This really depends on your kernel. Try looking in /var/log/messages. If you have CONFIG_PSTORE enabled, you might have something in /sys/fs/pstore.

Also you can put something like console=ttyUSB0,115200 in the kernel command line and read them over serial.

Would it work if it’s done from a previous, presumably untainted commit?

Theoretically yes, but at the moment I have more than 150 KDE packages installed; you would need to do this for each one and then make sure that they actually work together in this specific combination. Then, for each package you would need to check if any security bugfixes exist upstream that don’t exist in your fork and backport these.

I would say that is the bare minimum; you probably also want any bugfixes that are implemented upstream.

I guess with a team of a few people this would be doable, at least for some time; sooner or later some dependency (e.g. systemd) will be updated in such a way that your fork is no longer compatible and then you will either have to integrate the slop code from upstream to make it work, or do that on your own.

By the way, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Desktop_Environment is a fork of KDE 3, but that has no support for e.g. dark mode.

KDE is huge, you can’t just fork all of it (of course technically you could, but it is not much use). You maybe could fork individual projects, a bit like https://vim-classic.org/

I was thinking of having some kind of online list for packages without AI stuff. Of course a 100% slop free desktop installation is probably impossible nowadays, it would still be interesting to see how far one can go.

I never understood why anyone would host on DO, they were always much more expensive then the competitors.

Seriously, most people probably could get by with a free VPS or free shell account.

Never heard of CSS tricks; I tried to investigate in the posted article, but too much emojis.

I am working in a very small company as a software dev and write everything by hand. I wrote some weeks ago in a different thread here that I tried all of the LLM powered coding tools and found all of them subpar.

If this company goes downhill or I lose the job otherwise, I will work something entirely different.

My very arrogant point of view is that these “vibecoding” tools are being celebrated by people who were making shit software before and now make software that is slightly less shit in what they perceive is the same amount of time, but I suspect it takes them actually longer. Meanwhile, they don’t grow their programming skills at all.

I like how you cranked up the JPEG artifacts up to 11.

it is UNUSABLE by normal people.

I guess I am not a normal person then. I have been using GIMP happily for more than 20 years now. FWIW, I rarely need to draw circles.

I am confused, is this satire or serious?

I thought that was a girl right from the beginning.

apple is scummy just like the other big tech companies but it’s one of the least scummy out there, especially wrt open source.

Maybe with regard to open source, because that benefits them as a company - let others fix their bugs for free. But definitely not with regard to free software.

The FreeBSD desktop exists, it is called “Mac OS”.

Linus Torvalds used the GPL for his kernel, forcing companies to release the source code if they improve it and distribute it. The main userland was a lot of GPL licensed GNU software for a very long time, with a similar effect.

The BSD folks, on the other hand, decided to give everything away, by using much more “liberal” licenses. Apple took the BSD base, bolted their UI on top of it and gave almost nothing back. That would not have happened if BSD was GPL licensed.

I think I know about kotaku for 15 years now, but I can’t remember any instance where they published an article that was worth reading. It is another instance of wasted resources that can only exist because not enough people are using adblock.

Well, thanks for the explanation.

I don’t get it.

How can you post when you were banned?

pedophile, racist, misogynist,

None of the screenshots show that though.