kbal

joined 8 months ago
[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 6 months ago

Pick one that has a wireguard config generator, so you don't need to use any client software besides the normal linux wg client.

I'd also look for one that accepts anonymous payment methods. Even if you don't intend to go to the trouble to use that yourself, it's probably a good sign if it's available. Mullvad is pretty safe and served me well until they stopped doing port forwarding. Proton, windscribe, azire, and airvpn were the ones that seemed most recommended when I went to look for a new one a few months ago.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 7 months ago

I think that's just some scrabble players angry at all the non-words

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 7 months ago

I spent a small moment wondering whether or not this was the real Olga Loiek in the video, but I guess the heuristic that says the real one is probably the one who's not telling you how great China is or which brand of makeup to buy still works for now.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was rc6 that finally fixed the amdgpu bug that's been annoying me for the past two months after I switched to a newer kernel than my distro came with in order to make some stupid ML stuff work. Probably it was the change described as "fix the runtime resume failure issue" I suppose. Whatever the problem was, it's gone now. If your graphical session sometimes fails to come back after the monitors were powered off for a while, 6.8 may be the kernel for you.

That's the problem with going out of your way to get a newer kernel. It has some new features but also some new bug and before you know it you're spending Sunday nights compiling the latest rc builds straight from Linus.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Only 1 in 100 Americans knows that HTML was named for "hot metal" after a type of ancient torture device.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)

Well, she's not wrong that we need more influential people fighting back against this latest push in the global coordinated effort to put an end to communications privacy. It's really quite alarming how little attention it seems to get most of the time. Civil society seemed much more robust when it fought off similar attacks in the 1990s. I do hope that the "VC community" isn't our only hope.

But of course Signal can’t interoperate with another messaging platform, without them raising their privacy bar significantly

Signal is supposed to be free software. You could probably manage to interoperate at least with other operators of actual Signal-Server instances, if you wanted to.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 49 points 7 months ago (6 children)

To help make skittish people feel at ease with the concept, why not give it a friendly on-screen avatar? Perhaps something like a cute little animated paperclip.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 7 months ago

The colour is a little unusual as well.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 7 months ago

More importantly, you don't need to be on an airplane to use airplane mode.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Well, if what you want is inexpensive, simple, and durable you might be looking for my favourite keyboard which apparently they're still selling. I haven't needed a new one in 15 years or so but it doesn't look like they've changed the design at all.

Whether a "mechanical" keyboard is worth it just depends on your taste, but in my experience they do wear out much more quickly than this thing I'm typing on.

[–] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kids should focus on the one thing AI can't do: Stand-up comedy.

 

Maybe now that traditional memes are well on the way to being drowned in a sea of low-quality propaganda made by idiots, the cool kids will move on to text posts.

view more: next ›