Is this because of the xz utils thing? The backdoor was included into the tarball, but it wasn't in the git repo.
By switching away from tarballs they pribably hope to prevent that, although this article doesn't mention that. It's possible this shift has been happening since before the xz utils.
Languagetool's browser extension is no longer open source, which has me concerned. You can still point it at a local server, but yeah.
UWP 💀
UWP is Microsoft's "new" app format, it's what the windows store and the xbox use.
It also isn't compatable with wine, and my pet theory is that this was the entire point of it. Combined with Windows S mode, which doesn't let you install apps other than from the windows store, the goal was to lock down the windows ecosystem by having apps that can't be made to run on linux.
I remember seeing a compatability layer for UWP apps a while ago, and I am pleased to see that it has come this far. Great work!
Edit: wait this uses a windows VM. Still good though and lets people escape the windows ecosystem.
The whole point of it is that in a truly random system all known patterns should eventually emerge somewhere within it.
So pi (probably) has this property. There are some joke compression programs around this (they don't really work because it takes up more space to store where something in pi is, than storing the thing itself). But it is funny, to think that pi could theoretically hold every past, present, and future piece of information within those digits after the decimal.
https://github.com/philipl/pifs
https://ntietz.com/blog/why-we-cant-compress-messages-with-pi/
A wonderful and life changing experience.
I like to link it without the ending title, like https://store.steampowered.com/app/1944240/ because it's funnier when people can't see the game title in the link.
A fnaf fangame that is close enough to feel like fnaf, but has a twist: Every single level also involves a puzzle. While trying to survive enemies fnaf style. Although I've never played this game, I LOVE watching it on Twitch. I like to call it "Human's can't multitask: The Game".
Yeah, I read that manual but it didn't answer my question.
The big problem is that the arch wiki describes a setup with nested subvolumes first (in a subvolume below @ or whatever your root subvolume is), but then suggests in a tip to use a subvolume directly below the top level subvolume. The limitations mentioned in that manual don't seem to apply to either setup, as they would prevent swap from working, which is not the case. I have tested both setups and they work fine — or so it seems. I'm worried there is some hidden gotcha I'm missing.
in addition to that, some of those limitations simply don't apply to my setup, as I only have a single device.
Its like people only watched the opening scene and the one in which he murders Allen.
And the business card scene. But yeah, I think a large portion of people didn't watch the actual movie, and only saw those three clips on youtube (including me).
Putting something on GitHub is really inconsequential if you’re making your project open source since anyone can use it for anything anyway,
Except for people in China (blocked in China) or people on ipv6 only networks, since Github hasn't bothered to support ipv6, cutting out those in countries where ipv4 addresses are scarce.
So yes, it does matter. Both gitlab and codeberg, the two big alternatives, both support ipv6 (idk about them being blocked in china). They also support github logins, so you dob't even need to make an account.
And it's not a black or white. Software freedom is a spectrum, not a binary. We should strive to use more open source, decentralized software, while recognizing that many parts are going to be out of our immediate control, like the backbone of the internet or little pieces like proprietary firmware.
Gpu passthrough, if you can do that will always be most performant.
If you want the qemu/kvm equivalent of what vmware workstation does, than look into virtualgl, which is very good (a wine port on android uses this to get good performace without direct access to host hardware), but it still may not be everything you want.
Although the usage of (x)wayland is novel, there have already beem projects which do something similar before.
Termux can run a linux container in a proot, which you can then connect to via an app like vnc to get graphics.
There exist several options to automate this setup, such as anlinux. There is also the proprietary andronix, which used to be open source but now it looks like tgere repos aren't being updated.
It's bad reporting to frame this as a novel app, when it's not. The novel thing is the way this app does xwayland rendered by a native wayland compositor (instead of remote desktop softeare or other solutions), which is really cool though.