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flux,

Moving away from Discord can mean you need to stop interacting with the community using it. My personal examples are: Tilt5, Makera, Turbo Sliders. In the these cases Discord is also the way to access support for something you’ve paid for.

Getting thise communities to move into something open (e.g. Matrix) can be a tall order.

flux,

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

flux,

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.

flux,

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.

flux,

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.

flux,

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?

flux,

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.

flux,

Does finding the guilty party solve the issue?

What's an elegant way of automatically backing up the contents of a large drive to multiple smaller drives that add up to the capacity of the large drive?

So I have a nearly full 4 TB hard drive in my server that I want to make an offline backup of. However, the only spare hard drives I have are a few 500 GB and 1 TB ones, so the entire contents will not fit all at once, but I do have enough total space for it. I also only have one USB hard drive dock so I can only plug in one...

flux,

I just noticed 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.

flux,

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.

flux,

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.

flux,

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.

flux,

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.

flux,

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


<span style="color:#323232;">lvextend -L+10G /dev/mycomputer-vg/root
</span><span style="color:#323232;">resize2fs /dev/mycomputer-vg/root
</span>

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

I've got a rpi 4 that keeps on randomly displaying the low voltage warning on its tiny little screen -- is it about to die?

As title implies. It’s about to be 5 years old. Doesn’t have a case. Runs 24/7 as a dns+adblock server, while (also) playing a live stream 24/7. systemd-journald is masked, and both cron/chrony removed. No stutter happens when the low voltage warning pops up tho....

flux,

I would assume the power supply is just not good enough-or isn’t good enough anymore. Rpis are notorious for needing high quality supply for current, preferably the official ones which actually provide 5.1V presumably to account for voltage drop on the cable.

flux,

I suppose they could implement smooth panning in high fps even if actual updates would be slower… though it might look funky.

flux,

It doesn’t actually detect moved code, though, like git diff can? I gave it a shot and also there’s a couple issues open about it, e.g. github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/issues/520 .

Other than that, difftastic is quite nice.

flux,

Welcome video game streaming?

Where are URL previews generated?

I recently found that there is a room setting to enable the generation of URL previews. This makes me wonder, though: Who is generating the thumbnails? Does the server generate them, and then send the images back (this is an obvious privacy, and security vulnerability)? Does a user generate them locally, and send them to the...

flux,

What is the security/privacy flaw if the server does it? No point thinking a non-encrypted would be very secret in the first place.

I guess the idea is that this works with simpler clients as well. Other nessaging networks with initiator-side previews usually have single-provider clients, as far as I know.

Initiator-generated previews would be a nice feature, though, and they would work with e2ee.

flux,

What do you mean? Matrix supports E2EE.

Its not used with e2ee, is it though? At least it’s not the default and I doubt it can even be enabled.

So what is the security flaw assuming we weren’t using e2ee to begin with?

Unless you mean that the simple client should still provide other people that have non-simple clients URL previews, which would only be accomplished if the server generated them.

Yes, like RSS bots, bridges, webhook-bots etc all can produce links the recipient might want to see previews for.

Another thing is that e.g. spammers might choose to use a misleading preview. Though I suppose that’s a minor point, probably server-side previews can be tricked as well.

flux,

I suppose it’s the easiest way to try it out.

I wouldn’t use it long-term, because you don’t want Godot to update without you knowing, if there’s something that needs to be changed due to an update. I bet a few people noticed the update from 3.x to 4.x…

I’ve read it also doesn’t come with the C# support, so that’s one reason not to use Steam for it if you’re interested in testing that side.

flux,

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

flux,

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 :).

flux,

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

flux,

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?

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