Deckweiss

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What's the most "set and forget" Linux distro that's still flexible these days? in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There were no flatpaks a decade ago.

What's the most "set and forget" Linux distro that's still flexible these days? in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

downside that made me move from debian:

dist upgrades broke all the time, because I had software installed from PPAs.

What is the most private phone? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

GrapheneOS sometimes sacrifices privacy for security.

I had way more privacy related features and controls on a rooted LineageOS phone (which was obviously much less secure)

Run android app in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There is probably no out of the box solution, but if you want to give it a go and hack it together, this combination might work (or it might not, I don't think anybody tried yet)

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-webtop

&

https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer

How to maintain a local repository of docker images in case they go offline? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
This Week in Plasma: Everything You Wanted and More in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

the window rules one really fucks me up.

It stopped working at the beginning of the year for me and nobody gave a shit about the bug reports.

Now I have to keep juggling windows and their sizes every day like a caveman.

How Good at Math Does a Programmer Need to Be? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Depends on the career path. Some need only the very basics - for example in frontend development, you'll mostly use % and basic +/-.

tbh. Most of the useful programming related knowledge you'll learn at yoyr first job, not at uni.

The curriculum sometimes will force you to learn something unrelated to your career and it has multiple purposes:

People learn the fastest in the topic where they already know a lot. And the slowest where they know very little.

Learning stuff outaide of your comfort zone literally works out your brain. You learn to learn. And your thinking becomes more flexible.

You should not become somebody who is only good at one narrow singular task and a complete idiot at anything else.

You never know if it becomes useful later in life. So I suggest still trying to do your best at any topic. And studying more for the exams where you are not as proficient.

As to which career path to go for:

Don't be afraid to change midway, but make sure that you enjoy it. If you enjoy compsci, keep at it. (Or if you have student loan, put some more thought into the cost of switching).

How do I store my websites users' user script's logs? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whats your website stack?

How do you host it?

Share the link to your site or an example log so that we can check out what kind of data needs storing.

There are several ways to store some data either on the users end or on the backend, with different pros and cons. But which one you should pick is highly dependent on the stack and the details of your needs.

What file sharing do you recommend? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop

This works really well. The readme says "local network" at the beginning, but it works across the internet by sharing a link.

Self-hosting LLMs in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

GPT4All is a nice and easy start.

KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bottles is a noun and not an adjective.

Also bottles has no IT related meaning, while immutable does.

"Immutable OS" is not a product name.

An "immutable" OS becomes mutable whenever a user wants to change anything on it.

Now imagine I keep describing my car as undrivable, because it only becomes drivable when somebody gets in and drives it. - You'd think that this is a completely deranged statement.

KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The main difference to your examples is that an "immutable OS" is in fact mutable, while none of your examples describe themselves with an adjective that is contradicting with their function/inner workings.

Flatpak is a pretty good name, because it makes software flat in the sense that it avoids having a (tall) dependency tree.

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Phoronix Birthday: 20 years of great Linux content - let us donate for a good birthday celebration! (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Deckweiss@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
4 comments fedilink
 

Repost from: https://libreddit.nl/r/linux_gaming/comments/1d8qi81/phoronix_birthday_20_years_of_great_linux_content/

He really seemed downbeat in his announcements regarding the birthday. He really puts a lot of work into the site but having a niche audience of tech literate users is probably the worst place to be with ad sales tanking as they do. If anybody is using adblockers, it's us and people are cheap.

I really hope the guy has a nice birthday and gets lots of love and donations. The phoronix content is always great and I've been a long time reader. (I've donated the same amount as OP - see my screenshot)

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Blocking AI crawlers with Caddy (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Deckweiss@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I was reading the reddit thread on Claude AI crawlers effectively DDOSing Linux Mint forums https://libreddit.lunar.icu/r/linux/comments/1ceco4f/claude_ai_name_and_shame/

and I wanted to block all ai crawlers from my selfhosted stuff.

I don't trust crawlers to respect the Robots.txt but you can get one here: https://darkvisitors.com/

Since I use Caddy as a Server, I generated a directive that blocks them based on their useragent. The content of the regex basically comes from darkvisitors.

Sidenote - there is a module for blocking crawlers as well, but it seemed overkill for me https://github.com/Xumeiquer/nobots

For anybody who is interested, here is the block_ai_crawlers.conf I wrote.

(blockAiCrawlers) {
  @blockAiCrawlers {
    header_regexp User-Agent "(?i)(Bytespider|CCBot|Diffbot|FacebookBot|Google-Extended|GPTBot|omgili|anthropic-ai|Claude-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere-ai)"
  }
  handle @blockAiCrawlers {
    abort
  }
}

# Usage:
# 1. Place this file next to your Caddyfile
# 2. Edit your Caddyfile as in the example below
#
# ```
# import block_ai_crawlers.conf
#
# www.mywebsite.com {
#   import blockAiCrawlers
#   reverse_proxy * localhost:3000
# }
# ```
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How to pirate a font (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Deckweiss@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I have bought a font with a really shitty license agreement and I have a couple of questions.

  1. How can I best share the font with the community? (I am afraid of metadata in the font files, which may be tied to my payment account etc. - I had to register and log in to download the ttf files)

  2. How can I remove the DSIG and other metadata from the ttf file while keeping it usable?

  3. Are they able to detect it if I use the font in a commercial product online by crawling my website and if yes, how could I prevent an automatic detection attempt?

To my (and possibly your) surprise, I didn't find any free downloads of the font online. Their license is tied to a personal account, you have to log into once a year to keep the license. As far as I understand they theoretically could use the DSIG to let the ttf files "expire", at least when used in software that verifies the signature. But I may be wrong, please let me know.

Thanks in advance and cheers-I mean ARR

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