kzimmermann

kzimmermann, 14 hours ago to random

Wow, file this under "Top ten most Chicken-shit lawsuits in the history of Tech:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_v._International_Business_Machines_Corp.

> Daniel Wallace, a United States citizen, sued the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for price fixing. In a later lawsuit, he unsuccessfully sued IBM, Novell, and Red Hat. Wallace claimed that free Linux prevented him from making a profit from selling his own operating system

Just- just wow. Microsoft, SCO, is that you?

kzimmermann, 4 days ago to random

Today:

ping: works
DNS: works
curl/wget: works
Every other network-interacting command-line utility: works
Lynx browser: works

Firefox: WHOOPS! YOU'RE NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET!

jackiechan_wtf_face.jpg

kzimmermann, 10 days ago to random

lol cops are incredibly thin-skinned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB#Prosecution_history

kzimmermann, 12 days ago to random

DuckDuckDown again...

kzimmermann, 14 days ago to accessibility

So today I decided to turn down my laptop's screen resolution to make fonts a little bigger to match those in my large external monitor. I wondered if the experience would be negatively impacted by it.

Turns out it was the best decision I could have taken. I can read everything in both screens now, and probably will keep it this way even without the external screen. Not everything needs to be tiny. #accessibility

kzimmermann, 17 days ago to random

Ayy looks like #gpg borked in #Devuan unstable (silently, too. No apt warnings). I now can't validate the signatures of the packages anymore which means apt upgrade stopped working. Oops? :devuannew: :blobfoxpat:

kzimmermann, 22 days ago to til

#TIL that @JasonPunyon curated and compiled a whopping archive of answers from #StackOverflow and assorted #StackExchange Q&A sites in a minimal sqlite format, where they can be downloaded and analyzed offline:

https://seqlite.puny.engineering/

Amazing effort and great idea. Reminded me of the archives that #Kiwix kept of it (alongside Wikipedia and similar projects), but more streamlined and cross-platform. Nice.

kzimmermann, 26 days ago to linux

Using #Linux in a Corporate Laptop for work

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/linux_work_laptop.html

Longish post that I've been meaning to post for a few weeks now. I tried to run only #FreeSoftware for work for a month and the result was amazing. Here's a few tips on how I did it in case you want to try it too.

Needless to say, I have zero intentions on going back. Long live Free Software: Liberate your Hardware today!

53 out of #100DaysToOffload

kzimmermann, 28 days ago to random

Decided to play around with #chroot again. But this time I beefed it up considerably. Basically built a mini-Debian stable install on top of #Devuan with debootstrap and started installing some internet-facing utilities on it.

Got to the point where I'm running chrooted firefox, which works pretty transparently, except I get no sound (yet). What could I try next?

kzimmermann, 1 month ago to debian

Warning: #chromium broken - again - in latest unstable [#debian | #devuan ]

Well, let's just say it's a small price to pay for the unclogging of the previous 200+ held back packages. Good thing we have https://snapshot.debian.org/ to "roll back" a little!

kzimmermann, 1 month ago to random

Looks like doing one apt full-upgrade to one of my #Devuan Ceres (unstable) machines safely "unclogged" the 200+ packages that had been held back for 2 months now with no apparent breakage anywhere else.

Guess it can be a useful trick (after analyzing carefully what in fact is being updated) despite my usual advice not to do it:

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/running_debian_sid.html

#rollingrelease

kzimmermann, 1 month ago to privacy

So did G**gle finally cuck #invidious completely at last? Every video I try to see now is like this, in every instance 😠

#privacy #alternativefrontends

kzimmermann, 1 month ago to random

DuckDuckDown right now

kzimmermann, 1 month ago to homebrewing

In 2024, with many distributions having decided to end their 32-bit support, playing 2000s' proprietary games through #wine on Linux is suddenly not so straightforward anymore.

This vacation I had an opportunity to re-trace the steps and show how this is done again:

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/running_cs16_wine.html

number 52 in #100DaysToOffload

#counterstrike #gamingonlinux #gaming

kzimmermann, 2 months ago to random

This is weird, I am pretty sure that previously I blocked the entire threads . net domain from the web interface of Mastodon months ago, but was able to open and browse through one of its profiles just a few hours ago on mobile (fedilab). Is this how domain-blocking behavior is supposed to work - they can't see you but you can see them?

@fosstodon

kzimmermann, 2 months ago to random

I swear, using #pcmanfm's standard UI copy and paste into USB drives is infuriatingly slow. Frustrating to see the dialog file get stuck at 99% for many minutes when the copying took 30 seconds to complete.

Just open a terminal and run #rsync instead!

kzimmermann, 2 months ago to debian

Attention #Debian Sid users: latest #chromium package (v. 123.0.6312.58-1) update is broken. Lots of pages crashing, some load fine for a minute or so, then freeze. Impossible to work on O365 on it. Holding on to your current version is highly advised (until at least this passes!)

#rollingrelease #bug

kzimmermann, 2 months ago to python

$ python3
>>> import turtle
>>>

:O

Little did I know that it was a reference to this turtle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot)

#python #turtlegraphics

kzimmermann, 2 months ago to DOOM

I think I've been playing too much #doom, I'm starting to see things.

kzimmermann, 2 months ago to debian

I wish to install #aptitude to try it out over plain apt in Unstable, but the #Devuan package has broken dependencies (libapt-pkg6.0t64 missing) :(

I successfully installed it in #Debian, though. It seems slower when doing large updates, but everyone tells me it's the better way to do so instead of apt. Thoughts?

kzimmermann, 2 months ago to linux

Funny enough, I decided to just say "fuck it" to my employer's wish and started to use Linux exclusively at work last week. Absolutely zero issues with it, and both my machine has been performing faster and I save much more battery along the day.

#Linux is more than ready for the corporate world.

kzimmermann, 2 months ago to debian

456 packages now in the waiting list because of one unmet #systemd dependency in a compatibility package.

Is this what war of attrition feels like?

C'mon #devuan :(

#debian #sid #unstable #ceres

kzimmermann, 3 months ago to random

356 packages are now held back because libelogind-compat has broken dependencies in #Devuan. I wonder when this is gonna get fixed... :(

kzimmermann, 3 months ago to random

Fixing the #Mediatek WiFi drivers in #AlpineLinux

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/updates/20240302_1732.html

For some reason the firmware got moved out. I wonder why?

kzimmermann, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

The more I read @glynmoody 's Walled Culture book, the more I think how the copyright industry is a bunch of fucking crybabies.

Sharing culture is more than caring; it's duty.