trevor (he/they)

Fuck that. The Linux gate is wide open! Anyone that wants to use Linux, come on in!

And for your own sake: use anything but Ubuntu and their buggy Snaps.

Sure, but that way of thinking seems to treat trying to avoid supporting bigots as some sort of “purity cult” game, and it’s not. Just because there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, that doesn’t excuse people to make highly unethical purchases.

Of course you can’t perfectly avoid any bigoted shitheads from having worked on something you buy, but you wouldn’t buy a game where the majority of the royalties go to David Duke, would you?

Some people are just doing the best they can to not support bigoted assholes, and when it comes to gaming, a market that exists purely for entertainment, and one that has millions of other options, that’s rather easy and practical to do.

Thanks! That first link is an excellent resource for a security tool I’m working on. Specifically, gVisor, which I hadn’t heard of, but looks like an excellent way to harden containers.

I may rebase to secureblue from Bluefin at some point to give it a try.

Do those one-off bigots that perhaps lended some labor to said games get royalties for the IP? If not, then this comparison is not even close to valid with a billionaire bigot raking in more wealth based on an IP they poisoned.

I’m asking this because I haven’t tried secureblue: in what ways is Linux behind in security, and what does secureblue do to mitigate that?

And do any of those mitigations negatively impact usability?

The problem with replacing GitHub with something that isn’t owned by genocidal Microsoft is that GitHub provides a fuckload of free compute via their runners. If you migrate away from that to another smaller service, suddenly you’ve got to pay for your automated builds (or lose them).

I fear that many FOSS projects simply wouldn’t be popular if they had to be built manually from source by end users.

The well deserved Snap complaints 😏

I’m a (mediocre) Rust dev, and I use GPL licenses for my projects. There’s nothing preventing you from doing so. I think the answer to your question is that it’s largely cultural.

Running x86_64 emulation on an ARM CPU is a miserable experience and should be avoided. I’ve done this on an M-series Mac with UTM, and you’re looking at ~10-minute boot times just to get the VM booted, and ~3 minutes for it to render a response to whatever you click.

It’s honestly wild that they seriously suggest doing this on their Wiki.

This is the way. The uBlue derivatives benefit from the most shared knowledge and problem-solving skills being delivered directly to users.

Between that, and using a decorative distrobox config, I get an actually reliable system with packages from any distro I want.

Oh, that’s brilliant!

By the time you’re reading this, we will have enabled microphone support on most laptops!

Awesome!

Has anyone ever explained the meaning behind the Asahi logo? It always reminded me of a cartoon anvil (in a good way).

Don’t forget the collapsed view, where you could fit twice as many toggles as the bullshit we have now.

It took me a while to get around to this so I could sanitize some of the highly-personal stuff there (mostly just a bunch of URLs because I don’t use browser bookmarks lol), but here’s a condensed version of what I like to use Espanso for.

The second half is …interesting. I wanted a way to autofill passwords from my password manager in any application, not just a browser. It’s a very homebrewed solution, and it only works on Windows and Linux because macOS blocks tools like Espanso from viewing or modifying login input fields.

Did you put in a request for this?

For a Wayland Flatpak or RPM? I haven’t looked in a long time, but I believe there’s an open issue for a Wayland RPM.

Edit: Found them: Flatpak issue and RPM issue.

I like YAML, as long as you aren’t using complicated syntax. Using the | operator will get you some flexible usage that’s mostly easy enough to read. YAML definitely has its problems though. If you want, I can share some snippets of my config.

Sadly though, due to Espanso not having a working RPM build for Wayland (or a Flatpak, which they’re working on), it’s not quite as cross-platform as I want it to be. It won’t work on any of the cool uBlue-derived distros that I’ve gravitated toward, so I’m hoping we get a nice, big update this year.

Espanso is probably the most useful software that nobody is using. I can’t live without it.

I hope it gets an update soon…

That’s not what any of that means. Your reading comprehension could use some work.

You are really trying hard to contort things into things I didn’t say.

The people problem is being ignored, and it wasn’t until Linus was made aware of a technical justification for slapping Hellwig down that Linus focused his disapproval away from Marcan, who was rightly calling this out, to the person creating the problem.

And we lost at least three solid R4L devs, of which, Marcan was one, and there’s zero acknowledgement from Linus that fixating on Marcan rightly calling this shit out was wrong.

The people problem of letting obstinate babies block valid code for any non-technical reason still has not been addressed, and this will keep happening until that changes.

Nothing speculative about it. The substance of the problem (obstinate, crotchety baby that was blocking useful code) was ignored and Linus instead chose to wrongly focus on Marcan calling out the problem. There’s nothing wrong with people calling out toxic bullshit, and it seemed that social media was necessary for that in this case, yeah.