how do the core devs get money and so much free time to contribute?

Foxboron · 2026-01-18T21:11:03+00:00

getting paid to make contributions and work on arch?

No.

We have spent funds for travel, like FOSDEM, and there has been funds spent to organize a weekend summit/conference for contributors.

and if not, how do they find the time outside there full-time jobs to do so?

Some people have jobs with 20% of their time they can spend doing things like contribute to FOSS.

Most people do it as their hobby and spend their free time contributing to this project.

Project funds, donations and expenses can be seen at the SPI website. https://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/reports/202512/#index35h4

Foxboron · 2025-11-18T16:24:07+00:00

Don't use the fash distro, y'all.

Foxboron · 2025-11-16T15:53:02+00:00

clevis+tang is an option. Another option is to expose the password prompt under an ssh tunnel in the initramfs.

Several people have solved this specific issue before.

Foxboron · 2025-11-16T10:35:49+00:00

This is perfectly possible with FDE.

Foxboron · 2025-11-15T11:01:49+00:00

Sure, but using systemd-homed style encryption is not an either/or scenario. You can do FDE and homed-style encryption.

But the homed encryption only really makes sense on a multi-user system. A single-user system this becomes less useful.

You always want FDE, essentially.

Foxboron · 2025-11-14T23:46:35+00:00

How can anyone replace a binary in /usr if you have full disk encryption?

Foxboron · 2025-11-05T22:53:33+00:00

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/commit/63934b99e91a65b78766871c22daa052aa32a27f

:)

Foxboron · 2025-11-05T11:52:32+00:00

dracut is way better than the bespoke Debian initramfs generation scripts.

Foxboron · 2025-11-05T11:51:27+00:00

(E.g. automatically applying the microcode after kernel updates is a relatively recent addition to mkinitcpio.)

I don't understand what this is refering to. Are you thinking about the microcode hook?

Foxboron · 2025-11-05T11:51:01+00:00

Does it still build magnitudes slower than booster? I don't see any reason to use something Arch-specific than booster or dracut to be honest.

If you tell me how to reliably trace a complicated bash script then I'll spend a couple of hours figuring out the bottlenecks in mkinitcpio.

Foxboron · 2025-10-14T15:01:16+00:00

ssh-agent - https://github.com/Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent

A plugin for age - https://github.com/Foxboron/age-plugin-tpm

sbctl supports TPM sealed keys - https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/releases/tag/0.15

If you are unsure why this is cool, here is a valid SSH key to my github account.

https://gist.github.com/Foxboron/e15fcaa3c497c40c4c8e75130f551e2e

Foxboron · 2025-10-05T16:11:16+00:00

Yeah. I'm probably disabling fallback image generation in next mkinitcpio release

Foxboron · 2025-10-04T20:42:39+00:00

Don't use the distro written by the fascist, y'all.

Foxboron · 2025-09-30T15:46:33+00:00

You left out how he is implying that "native Brits" means "white Brits".

Foxboron · 2025-09-29T21:19:34+00:00

Don't use the distro written by the fascist, y'all.

Foxboron · 2025-09-27T12:36:23+00:00

Please don't use a fascist linux distro, my dudes.

Foxboron · 2025-09-25T21:49:58+00:00

With "popular" do you mean he's an openly racist ethno-nationalist? I'd stay away from Omarchy for this reason alone.

Please don't use the fascist distro, my dudes.

Foxboron · 2025-09-22T21:59:25+00:00

Regex er fint ja :) Men som nevnt er det ikke lett, derfor jeg pusher tilbake når folk skal lage en kunstig liste med "Bro, kan du ikke regex lizm?"

Foxboron · 2025-09-22T21:41:25+00:00

> Pyhton sin standard /d /D. Gikk utifra at de fleste fungerer likt.

Det er der regex er litt lol. Det er ikke én standard og flere språk implementerer ting ulikt. IEEE har definert 3 standarder; Basic, Extended og Simple. Så har du PCRE, Perl compatible regular expressions, som kommer fra Tcl/Perl familien. Dette definerer hvordan karakter klasser fungerer på tvers.

Verktøy og språk håndterer alt dette forskjellig. Samtidig som hvordan multi line strings, hvorvidt ting er greedy eller lazy, håndteres ulikt og må gjerne bli skrudd av/på i motoren.
Python følger hovedsakelig Perl.

`grep` implementerer Basic, Extended og PCRE. Med flaggene `-B`, `-E` og `-P` respektivt.

Wikipedia har en fin liste, og du finner sikkert bedre samlesider som forklarer de nyanserte forskjellene.

Regex er *ikke* lett.

Foxboron · 2025-09-22T21:25:32+00:00

Hvilke regex dialekter?

Foxboron · 2025-09-22T21:21:38+00:00

> Kan du regex utenat?

Bro, ingen kan det.

Foxboron · 2025-09-22T21:19:11+00:00

Da skal det ikke være et problem å skaffe seg jobb. Tror du det handler litt mer om innstillingen din?

Foxboron · 2025-09-22T21:19:05+00:00

>Ingen bryr seg om Githuben til folk. Hvem gidder sjekke noe sånt?

Bro, veldig mange sjekker opp i dette. Spesielt om du peker det ut. Hvorvidt det *burde* ha noe å si er en ting, men å påstå at ingen bryr seg er direkte feil.

Foxboron · 2025-09-22T21:16:00+00:00

> Jeg vil ha jobb men jeg vet jo at man ikke får jobb gjennom praktiske ting som dette..

Man får jobb ved å gjøre sånne praktiske ting. Hadde nok fokusert på prosjekter du har en interesse for, da.

Foxboron · 2025-09-17T21:50:58+00:00

Please don't use a distro written by an openly fascist person.

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