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Atemu

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Interested in Linux, FOSS, data storage systems, unfucking our society and a bit of gaming.

Nixpkgs committer.

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reddit.com/u/Atemu12 (Probably won’t be active much anymore.)

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Is this Seagate Exos drive too good to be true?

I found this its the cheapest 10TB Exos drive on Newegg and looking to buy 4 of them. I will be putting them in my NAS that I use for my media library and pc backups. The price I’m posting this is $130, I’m also looking similar Exos drives that are $250 is there a difference? Should I shell up for the more expensive drives?

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You must be running an icredible HA software stack for uptime increases so far behind the decimal to matter.

Dual Booting: How in god's name?!

I have one drive, 1tb with Pop_OS, and another, 500 on to which i want to install windows. (I know, I dont like it either but I want to play VR games via link cable cause ALVR is really mid) So, I put the ISO on a drive with ventoy, booted it up, got it all going. started to install windows on the empty drive. So, after the five...

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Ah I think Windows does this “helpful” thing where it installs its bootloader into the ESP of any drive if it’s already present rather than the drive you explicitly told it to install onto.

You didn’t have anything in it yet, right? Unplug all other drives and then re-install Windows onto the drive. It should work as expected after that.

IIRC Pop!_OS sets the systemd-boot timeout super short; you have to hold a key after the firmware is done or something to get to it reliably or simply increase the timeout (1s is enough, I have it set to that on my systems). systemd-boot should give you the option to boot any windows installation though, it can auto-detect them.

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blog.kagi.com/security-audit

NixOS beginner resources

Heya, been hearing about NixOS for a long time now, mostly from the peeps over at the Linux Unplugged podcast. So was thinking about jumping onto the nix-train, however it seems like it has a learning curve. Does anyone have any good learning resources, blog-posts, guides, whatever beans that you used to get started with NixOS?...

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The best way I know of is to get yourself a VM and get into the weeds; try to configure a system to your liking.

Follow the NixOS manual. The Wiki is unofficial; often opinionated, out of date or just plain wrong. Take it with a grain of salt. The canonical source of documentation is the NixOS manual and it’s not nearly as bad as you may have heard.

Make extensive use of search.nixos.org/options or man configuration.nix. Finding and making proper use of options and the module system is the bread and butter of using NixOS.

Eventhough everyone and their mom will recommend them to you for nebulous reasons, ignore flakes for now. You will know when you’ll benefit from using them; namely when you need to use something outside of NixOS/Nixpkgs. You’re going to have enough to figure out with plain old NixOS on its own though; I don’t have external dependencies in my config to this day.

To wrap it up, make sure to ask the community if something’s not working as expected: github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs#community

Comparing compression in AV1, x264, and x265 (kbin.social)

I recently got it into my head to compare the various popular video codecs in an effort to better understand how av1 works and looks compared to x264 and x265. I also had ideas of using a intel video card to compress a home video security setup, and what levels of compression I would need to get good results....

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The “av1” numbers, which codec is that? There are many av1 encoders and even for Intel HW accel, there are at least two.

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I don’t think either of them care very much about christmas.

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Either side.

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/thread

Is there such a thing as split-screen grep?

I want to run a command and see all of its output on the left hand side, while simultaneously searching/grepping for particular lines on the right hand side. In other words, I want a temporary vertically split screen in my CLI, ideally with scrollback on each side of the split, but where I expect the left hand side to be...

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That’s not at all grep-like. Grep is a line filter, not a character sequence highlighter.

I'm looking for a privacy respecting vacuum robot

I’m looking for a vacuum robot preferably under 500€ and with a cleaning station. My main concern is that most robot vacuum providers seem to need to be connected to the internet. Are there any providers that either don’t need that, where I can block the internet connection or any other way not getting a spy in my home?...

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That mitigates a rather minimal leak while ignoring the gaping black data hole.

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Now that’s meta.

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Note that while they’re disingenuously proclaiming themselves to be a “free” tool, the license is actually an unfree proprietary custom license.

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If you need to set up a special dedicated subvolume, might aswell set up a partition instead; it’s just simpler.

With a swapfile you also can’t do multi-device setups which is a limitation I personally couldn’t live with.

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I’d highly recommend setting up a swap partition instead.

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BSD which iOS is based on

Note that Apple’s OSs have very little to do with BSDs unless you deem coreutils the only criteria for an OS’ quality.

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Is there a court case about this already? Because that’s clearly not the intention of the GPL.

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Yes, a slight speed decrease is expected even with good proxy services at common residential speeds. Given that yours is far above the average, a greater decrease can be expected. It shouldn’t be this much though.

If this is installed on a common “router” SOHO gateway appliance, it’s likely that its hardware is simply not able to keep up with the tunnelling workload (encryption, package handling). For troubleshooting, try the same proxy server on a more powerful machine while disabling the proxy on the gateway. If it’s faster, that’s likely your issue.

Also try a different proxy server. That particular one might simply not have enough capacity to serve you more than that.

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They’re not doing like proton and close basic stuff like IMAP and SMTP as a way to force you on the official apps

The reason Proton cannot do IMAP/SMTP is that they cannot read your emails which is required for both. That’s a feature, not a bug.

PM works with any app as long as the app implements their custom protocol for which there are at least two FOSS implementations as a reference.

proton is a “fake” open source that is mostly used for marketing: they opened only the UI, which communicates with a proprietary protocol to a proprietary server - useless

While I’d also prefer their back-end to be OSS, it’s not nearly as critical as the clients.
As a user, it doesn’t make a difference. I’m paying for an opaque service either way.

All the interesting stuff (E2EE, zero access storage) happen in the clients anyways. The BE is fairly uninteresting; it’s a mail server + zero-access encryption + Proton account handling. If you really wanted to build a mail service similar to Proton, you could build that yourself and probably would have to anyways.

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The backend is the real interesting part, and the only way that we can be sure that “they cannot read the emails”

While I’d still prefer it, OSS can’t really help with that because what’s really required here is remote attestation.
That is an unsolved problem to my knowledge; there is no way to know which software they’re actually running. Even if they published the source code, they could trivially apply a patch in their deployment that stores all incoming email somewhere and you’d be none the wiser.

Even if they published source code and could somehow prove to you that they’re running a version derived from it, you would still not be safe from surveillance as one could simply MITM all connections. See i.e. notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/.

That’s likely one of the reasons they do everything they can to make PGP accessible to every user.

imap/smtp can be toggled with a warning, if that’s really their concern

It’s plain and simply not how their service works. They’d have to build most of their service a second time but unencrypted.

It’s like asking Signal to build in support for IRC; it does not make sense for them to do that in any way without malicious intent needed.

no IMAP = no easy migration to somewhere else

You have IMAP access via the bridge. That’s what it’s for.

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the parts of Guix in which packages are defined are quite pure, even using monads for some things

Monads have nothing to do with purity. In fact, one of the most infamous usages of them is Haskell’s IO monad which is probably the most impure construct in the entire language.

it is really not too different from the Nix language.

Hm, I can’t help but think that a lisp dialect can never really be similar to any language except another lisp.

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Not quite: It’s an expression language.

The ultimate output of Nix is one set of data, usually the description of a derivation (~= package). You cannot cause arbitrary side-effects with it like writing to files or making network requests with it.

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meaning every step of building the kernel, including the steps taken to build the C compiler toolchain, are produced by code that is simple enough to check for correctness and safety.

Full-source bootstrap isn’t about just the kernel, it affects every piece of software. With GUIX and Nix, every single package can be fully traced back to the bootstrap seed.

Though it should be noted that you do require a running Linux kernel on an x86 machine in order to bootstrap.

it is not quite to the point where it /just works/ on a lot of the computer hardware that I own.

Unless we get some serious money, effort and/or regulation w.r.t. OSS firmware, that will likely never be the case.
That has nothing to do with its technology though, that’s a political issue. GUIX is a GNU project and acts like proprietary software does not exist/is not a basic necessity in 2023.

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NVIDIA getting its shit together maybe?

Given the recent pace of NVK development we probably won’t have to rely on that for much longer in 2024.

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Why go through all of that complexity when you could just sudo apt install docker?

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