That sounds like a windows application she wants to run? Ok but why the rest of the stuff? I set up Debian+MATE (windows-like window manager) for my mom to replace her old Windows box and she didn’t notice the difference.

There’s hardware that works under Linux, hardware that doesn’t work, and hardware that sort-of-works or is marginal. Lots of graphics cards are in the marginal or don’t-work category. I always try to avoid them. Maybe that’s not much help. If you’re on a desktop PC, your CPU is likely to have some graphics support of its own: can you bypass or pull out the graphics card? They are mostly for gaming. For normal desktop stuff you should be ok without it.

A dream of a Linux distribution where the entire desktop environment is Win32 software running under WINE.

Sounds like a nightmare to me. Why would anyone want that?

I used to watch one with Adam West and Burt Ward playing the vigilantes, but the grit and realism of that show got to me after a while.

Ehh still seems useless, they then just have to age the accounts before posting. One thing I’d want to know is of those posts are in topic areas that anyone would want to influence surreptitiously.

Kind of useless probably, at least in the present state of Lemmy. We’re not particularly overrun by new users. That would be a good problem to have.

Web search finds some Facebook resources:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=report+threat+on+facebook

If you have to do crap like keep a bat next to your bed, you’ve somewhat already lost.

You know the person’s Facebook name? That might help.

Maybe this? https://www.ic3.gov/

Bands can start their own “labels” on archive.org, https://archive.org/details/netlabels . is that what you had in mind?

The attraction of youtube for almost all listeners is the huge copyrighted collection, which is (mostly) there through artist permission or upload, because the artists get a chunk of the ad revenue. Any serious competitor would also have to somehow deliver a payment stream, which means ads or subscriptions or something. Not really a fediverse thing.

So find the places where the bitrate changes and decode and analyze those frames. Outdoors, true, leaves blow around, there is wildlife etc. A harder problem. I was thinking more of an indoor security camera. As for examining the bit rate, I guess it depends on the encoding, but e.g. in .mp4 there is a “key frame” every so often and then a bunch of delta frames, and if stuff is changing too fast iirc the key frames become more frequent. But I believe there is a fast way to scan for them, that is needed for fast forwarding in video.

I have to wonder if there’s a faster way than literally decoding the video and analyzing the decoded frames, if that’s how you’re doing it with ffmpeg. Video compression revolves around motion estimation so maybe it’s possible to just scan the file and find frames where the motion vectors (the data saying how the stuff in the picture is changing at a given frame) suddenly get larger. I assume this is for something like a security video that usually shows a static picture, and OP wants to flag when someone enters the room. In that case there will be almost no motion most of the time, and suddenly there will be some.

One thing that can help (more for libraries than large applications) is “dependency cooldowns”. Basically don’t use the latest version of anything until a few weeks after its release. The hope is that most malicious changes or blatant bugs will be caught fairly early.

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns

generally, use “netstat -lpn | grep 8080” (or whatever port number) to find out what process is already listening on that port. This kind of thing happens all the time.

Meh, it’s sort of an empty gesture, as discussed in the HN thread. The “competitor” is a somewhat-compatible Teensy 3 clone that uses a different processor with roughly similar cpu performance. It doesn’t compete with the much faster Teensy 4 which is the only model that PJRC currently sells. And these types of boards aren’t generally about CPU performance anyway. If you want fast computing, get a Linux board or similar. These boards are about stuff like analog i/o.

bit.ly? They may have degoogled but they still stopped too early.

This is big stupid drama but there’s a long thread about it on hackernews.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488

Ars technica is usually legit.

Ansible playbook.

Why do TV’s and audio gear use memory? TV’s ok I can sort of understand a little, but audio? That’s still analog right? Or anyway mostly analog.

Meaning fuel powered generators? Bah.