vpShane

To Linux or not to Linux?

I learned bash and then needed to use powershell once later down the road; that was.. that was bad.

Not bad for me, was actually great for me because now I just main Linux; but powershell, while I get it... don't do that to people.

With burnout it's simple, rest. Get away, go spiritually connect with something new, like laying on a beach or doing something completely new. Burnout is real and will make you _hate_ anything.

I watch for burnout in my teams, and become burned out myself at times, but if you're burning out, tell somebody and get moved elsewhere. Coder doing some star-coder stuff the last 6 months, but can do sysadmin/devops things? Switch to that for a few weeks and come back mentally rested.

Legal protections against burnout I'm not aware of but the illness associated with elevated stress levels and 'burn out' do create other health complications.

Burn out is bad, bad stuff. Once somebody's burned out they can't do _anything_

No way. People deserve expression and to have a place that's THEIRS where they can foster a community. Much is learned. Playing battle bots is fun at the sysadmin level (for me), maybe not so much for others, but to have a place where people express themselves, and have THEIR place outside of the walled gardens such as social media, AND they protect it from the bots?

That's the battle, and expression, people, their interests, and their communities are worth fighting for. _ESPECIALLY_ in this day and age where botnets/scrapers are using things such as Infatica to mask themselves as residential IP addresses, and mimicking human behaviors to better avoid bot detection.

There's a war on authenticity, people's authentic works, and the reverse: determining if a user is authentic now adays.

Worth checking out the different server hosts. You can get a cheap OVH server with 64GB of RAM, 4-6cores with 2TB of disk space from OVH for $30, better servers for $70 with 1gbps - 2gbps bandwidth.

Setting up a DB isn't hard, using an LLM to ask questions will guide you to the right places. I'm always talking with Gemini because I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora 42 server and things are slightly different here and there.

But, different server hosts offer DB-ready OS's so all you have to do is load the OS on the server and you'll be ready to go.

The joy of Linux is getting everything _just right_ and so much _just right_ that you can launch a second server and set it up that way _just right_ within minutes.

It is desirable. a bit off topic: I forgot the login to my Mac M1 and now I can't 'install Linux' on it, due to 'activation lock' - no apple support since I can't remember the phone number or e-mail and got it from e-bay. it worked, installed Mac, but I went full Linux and let it sit for a minute.

Apple Support told me in their own words it's bricked. It's mine. I own it.

I'd _love_ to play with M1 with my own Linux install. I'm not about to open it up and unsolder/solder things though.

mIRC - /help

There are no failures for Linux Desktop; this can never be the meaning. I say this with humor in mind.

Requiring me to have a cloud account to format my machine (mac) and requiring me to have a cloud account on only pre-authorized hardware (Windows 11), only to open up Notepad and see they slapped AI inside of it; now that is quite comparable to me slapping Linux on it.

Just sayin'

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100%. I enjoy AI Agentic programming because I make new things to tinker with and/or try out ideas. I'm not trying to code to push to some production, and I'm not worried about what others think of my code.

I want to be able to say I've tried and done things when speaking with highly technical people. I've been a 'programmer' since I was 10, I'm 35 now but never joined the work force as a programmer; I don't know why, but now that AI is here, the love for coding, tinkering, making system level things, trying things like WASM which may be the future of our www; these all give me that joy. I found my limitations as a programmer and excelled because I have different skillsets.

I love learning that doing something MY way is a good idea, but has been thought of and some amazing programmer already built the ground-work for it.

My Cursor AI agent even setup git for me for my projects so I can easily push with my SSH keys: do I know I can do that myself? Yes. Do I want to? no.

> ReSharper for example will suggest taking advantage of new language features when you write something an older way, and many times this was my introduction to that new feature.

That's actually news to me and sounds amazing. I started coding with C syntax when I was young. You learn habits then, it sticks with you.

I'm since enjoying python for backend things, flask for little webserver stuff and javascript for front-end things.

WASM Python ain't there yet, but I _love_ tinkering. I _love_ finding bugs. I _love_ poking and prodding at how things work. I'm almost always re-inventing the wheel with concepts but you know what? At least it's mine and I can tinker and learn.

Some of us enjoy the craft as a hobby and learning. Even within my teams some are more sophisticated tech wise than I am; to get on their level remotely requires me to tinker.

Often times, I find a solution for my problems that were the most simple; engineering minds like to overcomplicate things.

We're in the Biff Tannen timeline I'm pretty sure. Things got sketch around 2012.

So none of that is far fetched.

I put a lot of thought in to my prompts. I can code, definitely not as good as the AI or people here on HN; it's something I always enjoyed doing to tinker with things.

The AI agent in Cursor with Gemini (I'm semi-new to all of this) is legit.

I can try things out and see for myself and get new ideas for things. Mostly I just ask it to do things, it does it; for specific things I just highlight it in the editor and say "Do it this way instead" or "for every entry in the loop, add to variable global_var only if the string matches ./cfg/strings.json" I _KNOW_ I can code that.

But I like my little clippy.

This reads perfectly, and I'm happy their voice can be heard. End to end encryption is essential, it doesn't require an argument.

Security systems and the ability to transmit data transmissions securely, whether it be a 'chat' or not require this not only due to bad actors, but data integrity.

You know that your data is read only by those who are authorized. While intentions may be good (they're not), at scale it is not feasible to monitor all data, in hopes to stop something bad.

Discord just had its 'required IDs' hacked. We can sit here all day and say why encryption, and secure transmissions are beneficial, but there just isn't one argument I can possibly agree with where everybody's privacy, and ability to speak securely is infringed upon.

This effects everybody globally if you have people you speak securely with in the EU. By backdooring things by default and undermining encrypted technologies, everybody in the world then becomes at risk by whoever gets that data.

Who does actually get that data?

There's a 'dark mission' going on in the EU where data retention and backdoors are becoming a requirement, they're seeking out individuals for hire and giving them missions to compromise and/or obtain compromised systems, nobody knows who they are, what they do, or what they do with the data.

The European Digital Rights had some words on it.

Shedding Light We Address the Flawed Going Dark Report

https://edri.org/our-work/shedding-light-we-address-the-flaw...

Here's their open letter:

https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Open-Letter-on-H...

'We'll never require you to need an online account to log in to your system'

Look how that changed.

Windows Recall 'We'll never use this in any bad way whatsoever' Sure thing.

Windows 10 goes EOL in 8 days, with the EU forcing Microsoft to give their customer bases security patches. Not anywhere else though, and not in the U.S.

What was the end goal with that? Move everybody over to Windows 11; on their EOL page it lists places you can donate your old non-working hardware to. Forcing users to do what? Buy new overpriced hardware when what they have is fine?

People jumped to Windows 7 out of spite; with Linux Desktop marketshare still slowly, steadily rising over the last 10 months. Windows 7 is EOL and no longer receives security patches, so security wise people are a lot worse off than what was anticipated.

Here's the thing, I started up an old iPad last night and the e-mail no longer exists nor can be created, so I can't do a lost password, I can't log in, so I can't install apps, or even format the device without some 'Account Lock'

I own this iPad, as in: it's mine. Why should I, and why would I want to put MY device's access and security on the whims of company?

They want to own our hardware, and our software.

I for one preach Linux Desktop, Manjaro XFCE for me. I think people are sticking with Windows 7 despite it being EOL because games and their software will for the most part not run in to issues linux gaming may be facing.

That ain't the way. Your computer. Your choice. No cloud accounts/everything being logged on the desktop that people do, no 'requirements' to utilize the new software, and no 'requirements' to connect people to cloud backup systems to later coerce and push people to buy.

Why not Linux?

Also: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-br...

As somebody who values privacy, that doesn't seem ideal for me. Especially if it just wants to sell this data and serve my hyper-tailored ads.

Also (TLDR making a social media post can trick the AI agent in to giving/posting the access to things like bank accounts, or anything really, has this been resolved?):

https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1959308058200551721

The thread showing it in action, which was since buried:

https://np.reddit.com/r/testing_comet1/comments/1mvk5h8/what...

Agreed. But python is tried and true and battle tested. I like hobby coding and tried wasm python for the first time the other day, needed JS to load the wasm on the front end. Front end python socket io to python backend? Forget about it. That was my first trial I'm sure there's getting things to work. I've moved straight to python for flask, and web front end stuff being VUE. Tried pythons GTK and app development and could only get my test app to only look slightly better than a 1990s website; BUT, it isn't electron.

For sys level things even TUIs, parsing data, it's a joy.

Edit: QT not GTK

Yes and no, worth reading in to. Yes in the sense of, technically laser but gets reconverted along the path in many ways, ethernet turning it in to frames after a receiver (modem, whatever equipment) then translates it.

Laser = over air, susceptible to interference like atmospheric things, dust, flies, also; since it's laser and over a distance, the photons will spread out. Beam divergence.

Fiber lines are carefully engineered to contain the light transmission to get it to where it has to go.

Microwave would be better than laser to my knowledge but then your packets are flying around through the air willy nilly. Things like SSL handshakes and unencrypted hello packets are readable.

But, anything lasers is amazing.

Looking forward to seeing that, sounds fun and interesting!

Not sure if this is related, but Google open sourced their zero knowledge proof libraries (https://github.com/google/longfellow-zk)

Think: verify age without giving any other information. I've seen compelling stories against it, but the zero knowledge proof aspect is a fun thing to look in to.

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/opening-up-ze...

That's actually really cool, and gives me a peak in to microcontrollers. Wasn't aware of YUBA, but using such little RAM, loading an ipstack on it is impressive enough. Never would have thought about turning a vape in to an IoT device

If you enjoyed making this then I enjoy it. For the love of tinkering, technology, learning new things. I would suggest a multi-player OS, where web apps can be launched inside the OS, think: multiplayer paint, saving files, and JS web apps with its own 'app submission' where apps can be run and show up on everybody's screens.

Vibe coding is fun, glad you could do this!

This sounds 'Robust'

Random thought popped i my head you could allow for cool setups/prompts as sub domains.

something.ch.at is some web space for somebody else's showcase. (within reason of course)

real cool idea, re: being able to use a LLM over DNS in a plane.

Let me meditate on that.

Believe it or not, there's some of us who believe in privacy. There's many that believe in encryption, and believe in transparency, and believe in systems and network security.

'Honest' in what regard? That security and encryption can't be attained to value people's privacy?

Let's not take away from the fact that things like Wikipedia are blocking entire countries (UK) to its services.

When deleting/blocking the forum becomes easier than compliance or risking fines/being punished, they will _delete the forum_

The top comment on the main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699052

> SpaceX and friends don’t do scientific research.

They do though. That's the premise of xAI and even on their website is that they have all this 'research' and are feeding it to that 'grok' to establish even more scientific 'discoveries'

I use quotes because I value the human side of things and like to enjoy the excitement and joy of collaboration and people coming up with new stuff.

> SpaceX and friends don’t do scientific research.

They do though. That's the premise of xAI and even on their website is that they have all this 'research' and are feeding it to that 'grok' to establish even more scientific 'discoveries'

I use quotes because I value the human side of things and like to enjoy the excitement and joy of collaboration and people coming up with new stuff.

Just throw it in an anonymous pastebin and give us a link

Linux should be the focus. Windows Recall is a hell-to-the-no for me, and then having to have 'cloud accounts' to log in on desktops should be demonized. "Oh but you can just run brew for all your .." -- No, no I can't.

FF, being a pioneer of privacy (not anymore, with anonym adds): Go to Settings -> type 'advert', turn that off. FF, being a major player in FOSS, and community (irc.mozilla.org etc), now I think they do matrix

Should get their priorities straight. To me, it isn't about market share, but Linux just reached 5% market share in the US https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-i...

Valve sponsors Arch Linux https://www.pcguide.com/news/valve-officially-sponsors-arch-...

I just switched to LibreFox, which is Firefox without all the extra junk it peddles.

We'd think, by now, with video games having advanced crazy rendering engines, AI dark magic, that browsers would have it together by now.

They don't.

> I wonder if this will incentivize the countries to move faster with Linux.

I hope so. We're seeing it now though. Germany, Norway.

Not saying there won't be CVEs when they move, but at least there's freedom and openness already available to switch to.