They were never down completely, they just temporarily disappeared from the clearnet for a bit. They have their own Onion service.

It’s so funny to me how they always word it as if they’re a corporate entity or some sort of “competitor” on “the market” when in reality it’s just an implementation of a common protocol. I have yet to see other ActivityPub Projects being acknowledged by journalists. Focusing only on Mastodon is like focusing only on Gmail while completely ignoring the existence of E-Mail.

Unofficial American Province tries to become more independent? Looks like Washington will have to set things straight again.

I think I have seen it complaining about too long passwords before but I did not know about it silently truncating. I just tested what ILO does on my HP and it happily accepts an arbitrarily long password but it only ever uses the first 40 characters. Good to know!

Can you elaborate? I have both a Dell and HPE Server with IDRAC and ILO respectively and I haven’t noticed anything like that.

Ironic how this is a YouTube link and Lemmy’s Web Frontend just embeds it and makes my browser call out to Google/YouTube and load extra JS. I liked Lemmy more when they didn’t do this bullshit.

One thing about the modern web I really hate is how websites have to embed and show a preview of every other hyperlink. I don’t want any of that. I never wanted any of that. “Features” like embedding stuff don’t add much and only make everything more slow because things become more chatty on the Network. Also: Stop helping big tech lay eggs in people’s browser cache.

If there is a hyperlink and I want to know what’s behind it, I click on it. It’s as easy as that. </rant>

I have all my browsers configured where JS is disabled by default, no local data gets stored (cookies, cache, etc. gets deleted on exit) and I use containerized tabs, so I always get cucked by Anubis. There are several Websites I stopped visiting because of Anubis and I’m not just going to change my setup that I’ve been using for years across several PCs just to get to a piece of text. I really don’t like this proof of work shit, especially not when it’s done via bleeding edge JabbaScript.

I doubt this will affect scrapers as much as people like to think. Their crawlers likely run on enterprise grade Server Hardware on a massive uplink.

You don’t necessarily need a specific distro. What I always do is just use the distro I’m most comfortable with and do a minimal install that just boots to a TTY. From there I just try stuff out and see what works and what doesn’t. The HP 2133 will require a dedicated distro though since it’s a 32-Bit Machine. Consider something like https://archlinux32.org/

Right now I have a Toshiba Satellite C850D and an HP 635 and both are running relatively up-to-date Artix. I made sure both of them have an Atheros Wireless Card since those are well supported by Linux. I use them mostly to watch videos (720p works just fine especially with VAAPI) and Firefox works fine (although it’s kind of slow, but modern browsers are massively bloated tbf.). If you can you probably want to swap out all the spinning rust with SSDs.

Besides the obvious casual use, you can always turn them into file servers or maybe even a Wireless to Ethernet Network bridge.

I feel you on that last paragraph. Some time ago I came across this project which seems to be worth following. I’ve been running a hacked together Sway+Swaysome+Swaylock+Waybar combo for the past few years that is efficient for my workflow but it looks incredibly bland and can be a PITA to maintain. I really want a self-contained wl compositor that is customizable, has style to it and maybe even comes with some cool screensavers.

I can recommend WindowMaker. It’s a simple Window Manager that can just be started via .xinitrc.

Support for Loongson’s Chips was mainlined a little while ago in both GCC and the Linux Kernel so I’m hopeful. If the Kernel devs suddenly start refusing to merge stuff from Chinese Hardware makers that will only create a soft-fork of the Kernel and they’d just tell everybody to use their fork. In fact, Loongson did fork both the Linux Kernel and GCC to modify them in the first place until eventually their modifications got accepted. Even I myself am actually running a Kernel that I modified because there are certain things I disagree with. Also let’s not forget that Linux isn’t the only FOSS UNIX-like out there.

Viewing an image? Ask copilot to generate what it thinks the image looks like.

And then you try to open the image file on a non-Windows system and discover that it’s actually just a text file with a prompt. Your actual Image is now part of copilot’s training data and you’ve agreed to this by accepting the Windows EULA.

“Save storage space with copilot!”

I haven’t touched Windows in years and every time I take a peek at the current state of Windows I’m horrified and ask myself “How do people put up with this?”.