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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Hmm, ok. I see. When clicking on the last button in a category tree, it chooses randomly an instance.

    Tho for that specific category, I cannot access https://lemmy.sdf.org/. Why? I don’t know, maybe broken or regional block?

    If regional block, that is an argument to warts looking at user location. Tho not sure if it would be useful for anything else.

    It would also be interesting to categorize more instances. Maybe even put smaller ones to distribute the load. Tho sometimes the smaller ones may not be well prepared for a lot of users. And at the same time the local feed may not be the most active. Tho the all feed may be interesting for new users.

    The instance where I am, compuverse.uk is a general tech/computer instance, but had issues with storage for example.


  • So when does the random instance is chosen? When the website is loaded? When the user clicks on a category?

    Maybe currently there aren’t enough instances categorised on the website to get enough randomness.

    Is there, or would there be, a weight in the randomness in order to chose closer instances based on the user’s location?

    For example sh.itjust.works is an instance based in Canada. When the reddit exodus happened. That instance was slow due to the distance. While others closer to the western europe were faster because they where closer to me.

    Tho rn, it’s about the same. So not sure.



  • The bad news is that Android is still likely affected. Similar to Apple’s ImageIO, Android has a facility called the BitmapFactory that handles image decoding, and of course libwebp is supported. As of today, Android hasn’t released a security bulletin that includes a fix for CVE-2023-4863 – although the fix has been merged into AOSP. To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I’d expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin.

    So a no-click device hack?


  • There is a flatpak zoom app. I guess it can be sandboxes somehow. It would most likely not pose any privacy threat outside of zoom.

    But keep in mind that zoom got into it’s privacy policy, that they can record and use for ai anything you do and say during a meeting (if you didn’t allow access to the desktop during the meeting, zoom shouldn’t be able to record it, so most likely won’t matter for that, only what you send through their servers).






  • Do you have lots of cash to support the copyright and maintenance fees? The Web archive (I think, or another similar website) got sued for having knowledge and book contents on their website. You can’t just publish hacked books.

    Most likely you would need a way to generate money for a “business”.

    There would be some ways like advertising (can be OK, but not always the best, it depends on how many adds, how scummy ads, and how much tracking/data selling).

    Donations? = pretty much no expected revenue. The amount of revenue you can get is very low.

    Paid features, but what features could be paid while keeping free access?





  • The article only talks about deployment costs. What about the rest?

    For you a company should just throw away it’s employees to hire inexistent Linux experts or people using Linux software or whatever?

    There is the server side. There I agree that using Linux is great.

    On the client side it can be more complicated. A lot of schools in various domains teach the students how to use the software on windows. Not Linux.

    Furthermore, a company doesn’t pop into existence the moment where it thinks it needs to switch to Linux.

    The company already exists, providing work to the employees, trained on windows. So switching on Linux may change the software if it cannot be used on Linux (not everything is a saas). And that can be a time consuming process for the employees too because they don’t know how to use it efficiently.


  • They can’t really do that, mostly because it’s not “just 1 person”.

    There are a lot of costs going into maintaining the os, apps, custom software, and training for the employees.

    Google is giant, and has a huge amount of money. They can afford to spend the costs of training, modifying software, or developing other software for their needs if it reduces their future costs.

    A smaller company don’t have all those funds, they wouldn’t be able to invest as much into switching to Linux and maintaining the custom software or finding new software and training.

    When people switch to another software, there is also a period of low productivity, when these same people are still discovering the software, and cannot do everything as fast as before. That is also creating additional costs.


  • Sure. But google does waste money if it brings them profit. It would be rather called an investment.

    However the example of Google is extremely bad, because it can only be applied to very large tech companies who already have people developing for Linux.

    It’s not a waste of money, it’s a bad example.


  • I don’t know about dual boot. Maybe windows has to be installed first. Never tried it.

    Tho I know that it is possible during the drive choice, in the windows install, to select an empty space, then clic on the create partition, and there creating a sufficiently big enough partition for windows will create 3 partitions : The boot, reserved and windows. Then just select the main windows partition, and it will auto detect the boot and reserved partition.

    However that is happening on an empty drive. I do not know what can happen on a drive where there is already an OS.

    Windows 11 can be used, however a oobe command needs to be input at install, without Internet, to not have to use an online account. Tho windows may ask later to connect with an online account.

    For an alternative, windows may also be used in a VM. There may also be a way to pass through all the main gpu if needed, and switch between Linux / windows. But I didn’t really use it. So I don’t know where it is or what are the steps.

    If the Linux os needs to be used, but the gpu also has to be in the vm, there is a way to split it. Tho the last time I checked (4+ months ago) the project was incompatible with amd due to some kernel/driver stuff. I sadly lost the link to it…