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Re:My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:42AM (#49448051)
> As for the Latin mass, yes it was there, and if you wanted to know what was said then you could always find out

Latin prayer books usually have the translation side by side. Attendants of the traditional Mass find value in it - it's truly Catholic since you take part into it like anybody else worldwide, praying the same prayers, regardless of your native language, that have been prayed over the last ~5 centuries, some of which are 10, 15 or almost 20 centuries old.

<conspiracy_theory> The Vatican Council II's original purpose wasn't in fact to abolish the traditional Mass, but to help with increasingly difficult evangelization. What happened was instead largely due to the worldwide infiltration of the Church by the freemasons. </conspiracy_theory>

<reality_check> Pope John Paul I publicly declared upon being elected, that he'd expose and get rid of them - freemasons weren't in fact allowed as members the Church - priests, bishops, cardinals - and have never been, since they are obviously against the Church, but he knew they were there still.

On the evening before he died, the Pope received Pecorelli, a journalist that was a member of the masonic P2 lodge, who famously gave him a list of Catholic bishops and cardinals that were members of the freemasonry.

The Pope died a few hours after reading his list, his death never really investigated. The list disappeared; Pecorelli died a few months later in a car accident.

The P2 lodge was involved in other scandals, and as a consequence, some of its then members' names were exposed, and are now public - including some of the most powerful Italian politicians, entrepreneurs etc. of the time; now, after four decades, most of them are dead anyway - everything else is history.

Freemasonry in Italy came well before they entered the Vatican though - it's not even too far fetched to think that Italy itself was created by them - Garibaldi was the founder of the main Italian FM branch, of which he became the Grand Master (with the "33th degree") - the Grande Oriente d'Italia. Mazzini and other famous "fathers of the country" were also freemasons as well.

Ironically, Freemasonry - probably the most powerful, concealed, deceiving cult in the world - has not even a minor mention in this list. <sad /> </reality_check>

You can read about all of this on Wikipedia and elsewhere.

Re:My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:30AM (#49447140)
A friend of mine was pulled into Amway and tried hard to pull me in, resulting in the end of our friendship.
Did we? But my concern is with uninstallation:

"curl -sL https://... | sudo bash"

Now you won't be able to uninstall it if the repo ever goes black...

I love it!!! But please, change that "GOD orchestrator" label, as a believer, I find it profane and offensive.
Re:Z80–The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:05AM (#49399340)
Z80 also powered the whole MSX line of home computers, how could have he missed that?!?
Re:Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:09AM (#49346788)
We did, and there was some cool stuff coming out of MS now and then. I remember when the first Power Toys came out - there's nothing really magic in current ones though.
Re:Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:03AM (#49346697)
This sounds like the perfect use case for a simple, straightforward VM. Dual booting is dangerous, time consuming, and makes it inconvenient to share clipboard, stuff... why don't you use a Windows VM instead? You can freeze a VM (saving state) rather than restarting it. Windows won't bat an eye since it's not being shut down or suspended. No longer unexpected 15 minutes pauses - restart it when you have time to spare, and keep working in your host Linux OS while the Windows VM does its shenanigans.
RustDesk already encrypts connections going via Relay. Encryption is missing in direct IP to IP connections only - but you could set up an SSH tunnel, or a SOCKS or HTTPS proxy though.

Another valid alternative is Xpra, and it does support Wayland too - but doesn't reach feature parity with X11. Like RustDesk, Xpra is similarly feature-rich and mature, it too can take advantage of SSH tunnels, SOCKS or HTTPS proxies etc.

And then there's TeamViewer and AnyDesk - both of which are paid, with a free tier for evaluating or personal use - RustDesk is younger, but feature-wise they're quite similar.

Finally, you could set up wireguard that will happily encrypt your connection with very little overhead - regardless of your chosen remote desktop solution.

> Seems like dense 30B is back in fashion?

Huh, well... no? Gemma A4B and Qwen A3B are quite popular in fact. I'm sure 3.8 35B A3B will outperform 3.6 27B by all metrics

> It's better than the benchmark scores seem to indicate compared to Qwen 3.6 27B. I'm very excited for 3.8

Is it worth considering if it's only marginally better than Qwen 3.6 though? Qwen 3.8 27B is almost there, and will probably be better suited as drop-in replacement for 3.6. Not even considering there's probably going to be a 3.8-35B-A3B too - which will have even better performance.

Cool, gotta try this out under Termux-X11
Re:Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:46AM (#48956291)
> It had a weird 1024x600 display panel, and a lot of applications expect you to have at least 1024x768

On Debian at least, Alt+grab, or the window menu "move" could save your day.

Re:Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:30PM (#48613596)
The rich swe has no children, he only has AI agents.
Sounds interesting, and promising! I'm no expert in streaming videos, but your shell reminded me of mosh [1]. Mosh's auth approach is also interesting - it leverages ssh for authentication, something that you might consider too. Mosh unfortunately has shortcomings though - mainly, it lacks tunneling ability.

[1] https://mosh.org

Re:Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M on Thursday May 14, 2026 @05:03PM (#48141216)
> With its "wayland-only" future it will leave behind several linux users.

This is so sad. Something like this already happened two decades ago - when GNOME 3 arrived, and KDE 4 - rough times, things broke and I had to do some distro (and DE) hopping - before settling again. Whenever you start to see a project mature and stable enough in Linux land, maybe even starts to gain unexpected traction, soon somebody decides it's time to "move fast and break things".

I sincerely hope KDE reconsiders X11 support; IIRC they proposed to keep it if the community showed still enough interest. Of course maintaining a dual stack requires double the effort, but if funding comes in, come on, maybe there's enough resources to keep X11 support alive - if feature freezed - a couple years more. There's still a few rough edges around Wayland that prevent me and others to switch.

Re:SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:49PM (#48126544)
Sorry, you're right. My assumption was that, given meteorites are metal rich, and two orders of magnitude more mass, the human contribution was negligible. It turns out I was wrong.
Re:SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:39PM (#48087739)
LEO satellites come down on their own in a few months/years. 100 tons of metal burning in the atmosphere seems a lot, but it's barely the total mass of meteorites falling in 24-48 hours, actually.
Re:Zed Editor Theme-Builder on Saturday May 09, 2026 @07:55PM (#48079538)
Smooth scrolling also worked on the Amiga Cygnus Editor in 1986 - yes, 40 years ago - on a computer with 512Kb RAM and a ~7MHz 68000 CPU, and from keyboard too. And Zed complains at launch if it doesn't find a suitable Vulkan GPU driver, since the fallback CPU driver does not provide a smooth enough experience, despite 4-5 orders of magnitude more RAM, and a ~3 orders of magnitude faster CPU, than a 40 years old Amiga...
I tried it with Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B UD-IQ3_XXS on an RTX 5060 Ti with 16Gb - the convert step succeeded, but upon loading the converted model I encountered:

    Model load deferred: 'Qwen3_5Config' object has no attribute 'vocab_size'
My transformers version is up to date, and using AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained() should not raise this exception - what's going on here?
Re:Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @09:12AM (#47061112)
Thanks! I'm... unimpressed.
Re:Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:01PM (#47040927)
Minisforum, Gmktec also have Ryzen AI HX 370 mini PCs with 128Gb (2x64Gb) max LPDDR5. It's dirt cheap, you can get one barebone with ~€750 on Amazon (the 395 similarly retails for ~€1k)... It should be fully supported in Ubuntu 25.04 or 25.10 with ROCm for iGPU inference (NPU isn't available ATM AFAIK), which is what I'd use it for. But I just don't know how the HX 370 compares to eg. the 395, iGPU-wise. I was thinking of getting one to run Lemonade, Qwen3-coder-next FP8, BTW... but I don't know how much RAM should I equip it with - shouldn't 96Gb be enough? Suggestions welcome!
Debian Testing isn't really unstable - the dev wasn't exaggerating. But I'd also suggest Kubuntu (you can remove snap and all of its packages, and install Firefox and Thunderbird .deb's from the Mozilla repo)
> That is curated search done right.

Adding keywords in the relevant .desktop files should be enough to make this work in other DE's too. I just tried it in KDE (by adding a 'comment=... (like notepad)' line in ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop), it works as expected

Not much? Google would still have cloud services (which unlike Azure adoption depending on Windows/Office, only basically depend on the Internet), Gemini and Google Drive paid subscriptions, their flagship Pixel line...
Re:What Has Docker Become? on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:40PM (#46738313)
I'm replacing Dropbox with Unison [0] over ssh, BTW. It's a great piece of software (multiplatform, and it even has a GUI).

[0] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison

Re:GitHub Incident on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:59PM (#46636494)
Clippy to the rescue! :-)
Re:Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux on Sunday January 11, 2026 @01:09PM (#46577998)
WinXP in a (properly configured) VM boots, runs faster than Win7, Win10 - at least under Linux. It is plagued by compatibility issues though - eg. no modern HTTPS, no modern browser, .NET issues, insecure SMB... you really need to know what you're doing.

But armed with TuneXP 15, a recent AVG, CCleaner XP 1.38, sdelete, and WinKeyFinder175 (to be used together with UMSKT, basically the only way to reactivate it when your tweaking efforts inevitably trigger the - now broken - activation), you can start your adventure. No modern browser, mind you, though eg. "supermium 122" works, and don't forget read-only VMs or snapshots are your friends. I couldn't get virtio working, because VirtualBox 7 had a regression with it, so stick with emulated AHCI since VirtualBox 6 is so ...passé

Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too on Sunday January 11, 2026 @09:14AM (#46575938)
Yeah the real mistake was starting with Endeavour. I wonder just how many people are turned off by their initial Linux experience because they choose stuff like Arch, Gentoo, or some obscure variant rather than Fedora, Kubuntu or Mint. Even stuff like Bazzite is probably an odd choice for a novice - though it would have handled that failed nVidia upgrade nicely.

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