merthyr1831 @ merthyr1831 @lemmy.world

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the CVE thing seems to be a straw that broke the camel's back if anything. it seems a bit fucky to expect a core maintainer to work on your project without pay because you wanted to look virtuous by firing them during the initial invasion of Ukraine.

I'm sure if they, yaknow, paid him, the corporate procedures he was still bound to wouldn't be so bad.

doubt freegnix will get far, mind you, but I don't think it's entirely fair to call his reaction "sour grapes"

FWIW Flatpak also does it automated, but as others said they manually verify new entries, and since it's such a widely adopted standard there's less opportunity to name-squat a popular app that isn't already available.

I don't know what flatpak does to stop, say, someone releasing a legit/dummy app to pass manual verification before replacing it with a malicious app and a new name, so can't comment on how effective their security is beyond the initial release

Pop is X11 by default. I think you can get Wayland up since its just GNOME but idk

yep my bad, mixing it up with another sinking by naval drone

Didn't say it wasn't real, just that I saw similar footage a few weeks back and thought this was just a late announcement (Sometimes they don't officially sink for a while).

My surprise is more that these drone attacks are so effective when modern warships are meant to be able to defeat cruise missiles, but the equivalent of a kamikaze speedboat is able to surpass it lmao

X11 is pretty janky regarding fractional scaling across multiple monitors. This should be improved when Pop!OS upgrades to CosmicDE which uses Wayland by fefault.

Nope. It's automated and doesnt detect malicious name-squatting (what caused the last security drama within snap)

Doesn't help that unlike flatpak, snaps are pretty much exclusively used on Ubuntu so many Devs won't bother porting their apps to it so snaps are rife with dodgy repacked apps and people squatting official names of popular flatpak apps

Something really fucky with developer salaries recently. Im seeing London-based office jobs (We've got you surrounded! Come eat fruit snacks in our trendy office space!) offer £25k salaries which is like half the wage necessary to afford working there lmao

Honestly apart from newer COD i dont really miss any of my library but deffo always ways to improve for Linux gaming

Pretty old footage (like a week+ old) but (that was a different sinking oops)

what strikes me as surprising is that there's pretty much zero CIWS or other anti-drone weaponry on the ship. You see a few splashes ahead of the drones but nothing indicating sophisticated, or rapid-fire weapons that could've actually hit these drones easily.

We have no infrastructure to support this ban, just like when ISPs were ordered to block porn by default. Nothing ever happens.

I've got a solution but y'all will not like it🐧

didn't need to be news does it?

What is it that makes a distro ISO so small? Or maybe a better way of putting it: How come a Linux ISO can be multiple gigabytes in size?

I get the price premium, but they refuse to sell a lower tier motherboard (i3/ryzen 3) so you gotta splash out 1k+.

guess the intention is to get 2nd hand boards but they're still quite pricey since it's so new

Linux preinstalled

two touchpads

7840HS

aw yeah, its gamer time

Manjaro is weird but I wonder if they'll make it some kind of Manjaro spin? IMO I'd be interested to have Bazzite or something similar on it

Says on the image that its a 7840HS system, so same SOC as top end handhelds like the GPD Win 4, Aya Neo Kun, ROG Ally etc.

The thing with debt is that every time someone (or something) that owes a world-changing amount of it suddenly goes kaput, it becomes pretty clear how much of the debt system is made up.

If Evergrande owes banks, they'll just write off the debts and pretend it never existed. If they owed companies, they'll recoup "lost" money from assets and loans from someone else.

Most of the debt system is arbitrary and totally nonexistent. This wont be the collapse of the chinese economy like ""china waters"" claimed it would be; for a capitalist country masquerading as a classless economic system they're doing capitalism a lot better than most of the world right now.

who would win?

dozens of conflicting standards on where to store files over years of poorly enforced linux development practice

vs

some symlink bois

for real tho, I discovered gnu-stow the other day and it looks like the ideal solution for this sorta stuff