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bionade24··on Falkon: A KDE Web Browser
Embedlite is still maintained, even though it's not a Mozilla project nor very active. Since it's the base for the Sailfish browser, it even does have Qt bindings.

Relevant repos:

https://github.com/sailfishos/qtmozembed https://github.com/sailfishos/embedlite-components https://github.com/sailfishos/gecko-dev

bionade24··on Introducing ChatGPT Gov
I really doubt that it is literally pre-jailbroken. More likely, OpenAI will configure a custom prompt to improve the usage scenario of a large customer anyway.
bionade24··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Any US resident that could write something about their insights how Tiktok became so popular with residents over 30? What are the typical usage reasons for more mature people that differ from the incentives for young people?
bionade24··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
Smart move for Nvidia to subsidise their ARM CPU and platform business by selling a big GPU packet with a CPU that most users don't really care about. Even if the margin is less than selling the raw GPU power would be (which I doubt), it'll look good on the shareholders conference if other business segments go up steep, too.
bionade24··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
It always has been the userspace of the Jetsons which was closed source and tied to Nvidia's custom kernel. I have not heard from people running Jetpack on a different userland than the one provided by Nvidia. Companies/Labs that update the OS don't care about CUDA, Nvidia contributes to Mesa support of the Jetsons and some only need a bit more GPU power than a RasPi.
bionade24··on Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
Plenty of people here talk about the mistakes from Intel CEOs. But do they really have so much influence over the success of new production lines? Or is this maybe caused by some group of middle-management that backed each other's ass the last 10 years? How high is the possibility that the production problems with new nodes are mostly bad luck? I haven't seen anything trying analyse and quantise those questions.
bionade24··on Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell
I was referring to stuff like the size of CHAR_BIT depending on the platform. E.g., SystemC exists as a superset to allow hardware design in C, because ISO C isn't explicit on many occasions.
bionade24··on Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell
C is way too ambiguous to serve for that purpose.
bionade24··on OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer
Transport Fever 2 has a strong modding community doing virtual model railroading. There are plenty of mods improving vehicle stock, physics and procedures.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1066780/images/

https://www.transportfever.net/

bionade24··on Debian's /tmpest in a teapot
Hopefully Ubuntu will align with this decision, so that MATLAB is finally forced to fix their shitty software. (I am aware that you can set the TMPDIR as an env var)
bionade24··on Pdf.tocgen
Does someone know a tool that is sed- or awk-like for PDFs?
bionade24··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
Yes, even multiple themes. You can choose between detection of the system preference, light and dark mode. The setting is bound to your account, which I like, but I don't search much on my phone outdoors.
bionade24··on Show HN: I struggled to focus at work due to ADHD so I built a solution
Is there a way to sign up without a Google or Apple account? I have neither.
bionade24··on Install Windows the Arch Linux Way
I made the same mistake recently, Windows now uses the EFI partition on the Linux drive. But I don't have any of the problems listed. Not shutting down seems more like some ACPI issue to me.

My only problem is that BIOS updates delete the systemd-boot efistub, probably caused by the vendor only having exceptions for the Windows bootloader and GRUB.

bionade24··on Install Windows the Arch Linux Way
At least in Germany all cheap USB sticks sold to average consumers in stores are still FAT32. I highly doubt they format different fs for different countries, the printing on the packaging indicates they're all sold EU-wide.

FAT32 is still very dominant & I wonder why Microsoft & Apple don't push the vendors to use exFAT. Users unaware of filesystems won't need their stick being recognized by the UEFI, but they will have files > 4GB.

bionade24··on [dead]
From the TOS[1]:

§1Contract, test and evaluation period The test period of the product begins on 01.06.2023 and applies to the non-guaranteed maximum duration of one year. We reserve the right to refuse service to any person at any time for any reason. All files will be deleted after expiration of the testperiod. The service can have software bugs which can result in losing data.

1: https://scramble.cloud/#termsOfService

bionade24··on Why yewtu.be was down: Data loss after being shut down by Oracle Cloud
> the video data itself is still streamed by YouTube?

It's up to the instance admin for Invidious and the behaviour of Piped to proxy googlevideo. Not sure if it's visible at Invidious if you use an instance that doesn't proxy the traffic, but you can be sure it's proxied when you use Piped.

bionade24··on About GitHub’s use of your data
> The concern is, why not?

They need to reliably filter secrets or they are in trouble once Copilot suggests them.

bionade24··on Bcachefs – A New COW Filesystem
Not sure if this is feasible, but have you considered dumping binary on the raw disk like done with tapes?
bionade24··on Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot
The manufacturers removed S3 aka deep sleep support after Windows modern standby appeared. You can now only have S2 on many Laptops and that's not lasting remotely as long.
bionade24··on The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
> as far as Podman it's all I use for all of my server environments and I like it a lot better than Docker. It's simpler without all the weird "Dockerish" things getting in the way. Not having a monolithic server hang the whole machine due to a misbehaving container is well worth it.

Podman-compose was feature-lacking and beta even when podman already had its 3rd major release, while the communitcation was that "Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker". It just wasn't a drop-in at all for all compose users. People either stopped considering Podman or enablded the socket daemon, so that they are still able to use docker-compose. But this goes against the design ideas podman had.

Feels as half-baked as Ingnition, which also still feels very bare-bone, as if there's no financial interest to enhance it further.

bionade24··on KeePassXC Audit Report
Even if you don't encrypt your Linux' filesystem partitions, you definately should encrypt the swap / the partition the swapfile is on. A new encryption key for the swap can be created at every boot, removing the need of an encryption password. This behaviour does make hibernation impossible, so swap encryption isn't the default on Linux distros that have opt-in encryption.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Swap_encryption

Does someone know how it's handled on Windows and macOS?

bionade24··on KeePassXC Audit Report
IMHO an audit should always report about how readable a codebase is, because it's a dependency for the quality of the audit. E.g when the 1st kubernetes audit pointed out that the (side-)effects of certains operations are too complex to understand, this gives some insight about the height of the possibility for uncaught bugs and the possibility to introduce new bugs.
bionade24··on The Free Software Foundation is dying
The SFC currently tries to win a lawsuit out of "GPL software user" perspective:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

bionade24··on The Free Software Foundation is dying
It's crazy that the FSF only stands up for license violations of the GNU project, not all GPL licensed projects. That's the reason the software freedom conservancy was created in the 1st place.

RMS' management of the GNU project derailed long ago, from him vetoing for his jokes in project he's not involved anymore, going OT & insulting on mailing lists and often threatening GNU maintainers by stating that their project belongs to GNU, not them.

bionade24··on 0x0: Share Files from Terminal
You need port forwarding on the distributor side.
bionade24··on Italian regulators order ChatGPT ban over alleged violation of data privacy laws
OpenAI will sooner or later have offerings without recording all data & those will be legal in Italy. It's not a fundamental problem with hosted LLMs.
bionade24··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
Afaik they disable filesystem sandboxing, not process namespaces. Still better if programs can't ptrace around, although this is indeed a big issue.

If someone knows why this sandboxing is better/worse than SELinux or AppArmor access rules, can you pls elaborate? I'd really like to know.

bionade24··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
First of of all, I don't like Snap or Flatpak. I'm only really interested rpm-ostree as used in Fedora CoreOS and Silverblue. I don't hate Appimages, you're claim that they're "fundamentally different" is just hypocritical.

> The purpose of an AppImage is simply to condense such a tarball to a single runnable file, for convenience - nothing more.

This still forces the user to learn the internals if the AppImage doesn't work. E.g. if MATLAB would use Appimage, I'd have to extract squashfs contents, fix the broken libraries inside and the repackage it. Or I would have to write a script to start the executable outside. It's a simpler from a pure technical standpoint when it's a tarball + wrapper script.

> Snap permanently runs a daemon, and Flatpak requires you to run programs with "flatpak run" - yuck!

Snap has many issues Canonical just refuses to solve (e.g. users without home under /home), so I just ignore that. What flatpak does is arguably exactly what Appimage does, a wrapper script. Maybe more complex, but with additional features and the it's the same script for all packages. If you have 100 AppImages installed, you have the same thing as "flatpak run" in up to 100 slightly different versions. I can't see how that reduces complexity.

bionade24··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
No, an Appimage still ships a dynamically linked executable + lots of dynamically linked libraries, that only link against system libraries when strictly needed, e.g glibc and libGL. Those files are bundled in a squashfs and have a script setting a custom LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the squashfs content for the binary. Snap does use this technique, too, but does more, for worse.

AppImages are not comparable with statically linked binaries.

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