IDK if it's the "best" way, but generally I just let ping run for a while and check the statistics at the end

Terrible posting etiquette

Agreed!

Though it's very widespread, sharing a link without a word of comment is as obnoxious as those people who send you emails with no text or subject and only an attachment.

I feel less alone knowing that someone else also hates this practice.

Your worth is not determined by abstract internet points.

Sometimes people won't get your message/point and downvote your contributions. The reason might be you not doing a good job at communicating (in my experience, it's usually is that) or it might be them misunderstanding or you might not fit the community you are contributing to (eg. if your political view is not generally accepted in a community).

Don't worry about one of your posts/comments occasionally getting downvoted.

If your contributions get downvoted consinsently (which seems to be the case from what you write? I don't really are enough to go look at your account's history), consider if continuing as you are is of any benefit to you and/or the community and if it's still worth your time.

In case, try seeing if it's a style/tone/manners/respect thing that you maybe want to improve on or if it's just not worth it and it's better to go somewhere else or stop entirely.

There is no law saying we must fit every community (I left communities and even an entire Lemmy instance for that).

Also, this discussion is entirely OT since it has nothing to do with programming, and I am reporting it as such. If it's downvoted or ends up being taken down (I hope so), it's not because of some conspiracy against you.

I wish people stopped voting complete morons into power.

Being able to use an LLM turns a layman into a coder no more than being able to use CAD turns them into an engineer.

It's a real pity that LLMs seem to have taken over as the sole topic of discussion in programming communities such as this one. It might be just me, but I find the whole topic barely interesting at all (ie. not more interesting than the discussions about stackoverflow coding we used to have).

It's not FOSS, so I couldn't possibly care less. That said, best of luck to you!

After the inverse defense of Russia from Ukraine aggression (the kind of defense where you invade another country that is aggressing you by opposing your invasion), Putin now issues an inverse declaration of war (the kind of declaration of war where you declare someone else is at war with you). What a total buffoon.

...and that's why you need 16GB and a decent CPU to navigate the web

I mean... what country hasn't been threatened by the US this year?

For reference, wikipedia says Shein made some 32B USD (ie. 32.000 millions) in 2023.

I'm sure they are concerned about the possiblity of paying Italy's 1.16M fee (or the French 40M one), but... we should really tailor fees to companies' revenues if we want them to matter.

we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison

Isn't that how Amazon prime works?

TLDR:

What the author baptizes "do-nothing scripts" are interactive scripts that print out the steps of some procedure one by one and wait for you to confirm each step (eg. "1. do this. press enter when done" "2. do something else. press enter when done" and so forth).

PS:

@OP (if you are the author)

I HATE those sites where popups come up when you are halfway reading something.

What's the idea behind it, besides annoying your users as much as possible?

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced that he will raise annexing the West Bank at the next cabinet meeting in response to the the recognitions.

“The recognition by the UK, Canada, and Australia of a ‘Palestinian’ state, as a prize for the murderous Nukhba terrorists, requires immediate countermeasures,” said Ben-Gvir.

I don't even know how to comment this.

TLDR:

Current status for 26.04 LTS

We shipped rust-coreutils as the default in Ubuntu 25.10 to maximise real-world testing ahead of the LTS. Based on the audit findings and remediation progress, here is where we stand for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

We have included the latest upstream release 0.8.0 in Ubuntu 26.04, which incorporates the bulk of the security fixes.

cp, mv, and rm continue to be provided by GNU coreutils in 26.04. These utilities have remaining open TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues (8 as of Apr 22, 2026) that need to be resolved before we are confident shipping them.

Our plan is to address the remaining issues as soon as possible and target Ubuntu 26.10 with 100% rust-coreutils.

Axel Springer says that ad blockers threaten its revenue generation model and frames website execution inside web browsers as a copyright violation.

This is grounded in the assertion that a website’s HTML/CSS is a protected computer program that an ad blocker intervenes in the in-memory execution structures (DOM, CSSOM, rendering tree), this constituting unlawful reproduction and modification.

I wouldn't worry if that's their argument: you can modify whatever copyright-protected work you wish as long as you don't redistribute it, otherwise taking notes in books or using an equalizer when listening to music would be copyright violations. Surely you can do the same with the programs you run on your computer (also regarding computer programs, live patching is a thing).

That said, copyright law has been so absurdly twisted and stretched (suffice to say it was born to protect authors and it now protects megacorporations' profits) that it's worth to keep an eye on this.

PS: You may want to take a look at Axel Springer's newspapers/brands

"Europe is selling its soul" would imply that we are getting something in exchange for our soul, which is... debatable at best.

Truth is... we (well, the politicians we voted for) are just generally spineless and much more eager to play against one another that to team up against a common enemy.

this doesn’t go with the idea of Linux, which is having “freedom” with your os

Err... it's "freedom" as in "you are free to run your own system using whatever software you wish" not "freedom" as in "distros and devs have a duty to support your freedom to run any specific software you happen to like".

Let's turn down the entitlement dial a bit.

IMHO Ansible isn't much different than a bash script... it has the advantage of being "declarative" (in quotes because it's not actually declarative at all: it just has higher-level abstractions that aggregate common sysadmin CLI operations/patterns in "declarative-sounding" tasks), but it also has the disadvantage of becoming extremely convoluted the moment you need any custom logic whatsoever (yes, you can write a python extension, but you can do the same starting with a bash script too).

Also, you basically can't use ansible unless your target system has python (technically you can, but in practice all the useful stuff needs python), meaning that if you use a distro that doesn't come with python per default (eg. alpine) you'll have to manually install it or write some sort of pythonless prelude to your ansible script that does that for you, and that if your target can't run python (eg. openwrt on your very much resource-constrained wifi APs) ansible is out of the question (technically you can use it, but it's much more complex than not using it).

My two cents about configuration management for the homelab:

• whatever you use, make sure it's something you re-read often: it will become complex and you will forget everything about it
• keep in mind that you'll have to re-test/update your scripts at least everytime your distro version changes (eg. if you upgrade from ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04) and ideally every time one of your configured services changes (because the format of their config files may in theory change too)
• if you can cope with a rolling-style distro, take a look at nix instead of "traditional" configuration management: nixos configuration is declarative and (in theory) guarantees that you won't ever need to recheck or update your config when updating (in reality, you'll occasionally have to edit your config, but the OS will tell you so it's not like you can unknowingly break stuff).

BTW, nixos is also not beginner-friendly in the least and all in all badly documented (documentation is extensive but unfriendly and somewhat disorganized)... good luck with that :)

Anthropic pulled the npm package within hours and issued a statement: the exposure was "a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach."

I'm sure they chose the words "human error" to also imply the error is not to blame on their LLM, which remains an open question after reading the article (and likely will forever, although at the very least it would seem like the LLM did not detect this mistake).

Merz's questionable judgement aside, what would we gain from having a nice ranking of war criminals?

Shouldn't our spineless politicians concentrate on trying to stop war criminals (all of them) instead of starting academic discussions on who's the "most serious"?