So you’re on fedora, is there a specific keygen or cracked version of chessbase you wanna run?

I can make a vm and check it out later on when I get home.

| is usually my solution.

Quoting variables in scripts is my other go to before I actually start tracing what went wrong.

here’s a fifteen year old stack overflow thread where someone asks where a unique system identifier can be read and someone suggests machine-id.

Lest that be considered old and bad information, I just checked /etc/machine-id on a new install of Debian 13 and the permissions were 444, readable by owner, group and everyone else.

So programs can read machine-id. If programs can read it they can transmit it. I hope someone capable of writing a program that can id my machine doesn’t need a proof of that.

Further, programs reading machine-id don’t necessarily fall into the spyware category by default like you say. There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to request a machine specific identifier.

Getting rid of the literal “papers please!” “Okay officer!” File literally makes investigation more difficult and puts a barrier up to tracking where there was none before. Presenting a unique hashed output based on the systems machine-id prevents a tracking method that is currently as easy as read file -> get identifier.

The fact that other methods of tracking exist doesn’t make preventing this method not worthwhile and you should be ashamed for suggesting that.

I am a Unix jihad, gpl em all and let god sort em out, rust programmers are compradors type motherfucker but a company not wanting to use your software because of the license is a barrier to use.

Machine-id is read as plaintext by programs and transmitted as plaintext by programs.

Hashing the unique id from the host side as opposed to trusting programs to read it and act in a way the user understands and deems appropriate is a much better method of handling calls to identify the equipment than just letting programs read your standardized unique id.

And the above would literally solve something, it would keep programs from just walking directly across the mat tee posing to get a unique id and force them to do some kind of jetpack backflip routine that, when presented to a court, is much more tenuous.

Np. It’s easy to just choose the license that is easiest or “fire and forget”, but too many programmers don’t consider what kind of freedoms they want their speech to have and that the license is how you define that.

If you want to know something feel free to ask.

What you said was that if a person was actually worried about it there is a kernel parameter to change it.

My reply was not intended to refute what you said but instead to illustrate how that approach doesn’t solve the problem of tracking and is not a workable solution for many systems and users.

I made that reply to help you and any reader understand the depth and breadth of the problem, not to start a fight.

@SpiderUnderUrBed@lemmy.zip , if you post the model of your laptop someone can help you figure out if you can damage your battery or computer with a weird charger. Without this critical information all anyone can say is “maybe?”

There is not a parameter to automatically change it every time the system boots, that solution doesn’t work for machines that don’t reboot often and it breaks stuff in systemd as volunteered by many people talking about it online and as verified by me two weeks ago when I tried that.

Yes as I said it’s working as intended. The point of machine id is to id a machine.

A better solution would be to not rely on the various programs to hash the unique id and instead have the host read it, hash it and provide the hash to the program that asked.

The point of different licenses is the thing you ought to be looking at.

The point of mit is to get the licensed thing used as widely as possible. It breaks down any barriers to use. A good example of something that should be mit licensed is an encryption algorithm. A good example of something that shouldn’t be mit licensed is anything else.

The point of bsd3-clause is to prevent the licensed likeness from being used to imply the creator shares some view or idea. A good example of something that should be bsd3-clause licensed is the royalty free music on youtube. A good example of something that shouldn’t be bsd3-clause licensed is a creative work the author wants to have their name known for.

The point of the various gpl licenses is to create a digital commons that all people can access. A good example of something that ought to be gpl licensed is a game engine you want people to be able to freely use and modify but never make secret changes to sell. A good example of something that shouldn’t be gpl is a game engine you want to eventually sell the code of or make secret changes and sell the code of those.

If my language sounds biased, it is because I have a bias.

Another user said they think machine-id is readable by the browser. This is absolutely true, machine-id is working as described when it is read by any web browser.

So Linux isn’t sending your unique id to a central entity that can associate it with your ip, it’s sending your unique id to any entity you browse to that can then associate it with your ip.

It’s definitely the early pc era x1000.

For better or worse.

Another person already wrote this itt, but the cost in time and money of building something that “works” is very low. That cost increases every time you need to fix something. It’s why I’ve switched to deepseek flash instead of the bigger, better coding models. For the same price as a million tokens of Claude for example I can get a hundred million tokens on flash. It takes three times as long and needs a little prodding but it’s thirty times cheaper.

Even if you’re not dealing with ballooning costs when it comes to upkeep, the present environment around ai programming is filled with perverse incentives that reduce the chance something is open sourced. Why preserve the old work and try to carry it into the future when you can just rewrite it? Why create standardized libraries and approaches to specific problems when it’s only gonna be used once? Why make it open when you don’t have time to deal with requests and bug reports you don’t care about? Why use gpl when you don’t intend to make it public anyway?

Those were all arguments against gpl and open sourcing parts of the Unix codebase too, btw.

Harnesses or agents try to address some of this by sharing improvements but that’s three layers removed from directly turning fossil fuels into cpu cycles to make the same program a thousand times slightly different for a thousand different people.

I tend to see the ai programming defense in the same way you described yourself and the “ai is bullshit” crowd. People defending this stuff generally either aren’t looking where they’re walking or haven’t had to use it long.

As a decently prolific user of ai programming, it’s turned computer code into disposable plastic wrappers. Even if they don’t persist and make a giant garbage raft in the ocean or calcify our pineal glands we still wasted a bunch of energy on them.

Use a surface cleaner first. You wanna get the majority of the crud broken up and off first, wiping towards the middle then go get the whole thing with a glass cleaner using a microfiber cloth if you don’t have a squeegee.

Probably unplug three of those fans and block off the case openings to get some sort of laminar flow.

Switch to a more efficient power supply. Yours is platinum but it may be worth it to look into a list of low standby power units.

Maybe take out half your ram. It probably doesn’t matter though, I’m thinking about the need for lpddr to get past the 1tb barrier on old servers.

The b850 boards will have efficiency settings in the bios that will make the biggest difference.

Before you change anything though I would recommend first putting a watt meter inline and measuring.

Theres a bunch of stuff you can manually do in software but its fractions of a percent and makes your experience very nonstandard.

The biggest thing is probably gonna be turning off the computer when you’re not using it. It’s not like you’re gonna be spinning down a bunch of hdds…

A datacenter on land that relies on water for cooling is using fresh water. Aside from the insane and undesirable use of fossil water or groundwater, fresh water has a much higher ratio of surface area exposed to air and volume than the ocean does.

That ratio is important because you can only evaporate off the surface, so the same volume of water would evaporate faster in a frying pan than it would in a saucepan given the same conditions.

Freshwater is also smaller than the ocean by many orders of magnitude. That’s important because a smaller body of water will heat up more than a larger one given the same conditions.

Freshwater is also generally speaking moving towards the ocean somehow in a complex process called the water cycle. It might flow down a hill into the ocean, it might drip through aquifers to the ocean and it might evaporate and fall as rain either in the ocean or somewhere else where it takes some other path towards sea level.

That last part is important because in America rivers like the ones in Colorado and California have been reduced in volume so much due to of a bunch of manmade events and earthworks that they now lose a higher portion of their volume to evaporation as opposed to flow. That’s a big deal because the Colorado for example flows south but water vapor that comes off of it is blown east. So now much more of the rivers water is going into the desert as opposed to reaching the ocean. The water cycle has been disrupted.

Freshwater is also comparatively super rare and necessary for life on land.

So if you were water cooling a datacenter it would be better to use the huge ocean with much lower surface area to volume ratio and much more volume than to use the rare freshwater that will get heated up much more by the same energy, evaporate faster, we already know can have its water cycle disrupted and all life on land relies on.

Now a person might ask “what about the sea life, doesn’t it matter?” Of course sea life matters, but the way that sea life handles an increase in temperature that’s localized to one specific area is to just go away from there, like it does when undersea magma vents pop up. When the freshwater gets too hot it all evaporates away, there’s no water and the land animals die.

A person might say: “well don’t animals die when the oceans get hot too?” And they’re right! An average increase of .5 degrees c in sea surface temperatures would lead to massive coral bleaching. But enough energy to raise the sea surface temperatures .5c is phenomenally huge. Like getting more sun huge. Because that’s what’s raising it, getting more sun. Datacenters produce so little heat energy in comparison to that level of power that it’s not a concern.

The number one culprit of undesirable cornering behavior is incorrect tire pressure.

Why did you delete the post with system specs, @staircase@programming.dev?

That information would really help people to give you advice and your pc isn’t as unique as you think it is…

Here’s how you could have figured it out yourself:

Boot something else, read the logs.

Use a usb to boot some other operating system (or the same one) and access the logs of your system which will show where it’s failing and how.

Another person put that you could add nofail to fstab, you could also do this by moving the devices or services to nonessential branches of systemd.