GitHub - philipl/pifs: πfs - the data-free filesystem!

x0x7 · 2023-09-22T03:42:57+00:00

Genius.

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-21T17:36:31+00:00

/u/PanzerDivision /u/musky-the-nigger /u/x0x7

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-21T12:18:47+00:00

This says the nopic version is 46 GB.

cunninglingus · 2023-09-21T11:22:03+00:00

Indeed - and that was the size with images at that time. In October 2022, the size with images was 91 GB: https://kiwix.org/en/what-is-the-size-of-wikipedia/

chadwickofwv · 2023-09-21T11:15:54+00:00

That's surprisingly small.

cunninglingus · 2023-09-21T11:15:22+00:00

Article notes 81 GB in March 2021. Shall I read the rest of it for you?

twolanterns · 2023-09-21T08:49:21+00:00

what size (minus images?) are they saying it is ???

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-21T08:43:20+00:00

/u/PanzerDivision

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-09-17T15:20:00+00:00

I really don't want Linux to go too mainstream, because I'm a selfish bastard, and, look what happened to ad blocking and the Internet in general when both of these two concepts went mainstream.

Therchappog · 2023-09-16T08:57:41+00:00

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LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-08T14:03:55+00:00

Fuck off.

Vulptex · 2023-09-07T22:28:19+00:00

The nice thing about Linux is it depends on the distro.

binaryblob · 2023-09-06T21:08:03+00:00

I think the meaning of the word "supported" might need to be clarified first. As a plain end-user, not paying for support, if you find a bug in any of the core packages, there is not any promise on the time to resolve the problem, which means the same as having no support in my opinion. In fact, most enterprise support doesn't even get that, because at most there is some level of "within X hours you will have someone on the phone, which for any serious enterprise is too late".

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-06T16:49:52+00:00

They provide an operating system for free, as well as 10 years of security updates if you use LTS. Some support costs money but that doesn't take away that it is, in fact, supported.

binaryblob · 2023-09-06T07:34:19+00:00

The point is that "support" has a price and that almost all software (and certainly all Linux distributions) comes with the threat that "perhaps there is some crippling bug out there that will shutdown your business; that is, the business model is the exact same as that of the maffia. There literally is zero incentive to ever make something that always works.

Back to the original point, which is that Ubuntu doesn't "support" anything, unless you pay Canonical.

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-06T05:32:24+00:00

Yes, at the bottom of the page it says "cool stuff store". Anyway, what's your point?

binaryblob · 2023-09-05T21:32:36+00:00

You should really learn to read: https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms. Do you see the word "store"?

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-05T19:38:58+00:00

Ubuntu LTS is supported for five years, and Debian LTS support goes up to around that time span as well.

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-05T19:37:55+00:00

RHEL.

being-poisoned · 2023-09-05T06:23:54+00:00

Reduce your average CVE exposure time from 98 days to 1 day with expanded CVE patching

WTF does that even mean though? They hold back security updates unless you are a paying customer? Try that shit in a small town.

WoodyWoodPecker · 2023-09-05T03:58:04+00:00

At least Microsoft gives Windows users 3 years until they stop supporting their version of Windows.

binaryblob · 2023-09-05T00:54:06+00:00

I don't agree that any Linux distribution is "supported" for any period of time, unless there are contracts in place and payments have been made. Can you point me at any Linux distribution that substantiates their "support"?

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-09-04T16:20:25+00:00

Why would you use a distro that's only supported for a year? Ubuntu LTS and Mint still seem acceptable, though.

weavilsatemyface · 2023-09-01T05:50:03+00:00

I don't know what to think.

I've been using X (on Linux) since the 1990s. Then Xorg and presumably now Wayland.

Back in the 90s, my Linux boxen were stable as hell. Unless the power went out, nothing ever knocked them over. (No, I tell a lie, I had one machine with bad RAM that would crash randomly.) I had one machine have an uptime of over a year. Now, I'm lucky if my Linux desktop lasts a week without it locking up or falling over, usually because my browser (running as an unprivileged user) manages to choke out the desktop environment and causes it to die.

transbob · 2023-08-28T03:52:08+00:00

There's about a million tutorial videos for ffmpeg on YouTube..

You can do literally anything with FFM peg.. you can rotate you can transition you can change the contrast you can insert frames you can delete frames..

Ffmpeg can do almost anything.

In-the-clouds · 2023-08-28T02:52:29+00:00

In my garden I was surprised to see that a dragonfly had caught a moth and was chewing into its back. I grabbed my cell phone and recorded a video, but when I played the video on my computer, it was rotated 90 degrees. The tool ffmpeg was able to rotate it. The code is below. And you can see the resulting video: dragonfly eating a moth.

$ ffmpeg -i <input> -c:a copy -b:v 25M -vf "transpose=1" <output>

Explanation

-c:a copy copies audio so it is not re-encoded

-b:v 25M sets bitrate

-vf "transpose=1" rotates video 90 degrees

To convert all files in a folder:

$ for f in *; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:a copy -b:v 25M -vf "transpose=1" "$f"_transposed.mp4; done

x0x7 · 2023-08-28T02:27:10+00:00

I suppose my suggestion in bringing up Pacman was really to the broader community to use Arch based linuxes rather than Ubuntu based ones. Especially because the software is always the newest version and configured in the way the developers of that software intended.

In-the-clouds · 2023-08-27T18:22:44+00:00

I appreciate your input, especially regarding the tip to upgrade, before update.

Why do you need a ppa to install ffmpeg?

ffmpeg was not available in my setup without specifying a different source. pacman is also not available on my setup.

x0x7 · 2023-08-27T13:27:52+00:00

Why do you need a ppa to install ffmpeg? It's a really common software.

On Arch:

pacman -S ffmpeg

Done. That will automatically give you the newest stable release.

Also running update without upgrade can be dangerous with any package manager. You can get libraries out of sync. Typically in arch you do them in the same operation pacman -Syu

Failing to do that almost never causes issues, but it will be an interesting distraction that will take up the rest of your day when it does.

weavilsatemyface · 2023-08-27T06:27:09+00:00

Thanks.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-08-19T18:29:39+00:00

imagine paying for a desktop you don't own and serves you ads all the work day long.

Consumers eat this shit up though. When this business model was exclusive to television and television was free and I could just record it all with my VCR and then fast forward the ads and keep the shows, I didn't protest, but now even games spam the gamer with ads and reserve the ability to disable/revoke all our purchases at any time for any reason. Backups are useless if they won't play without logging into an account, where the service was discontinued five years ago.

iDontShift · 2023-08-14T20:20:22+00:00

we have a corporation problem.

browser are complicated to exclude.

internet explorer, financed by microsoft, refused to comply with standards and broke everything. you think this was because they couldn't make it compliant? incorrect. they directly chose to make it that way to prevent competition.

without acceleration battery life suffers on linux.

i'm sure microsoft finds that very agreeable

TaseAFeminist4Jesus · 2023-08-13T22:12:56+00:00

There’s no denying that the browser is the single-most important application on any operating system, whether that be on desktops and laptops or on mobile devices

I don't know about all that.

notafed · 2023-08-06T01:37:13+00:00

Interesting Project idea. Things have gotten pretty bloated, so a kernel targetted at modern X86_64 and ARM64 system with everything else removed is not a bad idea.

iamonlyoneman · 2023-08-05T17:36:00+00:00

People will use 10 until 12 comes out LOL

chadwickofwv · 2023-08-05T15:39:55+00:00

Yea, and those are a fully fledged Debian install. With some tweaks of course. The whole thing with programs only installing as flatpacks is annoying, but still quite useable.

ZomOfTheDead · 2023-08-05T08:03:30+00:00

It's growing more and more evident that my next pc build will be Linux.

UcDat · 2023-08-05T07:45:17+00:00

windows 11 will drive droves imagine paying for a desktop you don't own and serves you ads all the work day long...

WoodyWoodPecker · 2023-08-05T03:58:34+00:00

Steam Decks now outnumber Macs on Steam.

iamonlyoneman · 2023-08-05T02:50:24+00:00

aaaaany day now

IkeConn · 2023-07-31T07:02:57+00:00

I used to lock them down during scratch loads.

cant_even · 2023-07-28T18:49:57+00:00

If we had a functioning government, there would be a "Department of Technical Security" who would have broken up "Google" the first time they moved in on "Web-Standards Bodies". Their behavior has been obvious to all since the beginning: Remove the possibility of avoiding:

Ads
Propaganda
Censorship
Unconstitutional Government data-scraping

Of course, since it's in the government's interests to have 'pRiVaTe CoMpAnIeS' perform these tasks, nothing will change.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-07-27T20:44:03+00:00

"Big tech" is in the process of constructing, locking and loading a super mega anti-competitive BFG, and they will use it to lock out client computers from browsing the majority of the web if we happen to be running any unapproved (from their perspective) software or hardware. You know, the kind that can block ads, allow us to save content from webpages to local disk, and that doesn't quietly do stuff like this behind our backs. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/microsoft-resolves-edge-setting-that-was-leaking-websites-you-visit/

This is of particular concern for Linux users, because we are especially vulnerable to malware such as this, being a minority online. Actually this system will be so fine-grained that websites can choose to deny you service just because you're running, for example, an older video driver or you do not have secure boot switched on.

The mere fact that websites can even tell what OS or browser I'm running in the first place, is a bug. It's like if I got to know what kind of phone my friend is using when I dial their number. No reasonable person would think this information was any of my business, unless they (as in the human on the other side of the connection) willingly choose to tell me.

Also of note is that Google claims this is being implemented to stop bots, but that is ba-ba-bullshit, because all a bad actor has to do is connect their evil machine to their approved machine on the other side of the room by way of keyboard emulation. It's a power grab, a malicious and hostile one; If Google wanted to make the web a safer place for everyone, they could start by patching all the landfill Android phones they sell.

Fooedm · 2023-07-23T08:07:01+00:00

Was a fun sms game I used to play. Penguin something even included a level creator.

Penguin land https://www.smspower.org/Games/PenguinLand-SMS

Drewski · 2023-07-18T17:28:53+00:00

It's not quite a flip of a switch, but you can change the init system in Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/Init and probably other distros.

binaryblob · 2023-07-18T06:13:29+00:00

It's such a waste of time for all these different distributions to exist.

It would be much more useful if you could just configure the init system to be used instead, but there are not many (none?) systems which are designed to support let's say five different init systems with the flip of a switch.

I can argue why one should not use systemd on low end systems, but the reasons are very contrived.

IkeConn · 2023-07-18T05:39:59+00:00

I am a retired IT guy that used Linux for 20 years. Linux started to turn to shit when they replaced yum.

WoodyWoodPecker · 2023-07-18T00:30:57+00:00

There is always BSD Unix.

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-07-17T18:57:57+00:00

Luckily there are other good browsers to fall back on, such as Falkon.

iamonlyoneman · 2023-07-15T18:35:26+00:00

Neat

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-12T21:46:35+00:00

I'm not. I want windows DEAD.

Megatron95 · 2023-07-12T19:17:02+00:00

Yes. It also improved driver support especially for GPUs. That being said, I'm fine with Linux not being or becoming mainstream.

notafed · 2023-07-12T04:26:29+00:00

They run a linux kernel with a completely different UI on top compared to desktops.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-12T04:08:10+00:00

Android devices? Ehhhh, sure I think.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-12T04:07:27+00:00

Every website you use has linux servers.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-12T04:06:38+00:00

And the steam deck. The steam deck is a mainstream user device, it literally skyrocketed linux usage.

notafed · 2023-07-11T18:49:25+00:00

3% on the desktop. The actual share when you include all servers, embedded devices, and android devices is far, far higher.

sproketboy · 2023-07-11T01:52:59+00:00

Only Linux fag commies think 3% is everywhere.

Megatron95 · 2023-07-11T01:01:02+00:00

They made gaming on Linux a viable option.

Megatron95 · 2023-07-11T00:57:28+00:00

The self-service tills at Shopper's Drug Mart use Suse Linux. I saw one rebooting and it had the chameleon logo for Suse.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-11T00:53:45+00:00

Fucking linux purist stick to arch 😂

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-11T00:17:05+00:00

Linux runs the world. Windows runs adobe photoshop.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-11T00:15:54+00:00

Ehhhh I mean. I think we're better off without site-wide bans. That was one of reddit's issues.

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-07-10T21:45:21+00:00

Whack-an-Ed.

(Except you can't whack, only m7 is able to but he doesn't bother.)

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T21:33:03+00:00

Another one!

And another one!

IkeConn · 2023-07-10T21:05:19+00:00

Linux is everywhere. You just don't see it.

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-07-10T20:52:52+00:00

You found the Ed.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T18:38:02+00:00

You'd be surprised.

William_World · 2023-07-10T18:10:03+00:00

haven't heard of anyone using linux in 30 years

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T16:10:11+00:00

I mean the 3%

jet199 · 2023-07-10T16:02:56+00:00

lol, that's not a complement

binaryblob · 2023-07-10T15:22:07+00:00

It's probably not ChatGPT, but some open-source version. I'd imagine ChatGPT to have implemented a troll message detector.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T15:16:59+00:00

Nope, it's the final straw. I had suspicions he is spamming posts with chatGPT prompts and this was the final straw that made me realize he indeed is.

binaryblob · 2023-07-10T15:07:19+00:00

Yeah, you can see by the fact that he claimed a Mac is a computer.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T15:04:51+00:00

Very sophisticated troll attempts mr twosteps.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T13:13:02+00:00

Most of the time it is. Yet linux neckbears are against even that.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T13:00:15+00:00

Based.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T12:44:33+00:00

This number might seen low but they're coming awfully close to Mac.

bucetao6969 · 2023-07-10T12:40:45+00:00

Thank Valve (a private company) for that.

Airbus320 · 2023-07-10T09:21:14+00:00

5% would be enough to keep steam and lutris alive, just use amdgpu driver

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-07-10T08:18:18+00:00

They'll hit 100% in just 970 more years!

GeorgeCarlin · 2023-07-08T18:22:25+00:00

I know that. I've knewn it for years now.

On the one hand, I just feel a lot better while using manjaro and debian (instead of some Orwellian purely commercial OS)

and

On the other hand, I don't feel a need to use BSD's on a machine that I plan to use with a GUI.

Looks like shooting a particle accelerator onto some glorified cockroaches, imo.

I'm completely OK with debian and manjaro for desktops, even though I know the paranoid me could nitpick on those distros till time itself ends.

In completely other news: I got way too lazy over the years for any "real" arch or slackware itself.

Life is about compromise once you realize, you don't get younger as time passes.

A lot of security, as far as I understand, is jesus-nutted to refuting right-escalations on some standard-accounts. "Desktop"-distros I use fit this use-case for my degree of paranoia finely.

Anything else could develop into "perfection" or obsession and, as such, hence only is another way back into depression.

Drewski · 2023-07-08T17:11:40+00:00

If it's truly privacy preserving it should be opt-in.

GeorgeCarlin · 2023-07-08T12:35:31+00:00

Anything remotely "FOSS"-y thankfully has been forked away from those mofos. As it should be.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-06-28T17:24:29+00:00

All authors of GPL software seriously need to play hardball with Red Hat/IBM and notify them of termination of license for breach of the GPL.

Something like: "You are blatantly and willfully violating both the spirit and the letter of the terms that govern my software, by adding additional terms and punishing the users downstream who redestribute it's source code. Stop shipping it immediately."

That would be bitchin'. If they continue shipping and ignore you, everybody sue them all at once; everyone who can, that is.

PanzerDivision · 2023-06-24T19:37:51+00:00

No problem.

Drewski · 2023-06-24T19:30:38+00:00

Really neat tool, thanks for sharing.

Anman · 2023-06-15T07:27:11+00:00

So much more intensive, but has even less functionality than it used to.

Anman · 2023-06-14T12:46:44+00:00

Everything that a server needs to do that does not require a modern operating system. In this case, data storage. I can also run a large variety of other non resource intensive services. Modern hardware is rubbish. The software behind it, is rubbish. I get perfect piece of mind and minimal frustration in just setting up and using old tech than new. EUFI marked the end of what was good.

Anman · 2023-06-14T08:21:44+00:00

XP is using less resources than most of the linux distros I use.

Security is for people who don't know how to use a fire wall.

Why would I buy and use new hardware when I have perfectly good old hardware? Also new hardware is mostly garbage, specially since bios was abandoned.

Sure, I don't know what Im doing. Can't argue knowledge level against someone who thinks modern ubuntu is ok.

Anman · 2023-06-13T08:58:33+00:00

are you trying to run a server without knowledge

This sums up the linux community when I point out why linux will never be as good as windows (was).

Modern Ubuntu is for faggots. I've said everything I need to.

chadwickofwv · 2023-06-12T19:10:01+00:00

Linus needs to dispense with the Linux Foundation entirely. It will fall shortly after he pulls out of it.

SoCo · 2023-06-12T07:34:41+00:00

I consider sandboxing to be a last ditch effort for when you know you are using untrusted software or content on an insecure system.

I believe the listed are insecure out of the box, but mostly due to excessive complexity and bloat, making them bug prone, have a large attack surface, and impossible to properly maintain and monitor. Sanboxes are just another excessively complex and bug prone thing. Chrome is a massive and overly complex browser, who's market control is forcing every other browser to be as insecure as well, by constantly piling more overly complex and bug prone web features and encouraging websites to rely on those massively over complex and wasteful trendy features as their web platform. As a browser looking to maintain its market share, using its monopoly of the market to continually add more flashy garbage at a rate no competition can keep up with, is a marketing strategy.

If no one can have the slightest clue what is going on in their system, because it all moved under dozens of layers of containers, managed in some mysterious layers of storage and resource segregation, and you can no longer find a simple executable or know how it is started at boot, are you really more secure, or less?

In the name of security, we are making Linux systems be such an enigma of complexity, that we have no clue what they are doing, what part is doing it, or where to find out any more.

It is all hand-waving working up to getting you complacent, so that vendors can include parts that do nefarious things behind the scenes without notice. It will be just another Windows, Firefox, or Chrome.

KyleIsThisTall · 2023-06-11T20:57:05+00:00

all after that tranny coup where he had a planned family vacation and they scheduled him for a conference talk to force him to abdicate

Rah · 2023-06-11T18:26:32+00:00

All of which are nothing compared to just one bank interested in seeing its downfall.

sevenstaves · 2023-06-11T16:39:27+00:00

Aren't there many fortune 400 companies highly interested in making Linux secure?

Ludditebardd · 2023-06-11T14:31:04+00:00

I'm not sure what to think about this. I'm a big fan of sandboxing programs, its part of the implementation in GrapheneOS for a more secure phone. And pointing out that no desktop OS is fully secure is also a good thing. But saying there is a 10 year old exploit in Linux systems that you know about, but then rather then help write code to fix the problem it is decided to just write a new OS based on ChromeOS, seems like taking a step in the wrong direction.

If Bjorn is able to write and release this proposed OS, I would like to try it. Until then I'm still on Linux.

newguy · 2023-06-11T11:05:22+00:00

Security through obscurity stops working when you become a major OS

Anman · 2023-06-10T03:43:31+00:00

Modern ubuntu (and slowly mint, as they abandon what used to make mint great) is no different to modern windows. Note that I was only referring to old windows. Win 8+ hate is a given. The note here is that modern cut down versions of linux are still not as good as old windows.

Windows 7 and less has minimal bloat. The bloat that exists can easily be permanently turned off. The bloat in linux is almost impossible to handle. When I installed sparky min gui, it's memory footprint was almost double that of my cut down xp install. The tools to and knowledge needed to do the same things I did to win xp, to linux, is absolutely disgusting.

LarrySwinger2 · 2023-06-09T15:15:21+00:00

I don't know where to find it, it simply came installed by default, maybe it's on Debian as well. Have you found the setting to change the theme? (It's 'window manager' from the control panel.)

If you don't have 'gtk' or any nice themes by default, perhaps you'll like one of these themes. Here are installation instructions.

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