moonpiedumplings @ moonpiedumplings @programming.dev

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Probably not what you want, but rclone now has a simple web ui built in: https://rclone.org/gui/

I still feel like there's space for a MATLAB replacement...

GNU Octave?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave

using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB

Wikibooks, wikiversity, for learning resources. There are also other wikimedia projects like wikivoyage for travel resources, or wikinews which you already put.

Libretexts for learning resources.

Also Black here!

(My keyboard doesn't have emotes, but pretend this is the black hand waving hi)

Edit: 👋🏾

Pip in a venv doesn't get you non python tools.

Conda also has venvs, for seperate environments for stuff as well.

This reminds me of kasmweb, but fully open source.

https://rclone.org/drive/

https://rclone.org/crypt/

No way to protect emails, google chats, or many other things AFAIK. Yeah, I hate it too.

Why is SSPL not considered FOSS while other restrictive licenses like AGPL and GPL v3 are?

So I have an answer for this. Basically all of the entities listed that relicensed their projects to the SSPL, also relicensed their projects using the dual licensing scheme, including one proprietary license. That's important later.

The SSPL's intent is probably that the deployment framework used to open source this software must be open sourced. I like this intent, and I would consider it Free/Libre Software, but it should be noted that another license, the open watcom license, which requires you to open source software if you simply deploy it, is not considered Free Software by the FSF. I don't really understand this decision. I don't count "must share source code used" as a restriction on usage cases. It seems that the FSF only cares about user freedom, whoever is using the software, and views being forced to open source code only used privately as a restriction.

Now, IANAL... but the SSPL's lettering is problematic. What is part of the deployment system? If I deploy software on Windows, am I forced to open source windows? If I deploy it on a server with intel management engine, am I forced to open source that? Due to the way it is worded, the SSPL is unusable.

And a dual license, one proprietary and one unusable means only one license — proprietary. There's actually a possibility that this is intentional, and that the intent of the SSPL was never to be usable, but rather so that these companies could pretend they are still Open Source while going fully proprietary.

But, for the sake of discussion, let's assume the SSPL's intent was benevolent but misguided, and that it's intent was not to be unusable, but rather to force companies to open source deployment platforms.

Of course, the OSI went and wrote an article about how the SSPL is not an open source license but that's all BS. All you need to do is take a look at who sponsors the OSI (Amazon, Google, other big SAAS providers) to realize that the OSI is just protecting their corporate interests, who are terrified of an SSPL license that actually works, so they seek to misrepresent the intent of the SSPL license as too restrictive for Open Source — which is false. Being forced to open source your deployment platform still allows you to use the code in any way you desire — you just have to open source your deployment platform.

Is there some hypothetical lesser version of SSPL that still captures the essence of it while still being more restrictive than AGPL that would prevent exploitation by SaaS providers?

AGPL. There's also Open Watcom, but it's not considered a Free Software license by the FSF, meaning software written under that wouldn't be included in any major Linux distros.

I think in theory you could make an SSPL that works. But SSPL ain't it.

Of course, there are problems with designing an SSPL that works, of course. Like, if you make it so that you don't have to open source proprietary code by other vendors, then what if companies split themselves up and one company makes and "sells" the proprietary programs to another.

I just use termux + the simple http server built into python

Zotero is a citation manager, with a firefox extension to save an article (but really, a tab) with one click.

It also has fulltext search. You can search snapshots of everything you save.

"But I can't save all my tabs at once"

(There are some solutions, but nothIng official)

Save as you go. Computers simply don't have enough ram for 2000 tabs.

Anyway, it also seems to be able to run javascript plugins, and I saw you have some experience with that.

It also has support for folders, so you can organize it a bit better than tabs work for that.

There's also the needy users that create tickets for every prompt, dialog, message, delay.... Pretty much anything that could happen at all ever, whether it affects their ability to do their work or not.''

This could be weaponized incompetence. "Oh I keep having issues with my computer that interfere with my work, so I can't work and IT is incompetent and can't help me, look at all these tickets and how long IT takes. I just can't get any work done!"

You could say the same thing about sudo. Sudo's codebase is massive, compared to alternatives like doas, but it comes with many features doas does not have, like being able to ask a remote LDAP server if a user will be able to escalate.

I find it absurd that we have just simply accepted the idea of a setuid binary with built in networking code, as our primary admin escalation tool. 100,000+ lines of C code, code that has had multiple buffer overflow exploits*, in a setuid binary, just for temporary admin privileges. Does that seem necessary to you?

Polkit provides an alternative to that. If you don't need the features, then fine, you don't have to use run0 — but then you can't use sudo without being a hypocrite. No longer do I have to have rely on a setuid binary that tries to do everything in one program when I really need sudo's features, instead polkit handles authentication (including asking remote resources if an action is okay), and run0 handles actual escalation.

In another comment in this thread, you mention sudo being lightweight — which is outright false. Compared to doas or su, it's extremely heavyweight, and with that complexity comes more risk of vulnerabilities. You also mention pkexec, for executing with polkit, but pkexec is also setuid, and has many of the same pitfalls.

*Buffer overflow exploits in sudo:

1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/serious-flaw-that-lurked-in-sudo-for-9-years-finally-gets-a-patch/
2. https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit

No one complained when s6, another init system, also offered a sudo alternative (before systemd did, too). But when Poettering does it, it's bad and wrong and ununixlike!

Maybe setuid has been extremely problematic, and more than one entity has sought alternatives?

Yeah, I read that manual but it didn't answer my question.

The big problem is that the arch wiki describes a setup with nested subvolumes first (in a subvolume below @ or whatever your root subvolume is), but then suggests in a tip to use a subvolume directly below the top level subvolume. The limitations mentioned in that manual don't seem to apply to either setup, as they would prevent swap from working, which is not the case. I have tested both setups and they work fine — or so it seems. I'm worried there is some hidden gotcha I'm missing.

in addition to that, some of those limitations simply don't apply to my setup, as I only have a single device.

https://tryhackme.com/games/koth

There is also overthewire warzone, a private network simulating the entire ipv4 internet, where any device is fair game for hacking.

It's bad to brush your teeth after eating.

The reason for that is that when acids are in the mouth, they weaken the enamel of the tooth, which is the outer layer of the tooth,” Rolle says. Brushing immediately after consuming something acidic can damage the enamel layer of the tooth.

Source: https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/brushing-immediately-after-meals-you-may-want-wait

Xplore file browser

It's trivial to replace the independent pieces of xplore, but it has so many features in one app that I just can't let it go. It's got dual pane file browsing, disk usage chart, smb, ftp, and many other cloud storage connections. It also handles many types of compression.

It's become my main offline music player as well, because it has the simple ability to shuffle a folder of music, which is all I really need.

It can also view installed apps, export them to apk, and view and modify appdata (as non root!).

However, freshtomato is another router firmware, that isn't as feature rich or well supported as opwnwrt, but is focused on supporting broadcom chipsets.

https://www.freshtomato.org/

https://wiki.freshtomato.org/doku.php/hardware_compatibility

I flashed it to my netgear router with a broadcom chipset, it works wonderfully!

Its like people only watched the opening scene and the one in which he murders Allen.

And the business card scene. But yeah, I think a large portion of people didn't watch the actual movie, and only saw those three clips on youtube (including me).

I can spiral my tongue, so that the front part is fully upsidr down - but only to the left. I can't rotate it to the right at all for some reason, it's like the equivalent muscles are missing.