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Scientists are cool and all, but I really hate substack.

What are these checks that you need to do?

My perhaps unknown hero of pdf processing is https://mupdf.com/

If it’s in the data somewhere it should be detectable. They’re an open source project, maybe bring your issue to them and they can make something?

(Thanks for actually engaging with the discussion).

On another hand, if you prevent Linux adoption in a large demographic, you remove a threat to big tech’s dominance.

Ok, sort of, maybe but this move is the move of big tech dominance. By caving to it, “linux” is positioning itself into a position of compliance with them, not opposition. What complying does is also removing the option to really oppose and evade big tech’s dominance.

We’re simply entering the era where installing an illegal operating system becomes a thing that is possible, because previously nobody cared to make an operating system illegal. And I would to have many distros to choose from that don’t comply with this, but I will pick the wacky silly outlier if I hate to. At least I like to think of myself as doing that.

Uh, “no u”.

Putting the birthdate into linux is only helping Google, Apple and Microsoft.

…you can’t just say and claim that. At least give me some argument why would that be helping those companies.

Imo, the move would be if all linux distros were to let the date come and go and just geo block all requests from countries and zip codes that do this. Users breaking the law would not be the problem of the organization making the OS. If they’re not “offering” the OS in those zip codes, refuse all service, patches, updates, everything, they would not be legally responsible.

Not really no. I never looked at that.

ok.

Daily usage? I have some audio issues. It “feels” like the whatever resets/reinitializes. Really quickly though, playback isn’t being interrupted. Sometimes it switches to a dead output channel though and I have to reset it to the actually connected output. Too lazy to diagnose it.

As a longer standing point of annoyance, I find it very difficult to quickly go UI -> package name -> bug tracker -> bug report. For understandable reasons devs don’t exactly advertise their bug trackers, they’re always a bit obfuscated and have some barriers.

Color management continues to not work correctly, although that may be due to some x11 wayland conflict. I have a dark color theme preference and certain applications that aren’t directly available as package, but e.g. via flatpack don’t integrate well. Gnome calendar is something I can name, without wanting to blame the devs of that piece of software in particular. They’re doing their best, it’s not a priority, maybe not even an issue on their preferred config.

I also have some freeze crashes, although that’s more recent, might be a harddrive/hardware issue that throws off something very low level. But the reboot is so quick I barely mind that.

…because it’s what plants crave!

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But I couldn’t install a specific Python version? System python is 3.13 but I needed 3.10.

The others have covered virtual environments, which is what you need if you really want a 3.10 interpreter.

But… the thing I’m here to tell you is:

they recommend virtual box to not mess with your default installation of the program and the databases it uses.

for many projects this doesn’t actually matter. You can just ignore the warnings, use the most recent version and install whatever you need.

You’re already sandboxing this stuff in a virtual box, which you should be able to reset or bootstrap again when you need to. You’re not interfering with your actual systems’ python, you’re messing with your virtual box’s system python.

I find the whole venv stuff to be very annoying, I never need it, because I use libraries that don’t interfere with system operations and I don’t downgrade to interact with projects. And even if you’re not installing “correct” versions, most of the time newer versions fix bugs and expand functionality. It is extremely rare that functions get removed and it will actually break by you not using their exact version. Or like, version conflicts.

And besides, they would need some kind of CI / testing that would check for compatibility anyway.

tldr: ignore venvs, try it bare metal, see if something breaks. If not, there you go, if yes, you can still invest the time and effort of learning venvs.

What should we do?

There is no “we” and you can start a fork/rewrite if you want to, good luck!

The report also notes that journalists “carrying confidential information” or material “personally embarrassing to the Prime Minister on the eve of important treaty negotiations” could face similar scrutiny.

Weird way to admit that every single politician who could possibly become prime minister has secrets that are so utterly heinous and disgusting, that their revelation would sink important treaty negotiations.

Just UK things I suppose.

Sounds good, good luck to the dev!

I mean, you have to modify it of course. You can’t literally blame cloudflare.

But you can modify everything so that it’s a funny joke that still looks like the cloudflare error that people know.

I’m pretty sure that meets the legal definition of cookie, but that’s not even my point. I’m not opposed to it either, clearly it’s required for the site to work. And local storage is way better than online, so thanks for finding and using that solution.

But even if you’re not sending it to a server, you are collecting that data and that’s not mentioned. I would like it if you put a line somewhere “we’re keeping track of your progress and performance and blah blah etc etc, you can back it up or delete it here”.

And this whole thing might sound like more critique than praise, that’s unfair, I’m 98% very happy with the project, it’s a great idea and fantastic implementation!

Seems cool, but you’re missing some info in your privacy and terms, don’t you?

How do you save the progress data if you don’t collect it in e.g. a cookie?

You know [Burger chain]? Self hosting is making your own burger. Kinda similar ingredients, kinda looking product overall, it’s still a burger.

But you’re in control.

I’m more on mastodon and their filter system is so nice

I made a filter for “idiot did a thing” and every time the news has another article about how some idiot whose name is on my list did something again, as they do, because that’s all they’ve been doing for 20 years, I no longer have to read it.

But I still get the little “something was blocked, click here to read it” thing, so it’s very satisfying.

I don’t block often, but I would expect it’s a similar upgrade.