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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 13h

Some really weird articles being posted about Deep Dish Dungeon, a recently launched dungeon puzzler on Steam. None of this article appears relevant. There's no gear durability, no dodge rolls, no "Iron Spatula Crank", no drawbridge. www.xmodhub.com/info/guides/...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026

"This exploded in our face and now we are going to try to post through it"

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

No, more explanation is NOT needed. Only a retraction.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The absolute state of this. "We used our models". JFC. How are they not all dead from the embarrassment of this "press release".

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I donate to Wikipedia, but I've seen its biases firsthand, especially towards women. This paper from 2021 is worth a read. "Specifically, my data indicate that biographies about women who meet Wikipedia’s criteria for inclusion are more likely to be considered non-notable than men’s."

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Anything with a mod community will have inherent bias. Wikipedia is no different.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

She's not trying to edit her own page, she's trying to have a page accepted in the first place. There's a justification you have to go through in order to have a page created on Wikipedia. They kept rejecting hers, until, finally, they couldn't ignore her any longer.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wikipedia would likely just reject them. You can't just "submit a bio". Wikipedia demands that the person is "of sufficient note" and in many cases will reject female bio submissions while allowing male bios. Which is whole bias aspect of the article.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sees 3x speedup, in a specific workload, when kernel security is compromised, and has many issues... I guess that's too long a headline.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not bothered about the fact Omarchy's creator is a white nationalist, who has frequently promoted racist views in his blogs?

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A fine experiment! A bold direction. I wish you luck.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah, I'm not delighted about Torvalds buckling to the LLM-pressure. I'll stay on Linux though, and try to minimise any other LLM influence. I haven't used Artcraft, so just bringing it to your attention. It wasn't a rec, by any means, sorry! If it's your livelihood though, maybe you'd try it.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There's the ArtCraft suite. Apparently a fairly mature developer has vibe-coded replacements (pretty much replicas) of the Adobe suite. No idea if they're any good, but I've seen a few folk boosting it recently. getartcraft.com Not a fan of AI though. Leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've never been a fan of the whole Year of the Linux Desktop thing - I've been on it since 2013. But it's true that there's a ton of software that will prevent you from coming over. Adobe, CSP, Ableton and more. So, yeah, the title is clickbait-y.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That's like forcing infrastructure specialists to use Windows for their containers or dev environment. No-one should do this. Clickbait for sure.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Clueless leadership again today. You wonder if they actually care about race results, given the gutless decision making.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hamilton: I'm on Softs, a different strategy and faster than Leclerc. Engineer: Go slower. 🤔🙄 Vasseur doesn't have a clue. Lovely dude, but utterly gutless and completely out of his depth.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Telling him to back off on Softs to Leclerc's Mediums is the kind of gutless leadership Vasseur is now known for. Sure double-stacking might have been the best call later, but by then the damage was already done. Ferrari never cease to disappoint.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

They never do. Ferrari leadership is absolutely inept. Leclerc would probably ignore a team order anyway...

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Leclerc doing a Leclerc. <sigh> Ferrari leadership non-existent.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's almost as if people are individuals and there's more than a handful of people on Bsky. 🙄

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

tar? Don't you just right-click on the file and "Extract Here"?

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

More usefully, I think Strawberry is the closest alternative for Musicbee. www.strawberrymusicplayer.org However, I find that people who love Musicbee only really want Musicbee, sadly! It's one of those "comfort" apps that's really hard to find good alternatives for.

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Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer for Linux, macOS and Windows. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry you can play and manage your digital music co...

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And we have about 100 music players on Linux!! 😅😅

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

See now you're just being rude. I don't do that, and I don't appreciate being lumped together with people you personally find annoying. Saying "Linux people annoy me" is as valid and as fucking dumb as saying "Windows people annoy me". There's millions in both groups. Do better.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm on CachyOS and it's great because it's arch at its core, but the installer sets up integrated rollbacks to the boot menu, that auto-update when you issue any pacman command. Broken O/S? Just reboot, go to the "snaps" item in the boot menu and choose an older version of your O/S. It's great.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've been a Linux enthusiast since Ubuntu in 2005, and fully Linux-only since 2013. I have absolutely no idea what most of the core filesystem is. I know there's settings in /etc. I know that some distros mount external disks in /mnt. The rest is mostly a mystery.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Haha, that's fine. I wasn't telling you what to do regarding the underlying filesystem. I was trying to point out that most folk don't need to care about it. And if you do want to poke about in there, you're probably technically-oriented.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fair, but I disagree. Macs have made the home folder structure perfectly understandable (even though it's slightly different), and why would anyone go digging into / unless they're techy anyway? The core desktop experience is very familiar, at least on CachyOS with KDE Plasma.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If they're used to Win7 or XP, they'll love Linux. It won't be jarring at all. Not like Linux needs any terminal use these days, unless you're doing funky stuff. And that level of terminal use is still child's play compared to what folk are being asked to do to remove AI from Windows.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can also recommend CachyOS, which integrates system rollbacks into the boot menu, so if something goes wrong, you can just snap back to when it was working. Still a bit techy though in places. I guess that's inevitable with Arch being the base. Very up to date though, as a result.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you have an up-to-date Plasma, you can add the plasma-virtual-keyboard package, then add it in keyboard settings. This lets you hold down keys, like a mobile phone. A little pop-up will appear with the available diacritics. discuss.kde.org/t/this-week-...

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This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters - KDE Blogs

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something very special landed for Plasma 6.7: the ability to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing-and-holding the keys tha...

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hopefully you're not onboard with the white nationalism and ethnic cleansing proposed/championed by its creator, DHH. Hopefully no-one is onboard with that, but a depressing number of companies are sponsoring him, so I guess I'm hoping in vain.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Denuvo really are utter scum. I don't buy games encumbered with their "product".

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The only horror game I've actually completed. Stunning game, pure artwork.

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 07/10/2026

Just a reminder we are 100% independent and almost entirely solo run, you can find ways to support the mission here: www.gamingonlinux.com/support-us/

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It doesn't matter if you condone it or not. The genAI companies will take it anyway. Your opinions don't matter to them. Of course code and art are different, but attribution, compensation and the license under which both code and art is created is the same. Again, the companies don't care.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's not going to be any kind of comfort to the tens of developers I know who lost their jobs as result of this unethical tech. Again, it's so strange to me that people can be opposed to artists having to change how genAI affects their output, but comfortable with devs going through the same.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sure, if the coding license is honoured. But it's not. They grabbed millions of lines of GPL code and shoved it in there. No copyleft was honoured. No share and share-alike. No "must not be used for commercial purposes". That £200/month Claude license was built on "protected" code.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm my experience LLMs are absolutely replacing the developers, at least in enterprises. So it's weird to me that people are cool with vibe-coding. Oh, it's just a tool to speed things up? No, CEOs see bogus stats like "43% efficiency" and they will absolutely fire 43% of the workforce.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Curious why coding gets a pass? I see this all the time - people want to protect artists, but developers are thrown under the bus. LLMs can code for the same reason that they can create pictures - they've stolen billions of lines of code to learn, with no attribution or compensation.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, Windows shares in Linux are still a pain. I use autofs, but this article has an easier/simpler method - add netdev and -systemd.device-timeout to your options. (so go straight to Step 3, since you've already done the rest). www.wu-ftpd.org/how-to-auto-...

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How to Auto-Mount Samba Shares in fstab Without Hanging (October 2026)

Learn how to auto-mount a Samba share at boot in fstab without hanging. Step-by-step guide using _netdev and x-systemd options for 2026.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely gob-smacked that I've never heard of these guys before today. Great find, considering I nearly pulled the trigger on a System76 import from the US about a year ago.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gotta love it when someone is having a nice public rant at trans people (they're trans too?) and then just throws us sweet, innocent Linux peeps under the bus! But somehow we're the ones with no social boundaries. Okay. <sigh>

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm in the same boat! Linux user for 20+ years, Linux-only user since 2013... and I've never heard of these guys!?! How did this happen?

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Linux peeps have *opinions* on things like Flatpak. My best advice (and I acknowledge the irony, given that I'm a Linux peep...) is to try/use whatever gets the software installed. Then, *you* can decide if it's an issue. Some people get very upset about snaps. But Flatpak? Generally solid.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, honestly, they probably tell you that because it's their experience? I get your point though - some distros will struggle to install certain apps/software, which can definitely be frustrating. Maybe they just use Flatpak to get around that.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

JFC. Well, I guess I didn't really need to sleep tonight anyway... <shiver>

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