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rzron I fixed Windows native development

next, wrap it with wine and eventually share a bottle/winetrick

rzron The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

I am interested too, my fallback bank trapped me (or my courage to resist), the fallback of fallback would be crypto but i am not sure i want to depend on this too...

Meanwhile, the last hope is that people will use more cash (if the digital world is too hostile, oh wait it is!)

rzron Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates

Toybox is the 4th one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toybox

rzron What to do with an old iPad

https://web.archive.org/web/20250906222008/http://odb.ar/blo...

BTW I anyone is curious, IIRC managed to jailbreak iOS 9.3.5 just from linux without any apple interaction (no cloud account), but since for some reasons phoenixpwn expired

rzron Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

Isn't it paradoxal, that those mentioned companies had set up an OSPO (to do OSS the right/community way... with the right/community minded people)

I believe this kind of schizophrenia is the price to pay of (too) big organizations.

rzron Multiple Security Issues in GNU Screen

A smooth transition from GNU screen to tmux, will be appreciated for potentially 60K users.

https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=screen

I note that tmux has only 40K users (of debian popcon users)

https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tmux

I am considering to try the link shared previously:

https://github.com/grml/grml-etc-core/blob/master/etc/tmux.c...

Now I miss a way to translate CLI options and batch files

rzron A compendium of "open-source" licenses

More seriously is there a list of SPDX, OSI rejected licence anywhere ?

rzron Privacy Is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset

Only the word has been hijacked at best

"Your privacy is our priority..."

rzron Paxo: A DIY Phone

With all respect to the younger generation, this is project is oversold compared to previous similar projects.

BTW, which OSHW project is advanced enough to deserve more contributions ?

Back to paxo one, According to

https://github.com/paxo-phone/paxo-electronic

It is integration of SIM800L modem with ESP32

Software side, the main app (aka OS):

https://github.com/paxo-phone/PaxOS-9

rzron The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

so is purl.org

rzron How to Use I2C Devices in Apache NuttX: Scanning for Devices

NuttX worth considering if you're coming from Linux background, I liked it and related community, BTW they have a workshop later this year.

Back to the subject implementing drivers can be a good warmup exercise, you can get inspiration from hints I have shared:

https://rzr.github.io/rzr-presentations/docs/nuttx/

rzron Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

Helping the boss is always on "voluntary basis" (aka there is no choice)...

rzron NewPipe 0.26

Is anyone happy of newpipe on android tv ?

On my freebox mini 4k (french ISP box) experience does not improve over time, but I'll give a try on latest.

rzron Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

Something similar for piano learners would be welcome

rzron How did you boost your productivity lately? Share your tips and tricks

I take notes in shell scripts.... which I improve each time I need them again, until it's stable enough to be used as automation recipes... this gives me more time to take notes...

rzron Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”

What's next? humans.txt ?

rzron WSL2 on Zen4 Ryzen: similar performance to running bare metal Linux

What about USB devices support ?

Is there any more integrate solution than:

https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win/

rzron Ask HN: What to Do with a Gifted Laptop?

Wkat about making it an XPRA or RDP terminal to connect to other linux/window host ? I am wondering how reliable it is for accelerated video/audio.

rzron Lenovo X1 Nano Gen 3 Datasheet [pdf]

I am wondering if edge of chasi is too sharp like some recent ones...

I am considering to sand P15S's edge because it feels like resting hands' palm on razor blade...

@Lenovo I can test your future thinkpads

rzron A Message from Signal's New President

yes that's something I'd like to avoid... because it hasn't been rebuilt from source (and audited)

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/search/org....

rzron A Message from Signal's New President

Dear Signal's presidency

May you consider priority to get client published to f-droid (or debian):

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/signal-wickr-on-f-droid-2021/122...

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127

Meanwhile I'll recommend freedom lovers to use matrix|XMPP|IRC (which can be also used on web or linux computer)

Freely yours

rzron Google Outage in Europe

Let me crosslink to invidious tracker:

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/2577

rzron A New Bootable USB Solution

Any attempt to support secure boots ? or can it be signed by valid key ?

BTW there is a patch to review from me at:

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/pulls?q=author%3Arzr

rzron Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

Yes I just discovered this lastweek It worked fine from Linux.

I only had to patch script: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/pull/877

I guess it will be valuable to ship this in distros no ?

rzron Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since

It has centralized accounts management, but I dont remember that emails and IM was the same app. But you could use any protocol from the messaging app (xmpp, sms etc)...

rzron Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

+ XMPP + IRC

Please also mention if there are any client/servers FLOSS

rzron Opensource your abandonware (2010)

May this also interest community:

https://rzr.github.io/rzr-presentations/docs/abandonware

rzron GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL

what about audio ?

next task would be to support some kind of synaptic that would update windows's menu with linux apps...

rzron WebThings Gateway 1.0

Thanks for mentioning my pet projects about melting 3D and IoT

you'll find more demos and details at

https://purl.org/rzr/presentations