[11:55] schestowitz[TR2][11:55] schestowitz[TR2]Over the past five years or so, I've written about half a dozen articles on how to manage desktop and application scaling in Linux on high-density displays. It all started with my Slimbook Pro2 laptop and its 14-inch display, capable of showing a lovely 1920x1080px grid, too small to properly view at such a small screen. And so I started a tutorial on how to manage scaling in the Plasma de [11:55] schestowitz[TR2] sktop, specific tweaks for various applications, and then some.
[11:55] schestowitz[TR2]Since, I've written other guides on this topic, covering snaps, WINE applications, Steam, DOSBox, and whatnot. Because the information is scattered over multiple tutorials, and search engines ain't what they used to be, i.e., not quite as useful and accurate, I thought of making one big compilation that should help you find all of the relevant tweaks and commands, for all your Linux needs [11:55] schestowitz[TR2] , in one place. Let's go.
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[13:43] schestowitz[TR2][13:43] schestowitz[TR2]As India concluded the worlds largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologiesand what lessons that holds for the rest of the world.
[13:43] schestowitz[TR2]The campaigns made extensive use of AI, including deepfake impersonations of candidates, celebrities and dead politicians. By some estimates, millions of Indian voters viewed deepfakes.
[13:43] schestowitz[TR2]But, despite fears of widespread disinformation, for the most part the campaigns, candidates and activists used AI constructively in the election. They used AI for typical political activities, including mudslinging, but primarily to better connect with voters.
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[17:14] schestowitz[TR2][17:14] schestowitz[TR2]Recently I was gifted a T65 rotary telephone. This was the standard telephone in The Netherlands in the seventies and eighties. I remember my parents having one as well. Because this phone does not use DTMF but pulse dialing it does not work with modern equipment, like the built in telephony / voip server on my FritzBox router. Using a hardware converter it is possible to convert pulse ton [17:14] schestowitz[TR2] e dialing to DTMF and to use your rotary phone again. This page covers two such devices, the DialGizmo and the GrandStream HT502 and a more homebrew approach.
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[17:23] schestowitz[TR2][17:23] schestowitz[TR2]Modern processors have instructions to process several bytes at once. Effectively all processors have the capability of processing 16 bytes at once. These instructions are called SIMD, for single instruction, multiple data.
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[17:28] schestowitz[TR2][17:28] schestowitz[TR2]Welcome back to the final installment of our series, Joins Are No Mystery Anymore: Hands-On Tutorial. In the previous weeks, we covered the foundational and advanced join techniques, including Inner Join, Left Join, Right Join, Full Join, Semi Join, Anti Join, Cross Join, Natural Join, Self Join, and Equi Join. Weve seen how these joins can be applied to real-life scenarios to sol [17:28] schestowitz[TR2] ve various data problems.
[17:28] schestowitz[TR2]Today, well dive even deeper into the world of data joins by exploring Non-Equi Joins, Rolling Joins, Overlap Joins, and Fuzzy Joins. These specialized joins will help you handle more complex data scenarios, such as matching based on non-equality conditions, finding the nearest matches, and dealing with approximate or fuzzy data.
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[17:31] schestowitz[TR2][17:31] schestowitz[TR2]This isnt so much a tutorial (because you should read the Handbook for such guidance instead) and more a case of oh, thats neat.
[17:31] schestowitz[TR2]Ive mentioned you can create a FreeBSD jail using bsdinstall(8), which you might have used to install FreeBSD in the first place. This lets you choose multiple distribution sets, and enable/disable certain services.
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[17:31] schestowitz[TR2][17:31] schestowitz[TR2]This blog post explains how to configure an OpenBSD workstation with extreme privacy in mind.
[17:31] schestowitz[TR2]This is an attempt to turn OpenBSD into a Whonix or Tails alternative, although if you really need that level of privacy, use a system from this list and not the present guide. It is easy to spot OpenBSD using network fingerprinting, this can not be defeated, you can not hide the fact you use OpenBSD to network operators.
I did this guide as a challenge for fun, but I also know so [17:31] schestowitz[TR2] me users have a use for this level of privacy.
Note: this guide explains steps related to increase privacy of OpenBSD and its base system, it will not explain how to configure a web browser or how to choose a VPN.
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[17:36] schestowitz[TR2][17:36] schestowitz[TR2]This report covers hrev57720 through hrev57753.
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Imagine youve just installed your state-of-the-art lighting control system, perfectly hidden in a box inside a wall, and everything seems to be working like a charm. But then, you spot a bug in the firmware.