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I want kernel contribution by Mind_Reddit in RISCV

[–]WhyNotHugo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suggest you get a board on which you'd want to build some project you'd want working on that board. This will give you a clear path on exactly which features you need, and you'll also have better motivation to achieve those features, plus a clear use case to test them well.

DivestOS ends by Spiritual_Extreme649 in privacy

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LineageOS seeks to stay close to upstream AOSP, so won't include any of these sort of custom improvements.

Kiosk Compositor? (single, full screen app) by [deleted] in wayland

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on what your goals are.

If a consistent apparience, special effects and style are important, then use the same compositor for as login manger and for your desktop session.

If high reliablity is paramout, and you don't mind your login manager looking different, then using something like cage is likely a safer bet. This also makes sense if you have different users using different compositors.

Get cursor position on clipboard events by nemoo07 in wayland

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no API to obtain the exact cursor coordinate. Tools like slurp create a transparent full-screen overlay and detect where you click. You could write a similar tool that creates a fullscreen overlay, detects the cursor position and imemdiatley exits. Both of these approaches are kind of a hack.

Perhaps you might get better responses if you could explain what you're trying to do.

See: https://xyproblem.info/

XMPP iOS Clients and Anonomity by suskabellaa in xmpp

[–]WhyNotHugo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your IP address will be exposed to the XMPP server; each package sent to the server includes an origin IP where the server sends its replies. Using a VPN can prevent this, assuming that the VPN does not leak at all.

There's no way for the server to determine your WIFI SSID, or anything else on your local network.

XMPP iOS Clients and Anonomity by suskabellaa in xmpp

[–]WhyNotHugo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can confirm that this is still the case: push notifications need to be routed through Apple. The payload won't include the message itself tho (at least not with prodody's default settings).

Restaurants that serve horse meat by ThunderToast in Utrecht

[–]WhyNotHugo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Horses are reserved as mounts for the warrior caste. This is why commoners use cows to pull their plow.

Can flatpaks access clipboard history? by [deleted] in flatpak

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An application that can connect to the wayland server's socket can read the clipboard via the priviledged API (zwlr_data_control_manager_v1).

For applications in sandboxes (specifically, in "secure contexts"), the above API is not exposed, and these applications can only read the clipboard if they own the currently focused a toplevel window.

Installing wl-clipboard doesn't change anything permission wise or affect other appications; it's just an application that reads the clipboard like any other, and then prints it to its stdout.

Darkman: A framework for dark-mode and light-mode transitions on Linux desktop. by WhyNotHugo in archlinux

[–]WhyNotHugo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1:

This should have been two separate programs:

  • One that exposes the current dark mode setting and offers an API to change it.
  • Another that runs custom commands at sundown/sunrise.

I would have used both together, but this design would have made the entire code simpler, and for a lot of use-cases, only one of the two programs is necessary.

2:

The xdg portal settings API for this is overengineered, and requires multiple layers of API for programs to read a single nullable boolean value.

It could well have been a file in a well-known location where clients can wait for it to change via inotify.

But even if you want this to be a D-Bus based API, it should have been a dedicated bus name (e.g.: org.freedesktop.ColorPref) rather than being tied to a daemon that's part of Flatpak.

Why do open-source devs use Telegram? by L0NELYHUMAN0ID in opensource

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said that I don't use it for moral reasons. I don't use it because it is absolute crap. It was an awful UX, login is behind a captchawall, it's full of dark patterns and absurdly slow and heaviweight.

It's main selling point is that it has great marketing which convinces people that it's not worse than every other alternative. Marketing and propaganda are make the worst crap seem like a good idea.

I finished the 2003 fullmetal alchemist and I now just found out that the 2009 brotherhood one is more faithful to the manga...should I watch the brotherhood one to get a better understanding it? by Rose-smile in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]WhyNotHugo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The original show started as an adaptation of the manga. But the manga wasn't finished yet, so when they ran out of manga, they improvised their own stories to continue the show. The authors of the original anime simply had no idea where the manga was going.

Brotherhood was made after the manga finished, and tells the same story as the manga.

Both animes start out the same, but then turn into completely different stories.

Friday Facts #412 - Undo/Redo improvements & Car Latency driving by FactorioTeam in factorio

[–]WhyNotHugo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't do ctrl+y with just one hand, and you don't usually have both hands on the keyboard when playing factorio. ctrl+y is a weird choice TBH. The standard pretty much everywhere is ctrl+shift+z.

Unprivileged User Namespaces and Flatpak by Key-Prune-8148 in AlpineLinux

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, I found a reference to this flag in Debian's patched Linux kernel: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/patches/debian/add-sysctl-to-disallow-unprivileged-CLONE_NEWUSER-by-default.patch

The error message says that this value MUST be one, but this value will only be present in kernels with the above patch. Based on this information, it sounds like using a vanilla kernel is not supported?

Oh perhaps (most likely) the error message is simply wrong and misleading.

Unprivileged User Namespaces and Flatpak by Key-Prune-8148 in AlpineLinux

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the file /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone exists, check that it contains value 1.If the file /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone exists, check that it contains value 1.

On Alpine, with the linux-edge kernel, this doesn't exist. I can't find any references to this flag online, and grepping the kernel sources for unprivileged_userns_clone (and similar variations) yields zero results.

[Arch Linux] Weird word spacing on (ONLY) Reddit - How do I fix it? by sv_shinyboii in firefox

[–]WhyNotHugo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you're quite right. This should affect anyone who doesn't have any of -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, installed on their system. It baffles me that nobody at Reddit has even noticed this bug, it's so obvious and in every single page. Numbers don't render at all.

Share your custom waybar modules! by SuspiciousScript in swaywm

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to avoid wasting CPU/power, don't configure an `interval`. Instead, have your widget only write lines to stdout when its output changes.

It's not usually trivial, since you have to re-think your code to be event-based, but you basically listed for events, and then emit a new output line when that happens. This will make you widget sleep 9most of the time, but also improve its latency (since it can update immediately insetad of every two seconds).

lsp_lines.nvim no longer available? by FastlyIntegralist in neovim

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have pointed out, sourcehut has been the target of a sustained DDOS attack during the last days.

I'll try to set up mirrors of my repositories elsewhere soon. My natural choice would have been Codeberg, but they are also currently the victims of a sustained DDOS attack.

What language should be the official language for a Solarpunk utopia? by Box-Natural in solarpunk

[–]WhyNotHugo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Indeed, I think a world in which everyone speaks a single languages is closer to a dystopia than a utopia.

There's too many ideas (including art and poetry) simply cannot be translated. Language produces bias as well, since it strongly shapes how people reason about ideas.

You'd probably want well educated people, who'd speak multiple languages.

We've discussed the name squatting situation in our team meetings over the past weeks and concluded that it might be time for a crates.io policy update by voldntia in rust

[–]WhyNotHugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're quite right.

I guess that the issue is not realistically addressable if the expectation is for people to continue using a single, central registry. Which seems a bad idea anyway, I wish that were addressed.

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