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TrivialBetaState

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  • Macron urges Europe to start acting like world power

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  • No. They are not ready. If all your computers and phones "phone home" with "home" being your adversary's country (that's how USA deals with Europe in the last year), then you cannot call yourself a world power. Most PCs in Europe use Windows and MacOS. Almost all phones are either Android or iOS. And even if they managed to replace all the software with locally developed Linux, all recent (last 20 years) x86 PCs have either Intel Management Engine or AMD Security Technology. If they chose to make intensive efforts to replace their systems, computers and phones, it would take at least a decade to achieve this. And even then, the US would likely be able to penetrate their systems. It's so much easier to yield to the Emperor of the Western World for the perennially submissive European serfs.

  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • This is a very valid reason, indeed.

  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • A lot of things can go wrong. A company can take the free code, change it slightly to work only with a proprietary file type and then use their resources to promote their version and make their proprietary filetype and proprietary program the industry standard. Unfortunately this sounds too familiar. There are even cases that the filetype is an open standard but obfuscated to make it impossible for anyone (including the original FOSS) to open/save it.

  • Europe’s ‘painful’ realisation it must be bolder with US set out in security report

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  • When most of your computers have either Windows or MacOS and almost all your phones are either Android or iOS, you cannot have any kind of independence. And even if you ever managed to fix that (unlikely in the foreseeable future), there is Intel Management Engine and AMD Security Tech to ensure that you won't make a step without Uncle Sam knowing about it.

  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • I'm pretty sure that code written in any language can be licensed under the GPL. That's why I cannot understand the backlash against Rush for the Kernel.

  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • GPL enforces that all derivatives are FOSS and GPL as well. With permissive licenses, like MIT and Apache, a company is free to take the code, change/develop it further (or leave it as is) and make it closed-sourced without sharing anything with anyone. Regarding Rust, I am with you. Hence my question.

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • Why do I think that this result has pitched an idea to the UK PM's head?

  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • Can someone explain to me why Rust has been so controversial for the GNU/Linux kernel? One thing that I personally don't like is that the equivalent Rust-made (equivalent) GNU tools are licensed under MIT (or Apache? - something permissive like that) instead of GPL. If they were under GPL, I'd be more than happy. But since the kernel is under GPL regardless of C or Rust, what is the reason for the backlash? Sounds like a very promising language indeed.

  • Venezuela’s acting president says she has had “enough” of US orders

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  • What is she complaining about? All the countries in the world have been taking and following orders from the US for the last 75 years and have been happy about it. They don't like offensive comments from the current president. But orders? Just give us more!

  • Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup

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  • That's strange. I thought FIFA had presented Donald Trump with his Big Beautiful Peace Prize. I am getting confusing messages here.

  • Suggest me a groovebox that brings me back to music

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  • Everything that you describe is provided by Synthstrom Deluge. As a bonus, the software of the device is FOSS and there is a community that provides firmware updates with additional features. Have a look at it, if it is not too expensive for your budget. The only device that has similar features (but a more DAW-live experience) is the Akai MPC and Force line of products.

  • Ubuntu 25.10: these are some big, deep changes!

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  • There was a time that Ubuntu was more polished than other distros but these times are gone. Canonical tried to capitalize their success by making their users "the product" at first and now have attempted to release a closed ecosystem of snaps based on proprietary backend software. They have signed their own death sentence more than once. Their way to redemption is to release the source code of the snap store under GPL and stop trying to replace GPLed tools with MIT or Apache licenses. Either you are committed to free software or not.

  • Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables - Phoronix

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  • I am not sure how to answer that. Are you asking me to give you an example that the GNU coreutils were not used in a closed sourced s/w?

  • Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables - Phoronix

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  • I think that people are negative towards rust utils, not because of rust or attachment to an old software but because they are not licensed under GPL or another copyleft license. Even if they become faster and more stable in the future, this is a flaw that will not be ignored.

  • In regard to Hyprland and Fascism

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  • This! If it is Free Software, it respects everyone's freedom. If I don't like the developer, I will not buy them a coffee. If I don't like the software practices of the developer, a fork is in order (e.g. Oracle with OpenOffice --> LibreOffice)

  • System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop - Last Step Before Beta

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  • One thing that I love about Cosmic is that it is made in Rust and is licensed under GPL. This is contrast to the replacement of the coreutils with new, Rust made, which are unfortunately licensed under MIT. Ubuntu rushed to adopt them. One more case of foul play by them after making the server side of snap proprietary.

  • Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?

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  • And that's how WW3 started..!

  • Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?

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  • While all areas could benefit in terms of stability and ease of development from standadization, the whole system and each area would suffer in terms of creativity. There needs to be a balance. However, if I had to choose one thing, I'd say the package management. At the moment we have deb, rpm, pacman, flatpak, snap (the latter probably should not be considered as the server side is proprietary) and more from some niche distros. This makes is very difficult for small developers to offer their work to all/most users. Otherwise, I think it is a blessing having so many DEs, APIs, etc.

  • Will this Lenovo Thinkpad (AMD) work well with linux, or should I go intel?

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  • I have a similar T14 with AMD and everything works fine, except the fingerprint reader. Tested with Debian, Fedora, MX, and more

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    Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC

    mfkl.github.io /2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html
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    Recurrent Dreams by Ionian Blue

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    Share your music

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    That's my message

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    Ad from 1985 - A saying about source code

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    Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    RHEL, Reddit, firing employees in the IT sector: Corporate mentality flexes its muscles

  • chess @sopuli.xyz
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    Favourite GM

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    Welcome to the chess community

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    Welcome to synthesizers

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    Linux Foundation and big tech back RISC-V software ecosystem

    www.theregister.com /2023/06/01/linux_foundation_risc_v/