Awesome project, after like 7 years of trying out different compositors, River is the one which made me stick with Wayland.

It doesn’t though? There many games for which I use ModDB and many games have modding communities on dedicated websites.

Some of the biggest modding communities (GTA, Minecraft) don’t really use it at all. It’s very popular with TES and Fallout (not surprising considering the original name was TESNexus), but as someone who has spent a very large amount of time modding Bethesda RPGs, many good mods aren’t found on Nexus, even for those games.

I love Nexus. I uploaded 3 mods over the years, and with their donation point system (you get points each month based on unique downloads), I got like 15 free games from their store by this point.

I think he means this typo:

[ and ] mark optional rulese, for example, [ ‘a’ ] could mean a or an empty language (sigma).

Who would’ve thought an evil company would mistreat its employees. They literally work for a corporation whose main business involves violating your human rights, if they really care they wouldn’t have worked there in the first place.

It will be fixed in GIMP 3, the current stable release uses GTK 2 (doesn’t supoort Wayland natively).

Fuck the planet, next time I order shit online I want it delivered by ICBM

I used it for a bit, it was surprisingly stable and easy to use. However, I eventually gave up on it because it was much harder to find the source of issues in the system.

With tools like Distrobox now available, I’m not sure how useful this is anymore.

I used an LG G3 for around 5 years, and I was in a similar situation to yours when it started dying (but with a slightly different set of features I wanted).

I ended up buying a Xiaomi phone (Mi 9T Pro), but the community support for it wasn’t even close to the LG and I constantly tinkered with the system to keep some stuff working on custom ROMs (mostly MicroG issues, might be fine with Google Play Services).

Now I use a Pixel 7a. It fit all my requirements except for having a headphone jack, but after getting some AirPods Pro for free, which were much more convenient than using my IEMs (I fairly quickly stopped using them with my phone), I dropped that requirement. I’m assuming the community will support this phone for a while, but since you said you don’t mind spending more the Pixel 8 series has more than six years of official support left.

They’re building their own memory safe language, Jakt, but it’s not mature enough to be used by Ladybird yet. Dismissing it at such an early point for this reason is pretty dumb IMO, especially considering this is by far the most complete alternative browser engine, and it’s getting better at a very rapid pace.

You’re right about Discord though…

edit: BTW, I’d wager the complexity of Chrome’s code base is still largely responsiblefor the introduction of bugs, even if most are of a certain type. Ladybird is extremely simple in comparison.

Check out the Ladybird browser (by the same people making SerenityOS), it’s a new browser with its own engine. It’s already functional enough for me to use it to post this comment (though it is still in very early development).

From the article:

Using blind quantum computing, clients can access remote quantum computers to process confidential data with secret algorithms and even verify the results are correct, without revealing any useful information

This is a breakthrough because this level of security is impossible currently (as you allude to in your comment).

Availability will still be an issue, of course.

My point is that the article is about making cloud quantum computing secure; the article doesn’t even mention quantum encryption.

That said, cloud-based quantum cryptography has a big hole in it: the connection to the cloud.

Read the article, the whole point is making the connection to the cloud actually secure.

However, delegating quantum computations to a server carries the same privacy and security concerns that bedevil classical cloud computing. Users are currently unable to hide their work from the server or to independently verify their results in the regime where classical simulations become intractable. Remarkably, the same phenomena that enable quantum computing can leave the server “blind” in a way that conceals the client’s input, output, and algorithm [6–8]; because quantum information cannot be copied and measurements irreversibly change the quantum state, information stored in these systems can be protected with information-theoretic security, and incorrect operation of the server or attempted attacks can be detected—a surprising possibility which has no equivalent in classical computing.

From the paper the article talks about

A VM is basically a program which emulates a computer. This emulated computer can be setup to not have internet access.

Wine is a reimplementation of large parts of Windows, for Linux, with the aim of allowing Windows programs to run on Linux. Wine DOES NOT protect you in any way, it has access to the same stuff any other running program does.

With Linux, there are a lot of ways to prevent a program from connecting to the internet. IMO for this kinda use-case, I’ll probably run the program sandboxed with Bubblewrap and just unshare the network namespace.

This is an article about a dumb argument between two random people, not to mention the title is misleading anyway (the Rivian driver only assumes cops were called). Why post it here?

I agree in the sense that Wayland adoption would have definitely gone quicker if that was the case, however in the long run this approach does make sense (otherwise you will eventually just run into the same sorts of issues X11 had).

Btw what you’re describing is not that far off from the normal way of using Wayland protocols in development - you use wayland-scanner to generate C source files from the protocols, and you include those to actually “use” the protocols in your programs. Admittedly all my Wayland development experience has been “client-side”, so I really don’t know how complex it is to build a compositor, but dwl (minimalist Wayland compositor) is only around 3k lines of code (only slightly more than dwm (minimalist X wm)).

Yeah, that’s why the comment you initially replied to cast doubt on whether the chats are actually E2E encrypted.

E2E encryption means only the sender and recipient should be able to access a message.

I’m not sure you’re right, I can’t find information regarding whether users are confined by default on Fedora (Red Hat docs seem to indicate the users are unconfined by default).

Edit: They are not, see https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/selinux-getting-started/#_selinux_examples, specifically:

SELinux can confine Linux users. A number of confined SELinux users exist in SELinux policy. Linux users can be mapped to confined SELinux users to take advantage of the security rules and mechanisms applied to them. For example, mapping a Linux user to the SELinux user_u user, results in a Linux user that is not able to run (unless configured otherwise) set user ID (setuid) applications, such as sudo and su, as well as preventing them from executing files and applications in their home directory. If configured, this prevents users from executing malicious files from their home directories.