Could the internet exist without Cloudflare? Most assuredly, but the inverse is not so. However, Cloudflare has infiltrated so much of the critical infrastructure of the web, that the web's very lifeblood flows through it, making it seem essential. On the contrary, what we have is a single failure point and a private entity whose technical decisions have far, far too great an impact on the direction of the web.
I use mattermost as a free, open source Slack replacement. I like it a lot. I also use authentik as my SSO provider for my #homelab / #selfhosted stuff.
If you don't pay for the enterprise version of Mattermost, you don't get the SSO features. You can fake that by using their free GitLab integration. But you also don't get the capability to switch users from one form of authentication (email/password) to SSO after you set it up.
If you start your Mattermost Team Edition using email and password for users, but then you change your mind and switch to GitLab authentication, it’s not at all obvious or easy how to convert the existing users.
Apple has removed ICE tracking apps from the App Store.
This includes ICEBlock which alerts people of sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area after complaints from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Apple has removed ICE tracking apps from the App Store.
This includes ICEBlock which alerts people of sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area after complaints from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Today in Vancouver real estate adventures: last week I was complaining that nobody likes our dorky little poor people offers. My new complaint is we found a place we like and the sellers are super chill and I think they're going to accept our offer, but *why are we the only ones making an offer? What is wrong with it?!*
I can't believe anyone actually wants to buy a home more than once ever.
I don't know if it's a scam, but I expect what they're doing is telling the pharma companies they MUST provide the lowest wholesale prices for TrumpRX so they can proclaim they have the best deals and then Trump can say he did better than Obama
(It's definitely a grift as Trump will profit from it too)
My 9 year old son has just vibe coded his first app. The free version of hangman he had showed too many ads, and had some stupid “lives” system that meant you couldn’t play again too quickly.
We sat down and spoke about what he wanted. He’s very particular in how he speaks so I didn’t need to reword it to be precise or less ambiguous.
We pasted that in to Claude Code and iterated a few times, within 15 minutes he had his game that he wants ready to go and installed on his iPhone and iPad.
Hypothetically, if I were speccing a PC with a Ryzen 9800x3d or 9950x3d (or heck, even last year’s versions of same), what would you lean to for cooling? Open to both air (my fave) and AIO, with emphasis on reasonable aesthetics and not blocking the RAM.
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The Democracy Paradox podcast has restarted, featuring a series of three interviews (two already posted) with political scientists writing on democratic backsliding. democracyparadox.com #PoliticalScience
ahaaha. github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-w… -: GitHub - Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code. Good job, person who just helped me get Tweesecake running on Windows 7. So far, it's been fairly painless to get modern things going on it.
This is great. I'm using the old VXKex to run TC on win7, but that repository got malware and I can only use the installer I backed up. This is a lovely option.
@cubic gosh. I wonder if Firefox 115 ESR is *truly* the last version you can run on there now. ahahaha. Gosh. I don't know how easy it is to randomly get a ransomware on it, besides the obvious of not using cracks and such that have them.
Isn't there a way to upgrade the stack to work with modern browsers? I thought there was a project for that. Out of what's available your best bet is probably thorium.rocks/win7 , I believe SuperMium or whatever you spell that thing doesn't include accessibility.
ooh nice, for chromium? I couldn't find a good firefox one, r3dfox is definitely not accessible, Firefox 115 ESR is not the worst since it's 2023 but gosh darn it all the opensource instructions require you rebuild the Firefox source with Rust toolchains! Insanity. This kind of stuff made me a bit sad, just how quickly Windows 7 lost support once the ESU was gone, devs dropped it, and while some modern DLLs can be layered back in, my guess is once the app starts to drop support if they tie into system-level APIs and use newer ones, Windows 7 has very little fighting chance, sigh. I wonder how long it'll take for Windows 10 to get there. I mean, not forever. Right now it shares enough in similar to Win11 that this matters very little, but in 5 years the code paths will diverge enough that it'll really be hitting end of life too.
@serrebi Windows 7 absolutely has a fighting chance if you know where to look and what tools to use. There's Serpent for Firefox which you can get using the Roy Tam Browser Installer from i430vx.net/files/xp which is still being updated to this day, but it's based on Firefox 52.9 and sites like YouTube won't work on it.
@cubic @serrebi I hear a lot more people talking about running enterprise versions of Windows 10 when compared to any previous Windows version, and I don't know the history of enterprise releases and their end-of-life dates, but I wonder if Windows 10 LTSC will make a difference to software support at all. So far I don't think I've seen any apps that specifically require Windows 11, but I know they're coming eventually.
@simon @cubic @serrebi Oh yeah, the 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC (long-term servicing channel) is what I'm running now. There's a way to get the build to 19045 (from 19044, so to the 22H2 update) by extracting the .cab from the .msu package and installing it with dism, as it's just an enablement package, meaning the features are in the build just not running. So then, supposedly (although it's not confirmed, at least the package is easy enough to remove,) you get to keep Windows 10 LTSC support date (2031) with the slight improvements of the update, like performance tweaks and advanced threat protection enabled. I can say from my Winver dialog that it's a weird frankenstein of things: "Version 21H2 (OS Build 19045.6396)" - huh? But true. It didn't up it to "22H2", and the only way you would even know it's not treu 21H2 is by looking at the build number. Officially, my SKU still reports as the 21H2 LTSC branch, too. Huh huh. We'll see what happens in a month with this, I also have a back-up of that drive from before applying the update.
yeah, their site is about the only place I've known you can get LTSC without it being the evaluation copy Microsoft gives for enterprise builds. LTSC is as clean as you'll get to Windows 7 but with Windows 10's Metro UWP bits still there. Removing those is difficult in any way because of just how much the shell and other settings bits rely on it now. I tried Explorer7, which lets you get Windows 7's Explorer on Win10, it's nice but then I'm reminded that control+windows +enter to run something as an admin wasn't added in Windows 7's explorer, joke's on me. xD Oh yeah, and today marks 11 days until Win10 is out of mainstream support, ironic that it's 11 days to the end of 10.
@cubic @simon @serrebi ah yeah shift. xD Almost 1 AM here but had to see perspectives on this stuff before bedtime! And now I have. Ha. We'll see where this goes tomorrow. Still got Win7 as a VM and Linux, so I've got my toolbox of OS' to play around with on weekends and off-work time :D
@cubic @serrebi Really liking all of the tinkering energy here. I have gotten win11 to cooperate but it seems like slimming down Windows 10 is easier, and there are hardware requirements even for the LTSC channel. I'm kinda wondering if I could get Windows 7 to run on my Compute Stick. It's the perfect shitty hardware to test out a much older, faster windows release. Wonder if I still have an old copy of Windows Loader. Eventually it turned into serious malware.
OMG so you're telling me that's how I got ransomware in Windows 7 that one time? xD (this was back in 2020) Yeah, a lot of those keygens can really be crap. Not worth it when powershell scripts and things do exist which are a lot more safe and you can review the input so you know what it's doing exactly. Not that I advocate for these things, but LTSC I think also can only activate via volume licensing channels.
@cubic @serrebi Would appreciate it, yeah. I've squinched Windows 10 LTSC down as much as I can and it still sucks, so I want to see what 7 is like on this thing. Also do you have a recommended source for 32 and 64-bit ISO files of 7 with SP1? Pretty sure those existed but I don't have them.
These are all versions of Windows 7, as well as 2008R2, both 32 and 64 bit (except for 2008R2 which doesn't have 32 bit, and Windows 7 starter, which doesn't...
@serrebi @simon @cubic OMG wait. NVME and USB3? So wait could that boot on more modern hardware? Doubt you could on something like a Rizen zen4, but yeah, that's nuts that someone integrated those at least.
I wish someone would backport winget, so I could use uniget UI on the thing. I just don't know how I would update software if I did use it. I think I'd rather use audiogame manager on Linux than use win 7, but if there's at least a stable browser for Youtube and the like I might take a look at it.
@serrebi @cubic For general use I think you will be far happier with Windows 10 IOT LTSC. I only wanted to try Windows 7 on this particular compute stick because it has an ancient and terrible Intel Atom chip. It looks like there aren't wi-fi and Bluetooth drivers readily available though, so that's probably a no from me. After running Win11Debloat, changing some stuff in ExplorerPatcher, installing Classic Shell, and Winaero Tweaking a few things, I'm reasonably happy with how Windows 11 runs on even the slowest mini PCs available now. It positively flies on my Beelink SER8. I think we've figured out ways to mitigate the major irritations in Windows 11 by this point. It's even possible to put the system tray back to the way it was in win10 via ExplorerPatcher.
@simon @serrebi @cubic aha yeah. I just tried the big red "install now" button just because, why not. guess what, no boot. Ahahahaa. I wasn't expecting any different. Problem is that GPT partitions were so new in 2009 and foreign, Windows just added support and to UEFI in general, so even if your partitions aren't right, Windows just will tank back then. No Recovery environment either to speak of for them.
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.
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