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bubblesnort··on Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds
Oh, I see.

I can cry foul towards Microsoft all day here, but not some faux charity which hosts fuck parties with underage and forced prostitutes.

Makes sense.

bubblesnort··on NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer
It's conceptually similar to wine, but rather a reimplementation of the reference Android, which is AOSP.

See https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_transla...

bubblesnort··on Decomplexifying Curl
I tried to search hamburger code on the web. It gave me Roblox and a bunch of CSS hamburger menus.

Sorry to ask, but what are these hamburgers you speak of?

bubblesnort··on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
Really it's anyone using teams on older or cheaper hardware.
bubblesnort··on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size

    > We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS.
I used to call it office.com.. Teams is the worst offender there. Even a website with a cryptominer on it runs faster than that junk.
bubblesnort··on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
Honey, I shrunk the git!
bubblesnort··on Hacktoberfest 2024
Improving documentation is an often underrated contribution.

Have you read man pages by the same author as the program itself? When you can tell before looking up the name, there's a needed and worthy contribution waiting to happen.

bubblesnort··on Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source
It's not too late for that.
bubblesnort··on 35% Faster Than the Filesystem (2017)
ITT: people who never installed an RDBMS that used a storage device instead of a filesystem, such as Db2.
bubblesnort··on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
Fine.

But they'll never fire their halloween execs.

bubblesnort··on Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source
Open source never had any of the ethics or philosophy that free software has.

Free software > open source.

bubblesnort··on New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs
I let the illiterates use it, but if they don't need root they don't get root. Debian stable with auto-unattend.
bubblesnort··on New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs

    > possible by gaining kernel code execution as an administrator
The root user can install rootkits as usual. Don't forget to brand it a cool name.... Oh wait:

    > The researcher published a tool called Windows Downdate
There you go, here's your 0xF minutes of fame, well played.
bubblesnort··on Cqwrteur's fork of Linux kernel, rename it to Cinux
Interesting. I haven't ever seen a Linux fork change the actual name before. Doing so while maintaining BC is quite a challenge.

I'd imagine me on a computer in the future:

    $ uname -a

    Microborg MCS+ (Windows 18, like Linux) Azure 99.99.99
bubblesnort··on On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers
When PGP couldn't be exported and OpenBSD had to set up camp in Canada, the same people who are upset now were silent then. The resistance back then was both clever and peaceful.
bubblesnort··on Show HN: Desktop Sandbox for Secure Cloud Computer Use
I don't understand your logic. Zip and rm are different commands or functions.

However, I understand this could be an easy way of doing Qubes OS without Qubes OS.

bubblesnort··on NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch
The only place I see where wireguard can be set up is as a proxy for DNS. Perhaps that would still allow changing the default gateway?
bubblesnort··on NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch
That only uses wg for DNS queries. Everything else remains untunneled.
bubblesnort··on Show HN: Desktop Sandbox for Secure Cloud Computer Use
Thanks, looks cool. XFCE is an excellent choice. It's also my daily driver.

Could you shed light on ab actual use case for this? I think I'm not seeing the elephant in the room here. Personally, quick desktop VMs would be perfect for remote work, kiosks, gui integration tests, and various showcases.

What am I missing here?

bubblesnort··on Boeing CEO says the company must fundamentally change
They could close shop and start a really cool aviation museum. Plenty of relics to come by.
bubblesnort··on Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
Browser?

telnet to port 80

bubblesnort··on Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox
idk why this got downvoted.

You created something cool and it pays tribute to a loved one.

Awesome.

bubblesnort··on Inkscape 1.4
Y'know, I only figured this after reading myself back the next day.

Sorry.

bubblesnort··on Inkscape 1.4
Of course anything you make yourself is yours. I'm not sure how the license can confuse anyone into thinking it wouldn't be. It likely wouldn't fly with the law anyway. Unless it was all saas.
bubblesnort··on Inkscape 1.4
There's an obscured close button in the top right corner. If you want to skip the welcome dialog just click that.

The second time it appears, you can uncheck "Show this every time" in the lower left corner and then click "New Document".

...or you could click Save on the first dialog and then click " Thanks!". You'll get the same dialog as above when you'd have closed it with the button in the corner.

bubblesnort··on Inkscape 1.4
Thank you. This is the first time I've heard of the Graphite editor.

I think it could benefit from availability in package reposirories and looking at the license, it appears the program itself is free under the Apache license but the artwork is non-free. It cannot be modified and commercial use is prohibited.

When combined, Graphite as a whole is non-free so I won't be compiling this until the artwork is gone. I'll look into providing some dummy files and see where it goes.

The other packing problem is that there's already a server monitoring program also named Graphite. But given the above, a change of name and new icons would solve both problems.

bubblesnort··on Hell Freezes Over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86
The BIOS on an IBM PC was cloned by Compaq iirc. Back in the day it was normal for software (including OS kernels) to call into BIOS ROMs because storage was limited.

This was in a different era where most PCs weren't networked.

x86_64 has moved to UEFI and SecureBoot since, but is still mostly expected to boot any live distro you'd like. Replacing x86 could drastically reduce the chances of replacing non-free vendor software with free software.

bubblesnort··on All software in EU under product liability from 2026
You have no idea how slow governments are.
bubblesnort··on Ask HN: Where After WordPress?
0. Install Airplane Mode on your WordPress and keep it enabled

1. Try ClassicPress

2. Move to Drupal

3. See if you like something else. E.g. BoltCMS, OctoberCMS, or one of the october forks.

4. Go back to Joomla

5. Quit your job and do something you'd like to be doing

bubblesnort··on Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline"
- openly speculate the tactic to preemptively address concerns
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