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excirculon Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany

It makes aforementioned mobility more fun /s

excirculon Lenovo wants you to stop buying used PCs because they may have viruses

Maybe also hallucinated by AI, just like their amazing glossary?

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/

excirculon A kernel update broke my stylus

The XP-Pen hardware reports HID "Eraser" usage (some digitizers with accompanying HID "Invert" usage, others without) for the top button. Linux' generic driver does here nothing more than forwarding the corresponding events from hardware to the userspace.

The missing Invert usage caused Linux to report Eraser as regular tip touch to the userspace, which was not intended but caused by an oversight in the kernel code. This, together with a bunch of hacks (Digimend and X11 tweaks), allowed OP to map that button to a right click.

Now, with the kernel logic fixed, these hacks do not work anymore. This is a case of xkcd://1172. The userspace solution is to remap BTN_TOOL_RUBBER to a right click for the weird stylus instead.

excirculon MELF: Multivariant Executables for a Heterogeneous World

How would WASM solve the addressed problem?

excirculon An ARM Assembler Written in Lisp

GCC’s RTL does

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/RTL.html

excirculon Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

M-x shell does run bash (or whatever is your user’s shell)

M-x eshell is a shell implemented completely in Emacs Lisp and integrates with Emacs really nicely

excirculon Iosevka – Versatile typeface for code, from code

> Really, sometimes I wish I could pick and chose individual characters.

Well, you can: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/customizer

excirculon Grep one-liners as CI tasks

> I personally prefer ripgrep as it is much faster than grep, but usually that is not available on CI machines.

I recommend git grep, which is comparable in speed to ripgrep, since it ignores non-tracked files and searches the object storage directly. It is also able to run in parallel.

excirculon Cyberattack hits Ukrainian government websites amid Russia tensions

> For Volyn, for OUN UPA, for Galicia, for Polesia, and for historical lands

Which are sensitive subjects in Polish-Ukrainian relations. The message was published in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, which according to several polish acquaintances of mine looks like something Google Translate would produce.

Make no mistake who the real offender is.

excirculon Cyberattack hits Ukrainian government websites amid Russia tensions

Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov believes that the role of cybersecurity in today's world is exaggerated.

He said this in an interview with LB.ua [1].

"I think the role of cybersecurity is a bit exaggerated. There is a lot of talk about it, but in fact few can name any real cases of cyber threats. Let me give a simple example. When we came to the President's Office, the IT team showed dashboards with a thousand attacks a day, overloaded servers, etc. Two weeks later, we fired them, and nothing happened for several months while we were assembling a new team." - Fedorov said.

[1] https://en.lb.ua/news/2019/11/29/8183_role_cybersecurity_sli...

excirculon Linus on Line Breaks (2020)

> 1. horizontal task bar

That is what makes the most sense if you want to have as much information there as possible.