overview for serenissi

Do people use Autotools in new projects anymore? in c/[email protected]

[–] serenissi 2 points 1 day ago

zig build

Police say they can tell if you are too high to drive. Critics call it ‘utter nonsense’ in c/news

[–] serenissi 1 points 3 days ago

I think a DRE with a doctorate can tell for sure.

[–] serenissi 12 points 4 days ago

It's not a god per se, rather the animal companion of Ganesh (Elephant god/ god of people, kinda like god Fufluns of Populonia). The mouse is like a ride of the god.

Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS in c/[email protected]

[–] serenissi 2 points 3 weeks ago

It always worked for me except in some cases the 'hardware' compositor (ie the wayland side) is a bit buggy for clipboards and inputs in general. I had issues with lxc network in past but that's long ago.

I still don't understand what borked your system. Waydroid downloads the images, mounts and runs them inside lxc just like normal android. It doesn't touch your /usr or anything else. Works well in immutable os too.

Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS in c/[email protected]

[–] serenissi 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Android userland is vastly different from 'linux' ie desktop linux people are used to. While there exists unshare/proot based containers (termux is an example) it might not be suitable for privileged features of kernel except for rooted devices.

Chromeos is much closer to desktop linux (init being upstart not systemd afaik) but still the 'linux' apps run inside crosvm to keep the locked down nature of the os intact.

Have new distro releases become meaningless? in c/[email protected]

[–] serenissi 1 points 3 weeks ago

My point was that unity was innovative, not just gnome with extras.

Back then I actually liked mir (also unity) personally more than wayland.

Have new distro releases become meaningless? in c/[email protected]

[–] serenissi 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Unity was envisioned to become mir based eventually. So they invented a whole new display protocol when wayland was there, vastly immature though :)

Twitter Acts Fast on Nonconsensual Nudity If It Thinks It’s a Copyright Violation in c/technology

[–] serenissi 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's opening full for me. Probably geo paywalled..

Twitter Acts Fast on Nonconsensual Nudity If It Thinks It’s a Copyright Violation in c/technology

[–] serenissi 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Goes away with js disabled. Rest of page works fine.

Login to youtube to watch videos in c/[email protected]

[–] serenissi 4 points 3 weeks ago

This can be a soft limit where Youtube limits the connection rate so that artificially inflating view count becomes more costly. There are inexpensive 'services' especially in India or Pakistan where you can buy human (like a whole internet cafe) view times to your scam video to make it float in suggestions and to promote a channel.

I don't work for youtube so it is just a guess.

It's 2024 and I'm posting this from a text console. in c/[email protected]

[–] serenissi 6 points 1 month ago

Forget gpus. A framebuffer is all you need :)

OpenPrinting News Flash - cups-browsed Remote Code Execution vulnerability in c/[email protected]

[–] serenissi 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah ofcourse firewall is the good idea here. I personally have firewall on on every device so that I can manage what can connect and from where.

The point is though often people just disable firewalls (some distros do not install/enable by default too) to workarround certain issues quickly like kdeconnect not connecting, bridge not working and such. That's how I think the whole 'ipv4 NAT is the best (consumer) firewall' concept came popular.