The_Decryptor

More individual participation, less corporate involvement, zero corporate ownership of essentials.

I’ve got some bad news about Linux then, the main contibutors are companies, and the infrastructure is owned by them.

It’s not individuals who paying Linus $1.5 million a year (Under “Compensation”).

A box shaped computer? so pedestrian, mine is a hyperbolic paraboloid.

Does systemd print much once it’s fully running? Checking my log the only chatty thing is networkmanager doing wifi scanning, 4 separate state change log messages per scan.

It was routinely being gamed, made it kinda useless for semi popular stuff when you couldn’t tell if something was actually garbage, or just had upset the wrong people.

In 145.

Funny thing is, the WebM format is actually a constrained profile of MKV, and Firefox strictly enforced those compatibility checks. Chrome never did though, so it could always support MKV files but only if you lied and claimed they were WebM.

Edit: Lemmy eats the highlight in the link, look for “Matroska” under “Web Platform”

EdgeHTML was a genuine improvement over the old IE engine, but even MS couldn’t compete against Google in the end.

Pretty sure Firefox added support for HEVC a while back, but it relies on the system to provide the decoder (Which you’ll usually have to pay extra for)

Firefox also supports MKV files now, which is nice.

I’ve never used 6rd, but I did use 6to4 for a while (A long time ago) and I got a GUA from that. 6rd closely related to 6to4 so I naïvely expect them to work similarly?

Now I did it all with OpenWRT, but the gist was you set the tunnel information on the WAN side in the webui, and it produced the configuration for the LAN side. Since it’s a tunnel you never actually set any of the v6 details on the actual WAN adapter, outside of routing (i.e. what v4 endpoint do you send stuff to).

Nah, storage is fried.

People always focus on systemd whenever this is posted, but all systemd is saying is that it can’t read the service files when it tries to start something. Earlier on the kernel is complaining about I/O errors as well.

I bet the actual logo display is a full screen browser too, multiple computers each running chrome just to display ads.

Depending on the output device it’s still using ALSA underneath (e.g. Bluetooth output instead is given to the BT stack), PipeWire is dealing with managing and routing the audio output rather than actually performing it.

It’s been a few years since I used a Mac, but even then resource forks weren’t something you’d see outside of really old apps or some strange legacy use case, everything just used extended attributes or “sidecar” files (e.g. .DS_Store files in the case of Finder)

Unlike Windows or Linux, macOS takes care to preserve xattrs when transferring the files, e.g. their archiver tool automatically converts them to sidecar AppleDouble files and stores them in a __MACOS folder alongside the base file in the archive, and reapplies them on extraction.

If course nothing else does that, so if you’ve extracted a zip file or whatever and found that folder afterwards, that’s what you’re looking at.

The latest Nvidia drivers have broken composition in Xfce, so I’ve been raw-dogging basic X11. It’s like I’m using WinXP again.

No, MS has been “shipping” curl with Windows for ages, it’s just that legacy powershell has an alias for curl to their internal download module that predates the bundling. And they won’t change that because it has backwards compatibility risks.

Upside is, it’s a literal alias. “curl” uses the internal module while “curl.exe” uses the normal app.

Further upside, if you use the up to date version of powershell, that alias is gone as they removed it during the transition.

KHTML and WebKit is a historic mess but it’s debatable at best if Apple actually violated license terms.

There’s no requirement that a downstream fork needs to contribute their code back to upstream, they just need to release it, and they always did that.

The lead developer of systemd has said multiple times that we should be fine with break POSIX if it means developing faster.

I mean, so does GNU.

A lot of this is also a post-hoc justification, UNIX didn’t get shared libraries until some point in the 80s (Can’t find an exact year), so before that your options were to either statically compile the needed functionality into your program or keep it as an entirely separate program and call out to that.

It’s a perfect mix, in a time where enterprise storage was measured in single digit megabytes, and the only efficient way to created shared functionality was via separate programs, and you’ve got an OS that happens to have “easily pass data between programs” as a core paradigm.

And now people invoke it to attack an init program for also monitoring the programs it starts and not just spawning them.

Git itself (Or any other VCS for that matter) really should treat symlinks as special, similar as to how btrfs stores everything as “reflinks” internally. They be stored as special references to other tracked objects (so it’d be impossible to commit a symlink that pointed at anything other than a checked-in file, and ensure they always match), and git can materialise them as needed.

Windows Terminal is the terminal emulator that hosts the shell (cmd or PowerShell, or anything else really). It’s the modern replacement for “cmdhost”.

It’s also a fantastic app, some of the devs are on Mastodon too.

A couple more times and they might actually reference what really failed.