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Bcachefs Snapshots Design Doc(bcachefs.org)
2 points by curt15 6y ago|0 comments
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by curt15 6y ago
Apparently not any more: https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3121703/bytedance...
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by curt15 6y ago
If the SCOTUS says yes, would the original GNU coreutils even retain their GPL license given that they reimplemented pre-existing, non-GPL utilities?
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by curt15 6y ago
K-9 Mail had some difficulty getting IMAP IDLE to work with Android's Doze. Does FairEmail fare better?
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by curt15 6y ago
Why doesn't management create more incentives to build products/services that last? Pay a "maintenance bonus" to make in someone's financial interest to maintain and improve existing projects.
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by curt15 6y ago
>Unlike ChromeOS/CoreOS, after the first-round SHA verification of the volume, macOS will then patch the new OS-base-image volume with certain files from your current OS-base-image volume, if 1. they’re distinct from the ones it exp
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Desktop Linux Management at Facebook [pdf](fosdem.org)
2 points by curt15 6y ago|0 comments
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by curt15 6y ago
>Basically throwaway (or keeparound) rootless containers Toolbox emphasises "keeparound" containers since it's intended to be the primary command-line environment for image-based systems like Silverblue or CoreOS. Such sys
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by curt15 6y ago
The ability to start containers as a normal user ("rootless mode") is quite interesting and imo the most significant feature missing from LXD, which requires you to either use sudo or be a part of the "lxc" group (equiva
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by curt15 6y ago
This is why Ubuntu's forced auto-updates policy for snaps is crazy.
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by curt15 6y ago
Wouldn't the hyperlink tax apply to Bing too?
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by curt15 6y ago
That of course assumes that the post-install scripts don't move files around. Mac OS has a similar utility called "pkgutil" which supposedly tracks all files belong to programs that come as "pkg" files -- typically
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by curt15 6y ago
You've basically just described Linux mount namespaces. Flatpak and snap applications each see a virtual root directory which grants no visibility into the user's home directory by default. D-bus services called "portals&quot
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by curt15 6y ago
>It would not be an amazing desktop when compared to a Mac On a Mac: * apps are shipped in self-contained bundles * launchd inspired the design of systemd * the base system is shipped as an immutable image in a APFS sealed volume, and th
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by curt15 6y ago
>As far as I know he only said that in the Pennsylvania case Not only him but also other Trump lawyers on separate occasions in Pennsylvania. See for example https://www.newsweek.com/trump-campaign-lawyer-tells-pa-judg...
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by curt15 6y ago
What prevents presidents and other officials from holding "old-fashioned" press conferences, like they used to do just a few years ago? Has big tech supplanted the media?
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by curt15 6y ago
Google's production servers run a customised version of Debian https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/technical-sessions/...
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by curt15 6y ago
>try to figure out how to reconfigure the snap client to use a different server by reading the source code, then write your own server end from scratch, and tell your users to do that. You also need to 1) compile and distribute your own
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by curt15 6y ago
The sandboxing is virtually nonexistent unless the distro uses apparmor.
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by curt15 6y ago
Darling Also, Microsoft previously had a project called Islandwood.
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by curt15 6y ago
>It does not mean “does not crash”; it means “is inert, unchanging” which is important for enterprises that absolutely cannot risk that something stop working on an upgrade. But would enterprises accept being forever stuck with any bugs
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by curt15 6y ago
Since Twitter is blocked in China, what does Twitter have to gain by letting CCP officials post?
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by curt15 6y ago
>KDE is so amazingly good that there is no excuse to keep using Gnome. IMO, one aspect where Gnome excels is its tight integration of alternative input methods. I remember it being controversial that Gnome blessed ibus over alternative e
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by curt15 6y ago
GNOME has an obsession with a "distraction-free" interface that really takes keyboard shortcuts to navigate efficiently. For example, despite the popularity of the dash-to-dock extension, the GNOME developers stubbornly refuse to
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by curt15 6y ago
>I will add that even with regards to the government, there are limits to free speech — falsely shouting “fire” in a crowded theater is the archetypal example. Also see the Supreme Court case Brandenburg v Ohio (1969), which excluded fro
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by curt15 6y ago
For all the fraud allegations thrown around by Trump and his allies, his lawyers have consistently refused to allege fraud in their court proceedings. See for example https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us&#x2
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by curt15 6y ago
Linux security is technically quite advanced. Namespaces and seccomp-bpf have no parallels in Mac OS land that I'm aware of. It is true that most programs are installed systemwide with no form of sandboxing beyond the usual Unix access
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Rocky Linux December 2020 community update(forums.rockylinux.org)
20 points by curt15 6y ago|2 comments
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by curt15 6y ago
>On a server with multiple VMs on a big consumer NVMe How did you avoid the crippling performance penalty with storing VM disks on btrfs? The usual workaround suggested to btrfs users is to disable copy-on-write for VM images, but doing
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by curt15 6y ago
Some Facebook btrfs devs agreed to help out. FB runs Fedora/CentOS + btrfs root on most of its systems.

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