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I would assume the majority of us avoid systemd, but odds are many of us are still running different standalone components from systemd/freedesktop/redhat. Lets post some alternatives to widely used freedestkop (or other) software that "sucks less", gnu replacement recommendations are also welcome. i'll start with a few:

udevd + libudev > mdevd + libudev-zero Works on my machine flawlessly, hotplugging devices works as expected with mice, keyboards, USB audio and external storage peripherals, etc etc.

wlroots > swc X11 sucks, but so does wayland, in my opinion wlroots largely contributes to that. wlroots has a huge codebase (~60k sloc, IIRC.), is overly complex, and often makes changes which result in compositors that are dynamically linked towards it to break after it is updated. a more stable and simple alternative seems to be swc, which has a much smaller and more manageable codebase, and writing a compositor with it seems to be a much simpler task, a good example might be velox.

GNU man-db > OpenBSD mandoc

gnupg > signify signify is an extremely simple utility used to cryptographically sign and verify files. it is not a replacement for file/message encryption.

whats some alternative software that you guys use, which "sucks less"?

Currently, if someone has a shiny idea (no matter whether it's software, political, or whatever else) it often just remains in his mind because there is no easy way to get anything done with it. Or sometimes the person performs a Rambo for a few months on some website, git repo, or whatever - and then it dies.

I want to eliminate this common pipeline, and make it easy to create projects (or find them if they already exist), join them, develop them, maybe provide crypto rewards, progress tracking, etc. Every shiny new idea would fit into this framework. And it would help it not die. But I don't know how exactly to do it. I suspect the components for it already exist, it's just a matter of putting them together.

We could have a database spread by torrents or other decentralized protocol that would list all the existing projects to join. And it might be hooked up to some website that would provide an UI for comments, crypto rewards, and progress tracking. The point of all this to me, is so that human effort and ingenuity isn't wasted because it's just too hard to launch. Which is what's commonly going on today. The Rambo loses steam and disappears.

What do you think?

Its been affecting everyone on the network for over 24 hours now. Its been speculated that some three letter agency is responsible, due to the scale of the attack. If you've noticed any issues with your i2pd or similar software, this is why.

Update: A megathread was made on reddit for the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/1qvalmq/megathread_ongoing_attack_on_i2p_network_causing/

Some users suspect that this attack is somehow an attempt to try and deanonymize users, and it is recommended that you cease use of the network for now. Though i cant personally confirm or deny these claims.

it should be abandoned by anyone who cares about these things. Not only does it leak a fuckton of metadata by default, there is a global censorship blocklist ran by a single person ( see xmppbl ) named jonas, which is implemented by a large portion of servers on the network and supposedly many clients, though i havent verified which clients implement it yet. for a "decentralized" network, there should not be a central authority that gets to decide who can interact with fellow users or other servers. The creator also actively tries to hide the fact that he is behind the service, and makes no mention of it on his XMPP wiki page. if this doesnt scream "ill intent" already, i dont know what does. previous chat logs proves that he runs it. the person also runs the jabber chat room search engine which has a history of censoring MUCs. To mitigate against this threat, its recommended to use darknet federation wherever possible. In an ideal scenario, like minded individuals would leave XMPP and opt for better alternatives, such as self hosting their own ircd over TOR and I2P, or using truly decentralized peer 2 peer protocols.

Erm.

Via the software "Sharkey", which seems to be trannyware, but software is software.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42212169

I heard that Mistral Le Chat uses AWS servers. What are other alternatives that dont put money into us companies? At least datacenters.

I know that polish llm - https://bielik.ai/ chat.bielik.ai has own servers. What are other alternatives?

Why Le Chat is not using ovh or scaleway?

Dammit America. We could ALWAYS have done better....

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.digdeeper.rodeo/post/2413

Well damn, he's right.

If you’re in the US, find your local action here: https://nationalshutdown.org/actions

cross-posted from: https://narwhal.city/posts/525890

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.digdeeper.rodeo/post/2409

I heard that Mistral Le Chat uses AWS servers. What are other alternatives that dont put money into us companies? At least datacenters.

I know that polish llm - https://bielik.ai/ chat.bielik.ai has own servers. What are other alternatives?

Why Le Chat is not using ovh or scaleway?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42211261

Nato chief says continent cannot afford to replace American security umbrella

WTF Mark!

I'm in the market for a repairable FOSS e-ink tablet, as my pocketbook's touchscreen has died, and it's a glued together piece of trash. The manufacturer charges 2/3 of the price of a new one for the repair.

Got products or manufacturers?

I was doing some investigation into where all my tech is based and Remarkable e-ink tablets are based out of Oslo, Norway.

I love my Remarkable Paper Pro and was thinking of getting the Move 2 so this is good news to me. Thought I'd share.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to help my parents reduce their reliance on American Big Tech (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.). They’re not tech-savvy, and I don’t want to overwhelm them or make them feel like I’m forcing a radical change. At the same time, I’m concerned about privacy, data collection, and the monopolistic practices of these companies.

Any ideas? First of all I thought about ecosia, I see that it returns more similar results to google than Qwant.

I want to buy them Threema licence.

I installed Le Chat as chatgpt replacement, moved some documents to Synology Nas

What’s next?

Hey,

I enjoy listening to the Accidental Tech Podcast, who mainly touches os US tech and specifically Apple.

I would like to hear more about our own tech industry in Europe especially with the current way the world is.

Can anyone recommend some good European focused tech podcasts?