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brlin2021··on Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal
Paypal Honey, anyone?
brlin2021··on The unofficial whisper.cpp snap now supports Vulkan-based audio transcription
Snap publisher here, we're now holding a call for testing for potential regressions of this change. Please try it out on any Vulkan-enabled systems and report problems on the issue tracker.
brlin2021··on Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux
The sudo binaries in the snaps are likely to have their SUID bit stripped, so they won't cause any trouble even if they have known vulnerabilities.
brlin2021··on Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux
This statement is false as snaps also have shared runtimes known as "content snaps".

A common example is the ones with the gnome- prefix and the ones that end with -themes suffix.