For my main desktop I use Mint because it just works, widely supported and Cinnamon is good (sadly no Wayland yet. ;_;). I also use Home-manager for my configuration because it allows me to easily just specify my config as a set of files I can check into git.

For my server, I use NixOS, because having all my configuration in a few text files is very nice to get an overview of what my server is doing.

It’s the directory that needs to be writable to delete files, not the file itself.

Although the immutable bit (if that’s what you’re talking about - I thought you meant unsetting the write bit) might change that, I’m not sure.

The home directory would need to be immutable, not bashrc.

I don’t think that actually works; the attacker could just remove .bashrc and create a new file with the same name.

If I wanted to self host a search engine, I’d just use a proper one that actually searches content rather than regurgitates bullshit.

Search engines worked just fine until Google and Microsoft decided that they wanted to sell their AI products.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#lineSeparator--

Java, of course.

Ehh… I’ll do it tomorrow.

In an ideal world, a search engine will point to this thread, where the answer is the topvoted comment.

With the death of Stackoverflow and Reddit, hopefully Lemmy can fill the void of an information archive. :P

What improvements are you thinking of? I can see that reasoning with something like the Linux kernel where there’s a lot of complex and integrated code, but ultimately individual coreutils commands are really simple. There’s very little you can do to extend something like ls… And if you do, you can just make your own superls command and not have to deal with any licensing restrictions.

With regards to AGPL vs GPL, none of the coreutils programs have network connectivity, so I’m not sure what the network requirement actually adds?

getting rid of the gpl is the motivation behind e.g. companies sponsoring clang/llvm so hard right now.

Is it? As I understand it, LLVM is much easier to work with than GCC, especially given their LLVM IR and passes frameworks.

here, take my stuff and don’t contribute anything back, that’s totally fine

I mean, yeah? They are probably fine with that and think that software should be distributed without restrictions. You may not agree with it, but it’s their choice. Not really stealing if they give it away willingly.

I cannot fathom any FOSS project not using the AGPL anymore.

I mean, most of them that want to use a GPL-like license use the GPL or LGPL rather than the AGPL. :P

why are developers even agreeing to this?

Are they? Last I checked this wasn’t as much of a plan as much of it was just a developer thinking out loud. And even if it was a real plan, developers should continue doing what they should be doing anyway: Write their scripts without any GNU/uutils/whatever-microsoft-calls-their-evil-uutils-fork extensions. Then their scripts could run across all platforms, including GNU, uutils, FreeBSD and BusyBox.

At any rate, if Microsoft really wanted to make their own coreutils fork (if they haven’t already), they’re not really that complicated tools. They could devote like maybe a year of engineering time and get it pretty much compatible.

Yep, borgmatic encrypts it before it sends data to the server.

Was anything else installed on the 21st? Might have been pulled down as a dependency of something.

I recently bought a storagebox from Hatzner and set up my server to run borgmatic every day to backup to it.

I’ve also discovered that Pika Backup works really well as a “read only” graphical browser for borg repos.

Huh, the remake of Chicken Run is looking very different from the original.

Wonder if ChatGPT just scraped an example token from somewhere and is using that.

Firefox is licenced under a copyleft license. Mozilla can’t stop distros packaging it even if they wanted to.

They’d need to replace the branding, but that’s not a big deal.

I like the idea of simple apps, but does their website have to have that silly dvd bouncing thing obstructing text? Especially since it starts playing sound if you interact with it wrong.

I’m a Firefox user and I’m not really that bothered about this tos changes. If they do mess things up I’ll probably just switch to some fork that doesn’t do the fuckery.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Mint packages Firefox with it (whatever “it” is) disabled, since they build Thunderbird without telemetry.

In regards to full system backups, there’s no real need to back up the OS itself. Canonical will give you a clean Ubuntu install if you ask then nice enough, after all. Personally, the risk of having to spend an afternoon reconfiguring my system isn’t that big a deal compared to the storage and time needed to back up an entire image.

I know systems generate a lot of “cruft” in terms of instslled programs and tweaked configurations over time which can be hard to keep track of and remember. But imo that should be avoided at all costs because it leads to compatibility and security issues.

For backing up databases, there’s scripts like automysqlbackup and pg_dump which will export a database to an sql file which can be easily backed up without worrying about copying a broken file.

I actually recently set up borgmatic earlier today and I’d recommend it except for the fact that you seem to be using Docker, and I’m not sure how best to backup containers.