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  • Beware that it’s immutable-ish, so you may have to retrain your brain to think in containers/layers. It’s one of my favorite ways to do Linux, though, and I don’t think I can ever go back.

    If it doesn’t fit, you could look into how you can roll your own based on an upstream image and booting from a distrobox or podman container.




  • It is fearmongering, albeit unintended, but I don’t think it completely applies to the Fediverse as it stands. We should always remain vigilant and never complacent, and I’m sure the devs and moderators are keeping spam control in their minds. This isn’t the 1980s, and we’re not trying to retrofit a protocol that came before spam was ever a thing.


  • Ultimately defederating bad actors and defederating “good” actors who fail to moderate their own users is necessary.

    Agreed, and this is what makes the Fediverse so good. It would be annoying to lose your instance, true, but you just move to another or roll your own. Additionally, let’s say they start spamming Mastodon from mastodon.social; their messages would go to the Global channel, but if I only ever read Local or Subscriptions, I’ll never see their spam.

    The Fediverse and ActivityPub will continue to evolve, but unlike SMTP, they were created after the internet became adversarial. This author isn’t the first to try to fearmonger over the future of AP, and they won’t be the last.


  • Also the page you linked shows she’s been working in executive positions in non profits for a while so definitely qualified.

    That’s certainly something to bear in mind, but as someone who worked in academia, resume ≠ qualified. Especially at the Director+ levels, unqualified people get to become provosts and presidents all the time.

    She may be qualified on paper, but given the fact that she voluntarily left after only 10mo, it speaks to the fact that she’s likely a flake and very self-interested. Gnome may have thrived, but it remains to be seen if that was because of or in spite of her; perhaps she was so hands-off that everybody else just ran things the way they needed to be run.






    • RHEL is more akin to Ubuntu LTS with a Canonical support contract.
    • CentOS Stream is more like openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m not aware of any mainstream apt-based distros that have that kind of rolling release cycle.
    • Fedora is like Ubuntu.

    But it’s not really a 1:1 comparison, since they all have different ideologies when it comes to package management and update cycles.








  • ProtonVPN actually has a flatpak, and it worked for me when I tested it out a couple months ago.

    But my personal use case is with Private Internet Access. I basically had to install it from source, tweak the installer by commenting out some lines that tried to write to /usr (which is immutable), install and modify the systemd daemon service manually, then install the .desktop file for my local user. And for some reason, the OpenVPN tunnel doesn’t work, but WireGuard works fine.

    I may try my hand at making a flatpak or RPM for a cleaner install, but it’s seriously made me reconsider if I want to keep this provider, move to one like AirVPN, or go with a different immutable distro like NixOS or openSUSE MicroOS.

    If ProtonVPN has its package in the Fedora repos or as a downloadable RPM file, it should be as easy as rpm-ostree install protonvpn or rpm-ostree install /path/to/protonvpn.rpm.


  • From what I’ve seen of the wood, it has lots of stark little lines and color changes. A broad piece that shows off the variations (like a table) would be a good choice. I’ve also seen people turn them into bowls, dishes, coasters, and charcuterie boards.

    I’ve also seen some carvings, but I feel like the particular colorations just make the final piece look busy or dirty.