It's about to have more potential for growth.
Arch, Void, Arch, Gentoo, Arch, Arch,...you're all making me feel like a basic removed.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/117605
Got bored and made a custom
/etc/issuefile for my Void Linux machines. It displays a colour Void Linux logo along with kernel version, tty number and date on login. The file is here just copy it to/etc/issueor you can preview it using agetty. Feel free to change it to suit.
People who want near-perfect distribution of power often talk about the serverless model. It's sounds like it might work for something like e-mail, but I don't see how it's possible for something like Lemmy. This comment it cached on every instance with one person who follows it.
Atm, keeping Lemmy going for a couple of days might require 50 Gigabytes and lots of bandwidth. If you put that on a mobile phone, it'll be a 50 Gig app, which will drain all your data in minutes.
But I think chatboards work well with servers, so it doesn't seem like a problem.
It was removed, and I was marked as a bot.
I am not a bot!
Having 'no single source of truth' is part of the joy.
If you're not happy with /r/cars moderators banning everyone who drives a Skoda, then you're out of luck. Here in federation land, you can just go to a different lemmy.something/c/cars place.
Of course you can still follow and interact with all the /c/cars communities from any Lemmy instance (and interact a little from Mastodon).
Nah - each service (Mastodon/ Pixelfed/ Kbin) requires its own app.
You can sign up to Mastodon, then follow the rest from there, but the experience won't be complete (no downvotes, for example).
It's all a little arbitrary. When you create a new service (like Lemmy, or Mastodon), you can have them link with anything, in any fashion you like. The defaults are mostly sensible.
For example, I've just made a mastodon post asking /r/casual a question. Once that synchronizes across, you'll see the topic over there.
I've used ani-cli a few months ago, and it worked then.
Why so many apps just for watching anime?
Why does the wlroots version mean hyprland can't be packaged for Void?
Void repos when?
Given the price of art, I've been playing a whole heck of a lot with Machine Learning (ML) images (along with ever other indie RPG designer out there), and the results are bad. This one is Midjourney, which seems to be one of the better generators.
If the problem is just my lack of skill, that still sounds like a problem. If I have to hire a professional, I'd rather just hire an artist.
I'm writing a campaign about Vampires in Belgrade (Hungary) in the year 1230.
Starting with something without too many parts, a young Tzimisce vampire in the story (well, he was embraced young), has a ghouled raven he speaks with.
dark ages boy speaks to raven in the moonlit rain
Oh dear... it doesn't know that human boys are bigger than ravens. So it's beatuful, and enchanting, but doesn't convey information, and the kid looks like 'the little prince', not like a sinister flesh-crafting vampire.
Making some variations, I finally got here:
It's better, but the raven also looks like a humming-bird, and the moon looks like someone spilled it. It really conveys nothing more than 'boy and raven', so it's not about to enhance the passages - and RPGs really do need good images, because every one conveys a boat-load of strange ideas.
Next up, what about a that scene where a vampire-hunter finally tracks down the coterie's lair? He finds them by sunset and has to flee before they wake up, but he'll be back tomorrow to kill the lot. He rides a horse, and has an ovcharka (bear-hunting Russian dog) by his side. The coterie will find signs of his passing, such as footprints.
After some bad images, I finally left the dog out - most of them blended the dog and horse into a single image, if the dog appeared as anything more than a shadow.
Slavic, of-the-night, noble hunter reading tracks, horse, footprints, village, 1300s
So we have a ruddy-great horse dwarfing the world in one, and lots of horse-butts which look out of place.
Time to make lots of variations again.
Slavic, of-the-night, noble hunter reading tracks, horse, footprints, village, 1300s
... so now we have more of a centaur-creature as the horse blends with the man.
RPG images should explain things, and the explanations should involve the interactions of multiple elements, such as one person shooting an arrow at another, or threats, or setting a building on fire. AI seems to mix styles well - want a vampire drawn by Picasso? I'm sure the results would be stunning. But if interactions are missing, I don't see how anyone can use these results.
I suspect machine learning will simply not work in our lifetimes. Consider the story of machine learning when translating:
It gets 5% of language, then 10%, then 20%, and it's tempting to imagine that 99%-accurate translations are coming soon, but they're not, because if we go to translate 'James is right, Alice is left', the machine will return 'James is correct', because translating this statement does not rely on rules, but on understanding intention and meaning. Those hold-out sentences may require that we start by programming real AI, with real consciousness, and only then teaching it multiple languages.
I set up a new machine with Void, and it took an embarrassing amount of time. I wanted a script to install Void with 1 line of bash from a live iso, so I could look cool next time. Here it is:
xbps-install -S curl
curl https://malinfreeborn.com/autovoid.sh | sh
The idea is to place the script on a public site, execute it, then get the following:
...basically, a full setup.
It's 2 lines of bash, rather than 1, which is less cool.
I remove the need for a password by making the system auto-login to a user in the wheel group. I've tried adding the option to set a variable, password="mypassword123, which would then automatically add that variable as the main user's password, but something's gone wrong there.
The user gets ssh keys pulled from gitlab as a kind of backup.
I don't know why I keep hearing of security measures to stop someone sleuthing into bootloaders.
Am I the only person using Linux who isn't James Bond?