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After I moved away from Google services as much as I could ( https://www.mac-vicar.eu//posts/2020-10-20-migrating-away-go... ), and after some years on mailbox.org, which I did not…

"AI is sort of like money... it just makes you more of what you already are."

Looks very nice! Need to test if it supports AWS_ENDPOINT_URL so it works with LocalStack.

Not very likely, what if the BeOS API emerged as "the standard" on Linux? https://cosmoe.org/ It would not solve the ABI problem, but it would give at least an opinionated end to e…

For OAUTH2, I recommend starting pizauth ( https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth ) as a user systemd unit. Then you can just do (eg. in mbsync) PassCmd "pizauth show accountname"

I upgraded from a Pixel 4a (running Calyxos) to a 8a, only because at some point Whatsapp videos broke on the 4a and friends got videos with some green encoding. Otherwise, I had n…

Genuine curiosity. Why would you buy a laptop with nvidia for the purpose of running Linux when it is known to be problematic? I use Linux since ~ 28 years, and having seen all the…

I have managed my dotfiles in git for over a decade, and I have never needed anything else than git and GNU stow. I organize dotfiles in a few modules, and then I stand in the top …

If you remember those times, KOF91 by Moah was one of the few open-source alternatives to MUGEN, albeit not compatible with its data. During those times I helped porting it to Linu…

Depending where you look your numbers, Chile's crime and homicide rate is very similar to the United States.

I do something similar to Pi-Hole using plain dnsmasq. I use two old PINE64 (one with FreeBSD, one NetBSD to make it more fun), and the Ansible configuration downloads https://gith…

I worked there for more than a decade, and I can never highlight enough: - How great the place was for those involved in the open-source ecosystem - How great Novell and Attachmate…

It seems every time I read about a project being forked, they use the (probably) trademarked name in the project's fork, just to need a rename a few weeks after.

I haven't seen this problem on a Pixel 4a running Calyxos.

Zigbee is reliable and quite open. Just go for the Homeassistant and zigbee2mqtt route. You will be able to interact with almost anything from Homeassistant. I just finished moving…

NextCloud does exactly this: AGPL, no CLA. https://github.com/nextcloud/server#contribution-guidelines- >Nextcloud doesn't require a CLA (Contributor License Agreement). The copyri…

For me it solved most of these lockups when using heavy ram apps (Electron, Firefox + Teams, etc) and keeps the system responsive. I am happy with it and plan to keep it enabled. I…

One can also use zswap: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/zswap.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap which I find easier to setup. Just enable it and it manages itself.…

Usenet was sorted by topic. Same people stick to the required topic in different forums.In the fediverse, you follow people, and therefore can't control very well what people post …

Serenity's starting point is very well described: "SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautifu…

You can start here: https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/blob/347200107f0f17a3697...

Something few people know about: Haiku adopted openSUSE libsolv, built for zypper, to solve dependencies even before Fedora. libsolv, created by Michael Schoeder at SUSE, has two i…