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markstos

@ markstos @lemmy.world

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  • Why go through the trouble to use Arch?

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  • More software I wanted was packaged for Arch than Ubuntu.

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • Say you rented a server at Amazon and ran your own VPN server software on it. Not that hard. The server could expose an HTTPS endpoint.

    VPN software on your laptop connects to that.

    From the network level, it appears you spend a lot of time connected to the same random website, hosted on some IP not owned by a VPN company.

  • Save icon

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  • A floppy disk is fine, just like Photoshop uses terms like dodge and burn, references to obsolete dark room methods, like cutting and “pasting” were literally how some layout projects worked.

    Referencing the last physical incarnation of saving a file seems fitting!

  • Democrats: Stop dividing the left

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  • Imagine a beach of infinite length with one lemonade stand on it.

    Where do you open a second lemonade stand to maximize sales if people will buy from the closet stand?

    The answer: next to the first stand. Everyone to the left of your stand will find you are the best option and everyone to the right will choose the other.

    This model explains why two political parties along a spectrum can end up not too different from each other in an attempt to capture the most votes.

  • Binary

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  • It’s a Roman numeral…

  • Server notifications on fedi

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  • Because less than 1% of users would use it and your trusting the security of not one bit partner but thousands of ever-changing small partners.

    Also, email is already federated.

  • I accidentally broke Gentoo's CI by using a documented VCS

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  • Yes. I used CVS when it was the best option. If I recall, CVS made it easy to check out a different version of only one fail, making it easy to put a system in an inconsistent state.

    For modern VCS that’s pleasant to learn and use but won’t scale to the Linux kernel, I recommend Darcs.

    A single binary, interactive commands and online help.

  • I accidentally broke Gentoo's CI by using a documented VCS

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  • CVS does not even support atomic commits across four files.

  • I accidentally broke Gentoo's CI by using a documented VCS

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  • You used CVS and it wasn’t a drugstore.

  • Just use cURL

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  • Xh is my favorite— a rewrite of httpie with some fixes.

  • Community Survey On Jolla's Next Smartphone Hardware

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  • 7” is a tablet.

  • Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

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  • The post suggests that Cloudflare is donating $100k to Omarchy, but no figure is given by Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s press release reads more services in kind for an open source project— something many tech firms already offer without a check on the politics of the maintainers first.

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    How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?

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  • I haven’t heard of that happening much outside of law enforcement raid.

    Laptops, yeah. But stories of homes being broken into to steal servers?

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    How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?

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  • When was the last time you saw a headline: “Thieves steal home lab”?

  • Is there a self-hosted project that does url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?

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  • The encoding format of URLs is URL encoding, also known as percent-encoding. Content in the URL may be first encoding in some other format, like JSON or base64, and then encoded additionally using percent-encoding.

    While there is a standard way to decode percent-encoding, websites are free to use base64 or JSON in URLs however they wish, so there's not a one-size-fits-all way to decode them all. For example, the "/" character is valid in both percent-encoding and base64-encoding, so to know if it's part of a base64-encoded blob or not, you might end up trying decoding several parts of the URL as base64 and checking if the result looks like URL-- essentially brute force.

    A smarter way to do this might be to maintain a mapping between your favorite sites that you want to decode and what methods they use to encode links. Then a tool could efficiently directly decode the URLs embedded in these click trackers.

  • Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?

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  • Lol. After professionally hosting email for 15 years I’m happy to let someone else handle it now.

    About 90% of incoming mail will be spam and it will be your job to make sure you are doing good job of classifying it so you don’t get junk in your inbox and don’t lose real mail in the spam folder.

    Then for outgoing mail you need to make sure SPF, DKIM and DMARC are all in order.

    Then there is all the usual stuff of security updates, backups, monitoring, alerting, logging and having a plan for internet outages.

    Yes, it’s all doable but I won’t expect it be “set and forget”. I expect there will be quite a bit of tuning with some possible spam and delivery problems while you get kinks worked out.

  • Ubuntu Council corrects forum moderator's interpretation of rules relating to queerness

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  • Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things. It does not explicitly mention queerness.

    A moderator made a bad a call. It sounds like there may have been some confusion about the word queer used as a slur vs a self-identification.

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Fireflys.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Fuzzel 1.13 adds new features for menu building and usability

    mark.stosberg.com /fuzzel-1-13-adds-new-features-for-menu-building-and-usability/
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    Please don't promote Wayland

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  • Upfront they describe two monocultures and then a thriving diverse ecosystem and then conclude that the thriving diverse ecosystem is the unsustainable option.

    Yeah, Linux as a software ecosystem is complex and messy like a forest or the animal kingdom. It’s a feature.

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    Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux

    mark.stosberg.com /universal-copy-paste/
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Corporate Auth in 2025

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    Any Linux users out there who have tried the OSBOT Meet 2 webcam?

    www.obsbot.com /obsbot-meet-2-4k-webcam
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    Fuzzel, app launcher and fuzzy finder has feature-packed 1.11 release

    mark.stosberg.com /feature-packed-app-launcher-and-fuzzer/
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    What's new in Fuzzel 1.10, a Rofi alternative for Wayland

    mark.stosberg.com /fuzzel-1-10/
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    Recommendation for a high-quality webcam for Linux

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Recommendation for outgoing-only SMTP server

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Fuzzel: A great dmenu and rofi alternative for Wayland

    mark.stosberg.com /fuzzel-a-great-dmenu-and-rofi-altenrative-for-wayland/