Actually, it's the Android 16 Linux Terminal (pKVM) [1], so it's 100% on-device.
Since this is a full VM, unlike Termux, you can run Docker too!
(Though Termux is more stable and lightweight for daily use.)
Is there a community or forum where questions about ATProtocol can be asked?
Can you can spread your identity across multiple PDS repositories? Was thinking about creating a PDS that can store binary blobs to download, but not all PDS would like that amount of binary data stored.
Do people understand that embedded Google Maps "widgets" are "the product Google Maps"? I think for most people it's just "that map on a website", even if there is labels and stuff explicitly saying "Google Maps".
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. 15 years ago I was still looking up installation and driver procedures and workarounds to install Linux on my devices. I failed to install arch in college because I didn't have a driver for my SATA drive for example.
Today though. Yeah totally easy. Especially if you get one of the many machines with Linux support. Smooth sailing all around.
Facetiously: Well actually, you didn't need a driver for the SATA drive but the SATA controller.
Something that was also true for Windows and such a common problem that many BIOSes would offer a IDE compatibility mode one could switch to.
26 years ago I installed SUSE and it just worked on my self build PC. Smooth sailing all around. Than I tried Debian and couldn't for the life of me get X11 to work.
So yeah, the distro and hardware lottery is still a problem.
I didn't say it was. This discussion is about relative difficulty of setting things up. It is, objectively, more difficult when you need to download a driver for new hardware and the NIC on your laptop needs a driver your distro didn't come with.
I don't buy a lot of hardware, but the last thing I bought (Vocaster One) came with the driver installer on a small USB mass storage volume when the device plugged in.
I've been on Linux since Ubuntu 8.04 or longer and I literally never had OS install problems with any of it at all. Except for Arch, but what did you expect? Hands-on is the point of Arch Linux.
On the other hand, I remember installing a lot of drivers by hand on windows. Most people never (re-)installed Windows or macOS to begin with.
Probably depends on your hardware, but that's a matter of vendor support, not operating system. It's not like Microsoft or Apple are writing all those drivers. With a Thinkpad or Brother, you likely never had problems with Linux for the last 20 years. People don't complain they can't install macOS on a Chromebook, and Windows has been the absolute OS monopoly everyone had to support. However, with tinkering, you can install Linux on a washing machine.
What has drastically changed is the user space software side. First off some FOSS alternatives like Blender, OBS, Krita... are becoming equal or better than the competition, but Valve also basically solved gaming on Linux, now. Virtualization and software development is and always has been better.
To be fair, Linux also shines now due to enshitification of everything else.
Didn't expel me from university for an insensitive prank I accidentally sent to the administration instead of my friends. I discovered the university's email server was unsecured and thought it would be funny to send fake emergency alerts to my friends from the official university email. I mixed up the "from" and "to" fields though... oops.
Allowing the maintainer to prepend a comment to the top seems more sensible to me to be honest. Would make API use harder potentially, but it would avoid weird abuse like this.
github is meant for collaboration, designing it around adversarial use would be a loss for everyone. Adding a function to report absusive edits rather than an entire post would be a better choice imo.
reporting abusive edits requires moderation/arbitration. the rules can instead be changed to sidestep the issue, while maintaining the value of the feature.
Report to whom? Github, who allows the behavior and therefore doesn’t see anything wrong with it, or the repo admins who have proven they they couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the very thing you’re reporting? The well is already poisoned, there is no reason to think that they’d suddenly change their stance and cooperate.
In this case at least, github (most probably) banned this account, presumably after reports. There are also other stories for github banning accounts for pr trolling kind of behaviours. So not sure if everything is perfect, but at least there are cases such things work.
I've been messing with sandboxing using "bwrap" for random itch.io games I download to play and it isn't trivial to get it working with least privileges. I have so far been unable to get "Microlandia" to run, but other Unity games are running just fine under "bwrap". I am excited to see more Landlock tools emerge that make this task easier.
it seems to work fairly well? But I just started playing with bwrap this weekend. I do wish bwrap could be told "put the program in this pre-prepared network namespace" because accessing unsecured local dev servers could also be an issue.
I had this idea of having toolbox+custom user for each project - that way it would be "simple" to have isolated environments, but it does lead to a lot of bloat. And I do think it is a naive solution.
I think a combination of custom users + a whole bunch of sandboxing is exactly what you'd get out of systemd-nspawn if you're willing to write the config: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-nspawn
bwrap seems a lot easier but if you want more control (or, for instance, want to run a Ubuntu basis because that's what a lot of games are compiled against), systemd-nspawn can be quite powerful.
You can flag, but a lone flag is worthless. Not sure how many it takes to nuke a story or comment.
For myself, I only downvote/flag stuff that I consider harmful to the community.
That does not include stories or comments with which I disagree. In fact, I frequently upvote comments posted, that attack my own positions, if they do so in a reasonable manner. Groupthink sucks, and I frequently change my mind, based on orthogonal feedback.
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