Elv13

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by Elv13 4mo ago
(one of AwesomeWM core dev here) Vicious is getting quite old. We put tons of effort in AwesomeWM to be perfectly backward compatible all the way back to the 3.5.0 API (ok, 4.0 had documented breaking changes, but still had compat code to m
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by Elv13 9mo ago
Debian (and thus Ubuntu) has full support for automated installs since the 90's. It's built into `dpkg` since forever. That include saving or generating answer to install time questions, PXE deployment, ghosting, CloudInit and eve
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by Elv13 2y ago
It was tried before (gimpshop)
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by Elv13 2y ago
Well, the stories goes that's actually an Al Capone gift to society
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by Elv13 2y ago
Not really. Maemo/N900 and OpenMoko existed and worked well enough. The problem I think is more than Meego/Mer/Moblin was supposed to be equally open, but a customer ready version of that idea. It was delayed over and over ag
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by Elv13 2y ago
A lot of vendor tools (think firmware flasher, diagnostic tools) for older hardware used DOS boot images (CD, floppy, USB, netboot, etc) because it gives lower level access to hardware. Some software/hardware combo is also "real t
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by Elv13 2y ago
The phone part is no different. It's easy to run your own FreeSWITCH or Asterisk server at home and connect a cellphone using Wireguard. It costs ~0.5$ US per month to get nearly unlimited everything. Calls and SMS work just fine. The
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by Elv13 3y ago
I am pretty sure material science went a long way. No need to put a foot of lead behind the reactor. The space race provided quite a bit of funding toward lightweight protection. It was too late for those plane project as they were already
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by Elv13 3y ago
There was plans in the 50s/60s to have a fleet of nuclear aircraft staying airborne for 2 months. That job ended up being taken by submarines, some staying in mission for 6 months. So the logistic of keeping people and a few ICBM in a
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by Elv13 3y ago
It actually make some sense if their official explanation for the purpose of the vehicle is true. If the main reason for the X-37b is to bring material to orbit and study the long term effect of being in space, then going higher make sense.
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by Elv13 3y ago
> I’ll be left stranded if the rest of the Linux ecosystem moves on. There is no such things. Unless they remove xorg from the repository, then it's just an entry in the session login screen as it always was. > Also, any pointers
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by Elv13 3y ago
> While I have you here, do you think 4.4 is still years away? I/we were never very fond of releases to be honest. All it does is to fragment the number of version in the various LTS distribution, which makes support a pain (vs &quo
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by Elv13 3y ago
> It's a little buggy in the 4.3 tree I was working on fixing some of those bugs last weekend. Can you clarify which annoys you the most so I can add unit test later this evening? tl;dr; The main problem is that the z-index stack a
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by Elv13 3y ago
(AwesomeWM co-maintainer here) From the point of view of tiling, Sway is an i3 clone for wayland. For AwesomeWM as a programming sandbox WM, it is much tougher to get something identical. A lot of AwesomeWM work goes into APIs, CI and docum
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by Elv13 4y ago
It's using DHT like BitTorrent magnet links to find people using public keys.
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by Elv13 4y ago
I think one important bit of context that may be missing here is that Hydro Quebec is technically also a public research (graduate) university. You can get PhD there when working on these projects (how this is implemented is confusing, but
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by Elv13 4y ago
To be fair, "old hardware" is kind of frozen in time by definition. DSL is what it is. If you want to play with hardware with 32mb of ram, it does what it does. It isn't really an OS you want to "use" or "expan
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by Elv13 4y ago
It was 3% as long as you were part of the conspirator and make it extra painful to everybody else. What the conspirators wanted out of this was to control the number of players so they could limit supply and control rates. Paying people t
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by Elv13 4y ago
There was a (government) public investigation / shame campaign a few years ago ago the construction industry in Montreal, Canada. One of the person who testified in exchange for not being jailed was "Mr. 3%", a member of the
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by Elv13 4y ago
For the record, I am not saying something is wrong with Alma. I am saying if Rocky says they need time to get it right, then I see this as a good sign. About `mock`, the problem is the ABI. If you don't build the packages in the "
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by Elv13 4y ago
Would you rather have `.rpm`s build by someone on the command line using `rpmbuild` or `mock` or something built by a CI with proper bootstraping and "nearer" to reproduceable builds. Also, by cutting corners on the CI, you risk i
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by Elv13 4y ago
Qt (the legacy Qt::Widget variant) is quite productive for quick and dirty GUIs. You can do 95% of basic dialogs in QtDesigner and then connect the signals to your code and vice versa. The code can be Python or C++. It can also be mapped 1:
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by Elv13 4y ago
AppImages are only as self-contained as the author put effort into making them self-contained. There's also upper limits to how self-contained they are. While some terminal and bitmap only X11 app can be compiled as static binaries, an
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by Elv13 4y ago
A PC is ideal as long as there is only one. Once you start adding machines, it is time to move to a rack. Otherwise you end up with a giant ball of wires. Racks have rails like drawers, so the units are easy to service. Thats not the case w
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by Elv13 5y ago
Yeah, if you started using `git-master` around ~7 years ago, it hasn't broken ever since. The last breaking release was v4.0 in 2016, but it was in development for years before that in the git-master branch. 3.5->4.0 was a pretty na
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by Elv13 5y ago
Just a little note that we (AwesomeWM team) have stable APIs since 4.0 and each releases no longer break the API. We also have reached 90% code/behavior coverage (from 0% in < 4.0 days). From a maintainer PoV, this is often a pain s
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by Elv13 5y ago
> you can't provide a dedicated GUI for them You could expose enough GTK bits to expose an event loop to the LGI lua library. It's gobject-introspection for Lua. Since you already use these libs, it would not make Ardour any bi
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by Elv13 5y ago
vxworks claimed that title. Unfortunately, Linux never was the "only OS with an installed base covering several planets". And if you never heard of vxworks or QNX, that's the point. They just work and that's the point.
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by Elv13 5y ago
> A process which doesn't exist cannot hold memory Not quite. Some leaks are across processes. If your process talk to a local daemon and cause it to hold memory then quitting the client process wont necessarily free it. In a simila
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by Elv13 6y ago
It runs like crap, that's why it isn't supported. But if really, really want to make it work, you can have your app make a surface, put a cairo surface in it, then render GTK there. I suggest you don't waste any time on this.

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