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Well "a" (aka 1) freezer malfunctionning will let a few items spoil. Hundreds of connected appliances nation wide, that's a different story.

They had been able to manage just fine for several decades before internet of shits happened.

Fear not for them though, they'll go whine under the government's noze and get a refund. So much for the liberalism they praise when everything is fine for them.

Here is how I did it :

Get a list of installed packages originating from AUR using 'yay' :

yay -Qam > packages_aur.last

Get list from https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA# :

curl https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA/download > compromised.txt

then :

grep -wFf compromised.txt packages_aur.last

should spit out the packages that are in both files, hence were compromised at some point, I guess.

Does this mean that each software you run is now the size of a windows install + sw or is it a single container that runs all your softwares ?
Well yes, finally, optimizing instead of throwing silicon, water and electricity at it until it works. Thats the way.
Re:Have a Fucking Website on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:53AM (#47425189)
"lleu.site" might not be the clearest in regards to what the service offers. It reads too nerd. Something like "easyweb.site" or "yourown.site" might better describe it.
Re:My Dinner with AI on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:14AM (#47424178)
Spot on :

> Someone once said that “AI feels amazing when it’s talking about a subject you know nothing about, but is laughably wrong when you do”.

> Someone else also said “I want AI to do my laundry so I can make Art, not make my Art so I can do laundry”.

Re:Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work with" Series in RSS on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @08:56AM (#47412022)
I know articles from Derek Lowe's series pop up on here every now and then. Here is a RSS feed you can pu in your RSS reader, and have all 33 articles available to (re) read. Enjoy !

(Alternatively, you can find all these articles in HTML here : https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...)

Re:Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:26PM (#47278112)
Well of course a DSLR will be better than a phone camera for most things, since you can control more features. That's also the point of OpenCamera; get as much controls as you can back, compared to the stock app that might be lacking. It wont do miracles if your phone camera is not good to begin with.

I've found OpenCam to be useful because of the various optional features ( onionskin, levelmeter, locking settings ). You can also set the bitrate/size/duration of videos, etc. Lots of useful stuff.

Re:This Page Is Anonymous on Thursday February 26, 2026 @08:11AM (#47165596)
Took me far too long to realize this is 13 yo.

Looks like the service is still up.

EDIT: They also offer a service to ssh into various vintage systems, which is cool : https://sdf.org/?ssh

That's what reverse-centaurs are for; being an accountability sink.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/

Re:France Is Building Its Own Google Workspace – With Django on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @08:43AM (#46870865)
Well I still think it's something to worry about before you end in front of a "Your account has been suspended" notice. How can you be sure someone has the whole dataset locally backed up ? Plus, you still have to reconfigure the workflows and stuff like that. Not to mention that sometime, project's websites are also hosted on github, so that's something else you have to rebuild.

And also, this means devs/contributors have to give their data to MS.

Since the whole point of the project is sovereignty, it should have started with setting up their own gitea/gitlab/etc. instances and domains.

And yet, the project is hosted on MS github... So much for sovereignty :facepalm

So what happens to the 500,000+ users when Trump tells MS to nuke the repo/infra ?

Re:France Hits the Demographic Point of No Return [video] on Saturday January 31, 2026 @08:51AM (#46836706)
More predictions by the guy who announced China would collapse in 2020...
IMHO I think you should write a post/readme/gist describing/demonstrating your browser's key features, with screencap if possible, maybe upload it to gitlab/github/other. It will fare better than asking strangers to download random files from a google drive link. (Although I saw your * is not a virus disclaimer, I still don't thin it's the optimal way to share a work you invested a lot of time on.)
Re:Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012) on Sunday January 25, 2026 @05:48AM (#46752865)
> It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy).

> The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him.

Re:I Will No Longer Contribute to PostmarketOS on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:54PM (#46710692)
Related : https://ixit.cz/blog/2025-11-20-postmarketOS-BAN

Before that, author was banned for 1 month by the PMos team :

  After a short introduction I was told that the reason for the call was:
  1.I used the wrong pronouns.  
  2.The COVID thing.
  3.I promoted AI within the postmarketOS channels.
What tax revenue ? Aren't they all declaring their profits in Ireland (a tax haven) ?
> Because that means we may as well quasi-nationalize [...]

I'm not quite sure how you get from IP law abrogation to 'quasi-nationalization', care to explain your reasoning here ?

Well he's been impeached twice (then acquitted) already, so this one will not really mean the end for him.
Re:PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch on Saturday January 17, 2026 @12:22PM (#46659827)
popularized, not pioneered.
We will soon discover if the EU actually as a spine or is just a bendover for the US...(My money is on the latter, and I'm from EU)
Re:Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland on Saturday January 17, 2026 @12:14PM (#46659746)
Didn't they already have tariffs ? Also, why should we care, what do the US have that's made domestically ?
Re:The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:17PM (#46635843)

    First they came for the Communists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Communist

    Then they came for the Socialists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Socialist

    Then they came for the trade unionists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a trade unionist

    Then they came for the Jews
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Jew

    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me
-- Martin Niemöller
Re:The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:13PM (#46635771)
Then it's useless and should be abroged.
> Specifically, the VPNs argued that their “no-log” policy means they do not track user IP addresses or geolocate their users. Therefore, a court order to block access only for French users would violate their contractual obligations. > For now, however, the targeted VPN providers have to find a way to implement the blocking order.

I'm curious about this point. What solution do they have if they want geolocalisation without giving up on privacy ?

In this specific case, it's not culture though, it's the sports diffusion rights mafia (LFP, beIN, Canal+).
Re: on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:50PM (#46558364)
Have you been hibernating since january 2025 ? You're living in a dictatorship now, that's why.

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