you can still use OpenRC instead if you want, and sxmo will continue to do so by default.

you can read here about why they added systemd.

I’m planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century

I think it was born in the 21st century? From this it looks like the first Celeron M was in 2004, and the first at that clockspeed was 2005.

Also, 2GB of RAM is plenty for many purposes - that’s more than any Raspberry Pi before the Pi 4 had!

This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess:

“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."

To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without the kind of manual intervention that this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still mostly lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.

edit: i see now that numerous people have done this; you can find many websites where you can “play chess against chatgpt” (which actually means: with chatgpt and also some other mechanism to enforce the rules). and if you know how to play chess you should easily win :)

also “you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.” 🤡

FUTO’s license meets neither the free software definition nor the open source definition.

this is a good meme

it’s among the many OSes you can run in an emulator in your web browser at https://copy.sh/v86/

sometimes a footprint represents humanity

sometimes, but in GNOME’s case i think it is not intended to be a human foot but rather the foot of a mythological creature (a gnome). note that it has a squashed aspect ratio compared to a human foot, and also has only four toes.

apparently it’s also problematic in some cultures: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FootAndCulturalIssue

Is this a spam campaign?

Five of the eleven comments so far (including one from OP) are all recommending the same service; all five are from accounts less than 2 months old with a one or two digit number of comments 🤔

Why memorize a different command? I assume sudoedit just looks up the system’s EDITOR environment variable and uses that. Is there any other benefit?

I don’t use it, but, sudoedit is a little more complicated than that.

When invoked as sudoedit, the -e option (described below), is implied.

       -e, --edit
               Edit one or more files instead of running a command.   In  lieu
               of  a  path name, the string "sudoedit" is used when consulting
               the security policy.  If the user is authorized by the  policy,
               the following steps are taken:

               1.   Temporary  copies  are made of the files to be edited with
                    the owner set to the invoking user.

               2.   The editor specified by the policy is run to edit the tem‐
                    porary files.  The sudoers policy  uses  the  SUDO_EDITOR,
                    VISUAL  and  EDITOR environment variables (in that order).
                    If none of SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL  or  EDITOR  are  set,  the
                    first  program  listed  in the editor sudoers(5) option is
                    used.

               3.   If they have been modified, the temporary files are copied
                    back to their original location and the temporary versions
                    are removed.

               To help prevent the editing of unauthorized files, the  follow‐
               ing  restrictions are enforced unless explicitly allowed by the
               security policy:

                •  Symbolic links  may  not  be  edited  (version  1.8.15  and
                   higher).

                •  Symbolic links along the path to be edited are not followed
                   when  the parent directory is writable by the invoking user
                   unless that user is root (version 1.8.16 and higher).

                •  Files located in a directory that is writable by the invok‐
                   ing user may not be edited unless that user is  root  (ver‐
                   sion 1.8.16 and higher).

               Users are never allowed to edit device special files.

               If  the specified file does not exist, it will be created.  Un‐
               like most commands run by sudo, the editor is run with the  in‐
               voking  user's  environment  unmodified.  If the temporary file
               becomes empty after editing, the user will be  prompted  before
               it is installed.  If, for some reason, sudo is unable to update
               a file with its edited version, the user will receive a warning
               and the edited copy will remain in a temporary file.

tldr: it makes a copy of the file-to-be-edited in a temp directory, owned by you, and then runs your $EDITOR as your normal user (so, with your normal editor config)

note that sudo also includes a similar command which is specifically for editing /etc/sudoers, called visudo 🤪

By “solar power in operation” (in GW) i think they mean maximum output capacity rather than actual production, since these numbers add up to 923 GW while wikipedia says in 2024 there was 2.13 petawatt-hours (243 GW on average) actually produced by solar.

These articles were stolen, by the paywall operators. Elbakyan rescued them from the thieves. 🎉

encryption would prevent the modem from seeing it when someone sends it, but such a short string will inevitably appear once in a while in ciphertext too. so, it would actually make it disconnect at random times instead :)

(edit: actually at seven bytes i guess it would only occur once in every 72PB on average…)

poe’s law exemplar 😬

the non-recursive part of this image is mildlyinfuriating

Russian propaganda

ah yes it’s that notoriously pro-russia website hrw.org 😂

you could edit your post title…

Have you tried https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/ ?

I have not, but I think it does what you’re looking for.

The demo video emphasizes its use as an emoji picker but it was originally created for typing Indic languages.

The government revoked Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s visa due to her pro-Palestinian activism, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who added the State Department may have revoked more than 300 student visas since the beginning of the second Trump administration.

“It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” Rubio said during a press conference in Guyana on Thursday.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tufts-students-visa-revoked-due-activism-rubio/story?id=120226954