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CachyOS Experimenting With x86-64-v4 Repository For AVX-512 Optimized Packages

The second link describes instructions on how to add their repository (cachyos-v4-mirrorlist). Is it worth adding it to my installed Garuda system? Or are there not only kernels, but also packages that can cause breakdowns, incompatibilities?

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Just run CachyOS. Mixing non-standard repos to another OS is pretty risky. Besides, note they are testing their concept. On themselves. Don’t be foolish. :smiley:

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Got it. I don’t want to install another system. I’ve been on Garuda for a few days and just admire the system. I thought it would be hard to surprise me, but it did ))

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There are plenty of kernels available in Garuda’s repo. :smiley:

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With x86-64-v4?

True or untrue?

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Used to get issues with Cachy repos on Garuda breaking things so I just ended up running Cachy with some Garuda software. Came out much better for me

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@TilliDie the video is only 7 days old, but the commented sections the narrator reads are mostly from mid-2022, over 1.5 years ago. How much about Hyprland & wl/roots has changed since then? And Debian? Phaw! :smiley:

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I ran OS/2 from PM 1.2 through Warp 4, loving it. You felt like you were running a truly networked OS, rather than flimsy Windows. :heart:

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For managing the ACPI CPPC energy performance preference (EPP), Intel’s x86_energy_perf_policy utility is now being extended to AMD processors.

In response to Rostedt’s suggestion about unique inode numbers, Torvalds opened: “Stop making things more complicated than they need to be.”

Then he got a bit shouty.

“And dammit, STOP COPYING VFS LAYER FUNCTIONS. It was a bad idea last time, it’s a horribly bad idea this time too. I’m not taking this kind of crap.”

Torvalds’s main criticism of Rostedt’s approach is that the Google dev didn’t fully understand the subject matter – which Rostedt later acknowledged.

By then, however, Torvalds had flamed him as follows:

You copied that function without understanding why it does what it does, and as a result your code IS GARBAGE.

AGAIN.

US Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday asked US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to stop US intelligence agencies from purchasing Americans’ unlawfully collected personal data from data brokers.

In a letter [PDF] to Haines, Wyden (D-OR) said that not only are US intelligence agencies buying location data harvested from Americans’ smartphones that would normallyrequire a court order, but the NSA has been purchasing Americans’ domestic internet metadata, including their browsing habits. All seemingly without a warrant in sight.

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No worries, mate. They’ve been listening to your phone calls & reading your texts for years.

Everyone who runs Linux because they like “security” or “anonymity” but has a smartphone, please raise your right hand. :raised_hand:

Let’s see how smart the average Linux user is?

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Doing less and less with my smart phone these days, until it’s been phased out.

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GitLab once again released fixes to address a critical security flaw in its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could be exploited to write arbitrary files while creating a workspace.

Tracked as CVE-2024-0402, the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10.

“An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.0 prior to 16.5.8, 16.6 prior to 16.6.6, 16.7 prior to 16.7.4, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.1 which allows an authenticated user to write files to arbitrary locations on the GitLab server while creating a workspace,” GitLab said in an advisory released on January 25, 2024.

The company also noted patches for the bug have been backported to 16.5.8, 16.6.6, 16.7.4, and 16.8.1.

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Linus to everyone using ChatGPT and copilot.

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I was a big Brave lover (wait, what?) for a long time, until recently. I live for the sync option, bookmarks, send-to-device, etc. Brave’s stopped working, or at least barely works …sometimes. Lots of bug reports on it, people complaining. I finally had enough, switched to WaterFox because it is the only other browser that supports KDE’s global menus, and I have to say, loving it. Sync works effortlessly, and better displayed options than Brave’s.

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It’s based on the Arch RC2 but gives a nice glimpse of KDE 6 under Wayland. I only ran the LiveISO but it had no problems with this Intel/Intel rig. It also has nVidia boot options.

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