chests, it looks a little like a fascist march if you're not paying attention

a página inicial demora uma vida pra carregar
alguém mais sente isso ou sou só eu?
edit: é possível que tenha a ver com o /c/[email protected] porque eu fui entrar só nessa comunidade e ela demorou uma vida pra abrir também

cuidado com o old lemmy: pornô explícito na página inicial


eu fui testar o old lemmy esses dias e percebi que, no all (que é a listagem padrão do old lemmy) ele mostra conteúdo marcado como nsfw explicitamente. e não demora muito pra aparecer: na imagem que eu mandei, não precisa nem descer a página. não tem como remover isso na configuração. o melhor que dá pra fazer é mudar a listagem pra local ou subscribed
só um aviso pra quem por um acaso queira abrir o old lemmy no trabalho não ser demitido

magit on emacs on android
i'm having a little bit of a hard time expanding the unstaged changes on magit. the mode menu works fine via touch on android, so i can do most operations, but i can't expand the unstaged files in the main magit buffer without the keyboard, which is a problem since read-only buffers hide the kb by default. i could change that configuration, but i'm using a phone, so screen real state is very limited, so i want to avoid that if possible. i tried touching, double tapping, holding, but nothing seems to expand the files
i feel like i'm in uncharted territory, so this is a long shot i think, but is anyone else having similar problems?

small browsers
please dump any small browsers you know about, i'd like to try them out
the two i can think of are emacs's eww and links (text mode). eww has been surprisingly useful, even without js support and extremely barebones html rendering
this is eww:

and this is links:

sadly, neither is able to login to lemmy, but I was able to login to mastodon through brutaldon
EDIT: ooh, i forgot about lynx (not links). also command-line. it managed to successfully l

guile on emacs+termux fails to run. this was my solution
tl;dr if you have an encoding problem while running guile on emacs for android with termux, make sure the LANG
env var on emacs matches the value of termux:
undefined
;; ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el (setenv "LANG" "en_US.UTF-8")
don't where else to post this, so i'm posting it here so it doesn't gets lost
emacs >=30 comes with android support. i've been using it for a while now, but it's really only useful if you can install applications to use it with. that's why the project offers an emacs package and a termux package with the same signature so you can share the termux binaries with the emacs runtime. packages and instructions here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs/files/termux/
i tried running guile on emacs with geiser a few days ago but it failed to run due to some encoding issues. it ran fine on termux
after a little googling, i compared the values of the LANG
variable in both termux and emacs:
- termux:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
- emacs: `LANG=en_US

do we need a linuxquestions?
over on reddit, there's a distinction between /r/linux (general discussions) and /r/linuxquestions (community support). i notice a lot of support posts over here, which could warrant the split, but otoh maybe the volume of posts is not enough to justify it and it could risk spreading our community way too thin
what do you think?

why did chernobyl operators ignore all warnings and safety measures leading to the accident?
this might be a little off-topic, but I don't know where else to ask
i saw a video simulating the real time unfolding of the chernobyl disaster and it blew my mind how much the engineers ignored every warning and security measure possible
(yt link for those interested: https://youtu.be/WMr3-ShzB08)
why would they do this? i'm not a nuclear engineer, but i'd much rather risk my job, my career and leave millions of people without electricity than push the safety thresholds even by the tiniest bit. trying to look for explanations online leads to liberal, anticommunist bullshit like "russian incompetence" or "they wouldn't dare question the generals" or whatever. i want an actual, technical (and social) explanation without any liberal bias, which is why i'm asking it here

everytime i give it a chance, btrfs lets me down
i've instaled opensuse tumbleweed a bunch of times in the last few years, but i always used ext4 instead of btrfs because of previous bad experiences with it nearly a decade ago. every time, with no exceptions, the partition would crap itself into an irrecoverable state
this time around i figured that, since so many years had passed since i last tried btrfs, the filesystem would be in a more reliable state, so i decided to try it again on a new opensuse installation. already, right after installation, os-prober failed to setup opensuse's entry in grub, but maybe that's on me, since my main system is debian (turns out the problem was due to btrfs snapshots)
anyway, after a little more than a week, the partition turned read-only in the middle of a large compilation and then, after i rebooted, the partition died and was irrecoverable. could be due to some bad block or read failure from the hdd (it is supposedly brand new, but i guess it could be busted), but shit like this never happe

onde é o melhor lugar pra se morar em salvador (custo/benefício, localização, conforto, serviços, etc)
gostaria de saber quais são os melhores lugares para se morar em salvador sendo realista (ou seja, não vale apartamento de dois milhões no morro do gato). supondo que você tivesse um crédito de uns 300 mil mais ou menos pra comprar uma casa ou apartamento, ou então quer gastar no máximo 1500/2000 reais de aluguel, onde você escolheria morar?
outra coisa: eu quero conseguir ir a pé tranquilamente pra mercado, banco, etc e ter transporte coletivo disponível pra se precisar ir longe. ou seja, nada de condomínio na puta que pariu na palalela
eu fui morar em salvador pra fazer faculdade e lá em morava num daqueles prédios antigos em volta do shopping barra e a região é bem legal de morar. a desvantagem é que fazer mercado e comer é caro e tem muito ladrão (não sei se isso mudou hoje), mas eu gostava muito de morar lá e o apartamento onde eu morava (era de meu pai) ele comprou por 140mil e hoje custa 250. aluguel é por volta de 2000 reais num apto 2 quartos+dependência que nem o que eu mor

linux-capable tablets for $100-$200
i'm seriously considering permanently abandoning laptops in favor of tablets. i spent a day working on my wife's tablet today and it was fine enough for when you're on the go that the small screen isn't too much of an issue. plus, you get an extended battery life, no noise, more comfort carrying it around, and the best of all, for much less money
the biggest downside is that, since tablets are technically embedded devices, they're much more locked up and you basically have no access to the system with the stock rom
so im looking for a cheap tablet ($100-$200), around 10 inches, that i can easily (or at least reliably) install linux to. any recommendations?

anyone else treating with bupropion?
my new psychiatrist gradually took me off of ritalin+venlafaxin and introduced bupropion, first 150mg while cutting the venlafaxin dosage in half, and now 300mg of bup alone, completely removing venlafaxin
it's been 4 days i think since this last update and it's been fucking rough. i'm not sure if it's just the venlafaxin withdrawal or if the bupropion is contributing to it, but i feel like shit, i'm getting constant brain zaps unless i remain completely still with as little stimulation as possible, been having nightmares every single day, am extremely irritable and im not even sure the bupropion is even helping at all
is anyone else under the same treatment? it feels like a fringe/experimental treatment, but id like to confirm this from other adhders
thanks
edit: thank you so much for all the answers! they helped me to calm down and reassured me a bit. the symptoms are starting to wear off, so that also halped.
very late update: the venlafaxin withdrawal waned off and now i'm fee

for those worried about the impact of sanctions on linux, is any of the bsds a better alternative?
(this post obviously assumes the recent removal of russian devs due to sanctions is bad; no need to comment if you disagree)
a lot of people i know are considering jumping ship to some bsd after the recent MAINTAINERS debacle, but i'm skeptical it would make any difference. afaik, they're just as us-centric as linux if not more (it's the berkeley software distribution, after all). also, my biggest gripe about the bsds and the main reason i've never had any interest in them is their permissive licensing. permissive licenses suck
would there be any difference wrt sanctions in the bsds or moving away from linux to *bsd bc of that would be pointless?
is anyone on here using cppfront in production?
i've been playing with cppfront for a few minutes now and it's been a surprisingly pleasant experience so far. i'm tempted to try it out at work to see what happens, but i wanna know if anyone tried to use it in production and what your experiences are
for those who haven't heard of it, cppfront is a cpp2 to c++ compiler, a bit like coffeescript for js. cpp2 is herb sutter's proposal of a new and cleaner c++ syntax with better ergonomics, better orthogonality, and better defaults

is anyone on here using cppfront in production?
i've been playing with cppfront for a few minutes now and it's been a surprisingly pleasant experience so far. i'm tempted to try it out at work to see what happens, but i wanna know if anyone tried to use it in production and what your experiences are
for those who haven't heard of it, cppfront is a cpp2 to c++ compiler, a bit like coffeescript for js. cpp2 is herb sutter's proposal of a new and cleaner c++ syntax with better ergonomics, better orthogonality, and better defaults

encontro emacs brasil?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/8290351
será que não temos pessoas suficientes aqui pra marcar um encontro emacs no brasil? acho que não precisaria nem ser na mesma cidade que todo mundo mora, eu mesmo moro no rio e estaria disposto a ir pra são paulo ou bh, já que são umas 8h de viagem e uns 200 reais ida e volta.
(edit: mods, i'm posting this bc i couldn't find any rules restricting the posts to english only, but i'll remove this post if you're not comfortable with a non-english post)

encontro emacs brasil?
será que não temos pessoas suficientes aqui pra marcar um encontro emacs no brasil? acho que não precisaria nem ser na mesma cidade que todo mundo mora, eu mesmo moro no rio e estaria disposto a ir pra são paulo ou bh, já que são umas 8h de viagem e uns 200 reais ida e volta.
(edit: mods, i'm posting this bc i couldn't find any rules restricting the posts to english only, but i'll remove this post if you're not comfortable with a non-english post)