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by mid-kid 3y ago
You can pre-answer most autoconf sections using /etc/config.site, and a system distributor can create an /usr/share/config.site[1]. It's just really hard to get right, nobody uses it effectively. Autoconf also
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by mid-kid 3y ago
> Nowadays, the repo-tarball split is largely unnecessary I think locking the source distribution mechanism to only git would be detrimental in the grand scheme. A source tarball is universal, independent of preferred tooling, easy to ha
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by mid-kid 3y ago
My point was that it does both. It didn't ditch dynamic system libraries, and it's better off for it than the rest of 'em. The fun thing about the python ecosystem, is that even if you write an application for the latest vers
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by mid-kid 3y ago
I think this blog post is a great example of the really sad state of package managers. It uses a bunch of them: * firefox extensions * pacman/yay * flatpak * prezto * goenv * fnm * cargo Then it also installs some applications manually
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by mid-kid 3y ago
> Python did so Nah, python is one of the few languages with an ecosystem that can still be properly packaged, even after pep517. All libraries are scripts that are installed (and bytecode-compiled) globally. Node is a pain in the ass du
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by mid-kid 3y ago
The application can see that the kernel is tainted and refuse to run. Similarly, some kernel-related functionality may be disabled. None of this requires iMessage to run in the kernel or have a module of its own.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
I wish there was a list lihe this to block AI-generated spam that wasn't evangelism against anything AI-related. This blocks a bunch of discussion subreddits for no real reason.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
Custom drivers trip some security features and "taint" the kernel.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
Editorializing really should be a bannable offense on this site. I've seen too many instances of this lately.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
Releasing is the process of making something available to the general public. If something is available, it's released.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
The 2024 iso is released.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
I had been messing with game-related network protocols before writing my first IRC client, and the sheer simplicity of it was an eye opener. For many protocols these days, the handshaking/authentication/formatting of the protocol
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by mid-kid 3y ago
If ms store is your solution for windows, then flatpak should be your solution for linux. ...I don't like either :)
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by mid-kid 3y ago
Does socket activation also stop the service after a while? In my experience dbus autostart services are always a huge mess, making it unpredictable what will be running after a while of using the computer, and they never stop themselves ei
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by mid-kid 3y ago
> Ironically, this would lead me to the right choice of file type if I had a large image. This is it, I think it works out just fine in the end.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
This website requires WebGL to show any content at all, for some bizarre reason, so I'll be replying to the title alone. "JPEG XL" allows you to store extra large images in a fraction of the space. It makes sense in my head.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
what makes dolphin clean room but yuzu not?
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by mid-kid 3y ago
Firefox OS still lives on as the decently successful KaiOS, for really cheap feature phones. Those things are vastly popular in some countries.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
I wonder to what extent this is due to the general decline of the desktop market share.
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by mid-kid 3y ago
Google's safetynet works by downloading a frequently updating and obfuscated binary from google and running it with the highest possible privileges (ARM trustzone on modern phones, bypasses the kernel), which then verifies the integrit
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by mid-kid 3y ago
I don't share your experience wrt apps and root checks at all. Only once in a blue moon do I encounter an app that does this, and when they do it's just a good reason not to use it. In the rest of the cases, say games, the basic r
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by mid-kid 3y ago
What worries me the most about things like these is that it makes it seem like it's impossible to make "free for all" products like these anymore if you're not an established player already. You will get blacklisted and
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by mid-kid 3y ago
Color me the brightest shade of surprise
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by mid-kid 3y ago
The "switch" method isn't too uncommon, but usually people have an init function and "state" pointer that's passed into the coroutine function. I've used this method a lot in embedded projects, where one c
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by mid-kid 3y ago
Yes, but that doesn't make it less of a shame when people remove content thousands of people enjoy. Information that goes on the internet never truly goes away, be it through personal archive sites or more general ones like archive.org
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by mid-kid 3y ago
My only complaint about this is that so much of the old stuff has been removed, privated, marked as age restricted, blurred due to refusal to be marked as "for kids"[1] and removing the comment section, or otherwise made inacces
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by mid-kid 3y ago
This doesn't reflect my experiences at all. I've never built it with bazel, are you sure it's not using some prebuilt binary? The official instructions are https://skia.org/docs/user/build/
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by mid-kid 3y ago
If you're room hopping you're essentially going to have to give up on entering some rooms at all. Some people have the strategy of sitting in a less crowded room and then switching to a stream from a crowded room whenever they fee
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by mid-kid 3y ago
And gentoo has /var/lib/portage/world, and pacman has "pacman -Qe", and apt has "apt-mark showmanual". ...I sometimes wonder how the world would be if the "explicitly installed packages" fun
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by mid-kid 3y ago
For the same reason debian's APT manages rust dependencies for its packages - an OS-level package manager needs to support all its languages. Language-specific package managers fall short as they don't (and often can't) consi

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