probonopd

Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distrib

velzie

NOTE

by the time you're reading this, this probably no longer works since the policy has been removed. I reccomend you to check out https://github.com/r58Playz/uBlock-mv3 instead

How to keep using adblockers on chrome and chromium

1. google's manifest v3 has no analouge to the webRequestBlocking API, which is neccesary for (effective) adblockers to work
2. starting in chrome version 127, the transition to mv3 will start cutting off the use of mv2 extensions alltogether
3. this will inevitably piss of enterprises when their extensions don't work, so the ExtensionManifestV2Availability key was added and will presumably stay forever after enterprises complain enough

You can use this as a regular user, which will let you keep your mv2 extensions even after they're supposed to stop working

MidSpike

CVE-2022-23812

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RIAEvangelist/node-ipc is malware / protestware

The RIAEvangelist/node-ipc module contains protestware peacenotwar.

Excerpt from RIAEvangelist/node-ipc:

as of v11.0.0 & v9.2.2 this module uses the peacenotwar module.

probonopd

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

Source: https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1940441670098809093

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

cowboy

FROM ubuntu

RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y build-essential curl

# NodeJS >= 6.0
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -
RUN apt-get install -y nodejs

# ttfautohint

foonathan

#include <iostream>

#include "borrow_checker.hpp"

int main()
{
    auto i = 42;

    // borrow `i` under name `ref`
    borrow_var(ref, i)

pfultz2

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <type_traits>
#include <boost/mpl/range_c.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/adapted/struct/define_assoc_struct.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/algorithm/iteration/for_each.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/algorithm/transformation/zip.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/sequence/intrinsic/at_c.hpp>
#include <boost/fusion/sequence/intrinsic/at.hpp>

shamil

How to mount a qcow2 disk image

This is a quick guide to mounting a qcow2 disk images on your host server. This is useful to reset passwords, edit files, or recover something without the virtual machine running.

Step 1 - Enable NBD on the Host

modprobe nbd max_part=8

daveadams

#!/bin/bash -e

which pyenv &>/dev/null \
    || { echo "ERROR: pyenv not found" >&2; exit 1; }

grep -qFx 2.7.6 <(pyenv versions --bare) \
    || { echo "ERROR: python 2.7.6 not installed; run 'pyenv install 2.7.6'" >&2; exit 1; }

export PYENV_VERSION=2.7.6