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On the topic of AI tools finding issues: we always thought they *could* do good. The right tool used by a skilled person is a recipe for awesome outcomes. An AI chat in the hands of someone who doesn't quite know what they ask for nor understand what the output says is not. Not to mention that the LLMs frequently just plainly lie.

A primary problem is the myths sold by "big AI" that make people believe they can do these things by themselves. That leads to slop avalanches.

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I think the big issue is that was sold was: You hardly know what a computer is, but if you type “Hack the Gibson” in a prompt you are now a hacker.

Same with images, music, etc.

I don’t think that sci fi dream is realistic, at least not in this current version of things.

But a tool to search through code to find issues, that are better than the previous tools, that presents the issues to a knowledgeable person. That’s realistic and cuts down on reading all that code.

Because we’ve had tools for a very long time, and they could get better.

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Maarten Aertsen

Back when the dialogue about CRA started years ago, I feel a citable reference like this would have been very helpful in the interaction with policy makers. Which is one of my motivations for volunteering my time and help to create one.

Europe is hardly the only place where people conceive software or critical infrastructure regulation. The future will learn if it’ll be of value elsewhere to inform policymakers about the role of FOSS.

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Well, both paths failed me tonight. On Linux, I could not find an accessible replacement for Virtual Audio Cable (as Pipewire should make virtual audio devices dead easy with one, but all the stuff I looked at were command-line based) and I also couldn't find a tool like CoreTemp, that can put all of my CPU Core temperature information into the Mate Panel. I think this second one I will need to tinker around with some more with Mate-sensors and see what I can come up with.
Then, Windows 7 made me sad when I realized that MemReduct cannot clean as aggressively on it, in a way with Windows 10 Microsoft did improve memory management and what cleaners can clean from it. I also then upped the Ram usage of my Windows 7, and of course, once you go above 10 GB Ram, it starts to use a lot more (up to 3 GB at boot as well if you're at 40 GB ram!) This made me mad. I mean, it wasn't Superfetch, but other things caching files at boot, and of course, without a good Mem Reduct, you can't even lower that ram cruft. Yeah yeah tell me all you want that I have a lot of it, but again, keeping resources always at their tightest and not just loosely holding onto RAM is my goal. My SSD can always do more reads, it can't always do more writes, and speed of reloading from it has made ram-caching files a lot less needed.
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Hey guys,
wiki.termux.dev has moved to a new infrastructure and is now taking some measures to block bot traffic. If anyone faces any problems accessing the wiki, please contact us.

We've also blocked some crawlers which weren't behaving like Sogou crawler which was making 2-3 requests/s. All AI crawlers are blocked as they are pretty annoying and don't care about the crawl rate or even back off when presented with a challenge.

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gholk

Hey, my friend's wiki just survived from ai-crawlers, I found a MediaWiki extension `CrawlerProtection` is very helpful. It ban anonymous users from accessing page history and some expensive page.

I installed it and enable the html file cache (Manual:File cache), and the server work fine now without anubis.

You can check some workaround in media wiki's manual:

mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hand…

Manual:Handling web crawlers - MediaWiki

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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.

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C++ Weekly With Jason Turner posted about how to use GCC's `-fstack-usage` feature with @compiler_explorer :

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C++ Weekly - Ep 499 - GCC's Stack Usage Analysis (and Warnings!)

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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.

This is pretty obscure, and it involves a bunch of raw Postgres queries. But I figured it out and wrote a blog on converting Mattermost users from email/password to SSO


Mattermost Converting Users from Email to Gitlab authentication | Paco Hope

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.
blog.paco.to
#homelab #selfhosted
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I'm surprised it took this long, tbh.
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Dare Obasanjo

2025-10-03 01:46:40

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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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Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store - 9to5Mac

ICEBLOCK has been removed from the App Store at the request of the US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Here are the details.
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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.

9to5mac.com/2025/10/02/followi…


Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store - 9to5Mac

ICEBLOCK has been removed from the App Store at the request of the US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Here are the details.
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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.

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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.

It’s a crazy time to be coding.

#Claude
#VibeCoding

#Claude #vibecoding
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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

Democracy Paradox - Because Democracy is More than Elections

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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.

GitHub - nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK: Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code

Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code - nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK
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Tamas G

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.
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Simon Jaeger

@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.
@Brandon @DJ Seedy!
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Tamas G

@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.
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Tamas G

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.
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Simon Jaeger

@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.
@Brandon @DJ Seedy!
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Tamas G

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.
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Simon Jaeger

@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.
@Brandon @DJ Seedy!
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Tamas G

@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.
@Brandon @Simon Jaeger @DJ Seedy!

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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.

#jewish #israel #hostages

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Never change, Europe. Never change. 😘🤌

"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."

reuters.com/world/italy-poll-f…

#jewish #israel #survey #Gaza #antisemitic #italians

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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.
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Tech Singer

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.
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Tamas G

@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.
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Tech Singer

@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.
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Tamas G

@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.
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Tamas G

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.
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Tech Singer

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?
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Tamas G

@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.
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Tamas G

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.
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Tech Singer

@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?
@PhilSalkie
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Tamas G

@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.
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Tamas G

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.
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Tamas G

@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.
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