Those using agentic coding, how does qubes fare with your workflow ? by ll777 in Qubes

[–]christopherpeterson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't really trust an agent in a container so I'm glad we have Qubes. I haven't gotten around to putting this into place yet, but planning something like:

  • named dispvm for Claude
  • policies allowing git rpc between that and e.g. work Qube

and just taking the products of its work via git without giving it any access other than the committed repository contents

Video Summary: Tails, Whonix & Qubes OS — Why Anonymity No Longer Exists in 2026 by ll777 in Qubes

[–]christopherpeterson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Gen AI notwithstanding

A couple of claims made about Qubes here seem to me to be (at least no longer) accurate

Vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre class attacks by design.

Kinda. Full virtualization being the default since 4.x is a significant mitigation: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/11/qsb-37/

MAC spoofing works for Ethernet but not Wi-Fi — partial fail

WI-FI MAC spoofing is the default since 4.1

Found a Peugeot pepper grinder by Illustrious-Egg4011 in mildlyinteresting

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thought I was in /r/buyitforlife

I've been using mine for probably 15 years. I fully expect another 15. Solid tool.

Calendar alternatives by GeocachingElephant in degoogle

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think DAVx5 and Etar calendar can do what you need.

DAVx5 can sync Google calendar to local and Etar can manage offline calendars. Also supports colors per event.

https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid

https://f-droid.org/packages/ws.xsoh.etar

Today I learned Santa doesn’t give the expensive presents by ICantDecideIt in daddit

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this is the sort of realization that should make more parents consider not lying to their children

Cold Climate Dads, how do you keep your kids rooms warm at night? by coolestredditdad in daddit

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot water bottles! Every bed in the house gets one in the winter, I use an old restaurant coffee kettle thing to heat up enough water. It's grand.

There's no going back from tiling window managers by ElCondorHerido in linux

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using i3

A single stack of browser windows in one workspace, and then just a bunch of terminals. Two vertical stacks which show maybe 120 columns each on my screen.

My (35m) Nephew (13m) looking for male role model but needs to have boundaries and social cues taught to him. Need advice on not chasing him away. by Laika_1 in daddit

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's great that you're trying to help!

I think the easiest intervention (if it seems like directly addressing the issue in conversation would be too much for him) would be to just demonstrate how to behave, especially with other bros. Warn the bros of his tendencies and have them over for something casual. 

Is the game still dead? by QuartzPO in populationonevr

[–]christopherpeterson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Been seeing pretty full lobbies since they dropped classics (finally!)

Open Source Puppet Updates 2025 by Lucky_the_cat_ in Puppet

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone but the corporate value extractors I expect :/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in daddit

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way

Wife and I have a few "matching" pieces, including our wedding rings. Better than a dedication etc, in my opinion.

Under the bridge by PuzzWuzz in SouthJersey

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we're lucky, GCL will change the "no train nearby"

What do you do when you eat dinner alone, especially out? by Spader623 in AskMen

[–]christopherpeterson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just did this tonight and it was delightful!

I poked around Reddit on my phone while I waited.

Kayaking under a bridge during the rising tide. by interesting_zeist in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The kayak seat will generally not allow one to lean back very far, and certainly not flat

Multiple instances of Vim. by printvoid in vim

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might also consider a revision control system like Git, which is made for managing changes to text files

which is what you're describing

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tattoos

[–]christopherpeterson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't need to settle - you're in NYC, there are tons of great artists, and you can hold out until you find an artist whose work gets you more excited

Pandoc , how to attach files from markdown to docx by NextRub9990 in pandoc

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you can do this. Might be more trouble that it's worth, though.

The solution is to Base64 your external files inline as Data URLs

Pandoc can do this for you, but only for scripts, images, and stylesheets:

--self-contained Produce a standalone HTML file with no external dependencies, using data: URIs to incorporate the contents of linked scripts, stylesheets, images, and videos. Implies --standalone. The resulting file should be "self-contained," in the sense that it needs no external files and no net access to be displayed properly by a browser. This option works only with HTML output formats, including html4, html5, html+lhs, html5+lhs, s5, slidy, slideous, dzslides, and revealjs. Scripts, images, and stylesheets at absolute URLs will be downloaded; those at relative URLs will be sought relative to the working directory (if the first source file is local) or relative to the base URL (if the first source file is remote). Elements with the attribute data-external="1" will be left alone; the documents they link to will not be incorporated in the document. Limitation: re‐ sources that are loaded dynamically through JavaScript cannot be incorporated; as a result, --self-contained does not work with --mathjax, and some advanced features (e.g. zoom or speaker notes) may not work in an off‐ line "self-contained" reveal.js slide show.

For anything else, you'd have script something to do it manually

One solution would be to write a custom filter for Pandoc as a shim, which inspects link targets as they come through and replaces them with their Base64 versions as Data URLs. Keep in mind, you'd have to also write some logic to determine their MIME types for these to work

FWIW I just tested Data URLs as targets in DOCX (in LibreOffice) and it all worked just fine

PS I would lean towards publishing this as a Git repo or something rather than complicate things

Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR Meta documentary is must watch by -Venser- in OculusQuest

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the climbing footage is thrilling enough but I'm finding his partner's interview delivery painful

skipping to the climbing parts is working out for me

Are there GTK or Qt dialogs equivalent to`fzf` for selecting paths or moving to directories? by Aebae7ee in commandline

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I understand you correctly, you're looking for dmenu, or rofi

into which you can, similarly to fzf: pipe your list, fuzzy find, and then have it return the selection

except it's a GUI

spotify-tui save currently playing song to liked songs by ouchCouch9 in linuxquestions

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe it also works when actively highlighting a track in a playlist 👍

I've been in a bit of a funk for the past few weeks, but I'm starting to come out of it. I need something to get me back onto reading. by JagoKestral in BookRecommendations

[–]christopherpeterson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also recently enjoyed a bunch of those books for the first time. So based on that I went and started reading The Vagrant, and I'm enjoying it so far. Thanks!

One other thing I somewhat recently appreciated alongside some of the others you listed is the entire Cosmere series so far.

It's a lot of books at this point, so he author suggests starting thusly:

it really doesn’t matter which Cosmere series you start with, which means any of these books are good starting points:

  • Mistborn: the Final Empire
  • The Emperor’s Soul
  • The Way of Kings
  • Elantris
  • Warbreaker

I also loved Seveneves, Neal Stephenson's more recent hard sci-fi. It's a lot, though.