boredsquirrel

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boredsquirrel,

Btw that mockup paper is hillarious XD

boredsquirrel, (edited )

Right, forgot about Pulsar. Also have Lapce installed but that may not have the needed tools.

VSCodium also installed in a Distrobox, but tbh I dont want to use it. It is slow, Electron, Microsoft etc. Just not an option.

I am currently trying to add syntax highlighting for typst to kate, but I read that XML and damn thats complex.

boredsquirrel,

This is the flicker I meant

Thanks for the tip about the dialog! I will add that to the FR as a solution. It is not good to generally disable all warnings though.

Janus, a simple text editor

For the past few months I have been working on a simple windows notepad like text editor. It’s nothing special, but when I first switched to linux I looked around and it took me a while to find leafpad. Unlike leafpad however, Janus uses gtk3, a much more modern toolkit then gtk2, it can display and modify binary data, and it...

boredsquirrel,

Very interesting! Never read anything about binary editing. Cool project!

Obvious question: why not GTK4?

boredsquirrel,

Very interesting, thanks for the anwer!

boredsquirrel,

Kernel

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Both are not ready. LXQt will be soon though.

boredsquirrel,

XFCE on Wayland is solid?

boredsquirrel,

LXQt is already on Qt 6.6 (?) which means native wayland-first support.

They are not fully done but that will only be a month or so.

Until then, I dont know really? Will be great!

Meanwhile MATE and XFCE are on GTK3? Which is not perfectly wayland ready afaik.

boredsquirrel,

Compliance. Control. Security. Lots of things?

boredsquirrel,

Very cool!

boredsquirrel,

XMPP.

boredsquirrel,

What about Typst?

boredsquirrel,

It is too basic. I guess something more full-fledged like… typst?

boredsquirrel,

Matrix is daaaaamn slow. And not private.

boredsquirrel,

SimpleX. No federated messenger is good for privacy.

But I see how SimpleX is impossible for public groups, as spam is basically unavoidable.

boredsquirrel,

Learning that currently.

boredsquirrel,

Never tried that. For sure it lacks spaces, threads, moderation, invite links, requests etc.

Correct me if I am wrong

boredsquirrel,

They host a proprietary service that does all the stuff, the compiler and spec are completely FOSS. So you need to create your own implementations, which is not hard.

I dont think they will close source the compiler. And thats basically everything thats needed?

I have 0 problems with people creating a fancy proprietary implementation to get people hooked. I will never use an online editor, but why care?

boredsquirrel,

Yes, also PiP now

boredsquirrel,

Simplex.chat

boredsquirrel,

You know Overleaf is a thing right?

Many projects need to be rewritten from scratch I think. But I also think an easier markup language for LaTeX could be possible, keeping all the nice templates etc.

boredsquirrel,

No, but Overleaf is just a proprietary fancy editor like the Typst one. Meanwhile typst is just as usable for building editor too.

I dont see any arguments against typst really. I am using Markdown all time and find it best, but lacking. Then LaTeX, honestly I dont want to learn as it must be a pain to write.

Now in typst, you can write academic papers etc just as well. All you need is free software, with good backing, modern tooling (rust, cargo), thus it runs everywhere. Its pretty cool!

boredsquirrel,

Yay a Git repo without screenshots

boredsquirrel, (edited )

For me:

My strange sorting- Git: for git stuff - Distrobox (home dirs separated with –home to prevent dotfile conflicts) - build (and also apps) - tests - Downloads: for chaos - many subdirs - Backups - Laptop - Phone - SYNC (complete dir with syncthing, I put as much stuff there as possible) - Pictures, Music, Downloads (because Android sucks, also synced with syncthing) - TOPICS - Personal - Hobby 1, 2, 3 - Movie Torrents - … - Work - Seminars - Documents - Study - EBooks - Tech - Distros (ISOs) - Commands - Guides - Packages - Appimages - Windows - RPMs - packages - spec files - General - Documents - living stuff

Works pretty well. I symlink lots of stuff, especially the synced phone directories. I keep some pictures local, some synced etc.

boredsquirrel, (edited )

We plan to run programmatic research to reduce risk in decision-making so that users benefit when our stakeholders translate user insights into product development.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Edit: I see the point of studies, which are not needed. But especially, feeding users stuff their stakeholders want, is a crazy thesis.

Their users are their biggest stakeholders, arent they? Or is it Google?

That phrasing tells me its Google.

boredsquirrel,

I dont think LLMs are used for that

boredsquirrel,

Bloat is when stuff you need pulls in tons of stuff it and even you doesnt even need. So that stuff gets updated, stored and even loaded to RAM.

Sometimes this is also a complex set of libraries, like GNOME and KDE have. There are tons of libraries, and especially when using Flatpak, you poorly always pull in all of them, as the runtime system is built like that. (Even though packagers could state the needed dependencies from that runtime, and then only those are downloaded)

boredsquirrel,

I mean xz is already “done” (RPM uses zstd, all other projects are upstream)

boredsquirrel,

If you dont have a machine, you can still imagine one 😉

virt-manager.org

Stopping a badly behaved bot the wrong way.

I host a few small low-traffic websites for local interests. I do this for free - and some of them are for a friend who died last year but didn’t want all his work to vanish. They don’t get so many views, so I was surprised when I happened to glance at munin and saw my bandwidth usage had gone up a lot....

boredsquirrel,

Wow ClaudeAI, goos job!

boredsquirrel,

OpenAI wanting to shit on competitors?

boredsquirrel,

The only stuff I need, that should be easier

  • commit all changes
  • commit to other branch
  • squash all commits to one
  • configure a ssh key per user (especially when using different accounts, different username etc)
boredsquirrel,

Note that LXQt doensnt include a window manager, but runs independently on top of others like Sway, KWin, Hyprland, Wayfire (Wayland) or Openbox and others (XOrg)

boredsquirrel,

Have a look at this thread for Wayland support

boredsquirrel,

No, not that easily. Your phone could have 2 flash storages and do all the android stuff in there, with hardware TPM, A/B root, verified boot, rollback prevention, not rooted etc.

Ironically this is not even enforced by those shitty banking apps, GrapheneOS is way more secure and will probably be blocked by some apps soon, as they are not a “google certified OS”, replacing the old SafetyNet.

boredsquirrel,

SafetyNet is deprecated and replaced by “Google Play Certification” checks. This means any custom OS may be blocked. Its pretty horrible.

boredsquirrel,

Damn, interesting. Only works with Google Tracking at root level, but at least it works… for now.

boredsquirrel,

GNU like Gnu, I dont see the problem?

Edit: oh damn english people cant pronounce that?

Here, dict.cc has lots of spoken examples

boredsquirrel,

That dude is totally wrong. SUSE is a german company.

[suse]

  • z one
  • b oo ze
  • z one
  • v a cation

By accident, here is a video about bavaria and SUSE

boredsquirrel,

“Lainus Torvolds”

boredsquirrel,

Paw r sh [german low e]

boredsquirrel,

The german low e can be found ≈ the same in “v a cation”

boredsquirrel,

Virt-manager

boredsquirrel,

Yep but 200% sure not Desktop Linux

boredsquirrel,

Yeah that may be true. On Florisboard I experimented a bit with light gray but havent bothered as much.

And as I said, OLED with lower brightness is basically grey

boredsquirrel,

Android relies on SELinux for its app sandbox. On Fedora the Waydroid package has some SELinux rules, but not sure if they are as good.

Daniel Micay answered under a Waydroid issue and at least on Android I fully trust his knowledge.

I dont know about exposed root, but Waydroid uses LXC containers and not rootless Podman/Docker.

The best solution would either be:

  • only run it on Fedora (no Problem for me)
  • harden the SELinux policy when needed
  • switch to a rootless container
  • or on other Distros, use a VM where you can fully control the environment
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