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chasteinsect

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  • Options for going from dualboot to Linux, but keeping the windows somewhere else

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  • dows direct bare metal access to your linux computer is imo not recommendable, at least if you leave your linux drives plugged in while booting windows. It can and has fucked up peoples linux installs and i wouldnt risk that. So either put it in a VM or figure out a way to easily unplug

    I heard that things like that can happen, that being said, I switched to linux around 8 months ago with dual boot and so far nothing happened. Maybe lucky.

  • LLMs can be easily jailbroken using poetry

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  • Interesting. So manually converting a prompt into poetry had more success than asking AI to turn it into poetry.

    Some have called it "the revenge of the English majors,"

    The study looked at 25 of the most widely used AI models and concluded that, when faced with the 20 human-written poetic prompts, only Google's Gemini Pro 2.5 registered a 100 percent fail rate. Every single one of the human-created poems broke its guardrails during the research.

    To be fair, Gemini 2.5 pro is in general pretty "mis-aligned" and easy to jailbreak from my experience if you play around even without poetry.

  • (Full Interview) Creator of Kitty Terminal and Calibre | Kovid Goyal

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  • What are the main things Wezterm does better than Kitty, in your opinion? Back when I looked at trying a different terminal I was just not convinced there's that much of a difference between say Kitty and the other hyped ones.

    That being said, back then I didn't need any of this session stuff and multiplexing as I used ZelliJ.

  • Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine

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  • You just have to make it expensive / hard enough to cheat that most people don't bother.

    I understand peoples distrust in kernel level anti-cheats and why they suck, that being said, back when I still played multiplayer games Valorant (that has a kernel level anti cheat) was so much ahead of CSGO that it was not even a comparison. I don't know whether it was due to CSGO's anti cheat being bad or Valorants being good.

    When you have to spend 50 eur / month to cheat most people don't and that's good enough for the casual player base. Not sure what the case now is with CS2 and other online games in general.

  • (Full Interview) Creator of Kitty Terminal and Calibre | Kovid Goyal

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  • Yep, he showed around Calibre in the interview and most of it's features. The calibre-server thingy is cool, you can host it on your home server and access your library from any device through a web interface.

  • Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

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  • Oh interesting I wasn't aware of how all of these things work. So even on the strictest CSS font visibility setting system fonts are not hidden (provided Document Fonts is enabled)? Local fonts I assume are hidden?

  • Mozilla Firefox gets new anti-fingerprinting defenses

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  • I remember thinking how strange it is that websites can know all of your installed fonts when I was playing around with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and https://www.amiunique.org/

    I'm on linux and I have some extra fonts installed. Just the combination of them alone is so unique to me that you don't need anything else.

  • What do you think the future of Windows is?

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  • It has a lot of momentum, so it will continue to dominate. But I wonder if it will decline over the long term as Linux continues to improve. Similar to how smartphones barely differentiate themselves from one another these days (compared to the past) maybe operating systems will have a similar fate. Maybe I’m a bit naive, but perhaps Linux will eventually have all the stability and ease of use of Windows, while also offering privacy, customization, and open-source benefits so there will be no real reason to use windows and the split will be more even.

    Maybe... eventually...

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • I didn't like it either on first play-through but I will try it again soon !

  • Syncing files, Android and Linux

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  • I got it from play store. I use it to sync markdown files (Obsidian) works like a charm.

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • On a related note, try Vimium (FF / chrome extension) that brings vim motions into your browser. You will have a more complete experience.

  • Vienna's war on parking

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  • For those that want a quick summary, they're doing these things:

    1. Reducing Parking Supply, Not Increasing It
    2. Creating "Superblocks": This is a flagship project where the city designates several city blocks, restricts through-traffic, removes parking spots, and transforms the space. The reclaimed asphalt is used for:
    • Green Spaces: Planting trees and bushes to combat heat islands.
    • Public Spaces: Adding benches and areas for people to meet and rest.
    • Active Transport: Expanding bike lanes and pedestrian areas.
    1. City-Wide Parking Management:
    • Eliminating Free Parking: Since 2022, all on-street parking in Vienna requires payment.
    • Time Limits for Non-Residents: Non-residents are limited to two hours, discouraging long-term commuter parking in neighborhoods.
    • Revenue Reinvestment: The significant revenue generated (around €180 million annually) is funneled back into improving alternatives, specifically cycling infrastructure. This helps build public support.
    1. Empowering Local Communities ("Neighborhood Oasis" Project): Residents can petition the city to convert parking spots in their area into small green spaces or seating areas
    2. Providing Strategic Alternatives (Park & Ride): Recognizing that some car use is inevitable, Vienna built convenient, affordable Park & Ride facilities on the city's outskirts. These large, cheap parking garages are directly connected to efficient and affordable public transport (buses and trains), making it easy for commuters to switch modes for the final leg of their journey.

  • Why Zuck is so good at making terrible products

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  • I found it fascinating how much Meta is spending on AI, 72 B a year, more than the GDP of Alaska!

    Also feel like it was a good summary of Zucks and Meta's whole past failures.

  • Why Zuck is so good at making terrible products

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  • You also have to control a bit portion of the shares of the company or voting rights, which he does, so share holders can't boot you out.

  • What FOSS projects do y'all donate to?

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  • That's cool. Never heard of PostmarketOS before.

  • What FOSS projects do y'all donate to?

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  • I have a set amount of "donation money" for FOSS every month. Most of these donations are not recurring, if i find a valuable FOSS project that actually helps me I give back some % of that amount, sometimes if there's a lot of them I flip between them. That being said I have donated now 3 months in a row to Hyprland since I use it and I think it's great.

  • How stupidly easy file recovery is on Linux

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  • All of my notes are stored in markdown files (Obsidian), don't use any other apps. Syncthing to sync between phone and PC.

  • How stupidly easy file recovery is on Linux

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  • Oh fascinating you can just do it manually.