It's 2025. The "year of the linux desktop" has been a meme for years. No one says it in earnest. No one is having init or DE wars. And while there is plenty of healthy discussion about flatpak and other alt forms of software distribution, this is exactly the kind of innovation and experimentation that leads to the usability improvements the author wants to see. Linux is doing just fine, and I'm glad there are multiple options to accomplish similar tasks.
Readit Newsdepingus commented on Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles howtogeek.com/desktop-lin... · Posted by u/the-mitr
I don't think you know what "AI slop" means.
It's not making the videos look fake, any more than your iPhone does. Most of what's shown in the example video, it might very well be phones applying the effect, not YouTube.
At no point did I say the video IS AI slop. Or that generative AI was used to make it, or the effect youtube applied to it. We actually have no idea what youtube did. We only see the result; which can be subjective.
To you, that result looks like it was shot with a phone filter. To me it looks like it was generated with AI. Either way, it doesn't really matter. It's not what the creator intended. Many creators spend a lot of effort and money on high-end cameras, lenses, lighting, editing software, and grading systems to make their videos look a specific way. If they wanted their videos to look like whatever this is, they would have made it that way by choice.
> that clearly look like AI slop
That's not what AI slop means. There's no GenAI.
I watched the video. It's literally just some mild sharpening in the side-by-side comparison.
Whatever youtube is doing adds a painted over effect that makes the video look like AI slop. They took a perfectly normal looking video, and made it look fake. As a viewer, if you can't tell or don't care... That's fine. For you. But at the very least, the creator should have a say.
From the linked tweet from YouTube's head of editorial:
"No GenAI, no upscaling. We're running an experiment on select YouTube Shorts that uses traditional machine learning technology to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity in videos during processing (similar to what a modern smartphone does when you record a video)"
https://x.com/youtubeinsider/status/1958199532363317467?s=46
Considering how aggressive YouTube is with video compression anyways (which smooths your face and makes it blocky), this doesn't seem like a big deal. Maybe it overprocesses in some cases, but it's also an "experiment" they're testing on only a fraction of videos.
I watched the comparisons from the first video and the only difference I see is in resolution -- he compares the guitar video uploaded to YT vs IG, and the YT one is sharper. But for all we know the IG one is lower resolution, that's all it looks like to me.
If you watch the youtube video[1] linked in the article you get a much better examples, that clearly look like AI slop. Tho I do understand that people's ability to discern AI slop varies wildly.
depingus commented on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit emersion.fr/blog/2025/usi... · Posted by u/LaSombra
`podman generate systemd` was created as a bandaid because it was so difficult to manually write systemd units.
Quadlets now make it much easier to create the units by hand, and ‘ `podman generate systemd` is deprecated.
I appreciate the correction. Its been a while since I used podman + systemd. I will definitely be checking out quadlets next time.
Nobody is forcing anyone to share their knowledge. What then? Dead internet.
Absolutely yes. I guarantee you these megacorps are betting on a future where the open internet has been completely obliterated. And the only way to participate online is thru their portal; where everything you do feeds back into their AI. Because that is the only way to acquire fresh food for their beast.
so the fancy AI agent will have to get really fancy and mimic human traffic and all is good until the server heats up from all those separate human trafficionados - then what?
The end of the open web. That's what.
Sites will have to either shutdown or move behind a protection racket run by one of the evil megacorps. And TBH, shutting down is the better option.
With clickthru traffic dead, whats even the point of putting anything online? To feed AIs so that someone else can profit at my (very literal) expense? No thanks. The knowledge dies with me.
The internet dark age is here. Everyone, retreat to your fiefdom.
depingus commented on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit emersion.fr/blog/2025/usi... · Posted by u/LaSombra
If you're not wedded to docker-compose, with podman you can instead use the podman kube support, which provides roughly docker-compose equivalent features using a subset of the Kubernetes pod deployment syntax.
Additionally, podman has nice systemd integration for such kube services, you just need to write a short systemd config snippet and then you can manage the kube service just like any other systemd service.
Altogether a very nice combination for deploying containerized services if you don't want to go the whole hog to something like Kubernetes.
> you just need to write a short systemd config snippet and then you can manage the kube service just like any other systemd service.
Just FYI, `podman generate systemd --files --name mypod` will create all the systemd service files for you.
https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate-sy...
Bookmarks... This is a rabbit hole I dive down at least once a year. And always come up disappointed.
The problem with discussing bookmarks is that everyone has different needs. Some people want a system that takes snapshots, generates pdfs, allows for offline viewing, creates AI summaries, lets you share with other users, (supports other users), archives everything into a database, and more. Other folks just want a simple, literal bookmark system that only manages links to websites.
If you're in the latter category (like I am), the perfect system already exists. It's called xBrowserSync and it's wonderful. It's open source. You can self-host the sync server. Data is encrypted before leaving the client. It has browser extensions. It has an Android app. And it uses tags / search instead of endlessly nested folders.
But there's one huge problem: The project has been abandoned for years. The public sync servers are still up and running. But the Chrome extension has fallen into disrepair. I use Firefox, so I'm still good, but for how long?
And so every year I go on this quest to gauge the state of bookmark managers. It seems everyone is trying to build the 1st kind of system. I get it. You're not gonna convert users to subscriptions with a simple link database. But that's not the system I want.
So if you're just looking to sync web links between devices, in a private, browser agnostic way, organized with search tags instead of folders, and without having to manage a huge tech stack. Your current options are: xBrwoserSync, Linkding, Shaarli, and LinkAce.
depingus commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
Let's say I haul out my CD's I never got rid of over the past 30 years and my DVD's from the 2000's. I can still legally rip them, right?
If I took those ripped copies and wanted to stream them, what would be the best platform to do that?
Jellyfin if you want free, open source, and don't need special clients (like for LG TVs, Xbox, etc). Emby paid if you need the clients.
Skip Plex entirely. Their users are their product. They've partnered with media companies and push partner services over users media library. They like to claim that Plex Media Server doesn't send any information back to them, and its technically true; its the Plex clients that are sending the data back.