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dan, to technology in Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
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one point registration for multiple communities,

Federation, or at least some form of single sign-on with arbitrary providers (like we used to do with OpenID), is a better way of solving this.

dan, to linux in [SOLVED!] On an Android phone is there an open source method of compressing files?
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  • dan, to linux in What could your distro learn from another distro?
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    the entire package system shits itself

    Usually just the one package fails, unless you have other packages that have a dependency on it. I agree that it’s annoying though.

    dan, to linux in Multifunction Laser Printer and Linux
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    My wife uses an app called Adobe Scan and it seems to work well enough. We scan receipts, warranty documents, paperwork, etc. with it.

    dan, to linux in Multifunction Laser Printer and Linux
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    I’d recommend two devices that do one thing well (separate printer and scanner) compared to one device that does both things kinda okay. It also means you can upgrade just one of them instead of having to replace both.

    dan, to linux in What's your experience with Electron alternatives
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    The best native apps do look native to the platform though.

    dan, to linux in What's your experience with Electron alternatives
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    Have you tried Flutter? flutter.dev

    React Native is good, and isn’t just a web view. It uses native UI widgets so the apps feel truly native. Many Android and iOS apps use it, and Microsoft ported it to Windows and MacOS and use it in some of their apps (notably, the Xbox app, parts of Office, and parts of Windows like the old Mail app in Windows 10, use it). Unfortunately there’s no stable port for Linux :/

    In theory, someone could port React Native to use Gtk, Qt, or WxWidgets, but I haven’t seen any such efforts recently - there’s a few old projects but they’ve all been abandoned.

    dan, to linux in What's your experience with Electron alternatives
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    You could be fooled into thinking it’s native.

    It doesn’t look like a native app at all though.

    dan, to linux in German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
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    I’m not sure it’ll even save them money, at least initially. They’re likely paying consultants to work out the best approach, they need to retrain staff, and they’d probably go with a distro like RedHat that has vendor support (plus have paid support for LibreOffice too)

    dan, to linux in XZ backdoor in a nutshell
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    Yeah - The post goes into a lot of detail, and they did take that into account. It’s worth reading.

    dan, to technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform
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    Accessing an API is not scraping.

    I probably used the wrong words… What I meant is that given API access, a malicious third-party can gather a large amount of data and store it in a way that goes against the service’s terms of service, without the proper privacy guarantees (e.g. user data being deleted if they delete their account). Obviously that’s a problem for a social network where people can post a lot of friends-only posts.

    dan, to linux in XZ backdoor in a nutshell
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    They’re more likely to be based in Eastern Europe based on the times of their commits (during working hours in Eastern European Time) and the fact that while most commits used a UTC+8 time zone, some of them used UTC+2 and UTC+3: …substack.com/…/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-an…

    dan, to linux in XZ backdoor in a nutshell
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    They’re more likely to be based in Eastern Europe based on the times of their commits (during working hours in Eastern European Time) and the fact that while most commits used a UTC+8 time zone, some of them used UTC+2 and UTC+3: …substack.com/…/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-an…

    dan, to linux in XZ backdoor in a nutshell
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    AFAIK he works on the Azure PostgreSQL product.

    dan, to linux in XZ backdoor in a nutshell
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    OpenSSL did add to the entropy pool a bunch uninitialized memory and the PID.

    Did they have a comment above the code explaining why it was doing it that way? If not, I’d blame OpenSSL for it.

    The OpenSSL codebase has a bunch of issues, which is why somewhat-API-compatible forks like LibreSSL and BoringSSL exist.

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