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I’ve been using NixOS on my server. Having all the server’s config in one place gives me peace of mind that the server is running exactly what I tell it to and I can rebuild it from scratch in an afternoon.
I don’t use it on my personal machine because the lack of fhs feels like it’d be a problem, but when selfhosting most things are popular enough to have a module already.
… Wait, so does the dotfile thing mean the out of the box experience will be degraded? Why doesn’t someone just fork it and set the defaults to match the dotfile? And if it isn’t better, how arrogant do you have to be to think your theme and setup is worth a monthly sub?
Edit: Looking at the actual page, it seems that buying the sub doesn’t give you the same benefits as donating €5 or vice versa. For some reason.
Would it? I would assume a “confirmed human” Fedi account could be worth $5-20. If you live close enough to the library, it’s like 5 mins to pop in, drop off the piece of paper and go about your day. Double if you can sneak in two pieces of paper.
What’s stopping someone making a new account every month this way or going to many different libraries and then just selling the account to bot farm operators?
… I don’t have any trust that the US government will do anything pro-lgbt, pro-freedom-of-expression or pro-women.
If adult content moves to crypto, won’t that result in Collective Shout and friends targeting the big crypto marketplaces?
How does the library confirm that the account name is connected to an actual person?
… Which will result in prices for games fluctuating wildly, and their entire storefront having to tell people how to by crypto from shady places.
Stuff like FedNOW and Wero are a better solution which bypass payment processors entirely.
Wine/Proton isn’t designed to be a sandbox. A motivated enough attacker could make an exploit that checks if it’s running in wine and do some wine specific stuff.
Even if you do manage to sandbox it from your root filesystem, it still needs access to your Steam account, which an attacker could compromise.
Because people have conversations and then clickbait youtubers overexaggerate it.
Realistically, probably not much for people outside of the tech industry. People will use the best tool for the job, and whether it’s foss or not won’t matter.
Mint. It just works and Cinnamon is a good DE (ui design peaked in the Windows XP days). Plus you also get all the software built and tested for Ubuntu without the bullshit of using Ubuntu.
For my server I use NixOS, because having one unified configuration is so nice.
It’ll still slow them down and reduce load on your server. I also think many of these crawlers focus on volume; time spent computing the hash is time not spent crawling someone else’s site.
Most registrars have some form of whois protection now, so the only people who can easily see it are the registars themselves (and the government that controls them).
Assuming you’re paying for a domain using real money, they’ll need your information on file as part of the online payment anyway, so using a fake id doesn’t really hide anything from them.
I’ve seen people suggesting and using Anubis, haven’t used it myself though.
Skipped to the “ugly” part of the article and I kind of agree with the language being hard?
I think a bigger problem is that it’s hard to find “best practices” because information is just scattered everywhere and search engines are terrible.
Like, the language itself is fairly simple and the tutorial is good. But it’s a struggle when it comes to doing things like “how do I change the source of a package”, “how do I compose two modules together” and “how do I add a repo to a flake so it’s visible in my config”. Most of this information comes from random discourse threads where the responder assumes you have a working knowledge of the part of the codebase they’re taking about.
If you can provide evidence for what really happened, I’ll happily take a look.
And yes, my language was harsh, and I apologise for that. I’ve just seen people making up drama to discredit communities before, and it gets on my nerves somewhat.
Copying my comment from the other thread (they’ve made a few).
So I got curious about this, and had a look into it.
Firstly, the entire conversation was scrubbed from the chat, and it was done so before the lemmy.ml callout post was discovered/made. So claiming that they’re “okay with it” is a bit of a stretch.
The entire discussion seemed to have spawned from this article: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/06/23/h3h3-ethan-klein-sues-three-reaction-streamers/ . I don’t know or care enough to say who is right or wrong, but here you go in case anyone wants to look into it.
Apparently, according to a quick search, Asmongold did make some choice comments about Palestine.
What I assumed happened is that people were talking about the lawsuit and someone offhandedly mentioned Asmongold. Then GlacialTurtle decided to go on a long rant about genocide and then was told to cool it. Because obviously anyone that doesn’t want to talk about genocide in a server about Linux software is in fact tactily supporting genocide, Turtle doubled down and ended up getting banned. Then they went to their next platform to complain about it, Lemmy, and now here we are two degrees removed from the discussion with no actual receipts.
Somewhat fittingly, earlier yesterday, they were talking about the tragic death/murder of Mikayla Raines.
If it stays up, it’s certainly going to be interesting seeing the difference in view counts between it and his other videos.
Is it likely? No. Is it possible? Yes.
If you want to make absolutely sure that Windows can’t spy on anything, you’ll need to physically remove the storage device containing Linux when booting.
A more practical but slightly less secure approach is to enable full disk encryption on Linux. Then, if Windows does decide to get sneaky it’ll only see random data.
This doesn’t prevent hostile code such as ransomware from destroying the data though. For that, you need to have good backup hygene.
A good backup system is to have automatic daily backups to some online cloud storage provider, and weekly or monthly backups to a physical device you keep disconnected and safe.