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by mbakke 4y ago
Compared to working with iptables, nftables is like this haiku: Multiple IP protocols Service names for ports Chains happy Sacred connection tracking Automatically available for me Configuration bliss BPF may be future
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Carl Jung on Why We Must Learn to Accept Ourselves Before We Can Help Others(highexistence.com)
2 points by mbakke 4y ago|0 comments
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by mbakke 4y ago
Or a feeling of self-worth, for the kinds of narcissist who loathe themselves (the "victim" type). They need to set a higher goal in order to bring meaning into their life because they are unable to nourish healthy relationships a
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by mbakke 4y ago
As someone with several narcissistic traits, the book "The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck" by Mark Manson was an eye-opener. It succinctly describes detrimental thought patterns that you might even not know you have, and gives e
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by mbakke 4y ago
Recent studies[1][2] have shown that memories are much more interlinked in the brain than previously thought. Similar to the chess examples elsewhere in this thread, the key to a good memory is utilizing more of the brain when storing them.
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by mbakke 5y ago
Putin is an egotistical maniac and started this war with no regard to his own people. I hope he will come to realize his massive fuck-up, but don't think it will happen unless his own trusted friends starts to talk common sense into h
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by mbakke 5y ago
A technology that has been at a stand-still for decades can't be expected to grab a foothold in todays always-connected world.
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by mbakke 5y ago
The proper solution would be for Go tooling to integrate the Software Heritage archive. Here is the code for the "v1.5.1" tag: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/directory/da02f8b... You ca
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by mbakke 5y ago
I don't have much experience with SELinux, but at least in my org the base policy is to run anything started interactively by the user (or root) in unconfined_t , i.e. with protections disabled. That is, the same command that gets den
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by mbakke 5y ago
Sure, just different ones. Compiling Guix and its package modules (aka 'guix pull') takes minutes on powerful hardware, and is nigh impossible on low-end systems. Computing derivations that import a lot of Guile/Guix module
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by mbakke 5y ago
GNU IceCat is a "de-mozillaed"[^] Firefox LTS: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ It seems it is mostly maintained within GNU Guix now (which has 91.3.0). [^]: It comes with its own set of opinionate
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by mbakke 5y ago
I believe that argument is based on the same FUD that I addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29290087 ...at least, I don't see any such code in the actual deblobbing script: https://linux-lib
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by mbakke 5y ago
Debian is rejected because it has an official, endorsed "non-free" repository. That does not fulfill the GNU FSDG: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guideli... Specifically, "A free
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by mbakke 5y ago
> linux-libre doesn't want you to know if your distro isn't loading updated microcode, because it's "better" (according to them) to run vulnerable non-updated microcode This is FUD. The reason it's not pos
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by mbakke 5y ago
Guix will never prevent you from doing what you want with your hardware. Nor will it give you software that is not properly free (as in freedom). The "nonguix" channel mentioned in the article does have Intel and AMD microcode fo
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by mbakke 5y ago
Even if Guix were to switch to systemd (it won't), end users would primarily be interacting with services through the same high-level APIs as now. https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Services
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by mbakke 5y ago
Zoom-in-the-browser (surprisingly) supports screen sharing on Wayland/Sway.
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by mbakke 5y ago
Norway exports excess power most of the year. 71% over the last three years according to this page: https://www.statnett.no/for-aktorer-i-kraftbransjen/tall-og-...
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by mbakke 5y ago
In Guix, every package is derived from a tiny set of "bootstrap binaries", that will soon be reduced to a ~512 byte machine code seed: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstra... Th
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by mbakke 5y ago
I have been doing manual pour-overs for about a decade and never figured out how to balance acidity and sweetness. It always seemed somewhat random and arbitrary to me. The technique in the video blew my mind. I just tried it, balancing i
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by mbakke 5y ago
The Guix package list is paginated, you need to navigate to the second page: https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/nyxt-2.0.0/ If "guix search nyxt" does not work, perhaps you need to 'guix pull&#x2
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ldd arbitrary code execution(catonmat.net)
2 points by mbakke 5y ago|0 comments
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by mbakke 5y ago
"Rolling forward" aka 'guix system reconfigure' can typically be done without a reboot (but you need to restart affected services manually -- Guix will tell you which). "Rolling backward" aka 'guix system
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by mbakke 5y ago
It means that if a server on your LAN advertises a substitute for a derivation that is bit-identical with one that is signed by an authorized substitute server (such as ci.guix.gnu.org), the build output will be downloaded from your network
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by mbakke 5y ago
There is a home manager for Guix: https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde It will likely be included in the next version of Guix. Note that declarative environments are already well-supported with "manifests" (I have a
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by mbakke 5y ago
You can get pretty far by defining custom variants of packages and using "package-input-rewriting"[0]. There is also work underway to support "parameterized" packages akin to USE flags. [0]: https://guix.gnu.
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by mbakke 5y ago
The Guix installer comes with a console-based GUI since version 1.0. You can see it in action here: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/gnu-guix-1.1.0-released/ I guess it depends on your definition of "GUI&
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by mbakke 5y ago
It's certainly lacking in both rigor and utility, but the "Jungian" cognitive functions that it builds upon are fairly well-established to my knowledge (not a neuroscientist).
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by mbakke 6y ago
Whenever I hear statements like "incredibly complex and sophisticated attack" I'm reminded of the 2011 Comodo (now Sectigo) hack where the company said it had "clinical accuracy" and "likely to be a [Iranian] s
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by mbakke 6y ago
Why web apps are better than non-proprietary operating systems such as GNU/Linux: 0.

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