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There is an effort by the Bananas Team to get standard Debian working on Apple silicon, and they have installation instructions for how to get it running now with an additional uno…

First time seeing that, but yes, seems similar in concept. Iocaine can be self-hosted and put in as a "middleware" in your reverse proxy with a few lines of config, cloudflare's se…

So, basically iocaine ( https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ ). It has indeed been very useful to get the AI scraper load on a server I maintain down to a reasonable level, even w…

And what I've said is that there are more options. You don't have to use cgroups directly, there are other tools abstracting over them (e.g. systemd) that aren't also container run…

I think the storage optimization aspect is secondary, it is more about keeping control over your distribution. You need processes to replace all occurrences of xz with an uncomprom…

> But they’re roughly the same paradigm as docker, right? Absolutely not. Nix and Guix are package managers that (very simplified) model the build process of software as pure funct…

You have to differentiate container images, and "runtime" containers. You can have the former without the latter, and vice versa. They are entirely orthogonal things. E.g. systemd …

> Most people don't want a mental model just to type a sentence. "Just typing a sentence" is what I was referring to with "basic linear text writing", for which modal editing indee…

Emacs is a bit special in that the "canonical" way of editing a remote configuration file with it is probably using TRAMP, i.e. connecting your local emacs via ssh to edit the remo…

> i could never understand why anyone would us vi/m with its bs shortcuts, making BASIC text editing into a complete *. I could never understand why anyone would use nano with its …

> I deploy using a dedicated user, which has passwordless sudo set up to work. IMO there is no point in doing that over just using root, maybe unless you have multiple administrato…

Brew _is_ a linux package manager. There is also conda/mamba/pixi/etc. (anything in the conda-forge ecosystem) that can be used without root. Then there are Guix and nix, which (mo…

> “No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.” This wording always bothers me. If a person were to ci…

If you don't want to argue about definitions, then I'd recommend you don't start arguments about definitions. "AI" is not special-sauce. LLMs are transformations that map an input …

So, Prolog is not code then? > Except you can't run english on your computer. I can't run C on it either, without translating it to machine code first. Is C code?

Well apparently they have been somewhat profitable from 2016 to 2019, and they have been paying a dividend to the state more often than not. I don't think their goal is actively lo…

> The government owns DB AG, it is not a private company. It is a public company. It is a private company, as in it is a legal entity under private law. This is in contrast to a "ö…

Just because it is even more true elsewhere does not mean it is untrue here.

The DB AG has been specifically founded to be "market-oriented" and profit-making, so yes, it is true. I am sure the state could try to do _something_ about it, but I am also sure …

DB has been reorganized as an AG in the 90s, i.e. a corporation under private law. They are forced to (at least try to) make a profit for their shareholders, which is a common trai…

In other words: it's going downhill ever since the DB was privatized.

The site is pretty clear: "Free and works in browser", "Processed locally", "Private". But apparently the site (sorry for the harsh word, but I can't interpret it any other way) li…

Even if the users knew exactly what the name of the entity whose website they wanted to visit was: that name is not unique, as is shown by the "Stripe, Inc" example in the parents …

> Tying a phone number to a physical address and company is a lot more useful than just proof of control over a domain. It might be useful in some cases, but it is never any more s…

I took the number from here: https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-u... I think another big "moat" is actually that Codeberg is composed of natural people only…