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Does limiting things you actually enjoy help?
  • Yeah I've considered the idea of coming to peace with how my brain works. Which does just mean that sometimes I'll play one game/do one hobby for a while then drop it, but maintaining a strict regimen for consuming said hobbies is as exhausting as recovering from hyper focus.

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    WhatsApp running through android-translation-layer (no container!) on Linux desktop
  • Fascinating stuff. I'm glad we're entering this new era of Linux application compatibility! And all through the honorable work of developers who are doing stuff just for the fun of it.

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    Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions
  • Disregarding the parent comment, but hosting a soft fork is easy enough but it'll quickly become a spaghetti mess of local patches that conflict with upstream changes. It's not like there's an argument for preserving access to Russia either since the nature of the kernel being hosted across torrent trackers makes it impossible to deny Linux to any one country.

    It seems like the better solution (imo) is to work on a different kernel receptive of these maintainers, so that the companies employing them can still have a kernel that is developed for their use-cases whilst supporting projects that don't so openly collaborate with hostile states.

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    Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions
  • All of those freedoms were directly impacted bozo.

    And as for "Linus didn't do it", not only did they choose to comply with an order that directly violated the GPL, but in doing so he then followed up by gloating about Russian maintainers who have worked diligently on the kernel for years for the betterment of open software AND Linus' paycheck.

    Calling your former volunteer contributors bots and state assets because of their home country is just straight up racist, especially when the only evidence of state-sponsored tampering in the Kernel has come from American institutions (that we even know of).

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    Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions
  • Even this top level comment is so blatantly misunderstanding the concept of open source software that no one will bother engaging with it properly.

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    Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions
  • Probably better for BRICS countries to consider contributing to something different.

    Realistically there's no feasible way for the US to block access to use the kernel, and even a soft fork of it will be laughably easy for glowies to exploit. There are a bunch of promising kernels that could be well suited for China and Russia's push towards RISC and ARM independence, whereas in Linux they'd be tasked with maintaining drivers and other systems that are a massive security vulnerability if you don't have total control over them.

    I'd honestly even consider it a good idea for Russia to get the FSF to fight this considering it's a blatant violation of the GPL. Even if the president can just say whatever they like, at least you can make it embarrassing and expensive for the chauvinists gloating at the labour they exploited for years.

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    Comment today on Lemmy re: US election by NuXCom
  • Reddit ahh post. Genuinely what is the point of Lemmy dot world if every community is just scolding people about the fact you're glazing a genocide denier

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    Russia Pushes for BRICS Clearing, Depository System to Sidestep the West
  • Maybe a total boycott of Russian economy would've had some domestic response, but in reality the only people sanctioning the Russian economy are the US and EU, which in itself represents a fraction of the world population and its economic output. The vast majority of the world's countries continued trading with Russia as usual, if not encouraged trade as Russia offers more favourable deals that the US and EU are unwilling to counter.

    If the EU/US bloc was genuinely interested in anything other than a forever war to boost their military industrial complexes, they'd have put some of their economic power on the line to support global adoption of sanctions, but instead it is backfiring as BRICS slowly (but very surely) becomes a truly independent economic order of its own creation.

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    I have a question about flatpak
  • I don't think speed is an issue. They're larger but all software loads dependencies from disk, flatpaks just have them bundled into a different location.

    Snap did have some loading time issues but in terms of performance, I don't think there was much measurable difference.

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    Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
  • he's just an American nationalist at heart. his dad was a member of the Russian communist party and his biography seemed to make clear that rebelled from that.

    socially he's not terrible but when the war drums come beating he's stepping in line for the stars and stripes

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  • If youve used Prowlarr, you might have experienced cloudflare blocking access to certain trackers.

    There's a docker-based solution called cloudsolverr which automatically bypasses these cloudflare challenges by spinning up a headless chromium browser.

    Main issue is it's heavy on resources (I have an rpi4b) and doesn't have an easy native setup (I've not had time to practice with docker stuff yet).

    Is there a manual way for me to resolve these cloudflare challenges so I can add the trackers? It's mainly for public shit like 1337x just to fill out my access to TV shows where my other trackers fail or get rate-limited.

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