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[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I haven't used it in the last several years, but from about 2014-2018 any time I tried to download, it required registration, and any time I tried to register, it just didn't work. It was some problem with the javascript in their site. Probably related to captcha or something. Yes, I tried multiple computers, multiple browsers, even tried registering on a library's computer.

Looks like their site is less shit now, but it's still awful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm the person in the bottom right of this comic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry if it wasn't obvious, I'm using sysvinit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

My favorite is Debian, with systemd uninstalled. At this point, you can't install Debian without systemd, but you can uninstall systemd after OS installation.

It used to be that most desktop environments in Debian depended on libpam-systemd, which depended on systemd and systemd-sysv. More recently, desktop environments just depend on libpam-elogind and elogind which is only part of systemd, and allows you to use sysvinit.

I prefer sysvinit mainly because I find it easier to create custom services out of my own programs. My success rate at doing this in systemd is 1/3, and in sysvinit about 10/10.

I also had a problem where a Debian-based embedded system had some kind of broken NTP client running on startup, and due to systemd, I couldn't figure out how to disable it. It would set the time to several years into the future, as soon as it first got a network connection on each startup.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sadistic people like seeing others harmed. They will bear costs to themselves for the sake of seeing others suffer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Purple: You have eaten beets recently. Green: You have had a Vitamin B supplement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry if I gave you the impression I was talking about the crew, but after you mentioned Hamas's captives in general, my response was referring to Israeli captives in general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (10 children)

So what term then? Political Prisoner? Arbitrarily Detained Prisoner? Torture Subject?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The only other people were other press. There were camera and microphone operators. Looking at the video, it's so obvious that the cop aimed at the press and then shot.

Is there any way to tell what kind of cop that was?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Custody time limits stipulate that defendants should not spend more than six months in jail awaiting trial

Does the UK recognize any sort of right to a speedy trial? 6 months is unreasonable. A person would lose their job and potentially their home if imprisoned for 6 months.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you're certain that only the housing of the connector has changed from old motor to new motor, and each pin inside the housing is the same, then I'd recommend trying a heat gun to melt the waxy adhesive, followed by poking around with a tiny flat screwdriver to unlatch the pins.

But if it were me, I'd just splice the wires. You will need heatshrink or at least electrical tape, a soldering iron, and solder. A good splice can easily handle more current than that little connector.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you going to provide an explanation you think is more correct? Some kind of correction, or citation, or just say "you're wrong" without further comment?

 

I just signed up for Costco and visited the store for the first time. I'm a little disappointed. Everything there is really unhealthy. They have a full bread aisle, but no whole wheat bread. I feel like the store is 1% produce, 69% highly processed food, 30% objects.

Lots of types of groceries are missing. I overheard two other parties saying they would go to Walmart afterwards, to get stuff they couldn't find at Costco.

Everything there is such a disorganized mess. Most of the aisles are incoherent.

What's with the baggers? Why would they have bag boys but no bags? Do all Costco stores have no bags? I don't need an entire worker just to put my stuff back in the cart.

 

Ubuntu's current LTS version (24.04) contains ffmpeg version 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5 which has this buffer overflow vulnerability:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10952

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-32230

On my only Ubuntu computer, my update widget says that I need to upgrade to ffmpeg version 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm2 but can only only do so with Ubuntu Pro. I'm not eligible for Ubuntu Pro.

Ubuntu claims that 24.04 is currently fully supported, and should have complete security updates. However, they seem to have paywalled this security update.

What should I do?

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2595239

Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits.

The rouble fell by almost 5% against the yuan on Sept. 4 on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) after the finance ministry's plans for forex interventions implied that the central bank's daily yuan sales would plunge in the coming month to the equivalent of $200 million.

The central bank had been selling $7.3 billion worth of yuan per day during the past month. The plunge coincided with oil giant Rosneft's 15 billion yuan bond placement, which also sapped liquidity from the market.

"We cannot lend in yuan because we have nothing to cover our foreign currency positions with," said Sberbank CEO German Gref, stressing that the central bank needed to participate more actively in the market. The yuan has become the most traded foreign currency on MOEX after Western sanctions halted exchange trade in dollars and euros, with many banks developing yuan-denominated products for their clients. Yuan liquidity is mainly provided by the central bank through daily sales and one-day yuan swaps, as well as through currency sales by exporting companies.

Chinese banks in Russia, meanwhile, are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions.

 

All the communities on lemmy.lukeog.com are mirrors of Reddit boards. lemmy.lukeog.com does not accept posts from Lemmy users -- only its bot may post and comment, and its posts and comments are just mirrors of Reddit posts and comments.

This doesn't seem like a useful way to use Lemmy. It's more like just a mirror of Reddit, in which case archive.is or web.archive.org would be more useful, in my opinion.

Better not to waste bandwidth and resources on this, in my opinion.

 

2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

 

This is a screenshot of https://twitter.com/ . As you can see, you can't even view the home page any more without signing in -- it instantly redirects to a page to sign in. It's the same for viewing tweets. It's been like this for a few days.

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