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“Almost bricks their machine” lol
It’s not an iphone, breaking the boot sequence won’t brick it. But sure, go ahead, lecture everyone else…
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•What if this is a coma dream.English
4·5 months agoGood ending
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There are algorithms deciding if we're human or notEnglish
1·5 months agoEpic Games be damned…
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There are algorithms deciding if we're human or notEnglish
7·5 months agoReverse Turing test
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Should I feel bad that my abusers are suffering?English
251·5 months agoNever be coerced into caring about someone who doesn’t care about you.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real.English
4·5 months agoWe have no evidence of a 1 or 2 dimensional universe existing, just like we have no evidence of a 4 dimensional universe existing. That might be because they don’t exist, or it might be because we can’t look into other universes.
If time is a dimension or not, that depends more on what you think the word “dimension” means than on what time itself is.
No thank you.
Takes notes of what you’re doing from a distance anyways, but hiding in a bush
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Linux@programming.dev•WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"English
5·5 months agoYeah, if I wanted a VM, I’d be running a VM…
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
17·5 months agoThe 1% richest hold 50% of all the wealth. If we’re being reasonable, everyone vs them is probably more than enough.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from HellEnglish
81·5 months agoWait till you hear about betanet
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company?English
19·5 months agoThat’s just the company expecting to deliver you bad services/products before they even know who you are. Absolute clown behavior.
I can’t say that I know of a single adult who isn’t against children being able to access porn. The question is: how exactly do you expect to achieve that without nuking porn as a whole?
First, if we decide that porn is just unacceptable to be available for anyone to see because children might access it, then who decides where to draw the line? Does hentai count? Or should it be banned as well? How about artistic nudity? Do painters get a pass? Does Hollywood get a pass? What about educational material? How realistic can a diagram of the reproductive system be before it’s bannable?
If we’re actually trying to restrict access to porn just from underage people, specifically, then how? I’m sure you’re aware of UK’s recent attempt to enforce online ID requirement under the premise of protecting children from harmful content. If that’s how, then why exactly does Spotify require an ID now? I’ve, personally, never gone there looking for porn. Same with YouTube, tbh. And also, why have people opposing such measures been visited, and questioned, by the British police?
Truth is: online ID is not about protecting children, it’s about governmental control, especially powerful for minority profiling. Anyone saying otherwise is either uninformed, lying, or just delusional. No one is opposing that children should get their access restricted, I’d say that’s not even just about porn, I don’t want to see children on Twitter, Reddit or TikTok either. The problem is doing that reliably, while respecting people’s right to privacy. Once there’s a real solution for that, I’ll support it. For now, the best solution we have is parental control, which was available for as long as internet has been a product. “Protect YOUR children” is no revolutionary take.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is.English
10·5 months agoA coworker of mine was born in 2006. I never knew hiring toddlers was legal…
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•thats why i love pc gaming, it just worksEnglish
3·5 months agoNever had any issues with Discord flatpak
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once?English
13·5 months agoThe conditions are perfect for life to thrive, and especially to evolve, we’re not so sure about forming.
Actually, I’m pretty compelled by the hypothesis that Mars actually had the perfect conditions for life to form. With less of an ocean covered surface, regular rain, and constant meteor showers. Such meteors would form holes lined with random chemicals, which then get filled with water, forming a puddle. If one puddle doesn’t have all the necessary components to form life, another likely will. That seems to me like a much better scenario than a sparsely diluted ocean on Earth.
Then whatever life originated on Mars might have been thrown into space by one of those meteors, and by chance, fell on Earth. There’s actually evidence that such interplanetary matter transfer is possible, and has happened. That would explain why we only know of a single common ancestor, the only one that arrived here.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines?English
61·6 months agoThe problem with AI is not even their developers fully understand how they work, and they’re not standardized, so there isn’t a one size fits all solution for dealing with them. The amount of different ways in which a model may or may not fail is so large, that any particular fail mode might as well be random.
Even if you do manage to find something like a captcha that can filter out most AI models, it’s as much a matter of time, as it is a matter of randomness for some developer to find a way to bypass it, even if accidentally. Case in point: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iuR9EJbXHKg
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•mi familia lo q pensó cuando me vio instalado Linux en la pc viejaEnglish
112·6 months agoRule 5: the substance of a post should be comprehensible to people who only speak English

You don’t. Don’t trust this reply either, it’s biased and there’s a whole political agenda behind it. Goodnight.