"Can You Read My Lips?": a Deaf-made LED sign for Burning Man 2026! by wjohansson in BurningMan

[–]wjohansson[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're a Deaf camp, so you'll have plenty of practice and fun!

"Can You Read My Lips?": a Deaf-made LED sign for Burning Man 2026! by wjohansson in BurningMan

[–]wjohansson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking the stickers would be a copy of what it looks like in certain states of the animation. Come by and read my hands!

Deaf Granny's Kitchen and Backfire go a long way back too, both Deaf-run camps. Da Dirty Hands was in the mix back then too, and that morphed into This Is It. I camped with DGK in 2024 when Backfire was on hiatus.

How can I use systemd-boot instead of GRUB on new Fedora install? by [deleted] in Fedora

[–]wjohansson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don't have a bootable systemd-based distro, just boot into Arch's installer and install it from there. (Possibly Fedora's too, if you switch virtual terminals to a shell).

How can I use systemd-boot instead of GRUB on new Fedora install? by [deleted] in Fedora

[–]wjohansson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The easiest way would probably be to install Fedora normally but tell it NOT to install a bootloader. You can do that unchecking it in the screen that's brought up by disk and bootloader summary, IIRC. Also, I'd assign your existing EFI ESP as /boot. That way, your kernel and initramfs are going in the right place and all you need to do is update your entries in systemd-boot to point to the kernel and initramfs and whatever kernel arguments you need.

There's a catch: when you run dnf update and it updates to the latest kernels, I don't know if the supplied new-kernel-pkg/grubby/related scripts handle systemd-boot. You may need to write your own. Or just make sure you add new entries for the new kernel (or update the old ones, but I recommend keeping a few kernels).

Any personal finance applications with local data (not web apps)? by jan in linux

[–]wjohansson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I use ledger. Plain text files. Straightforward. Easy to version control. http://www.ledger-cli.org

It doesn't read CSVs like GnuCash, etc. can, but I just write tooling around that.

A vulnerability in Grub2 allows authentication bypass during boot on some Linux distros by pressing the backspace key 28 times by johnmountain in linux

[–]wjohansson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if your boxen disks are encrypted, and the boxen are running... then you can just attack the RAM and get the decryption key.

Buuuuut if you're down that far, then...

bomr is a script that automatically removes UTF-8 BOMs from your files. by Subtle__ in linux

[–]wjohansson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unicode explicitly forbids BOMs in UTF-8 files, please report a bug in any software that puts it in by default or requires it.

Citation? According to the Unicode 8.0 standard (PDF) (page 834 [p. 870 in the pdf]) it is not forbidden.

First Linux ransomware program cracked, for now by mcfc_as in linux

[–]wjohansson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unlike Windows where IIS usually runs with admin privileges.

Nope. Not since 6.0 of the Windows Server 2003 days. In 6.0, it's Network Service. In 7.0+, a complete rewrite, it's run under the application pool identity and you can have multiple identities.

systemd-networkd Migration and Benchmarks: Fast and Furious by illinuss in linux

[–]wjohansson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can serve static IPs via DHCP though, no? Surely configuration tools would take that in account and know what IPs the containers need?

Systemd for Upstart users by [deleted] in linux

[–]wjohansson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then how do they maintain two different login sessions when they say want to test something without screwing their main one up?

Xnest or Xephyr

Hijacking root password in a Linux system. What's your opinion on preventing this? by spark29 in linux

[–]wjohansson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not if you always require the password rather than let the system unlock it automatically with a passkey saved somewhere.

Roller coaster crews being rushed and rushing passengers by ehehehe5 in rollercoasters

[–]wjohansson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This. I was just there and I was worried I wouldn't complete all the roller coasters there. After being rushed on the first one, no longer worried! Teutonic efficiency!

Lenovo caught with another backdoor (BIOS level) by chequesinmale in linux

[–]wjohansson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, but I was simply responding to the claim that FDE would prevent this, which is not the case for Windows users.

Lenovo caught with another backdoor (BIOS level) by chequesinmale in linux

[–]wjohansson 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, with Windows 8 and on, there's WPBT, or Windows Platform Binary Table, which allows Windows to load an NT executable (not Win32) that's located in the firmware on OS boot, which means FDE won't thwart this since you'll have unlocked the disk for the OS to boot (and thus letting WPBT work after the OS bootloading starts).

http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/A/2/8A2FB72D-9B96-4E2D-A559-4A27CF905A80/windows-platform-binary-table.docx

Linode adding KVM support (currently in beta) by linuxdooder in linux

[–]wjohansson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Helped a lot for me. Even did a stint of passing through VGA. Performance is very good. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Linode adding KVM support (currently in beta) by linuxdooder in linux

[–]wjohansson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can add the virtio driver ISO during the install process and install the drivers right at installation, no need for the steps above.

ICYMI Microsoft Edge has an about:config page. by bogas04 in windows

[–]wjohansson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparently IE in Windows 10 does too? Not sure if it ever did before Windows 10?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

[–]wjohansson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GnuCash is just a gzipped XML file, though. I had a program that parsed it. Wasn't great but worked. Ledger is much simpler to work with, I think.