Hapbt

@mfat @lemmyreader it’s a really nice firewall router too with every feature you’d want
I use pfsense now at work

@areyouevenreal bought some bitcoin once? cryto analyst!
asked chatgpt something once? AI LLM prompting
downloaded a movie on bittorrent? distributed networking!

@jaycifer @lightnsfw try adding “crypto” “AI” “decentralized” “quantum” to your resume

@Xerxos no, and i don’t mean to be all hand-wavey and say ‘oh AI isn’t a problem because it’s open source’ BUT, it does give me some vague hope because an increasing number of really good models are being open sourced and lots of people not working for shitty corporations are having a lot of success with non-corporate AI models so… i dunno, some good could come of it?
some bad could be mitigated? maybe?

@Croquette yeah, i feel like if today, someone invented a cure for cancer, it would be weaponized as leverage against some group/country
it’s alot to do with the political state of the world which is a lot to do with enduring oligarchies

@Croquette @DestroyerOfWorlds It’s all open source though and anyone can use it

@pingveno i think that two things get conflated. 1. flatpaks and appimages, snaps, have some niche uses for obsolete software and maybe some other edge cases 2. because the two major standards are backed by dumbass corporate entities, they have been promoted as the universal solution to everything that will revolutionize linux 3. the real thing everyone hates, is these stupid companies trying to get rid of a beautiful package management architechture so they can enshittify linux like windows

@kingmongoose7877 until someone tells me another way to run 2 python apps one which requires python 2 and one which requires python 3, on the same system, which is EASIER than installing a flatpak, im gonna maintain that they have a use case, even if they aren’t idealized package management as we dreamed of

@squid_slime let me install this flatpak of kde wayland on my oracle unbreakable kernel running under redhat enterprise

@tet its great because you can listen to people whine about it now instead of systemd

@n3m37h @Dudewitbow HDMI consortium decides to f around and find out if people really care re: displayport vs hdmi

@scratchandgame @Pantherina i only have an issue when they dont upstream any of the functionality they add… buuuutttt… a lot of the progress linux has made in recent years has been upstreamed evil corporation™ code so… i dunno… mixed blessing

@LunchEnjoyer all day im like ‘why are people running os/2 warp suddenly?’

@Dehydrated the car i drive to work is entirely proprietary!
but yeah, open source is awesome but not using something useful/good because of its license is just kinda shooting yourself in the foot IMO

@Dehydrated this is my pet peeve everytime i try to discuss anything about linux someone interrupts me about how SOME COMPONENT is proprietary
like yeah, the keyboard on the laptop is proprietary, so are all the ICs, come on…

@Dehydrated but something something proprietary! waa!
/s

@aluminium @ExLisper i mean technically, apple is unix based and android is too, the unix-based OSes have clearly overtaken all the other proprietary systems that popped up in the last 30 years, so there’s that

@hperrin @Dirk you can do this somehow and I even had it working at one point, but it was kinda a pain in the ass and I never redid it

https://glentomkowiak.medium.com/luks-with-tpm-in-ubuntu-df867cad9a1

@Rustmilian @just_another_person has nothing to do with this gnome however:

@Flaky @halm be nice if you could just essentially plug-in engines and swap them out etc
in theory they are all supposed to support the same standards