Average xdg noncompliance moment.

Syncing software is not a backup. I’ve had cases where they get confused and end up deleting data. They’ll also blindly copy over corrupted or randomwared files.

Imagine falling into lava and hearing “It’s-a okay Kühlschrank, we-a all make-a mistakes”.

Oh is that what it is…

* awkwardly zips up pants *

If you’re currently running on LMDE and are enjoying it, why not just switch to the “vanilla” non-debian Mint? It should be similar enough to what you’re used to, but with more up to date software.

The problem is checking for malware: It’s very hard to do that and a lot of malware has evolved attempts to avoid detection.

Crazy how realistic AI is becoming.

As I understand it, Steam has a report feature on their store page for reporting games. Presumably that goes to a person that looks at it.

I think to upload games to Steam you also need to prove your identity. Which means if you do upload malware, then it’s easy to track you down.

Of course, that takes time and things can slip through the cracks. Steam games are still full programs that run on your computer and can do anything a regular program can do, there’s no sandboxing.

Treat them like you would apps on the Google Play store; assume that they’re mostly safe but also give additional scrutiny to ones with low review counts or AI generated images.

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.

“Hey kid, hold still while we throw some fake money on you and take a photo. It’s for marketing.”

Got curious about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Clashes_between_web_and_X11_colors_in_the_CSS_color_scheme :

One notable difference between X11 and W3C is the case of “Gray” and its variants. In HTML, “Gray” is specifically reserved for the 128 triplet (50% gray)  . However, in X11, “gray” was assigned to the 190 triplet (74.5%)  , which is close to W3C “Silver” at 192 (75.3%)  , and had “Light Gray” at 211 (83%)   and “Dark Gray” at 169 (66%)   counterparts. As a result, the combined CSS 3.0 color list that prevails on the web today produces “Dark Gray”   as a significantly lighter tone than plain “Gray”  , because “Dark Gray” was descended from X11 – for it did not exist in HTML nor CSS level 1[8] – while “Gray” was descended from HTML.

I had a visceral reaction to this because obviously the wish count should be decremented before the wish takes place. Even though I can’t think up a convincing technical argument for it.

I really hope you’re right, strange frog…

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.

I think the one on the left is Wario Land.