Simon Ser @emersion@octodon.social
Simon Ser
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Getting pixels on screen on Linux: introduction to Kernel Mode Setting - Simon Ser https://conf.tube/videos/watch/c023f9e8-0bae-4aa1-ac91-bfc5f21c46aa
Wrote this little script to stop being surprised about full disks
https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/dotfiles/tree/a9c02aa5/bin/check-disk-usage
(Gray laptop captures a video of black laptop's screen, and streams it over the network to a player running on my main machine.)
My talk about KMS is starting in a few minutes!
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Sent a lot of patches to go-proxyproto recently, and v0.3.0 is now out :)
on abandoning the X server -- adam jackson
https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
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The proprietary driver for my network card doesn't support IPv6. There is a free software driver for it, but the vendor has been using cryptographic techniques to kneecap it and force people to use their proprietary driver instead. I only use IPv4 so this isn't really a big deal to me.
But a lot of people are talking about IPv6, and I feel left out. So I've decided to send a bunch of angry emails to the maintainers of the IPv6 stack in the Linux kernel. They tell me it's the vendor's problem, so I made up a bunch of misinformation about how broken IPv6 on Linux is and started spreading it around the internet. Any time I hear about new IPv6-only technology like Yggdrasil or cjdns I make my way to the comment threads to talk shit about IPv6.
Wait, no, of course I don't do that, because I'm a fucking adult
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I'm handing over maintenance of wlroots and sway to Simon Ser
https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/23/Im-handing-wlroots-and-sway-to-Simon.html
scfg now has 4 implementations: C, Go, Python and Rust. Thanks for contributing an implementation, @PeterSanchez and @viralstitch!
If anyone's looking for low hanging fruit for a wloots patch: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/issues/2449
I mean, the tech isn't bad. It's just all of the marketing that spoils everything.
ProtonMail, you don't need to be 100% secure in all situations no matter what. But you really need to explain better to your users what security guarantees you provide.
"ProtonMail encrypts your messages the moment they arrive in your account and no one but you, not even Proton, can then access their content."
Riiiiiiiiiight
ProtonMail launches Import Assistant for quick email migration, and for effortlessly piping all of your unecrypted emails to their servers.
Article of course explicitly explains that downside. /s
Very privacy such secure.
Wew, I'm pretty excited about Frost Giant Studios
List of software using a similar config file format:
- i3/Sway
- Caddy
- kanshi
- tlstunnel
Status update, October 2020
