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_cenw··on CDC File Transfer
Unfortunately this seems to disable physical outputs.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203339

_cenw··on CDC File Transfer
Artemis/Apollo are mentioned in the post above - yeah they work better than the out of box experience, but you still have to configure your physical screen to be off for every virtual display. It unfortunately only runs on Windows and my machine usually doesn't. I also only have one dGPU and a Raphael iGPU (which are sensitive to memory overclocks) and I like the Linux gaming experience for the most part, so while I did have a working gaming VM, it wasn't for me (or I'd want another GPU).
_cenw··on CDC File Transfer
It's a shame that virtual / headless displays are such a mess on both Linux and Windows. I use a 32:9 ultrawide and stream to 16:9/16:10 devices, and even with hours of messing around with an HDMI dummy and kscreen-doctor[1] it was still an unreliable mess. Sometimes it wouldn't work when the machine was locked, and sometimes Sunshine wouldn't restore the resolution on the physical monitor (and there's no session timeout either).

Artemis is a bit better, but it still requires per-device setup of displays since it somehow doesn't disable the physical output next to the virtual one. Those drivers also add latency to the capture (the author of looking glass really dislikes them because they undo all the hard work of near-zero latency).

[1]: https://github.com/acuteaura/universe/blob/main/systems/_mod...

_cenw··on What is “good taste” in software engineering?
It's pretty well documented that they called their mailserver "Wolfsschanze" (which was one of Hitler's military bunkers). Whether or not that's just edgy behavior or not, I don't know, but my guess it's a bit of both considering suckless people have complained about "cultural marxism", which is a term with pretty straight lineage to the Nazi's "cultural bolshevism".

So... is that not a nazi reference? Why else would you preempt being "horrible".

_cenw··on What is “good taste” in software engineering?
It's not wrong per-se, but they practice it to a level of extreme that it seems more like a principled art piece than usable software. Software engineering is all about knowing your project-specific constraints, it should not be wasteful - and that goes for runtime performance / memory usage as much as the time invested. Usability is another factor - suckless software is very inaccessible to people who don't know how to use a compiler by default.

> (I know, I'm a horrible person)

You made a throwaway just for that? I'd hope most people are capable of differentiating the engineering ideology from the (ironic?) nazi reference and tiki torch march ideology bit.

_cenw··on What is “good taste” in software engineering?
While balancing that to performance requirements appropriate for the project. And picking dependencies that do the same while having a healthy community likely to keep going.

The same applies to picking vendors, asking questions like "will they extort me next contract renewal" and "what options do I have if they extort me".

_cenw··on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
This is a reference implementation, national governments are expected to make their own versions. Last I checked the longest discussion thread on there had a comment from a developer who stated it's included in the Digital Identity Wallet app (of which the AV wallet reference is a fork) simply because it's a checkmark item on OWASP Mobile.
_cenw··on Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
Calling anything "local" to HN is pretty funny US-centrism, for someone posting before 8 AM EST. And I'd never call what's happening in Gaza a "culture war", that would seem trivializing - although my issue seems to be escalating more and more as well.
_cenw··on Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
This does not seem to be a prevalent opinion on here, and I was trying to be diplomatic, but I guess it still comes out as "why is it OK to post / comment politics here if it's a less contentious topic many people on HN care about, but I regularly get downvoted for even relating information to my association with a demographic group forcefully enlisted to the front of the culture war".

Orange site bad.

_cenw··on Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
Aside the topic, but I wonder how HN, as a community, and as a moderation team, weighs this on the intellectual curiosity vs primarily politics scale.

This seems politics to me. Very important politics that a lot of people in tech have a special interest for, but politics nonetheless, and much more pressing topics seem to be absent through the on-topic rule.

_cenw··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
Usually not "easily". I know Germany requires 2/3 majority.
_cenw··on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
Not entirely, but it's a lot better than 1.0/Legacy.

https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/b...

I hope they'll drop 32-bit support in the runtime with the next major version. More and more distributions are dropping it or are thinking about it. Any new game should really use 64.

_cenw··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
The penalty is the work of migrating away and redoing any integration work on a month's notice. That might seem trivial to a small deployment, but I know some people that use these images everywhere, including in places that aren't immediately obvious.
_cenw··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
The problem isn't paying for it, it's the extra workload of retrofitting authentication to all your things. I'd find this a lot more enticing if they just made you set a "i have a license or i am evaluating or i am not commercial" flag in Helm or fail the build. Plus the cost is extremely disproportionate, but some will pay it given the one month deadline.
_cenw··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
What do you mean, that's the business model more than half the VC-funded startups now. Provide something for free or near free, wait until your customer is dependent on you and/or consolidate into at least an oligopoly and then put the thumbscrews on.

I find that to be a pretty dishonest business model. I don't have any Bitnami images to replace, but I know a lot of people who do without ever having made that choice - and their bosses aren't going to pay Broadcom for the most part either. So you end up with overworked developers that now hate Broadcom and/or a whole lot of deployments that just break or never get updated. The number of people going "I can just switch over to the archive image, whatever" on the K8s subreddit alone is concerning.

_cenw··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
Some other open source projects have also shipped Bitnami software in their own helm charts, i.e. APISIX's etcd instance is the Bitnami chart pulled in as a dependency.

Not that it ever worked well, we had to scale it to 1 because the quorum would constantly break into unrecoverable states.

_cenw··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
> However, in order to sustain and support the dedicated team of engineers who maintain and build new charts and images, a subscription will be required if an organization needs the images and charts built and hosted in an OCI registry for them.

This is such a naive take. Bitnami images were a sign of goodwill, a foot in the door at places were the hardened images were actually needed. They just couldn't compete with the better options on the market. This isn't a way to fix it, it's extortion. This is the same thing Terraform Cloud did, and I don't think that product is doing so hot.

> Essentially, Bitnami has been the Jenkins of the internet for many years, but this has become unsustainable.

It's other people's software, so it's very rich of Bitnami to accuse anyone of freeloading when their only contribution is adding config options to software that maybe corresponds to a level 2 on the OperatorFramework capability scale[1] - usually more of a 1.

[1]: https://operatorframework.io/operator-capabilities/

_cenw··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
It was common practice at some point, and keeps being taught, but it's no longer recommended even for IM by most medical associations (unless your injection site is considered high risk; but that pretty much is never the case for SubQ 4-6mm with 4-6mm needles).

I went down this rabbit hole after being handed a 100 pack of insulin needles and an estradiol vial with zero instruction - seemed irresponsible at first, but it turns out it's pretty hard to mess up.

_cenw··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
It's no longer recommended by most medical associations or the WHO.

https://www.cmh.edu/siteassets/media-documents-for-depts-sec...

SubQ has an even lesser risk of hitting a blood vessel.

_cenw··on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
It sounds like you're about to reinvent Sofort, a (now defunct, or sold off at least) payment system that first worked on reverse engineered online banking and then PSD2 to mutually verify direct bank transfers.
_cenw··on Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Secure boot doesn't encrypt, secure boot only signs.
_cenw··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
Mounjaro uses very different designs across the world. The UK has an included needle; here in Germany you need to get them yourself, and neither is an auto-injector.
_cenw··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
Absolutely do not do this.
_cenw··on Stop Killing Games
It isn't with the status quo, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. The EU as a market has enough sway to solve every vendor insisting on restrictive licensing. And we'd only be talking about already sold copies anyway.
_cenw··on Stop Killing Games
Games aren't exactly restricted to "upper middle class", they're mainstream entertainment (just look at Brazilians complaining about regional pricing). And if you want to make caring about things (art in this case; incidentally also entertainment) a competition, I got some lobbyists up the EU's bottom you can get upset about first.
_cenw··on Stop Killing Games
This would be enforced on a timeline far enough in the future that the backup plan wouldn't be an afterthought, but part of the live service concept. I bet it'd help out a lot of studios to ensure their entire infra can be hosted on a developer machine anyway.

Worst case you don't get what you want, but usually such bankrupt entities have successors that take on the liability the same way you'd take on liability for a lack of good data hygiene practices under GDPR.

_cenw··on Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas
That captcha sure reduces the effectiveness of me reading that by 100%.
_cenw··on The Gender Attractiveness Gap
The reverse for trans men isn't, but "trans women transition to male gaze themselves" gets pretty close.
_cenw··on The Gender Attractiveness Gap
That sounds like Blanchard's autogynephilia, which is widely disputed and rejected by most trans people and other sexologists alike.
_cenw··on Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
Linux got plenty of good glass effects. Kvantum for instance.
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