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cmeerw

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  • Snapless Ubuntu

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  • Mint would be based on Ubuntu 22.04, but I'd like to have something more up-to-date. I believe all other .deb based distros have the same issue that they are not as up-to-date as Ubuntu 23.04?

  • Snapless Ubuntu

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  • I am using a single package from Mint, the rest is Ubuntu 23.04. Mint would otherwise be based on Ubuntu 22.04?

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  • Not sure if they have only just added a clarification, but it now says

    > Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent.

  • Why I use the D programming language for scripting

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  • I think it is Open Source now, see https://github.com/dlang/dmd

    AFAIK the backend is based on the Zortech C/C++ backend and Walter Bright had to get permission from Symantec to relicence as Open Source.

  • NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

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  • XFS is 29 years old and certainly still in use as well.

  • What's your opinion on telegram from a foss and privacy perspective?

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  • They are seriously suffering from NIH (not invented here) syndrome. So, you can theoretically build your own Telegram client, but you can't re-use any standard components to do so. WhatsApp on the other hand doesn't open their clients, but under the hood they are just using mostly standard components (Noise protocol, modified XMPP protocol, Signal protocol), so it's not actually that difficult to build your own WhatsApp client by just piecing together these components.

  • Europe is doing so well regarding Linux smartphones

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  • In my case my main bank works exactly the same through the app than the browser mobile version

    Main issue is that the two-factor authenticator app is usually only available for Android/iOS (some are still supporting SMS, but they are trying to phase that out)

    WhatsApp

    Their web app now actually works almost stand-alone. And as projects like yowsup have shown, it's also possible to create your own stand-alone WhatsApp client (it's only a matter of doing the work).

  • Europe is doing so well regarding Linux smartphones

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  • I am actually running Tizen on a Samsung A5 - bit of a shame that no one else seems to be interested in Tizen...

  • Announcement: All-in-one JMAP, IMAP and SMTP server

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  • Announcement: All-in-one JMAP, IMAP and SMTP server

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  • a single binary solution

    but that means that it's not using any OS-level privilege separation?

  • Why is snaps hated

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  • I wonder if that could easily be fixed by just filtering the output of df to not show virtual disks (df already has an -l option to only show local disks, so would expect that changing df could be relatively easy).

    Note: I am not saying that I like snaps...

  • Which web server software do you recommend?

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  • Groff 1.23 (first release since 2018)

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  • Anyone using groff? Seems like it just lives in its own little bubble?

  • How much swap?

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  • Unused (or very rarely used) memory can also be swapped out to make more memory available for the disk cache (in the hope that having more disk cache available will save more disk accesses than the (hopefully one-time) swap-out operation).

  • Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its 'Minimal' Install Option

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  • They also used to have a MinimalCD, but that has been dropped after 20.04 IIRC.

  • No Instagram Threads app in the EU (for now)

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  • just because it hasn’t been approved for GDPR

    that's not what the article actually says, and I don't think any formal approval is needed anyway (you might get fined if you don't comply with the GDPR). The article claims:

    lack of clarity contained in the EU’s Digital Markets Act

  • Tell me if I’m wrong, but federated systems don’t seem to be the best for privacy because you can’t ever delete all of the copies of your posts and comments?

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  • Never rely on being able to delete anything that has been published/posted. If you want privacy, don't post it. Yes, some systems make it easier to delete a post, but you can never rely on it being deleted everywhere (someone could have made a screenshot, etc.).