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    Tuxs Favorite Recipes: Enticing Snippets from the New Linux Cookbook, 2nd Edition
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    The recipes that Carla Shroder shares here only begin to scratch the surface of whats to be found in the Second Edition of her classic guide to Linux. If it was up to us, however, we would have called it The Joy of Linux, after our favorite all-purpose cookbook.

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    I Love Arch, But GNU Guix Is My New Distro
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    Guix is an advanced operating system. While you may be able to get some of these features through other tools, like Docker, filesystem snapshots, etc., they are not part of the core OS design and functionality.

    [08:17] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-boilingsteam.com | I Finished Witcher 3 Thanks to DXVK - Boiling Steam [08:17] schestowitz

    One immediate feature youll notice about Guix is that you dont need root permissions to install or remove packages, only for system configuration. In other words, only for say updating the kernel, changing system services, adding users, or changing the boot configuration. These days I so rarely use sudo (or reboot) that I almost forgot my password!

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    Other stand out features are easy development environments or isolated containers (like Docker, or even exporting a full Docker image), mixed versions of programs (different profiles or users can use different versions of the same program), transactional upgrades (either succeeds or does nothing), partial upgrades (just upgrade a program individually), roll backs to previous profiles for packages, easy package transformations, [08:17] schestowitz package importers to make adding new packages easy, tools to quickly update a package definition, and more.

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    Mastodon VS Twitter
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    Mastodon vs Twitter. The public loves to put a VS between entities, as if things are always in opposition to each others. At Boiling Steam, we use both, or rather, I use both since I am responsible for the communications on such networks. I am not going to go in a lengthy rant about why Twitter sucks in multiple ways, but if you were to make a short list:

    [08:19] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-boilingsteam.com | Mastodon VS Twitter - Boiling Steam [08:19] schestowitz

    Twitter is well known to censor certain opinions.

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    Twitter does not apply clear policies across the board. What seems OK for someone else may not be OK for you.

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    Twitter uses tricks like shadowbanning, and directly influences what things trend over others.

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    Where there is a concentration of power, these things are bound to happen. But today, I am more interested in the actual user experience, especially when it comes to a publication like us.

  • [08:36] spazz yeah. aren't the main mastodon instances also banning the so-called "free speech zones?" [08:36] schestowitz
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    C Is The Greenest Programming Language
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    Last year they updated the functional language retults, and all the setups, benchmarks, and collected data can be found here. Check out the paper for more details. Have your choice of programming language ever been influenced by energy consumption?

  • [08:36] schestowitz spazz: some do [08:37] schestowitz not sure what "main instances" mean though [08:37] schestowitz mastodon.social is big [08:38] spazz yeah i meant the bigger/more known services [08:39] schestowitz x https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/microsofts-supercomputer-running-linux-among-10-fastest-machines/87793254 [08:39] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Microsoft: Microsoft's supercomputer running Linux among 10 fastest machines, IT News, ET CIO [08:39] schestowitz spammy [08:45] schestowitz x https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/free-microsoft-word-templates/816143/ [08:45] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.komando.com | The best free templates for Microsoft Word and LibreOffice [08:45] schestowitz # clickbait title [08:58] schestowitz
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    A German State Is Saying Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux
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    FOSS Force first learned of the plans from a post by Mike Saunders, a marketing assistant for the The Document Foundation, the organization behind the open source office suite LibreOffice.

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    By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used by civil servants and employees (including teachers), and the Windows operating system is to be replaced by GNU/Linux, he said.

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    Saunders said that Lothar Becker, chairperson of TDFs board, and fellow board member Thorsten Behrens, have already met with state officials involved with the transition.

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    Bridging Africa's digital divide: The rise of community internet
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    Decentralised networks - where internet or communication services are localised rather than monopolised by government or corporate giants - give users more control over their data and privacy, researchers say.

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    Such networks could play a significant role in Africa where internet access is scant and censorship and internet shutdowns pose an increasing risk of "digital authoritarianism", they say.

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    Bilibili: Another Chinese Company Joins the Open Invention Network
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    This is the third large China-based video platform to join OIN this year. In June, Kuaishou, a short-video platform with a billion monthly users, signed on, followed in August by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, also with about a billion monthly active users.

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