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[-] exu@feditown.com 0 points 2 days ago

Boox doesn't share kernel sources for their devices, so it's basically impossible to get Android updates when they stop supporting it.

[-] exu@feditown.com 12 points 3 days ago

Please make sure to implement democracy first, we have enough issues with dictatorships and oligopolies already.

[-] exu@feditown.com 4 points 5 days ago

I'm not a kernel dev, but I've read often enough that there are some places where "everything is a file" somewhat breaks down on Unix. (I think /proc and some /dev)

For an "absolutely everything is a file" system have a look at plan9, it was the intended successor to Unix, but then that got popular while plan9 stayed a research project.

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[-] exu@feditown.com 9 points 1 week ago

Are you sure you want pipewire and pulseaudio installed and trying to run?

Maybe replace pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse, unless I'm missing something from your post.

[-] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 week ago

Arch Linux Mint is a great example of the Linux desktop ecosystem that is a very good example of the Linux ecosystem that is a very good example of the Linux ecosystem...

Thanks FUTO keyboard

[-] exu@feditown.com 4 points 1 week ago

XML is much more annoying to read/write by hand

[-] exu@feditown.com 11 points 1 week ago
fn main(){
    println!("hello world");
}
[-] exu@feditown.com 10 points 1 week ago

I'd probably prefer a bash script that's called from your CI/CD if done properly, just because I could run the same tests locally with that script. That makes the feedback loop much faster and also allows stuff like auto formatting.

Yes, you can do git hooks, but then you have to keep it in sync with your CI/CD all the time.

[-] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 week ago

If I have two folders in my directory, Dir1 and dir2, what does d <TAB> autocomplete to and what should it do?

[-] exu@feditown.com 11 points 1 week ago

Why would they do that on purpose?

[-] exu@feditown.com 3 points 1 week ago

Different person, but I'll try to explain some of what I know.

Traditional Linux:

  • read/write root and usr
  • only one version of a program can exist*
  • packages are available immediately after install
  • packages are imperative (you tell it what to do, it does that)
  • files swapped in place (can lead to issues like kernel modules missing or Firefox not opening new tabs until restart)

*you might have python3.8 and python3.9, but those must be created as different packages using different paths in /usr

NixOS, Guix:

  • declarative package management (basically config file and exactly these packages are installed)
  • usr and parts of root read-only (afaik)
  • packages symlinked to usr
  • multiple versions of packages kept locally (though not all active necessarily)
  • will keep using old package until restart/reboot, therefore not breaking on updates. New instances of a program can use the new package
  • easy to roll back due to multiple versions kept

Immutable OS (haven't seen one mentioned by OP, but it's a category):

  • often imperative package management
  • using snapshots or multiple root partitions for easy rollbacks
  • read-only root and usr
  • packages might only be available after a reboot (depends on implementation and if system packages or something else like Flatpak, which doesn't need a reboot, are used)

SerpentOS:

  • experimental distro (ie stuff might change)
  • imperative package manager
  • packages installed to separate tree, but swapped live. Basically A/B root of an Immutable system that doesn't require a reboot (according to the explaination in the latest blog post)

Not sure why ClearLinux is on that list of special distros and I don't know half of the rest so yeah. Hope this explains some of it?

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Any Croatians here? (feditown.com)

Currently on holiday in Croatia; beautiful country etc etc, but what the hell is wrong with your drivers?

Outside of cities it feels like the only speeds known to mankind are 90km/h for one lane roads and 130km/h for those with two or more.

A speed limit of 80 or 100 on a highway? Completely ignored, unless it's a tunnel, then 100 is ok.

Some section of road outside of a city says 70, 60 or 50? Ignored, just drive through with 90.

Beautiful two-lane road (D424) from A1 to Zadar with a limit of 80, me doing 90 because that's OK somehow and most other cars overtake me with 20 km/h more at least.

So, what is wrong with your drivers?

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This is the latest article in a series of posts by Rachel about all the misbehaving RSS feed readers out there.

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TLDR: An AMI testkey was used in production by a bunch of manufacturers. The key has now been leaked.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22460079

Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows

This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.

Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)

Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22460079

Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows

This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.

Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)

Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.

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Just a quick fyi for anyone using Intune to distribute firewall rules with the "Endpoint Protection > Windows Firewall" profile for the first time.
Any rules you set won't be visible in the wf.msc GUI or using PowerShell's Get-NetFirewallRule.

The only place you can see those rules is the registry under this key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\Mdm\FirewallRules
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I know where Linux, but this was too good not to share.
Red was the first output, green when I told it to continue, blue on the second continue. It really didn't want to talk about Microsoft.

Alt text:
User exu: "I made an Intune policy that creates a firewall rule and assigned it to a user. Intune reports a successful execution, but I can't find it in the firewall rules."

Bot Judy response 1: "Ugh, typical Microsoft shit. They're always trying to pull the wool over our eyes with their ""successful"" reports that don't actually work as intended. Let me take a look at your setup and see if we can figure out what went wrong. It might just need some manual intervention."

User prompts to continue

Bot Judy response 2: she rolls her eyes

User prompts to continue

Bot Judy response 3: "I'm assuming you've already tried the usual troubleshooting steps, right? Like checking the device's compliance status and making sure the user is actually in the scope of the policy? If not, let's start there."

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