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A Basil Plant
InfoSec Person | Alt-Account#2
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May I know what plugin you use in KDE? Sounds like it’s something I’d like to check out.
Quick searches show me Bismuth and kwin-tiling, and bismuth seems to be archived.
Installed it on my desktop and the process was painful (my fault) because I ran out of space on my boot ssd (128Gigs) while doing the upgrades.
I don’t really have much on my boot ssd and all my important data is on my laptop, backed up to my servers, or on my desktop’s HDD. I did a fresh install with a kde live usb stick and that went smooth, until something with the nvidia drivers prevented the display server from launching.
Thankfully, I’ve been through this charade multiple times in the past, and I’m significantly more experienced in dealing with the kernel these days. Adding the nvidia-drm modeset kernel command line launch param worked, and my system is running deb 13. I’m so happy I have KDE plasma 6.
Overall, a one hour process. Could have been faster if I had free space on my system lol. I’m a bit more reluctant to upgrade my servers at the moment, but I may in the upcoming months.
One minor thing: they updated their apt sources (https://repolib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deb822-format.html, https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/498021/deb822-style-etc-apt-sources-list#583015). Idk why, but the installer didn’t create & populate the .sources file. After a quick check of the man page, I created the file and it worked.
A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•It's such a romantic sight to behold
5·3 months agoWhen did you last visit? i wonder if they changed it since i last visited in late 2023. I needed to pass through security checks to get into the general premises - gardens and such, and could stand under tower. No payment required.
Edited: this review on google maps (sorry) from two days ago says it’s free to pass through: https://goo.gl/maps/ARW1jYzt3mGUEKgE8
A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•It's such a romantic sight to behold
6·3 months agoIsn’t it free to stand under it? Going up costs money, yes.
https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/faq/spot/can-you-walk-beneath-eiffel-tower-without-paying-ticket
I was there last year, and I only paid for an éclair and a coffee at one of the cafés / restaurants underneath the tower.
A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that "simp" originated in West Coast hip hop culture in the 1980sEnglish
6·6 months agoAlso there in Passin’ Me By by The Pharcyde (1992)
When I try or make some sort of attempt, I simp
Damn, I wish I wasn’t such a wimp
A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•[NO LONGER ACTIVE] Announcing an April charity event!
2·7 months agoNice!
Could you please word it slightly different to provide clarity? Perhaps:
From now on, you can comment !lemmysilver under any post to award the poster one lemmy silver. You can do this once every 24 hours in posts that are in participating communities (see: this post for more information). Alternatively, you can send a PM to LemmySilverBot with
!lemmysilver username.
A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•[NO LONGER ACTIVE] Announcing an April charity event!
2·7 months agoAh, I think I misunderstood - the lemmy silver is for one to award to a different user, and not for one to claim? I was under the impression that it was the latter.
Neat idea!
A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Which Linux tool or command is surprisingly simple, powerful, and yet underrated?"
1·10 months agoCan single-branch handle cloning from a particular commit? I know that it’s possible to clone particular branches and particular tags with depth=1, but OP states cloning at a particular commit, not HEAD.
A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Which Linux tool or command is surprisingly simple, powerful, and yet underrated?"
4·10 months ago--depth=1? I use this all the time when I clone the kernel.Edit: reread that you wanted to download code at a particular commit.
A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Instance Admins: Check Your Instance for Vote Manipulation Accounts [PSA]English
2·1 year agoMy bachelor’s thesis was about comment amplifying/deamplifying on reddit using Graph Neural Networks (PyTorch-Geometric).
Essentially: there used to be commenters who would constantly agree / disagree with a particular sentiment, and these would be used to amplify / deamplify opinions, respectively. Using a set of metrics [1], I fed it into a Graph Neural Network (GNN) and it produced reasonably well results back in the day. Since Pytorch-Geomteric has been out, there’s been numerous advancements to GNN research as a whole, and I suspect it would be significantly more developed now.
Since upvotes are known to the instance administrator (for brevity, not getting into the fediverse aspect of this), and since their email addresses are known too, I believe that these two pieces of information can be accounted for in order to detect patterns. This would lead to much better results.
In the beginning, such a solution needs to look for patterns first and these patterns need to be flagged as true (bots) or false (users) by the instance administrator - maybe 200 manual flaggings. Afterwards, the GNN could possibly decide to act based on confidence of previous pattern matching.
This may be an interesting bachelor’s / master’s thesis (or a side project in general) for anyone looking for one. Of course, there’s a lot of nuances I’ve missed. Plus, I haven’t kept up with GNNs in a very long time, so that should be accounted for too.
Edit: perhaps IP addresses could be used too? That’s one way reddit would detect vote manipulation.
[1] account age, comment time, comment time difference with parent comment, sentiment agreement/disgareement with parent commenters, number of child comments after an hour, post karma, comment karma, number of comments, number of subreddits participated in, number of posts, and more I can’t remember.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10754
MINIX originally was developed in 1987 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a teaching tool for his textbook Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Today, it is a text-oriented operating system with a kernel of less than 6,000 lines of code. MINIX’s largest claim to fame is as an example of a microkernel, in which each device driver runs as an isolated user-mode process—a structure that not only increases security but also reliability, because it means a bug in a driver cannot bring down the entire system.
In its heyday during the early 1990s, MINIX was popular among hobbyists and developers because of its inexpensive proprietary license. However, by the time it was licensed under a BSD-style license in 2000, MINIX had been overshadowed by other free-licensed operating systems.
Today, MINIX is best known as a footnote in GNU/Linux history. It inspired Linus Torvalds to develop Linux, and some of his early work was written on MINIX. Probably too, Torvalds’ early decision to support the MINIX filesystem is responsible for the Linux kernel’s support of almost every filesystem imaginable.
Later, Torvalds and Tanenbaum had a frank e-mail debate about the relative merits of macrokernels (sic) and microkernels. This early history resurfaced in 2004 when Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution prepared a book alleging that Torvalds borrowed code from MINIX—a charge that Tanenbaum, among others, so comprehensively debunked, and the book was never actually published (see Resources).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate
Surprised no one’s mentioned HTTP Cats yet:
Personally, HTTP 405 (Method not allowed) is my favorite:

A Basil Plant@lemmy.worldOPto
Cybersecurity - Memes@lemmy.world•Your password must also not contain the following character combinations: script, select, insert, update, delete, drop, --, ', /*, */.
1·2 years agoThis is real - I took the screenshot myself.







If the reports are somewhat technical (written with Latex for example), check out sioyek: https://sioyek.info/. It’s a PDF reader mainly for academic use.
Sioyek has made reading and reviewing papers SO much easier and it’s really, really convenient… once you get the hang of it. It takes a bit of time to get used to all the things, but it’s worth it. I also review students’ theses with it. Highlighting colors and adding comments is super easy (select text, h+g (green highlight), type comment).
If you have want to export your notes and comments, you will need this script though: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/blob/main/scripts/embedded_annotations.py