Masks protect other people from you, far more than the other direction.
This is also why they failed long term. "I wore a mask and still got sick!" was an easy replacement for, "I can't breathe in this constitution violating mask!"
i might be the only person in the world who wants cURL to PUT a 2 GB response body to some URL, show progress while streaming, and do this with a `Transfer-Encoding: chunked` so that it doesn't buffer the entire stdin upfront
nice! did i miss a way to do this with cURL somehow? i read pretty much the entire (incredibly comprehensive, i love it) manpage top to bottom but even doing
tar c * | zstd | curl -i hostname.tld -H 'Content-Type: application/x-tar+zstd' -H 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' -X PUT --data-binary @-
MSNBC guest Ian Bremmer on Katy Tur suggests that European countries should ban #Israel from Eurovision, make it difficult for Israelis to travel to Europe, and engage in similar practices to isolate the #Jewish state. His idea is that doing so will turn voters against Netanyahu, thereby at last breaking the far-right stranglehold on government power.
I humbly suggest that Mr. Bremmer doesn't know shit about Israel or Israelis. If you want to push voters straight into the arms of the right wing, make them feel like the world is against them.
If you want those voters to abandon the Bibi and his ilk, stop rewarding Hamas for terrorism. Make it clear that Europe stands behind a two-state solution but only after Hamas capitulates and the #hostages have been freed, and only after Israel's government puts meaningful effort into building a foundation upon which a two-state solution could be implemented. Offer Pal recognition as an ex post reward for peace, not an ex ante capitulation to terror.
"Around 15% of #Italians consider physical attacks on #Jewish people "entirely or fairly justifiable", according to a #survey published on Tuesday, as protests against #Israel's offensive in #Gaza continue across the country.
Some 18% of those interviewed also believe #antisemitic graffiti on walls and other public spaces is legitimate, according to the survey, conducted on September 24-26 by the pollster SWG among a national sample of 800 adults."
the thing is you’re still dealing with the environmental, moral, ethical, etc. impacts. if these tools have eliminated those issues, then I see no issue!
To my #Jewish friends, I am so angry and sad to hear that your community has been attacked in #Manchester. May the victims rest in peace. Anti-Semitic attacks are disgustingly on the rise across the world. We must never tolerate attacks on entire communities just because of who the people are.
ahaha. No I didn't switch back to Win7 but I did get it running on a VM during lunch. It was just my reaction to seeing how much lighter it is even compared to 10 (700 MB Ram at Boot VS 1.8 to 2.4 on Win10) , and how Metro and UWP apps have bloated the Windows ecosystem. I find it funny. On a lot of the Linux bashing boards, people will bash it for saying it's not a real operating system when you can't run something made for linux 5 or 10 years ago, unless they self-package deps. Well rude awakening to you Windows lovers out there, your OS (and Mac too, but not as badly) really has a lot of old code and copy of the same file 500 times because of that compatibility. What are you trading for it? More Ram usage? more storage space for the installed OS because it needs to now ship 50 copys of that library with it? Yeah? You can sleep in that bed, I'm getting very tired of doing so myself, my back is hurting, ouch.
I am still running Windows 7 on hardware. The day is coming when I will need to be doing the same thing you did, not as an experiment, but as an actual system. If I may ask, what distro of linux and virtual machine software are you using to run it? Sorry to bother you with this, but my own research has either turned up command line only or completely inaccessible. I would really like to se a UI that I can use to launch VMs.
@techsinger Fwiw, I run Win XP, 7, and 10 on VirtualBox under MX Linux. Daily use for industrial controls software, so lots of USB, serial comms, and weird networking. Zero issues. I don't do 3D, so no idea how good those drivers are.
@PhilSalkie @techsinger yeah, I think commandline. My goal was to run it only under multiuser.target, not graphical.target. So that means, launching qemu with espeakup and the right VMDK, and then just using most things from within Windows. It's not a horrible option for transitioning to Linux, I figured if I want Linux more in my face, this might be more of the way than forgetting about it on a spare SSD as dual-boot. Comfort can bring ignorance too that way.
@PhilSalkie I don't know if this will work, but I thought maybe of launching the machine and then using NVDA remote to run it from another machine and Sonobus for audio output. That way, I wouldn't get annoying audio issues from the VM. Have you tried that? What I was also thinking about was to have a USB sound card and USB keyboard and run it through that. The thing I'm after is to avoid the hardware limitations of 7, there will come a day when hardware that supports it and supports everything else will be a serious pain to get. Finally, and this is still in the future for me, it would be nice to have a sort of containerized VM for everything I want, maybe 7 as a book reader, 7 as a mail machine, 10 as one browser, another 7 as a browser, and all on the same physical hardware. The switching might be a pain, I have yet to find a fast way to switch NVDA remote connections, but I can sort of see it as a nice to have.
@PhilSalkie @techsinger OK, if you do want to do VM stuff in a GUI, I think virt-manager is probably the best for it. Looks like it uses a GTK-based Window and launches Qemu and parameters on it for you too, so it's not bad at all. I used Debian 13. Could press S at the installer to get Speakup right at boot. Was very nice. Since then I've switched some packages to Backports and Forky, but it was super easy to get going with if you use Mate (can try Gnome, but Debian 13 ships an older ATSPI module for it and when I installed Gnome3 barely anything sppoke.) It's not the best distro for most-recent app versions, but for stability, sure. Archlinux is better at that but then you also can get new bugs to sneak in before upstream has had a chance to test it all. So in Linux Land you gotta pick I guess.
well, no commandline-always for me. I just made a script that runs everything for me with the right audio and all. No stutters, no nothing like that. The basic HDAudio on Linux is far better than VMWare, it has almost zero lag for me. ```exec "$QEMU_BIN" \ -enable-kvm \ -machine q35,accel=kvm \ -cpu host -smp "$VCPUS" -m "$RAM_MB" \ -rtc base=localtime \ -display gtk \ "${AUDIO_ARGS[@]}" \ -netdev user,id=n0 -device e1000,netdev=n0 \ -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb \ -device ich9-usb-uhci1,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=0,multifunction=on \ -device ich9-usb-uhci2,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=2 \ -device ich9-usb-uhci3,masterbus=usb.0,firstport=4 \ -drive if=none,id=d0,file="$DISK",format=vmdk \ -device ahci,id=ahci0 \ -device ide-hd,drive=d0,bus=ahci0.0,bootindex=0``` - it sets up things if you place it in as a script with your variables in the $ signs, like ram, drive, ETC. Virt-manager works too quite well, if you're not like me and don't have it mounted on an NTFS drive and on your own Linux file-system.
Seriously, I can't thank you enough, this is amazingly simple and I appreciate it. The only bit I don't understand is the line "${AUDIO_ARGS[@]}" \ What arguments are supposed to be here? Again, thanks very much, I really appreciate it. And one more thing, if I may raise it. How do I pass USB stuff through like a braille display or BT adapter or even a sound card?
@techsinger @PhilSalkie ah yeah, in my script I set these between Pulse or Pipewire. I tried Alsa first, but should have thought better because Alsa is a one-program kind of beast, so since Orca was talking it failed to spin up the Audio within Qemu. For that section I list these as run commands: "AUDIO_ARGS=() case "$AUDIO_BACKEND" in pa|pulse|pulseaudio) AUDIO_ARGS+=( -audiodev pa,id=pa0 ) AUDIO_ARGS+=( -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-duplex,audiodev=pa0 ) ;; pipewire) AUDIO_ARGS+=( -audiodev pipewire,id=pw0 ) AUDIO_ARGS+=( -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-duplex,audiodev=pw0 ) ;; *) echo "AUDIO_BACKEND must be 'pa' or 'pipewire'"; exit 1;; esac" So it just changes that bit depending on how you pass it.
so most Linux distros have switched to Pipewire by now, and After Pipewire 1.3 things did get a lot more stable on it, so now I have a lot less to hate Pipewire on for. There's the Pipewire-pulse.sh script Stormux wrote on his Github that adds a pulse socket for Pipewire as system, that way system apps can still talk to your own user's Pipewire, and that alone fixes 90% of issues I've seen with audio not passing on through to it. Pipewire also usually installs a pipewire-pulse shim, which gives you commands like paplay and the other pulse-familiarities apps know.
@PhilSalkie Lovely. Sorry to repeat myself, you can ignore this or answer as you wish, of course, I just wanted to be sure this question hadn't gotten lost. How do I pass USB devices to the VM, if that's possible? I see that the controlers are set up in the script, but let's say I had a braille display or even an ordinary USB sound card. How do I get the VM to see that rather than the physical machine seeing and using it?
@techsinger @PhilSalkie yeah, it can. If you run it from within Mate Qemu does pop up a graphical window where you can press alt+M (when not key-locked with ctrl+G) to open the machine menu and connect it from there. The other option is to manually use lsusb to list and find its ID, ("Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1234:abcd VendorName DeviceName") and then you pass it in that super long command up-front. " -device usb-host,vendorid="${vv}",productid="${pp}" )" for each device you do, you can attach it that way.
well well, I made the plunge and am running Linux as primary. Using Firefox and browsing from there whilst posting on Mastodon from Windows 7 and playing audio games, mostly only that. I must say, virt-manager is good but assigning your own "grab input" key is hard as heck - I had to do killall orca from the alt+f2 run dialog, then press the spacebar on the "OK button" within its preferences to get it to assign a key. Wow. It does allow for pass-through of USB, you can even set it so connecting one automatically transfers it to the guest, but the downside is grab key setting is hard. On Qemu-img it's alt+Control+G normally, but if you forget that it's grabbed, you can alt+f4 your entire VM out of existance in a flash too. Virt-manager remotely connects to it as a console so that can be detached separate of your VM running. Strange. They both have ups and downs.
@techsinger @PhilSalkie hmm. supposedly it's just control+alt keys together, but that didn't work for me at the time which is why I had reset it to begin with. There's a preferences not within the console for the virtual machine but within the edit menu at the point of locating the virtual machine in the list of machines, it's weird yes I know but a machine can run in the background whilst its window is not open so you don't accidentally close it with alt+f4 even if input isn't grabbed. With qemu it's just gone with alt+f4 and if you forgot where you were, that is if you've grabbed it or not and it was ungrabbed, poof goes your VM for good. Virt Manager doesn't suffer from this but still, neither solution is perfect or great, Virt Manager has its own demons to grapple with, sigh, such is the Linux world.
You probably have some kind of client side restriction. I wish we didn't have to resort to using this, but we were dying under abusive crawler onslaught.
Strange. The fact that even the mascot isn't loading suggests that something is going very wrong. What does "lore.kernel.org" resolve to for you (it's actually 5 different systems depending on where in the world you are).
no worries. I'll poke at this some more, it's bugging me. If you're still willing to try something, open an incognito window in firefox and see if you have the same result.
My condolences to all the families and friends of people killed in the #Manchester sinagogue terror attack, and I wish all the best to the wounded, hope they get better. Terrorism must be stopped all over the world, and we all know who are the sponsors of such hideous acts.
I enjoyed the t-shirts but like someone else said, after it became pretty obvious that a *ton* of people were abusing the system for free stuff and not actually being helpful, I pretty much lost all interest in participating since it was just a burden on project maintainers. was nice to have some external motivation to contribute to projects though.
Thankfully apparently not ever since they switched to projects having to opt *in* a couple years ago. The PR spam during this time before that rule change sucked hard.
I'm keeping my streak alive, but much less public about it after all the spammers hit in previous years. I also only participate on my own projects to avoid hitting maintainers with an added workload.
It was better when fewer people knew or cared about it. I think it really works best to get people new to open source contributions into it. These days I contribute what I can when I can and that is never based on it being October, but rather when my needs and skills and a project’s needs align briefly.
>Do Linux admins not know anything about networking these days? No... the usual solution is DHCP reservations now (cursed). Being able to write simple shell scripts also isn't a requirement these days.
The chance that your local Windows admin will know more about the system and computers in general than your generic Linux admin is somewhat high.
Last night, in response to the Israeli military attacking the Sumud flotilla attempting to deliver aid to starving people in besieged Gaza, 10,000 protesters marched through the streets of Rome.
Another solidarity flotilla is on the way to Gaza right now, defying the blockade.
A general strike will take place in Italy tomorrow in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Stop the genocide. Abolish the fascist ethnostate that is perpetrating it. Free Palestine.
Language was “a major challenge” in the development of the SAAQclic platform, as much of the work was carried out in India, according to a former IBM manager.
The very tl;dr: the private contractor for the Government (IBM) is telling that they had to outsource the development off-shore and that the barrier was the Government of Québec usage of French for all the specifications and such.
It's never about the language, its about finger pointing. This is not the first motor vehicle software failure. If you think it's about Quebec, it's happened twice in California as recently as 10 years ago.
Linux: Still hesitant to switch because Tuba, the Mastodon client, does not do notifications via sounds. So if something comes in, I could miss it. I could not find a mastodon client for Linux that also posts sound notifications. If anyone can, it'll speed up my switch.
@tardis yeah, it's just another website in-browser! LOL. It just bugs me how so many things are moving to web-app first. But it might be my best bet if nothing else is around so still a great tip.
Awwwww. I am sorry. I used to use toot for linux but it was because it was terminal, no notifications though. Using enafore because ain't paying 50 lv for mona and because enafore supports go to social and markdown text. I even use the web on windows, don't bother with the win clients developed because they don't have full support.
@tardis yeah and I think that's the major downside. Like, Windows clients, great and all for the invisible UI, but if something like quotes come to Mastodon as a valid supported feature, the web clients are more likely to support them first and adopt it before any of the Windows ones get an update for it.
It's not about quotes for me but fedi software support as a whole. None of them obviously would do markdown,which breaks posts when I post those. And filters. The filters not being supported sucks.
@tardis oh yes filters! True true. Tuba has those, which is super nice to see. But then again it's getting built as a Mastodon client for everyone. So maybe I'll stick with it but might need to miss notifications for new things when they come in since it has no sound. I'm considering just running a second watcher that grabs just the stream to play a sound for it, which is the great thing about Linux, you can make your life as complicated or easy as you'd like to, ha.
That's a good idea. I don't get toot notifications on iOS, so I just check from time to time. People should exercise buddhist patience if they want an answer. ;) But also, toot is minimalist, and I dislike complicated interfaces.
If you get your Amazon package delivered in Montreal,. chances are that you can thank the brother of Mélanie Joly. Not because he did that in person though.
Pretty exciting news in the Zhang-Ports household: after 10 years, we’ve finally gotten a proper Chinese vent hood. The one that came with our house was decent for a white household but, as the guy at the Asian store says, white people don’t *really* cook. This one is finally acceptable because it has a stir-fry button.
@feld a little unclear to me how anyone is caramelizing onions or cooking anything properly without a fan this size. Even white food requires SOME sautéing and stuff 😂
New research from AWU/CWU/Techquity on AI data workers in North America. “[L]ow paid people who are not even treated as humans [are] out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar AI systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future,” says one.
Nejzajímavější mi přijde inventura hlasování, protože je o reálných hlasováních, a ne o proklamacích do budoucna, které mohou, ale nemusí být naplněny. #volby2025
(Mimochodem je docela zajímavé, jak se celkové výsledky za stranu nemusí překrývat s výsledky za konkrétní poslance.)
1. Do not use one of those Site Builders to build your site. They are Ala Carte and by the time you're done you're paying more than you would for my services (and I'm bloody expensive). Get a real web person (not me) to do your site, and an actual Internet Engineer to do your business infrastructure like DNS and EMail (that's me).
2. I'm specifically looking at Wix, I've been doing BIND for some 30+ years, this "DNS" is a pile of flaming dog shit.
buddy, then a RH dev, dropped a bunch of docs & a few books on me, gave me an account on internal RH dev stuff, so I could help him write BIND protocols for ansible/kubernates deployment,
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I saw 1st hand how those folks were handing dns , , ,
Run Away! Now! Set the trail on fire in your wake! Don't Look Back!
We don't need to know Everything, just need to know where to look it up. And I have some of the important things bound in (*gasp*) Dead Tree if I really need it.
"I have been around long enough that I've memorized The Common FuckUps and Catastrophies and many of the more obscure." ... everything else is in the docs, StackExchange, or I actually have to work for a living amd figure it out myself.
Typst will support tagged PDF in a future release. The code has now been merged. Support for HTML output is also under development separately. I'm not involved in this project, but with these advantages, I'm becoming more tempted to use it routinely for document creation. github.com/typst/typst/pull/66… #Typst #accessibility #PDF
This will be the first PR in a larger effort to make PDF documents generated by typst compliant with PDF/UA-1 and more accessible in general. Tagging of PDF documents will be enabled by default to ...
Someone needs to make an animation of Trump as the dinosaur from Rampage but with small hands and Vance as the gorilla destroying American cities while ICE swoops in to kidnap the people running away
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