[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 10 points 1 day ago

They might not even know the source. The Guardian for example has a Tor service to upload them stuff completely anonymously.

Of course the crooked courts will pretend they're refusing to comply and jail them anyway to make a show.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 1 day ago

The main issue you'll run into is nicher proprietary software being hard to install, but that's what containers are for. The main one I see is if you need to install some proprietary VPN client it gets annoying, but since you'll be running a VM anyway you can do some network trickery. My work's antivirus only works on Ubuntu and RHEL, proprietary kernel modules so it's got to be at least one of those kernels.

Linux is Linux, nothing's impossible to solve even with Bazzite's immutability. Worst comes to worst you make your own images and it's not that hard, you basically just fork it on GitHub and let the CI do its thing.

But do you have time to fiddle to make it work and take the risk, or do you want to play it safe? How confident are you with Bazzite's more advanced topics?

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 23 points 3 days ago

Ah yes, he's the only government allowed to collect taxes.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 3 days ago

Ubuntu 7.10 so late 2007, but I guess the nerd part came when I installed Arch in 2011. Still running that very same install.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 5 days ago

My own personal example: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/8FM1ZvXi68

It just doesn't look great nor serious nor welcoming.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 5 points 5 days ago

The guy gives a ton of "I don't care about anyone's use cases except mines" vibes too. Also called Gnome and KDE teletubbies DEs when I mentioned xcomposite being an important feature. Basically considering the widely known issues around multimonitor vsync and mismatched resolutions and all as basically not real issues with Xorg.

XLibre is 100% a political fork because the guy claims Xorg is deprecated by a big tech conspiracy pushing inferior software onto users. There's nothing wrong with wanting to continue Xorg's legacy but come on we don't have to pretend Xorg is this perfect thing that always works. Xorg has been hated for decades for a reason. This xkcd exists for a reason: https://xkcd.com/963/

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 20 points 5 days ago

It's been a while, but I believe you do need the annoying new XML/SVG thing as it also doubles as the splash screen animation when you open an app as well. You can embed a PNG in those but vector is preferred because of screen resolutions.

Wishing you great success with your app, disabilities are wildly underserved especially in open-source.

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submitted 2 months ago by Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me to c/linux@lemmy.world

Cross-posted from "PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)" by @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me in !linux@lemmy.ml


I don't normally watch him but this popped on my feed, and I'm pretty impressed. Dude really fell the Arch+Hyprland rabbit hole and ended up loving it.

Probably one of the largest YouTuber switching to Linux, and is very positive about it.

That Hyprland rice is pretty sick too.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 205 points 9 months ago

Soon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 223 points 9 months ago

Epic is anti-consumer and also anti-Linux, they don't make any effort to support other platforms, the app is shit.

Meanwhile, Steam is

  • Actively working with the FOSS community to help preserve old games
    • Kernel improvements for better graphics performance
    • Lots of VR and HDR work
    • Many contributions to the open-source AMD drivers
  • Has been supporting Linux gaming for a decade with no signs of backing down
  • They have a portable Linux gaming console experience, and it's intentionally left wide open for users to mess with
    • They've taken several community features and built them into the OS
  • Their DRM is weak and unintrusive
  • Their anticheat is ununtrusive
  • The sales are pretty good
  • They have tons of features for users:
    • Family sharing
    • Remote Play Together
    • Remote Play
    • Streaming
    • Community forums for every game
    • Mod workshop
    • Matchmaking
    • Steam Chat / Voice Chat / Streaming

The only appealing thing for EGS is, EGS takes a lower cut from the developers who just pockets it and doesn't even result in lower prices for users. As a Linux user, praise our Lord GabeN for all the good Valve has done for gamers. Even for the developers, most are quite happy with the services they get back from that 30% cut.

I'd say the dislike is mainly that for the users, EGS doesn't bring in anything new or interesting or useful that Steam didn't already do well, and goes directly against a lot of the good Steam has been doing. It's just a store that makes big developers slightly more happy.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 209 points 9 months ago

Less and less about OpenAI is actually... open at all.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 287 points 9 months ago

Isn't he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

He's also got a generally nuanced opinion of piracy, in that it's justifiable in some situations. If you call it piracy and you're okay with piracy then it's not really a contradiction.

Being willing to talk about it despite working against your interests isn't always bad depending on context.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Neat little thing I just noticed, might be known but I never head of it before: apparently, a Wayland window can vsync to at least 3 monitors with different refresh rates at the same time.

I have 3 monitors, at 60 Hz, 144 Hz, and 60 Hz from left to right. I was using glxgears to test something, and noticed when I put the window between the monitors, it'll sync to a weird refresh rate of about 193 fps. I stretched it to span all 3 monitors, and it locked at about 243 fps. It seems to oscillate between 242.5 and 243.5 gradually back and forth. So apparently, it's mixing the vsync signals together and ensuring every monitor's got a fresh frame while sharing frames when the vsyncs line up.

I knew Wayland was big on "every frame is perfect", but I didn't expect that to work even across 3 monitors at once! We've come a long, long way in the graphics stack. I expected it to sync to the 144Hz monitor and just tear or hiccup on the other ones.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 220 points 1 year ago

Basically, the SUID bit makes a program get the permissions of the owner when executed. If you set /bin/bash as SUID, suddenly every bash shell would be a root shell, kind of. Processes on Linux have a real user ID, an effective user ID, and also a saved user ID that can be used to temporarily drop privileges and gain them back again later.

So tools like sudo and doas use this mechanism to temporarily become root, then run checks to make sure you're allowed to use sudo, then run your command. But that process is still in your user's session and process group, and you're still its real user ID. If anything goes wrong between sudo being root and checking permissions, that can lead to a root shell when you weren't supposed to, and you have a root exploit. Sudo is entirely responsible for cleaning the environment before launching the child process so that it's safe.

Run0/systemd-run acts more like an API client. The client, running as your user, asks systemd to create a process and give you its inputs and outputs, which then creates it on your behalf on a clean process tree completely separate from your user session's process tree and group. The client never ever gets permissions, never has to check for the permissions, it's systemd that does over D-Bus through PolKit which are both isolated and unprivileged services. So there's no dangerous code running anywhere to exploit to gain privileges. And it makes run0 very non-special and boring in the process, it really does practically nothing. Want to make your own in Python? You can, safely and quite easily. Any app can easily integrate sudo functionnality fairly safely, and it'll even trigger the DE's elevated permission prompt, which is a separate process so you can grant sudo access to an app without it being able to know about your password.

Run0 takes care of interpreting what you want to do, D-Bus passes the message around, PolKit adds its stamp of approval to it, systemd takes care of spawning of the process and only the spawning of the process. Every bit does its job in isolation from the others so it's hard to exploit.

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It only shows "view all comments", so you can't see the full context of the comment tree.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

The current behaviour is correct, as the remote instance is the canonical source, but being able to copy/share a link to your home instance would be nice as well.

Use case: maybe the comment is coming from an instance that is down, or one that you don't necessarily want to link to.

If the user has more than one account, being able to select which would be nice as well, so maybe a submenu or per account or a global setting.

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