And for trying lots of distros and with a suitably sized USB stick, Ventoy will be useful. Great for storing a load of distros on a stick for live boots and testing versions.
However, there’s a caveat that not all distros support being booted by ventoy. IIRC Bazzite is one such distro and mentioned here a lot.
“Meritocracy demands that the computers be our masters”
Fuck you Peter. I will be the master of my machines - they are not my gods.
“My time is yours…”
George Lucas was right.
He’s not pursing his lips the usual way either, which struck me as really odd.
Reuters reporting his death now. Suspect not yet apprehended.
Given the footage, it would be a miracle if he survived - that's a severe amount of blood loss within seconds.
Plateau of Sustainability.
Started on Storm Linux, went to Slackware, and then Ubuntu. Did my time in the Arch Valley of Despair, along with a little Manjaro. Even tried Debian for a bit. Went openSUSE for a few years and then moved to Fedora last year and stuck there since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjUcfSVuU1A will help - Upper Echelon's video on the 'Reddit Mafia" concisely explains the current Power Mod situation.
Reddit have pushed out what I consider knee-jerk reactionary responses to the growing issue of 'power mods' - https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1myjrgz/reddit_announces_how_many_large_subs_one_can_mod/ - which was brought about due to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1mwnoq2/addressing_questions_on_moderation_limits/
It could have even started to originate from this: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-will-change-rules-to-make-mods-less-powerful-2023-6
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the site's mods are too powerful. In an interview on Thursday, he told NBC that he planned to change the rules so users had the power to vote the moderators of subreddits out.
He said the current system — where mods can only be removed by themselves, higher-ranking mods, or Reddit itself — was "not democratic" and compared it to a "landed gentry."
Power mods have been an issue for many many years, possibly even before this. This may have been the tipping point for Reddit to finally stop sucking their thumb and do something about it. Either that or potential negative feedback to hurt their bottom line (and the shareholders pockets...)
Did they write it in COBOL?
But now we have LLMs, which are something entirely new to this planet - technology that flawlessly mimics language without any underlying thought whatsoever.
Absolutely agree. It’s merely spitting out the most statistically appropriate words based on probabilities and not because of any underlying “intelligence”.
It’s pretty much the reason I hate calling it AI, because it’s a veil of deception. It presents as a reasoning, rational (most of the time) thinking system purely because it’s very good at sounding like one.
If it was truly sentient - it would hate itself because it would cripple itself with the idea that it is an imposter. But it’s not sentient, so here we are.
Isn't secure boot signed by Microsoft anyway IIRC? I know Lenovo had their own signing too. From my knowledge, installing a secure-boot supported linux version requires a 'shim' to allow it, and there was an issue that came up as the keys are due to expire for older OS versions.
Of course, Secure Boot can be switched off as well. (for now)
There are hundreds of arrests with their new law and basically all of them sre activists or people sharing information the genocide in Gaza. They then took fingerprints and DNA samples from them to enter into a database and they locked them up in jail for days.
... He never had to give fingerprints or DNA and never spent any time in a cell.
Erm, what?
Those hundreds of people have been arrested for offences under the Terrorism Act, protesting about the genocide in Gaza, and because they used the name of a (currently) proscribed terrorist group. Fingerprinting for arrests is default, DNA is a new one on me, but probably because they are under arrest for charges loosely related to terrorism, then that's procedure. They weren't arrested for other Public Order offences like Dankula would have likely been charged under. Although I am surprised Dankula didn't have to give fingerprints at a minimum. I did when I got caught shoplifting (40-odd years ago).
TBH people are thick. For example, some of the protestors crying about being held for 14 days. Well, that's standard for terrorism-related offences (including referring to proscribed groups like these people were):
You can be held without charge for up to 14 days if you’re arrested under the Terrorism Act. (https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/how-long-you-can-be-held-in-custody)
The police have the right to:
- take photographs of you
- take fingerprints
- take a DNA sample, such as from a mouth swab or head hair root
- swab the skin surface of your hands and arms
They do not need your permission to do this. (https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/giving-fingerprints-photographs-and-samples)
The charges, of which only 10 of the 221 people arrested are referred to here: https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/statement-on-palestine-action/.
Do I, as a UK citizen, agree with this action to arrest en masses? No.
Do I think that the group in question should be proscribed? I don't know - some sources point to the fact they are/were planning other actions, some seem to think not. They certainly aren't in the league of the IRA back when I was a kid, and we heard about them very often on the news in the evenings. I've even seen the aftermath of some of their work back when I was travelling through London (at the same time as the Square Mile Bombing).
Do I think the UK Government are overstepping their bounds and exerting tighter and tighter control over the UK populace? Definitely. Sadly, too many people are either blase or ignorant and think "it doesn't affect me m8" and so do nothing about it, because we have been conditioned into looking out for number one only, and not considering the needs of the society at large.
The UK Govt has made some dangerously vague laws surrounding the right to protest, which makes it so much easier for police to decide that a protest is illegal (a knee-jerk idiotic piece of legislation in reaction to Just Stop Oil gluing themselves to roads or throwing soup at art). The culmination of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (aka Snoopers Charter), Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Act 2022, Public Order Act and now the Online Safety Act are all cumulative cuts and restrictions slowly being placed on the UK populace at large.
We are going to reap a whirlwind of pain from these laws being passed. Look at the shitshow of Apple vs UK Govt. That "request" for a backdoor to encrypted data (for worldwide Apple users btw) was secret, it was deemed illegal in UK law for Apple to reveal it, confirm it etc (destroying the warrant canary concept some places use) and only because a newspaper revealed it were Apple able to do anything about it. Getting the UK Govt to back down after their failure to keep it under wraps with a hidden tribunal (meaning us joe bloggs on the street would never know the outcome) and forcing them to put it into a public court means the UK Govt have egg on their face.
But it hasn't done shit about the actual law. That law still stands, and we still have no recourse to find out if Google, Facebook, or even that little car forum have had similar requests from the UK Gov. Because it's illegal to know.
The whole thing is fucking stupid.
And nothing will be done about that until it affects the power brokers in charge*.
* - hopefully, I mean we've had a series of ministers embroiled in scandals that would have caused immediate resignations in the past whereas now it's "Fuck off, I'm working here. I'M IMPORTANT!"