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vivaldi recently disabled uBO and said it’d soon be unsupported. you can re-enable for now

codeberg seems to be the new hotness

you install a distro because of all the software it includes and how they interact out of the box

you’re completely right that systemd is a background service that most people don’t care about, but it does make the whole system more reliable, and much easier to administer for servers or workstations (enterprise management; not personal)

you certainly do want an init system… even sysv-init is an init system: you need something that runs as pid 1 that triggers other services. systemd starts services, and also ensures they’re in the correct security contexts, running as the correct users, makes sure they’re healthy, tracks dependencies (not just order; this speeds things up because it can be parallel, ensures failures don’t cascade, and means there’s far less jank in random bash scripts)

this isn’t a big political statement: this is an acknowledgment that linux users - not all, but some - will want/require something like this… and systemd user database is the place where that information is stored on modern linux systems

waiting for california would be us-centrism… california isn’t the only place in the world that exists; it was just the trigger

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they’ve said “we speak for the widest used extended user service in linux”… because… that’s what they are

to say they “speak for the distros” is ridiculous: in that case, every time they merge a feature they “speak for the distros”… they speak for their own software, which is implemented by distros precisely because they implement things like this

because theyre being pragmatic… laws are starting to be introduced around the globe for parental controls - whatever that means in each jurisdiction. given that, there needs to be options available to people wanting to, or required to comply with said laws… the best place to do that is in a user record, as an optional field… extensible user records, in modern linux, are stored in systemd

it needs it in a similar manner to how it needs location, email, real name, etc: it doesn’t functionally need it, but it’s a place to store the metadata associated with a user such that other applications can use it

because whilst systemd-initd is the part that everyone is generally aware of, that’s linked to systemd-logind so that processes can be started as different users… process init, session management, and user management are intertwined

they don’t have to be for sure - sysv init proves that - but in modern linux, they are and that comes with a load of benefits

https://deepwiki.com/systemd/systemd/6-user-and-session-management

https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/

good thing it’s entirely optional then!

or just don’t set it

tell me you have only a passing understanding of how modern linux is architected without telling me you have only a passing understanding of how modern linux is architected

PWAs do have severe limitations though… i wish it wasn’t; i love PWAs but they’ve been massively hamstrung by the big players. sadly, they’re not really comparable other than for basic apps IMO

idk about the don’t but inkjet… i don’t print much but got an epson surecolor (large format; prints up to a1 off a roll of paper… i got it because i think the idea of being able to do that is excellent more than actual use case) and it’s been absolutely glorious… the ink doesn’t dry out fast, and because it’s a borderline professional printer they don’t gouge you on the ink: they just sell you the printer for what it’s worth, and then sell the ink for what it’s worth

i think there are reasonable arguments for ink, but i guess that if you have to give 1 recommendation (outside of a brand to go with), laser is probably a safe bet

this post helps to feed the AI beast

there’s no escaping it; let’s not do with AI what we’ve done with CO2 and plastic and shift blame to individuals

for large companies, i think you’re probably right… but there are plenty of transactions that happen cash. i think it’s a case of not letting perfect be the enemy of better. some people might lie, and if they get caught that should have some punishment… but we hope that most people don’t lie, because the risk just isn’t worth it

what’s stripping these companies lying about their financial data to tax authorities?

there are lots of self-report mechanisms that we use… it’s just not worth the blowback of non-disclosure to lie about it. some people do, and sometimes they get caught; not always, but overall it’s a net benefit to transparency

that as the case may be, sending signals is still good. you don’t have to continue for very long, but a flood of support after making a moral decision will make it more likely that they, and others will make similar decisions in the future

the worst thing would be for google for example to see the fallout from this and think “well we don’t want to be them! better start building autonomous weapons”

that solver would be tool use though… i’m talking about just the “thinking” LLMs. it’s fascinating to read the thinking block, because it breaks the problem down into basic chunks, solves the basic chunks (which it would have been in its training data, so easy), and solves them with multiple methods and then compares to check itself

yeah i find the thinking fascinating with maths too… like LLMs are horrible at maths but so am i if i have to do it in my head… the way it breaks a problem down into tiny bits that is certainly in its training data, and then combine those bits is an impressive emergent behaviour imo given it’s just doing statistical next token

no, actually, we do know that… things like cycle time, lifetime cycles, their durability < 20% and > 80%, performance in the cold, sustained current

lots of these are to do with heat and degradation, but these are all problems that can be solved to improve batteries in general… some of them are inherently to lithium chemistry and easily solved with others

sodium batteries, for example, are better in most categories other than wh/kg making them not useful for portable electronics and cars etc but for stationary applications these benefits can significantly outweigh the major downside because wh/kg is not a useful metric (eg grid storage)… especially true when sodium batteries are able to deal with higher operating temperatures which means you don’t need as much if any extra cooling, which is getting close to making up for even energy density of the system in some situations

flow batteries are also real things, as are hydrogen fuel cells