cmeerw

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submitted 8 months ago by cmeerw to c/meta
 

Anyone else noticing all those broken icons/images on this instance?

e.g. https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/1e947440-0f0d-4768-ba4b-1480551e7cc9.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96 seems to result in something like "Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image/process.webp?src=1e947440-0f0d-4768-ba4b-1480551e7cc9.png&thumbnail=96): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known"

 

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NetBSD 10.0 available (blog.netbsd.org)
submitted 8 months ago by cmeerw to c/bsd
 

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system NetBSD 10.0! See the release announcement for details.

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submitted 10 months ago by cmeerw to c/bsd
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NetBSD 10.0 RC4 available (blog.netbsd.org)
submitted 10 months ago by cmeerw to c/bsd
 

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and probably last) release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details.

 

Anyone got any experience with running Linux on a Chuwi Freebook N100 yet?

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submitted 11 months ago by cmeerw to c/emacs
 

This is a bug-fix release with no new features.

  • Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.2

    • Tramp

      • New user option 'tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies'. When non-nil, ad-hoc definitions are kept in remote file names instead of showing the shortcuts.

  • Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.2

    • 'with-sqlite-transaction' rolls back changes if its BODY fails. If the BODY of the macro signals an error, or committing the results of the transaction fails, the changes will now be rolled back.
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NetBSD 10.0 RC3 available (blog.netbsd.org)
submitted 11 months ago by cmeerw to c/bsd
 

For RC3 only few (relatively) minor changes were made, including https certificate verification in libfetch (which is used by pkg_ad(1)), and also improvements to the EFI bootloader to better deal with booting from CD (or in virtual machines ISO images), plus lots of various bug fixes.

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NetBSD 10.0 RC2 available (blog.netbsd.org)
submitted 11 months ago by cmeerw to c/bsd
 

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the second (and probably last) release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details.

The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release.

This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.

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submitted 11 months ago by cmeerw to c/c_lang
[–] cmeerw 1 points 11 months ago

where they will double your monthly data limit for free when you comment your order number.

where they use you to spam the forum thread (for giving away something rarely anyone has any use for)

[–] cmeerw 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they actually rewrote The Hurd in Rust.

[–] cmeerw 3 points 1 year ago

Prepare for a humongous inrush of spam before servers patch this one.

But it's already patched by GMX and Microsoft.

As far as I understand it, it doesn't affect single mail servers, but only mail systems where you have separate inbound and outbound servers and the outbound servers trust the data they get from the inbound servers.

[–] cmeerw 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure how many get the joke in "Figure 23: Typical Austrian reaction after receiving a spoofed e-mail":

OIDA

😂

[–] cmeerw 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There is no reason to “hate” Ubuntu but there are better choices.

What are those better choices then (for those who currently use the non-LTS Ubuntu releases and don't want to move to rolling releases or LTS-only releases)?

[–] cmeerw 6 points 1 year ago

I still think Ubuntu is the best option (particularly if you want to use the non-LTS releases)

Having said that I do hate snaps and also dislike flatpaks. So what I do is just use the Firefox deb package from the PPA and the chromium package from Linux Mint. Oh, and I have actually replaced ubuntu-advantage-tools with a no-op dummy package.

[–] cmeerw 3 points 1 year ago

Only issue is they’re stored in my server as belonging to the server user (I assume everything in those directories should belong to root and I can just use chown?) But I also don’t know if they retain the same permissions when backed up.

Not everything will be owned by root, and some of the binaries will be setuid or setgid, some might even have extended attributes (e.g. ping will usually have a security.capability attribute). /var will also have a lot of different owners.

[–] cmeerw 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"secure alternative"? Others are not secure?

[–] cmeerw 17 points 1 year ago

Pretty much anything that's only available via an app store. The difference with web apps is that I can also use them on a laptop/PC and I have a bit more control about tracking (by using ad/tracking blockers).

[–] cmeerw 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

not being forced to have an Android or Apple smartphone, so more open standards and just Web apps instead of proprietary apps

[–] cmeerw 0 points 1 year ago

Never ever had a successful dist-upgrade with it, so technically if you wanna stay up to date with it, you have to reinstall every six months.

I have actually dist-upgraded every single Ubuntu release (sometimes with a bit of work required, but that could be because I only do a "apt-get dist-upgrade" instead of using their official upgrade scripts)

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