You know what I would buy? Hitman set in ancient Egypt.

Infiltrating a workgang forced to build a pyramid, putting a spitting cobra into a nasty enforcer’s chamber pot because he owes the Potiphar some serious myrrh?

Sign me up.

The thin end of the wedge for anything is always sex

The thing I don’t understand about any of this, is why can’t you comment on ongoing dialogues with the gatekeepers?

I understand the basic tenants of keeping the discussion closed until official statements can be prepared, to prevent the press and the public from going off half cocked. That makes sense for private matters.

This is not private. I can’t understand what is the point of negotiating law for people if they can’t even see the ongoing process?

They’ve snapified coreutils too, and rewritten them in rust (uutils). It’s proving to be a challenging transition…

Edit: While the article mentions rust’s vaunted memory safety as a driver, I can’t help but notice that uutils is licensed MIT, as opposed to GNU’s coreutils license being GPL v3.

While snapd is licensed GPL v3, it’s important to note that despite the ‘d’ suffix, it’s barely a daemon. It’s mostly a client for the snap backend - which is proprietarially licensed and only hosted with Canonical. The snapd client could be replaced at any time.

Everything’s a trade off, as you already know. I still use lets encrypt, despite the fact that I know attackers watch CT logs, and they’ll know as soon as I mint a cert.

Not without Deno anymore, google just took a great big shit on it :(

You know what sideloading is, masses do not. It’s easy to generate negative connotation with a word that has less context.

Everyone knows what install means to them already, and no one hates sideloading as a word. It’s about fighting a disinformation war and trying to get you to join in, just without explaning it.

Fair enough, I did assume the target audience was selfhosters based on the question.

As for provider backups - well, you’d hope. But M$ doesn’t do user available backups, so I’d be surprised if that was bundled by the average SaaS provider.

And if you don’t know what database you’re running, how are you backing it up?

If you don’t know what database you’re running, are you bothering to do a full shutdown before backups? Are you doing backups at all…

Don’t worry about him, he’s just an anti-Lemmite

I’m on hyperland, and I’ve configured ydotool to do some of this work. It can move the mouse, enter keyboard shortcuts and do a bunch of things that autohotkey can, however it is by no means a complete solution, or one that comes with sensible defaults. It’s just a daemon and client, and you’ll need to set it up to do what you want.

As far as I know there’s no record and replay function, though you could likely script one.

Also, for triggering the scripts, you’ll need to set your Desktop’s keybindings to point to them.

For me, it filled the requirements that it was launchable by systemd unit, as the user on login.

I use it for a vairiety of tasks, but the primary one is typing out my clipboard as if I had pasted something. I rebound alt + shift + p to that, so I can paste windows login passwords or whatever in to Teamviewer/other stuff that doesn’t accept a paste command.

The answer as always is, it depends.

Not all implementations rely on shim.

if you set up secureboot without doing anything more than instaling the OS… yeah probably it is true. Edit: e.g. GRUB2 generally relies on shim. sysemd-boot doesn’t

I haven’t checked the specific key that signs shim to confirm the expiration date, but there generally is a date, as we’re talking about certs and keys here.

Edit 2: Basically what this article is saying is that the machines will need a new platform key (mited in 2023) enrolled in the tpms, with often comes from the firmware (when tpms are wiped for initial enrollment of a new install/setup, they tend to enroll whatever platform keys from microsoft are baked in to the uefi firmware).

So basically, if you haven’t had a bios/uefi firmware update since 2022, there’s no way for you to have have the new key trusted by your tpm, and the whole chain of trust falls apart when the key you do have expires. So you’ll need to disable secureboot. If you use shim and/or the microsoft platform key in someway.

Oh wait- I seem to recall…

I have signal installed direct using obtanium, with the background connector enabled. I’ve not yet had an issue with it.

Have you tried tailscale with an exit node? Could be worth a test, if it works, some combination of other providers might too

Hang on though, if it’s web stats, how many of those impressions are ai bots scraping training data claiming to be Firefox users?

Don’t those likely read as Linux from how they fingerprint on TCP connections?

I haven’t tested the spouse approval factor, but once Radicale is setup, you don’t have to do anything other than create new calendars through a caldav app, or through the web front end.

Android can use DavX to sync if you’re in to foss stuff

I pretty much only use it for tasks and a maintenance calendar, but I’ve had zero problems with it so far

All I have ever wanted from a machine is to be able to say, “I’m busy right now, but I’ve had a thought; here - hold this for me”…

…without it telling anyone me and my partner’s batting average.

All I need is for them to fix the public collection RSS feed bug where they embed “https,http” in the feed xml if you’re behind a reverse proxy - which breaks parsing

and has integration for Oxidized, smokeping, greylog and more