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Had a fun idea that if Xenia is representation of Linux as a whole, what if there were other foxes to represent specific Linux distributions. So I drafted up one for Arch, Debian, and Suse. The challenge with Arch was trying not to just basically recreate my own Fennec Fox fursona, Beanz(Sorry ya'll can't have my fursona)
#linux #art #furry #sketch #fox #conceptart #debian #suse #archlinux
I think I originally abandoned major release linux distros (many moons ago) because I'd brick the install in a bad version upgrade and rollbacks didn't exist yet. Nowadays Ubuntu in particular will use snapshotting automatically before an upgrade (easiest for BTRFs installs, zfs users have no special treats and must take their own) and then run a simulation of the upgrade to point out potential issues. Then any repositories or ppas not supporting the new major release will show up for you to disable temporarily, and conflicting packages will be detected. The upgrade tool will basically ensure that you have to disable several failsafes in order to proceed to bricking your system. It is very impressive now. I think it's honestly so much better than when I was first trying Linux and the slightest mistake during such an act would result in me spending 3 days using a liveusb to backup my data and reinstall.
However now that there are pre and post transaction upgrades for rolling release distros, I'm not really looking back on safer long term release cycles either. Since the risk from 'bleeding edge' is almost zero now with the nicest new setups. It is just better all around nowadays. Your package manager, or updater, has so many more ways of detecting you are about to fuck yourself over nowadays. Yeah certain stuff still sucks shit, but that's one very major thing that is basically no longer a problem: upgrade instability. Unless you are the kind of dork intentionally avoiding these new niceties, or using crunchier distros, of course.
reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits
https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html
"Searle's paper, titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2," found that Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots. The study revealed that reCAPTCHA extensively monitors users' cookies, browsing history, and browser environment (including canvas rendering, screen resolution, mouse movements, and user-agent data) — all of which can be used for advertising and tracking purposes"
Þufie BLM
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or fae/faer/faerself most online member of the system
#yesbot #nobot #noarchive I'm in my 20s, as a Computer Science researcher (Not in "AI" 🙄).
.אין דין ואין דיין. שלום בעולם
Programmer and IT girl. Pseudo-vegan for the environment (-avocados +oysters). Very uncomfortable with astrology. Please don't call me "dude", "bro", "man", etc. Radical egalitarian anarchist, hierarchies and hate are incompatible with a free and equal life . For real though, I'm not gonna tell you to vote or post about political spectacle that is outside our control and in-actionable. Aiming to have a similar amount of internal contradictions as my environment like Ashby's Law of Requisite variety. I am probably stoned on some variety and dosage of cannabinoids if I am awake
if you hate stoners just dni. I am also a trans woman so I *checks notes* meme about femininity and feminization sometimes. After dark account at: @thufieplus but read my bio there before sending a follow request even if we are already mutuals here. Oh and just to be clear because I think I see other white people on here trying to fake not being white under a bunch of other text, I'm just a disoriented white girl trying her best.
Relationship Anarchist
"Freedom" 0 is bullshit! Copyleft for subversion! Fuck RMS!
So try...
A list of licenses which respect OUR freedom:
https://write.pixie.town/licenses-for-freedom/list-of-licenses-for-freedom
programming languages?
C++ C MIPS x86 a few others :P