Fun fact: you don’t need to add the nixpkgs channel for the determinate systems installer, even when using channel commands or other things since it adds an option to your nix.conf to reference the nix flake for nixpkgs.

I don’t know how to update this flake though.

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!).

If you really need Windows, then there is Windows 10/11 Internet of Things, Long Term Servicing Edition.

It’s Windows, for enterprises, without any of the bloat they force upon consumers normally.

It doesn’t even come with the Windows store, but that is trivial to reinstall, like only a single powershell command.

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.

Progression fantasy

After Twitter went to shit, where else do customers have to go for customer support like this?

Admittedly, I didn’t read the article, but I have seen plenty of other cases woth cloudfare or other big providers where people have only been able to set things right by kicking up a fuss on social media — like that recent one with amazon aws.

Old version docs tend to offer you a redirect to more recent docs

Sadly, the docs, I’ve worked with (openstack and ansible) frequently, don’t do this. They have a button to go to the latest version of the docs, but not to the equivalent page on the latest version. This means I have to find the equivalent page again, from the integrated search usually.

And yes, a lot can change between versions. New features can get added that solve your problems or older stuff can get removed.

Putting something on GitHub is really inconsequential if you’re making your project open source since anyone can use it for anything anyway,

Except for people in China (blocked in China) or people on ipv6 only networks, since Github hasn’t bothered to support ipv6, cutting out those in countries where ipv4 addresses are scarce.

So yes, it does matter. Both gitlab and codeberg, the two big alternatives, both support ipv6 (idk about them being blocked in china). They also support github logins, so you dob’t even need to make an account.

And it’s not a black or white. Software freedom is a spectrum, not a binary. We should strive to use more open source, decentralized software, while recognizing that many parts are going to be out of our immediate control, like the backbone of the internet or little pieces like proprietary firmware.

Ventoy. I love it so much, being able to have more than one bootable iso and storage on a usb.

Although, it is slower to boot the more folders you have, since it scans all folders, but this is configurable

I use nix-shell to get the ventoy cli for when I need to install it to a usb stick.

I agree with this.

Sometimes I’ve seen people complain about people using asklemmy for not askreddit style questions, but I actually think that’s ok and I’m in favor of that as it means more discussion, content, and visibility.

Eventually asklemmy will reach “critical mass”, and split into more niche communities.

I’ve been watching this for a while now.

Most interesting is:

https://github.com/snowfallorg/nix-software-center , a GUI software center for nix

And https://github.com/snowfallorg/nixos-conf-editor , a GUI config editor for nix