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  • Linux kernel maintainer says Al has suddenly become useful for devs: 'We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better"

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  • How's the firmware support/availability? For things like graphics tablets, graphics drivers, etc?

    I don't think OpenBSD has binary compat with Linux but most Linux software should just need a recompile for BSDs—I'm discouraged from porting given that when it's not a simple recompile I'd have much less idea what to do.

  • Linux kernel maintainer says Al has suddenly become useful for devs: 'We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better"

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  • The reasons people use Linux are for qualities other than the ones affected by AI use. AI use has implications for code quality, correctness, and security. But none of those are why people use Linux. People use Linux over BSD or other Unixes because Linux supports the most hardware, has the biggest software ecosystem, and being a monolithic kernel is much easier to get up and running with lots of hardware without needing to install separate drivers. Those qualities still need to be addressed by BSDs or whatever alternatives before people will start migrating from Linux.

    I say this as someone who regularly uses and enjoys an OpenBSD machine. I couldn't use it as my main machine because it just doesn't have the same software availability and plug-and-use hardware support as Linux. Porting software to a new target is not a trivial task for most users. I package a few things for the AUR and that's much easier as the software already supports x86_64 Linux; I just have to write a script to install it. I think OpenBSD is a nice OS but I highly doubt Linux users will migrate any time soon. Think about how many people were clinging onto X11 because Wayland didn't support their super specific workflow. And a migration to an entirely different OS would be worse.

  • Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican?

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  • Where did I say or imply that Mexico and Spain were the only countries?

    Spain has a distinct accent if you are a Spanish speaker. If you don't speak Spanish, it's likely you wouldn't know the difference between different Spanish language accents.

  • [river+kwm] testing the new waters

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  • Sounds good. kwm and zrwm are on my shortlist. I've also seen tinyrwm and I'm heartened by how short the implementations are. I've been thinking about perhaps writing my own WM. I might take a read of tinyrwm to get an idea of what rolling my own might be like and give it a go.

  • [river+kwm] testing the new waters

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  • Looks good! How is kwm? Especially curious compared to river-classic, and if you've tried any other River WMs. I'm still on river-classic and hoping to move to 0.4 soon, but I need to decide on a WM first. Probably want something close to river-classic but some more programmability/extensibility would be nice.

  • Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican?

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  • You're in the US. Mexico is next door and speaks Spanish. A much higher proportion of Spanish speakers in the US are from Mexico than from Spain, which is across the ocean. If you were in France and identified as a Spanish speaker, many more people would think you were from Spain.

  • Bitwarden 100% price increase

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  • I know about Tailscale. I don't use it because I want my VPS to be exposed to the internet; some of my services are supposed to be public. And those that aren't, have their own authentication systems that are adequately secure for their purposes. I just don't need Tailscale so I've not bothered with the setup.

  • Idaho Passes Most Extreme Bathroom Ban In Nation, Creating Path To Life In Prison (includes private businesses)

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  • As the other person said, a cis woman who uses the men's out of expedience is much more likely to be let off the hook than a trans woman who uses the women's because she's a woman. They might want to enforce on the former out of misogyny anyway but an individual cis woman has a better chance of a sympathetic judge or jury.

  • Idaho Passes Most Extreme Bathroom Ban In Nation, Creating Path To Life In Prison (includes private businesses)

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  • Trans people who don't pass, Black women, and other people who aren't sufficiently gender-conforming for their liking will be made to prove their assigned gender in court.

  • Is unpaid rent useless if the tenant is (literally) gone forever?

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  • I imagine it would be the same protocol for any other instance of a dead person having debt, in whatever jurisdiction you're in. ie could be taken out of life insurance, their estate, whatever.

  • What's the deal with people liking old devices?

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  • There's a lot of hardware enshittification, eg removing a lot of commonly used ports from laptops. Also I don't like the form factor of all these Macbook rip-offs.

    I haven't noticed similar issues with desktop computing, but for laptops, I do prefer older laptops.

    Also, so many older devices go to e-waste when they're perfectly usable. I like to salvage devices when other people don't want them anymore.

  • Bitwarden 100% price increase

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  • I've had my VPS exposed to the internet for a while and never been pwned. No professional experience. Use SSH keys, not password authentication. Use FDE if physical access is in your threat model. Use a firewall to prevent connection on internal-only ports.

    Vaultwarden will store your passwords encrypted (obviously) so even if your database does get stolen, the attacker shouldn't be able to read your passwords without your master password.

  • Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026?

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  • Nothing, just using the latest FreeTube. Are you up to date? They've pushed out a few releases recently to get around new YouTube trickery. Your VPN server might also be blocked; I've had luck with Mullvad's Swedish servers lately.

  • Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026?

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  • No, afaik every alternative frontend that still works with age-restricted videos works by letting you sign in with a Google account (which defeats the point). I've tried a few.

    I just make an account for just the age-restricted videos. FreeTube still works for me for non-age restricted videos (if it doesn't for you, try changing VPN countries a few times—also you need to restart FreeTube every time you change VPN servers, otherwise it doesn't work from the new server, idk why).

  • Trust me bro!

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  • It's great. I also self-host my own Forgejo (that's the software Codeberg runs on) instance for private repos, to avoid using up space on Codeberg's servers.

    Main problem is the lack of federation, leading to splintering across Codeberg/GitLab/sourcehut/self-hosted forges. I know there's Radicle, and Forgejo is working on ActivityPub integration, but it's slow-moving to get what should be inherently federated by design (git) to actually be federated. In practice you need accounts on a dozen different websites if you want to regularly contribute to foss.

  • Trust me bro!

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  • Don't worry, the models already spit out poor code quality.

  • Check out how well my empire is doing.

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  • Men will be split between Penile Battalions and Anal Battalions.

  • How can I wear a skirt at work if I'm not religious?

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  • Skirts are fairly common formalwear, at least for women. Are you a man? If not, I think any office job, receptionist job, etc, would be fine with you wearing a skirt. I imagine it'd only be some forms of manual labour where a skirt would get in the way.

    Why would a bank make you not wear a skirt?

  • Do you Spanish learners learn "vosotros" and its conjugations or no? ¿De dónde sois?

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  • I was taught vosotros but I learnt in a country closer to Spain than to LatAm. I think they mentioned ustedes in later parts of the course but vosotros was the standard second person plural pronoun we were taught.