Is keypassXC problematic?
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 s/computing/capitalism/
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@cR0w Use BSD. Accept the curse of "The Burden of Knowledge." BSD just works. Except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't just work, its because you aren't good enough to run BSD. There are no tutorials. There are no blog posts. There is no guidance, aside from an IRC channel where the entire channel is idle. forever.
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Use linux. Accept the curse of the automatroid: most major distros are accepting AI commits. Accept that systemd has been a cancer for a very long time.
Use macOS. Accept the curse of the Walled garden: You may run only what we tell you to run, when we tell you to run it. The rules change with every major OS update. You will accept them or you will go elsewhere.
Use Windows. Accept the curse of the hunted: You are being watched. You cannot slip your pursuer, you cannot obfuscate yourself. Even if you think you've hidden yourself, because of how convoluted Windows is, you can't really be 100% sure that you are not being watched. And even if you aren't you won't know whether or not a critical update re-enables the watcher in the walls.
@da_667 Trainspotting voice: Choose your future. Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else...
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 this is true of everything. Do you cut your weeds with a strimmer or a scythe? If you use a strimmer, is it petrol or electric? If a scythe, does it have a metal snath or a wooden one? Was it made in China or in Europe? By an artisan craftsman or a corporate?
I mean, yes, computing smashes us in the face with these questions much more forcefully, but really, they apply to everything. Except for this point: artisan produced processors and memory are extremely rare.
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@Frischling @da_667 what else can I tell you? For me, the answer to the question "is there any LLM use that would be morally OK to use?" is a plain "no".
If you want to act morally and ethically with LLMs, you dont use them.
I'm sorry it does not help you argue with your colleagues.
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 This is exactly right. Everything in computers now is accepting the least bad choice.
What I really hate is, we keep having to remake the entire battery of choices again and again and again!
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@cR0w Use BSD. Accept the curse of "The Burden of Knowledge." BSD just works. Except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't just work, its because you aren't good enough to run BSD. There are no tutorials. There are no blog posts. There is no guidance, aside from an IRC channel where the entire channel is idle. forever.
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 yes!
We need less computing. Full stop.
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@da_667 Use BSD. Never be heard from again.
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
Morals are what I won't do. Ethics is me telling you not to do something.
There are plenty of good choices out there. Let's make them, instead of yelling about the series of tradeoffs.
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@da_667 @jackeric @aaron @cR0w old Thinkpad but running Debian, probably very easy.
There’s also quite a BSD presence here.
Now as for choosing which BSD: used to say try them all, but.
FreeBSD and MidnightBSD are full-on slop. No idea about DragonflyBSD but no OS using LLVM instead of GCC even has a chance.
So that branch is out. Take the other.
OpenBSD core hasn’t acted on the slop in base the tmux author sneaked in for ten months. They need to address that.
Leaves you with NetBSD.
(MirBSD is not a choice if your Thinkpad is new enough to run 64-bit Debian. Suitable models end around 2005?)
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@da_667 Computing is a lot like American politics, always has been. You just hold your nose and pick the least bad of choices and hope it will get better. Then every so often a genuinely good choice comes along and we nitpick it to death.
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@Brett_E_Carlock @da_667 anger is a gift i think we should use in these times
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@da_667 fun fact, if you log in to a website on chrome using a google login it will sometimes cause the browser to just automatically become logged into your google account without your consent
We should start a counter-ad campaign for chrome: "Chrome. The Flock of web browsers."
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@da_667 stupid question: what's the problem with systemd? I've seen many people who dislike it but I have yet to hear a reason or an argument
@me
the reasons I've seen so far boil down to mostly two things:- they are massively feature creeping and doing a lot of things in one tool instead of just doing the one thing and doing it well
- they accept llm usage in their repos
I don't really want to get further into it here
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"I want to use a web browser that isn't deep-throating AI"
Well, your choices are lynx and that's basically it.
@da_667 Vivaldi also, no?
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NetBSD is small and pretty quick to install so I think its worth trying
I honestly found the installer pretty much fine¹. You're somewhat likely to have problems with wifi (you *can* use a usb wifi card) and suspend-resume (not much you can do in that case); but they're both working on my laptop, with a little bit of jank
¹: I've heard the partitioning part is rough but I just wiped the whole disk and selected "recommended partition sizes"
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