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Valve Lepton: It's been 5 months since we heard anything about Valve's Android compatibility layer for Linux. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

There's https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer which can already run BeatSaber apparently.

I think games specifically might be easier than most other apps as they are probably often little more than a 2D canvas displaying a regular Linux app with quite limited use of android-specific APIs.

For those running Linux with Window Managers (or Desktop Environments too), how do you make sure that on lid close: the laptop suspends and locks? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Inconsistent time before sleep is likely the kernel waiting for IO to sync to disk.

Not going to sleep at all implies a serious issue that prevented the kernel from doing so. Check your logs!

Suspend reliability greatly depends on the firmware of your specific device as it controls the wakeup.

On my Framework 16 for instance, it is very reliable these days. I can't remember the last time it woke up unexpectedly and I'm not sure whether it happened even once since the firmware update that fixed a major oversight in keyboard wakeup (waking when a key was pressed through a closed lid).

For those running Linux with Window Managers (or Desktop Environments too), how do you make sure that on lid close: the laptop suspends and locks? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

In Hyprland, how it works is that you define the screen lock command (e.g. swaylock) in hypridle and that gets wired into logind somehow such that you can loginctl lock-session.

I then (also in hypridle) define a before sleep hook that locks the session.

I believe the proper way to do this would be to run your lockscreen as a systemd unit that is WantedBy and Before suspend.target. This would in theory take care of making it idempotent and reliably show the lockscreen before initiating suspend.
A friend of mine has this sort of setup and, while it is reliable, the lockscreen is still racy and sometimes only triggers after suspend. Might be the lockscreen unit not signalling its readiness to systemd properly though.

Anyone managing airtags from Linux? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I've found the Seedstudio thing after posting this too and it looks like the thing I'd be looking for!

What's your experience w.r.t. coverage?
Obviously that highly depends on where exactly you are – you certainly aren't going to have coverage in the outback – but I'm mostly concerned with places where people actually go and would take my bag/laptop/bicycle to. 'Stralia is going to generally be quite different from Germany too of course but it would be a good reference point from which I could extrapolate.

Is conversations safe? in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

PM is automayically E2EE too if the recepient's server supports WKD or has uploaded their pubkey to keys.openpgp.org.

Immich v2.5.0 - 90000 Stars Release, with Free Up Space, non-destructive editing, backup and restore on the web, visual refreshing, and moreeeee! 🎉 in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, they have – I think. When you download an edited image, it supposedly downloads an image with edits applied. The original is optionally available too.

If you download the edited image, this is effectively equivalent to the status quo of image editing.

ELI5: Why won't android just straight up run like Linux distros that almost run on any computers? in c/android@lemmy.world
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

The issue is not the instruction set of the processors. That's actually quite well standardised with ARM (albeit unfree) and there is plenty of generic support for it because of that.

The issue is all the "peripheral" devices such as WiFi, WWAN, display etc. that are wired up in extremely bespoke device-specific ways. They are usually implemented in vendor kernels with millions of lines of divergence to mainline at best and/or proprietary blobs at worst.

Changing the ISA from one well-supported closed standard to a less well-supported open one will not change that issue one bit.

Anyone managing airtags from Linux? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are there any (ideally waterproof) compact devices with long battery life (months~years)?

On the website I only found a long list of supported devices with brand name search and protocol type. grep showed no LoRaWAN devices though?

My use-case is theft tracking. I only need the device to be able to locate itself after a theft actually occurred and I request it remotely. (Perhaps also periodically with very low frequency.)

Why there’s no European Google? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

SearXNG is not a search engine, it's a search engine proxy. The actual search engines that are being proxied are still the same old google, bing etc.

How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Disabling su is stupid because you always need some form of privilege escalation, restricting sudo to apt offers no security benefit whatsoever as apt allows arbitrary file modification, disabling root ssh provides no benefit when the unprivileged user has sudo access – I could go on.

Thread on /r/BuyFromEU about how to improve Lemmy in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd highly recommend you actually read it. Once you look past the LLM-ish phrasing, it quickly becomes clear that the actual information contained is human-made with a great amount of valuable thought put into it.

I've been here for a long-time (go and check if you'd like). There wasn't a single thing in that post that made me think the author hasn't understood the principles of the fediverse that make it so valuable or reasoned wrong about them – quite the opposite.

This post idenifies many (if not most) of the major problems that I have had with Lemmy over the years. The onboarding improvements you've seemed to have at least glanced at are just the tip of the iceberg.
I use Lemmy despite of these limitations but I am also a technical person with quite a bit of tolerance for such technological pain. The high-level improvements proposed here would meaningfully diminish these; allowing less technologically capable or tolerant people to benefit from Lemmy too.

This is actual UX requirement engineering.

If broader (and less technical) user adoption is a goal of the Lemmy project, I'd consider the vision outlined in this post to possibly be one of the most valuable non-technical contributions to Lemmy as a whole.
Seriously.

How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Yikes, lot's of bad advice in this thread.

My advice: Go develop an actual threat model and find and implement mitigations to the threats you've identified.

If you can't do that, that's totally okay; it's a skill that takes a lot of time and effort to learn and is well-compensated in the industry.

You will need to pay for it. Either through an individual assessment by someone who knows what they're doing, managed hosting services where the hoster is contractually liable and has implemented such measures, by risking becoming part of a botnet or by not hosting in a world-public manner.

My recommendations:

  • Pay for proper managed hosting for every part of your system that you are not capable of securing yourself. This is a general rule that even experienced people follow by i.e. renting a VPS rather than exposing their own physical HW. There are multiple grades to this such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
  • Research, evalue and implement low-hanging fruit measures that massively reduce the attack surface. One such measure would be to not host in a manner that is accessible to the entire world and instead pay for managed authenticated access that is limited to select people (i.e. VPN such as Tailscale)
  • git gud
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Kagi Search Changelog March 21st, 2025 - Leveling up the Kagi Assistant experience, meet Kagi in Tokyo, and more... (kagi.com)
 

Next chapter in the Kagi Assistant experience

With this release, we're introducing a new sidebar, designed to streamline your workflow and keep everything you need within reach. This is just the beginning - the new sidebar lays the foundation for even more powerful features to come.

We're also rolling out Claude 3.7 Sonnet with extended thinking to tackle even more complex challenges.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts - join the conversation on Discord or share your feedback through our forum at https://kagifeedback.org/

Kagi, lost in translation, in Tokyo!

From April 21 to 25, a dedicated team from Kagi including CEO, Vlad, will travel to Tokyo 🇯🇵 to meet with companies interested in our advanced translation solutions. If you are based in Japan and your company is interested, please get in touch with Gillian.

We'd also love to meet our local user community while we're there. If you're based in Tokyo, we'd love to organise a dinner and connect in person. Looking forward to great conversations and good food with fellow Kagi fans!

Please contact Gillian at gillian@kagi.com to arrange.

Jobs, jobs, jobs

We are looking for a Head of Business Development and a Technical Architect (basically CTO equivalent in Kagi world).

Head out to Kagi hiring to apply and check out other open positions.

Improvements and bug fixes

Search

Based on the community's feedback, we’ve added a setting to always hide AI-generated images by default (suggested by #5998 @keyboardJones). You can enable it on Settings>Search>AI.

Kagi Assistant

Kagi Translate

  • Add token and other URL parameters to make it easier to use translate in private mode aminomancer
  • Fix translation of Catalan traditional time turly
  • IP URLs not being detected Hanbyeol
  • Inaccurate one-word translations nichu42 JW
  • Copied translation incorrectly removes line breaks LunarWatcher
  • Sync translation theme and language from Kagi Search frin
  • Add section in language picker for most commonly used languages Marcin
  • Fix some words being incorrectly identified as URLs nichu42
  • Add support for markdown goulot_situez
  • Clicking a link from a translated website doesn't redirect to translation of that page Rexios
  • Alternative translations getting cut off Peter
  • Page flashes in light mode theme for a second before turning dark nichu42
  • Source textarea steals focus while user is typing elsewhere tuesday
  • Selection of output text is unreliable on Firefox bkrein
  • Load alternative translations for user-selected text in the output box nichu42
  • Text alignment: When user hovers on input text, highlight the corrisponding part in the output RoxyRoxyRoxy

Orion browser release: smoother, smarter, and more secure

This week's Orion release brings big upgrades:

🔐 3rd party Password Managers & Adblock
We have updated support for uBlock Origin, 1Password, and Bitwarden extensions.

👓 User Interface
Several improvements concern vertical tabs, the sidebar, and favicons.

📺 Youtube and PiP
Several improvements enhance the use of Youtube and the Picture-in-Picture feature.

🪲 Crash fixes & Stability
Bye bye crashes on launch, instability if the browser stays open for a long time, and freezes.

For all the details, please refer to Orion's changelog.

Kagi on Socials

This week's featured social media post:

Tag our accounts or use #Kagi when mentioning us in your posts!

Kagi in the News

  • This TechCrunch article mentions Kagi as an option for users who prioritize not just a better search experience but also a more privacy-focused search.
  • OMG! Ubuntu covered Orion's expansion to Linux.
  • t3n, a German tech magazine, also featured Kagi, highlighting it as a privacy-friendly and ad-free alternative. Read with Kagi Translate here.

Kagi Community Reviews

We are deeply grateful to everyone who takes the time to share their experiences, tips, and feedback about Kagi, helping to spread the word and inspire others to discover its value. Here are some recent reviews to highlight:

Have a Kagi review you'd like to feature? Please share it and ping us on any of our various socials when you do!

The Kagi Way

We partnered with artist Chaz Hutton on a graphic that illustrates how Kagi empowers you to search without the noise, trackers and distractions. Help us share it widely!

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Kagi Search Changelog Orion's Next Chapter: Linux Development Officially Launched (kagi.com)
 

We're thrilled to announce that development of Orion Browser for Linux has officially started! Our team is working hard to bring the same speed, privacy, and innovation that Mac users love to the Linux platform.

This is an ambitious project that we expect will take approximately one year to complete. Our target is to achieve feature parity with the current macOS version by March 2026.

Want to stay updated on Orion for Linux?
Register here to receive news and early access opportunities throughout the development year.

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Kagi Search Changelog Feb 27, 2025 - Sonnet 3.7 hits Assistant, early access to Ki, TikTok search and major Translate improvements (kagi.com)
 

Kagi Assistant adds Sonnet 3.7 and the preview of multi-step reasoning assistant called Ki

We're happy to unveil the latest updates to our assistant experience. This release brings a smoother, smarter, and more intuitive interface designed to make your interactions simpler. Try it out and feel the difference!

We also added Claude 3.7 Sonnet to our model lineup! It's now powering our !code assistant and plays a key role in our advanced multi-step reasoning model, Kii. Currently in early testing, Ki is available exclusively to our Discord community members - join now to get early access (Ultimate account users only)!

And today OpenAI released GPT4.5 - we have already benchmarked it. Check Kagi LLM benchmark.

TikTok video search

Video search just got even sharper—you can now filter specifically for Tiktok videos. Find exactly what you're looking for, faster.

We are hiring a Flutter developer!

We just opened a position for a skilled Flutter Developer. Apply now or send someone our way.

Improvements and bug fixes

Search

Assistant

Translate

Try Kagi Translate at https://translate.kagi.com/

  • If on 'manual' translate mode, do a translate when the user changes target language #6037 @Thibaultmol
  • Improve Korean Localization #5305_334, #5305_329 @Hanbyeol
  • Don't show alternative translations in JP, if the only thing that's changed from original is the pronunciation being added. #5305_328 @frin
  • JP romanization is sometimes incorrect/overly formal #5305_328 #5305_323 @frin
  • German (Switzerland) translations using the wrong "ss" #5305_314 @psy-q
  • Translated text sometimes put into quotation marks #5305_306 @nichu42
  • Disable/export/delete translation history #5305_308 @ajimix
  • CTRL+A should only select the translated text, not whole page #5305_316 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
  • Add Hawaiian to list of supported languages #5305_320 @Bradh
  • Change URL params when translation is completed #5305_323 @frin
  • While proofreading hindi, strike/correct whole diacritic / ligature. @aldehyde.8578
  • Document translation: translate your .doc(x), .txt and .csv documents
  • Alternative translations: along the main translation, show multiple translation options
  • Word insights: fine-tune individual words or phrases
  • https://translate.kagi.com/iso_code now redirects to the main page, with the to language being set to [iso_code].
  • Make tooltips appear immediately, adjust style
  • Dynamic text size depending on length in input/output box
  • Increase max size of request header to allow longer romanization requests
  • [Forgot to credit last time] Add translation context field #5305_253 @Kate-Karui

Kagi on Socials

This week's featured social media post:

Tag our accounts or use #Kagi when mentioning us in your posts!

Kagi in the News

Interested in covering Kagi on your outlet, newsletter or podcast? Hit us up! Our team is very approachable and we welcome any opportunity to engage with various communities about our latest features.

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An Orion browser port to Linux is being worked on (news.ycombinator.com)
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Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)
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Kagi Search Changelog 13th Feb, 2025 - Redefining Privacy in Search (kagi.com)
 

Announcing Kagi Privacy Pass

Kagi now supports Privacy Pass, an IETF-standardized protocol ensuring your searches are technically unlinkable to your account.

Read all about why this matters and the details of implementation in our announcement blog post!

Privacy Pass support is provided:

  • Natively for Orion browser users (macOS/iOS/iPadOS). On iOS, make sure to have version 1.3.17 and above (expected to roll out globally today) and update your macOS Orion to version 0.99.131.
  • Natively through Kagi App for Android (make sure to have version 0.29, expected to roll out globally today)
  • Browser extension for Firefox or Chrome

A few important details:

  • Privacy Pass implementation is fully open-sourced for transparency and community collaboration
  • Kagi Privacy Pass is available for the Professional, Ultimate, Family, and Team plans.
  • Limitations:
    • It's not available for Trial/Starter plans
    • Privacy Pass mode disables account-specific features, like domain personalisaton (as we do not know which user is searching)
    • Privacy Pass mode is supported for Kagi Search in this initial phase, we will add support other services in the coming weeks. Check the blog post FAQ section for more details!

Kagi is redefining privacy in search. Try it now!

Kagi Tor Onion service

Access Kagi securely and anonymously via our new Tor Onion Service.

You can now access Kagi directly through the Tor network using our dedicated onion address:

kagi2pv5bdcxxqla5itjzje2cgdccuwept5ub6patvmvn3qgmgjd6vid.onion

See more information about Kagi Tor service in our documentation.

An updated comprehensive privacy policy

We're also excited to share our updated privacy policy, with simplified language and designed to clearly reflect our strong commitment to protecting your privacy.

Improvements and bug fixes

Search

Kagi Assistant

  • Kagi Assistant now supports O3 Mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and R1 Distill Llama 70B!
  • Announce new results from assistant using ARIA Live #5996 @fastfinge
  • Allow to hide thought process for reasoning LLMs #6025 @KamilKurde
  • Add o3-mini model to Kagi Assistant #6135 @RegChien
  • Formatting issues in Reasoning for R1 in Assistant #6148 @hansihe
  • Assistant should wait with naming a thread until it's finished if not enough info #5828 @Thibaultmol
  • Space missing below reference list in Assistant downloaded transcript #5833 @thomasjsn
  • Allow for disabling the CTRL + SHIFT + Backspace shortcut #5550 @4P5mc
  • Images cannot be pasted into the Assistant on WebKit browsers #6193 @laiz
  • Info panel not visible for new Assistant UI #6143 @azdanov
  • The assistant prompt "think about </think> tag" breaks auto-hiding of reasoning text #6181 @ssg

Kagi Android App

Privacy Pass support! You can add the Privacy Pass shortcut by holding the Kagi Android icon.

  • The app returns to the main screen every time it re-renders (e.g., entering/leaving split screen) #5875 @Philippe_Choquette
  • Assistant via Android app doesn't work with multi file uploads #5959 @Thibaultmol

Kagi on Socials

Here is this week's featured social media post:

Tag our accounts or use #Kagi when mentioning us in your posts!

Kagi in the News

Orion tops Apple's App Store's list of superpowered internet browsers "to seriously level up your web browsing"!

And Android Police published an article about Kagi's new fair pricing model: "This ethical search engine will return your subscription money if you don't use it." The Verge also covered the news.

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Experiences with different gearing on a 6-speed Brompton? (lemmy.ml)
 

So I let the chain wear down too much in the past two years and the rear sprockets appear to be worn out and will need to be replaced. The stock 50T chain ring is also showing signs of wear but appears to still be good for a few years.

I wanted to use this opportunity to see whether I could switch the gearing up a little.

The 13-16 gearing has been surprisingly capable but I need just a little more hill climbing ability; the lowest gear (2.64m) is just barely enough sometimes. I'd like it a tad lower I think.

On the high end, I usually ride in the upper two gears on flat ground. The highest gear (7.98m) feels just a tad too much sometimes though and I then fall back to one lower (6.49m) but that feels a good bit too low. That doesn't bother me a lot but it'd still be nicer to have a gear that's just right.

On a downhill, the highest gear is always sufficient for me; feels pretty much exactly right. I wouldn't mind slightly more metres of development but, honestly, I don't care very much when I'm already going way past 30km/h and I don't ride downhill for very long usually. I'm unsure whether reducing the highest gear slightly would make me pedal uncomfortably quickly down hill though.

Stock and current config:

Hub 64% 100% 157%
Low sprocket 2.64 4.14 6.49
High sprocket 3.25 5.10 7.98

I'm currently thinking about a 44T chain ring with 12-17:

Hub 64% 100% 157%
Low sprocket 2.19 3.43 5.37
High sprocket 3.10 4.86 7.61

or 12-16:

Hub 64% 100% 157%
Low sprocket 2.33 3.64 5.71
High sprocket 3.10 4.86 7.61

The lower gears being lower and closer together sounds very nice.

In the higher gears, my hope is that the slightly lower highest gear would allow me to use it the majority of the time on flat ground because I suspect the second highest gear would feel quite a bit too low as a fall-back.

I could see 12-15 being an option perhaps but that also gets the lowest gear much closer to 13-16 again:

Hub 64% 100% 157%
Low sprocket 2.48 3.89 6.09
High sprocket 3.10 4.86 7.61

But obviously the lowest gear gets very close to the previous config again.

Where I have a hard time is imagining how significant the difference between 2.64m, 2.19m, 2.33m and 2.48m are in an uphill scenario. The jump between the lower gears in 13-16 (3.25m to 2.64m) in practice feels significant but not that large either and we're talking about a much lower absolute drop being gained in the low end by switching gearing. I don't know whether the practical effect of this is linear though and I suspect it might not be.

I'd really appreciate practical experience here. Have you changed gearing on your Brompton? From what to what and how significant were the differences?

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