billyalt

I am 60% confident this is actually a concentrated effort to sabotage FOSS. All of this is uncalled for. There cant seriously be THIS many people who genuinely believe their vibe code is helping

All anyone delivers is Ai crap these days

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Makes me irate every time I see it. I am actually astonished at how quickly it took over.

This judge is what's wrong with users and how IT staff are treated

Posted by tdhuck@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 532 comments

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Plenty of people like this in the private sector too

Is this push for AI as insane everywhere?

Posted by Legal_Situation@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 326 comments

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My org was extremely cautious about AI to the point of blocking it everywhere and only allowing people to use offline models that could only accesa our data. This year leadership has made a massive push to get everyone to use Claude, even allowing people to install it to user machines. I think its absolutely bonkers

Tony Hoare, creator of Quicksort & Null, passed away.

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> Customer requests and markets may not ask for what's good for them; they may need regulation to build the market This is funny. I'm so used to programmers in the space being Libertarian about such things.

New York Age Verification Bill Requires Anti-Circumvention Tech

Posted by Aurelar@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 445 comments

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Bro is watching the US government in its most hypercapitalistic state and still blames communism lol

Ops engineer who built half our automation just gave notice. Nobody understands the system

Posted by Otherwise-Papaya-105@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 211 comments

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Christ

Employee Monitoring Software

Posted by Zealousideal_Bend984@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 506 comments

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Ive seen it report my coworker as a away even though he was right across from me and typing away

Manjaro, They've done it again!

Posted by L0stG33k@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 539 comments

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Unbelievable

Why Are People Like This?

Posted by GhostInThePudding@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 333 comments

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I wouldnt even give them an option. Wompany wide email stating all passwords must be reset within the next 24 hours. Any password not reset by then will have their account locked; call IT for new password. Implement password expiry. MFA later.

X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"

Posted by anh0516@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 365 comments

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Right, and the devs probably have the same attitude, but i dont think it actually makes sense to rely on Wayland to be a layer of security for us when we should really be auditing what we install before we install, if its going to come at the cost of usability.

X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"

Posted by anh0516@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 365 comments

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It makes sense but its also overzealous. If you're this paranoid about an application then it really has no business on your system.

AI making my job so much harder and fighting every decision I make

Posted by JiggityJoe1@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 368 comments

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The purpose of AI is to make incompetent people difficult to ignore.

Debian Urgently Seeks Volunteers After Data Protection Team Resigns

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Debian doesn't.

The NexPhone is an upcoming phone that can boot desktop Linux along with Android (and Microslop Windows 11) - made for USB-C docking to monitors

Posted by HiGuysImNewToReddit@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 90 comments

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Volla phones can do this technically

I just threw up in my mouth...

Posted by Obvious-Water569@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 758 comments

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It wont happen. More programmers now than ever before will be vibe coding.

VMware now threatening outages to perpetual license holders

Posted by mac10190@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 483 comments

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Great way to sell people on Proxmox. Lmao

Linux 6.19's significant ~30% performance boost for old AMD Radeon GPUs

Posted by Fcking_Chuck@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 78 comments

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With the way PC gaming hardware is going these efforts may be necessary

2004 Toyota Volta, this mid-engined hybrid supercar was powered by a 3.3 liter V6 and had a 0-60 in 4 seconds

Posted by Custombi@reddit | WeirdWheels | View on Reddit | 58 comments

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I waont it

New Linux powered smartphone becoming a reality with Jolla, EU based company.

Posted by Arbeit69@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 414 comments

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There's room for improvement for sure but the point i was trying to make is that we dont need to start at square one

New Linux powered smartphone becoming a reality with Jolla, EU based company.

Posted by Arbeit69@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 414 comments

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Ubuntu Touch is still around albeit handled by a community team and is supported by surprisingly modern phones. They recently published a major update too.

Motorola and Tinno are violating the GPL again. We need your help.

Posted by ProgrammingZone@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 292 comments

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What can we do that EFF can't?

Since Jaguar's design boss, Garry McGovern was fired, let's we discuss about the Jaguar Type 00

Posted by Venkie2Maybach@reddit | WeirdWheels | View on Reddit | 302 comments

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I think if they just marketed it in pure black with white accents it would have been much better received. Imagine it black and it starts to look like something out of BTAS or The Big O. It would have had a lot more appeal.

Framework becomes first OEM to sponsor Linux Vendor Firmware Service

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Feel free to pick whichever answer bugs you the most. Happy cake day!

Framework becomes first OEM to sponsor Linux Vendor Firmware Service

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Are you arguing in favor of sponsors dictating what FOSS should be allowed to criticize?

Framework becomes first OEM to sponsor Linux Vendor Firmware Service

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I dont understand why these people think we're blind and stupid.

Flatpak is essentially entirely reliant on Cisco to function at the moment, and it could bite you in the ass

Posted by erraticnods@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 179 comments

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Lot of people forget that FOSS is intrinsically political

Where can I buy non-copilot laptops?

Posted by critacle@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 353 comments

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Everybody arguing with you is missing the point, and frankly LTT is not even a good reviewer if you're considering buying laptops for an enterprise environment. He doesn't even write his own reviews and barely uses the device he is reviewing.

Monitoring WFH employees?

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At my site the biggest section of the business actually found a 30% increase in productivity while doing WFH. A couple higher-ups wanted to make RTO a thing but none of the directors actually enforced so eventually and we all stayed WFH and eventually they just closed the office.

Monitoring WFH employees?

Posted by uniqueusername42O@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 361 comments

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Monitoring software does not make people more productive. To me it sounds like they do not have a way of actually measuring work output in the first place.

Why is everything these days so broken and unstable?

Posted by Grindie@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 433 comments

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Combination of AI being used in development and AI sucking all the power in the grid

Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

Posted by Eu-is-socialist@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 385 comments

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Volla Phone

Directive to move away from Microsoft

Posted by LetPrestigious3916@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 478 comments

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I would contact some RedHat or Ubuntu vendors and see if they have any recs

Brazilian marines with Boito shotgun and early model PT92. 2016

Posted by Friendly_Hornet8900@reddit | ForgottenWeapons | View on Reddit | 60 comments

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Neither of these people look like they have held or fired a gun in their entire life

TeamViewer: Upgraded whether you like it or not. Enjoy your ‘missing out’ benefits.

Posted by Zathire@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 249 comments

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Oh i know. I don't watch him anymore and haven't for some time.

TeamViewer: Upgraded whether you like it or not. Enjoy your ‘missing out’ benefits.

Posted by Zathire@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 249 comments

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Linus from LTT complains about them like once a year and then he gets flooded in comments admonishing him for using the software and then he gets really defensive about it because it "just works"

Syncthing 2.0.0 released

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>They didn't say they wanted to use SyncThing for personal things? Then just the same; IT needs to get involved for implementation. If they reject the software then that's just how it has to be. >Not everyone works at a... org where there's an IT-blessed solution for everything. Sounds like he does! There's a reason IT has power to yay or nay such things. It's not his device, and he needs to adopt that attitude.