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  • Mastodon has user defined word filters, you can completely mute this crap (of course people love misspelling his name).
    I wish lemmy/kbin would get something similar it's really annoying to have this fucker in my feed daily.

  • I see, I was wondering why a IT-Security workers were suddenly being called edgy kids. lol.

  • Yea, I know its the edgy kid distro

    Huh?

  • Now do same with textiles and electronics

  • I guess mainly:
    Activity Pub is actually official W3C standard. There are yearly conferences, development and it's open.
    That AT protocol is owned by Bluesky, they decide how it's developed, what gets in, what goes out and to my knowledge it's actually not implemented anywhere else (yet).

  • Huge if true.

  • Had no idea this was even releasing.
    I guess I'll wait until it's on Disney+ who the hell wants to go to theaters anyway, it's just too expensive

  • Sometimes customers want me to use a specific piece of software so I have a QEMU Windows installation I use.

  • I’m also nervous about using an OS I’m not familiar with for business purposes right away.

    Keep using what gets the job done. That's what computers are for. Do not switch to Linux.

  • I've been daily driving Linux since Debian 1.3 in -97.
    There's certainly been tough times with some printers in the past, to be honest I haven't thought about device/software compatibility in years.
    Everything (I need) just works.

  • 20% seems really low, but I guess it's better than 0%

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  • I think it might have been an idea to make instance federation to default into a whitelist instead of relying on everyone having to blacklist random raspberry pies around the world.

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  • Yeah, if that kind of thing is part of your threat model.

    The tools to protect users on fedi are a bag of shit (partly due to the federated nature of it all, but also due to the fact that no one really thought about "what to do about abuse").

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  • Yeah, not much you can do about it apart from the things outlined in the OP.

    A nazi dickhed running pleroma on his rapsberry pie isn't going to respect federation moderation messages, DMCA or GDPR. You can try to complain to their ISP, but chances that someone is reading the abuse mailbox and acts on it is... slim.

    So act like there's no privacy at all.

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    1. Don't expect privacy. Everything you post is public.
    2. Goto 1
  • I guess that would be running sudo rm -rf /bin (yeah, it was supposed to be "/bin" without the sudo.. idk, my fingers have a life of their own) on a machine that was in a datacenter on the other side of the globe.

    It was a long and sweaty night.

  • I can’t figure out how to setup flatpak. Everything seems to be working fine until I enter the last line in the terminal:
    flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

    Hard to help without logs or error messages. Maybe you could run the command with --verbose flag to see if it prints out something that might help?

    I somehow set it up so that my username is not the super user, so I have to type a password in the terminal every time I want to use sudo. Is there a way to fix this without a clean install?

    This is default behavior and probably shouldn't be changed. It's a good idea to set up your normal user without root privileges and it's a good idea to ask for authentication credentials whenever you need to elevate privileges.

    If you really want to remove the password, you can follow the guide here: https://linuxhandbook.com/sudo-without-password/

    I somehow set up the hard drive partitions so that the OS is on an encrypted partition, so I have to put in a password for the BIOS to boot up. Is there a way to fix this without a clean install?

    Again, if you want encrypted disk, then this is actually good behavior, but in case you want to decrypt the disk without reinstall - it's possible, but not entirely simple or newbie friendly procedure, you need to know a bit about disk devices and mounting drives, for reference, see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60971/how-to-remove-luks-encryption

    I’m used to a desktop interface with a toolbar/start menu that I can pin frequently-used programs to, but with Debian it seems like I need to click “Activities” to do anything. Is there a way to set up the interface so it’s more like Windows in that regard?

    Debian comes with Gnome Desktop by default. There are many other desktop environments, if you want to test them. See: https://wiki.debian.org/DesktopEnvironment

    You can also tweak and change Gnome with addons and extensions to suit your needs - see https://extensions.gnome.org/

    Is there any reason why I should stick with Debian? I’ve heard some people trashing Ubuntu but I’m not sure why. Is Debian better for older hardware?

    The same linux kernel (in various versions) is running underneath all the distributions, so it's really just a matter of preference. Since you're new, hop around - try Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!, Fedora, Arch and everything else to see what you prefer.

    Have fun!

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  • Preferably by sending signals over serial port and couple of wires.