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by foresto 5y ago
After over a decade of using a Gtk-based desktop, I have finally given up on Gtk. A few of the most memorable things that have driven me away: Client-side window decorations: ugh. I miss being able to see at a glance which window has input
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by foresto 5y ago
About the same functionality, made at about the same time, with an interface made for humans. It's a pity it had to compete with Linus' brand recognition.
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by foresto 5y ago
John McDonald did a talk at GDC 2018 about how Valve was starting to integrate deep learning into their server-side cheat detection. IIRC, some of the process was automated, some was player-reported, and some was done through human review.
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by foresto 5y ago
And while you're there, pay attention to the signed-by option. It's what allows you (the admin) to limit APT's trust in the keys you add.
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by foresto 5y ago
The Dreadful Flying Glove (Yellow Submarine, 1968) suddenly feels all the more menacing. https://yellowsubmarine.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dreadful_Flying_...
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by foresto 5y ago
> Is there any example in history of OSS development as to what happens when BDFL [2] is not there anymore? The Python BDFL announced his resignation three years ago, so that project might serve as an example. https://lwn.net&
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by foresto 5y ago
Unfortunately, that's not enough, since old drivers and firmware remain as security risks even if the OS is updated. This is why GrapheneOS refuses to support hardware after the manufacturer drops support. https://grapheneos
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by foresto 5y ago
I think Reddit addresses the same needs that Usenet once did. It's not a very good replacement, but it's the closest thing we have today.
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by foresto 5y ago
> I know uid 0 in container will always map to uid outside the container I don't think that's true. Have a look at Podman's --userns=keep-id and related options.
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by foresto 5y ago
This is the concern that kept Debian from enabling user namespace support in their kernels by default, until their recent Bullseye release. It's not Podman-specific; it also affects Docker's rootless mode. Can't the issue be
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by foresto 5y ago
It requires a kernel that allows unprivileged user namespaces. Docker images that run as uid 0, which many of them do, could potentially exploit their way out of the container, since kernel code running as (actual or namespaced) uid 0 hasn&
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by foresto 5y ago
The fourth sentence on the page linked above: "Rootless mode graduated from experimental in Docker Engine v20.10."
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by foresto 5y ago
I see. So the criticism here is that Podman's error reporting is sometimes insufficient to explain an error triggered by systemd/cgroup changes. Docker has the same (class of) problem: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-b
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by foresto 5y ago
> The underlying runtime leaks through For those of us who have never used Podman or explored the depths of Docker, can you explain what you mean by that?
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by foresto 5y ago
To put this another way: I have an Electron-based chat client that consumes 265 MB of disk when installed, plus about 180 MB of data, most of which looks like it comes from Electron rather than chat-related stuff. A native client for the sa
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by foresto 5y ago
Thanks for dropping in. Can you explain this comment about Radicale? > Does not handle authentication by default, needs to be handled by the reverse proxy My Radicale instance validates users on its own, using credentials in an htpasswd
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by foresto 5y ago
No, I mean Discourse. Discord is even worse in that department, and has its own problems.
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by foresto 5y ago
Discourse has always felt to me like standing on a riverbank and watching random things float by. It mostly works for comments on a blog post, but when I need to unearth specific information or want to participate in a discussion that spans
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by foresto 5y ago
Quick and dirty bookmarklet that will replace twitter links on the current page with equivalent nitter links, or if already on a twitter page, redirect to nitter: http://ix.io/3wSM To use: Create a browser bookmark with its
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by foresto 5y ago
Maybe GrapheneOS?
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by foresto 5y ago
I didn't see a video conference web app. I did find the Video Room on the demos page, but it doesn't look suitable for real-world use. I didn't notice anything better in a quick scan of the janus-gateway github page, nor in d
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by foresto 5y ago
The screen shot recommends short passwords with one each of upper/lower/numeric/special characters. This policy has never been good. I find it discouraging from a company offering security-related services. https:/&#x2F
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by foresto 5y ago
> personal data, including Social Security numbers and driver’s license information > Dates of birth, first and last names were also stolen > “Telecommunications companies have a duty to protect their customers’ information. I wish
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by foresto 5y ago
Any nitter instance can help with such things. Here's one: https://nitter.nixnet.services/joelburgess/status/1428008043... P.S. Nitter also puts RSS links at the top of everyone's timeline, which is hand
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by foresto 5y ago
Janus caught my attention when I was looking at WebRTC servers (SFUs) last year, but I couldn't find any good FOSS web apps for it. Do any exist?
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by foresto 5y ago
> GitHub uses "main" Amid the currently fashionable trend of language culling, I was mildly surprised to find myself agreeing with this particular change: In git, I think "main" is a better choice than "master&qu
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by foresto 5y ago
> > In Mozilla documentation "Electrolysis" is often shorted as "e10s". > What a silly scheme. Agreed. It might be more convenient for the person typing, but ironically, it impedes the understanding of their mes
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by foresto 5y ago
Language is complicated, but I think I agree. Here are the most relevant bits I found just now in the Oxford English Dictionary: master, n.1 and adj. [...] Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from
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by foresto 5y ago
I find it's much easier to audit the source code, and build the binaries yourself from that code. Also, it's a collaborative effort. If you build your binaries from the same sources that other people use, then you can split up the
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by foresto 5y ago
> It seems really unlikely to me that Apple will enable E2EE backups. And even if they did, how would we verify that the code they instruct our hardware to run does e2ee correctly, without bugs or backdoors? Apple doesn't seem to be

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