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  • I’m not sure I buy that: Trump is a cult, and his cultists are going to have an absolute riotous fit if someone tries to depose him.

    Short of him dying or doing something you just can’t ignore - like, say, he eats shit out of his diaper on national tv - he’s not going anywhere.

    Vance isn’t smart enough to 6D chess his way into the presidency without his nominal constituency rioting over it, so I’m doubtful that’s his play.

    He’s probably just going to pull the last-guy-in-the-room thing, since that’s the only person Trump listens to or remembers anyway which means you keep the cultists happy AND you get the figurehead to do what you want anyways without the mess.



  • Mastodon is, like, fine, but it has one gaping flaw that makes it utterly unusable for me.

    Basically, the issue is you cannot be assured that any particular instance contains the entire conversation thread/replies, because they’re not necessarily sent to every server participating in the conversation.

    Bluesky fixes that by the ‘firehose’ feeds federating out to the PDSes and providing complete reply chains, which just flat out makes it a better experience since you can actually see what everyone is saying, not just what people on servers you might be following already are saying.

    It’s a giant stupid flaw in Mastodon (since other AP based platforms such as, for example, Lemmy don’t have it) and really should be addressed since it makes the platform darn near useless since why am I following people to only get half of what might be a useful thread?




  • two commands: dd and resize2fs, assuming you’re using ext4 and not something more exotic.

    one makes a block-level copy of one device to another like so: dd if=/dev/source-drive of=/dev/destination-drive

    the other is used to resize the filesystem from whatever size it was, to whatever size you tell it (or the whole disk; I’d have to go read a manpage since it’s been a bit)

    the dd is completely safe, but the resize2fs command can break things, but you’d still have the data on the original drive, so you could always start over if it does - i’d unplug the source drive before you start doing any expansion stuff.







  • And it doesn’t mean they can take away anything.

    Not if they’re able to monetize your small bugfix

    The problem is they can, and that’s not the point - I don’t care if you make money with something I spent my time on willingly, I care that you’re forcing me to say you’re the full and sole owner of my contributions and can do whatever you want at any point in the future with them.

    Signing a CLA puts the full ownership of the code in the hands of whomever you’ve signed the CLA with which means they have the full ability and legal right to do any damn thing they want, which often includes telling you to fuck yourself, changing the license, and running off to make a commercial product while both killing the AGPLed version, and fucking everyone who spent any time on it.

    If you have a CLA, I don’t care if your project gives out free handjobs: I don’t want it anywhere near anything I’m going to either be using or have to maintain.

    And sure you can fork from before the license change, but I’m unwilling to put a major piece of software into my workflows and hope that, if something happens, someone will come along and continue working on it.

    Frankly, I’m of the opinion that if you’re setting up a project and make the very, very involved decision to go with a CLA and spend the time implementing one, you’re spending that time because you’ve already determined it’s probably in your interests later to do a rugpull. If you’re not going to screw everyone, you don’t go to the store and buy a gallon of baby oil.

    I’ve turned into the person who doesn’t really care about new shit until it’s been around a decade, has no CLAs, and is under a standard GPL/AGPL license (none of this source-available business license nonsense), and has a proven track record of the developers not being shitheads.



  • take a few extra taps and swipes than they would on Android

    I’ve swapped from iOS to Android and I very much have the opposite experience.

    Everything in Android feels just a little bit like someone somewhere went ‘well we have to put this option SOMEWHERE’ and just shoved it in, which leads to me fiddling in apps and system settings a lot more than I was on iOS.

    I’m happy to chalk it up to much more experience in iOS than modern Android, but it’s been kinda a pervasive experience.

    And, also related and annoying: googling ‘how do I change a thing’ routinely makes me nuts because how you do something seems to vary from manufacturer to manufacturer and even like, model to model.

    I guess it’s just… maybe iOS needs more button presses, but Android is utterly inconsistent as to where something might be which means you spend a little more time digging for a specific thing than you might on iOS which leads to the impression that you’re hitting a lot more buttons to do something, even if maybe the actual number of presses would be lower if you knew exactly how to do it.



  • Quickest peak and then utter vanishing of any interest in a project I’ve had in a while.

    Wouldn’t mind something a little more open than SearXNG in that it owns it’s own database, but requiring that they be the sole owner of anything anyone contributes AND having the ability to yank the rug at any time they feel like it pretty much puts it in the meh-who-cares category.

    Had enough stupid shit yanked over the past few years that I really just don’t care or have time to deal with any that is already prepping for their eventual enshittification.


  • contrast to their desktop offerings

    That’s because server offerings are real money, which is why Intel isn’t fucking those up.

    AMD is in the same boat: they make pennies on client and gaming (including gpu), but dumptrucks of cash from selling Epycs.

    IMO, the Zen 5(%) and Arrow Lake bad-for-gaming results are because uarch development from Intel and AMD are entirely focused on the customers that pay them: datacenter and enterprise.

    Both of those CPU families clearly show that efficiency and a focus on extremely threaded workloads were the priorities, and what do you know, that’s enterprise workloads!

    end of the x86 era

    I think it’s less the era of x86 is ended and more the era of the x86 duopoly putting consumer/gaming workloads first has ended because, well, there’s just no money there relative to other things they could invest their time and design resources in.

    I also expect this to happen with GPUs: AMD has already given up, and Intel is absolutely going to do that as soon as they possibly can without it being a catastrophic self-inflicted wound (since they want an iGPU to use). nVidia has also clearly stopped giving a shit about gaming - gamers get a GPU a year or two after enterprise has cards based on the same chip, and now they charge $2000* for them - and they’re often crippled in firmware/software so that they won’t compete with the enterprise cards as well as legally not being allowed to use the drivers in a situation like that.

    ARM is probably the consumer future, but we’ll see who and with what: I desperately hope that nVidia and MediaTek end up competitive so we don’t end up in a Qualcomm oops-your-cpu-is-two-years-old-no-more-support-for-you hellscape, but well, nVidia has made ARM SOCs for like, decades, and at no point would I call any of the ones they’ve ever shipped high performance desktop replacements.

    • Yes, I know there’s a down-stack option that shows up later, but that’s also kinda the point: the ones you can afford will show up for you… eventually. Very much designed to push purchasers into the top end.