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But how many use it for browsing, which I imagine this data is from?

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Is there information about this situation with Mali government about ml domains? I cannot find anything about it.

Though apparently some ml domain receives a lot of accidental US military emails :).

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If you want to have multi-host redundant storage at home (via e.g. minio or ceph), S3 is a pretty good protocol to provide it.

S3 is nice in the way it's not a file system so it can have relaxed semantics, while also providing secure access to individual files over HTTPS via URL signing.

Some people seem to be stuck in the idea that S3 means cloud hosting. Not sure if that was your view, but it's worth spelling out sometimes.

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Papermerge version 2.0, version 2.1 and version 3.0 are entirely different and incompatible applications.

That doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the future versions of this application, given in particular the use case of long-term document archival :).

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I doubt there would be a measureable benefit: after all, the kernel is already compiled without 32-bit support, and the code related to it just doesnt exist in the resulting binary. I assume there could be some small exceptions, though, like choosing to do something in a certain way so that the same approach will also work for 32-bit, and opting for another approach would perform better in 64-bit. That's just a guess, though.

It's mostly about maintenance load.

Btw, with PAE the host can have more than 4 GB of memory, so the limit would only apply to individual processes. Still quite feasible to use that kind of system even in the modern day--even if the browser can sometimes become quite large.. And then there are of course the numerous embedded applications.

One other thing is that you can bulk create your own instances, and that's a lot more effort to defederate. People could be creating those instances right now and just start using them after a year; at least they have incurred some costs during that..

I believe abuse management in openly federated systems (e.g. Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix) is still an unsolved problem. I doubt good solutions will arrive before they become popular enough to attract commercial spammers.

Admins can and do use email server block lists, though, so maybe that's a great example.

I suppose you're right--for now. But at some point Lemmy etc will grow large enough to make manual blocking infeasible. Just how much effort does it take to start a new instance even today?

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A patch contains more than the changes: it contains the commit message. In open source projects, and in particular in CVE fixes, the commit message can indeed be quite descriptive. It needs to be!

You're still right, though. But I like to think professionals are able to verify the changes with the high-quality commit message—possibly in less time than investigating the issue themselves.

It still loses to HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+6 with Tc = 133–138 K at normal air pressure, though. (I assume it's normal air presure as the article doesn't say the pressure for it, while it refers to some others as high-pressure ones.)

Maybe LK-99 still has other benefits, such as not using mercury.

I rather enjoy Tilix. It can tile a single tab without tmux and it can also give special handling to links matched from regexps. I use it to go from Python stacktraces to correct line in Emacs with just a click. It can also do Quake-like terminal, which I use alot.

The project is looking for maintainers, though, so it's possible at some point I need to start looking for alternatives..

That was a Firefox bug, based on one comment in the Bitwarden isue tracker . It should be fixed now in Firefox 116.

You should have backups. Preferably also snapshots. Then rm will feel less scary.

Would that kind of provision allow me to have my code removed from a git repository history, if that git repository is hosted by a company?

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Zooming and panning a pdf is arguably more comfortable with higher frame rate.

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And how about the actual speeds they are used with? Another poster suggested the maintenance costs of traditional speeds skyrocket as speed increases, while maglev doesn't really have a lot of stuff that wears down in the first place.

Here's one sharp edge: defrag will unshare file contents so sometimes it's not just feasible to do it.

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No always-on display and waterproof rating only to 1m instead of 30m, though 😞.

Nevertheless, quite interesting. Maybe at some point new more capable hardware will arrive.

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I think I could easily enjoy the gesture, however it's way too easy to trigger. It's like a one centimeter movement on a tablet. E.g. the Android app switcher needs a much bigger movement to trigger app closing.

I have 64GB RAM and my 64GB swap still gets filled to 60% over time.

It just happens so that apps end up touching some memory once that they never then use again. Better use some SSD for that instead of RAM.

I just noticed https://lemmy.ml/u/giloronfoo@beehaw.org had proposed the same, but here's the same but with more words ;).

I would propose you try to split the data you have manually into logically separate parts, so that you could logically fit 0.8 TB on one drive, 0.4 TB on another, and maybe sets of 0.2TB+0.2TB on a third one. Then you'd have a script that uses traditional backup approaches with modern backup apps to back up the particular data set for the disk you have attached to the system. This approach will allow you to access painlessly modern "infinite increments" backups where you persist older versions of data without doing full and incremental backups separately. You should then write a script to ensure no important data is forgotten to be backed up and that there are no overlapping backups (except for data you want to back up twice?).

For example, you could have a physical drive with sticker "photos and music" on it to back up your ~/Photos and ~/Music.

At some point some of those splits might become too large to fit into its allocated storage, which would be additional manual maintenance. Apply foresight to avoid these situations :).

If that kind of separation is not possible, then I guess tar+multi volume splitting is one option, as suggested elsewhere.

I think the second point is the biggest for me: it's almost like Canonical wanted to have a single dominant store for apps, as the ecosystem they are building supports only one. And, apparently, that one server is also closed?

So if you try to make an alternative source and give instructions to people how to configure their snap installation to use it (I found this information very hard to find for some reason..), your "store" probably won't have the same packages Canonical's has, so users won't be able to find the packages and I imagine updates are also now broken?

Contrasting this with flatpak: you just install apps from wherever. Or from flathub. Or your own site. Doesn't matter. No business incentive behind—built into the tools—to make everyone use flathub.org.

It's two commands to grow the / fs on the fly:

lvextend -L+10G /dev/mycomputer-vg/root
resize2fs /dev/mycomputer-vg/root

So don't worry about it. LVM is great :).

The pins are part of the window, so.. You can access old closed windows through the history menu, which I believe works after starting a new session after quitting it.

I believe it's quite possible that there is no information where a removed file belonged to in exr4fs and it's ilk; after all they also have concept of "lost and found" files, and files there also don't have that information. If the directory they were contained in gets overwritten in a form that the file is not there, then the information is likely gone; along with the name of the file.

Just get a secondary device, recover everything you can, pick the files you needed. Consider yourself lucky if you get to restore the file you lost.

Good luck recovering your files! For future I recommend making backups. I use kopia, borgbackup is also popular.

I was under the impression cross-site cookies are a standard feature per the RFC, though? Or is Patreon using some kind of non-standard extension?

There is the DJVU format for this exact use case, but you'd need to convert them to, say, pdf for many use case. Its also a bit old and perhaps not maintained, soo..

HEIF and other modern video encoders (HEIF=H265) should fare a lot better than JPEG, though.

I use etckeeper to autocommit changes in /etc as git just has better and faster tools to look at the changes of a fle, compared to backup tools.

It's just so easy to do that there hardly is any point in not doing it.

If you can do that, you already had enough space for reflinking not to matter in the first place, right? Or you can carefully do defragmenting in parts, running dupremove incrementally? seems like a lot of wasted time :).

Speed records aren't usually representative of regular use top speeds, are they?

By that logic, is the compositor working any different than a trojan? Is there really a difference?

The Wayland compositor is always capturing all your keyboard and mouse as well. No permissions asked. Pretty sus.

Boox Tab Ultra

Looks pretty nice device! Even the camera makes a bit sense in the demo they give (though apparently in practice the scanning rarely works). And cheaper to boot as well. I might consider getting this one.

But is the display really better quality? Atleast the DPI is slightly higher at 219 on the Boox Tab Ultra vs 190 on the Daylight. And Boox weighs 70 grams less, and that's the device some reviews call heavy (and some lightweight..).

These reviews mention the slow display speed:

So perhaps there is some room for improvement? That being said, some other reviews don't mention it and one says it's faster than typical e-ink display, though that doesn't sound immediately purely praising.


In the end it probably comes to the software: how fast it is, it well it works, how nice it is to use. It seems both have customized the standard Android, so I suppose the difference is in which one has done it better and which one has better custom apps. Per the reviews Boox doesn't fare too well in this aspect. Maybe someone will make a comparative review of the devices.

As opposed to buing a separate display for the computer?

I like to think this thing would be nice reading the news while having a breakfast or reading an e-book outside or at the bed, not near my computer. So it makes a lot of sense to build a tablet with this display technology.

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Thanks for the links! Once flatpak/yabridge works great I'll be able to use it with SteamDeck :).

I wonder though if this might need some additional functionality in flatpak itself..

I suppose it explains why people have a bad attitude about Wayland when tools providing useful functionality are described as trojans.

X11 can (..mostly..) have great security by just providing a suitable X Security module to it. It just seems it wasn't considered that big of an issue that anyone bothered. Nokia Maemo/Meego used to rock such a module.

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Do share if you have experiences using yabridge with the flatpak distribution of Bitwig! My existing setup did not work with that, but the deb version worked ok on Debian, so I keep using that.

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What a nice succinct explanation!

But also completely useless. Run0 ignores the suid bit for the same reason as 99% of command line apps do: it ignores because it isn't relevant to its functionality.

Am I to understand correctly that if you are running Gtk+ apps in the Gnome compositor, you get this working, but if you are running non-Gnome compositor with Gtk+ apps, it will not work? Or is it independent of the compositor?