Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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your system is blocking a public university’s website and describing it as malicious – you have more immediate problems to fix.
you have it backwards - that is the website blocking anonymous proxies (such as tor, which they said they’re using) from accessing the site.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Native Linux is coming to our phones much more easily (Xiaomi Mi Max 2)English
3·3 days agoAs you can see, it says nothing about researching, troubleshooting, reverse-engineering, etc. As long as you write and understand the code yourself AI is allowed for everything else. As long as you’re not using generative AI it’s fine.
I’m not sure if you’re joking or legitimately confused, but, assuming the latter, fyi the “AI” that people use for “researching, troubleshooting, reverse-engineering, etc” is part of what is called “generative AI”. Given this, it’s not much a stretch to read it as saying that even posting in Nura forums about the existence of @sv1sjp@lemmy.world’s github repo would actually be a violation of Nura’s policy (as of today; I expect it will evolve in the not-too-distant future).
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Native Linux is coming to our phones much more easily (Xiaomi Mi Max 2)English
12·3 days agoNura will not accept generated patches, by the way.
If you click OP’s github link and scroll down you’ll find this section which acknowledges that: https://github.com/sv1sjp/mi-max2-oxygen-msm8953-nura-drivers#about-ai-assistance-and-contributing-upstream
The drivers, patches, scripts and write-ups here were produced in collaboration with an AI assistant and tested on a real Mi Max 2 (oxygen).
The Nura project does not accept LLM-generated contributions. One of its maintainers explains the reasons in this post: the social and environmental cost of these models, and the risk that people use them to produce private knowledge instead of joining and strengthening the community whose work the models learned from. We respect that decision. So:
- This repository is not a contribution to Nura or pmaports, and its code should not be submitted there as it is.
- It is public documentation, not private notes. The reusable part is the knowledge: how the hardware is wired, register addresses and meanings, root causes, what was tried and ruled out, and how to test safely. These are facts anyone can check on their own device. It can save time for anyone who wants to understand what works and what does not, and then write their own code to submit upstream.
- If you want to get this into Nura or upstream, learn from it, verify it on your hardware and write your own implementation, following the rules of the project you contribute to (Nura, the Linux kernel and libcamera each have their own contribution policies).
- Please engage with the community. The Nura wiki, the msm8953-mainline project and the people credited below did the groundwork this builds on.
@OP (@sv1sjp@lemmy.world) what isn’t clear to me is why you don’t try to upstream the kernel parts, since Linux is accepting LLM-assisted contributions (as is Nura actually, just only indirectly after their upstreams like Linux accept them).
You can see some examples here
oh i see, that one doesn’t have a microphone but rather three microphones 🤯
(previously via hackaday i saw someone turn a disposable vape into a webserver but the use of microphones in them is news to me, thanks)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
movies@piefed.social•Stephen Colbert's 'Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past' Paused Post-MergerEnglish
33·6 days agoi made this meme six months ago when it was first announced that he was doing this with Warner Bros:

I believe comma is more widespread per country
it looks like you might be right… I’m surprised to learn that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide lists 83 countries who use comma as decimal separator, and only 59 who use dot (and presumably the thousands separator is usually the opposite of the decimal separator). However there are enough countries which aren’t on either list that it isn’t entirely clear from that page which convention is actually used in more countries.
Also, it’s much more complicated than the
.vs,binary… among other oddities:- Historically, in Germany and Austria, thousands separators were occasionally denoted by alternating uses of commas and points, e.g. “1.234,567.890,12” (or “1.234,567.890·12” in Austria-Hungary and Austria prior to 1938) for “eine Milliarde 234 Millionen …”, but this is not seen today and contemporary German readers would require an explanation to understand it.
- In Switzerland, there are two styles. Currency values use an apostrophe (
') as a thousands separator along with a dot (.) as the decimal separator, like “1’234’567.89”. For other values, the SI-style “1 234 567,89” is used, with a comma (,) as the decimal separator. The apostrophe is also the most common thousands separator for non-currency values, like “1’234’567,89”.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•U.S. Expands Social Media Review for Visa Applicants Starting October
6·8 days agoif you tell them you don’t have any social media they probably won’t believe you and/or will consider that suspicious in itself
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
World News@lemmy.ml•Trump administration to support 'independent journalism' in Europe with anti-immigrant focusEnglish
15·8 days agoostensibly independent journalists all over the world who have been receiving funding from the US government over the last ~75 years but want to call out this instance of it for being not-independent:

Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Videos@lemmy.world•Name me country that has better food than England 🏴English
6·8 days agoSee https://animaniacs.fandom.com/wiki/Yakko’s_World_(song)#Errors,_Inaccuracies,_and_Other_Geographical_Trivia for just a few other issues 😂
Yes, probably not all but certainly most bugs being found now are.
If the PS5 is based off of Linux
I don’t think it is though? After a few seconds searching I don’t see anything conclusive but PS4’s OS was based on FreeBSD so I would guess PS5’s probably is also. (I see that if you have a PS5 with old enough firmware you can put Linux on it yourself…)
Sony does have some experience shipping Linux-based products though (probably first with Linux for PS2 in 2002, and more recently various android devices) and surely knows how to comply with the GPL.
But still listing year’s old vulnerabilities that got fixed long ago because they are still supporting ancient stuff like 5.10LTS is Debian-specific.
The advisory this meme is about only relates to the 6.12 kernel in Debian 13 “trixie” (Debian’s current stable release), and 1,295 of these 1,313 CVEs are from 2026.
Linux 6.12 is the SLTS (“super long-term support”) release from 2024, so the Linux Foundation’s Civil Infrastructure Platform plans to continue backporting security fixes to it until 2035.
Debian stopped supporting Debian 11 “bullseye” (the one with a 5.10 kernel) in August, but that kernel is also an SLTS which CIP plans to support until 2031.
So, no, continuing support for these kernels is not something Debian-specific.
Here are the versions of linux-image-amd64 in Debian currently:
bullseye (oldoldstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 5.10.262-1 [security]: amd64 bookworm (oldstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 6.1.187-1 [security]: amd64 bookworm-backports (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 6.12.95-1~bpo12+1: amd64 trixie (stable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 6.12.111-1 [security]: amd64 trixie-backports (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 7.1.13-1~bpo13+1: amd64 forky (testing) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 7.2.8-1: amd64 sid (unstable) (kernel): Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) 7.2.8-1: amd64
Time to relax. Sashi is a shitposter.

Debian problems I guess
Not really; the Linux kernel has had 8500 CVEs so far this year (according to this).
Most of them aren’t actually known to be definitely-exploitable security bugs, but some are. You can read more about how Linux issues CVEs from this post on Greg Kroah-Hartman’s website: Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know (and/or watch one of his talks on the subject which is linked from there).
See also this article from July: Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days: Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Several vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernelEnglish
311·9 days ago
Here is the Israel I support: https://youtu.be/GYr3hYjHlx8
That is explicitly arguing for a “two-state solution” with 1967 borders. Is that really what you think can or should happen?
Even if you do believe that having a colonial European ethnostate there is somehow a good idea if it was just limited to those borders, nobody in Israeli politics even pretends to be open to such a thing anymore so that idea is moot.
The Israel you say that you support is a wholly imaginary one, while the one that exists is continuing to commit genocide every day.
In a two state solution Israel would still be ~73% ethnically jewish
Are you sure about that? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Definitions : among other things, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics’ definition of “Population of Israel” includes Israelis (and does not include non-Israeli-citizen Palestinians) in “Area C” (which fyi icymi is on the Palestinian side of those 1967 borders you said you support).
Germany, which does have a special responsibility.
Doesn’t it feel awkward as a German to be advocating for an ideology (Zionism) which has the core premise that… European Jews should not live in Europe?
But I feel that responsibility extends to a free, equal, non-apartheid Israel and not the current course.
How much do you know about the history of Zionism? I’m guessing not enough, because it certainly never involved any idea to have a “non-apartheid Israel”. See here and here for some previous posts of mine with some links you might benefit from reading.































this BBC article “Trump’s AI rebrand causes ‘unprecedented’ demand for Slovenian website names” notes that it was updated after publishing to stop implying that domain squatting is an illegitimate business 🤡