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fossdd

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way too many controversial discussions on here; please just be friendly and make love :3

email: fossdd@pwned.life

proof: https://keyoxide.org/80E2164367131107A806C897BB8C8A81C6452A88

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fossdd··on .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
Any .de domain with DNSSEC
fossdd··on PostmarketOS v25.06: The One with Systemd
Oh systemd cares about them very much, and systemd will be a key component for the stability for postmarketOS with stuff like first-boot, sysusers/tmpfiles and in the end sysupdate (hopefully). That's just part of a very long list which simply wouldn't be possible without systemd.

In the end, if someone cares enough to step up and keeps OpenRC at the same state (and there is some progress, to be noted), we won't interfere with you, but at the current state it's just a big time consumer for many of our developers, and it's not where we would like to spend the time with and rather want to focus on stability and sustainability in general.

fossdd··on PostmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name
Not sure which device suits your criteria the best, but feel free to take a look at the supported Laptops/Tablets: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Tablets_in_classi...

I heard the Xiomi Mi Pad 5 Pro had good support (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Mi_Pad_5_Pro_(xiao...), but we also support a lot of Chromebooks like your Duet 3 (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lenovo_IdeaPad_Duet_3_(go...) :p

fossdd··on Offencive Codeberg Email
Please take a look at https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-ha...
fossdd··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
> if you want to submit benchmarks, or you want to report bugs, an important or sometimes a mandatory component is to provide compilation flags

On all open-source distros, you can look into your distro's source and check their compile flags.

fossdd··on Low Cost Mini PCs
I wonder why you switched and not use your 16-core PC? did it somehow broke or do you just like the benefits of a minipc?
fossdd··on Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
Maybe dodo[1] is something for you. It is basically a graphical email client but with lots of vim-bindings.

Basically the best of both worlds, terminal and graphical. Like the qutebrowser[2] for emails.

However I think its kinda in a unmaintained state and only supports notmuch backend.

1: https://github.com/akissinger/dodo 2: https://qutebrowser.org/

fossdd··on xdg-override: change default application temporarily on Linux
That reminds my of a own xdg-open I wrote that sits in /usr/local/bin/xdg-open.

It's a simple python script that checks by looking at the protocol, mime type or extension which URL it is and also asks if there are multiple applications

https://paste.sr.ht/~fossdd/7fa65e10998ebcc03a2bbcc8488f94e9... (CC0)

fossdd··on ps aux written in bash without forking
> What if you're ssh'd into a machine, you're in your trusty bash shell, but unfortunately you cannot spawn any new processes because literally all other pids are taken. What do you do?

But what if i'm instead in my trusty POSIX shell without bash support? The bash script is not POSIX complient :(

fossdd··on YouTube is returning 403 to NewPipe and other 3rd party players
Funny, my invidious instance still works..
fossdd··on Valve, a suggestion (about Team Fortress 2) [video]
I signed the patition, hope that helps: http://save.tf
fossdd··on Pixelblaze – WiFi LED Controller
Wow, that looks interesting. I've got regualar old IR LED strips and, if I got time, I wanted to set up a NodeMCU with a IR transmitter below the LEDs, so I can remote control my LED strips per HTTP requests.

It's just a proof of concept, but I guess that could work. To read the IR codes, it seems mostly be standartized, but otherwise I could also detect IR codes via a IR receiver.

fossdd··on VNC Resolver
very funny :)
fossdd··on Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
I had used Pi-hole and blocky. Pi-hole is nice for the non-expert who just wants to block ads, with a neat web interface. But with blocky, instead of a web interface you can fully configure blocky in a single nice-documented extensive YAML file. Metrics are retrieved per Prometheus and can be visually shown in something like Gragfana. It has A LOT of features and is faster. :)
fossdd··on Ask HN: How bad is the xz hack?
The backdoor had a check to only affect .dem and .rpm based distros. macOS /should/ be fine.
fossdd··on .rss Feeds for Social Media
use alternative privacy-focused frontends: https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends

I use nitter and proxigram to query RSS feeds.

fossdd··on Show HN: RAM Prices
For Germany (and i guess Europe) there always is: https://geizhals.de/
fossdd··on Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
This still not justifies a /16 allocation
fossdd··on DNS Toys
this is insane cool. it's such an amazing creative idea. i hope people like them never stop having awesome ideas
fossdd··on Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
It's probably not the answer you want to hear, but don't use any analytics platforms. Let users be completly anonymous. :)
fossdd··on Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
The new settings window looks really customized. Not sure. I've no problem if they change things in PopOS. It looks better then their custom GNOME. GNOME without customizations is in my opinion the best DE.

Also cause GNOME uses by default Wayland. COSMIC uses Xorg..