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by acatton 3y ago
You can do this with pre-built images. They can just install different packages on the rbpi3.img and the rbpi4.img, one with wayland one with x11. If you don't want to use pre-built images you can also do this with metapackages.
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by acatton 3y ago
I'm always confused by Raspberry Pi OS. It feels like Debian with a pre-set of packages, and a few additional software to control the board and bootloader. Why not maintain these additional pieces of software packaged in debian, and pr
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by acatton 3y ago
I don't know if France is the top industrial espionage offender. TBH, I doubt it. But yes, it has been well documented that my home country is very pro-active with industrial espionage. If you understand french I recommend the Spécial
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by acatton 3y ago
Don't worry, Visa isn't subsidizing anything. At 0.4% they're most likely still making money, at a low margin, but still taking home a profit. Credit card transaction fees in Europe are capped at 0.30%[1] and visa operates he
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by acatton 3y ago
Pinpointing the bug is part of a good bug report. I often spend hours investigating bugs I am just reporting. This is because I want to make it reproducible for the maintainer. Sometimes making it reproducible narrow down the issue so much
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by acatton 3y ago
"robbed" is not a hyperbole here, it's a blatant lie. The blog author found a bug and submitted a patch, the kernel maintainer fixed the bug differently with his own patch. No copyright was infringed. Where is the theft? Open
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by acatton 3y ago
It doesn't have to be. Corporations which are FedRAMP[1] compliant, have to build software reproducibly in a fully isolated environment, only from reviewed code.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedRAMP [2] h
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by acatton 3y ago
Because the official repository has a strict vetting process. You cannot just show up and put your shaddy software in the official repository. Debian packagers have a mutual trust process which you need to gain. Only trusted Debian packager
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by acatton 3y ago
No. This is not AUR, this is an entire third party repository. It would be the equivalent of these https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositorie...
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by acatton 3y ago
Yes, they are signed, but not with the official key. If you add it through the UI, it will auto-accept the key from the repository. (I'm not sure how it exactly works, it might ask the user for the confirmation) If you do it from the c
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by acatton 3y ago
I disagree. This is more another reason to not run programs which are not from the official repository.
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by acatton 3y ago
This is installed by adding a shady repository to your apt sources.list... How is this a supply chain attack? My official debian repository have never been breached so far. This is no different from downloading an .exe off a shady website a
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by acatton 3y ago
> Can you imagine if someone in the future got a hold of gmail.com? Good luck trying to talk to a human at Google the day you get locked out of your gmail.com account for "suspicious activity" (See https://uk.pcmag.c
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by acatton 3y ago
Reminds me of Mindustry https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.anuke.mindustry/ But it looks like Factorio was first.
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by acatton 3y ago
Yes but no. Yes you can enter carrying as much cash, but no you cannot freely enter with over $10k in cash, they need to be reporter to the US Custom and Border Protection before entering the country https://help.cbp.gov/s&#
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by acatton 3y ago
I can't speak for other people. I'm not hostile to the BSL, if a company wants to license their products under BSL, I don't care, I will just not use it. The main issue I have with the BSL is opensource-washing were companies
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by acatton 3y ago
> UPS’ CEO said drivers will average $170,000 in pay _and benefits such as health care and pensions_ > Full-time workers will average $49 an hour $49/h × 2,000h = $98,000 The title of the article is a little exaggerated. How much
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by acatton 3y ago
> Many researchers are privately terrified of being falsely accused by the "data cops," one scientist said. But no one wants to criticize them because no one wants a target on their own back — including this individual, who was
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by acatton 3y ago
I totally agree. Also, this is a thankless task. The app will break every other week when they change webpage (if it's using web scraping) or when they change their internal API because the client was updated. (if it's using the r
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by acatton 3y ago
PhotoPrism is under AGPL, how is that not fully open source? https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/LICENS... https://opensource.org/license/agpl-v3/
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by acatton 3y ago
Spain is not UTC+1 purely out of convenience. It's because of history https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/30/244995264/... > So on Oct. 23, 1940, Hitler took a train to the S
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by acatton 3y ago
> > Not everyone is going to see those emails and even those that do may not understand what they are reading. > > If that's the case, these companies/people have no business using cloud services. Cloud services are re
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by acatton 3y ago
Who needs analytics? I'm confused. When I worked at companies using google analytics, 99.9% of the time they could have gotten this data from server logs with something like awstats or goaccess. To this day, I still don't get what
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by acatton 3y ago
Fedora is to RHEL what Debian Sid is to Debian stable. Yes, it's not that simple, and there are some customization done. But Fedora is the playground for the next RHEL. I woudn't consider Fedora "an alternative" accordin
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by acatton 3y ago
> I wish this encourages companies to look for more alternatives to RHEL and its clones. The issue is that there is no alternative. I'm not aware of any distro with its base and all its packages working seamlessly with SELinux enabl
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by acatton 3y ago
> On the way out, an internal investigation determined he had taken important files and IP¹ and was disparaging us in the marketplace. > In a state of fear, I “hacked back” to assess what was taken and to mitigate the loss. I also dev
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by acatton 3y ago
Lol. I thought this was a french-only thing: TV showing disgruntled travelers during transport strikes saying the stereotypical catch-phrase "we're being held hostage!!" TIL this is apparently an universal thing. The new acco
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by acatton 3y ago
Yes. In some instances. https://aws.amazon.com/route53/domain-registration-agreement... > AWS provides the Domain Name Registration Services through ICANN-accredited registrars. AWS currently provides Domain Name Re
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Gandi significantly increases its domain pricing from July 2023 [pdf](gandi.net)
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by acatton 3y ago
Context: • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598472 • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35090387 • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777

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