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  • daniel stenberg: The AI slop security reporting is basically extinct [in curl]... [bugs] are found with AI tools and normally high quality bug reports.

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  • If they are getting valid findings with high quality reports from AI tools already, why would they do that?

  • SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink

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  • I love all the things Valve have done for Linux gaming, and as far as large corporations go I believe they actually care a little about their users, but they lack of support and communication can be extremely frustrating. While working on a VR game I found what appears to be a bug in their OpenXR implementation, and I haven't been able to find any way to get in touch with anyone working on SteamVR. They have several developer resources and there are of course the Steam forums, but they all appear to be completely abandoned since years.

    Now it seems like someone is at least doing something for SteamVR, but I wish they would open source it so more people could work on it.

    edit: I noticed that kisak-valve has been replying to issues on github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux recently, so it's not completely dead. But possibly more interesting, a user called Packetdancer (Rachel Blackman) has been assigning issues to herself. Her LinkedIn profile says employed by Valve Software since Jan 2026, so this could mean that Valve are actually focusing more on SteamVR + Linux.

  • Is the "Year of Linux" actually a trap?

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  • Sure, we’ll find workarounds

    I'd phrase it as "we might occasionally find workarounds that kinda work sometimes". I tried running de-Googled Android on my phone for a while, and the only reason I could use it for online banking, pay for public transport, contact health services, etc. was because some people had reverse-engineered Google's services (i.e. microG). It also stopped working every now and then when something changed, and to my knowledge Google could also shut it down instantly if they started encrypting their APIs. I wouldn't bet on there always being workarounds if this push to lock down operating systems and online services continues.

    Someone else posted something interesting/alarming the other day.. With AI becoming more advanced and also more accessible, it's going to be increasingly difficult to keep spam, scams, etc. at bay. If the mainstream computing world ends up in this gilded cage trap, even if a minority choose to maintain and use forks that stay outside the system, it might be quite difficult to keep for example a forum functional.

  • Is the "Year of Linux" actually a trap?

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  • And services can choose to only allow operating systems which don't lie, have anti-tamper mechanisms, and authenticate themselves cryptographically. It has definitely been easy to spoof your identity in the past, but OP is talking about where we might be heading in the future. Since the laws about OS:es having to partially identify the user is so obviously useless in its current form, don't you think the corporations and politicians who are pushing for it are going to keep expanding it when they get the opportunity?

  • The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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  • Then he said Arch Linux should implement it anyway because the law requires it. archinstall PR #4290

    Well, it's not "the law", it's your local law. To most people on the planet, it doesn't apply any more than for example North Korea's laws. As far as I can find, Arch Linux is not owned by a foundation or similar legal entity (i.e. which could have been located in California), but the lead developer appears to live in Germany.

  • Opera GX is now available for Linux

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  • Have you tried Vivaldi? Co-founded by one of the Opera Software co-founders, so perhaps not a surprise that it feels a little bit like classic Opera. I liked it a lot, but I have since switched to Firefox because I want to support the non-Chromium options while they exist.

  • How would you go about creating abstract, corrupted, or malformed generation

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  • If you have a specific style in mind you could train your own LoRA for it. If you just want to generate random weird stuff, I've had that happen when I stack too many style LoRAs on top of each other, so you could try that. And if you're more technically minded, you could experiment with injecting latent noise. Couldn't find the exact example I was thinking of, but this article might provide a starting point.

  • How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?

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  • Now is a bad time to buy hard drives price-wise

    It's a bit of a gamble, isn't it? At least here, HDDs appear to have gone up 10-20% compared to lowest prices last year, which isn't that much compared to SSDs and RAM. Personally I bought new disks last week just in case the prices continue to rise and I don't want to end up in a position where I have to buy new disks while they're at an all time high.

  • How bad of an idea is it to use computing HDDs in a DIY NAS?

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  • You mean "spinning disk" metaphorically, right? Or is there any reason to not have it in low power standby mode? I don't have any hot spare in my server, but on my desktop I use hdparm to spin down a rarely used storage drive just because it's so loud.

  • Sweden @lemmy.world
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    Råd & Rön säljs till Bonnier

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  • Do NOT buy Creality

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  • When buying your first car, would you pay extra to get a worse car so you have to learn mechanics in addition to learning how to drive? :)

    It's definitely about finding the least bad printer if shopping the budget stuff, they all have issues as you say. Personally I think it's best to buy the printer which is the least likely to have severe design and/or manufacturing flaws and focus on learning how to get good prints out of it. When you're a complete beginner it's difficult to know if your print turns out bad because you're doing something wrong or if it's caused by a hardware issue.

  • Do NOT buy Creality

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  • Creality made good printers in the beginning, i.e. original Ender and Ender Pro. They used high quality components and offered good value for money compared to what else what available at that time. However, when they had cornered a large part of the market and got known as the brand that made the best beginner printers, things started going downhill. They switched from Meanwell power supplies etc. to cheap noname components, quality control seemingly became non-existent, and they released several poorly designed overpriced printers (E.g. the E3v2 - my first printer - and everything with "max" in the name).

    I think there's a combination of different reasons for why there always have been so many people who believe that Creality make good printers:

    1. People who have bought their Ender 3/Pro before 2020 actually have good printers, and give them honest praise on forums.
    2. Fake reviews on the internet, which hype up the product since their only goal is for you to click their amazon affiliate link and buy it.
    3. Creality paying content creators for positive reviews, including several well known and otherwise respected within the community.
    4. Buyers who got lucky with the QC and don't own any other printers to compare with, might think their printers are the best.
    5. Buyers who are now happy with their Ender after having spent €100+ on "upgrades" and/or days of troubleshooting the printer. I've even seen a guy insist that an Ender is a better first printer than a cheaper more reliable alternative, because the 20 hours he spent on his Ender to get a decent print out of it gave him "an invaluable learning experience".
    6. And I've also seen people who haven't yet bought any printer claim that Enders are the best beginner printers, just because they've read that statement so many times they've come to accept it as a fact, and now they're "helping" others looking for a first printer by answering their questions.

    I think my E3v2 is good now, but I've replaced the hotend, extruder and part cooling fans. I've added a second Z lead screw to fix gantry sag, and I found a manufacturing error where the X belt tensioner wasn't straight because tightening the screw into the aluminium extrusion bent the plastic (difficult to find, but luckily easy to fix with a metal shim). I've replaced the firmware with Klipper, controlled by a Raspberry Pi. And I've probably spent at least 50 hours just trying to fix and improve the printer, which I didn't mind btw, but I think most would prefer a printer which just works out of the box.

    In retrospect, I wish I had joined some 3d printing discords and talked to experienced users before deciding on which printer to buy, and not relied so much on google, websites and random comments.

  • Sweden @lemmy.world
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    Efter som semmelsäsongen närmar sig, dags för återpost av klassiskt mem

  • Tack för idén, Kjell

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  • Semla and they are delicious

  • Geting 6DOF with older 3DOF XR glasses

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  • I was basically wondering if position and acceleration were considered different degrees of freedom, but I had it a bit mixed up. I've seen cheap 6 DoF boards with accelerometers plus something else to measure rotation IIRC, but these don't have absolute position and I was thinking if you add that maybe it would increase the degrees of freedom

  • Are Vorons still the best DIY printers in 2026?

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  • If you enjoy building the Voron that's definitely a better deal (and I think I would) but if you're doing it to save money you have to factor in that time in the cost as well. I was briefly considering buying a Core One L after they become available with INDX, because it would be nice with a printer which includes everything and just works. But the VFA problems discouraged me, Prusa's suggestions to overtension belts and modified slicer profiles which try to avoid certain speeds feels like a bandaid solution to what is fundamentally a hardware design flaw IMO.

  • Geting 6DOF with older 3DOF XR glasses

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  • Are we talking 3x acceleration and you're adding 3x position? I've heard the terms a lot but haven't really thought about which DoFs they're referring to.. Can't these devices also measure absolute rotation, so wouldn't that make them 9DoF?

  • How important is a DE to you?

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  • Can't remember if it was Gnome 3 or Ubuntu Unity, but I think at least one of them had the intention of creating a unified UI for all types of devices.

  • How important is a DE to you?

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  • Very important. I spend a lot of time at my computer and my desktop environment is like my home. I want it to look in a way that I find aesthetically pleasing and it mustn't try to force me to change the way I work because some UX designer decided that their way was much better than everybody else's. Perhaps you can guess where this is going :D but I've tried to like Gnome 3 since it was first announced. I've given it multiple chances but it just doesn't work for me. It feels like they're going down the same road as all "modern" UIs, where only the most basic features are visible and everything else is either dumped into the "advanced" category or removed entirely. On the other hand, I have a coworker who only uses his PC like a tool, and he thinks Gnome is the best DE ever and can't understand why anyone would want something else.

    Currently I use KDE and I'm pretty happy with it. It's highly configurable, and I've made it look and feel the way I want. I used mainly Xfce for a long time but now I prefer KDE.

  • Bazzite Linux SMASHES Windows

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  • It's funny if you know that it is parody, but it's so widespead in this day and ago so I tend to unconsciously filter it out. Tbh I probably wouldn't have clicked the link if I hadn't seen your comment, since I thought this was the original title of the video

  • Washington wants your 3D printer to spy on you - here's the bill

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  • I think you missed the part where it said "[...] cannot be overridden or otherwise defeated by a user with significant technical skill." I.e. either the printer will only allow flashing with signed firmware containing the detection algorithms, or it would have to be done by a separate chip which isn't affected by flashing firmwares.

    But also detecting firearms in gcode is a ridiculously complex task, and if companies actually try to comply they might opt for building the algorithms into their closed source slicer instead, and then only allowing their printer to print encrypted/signed gcode. Or they might do the analysis using some AI algorithm on their cloud servers, requiring an always on internet connection to print things. It might be tempting to think that nobody would buy a printer like that, but I think that enough people will do if they make it convenient and cheap enough.

  • Sweden @lemmy.world
    ffhein @lemmy.world

    Vilka konsumentväglednings-sajter litar ni på?

  • Fedora Linux @lemmy.ml
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    solved

    How to prevent Nvidia driver from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates overwriting driver from CUDA Toolkit?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    "This Linux thing is better than normal computers"

  • Sweden @lemmy.world
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    Bilbo slutar snusa (Sagan om Ringen på skånska)

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Recommend a distro for a 13-year-old gamer

  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    Anyone found "optimal" settings for llama.cpp partial offload?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    PSA: Update to Plasma 6.3 can make Wayland session unusable if you have configured monitor ICC profiles

    bugs.kde.org /show_bug.cgi
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    guide

    How to install Aslain's modpack for World of Warships on Steam

  • Warhammer 40k @lemmy.world
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    Old issues of White Dwarf from mid '90s - nostalgic value or straight into the recycling bin?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Any "undiscovered" games you think deserve more attention?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Something resets my monitor colour calibration when I log in

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Tactical team based fps Isonzo free weekend

    store.steampowered.com /app/1556790/Isonzo/
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    What determines the format of the prompt template?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Are you exposing any ports on your home server?

  • Tools @lemmy.world
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    Which 18V brushless drill driver has the least annoying sound?

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world
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    Which 18V brushless drill driver has the least annoying sound?

  • Tools @lemmy.world
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    Long term issues with Makita 18V batteries? Bonus topic: noise frequencies of different brands' drill drivers