Oliver Kopp koppor

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

tl;dr: Wayland is not "the future", it is merely an incompatible alternative to the established standard with a different set of priorities and goals.

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 e

Permanent WSL DNS Fix (WSL 2.2.1+)

If you're encountering ping github.com failing inside WSL with a Temporary failure in name resolution, you're not alone — this has been a long-standing issue, especially when using VPNs or corporate networks.

This issue is now fixed robustly with DNS tunneling, which preserves dynamic DNS behavior and avoids limitations like WSL’s former hard cap of 3 DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf.

DNS tunneling is enabled by default in WSL version 2.2.1 and later, meaning that if you're still seeing DNS resolution issues, the first and most effective fix is simply to upgrade WSL. Upgrading WSL updates the WSL platform itself, but does not affect your installed Linux distributions, apps, or files.

To upgrade WSL, follow these steps,

Google Summer of Code 2019 @ JabRef

Student	David Méndez
Organization	[JabRef]
Primary repository	[JabRef/jabref]
Project name	Bidirectional Integration — Paper Writing — LaTeX and JabRef 5.0
Project mentors	Linus Dietz, Christoph S, and Tobias Diez
Project page	[Google Summer of Code 2019 Project Page]
Status	Complete

Conventional Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make a difference.

git commit -m"<type>(<optional scope>): <description>" \
  -m"<optional body>" \
  -m"<optional footer>"

We did it! We broke gist.github.com ;) So head over to the new home! Thank you all!
2021.10.20: https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat now open for interaction

Not just an Universal MediaCreationTool wrapper script with ingenious support for business editions,

A powerful yet simple windows 10 / 11 deployment automation tool as well!

discuss on MDL

Windows

Use configure-git-credential-hellper.sh script
You may have to install (Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows)[https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/releases/latest]

Resources

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5343068/is-there-a-way-to-skip-password-typing-when-using-https-on-github

	#!/bin/bash
	# enable host for ansible
	set -e
	PUBKEY=""
	id -u ansible > /dev/null 2>&1 \|\| \
	adduser ansible --disabled-password \
	--gecos "" --quiet
	mkdir -p /home/ansible/.ssh
	echo "$PUBKEY" \
	> /home/ansible/.ssh/authorized_keys

	Just a quick test of squashfs compression ratio using different settings.

	I am looking for relatively good and fast compression, that also is quick to decompress.
	I don't care about ultimate end size exactly tho.

	Input (a Debian testing live build with 6240 installed packages):

	$ sudo du -bs ./chroot
	26566785410 ./chroot # 26.6GB
	$

	# INTRODUCTION

	This document specifies the DEPENDS.TXT file for a software project.
	This is simply a list of the build time and runtime dependencies of the software.

	# SPEC

	The file is in TSV (tab separated values) format with UTF-8 encoding, so each line is a record describing a single dependency.

	Each record is <package-name>\t<type>\t<version>

	$userPath = $env:USERPROFILE
	$pathExclusions = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
	$processExclusions = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList

	$pathExclusions.Add('C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET') > $null
	$pathExclusions.Add('C:\Windows\assembly') > $null
	$pathExclusions.Add($userPath + '\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio') > $null
	$pathExclusions.Add('C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages') > $null
	$pathExclusions.Add('C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild') > $null
	$pathExclusions.Add('C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0') > $null