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A question for all #Guix folks on fedi: is there a way to make building the derivations faster? The machine I use has 20 cores, and only one of them is used 100% and the rest are usually around 7-8%.
There are many things that needs updating on my machine (including guix, pacman, flatpak, Emacs packages, ...) and by far Guix is the slowest despite having:
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guix upgrade --cores=$(nproc --ignore 1)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116503812284289249
We are officially passed 1512 hours of internet blackout in #Iran. Just to put in perspective: when people were watching Artimis launch, Iran was in blackout. When Artimis got back, Iran was in blackout. When people were celebrating easter, Iran was in blackout. When people were careful about April's fools day online, Iran was in blackout. When people celebrated Labour Day, Iran was in blackout.
63 days and counting...
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@jolla
Pienimäki stated:
> There are not more than four mobile operating systems in the world. Two Americans, Chinese Huawei and then there is Jollan Sailfish OSWell, let's list few more for sake of completeness:
- @postmarketOS
- @ubports
- ManjaroI think he meant to say "there are no more than 4 closed sourced proprietary mobile OSs". Then the statement would be accurate.
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According to the rector decision in my university, the university library will put all research articles under CC license and making it publicly available regardless of the journal!
This is an amazing news that promotes better research practices imho. I'm super glad that my university is taking these measures towards open and accessible science.More info here:
https://www.utu.fi/en/research/open-science/open-publications/priorlicencemodel
and here:
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An 8 years old bug is now finally addressed and fixed in #BOINC client. Now BOINC client can properly detect idle time and run the processes when the computer is idle (if user have configured it that way). More info:
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it seems there is a bug that #Kate does not register Scroll Lock. I just reported the bug:
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The two things that hurt most in AI era are 1) using bots instead of customer support, and 2) replying to customer's emails and suggestions with AI.
I sent a medium-size feedback email along with some suggestions to Realm.fm, which I'm a paid member. It was sent in Nov 12th, 2025. I got reply now (Mar 4th, 2026) with AI and full of "we are sorry" and "we hear you" and of course, the infamous em dash! 5 months for a short AI generated reply :blobcatgooglyshrug:
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Considering the circumstances and the potential target audience which were predominantly Iraninas, I personally at this point consider this software unsafe until proven otherwise through auditing.
The following is the copy I have that can be used for audition. I appreciate the #FLOSS community if they can help in reviewing this code which is written in #Bash.
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I know quite a few people that were running Conduit Manager. It seems yesterday or the day before, the owner of the project (whoch was practically anonymous) have deleted their GitHub project and all their repos with it. As a cautionary measure, I suggest turning off all the VMs and LXCs that was running this code, at least until we know if the codebase was not malicious.
I personally have a copy of the project on my GitHub account in case anyone is interested in auditing
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The #Conduit and #Tor #Snowflake traffic today have been extraordinarily low across all my instances. Yesterday this time just one of my instances had 11.5GB in less than an hour. Today the total traffic have been less than 3GB across all instances and across 10 hours!
Do other folks have the same experience?
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For those who are interested in self-hosting #Conduit servers on your VPS/VM, this project might be a quick way to start:
https://github.com/SamNet-dev/conduit-manager
Disclaimer: I am yet to read the entire code-base. This is not an endorsement, but rather bringing it under the radar of the #FLOSS community so that we have more eyes on the code-base and hopefully improving it as well.
If you don't know about Conduit, it is a proxy server for #Psiphone VPN to bypass #internet_censorship
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I saw this interview [1] of #RogerWaters about the #Iran situation and about an infamous interview he had last week with Piers Morgan [2].
His attitude reminded me of this quote from Plato:
> Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something
In this interview [1] he stated multiple times that he doesn't and didn't have the details about what's happening in Iran, and yet he ran his mouth 🤦
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The #psiphon #VPN claims that it is OpenSource, but if you dig deep enough you'll see it's all the classic OpenSource washing. They are dumping binary files in a git repo and calling it OpenSource. Checkout these commits for their server:
https://github.com/Psiphon-Inc/psiphon-automation/commits/master/Server/psiphond
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I wonder if #Linux users on Fediverse have heard of OpenSnitch, and if they are using it, how handy the have found it? Do you use it in daily basis? Home to work computer?
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That's a bummer. I got a Vox Bass AmPlug3 for xmas and it doesn't work, and stores are not open to return it 🤔
Seems this festive season I need to fire up my Fender amp and make some noise 😅
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After 10 months, #Mozilla have not reverted their privacy policy change about #Firefox :
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/16054
Next stops: @librewolf , #Nyxt , @Vivaldi , and #LadyBird 🤔
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It seems #Atlassian is terminating free and abandoned accounts in #BitBucket based on the email I got. Good thing that I moved all my repos to @Codeberg last year. Not only #Codeberg aligns more with my values, but they are way more transparent.
If you have an account on Bitbucket, perhaps it is time to move away your repos. Codeberg has a nice migation tool that automatically and cleanly imports your repo and wiki.
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This is hilarious. #CloudFlare is down again. This time error 500. The more amusing thing is that the downdetector.com is working perfectly for cloudflare, because when CloudFlare is down, #DownDetector goes down with it 😂
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P.s: for those who wonder, the screenshot is from #Nyxt browser: https://nyxt.atlas.engineer which I have activated #Emacs keybindings in it. -
I've been listening to this immersive audio series for a couple of days now. If you are interested in sci-fi, you might want to give this a try. Episodes are 15 to 20 mins short and are perfect for listening during commute or while cooking. Such series have substituted Netflix for me for few months now 🤓 Give it a shot
Station 151
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I always had some here and there issues with shebang in my scripts and I always tried to stick to some rules sometimes without knowing why. I just stumbled upon this nice video that showcases some of the edge cases:
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For some reason I cannot get rid of the idea of having a metric time (a.k.a decimal time) clock as a watch or as a clock.
Out of everything in the SI (International System of Units), time is the only one that is really integral in our life and yet is not following the decimal system. Everything else (length, mass, electric current, temperature, luminosity,...) follow the decimal system, but time for some reason is still this weird format.
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The @delta is raising 5 times more from their @Liberapay account than their OpenCollective.
The only downside of #Liberapay is lack transparency regarding how much money have been raised since the inception of the account or annually. You can see the history in form of a weekly graph, but doesn't give you the number, or an annual estimated budget. Other than that, it is way better than #OpenCollective. Also, Liberapay is under CC0 license:
https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com?tab=readme-ov-file#license
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I have so much hope for the @Liberux project. It would be a great achievement to have a phone that is truly designed for a Linux distro rather than the community try to retrofit a linux on opaque existing Android phones that majority of the time many parts doesn't work as good (e.g., wifi, Bluetooth).
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#TIL that there is an OSI approved OpenSource license called "European Union Public Licence" (EUPL). Yes, in this case the "licence" is written with C and not S:
I was wondering if anyone have any argument against this license compared to GPLv2 and GPLv3.
I am about to release a small CLI tool and am looking for a license for it.
:boostRequest: Boosts are appreciated.
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My PhD student was still feeling uncomfortable with #regex, so I searched and found these awesome regex games that can help you improve your regex-fu and help you have some fun during your daily commute:
https://www.the-regex-game.com/?level=integer
and this imho is more geared towards beginners: