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by kkfx 9mo ago
You have a statistical point of view that doesn't go into detail enough: yes, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint are mainstream distros and use ext by default. The vast majority of their users are also mainstream users and would never approach decla
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by kkfx 9mo ago
I don't consider myself a "believer" in anything, but as a sysadmin, if I see a deploy with ext4, I classify it as a newbie's choice or someone stuck in the 80s. It's not a matter of conviction; it's simply abo
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Thanks! A very nice set of configs. I've done something similar for NixOS and my LAN but never advanced at such point in Guix.
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by kkfx 9mo ago
My issue with Guix coming from NixOS is the missing first-class zfs support for root, crypto included, RustDesk, few other common services who are hard to package. Guix potential target IMVHO should be desktop power users, not HPC, NixOS wh
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by kkfx 9mo ago
As an European, I see no point in swapping one dictator for another, or one IT giant for another. What we need is to mandate FLOSS, push for an interconnected Desktop model rather than cloud+mobile, force ISPs to adopt IPv6 with a static gl
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by kkfx 9mo ago
In the past ZeroNet was performant enough to realistically share websites but it's abandoned (ZeroNet Conservacy exist but no active peers seems to exists) this allow client to use an website without installing anything, which is nice,
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Not at all, but I know most people can't even imagine a different desktop, just as they can't imagine a different society. A silly example: in many countries, we're starting to have digital identity as a smart-card, digital s
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Ever since I discovered EXWM (Emacs) years ago, I've never looked back. It's the most efficient free tiling model I've encountered so far, with windows easily resizable via mouse and/or keyboard, flipping between the cur
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by kkfx 9mo ago
If we follow events at high-zoom: - first graphics cards - then RAM - now NVME drives The result? PCs become hyper-expensive and also hard to assemble for mere lack of components, then we get to VPS and keep going. The computing that remain
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Well... We read text. We need UIs to manage the text flow/visible parts. Many websites could be read much better with Firefox Reader for similar reasons. Gnus (Emacs) concentrate news, feeds and mail in a single UI because of this, I c
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Banks have some of the worst IT in the world. Being purely manager-led, with developers completely subservient to the bean counters, the results are terrible. This is one of the reasons why in 2019 they wrote about their own demise https:&
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by kkfx 9mo ago
I'm on my mail since year BUT the issue is that most mail tools came from another era, nice for us, but not really usable for most people. My setup include notmuch as MUA, muchsync to have messages via ssh on some machines, MailDrop to
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Not at hand unfortunately, because IPS was introduced with OpenIndiana (the IllumOS base) which objectively didn't last long enough to have time for serious documentation. The super-basic description is that the package manager, IPS (I
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Dtrace essentially allows two things. The first is exploring a live system, similar to being in a debugger but without its overhead. The other is monitoring; it's possible to notice that something is wrong earlier and with less overhea
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by kkfx 9mo ago
It was the future OS most fails to understand. The ZFS/IPS integration was the first modern step aside of declarative distros. A thing 99% of people still fails to understand refusing the concept of storage system/package system&#
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by kkfx 9mo ago
To better compress my personal preference is pdftops -paper A4 -expand -level3 file.pdf # I'm from EU, so A4 is my common paper format ps2pdf14 -dEmbedAllFonts=true \ -dUseFlateCompression=true \ -dO
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by kkfx 9mo ago
My verdict is negative: BT has too limited a range. Can you communicate in a crowd? Yes, sure, the density of BT hosts can be very high, but can you imagine a crowd in the street communicating via messages instead of face-to-face? Can it ha
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by kkfx 9mo ago
As usual Gnome do it's best to alienate users and have some who restore good behaviors as the can. Meanwhile the fraction of power users who still use Gnome are less and less. In few years if they keep going they'll earn a share o
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by kkfx 10mo ago
Well... Until people will react protecting their own interests we will only go in a death spiral. Only recently have we witnessed, particularly in the EU but also in the US and Canada, the blocking of personal bank accounts of individuals w
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by kkfx 10mo ago
In the past, for technological reasons, because it is technology that determines every civilisation, cities were rich places, because they had trade, nearby arts and crafts; knowledge and economy travelled in this way. Today, for similar re
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by kkfx 10mo ago
Basic FLOSS desktop knowledge must be in high schools for everyone, you can't study in the modern time without contemporary tools. LaTeX must also be in the game, because we need people who know how to express themselves crafting good
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by kkfx 10mo ago
Like frigghome.ai I do not see much interest in these, but they could be an interesting way to bring a homeserver per home, potentially powering a public blockchain for digital identity, (smart)contracts hashed publicly, and a digital curre
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by kkfx 10mo ago
Python for scripting honestly is Xonsh :)
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by kkfx 10mo ago
Hem... Geographical distance isn't a sensible parameter when computers are involved, because what matters is informational distance. Knowledge isn't transmitted through physical proximity but through the exchange of information. T
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by kkfx 10mo ago
Me too. Only having issues with floating windows so far.
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by kkfx 10mo ago
Someone's look to re-describe anarcho-capitalism?
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by kkfx 10mo ago
The blockchain is an excellent distributed storage system for anything that should be immutable, such as contract hashes like notarial deeds, vehicle sales, and digital identities, which are not controlled by any central authority (if the b
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by kkfx 10mo ago
So... People who do not know anything else can't quit spreadsheets... Ok...
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by kkfx 11mo ago
Countries that continue with fiscal plunder will only see those who can afford it flee, and after some time, popular uprisings from people who are fed up with Agenda2030 and still haven't figured out how to say no democratically. If so
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by kkfx 11mo ago
This is the result of a society that has evolved to serve the commercial interests of a few rather than the technical needs of many; indeed, most people are Lebonian cattle (cf. Gustave Le Bon, The Psychology of Crowds), not homo oeconomicu

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