I have all my browsers configured where JS is disabled by default, no local data gets stored (cookies, cache, etc. gets deleted on exit) and I use containerized tabs, so I always get cucked by Anubis. There are several Websites I stopped visiting because of Anubis and I’m not just going to change my setup that I’ve been using for years across several PCs just to get to a piece of text. I really don’t like this proof of work shit, especially not when it’s done via bleeding edge JabbaScript.

I doubt this will affect scrapers as much as people like to think. Their crawlers likely run on enterprise grade Server Hardware on a massive uplink.

Exactly. All modern CPUs are so standardized that there is little reason to store all the data in ASCII text. It’s so much faster and less complicated to just keep the raw binary on disk.

The newest PC I own is from 2014. The latest CPU µArch I know is Haswell. Zen Four? Sapphire Rapids? Funny fantasy names.

It annoys me though how newer video cards only come with DP and HDMI ports anymore. I’m still one of those people who actively use DVI and see no reason to get rid of my VGA/DVI Monitors, so I’m forced to deal with adapters. Fucking Capitalists.

What always gets me is that they can’t admit and accept that something is overpriced, low quality shit when it is just overpriced, low quality shit. Instead they huff the copium and call anyone who does offer genuine criticism a “toxic hater” or whatever. Another argument I also keep seeing is “It’s just not for you”.

NVK doesn’t support older cards though last time I checked. Pretty funny how I ended up with a stack of paperweights because NVidia dropped support and Nouveau/NVK can’t get their shit together and instead of focusing on existing hardware they rather keep chasing the “latest and greatest”.

AI? Look, I helped a friend fix a new install. It wasn’t Linux fault, it was a setting in the bios that needed to be changed. But the AI had them trying all sorts of things that were unrelated, and was never going to help. Use with a grain of salt.

I have the same experience but sometimes it was even worse; Sometimes the AI would confidently recommend doing things that might lead to breakage. Personally I recommend against using AI to learn Linux. It’s just not worth it and will only give new users a false impression of how things work on Linux. People are much better off reading documentation (actual documentation, not SEO slop on random websites) or asking for help in forums.

It has a green lock icon with the word “Private” next to it so it’s fine bro.

I can recommend WindowMaker. It’s a simple Window Manager that can just be started via .xinitrc.

arch-meson is a small wrapper script for meson:

$ cat /usr/bin/arch-meson
#!/bin/bash -ex
# Highly opinionated wrapper for Arch Linux packaging

exec meson setup \
  --prefix        /usr \
  --libexecdir    lib \
  --sbindir       bin \
  --buildtype     plain \
  --auto-features enabled \
  --wrap-mode     nodownload \
  -D              b_pie=true \
  -D              python.bytecompile=1 \
  "$@"

You’ll have to upload the image for that to work.

Support for Loongson’s Chips was mainlined a little while ago in both GCC and the Linux Kernel so I’m hopeful. If the Kernel devs suddenly start refusing to merge stuff from Chinese Hardware makers that will only create a soft-fork of the Kernel and they’d just tell everybody to use their fork. In fact, Loongson did fork both the Linux Kernel and GCC to modify them in the first place until eventually their modifications got accepted. Even I myself am actually running a Kernel that I modified because there are certain things I disagree with. Also let’s not forget that Linux isn’t the only FOSS UNIX-like out there.

Viewing an image? Ask copilot to generate what it thinks the image looks like.

And then you try to open the image file on a non-Windows system and discover that it’s actually just a text file with a prompt. Your actual Image is now part of copilot’s training data and you’ve agreed to this by accepting the Windows EULA.

“Save storage space with copilot!”

I haven’t touched Windows in years and every time I take a peek at the current state of Windows I’m horrified and ask myself “How do people put up with this?”.

I’m starting to think that feds are spamming the “TAX” idea as a distraction. If you genuinely believe that “taxing the rich” will get us Communism then you need to read more. “The Principles of Communism”, “Wage Labour and Capital” and “The Communist Manifesto” are good starting points.

It’s his Pixelfed Account on the pixelfed.social Instance: https://pixelfed.social/Yogthos

I stand by what I said in that other thread the other day: I have yet to find LLMs be a useful tool. This whole thing is hilarious but at the same time I feel bad for the devs who have to deal with this crap.

LLMs are hot garbage and my opinion will only change once I can describe a problem to it and it actually understands and provides in-depth guidance related to my problem without any bullshit or false/outdated information. I want an LLM that might ask me for more information on something if it thinks it needs it.

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One time I asked DeepSeek for guidance on a more complex problem involving a linked list and I wanted to know how a simple implementation of that would look like in practice. The most high level I go is C and they claim it knows C, so I asked it to write in the C language. It literally started writing code like this:

void important_function() {
    // important_function code goes here
}

void black_magic() {
    // Code that performs black magic goes here.
}

I tried at least 2 more times after that and while it did actually write code this time, the code it wrote made no sense whatsoever. For example one time it started writing literal C# in the middle of a C function for some reason. Another time it wrongly assumed that I’m asking for C++ (despite me explicitly stating otherwise) and the C++ it produced was horrifying and didn’t even work. Yet another time it acted like the average redditor and hyper focused on a very specific part of my prompt and then only responded to that while ignoring my actual request.

I tried to “massage” it a lot in hopes of getting some useful information out of it but in the end I found that some random people’s Git repos and Stackexchange questions were way more helpful to my problem. All of my experiences with LLMs have been like this thus far and I’ve been messing with them for 1+ years now. People claim they’re very useful for writing repetitive or boiler plate code but I am never in a position where I’d want or need that. Maybe my use cases are just too niche lol.

A few days ago I was configuring some software where it’s difficult to find good documentation about so I decided to ask DeepSeek. I described what I’m trying to do and asked if it could give me an example setup so I can get a better understanding. All it did was confidently make shit up and told me things that I already knew. And that’s only the most recent example. I have yet to find LLMs be a useful tool.

That’s only been my experience with software that depends on many different libraries. And it’s extra painful when you find out that it needs hyper specific versions of libraries that are older than the ones you have already installed. Rust is only painless because it just downloads all the right dependencies.