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jandeboevrieon Embed the source code directly in your Qt app, for GPL compliance

I don't mind the source "leaking", as stated in the article. I'm even planning to just send it onto paying customers, but that's impossible on mobile platforms without making it public. I want a hurdle, just enough to make people consider buying instead of downloading. Take Fritzing for example, for os X and windows you must pay for an installer or compile yourself, on most Linux distros it's an apt insta away.

I've had multiple forms of donation buttons on my various sites and software over the years and they have never worked as good as either ads or paid software. As in, 99% difference.

jandeboevrieon Embed the source code directly in your Qt app, for GPL compliance

Agreed, but a few text files shouldn't be a big size increase. Its the only was to provide the source to users on mobile platforms without making the source directly public. Or do you have another suggestion?

jandeboevrieon Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

happy goatcounter user here to, for the same reasons as you say, way less complex than GA but it has more metrics I care about.

jandeboevrieon QML Drag and Drop including reordering the C++ model

Why dont you use an adblocker if you dislike ads?

jandeboevrieon Phone Utility on VAX/VMS

Had an actual chat once via OpenVMS Phone: https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_first_OpenVMS.html#toc_4 - really fun!

jandeboevrieon Canonic Browser: open-source QML Browser

This is not a web browser, just a QML browser.

jandeboevrieon Gitlab from YC to IPO

I worked with Sytse (as Sid used to be called) back in 2011/2012 in The Hague when he consulted at Digidentity, with Marin. Great guy back then, used to run around in a lab coat, the GitLAB guy. Wonderful to see what Gitlab has become, well done!

jandeboevrieon Gopher Is Still Worth Checking Out

Can't wait for the Python3 version of PyGopherD so I don't have to do this anymore: https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_PyGopherd_on_Ubunt...

jandeboevrieon Microsoft Azure silently install management agents with vulns on your Linux VMs

This backdoor is present on all vm providers. Qemu has one as well. I did wrote about it three years ago: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Linux_on_Microsoft_Azure_Disable_t...

jandeboevrieon Rectangle{} debugging in QML – like printf(), but for QT

This is so cool! I think this is going to be very useful for me. How did you find the magic env variable?

jandeboevrieon Rectangle{} debugging in QML – like printf(), but for QT

This was during development, also stated in the article.

The forms designer does not work if you use qrc:/ includes or inline javascript, plus it generates ugly code (and uses hard x / y positions instead of anchors).

jandeboevrieon Run GUI applications and desktops in Docker

A simpler approach for Just one application can be found here: https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Running_gnash_on_Ubuntu_20.04...

In that case it's legacy applications not available on newer distros.

jandeboevrieon Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style

Here's my take on it: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Firefox-89-proton-ui-tab-styling.h...

jandeboevrieon How Dwarf Fortress is built

Df is just like OpenTTD. Both are like Chess, easy to start, fun to play casually but it takes years to master. Great games, complex if you want to and a time sink if you don't keep an eye on it. Have had many hundreds of fun hours in both games

jandeboevrieon Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some

Jeffs case review of the argon one m2 case was the reason I bought it. The pi boots directly from an SSD, much faster and no more broken SD cards.

jandeboevrieon MicroMac Technology (2000)

Metatag generator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claris_Home_Page - I expected Frontpage, but it's something different, never heard of it.

jandeboevrieon VNC client running on a coffee machine

My site does yes, from the Espresso Web Server (https://raymii.org/invalid) - but that is just an nginx trick. That was in place way before I started at this company.

Check the other HTTP headers for more fun.

The coffee machines themselves have a HTTP api but not the HTTP coffeepot protocol. Just something custom.

jandeboevrieon VNC client running on a coffee machine

The QT version compiles as a desktop app as well. It uses an HTTP api to the coffee machine. Normally only localhost, but for development I can tunnel that port over ssh, so from my desktop I can use "actual" hardware. Same with Flash/Gnash, ssh tunnel and a local instance (recently made a snap for that: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Ive_packaged_up_Gnash_as_a_Snap_fo...).

But thanks for the tip, I'm going to try that and see how it works. Maybe even get the old machine running the new UI via vnc.

jandeboevrieon VNC client running on a coffee machine

Made in Taylor, MI! Research and Development is located in the Netherlands, but the machines for the US market are made locally there.

jandeboevrieon VNC client running on a coffee machine

This is amazing, thanks for sharing! I really hate the bloated electron piece of shit. Would love a cli client or pidgin integration.

jandeboevrieon PiDP-8/I running TSS/8 open for retro challenges

If you want to run this yourself, you can do so with simh. Wrote about it in 2015: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Running_TSS_8_on_the_DEC_PiDP-... - a lot of fun , playing around with the PiDP/8

jandeboevrieon The VT-69 portable data terminal

Can we buy this already?

jandeboevrieon SerenityOS: Writing a Full Chain Exploit

SerenityOS is an amazing project. Great videos, fun and interesting to watch and the os itself is surprisingly usable. Great example of modern C++.

jandeboevrieon AXPbox Alpha Emulator

It's a fork of es40. New build system, more stable networking, bug fixes, but don't expect miracles just yet. 10 year old c++ codebase is not something you magically speed up overnight

jandeboevrieon AXPbox Alpha Emulator

Version 1.0.0 was released just yesterday: https://github.com/lenticularis39/axpbox/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Code Contributions, bug reports and testing are very welcome

jandeboevrieon Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)

Hehe I'd be happy to read such a changelog

jandeboevrieon Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard

That looks cool! More possibilities and it keeps history, nice.

Do the checks run in parallel?

jandeboevrieon Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard

Agree with superkuh in this point. If you only have a hammer every problem looks like a nail. But I've updated the Readme with coreutils as a dependency.

jandeboevrieon Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard

No not in this version. When would that occur?