Oh its Bellular News. Yeah, he does lot of clickbait. I unsubscribed since 2 years by now.
I’m here to stay.
Oh its Bellular News. Yeah, he does lot of clickbait. I unsubscribed since 2 years by now.
KDE Plasma 6.3 is a VERY polished version! by “The Linux Experiment” is a video overview on YouTube of Plasma 6.3. There is also a new laptop product in the video, but you don’t have to watch that part (I am only interested in KDE).
I like the focus of improving the little usability things and bug fixing in general. Especially cloning the “panel” is useful if you want try new configurations or widgets without ruining your current setup. And hopefully their drawing tablets widget finally supports Wayland, as this one of the major points they have on the post. At least on Plasma 6.2 this is still not the case.
Looks like XDG Desktop Portal is using dbus and expects it: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/common-conventions.html
XDG Desktop Portal uses D-Bus in a slightly uncommon way, due to the potentially long-running nature of some of its requests.
And for the one user in your link https://snoo.habedieeh.re/r/voidlinux/comments/1471jbk/why_do_i_need_to_start_sway_with_dbusrunsession/jnxpxz7/?context=3#jnxpxz7 stating instead using d-bus, would use seatd
, I assume it has compatibility with d-bus. He recommends to uninstall d-bus in that case. I have no idea what seatd can do and if this is applicable to other distributions than Void Linux. So unfortunately I don’t know more than you. It makes sense that some sort of messaging is required in sandboxed environments.
Funny enough I just looked in my Archlinux based system and look what we have, seatd is installed already. And dbus
is also installed.
In short, X11 is a bit unsecure in its concept (like every program can read keyboard inputs you are doing right now). The multi monitor configuration possibilities and mixing different setups is basically impossible (I mean stuff like mixing 4k@120 Hz with G-Sync and another one with 1080p@60 Hz with just V-Sync). X11 or XOrg has a long history since the 80s with many versions, the code base is spaghetti code and its not a pleasure for developers to work on.
Wayland is new, with a fresh and modern code base. It eliminates the security and monitor issues. Programs not written for Wayland does not work, but luckily there is XWayland, which allows running X11 games on Wayland. You can think of like Proton for X11, but without the benefits of Wayland, just a compatibility mode. In Wayland there are sub protocols, meaning standard definitions, that are developed and added after some time passes. I personally think protocols being like an addon that allows doing more stuff in a standardized way across all systems that support it. Developers in Wayland have a much better time working with its modern code base.
Have a look at https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch03.html .
Firefox Translations now supports more languages than ever! Pages in Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can now be translated and Russian is now available as a target language for translating into.
Oh finally support for these Chinese, Japanese and Korean! Less reason to use Google translate. Edit: Just tested it on two websites, oh my goodness, it works well!
Yes, that’s the exact issue. Ubuntu does that for years. You use apt to install deb, but Ubuntu installs silently the Snap version. The article I linked was talking about that almost 4 years ago and talks about how to stop that. It’s an old issue not many are aware off.
It’s a known and documented issue that Ubuntu does. They secretly install the Snap version, even if you tried to install the Deb package. This is an issue since years: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1345385/how-can-i-stop-apt-from-installing-snap-packages (posted 3 years and 7 months ago)
I use Zstd specifically with tar
to make backups ever since I realized how fast it is. But that is a complete different thing than this day to day tool, where Zstd is not needed.
I have no mouth and I must write YAML
Well I used to use gzip to create .gz
files. But as I use 7z a lot, that inspired me to write this function to get a similar functionality. Only the auto delete original files is not implemented. Maybe in the future. BTW I also use tar
for backing up files with a custom backup script. Want to share it someday too, but never got around to make it usable for others. So at least I’m half greybeard. :D
No, I’m just used to use 7z. As it does lot of formats, its my default program for archive stuff. In example I also use often 7z as file format too (toarchive 7z files
). And to calculate crc32, not sure if the other tools print that information.
If they require weird install scripts you don’t want to install on your system, then do not install it with Distrobox either. For those cases you don’t trust the weird install script, I recommend to use a Virtual Machine; if you really really need the program.
Some jokes are not amusing.
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
That usually don’t happen. Hopefully you did not lose any personal data. What distributions were you using? I wonder what happened there, that both of your different distributions had a black screen after an update.
I’m glad the big focus on bug fixes since several sub versions. KDE feels rock solid on Wayland.
Depending on your definition what a keylogger is. I didn’t program it, so not sure about every step that is done. Tools like screenkey and showmethekey will read your keyboard input (and mouse) and display on the screen. I think the FAQ answers part of your question: https://showmethekey.alynx.one/
Why your program needs root permission? screenkey never asks for it!
If you debug with libinput, you’ll find it needs root permission, too. Because this program support both Wayland and X11, it does not get input events via display protocol, actually it’s reading directly from evdev interface under /dev. And if you want to interact with files under /dev, you need root permission. screenkey does not needs root permission because it’s heavily X11-based, it gets input events from X server instead of /dev, which already done it. And because of this it will never support Wayland.
EDIT: It is not logging any keystrokes or anything, its just for display purpose. If this is a problem to you, then you cannot use any program on your system, because every application you use is able to read your keyboard input. If that is the concern here.
Just because they call it Open Source does not make it. DeepSeek is not Open Source, it only provides model weights and parameters, not any source code and training data. I still don’t know whats in the model and we only get “binary” data, not any source code. This is not Libre software.
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