today's leftovers
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My unlawyered opinion on why AI will legally survive in the US
Putting the current US concept of fair use aside, I think that at this point, AI companies have a vested interest in doing everything they can to get these algorithms entrenched as an industry, because that may actually ensure their legal survival.
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How to lose some of your tabs in Firefox 107+ (and possibly earlier)
This comes up for me because I default to opening URLs in new windows instead of in tabs, but periodically I open a burst of new windows that actually should be grouped together so I dock all all but one of those windows as tabs in the first window. People who default to tabs probably won't see this, since it's likely to be rare that you use a new window, never mind dock a window back into a tab.
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Late to the party
I've been blogging for 23 years as of today. This is also the first day this blog is being served up via https:. All I had to do was just install the latest version of Apache on my server.
It took several days, but I got the latest version of Apache compiled and installed on my server. Yes, I did it the hard way. What better way of knowing how things work than doing it the hard way. I then spent Saturday updating the configuration. There were a few changes, like NameVirtualHost being deprecated, and having to add “Protocols h2 h2c http/1.1” and “Require all granted”.
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Hey Debian, How Can I Help?
At this point I have two options as far as I can tell. I either wait for a new version of fturbo to be packaged, or I figure out where I can get the source for it to build fturbo myself. I'll probably have to package it too, I dunno. It's likely to cause problems with future updates though.
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I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora desktops
Systemd-oomd is a somewhat controversial systemd component that, to quote its manpage, "uses cgroups-v2 and pressure stall information (PSI) to monitor and take corrective action before an OOM occurs in the kernel space". A while back, Fedora enabled systemd-oomd by default and set it to be applied to user@.service, the template for user slices. When I upgraded to the relevant Fedora version, I sort of shrugged and went along with this to see what happened. Nothing did for a long time, until I had a little incident: [...]