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World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent
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A book from 1920 will probably not get printed again
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Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
I always cherished his SambaXP talks
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What's your favourite package manager?
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Portage is the only one that makes sense to me. It doesn't try to hide it's internals from the user
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Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters "emergency management mode," daily losses could hit $2 billion
Ohh, poor corporation, if only there was a way to not make that happen. Oh wait, there is, just pay them good money
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intimidating
Kate
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PewDiePie just launched his answer to ChatGPT and it’s completely free
So it's just an alternative to Open WebUI and other AI GUIs? And I guess all that privacy talk is useless if you use non-local AI with it
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TUXEDO Computers is switching the base of TUXEDO OS from Ubuntu to Debian for greater stability and control
Very good news
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Age old discussion
English is just one language of many. Would you change it if it was a slur in french?
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Holiday Upgrade Disasters
Without enough time to fix, if anything breaks and without proper backup, I upgraded my mother in law's phone from lineageOS 21 to 23. without issues! Phew
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Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide
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That"s the reason they're doing it, so you tell them more details about your family relations, which equals money to them
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When you write the package name wrong in package.use...
Are you not using a desktop profile? That sets the sane defaults you're missing
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The first true MacBook Neo rivals are here, packing double the RAM and storage of Apple's budget laptop
Computing like it's 2015 again, nice. But at least it's like some random apple product
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Proposal for a modern unified Linux system
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Gentoo offers systemd and OpenRC, not SysV
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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Race data... only in USA and ww2 nazi germany
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The Linux Kernel Tree About To Hit 40 Million Lines, AMD Driver Above 6 Million Lines
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random() > amd_driver.shim
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The state of Linux music players in 2026
I only need fooyin
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Chinese open models now account for as much as 46% of tokens routed through OpenRouter by US firms, up from an 11% average, as American model prices climb.
Pop pop
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Market day in Saarbruecken, Germany, ~1950
Fun fact, Saarbrücken didn't belong to Germany in 1950, only since 1957
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When you write the package name wrong in package.use...
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www-client/firefox does not have a pipewire use flag, it uses pulseaudio which can use the pipewire backend for playing the audio (not sure about the specifics) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire for all issues, I'd recommend #gentoo on irc.libera.chat
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Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company
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Not even for free
