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by pilif 5y ago
We’re running everything on self-hosted runners and it works like a charm. They are also way, way faster than what GitHub can provide. We get the advantages of the huge GitHub Actions ecosystem while having impressive (and fully controllabl
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by pilif 5y ago
You can remove the phone number and the other options stay enabled. I removed the phone years ago, because I did not want all of my security for more or less all of my online accounts (password recovery via email) to hinge on the unhelpfuln
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by pilif 6y ago
> This is a well researched and very interesting article! That is true for all articles on that site. If you were alive in the 90ies, then this site has something for you. I spent hours and hours reading through most of it
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by pilif 6y ago
Or put the action definitions outside of the repository for which they apply. I see the advantages of having CI configuration right next to the code, but once you start deploying multiple branches or accepting outside contributors, the down
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by pilif 6y ago
Has macOS changed the default setting for scroll bars? In the past, whenever a mouse was connected, it would switch to always showing scroll bars. At least on Catalina, the default (System Preferences > General) is still set to “automati
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by pilif 6y ago
sooner than you might think: https://lwn.net/Articles/829858/
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by pilif 6y ago
beautiful - .ts is used on DVDs as a container for video data which predates .ts as an extension for typescript files by about 20 years.
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by pilif 6y ago
> This online gamemode alone made $1 billion in 2017 alone. which of course goes to show that at least from a business side, this issue is completely inconsequential and all resources should be used to push for more monetization (and t
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by pilif 6y ago
Malware running as a normal user can't put itself in a position where it's hidden from software running as root. Preserving system integrity was my point. The patch in the original article is about preserving system integrity in t
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by pilif 6y ago
> If you want a secure system, don't run untrusted code as root! This pretty much means: don't run any untrusted code as any user (because privilege escalation) and that also pretty much includes visiting any web page. Securi
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by pilif 6y ago
Dolphin started this tradition years ago and now many emulator projects are doing it
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by pilif 6y ago
have a look at pg_repack. That'll solve it for you. > but no amount of vacuuming actually allows us to fully reclaim that space a full vacuum would. but it would also lock the table for the duration (which is something pg_repack w
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by pilif 6y ago
This is a binary package built for ARM to. E installed directly without other dependencies. Macports builds from source
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by pilif 6y ago
the ToS hubbub going through mainstream media has made it much easier to get people to switch though. In my case, I was one of those people really not wanting to use WhatsApp but being forced by group pressure. But now that I can even just
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by pilif 6y ago
>So long as they allow the possibility it will happen. AFAIK there is still no support for the T2 disk controller even though T2 macs are a thing for 4 years now. I'm sure it will eventually happen, but don't hold your breath
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by pilif 6y ago
yes. However that Linux will not be very useful because there are no drivers for the machine and Apple is not documenting any of their hardware to the point that people could easily write drivers. This will be a huge reverse-engineering eff
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by pilif 6y ago
talk to many language server plugins released by MS and containing checks to make sure they only talk to regular VSCode
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by pilif 6y ago
she stopped using Wireguard (and ranted about it) rather than stopped using Apple's products (which are ultimately responsible for the failures she complained about in Wireguard)
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by pilif 6y ago
the original article quotes https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/81281 , so I guess the App Store requirement is a thing at least for some people. Not all entitlements work the same way - some can be configure
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by pilif 6y ago
Drivers will be and to some extent are covered by a user-space driver framework ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit ) hardware accelerated operations will be covered by whatever drivers ship with the OS
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by pilif 6y ago
> Apple can't possibly get rid of kernel extensions they are though. It's getting harder and harder to get them loaded (on an M1 Mac, getting an extension loaded will require 4 reboots and a journey through the recovery environ
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by pilif 6y ago
that's using older and deprecated frameworks including possibly kernel extensions, all of which are going to go away in the future. Wireguard is using the newer and non-deprecated NetworkExtension framework which requires an entitlemen
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by pilif 6y ago
The problem is that the macOS SDK doesn’t ship pkgconfig files for the libraries included with macOS. Unless you go the extra length, the “easy fix” is to compile your own version of those libraries which is fine until you need to be linked
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by pilif 6y ago
Those things are very much worth simplifying: as more and more packages are starting to rely on pkgconfig, getting the headers recognized that ship with whatever SDK you are currently using (Xcode, command line tools) is very tricky and som
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by pilif 6y ago
... which is a blessing and a curse: When they are doing a good job, that's perfect because it means that some software which wouldn't run correctly now runs correctly. When they are doing a bad job, they might anger maintainers (
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by pilif 6y ago
Homebrew's policy is to not apply patches that upstream doesn't accept, though I do notice that they are sometimes applying patches to the build systems themselves to patch in some of the paths to include files living deep inside
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by pilif 6y ago
> ask for reverse DNS of that IP to still get a good idea of what you are doing these days, this will be mostly some *.amazonws.com domain.
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by pilif 6y ago
the UI probably ran in emulated intel mode. That part can totally be dealt with by Rosetta 2 - only the VMs need special support.
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by pilif 6y ago
The DTK’s CPU lacked features that would have been required for docker to start working on their port
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by pilif 6y ago
Or they just start to use Wildvine protection for their videos

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