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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • I don’t know why the guy just assumed every linux and BSD machine runs cups-browsed by default?

    It took me literally 5 seconds to check that it’s disabled on Fedora by default.

    Then he wrote a whole paragraph about how no one should use CUPS for printing because based off of his own analysis, it’s some insanely crappy and insecure system.

    Which is actually stupid because the only alternative is windows??? Which is universally known for printer driver and spooler vulnerabilities.

    Then he got mad the the maintainer for patching before his disclosure…




  • If I ever saw a building using more power, my automatic assumption would be a big machine is inside.

    If it were ridiculously high, then my next guess would be a crypto mining farm.

    Ain’t no way modern LED lamps for growing plants gonna be drawing that much power.

    Not to mention any of these fools could have just as easily sent someone inside to check. Or if they really wanted to play coppers so bad, book a fake appointment or even just pretend to be a news agency to ask for a tour.


  • After 15 years of wayland development hell, I’m honestly open to anything. Problem is I can definitely see an experimental branch being just as scrutinized. One of the core issues highlighted was that features and requests were rejected because of hypotheticals and the maintainers trying to avoid fragmentation like early Xorg.

    Basic features from X11 are still missing. Everyone ended up somewhat fragmenting anyway via compositors because weston wasn’t really useful for developers beyond a demo. Wayfire started out as a Compiz redux and now its being considered by several DEs like XFCE to be the default compositor which they should standardize around.

    Regardless, I really hope they nail it down in the next year because the halfway migration to wayland is seriously harming Linux desktop, especially when lots of frontend UI has been done perfectly decades ago on X11, and wayland still not properly supporting new features like HDR.




  • Might as well be Most Islamic Countries tbh.

    Pakistan and Bangladesh buy spyware from Israel.

    Turkey and Azerbaijan buy a lot of their arms.

    Middle East in general is just screwed because it’s mostly US shills.

    Dunno enough about Southeast Asia or Africa, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they too had ties to Israel.

    I still like to think the only nation that made a proper stand was Yemen. Iran was kind of incompetent and is morally corrupt anyways. Lebanon is too fractured to have a chance of a proper leadership imo.

    Only the Houthis seemed to make a dent in Israel by attacking their supply line, which did actually have an effect.

    Otherwise there are plenty more non Islamic nations willing to do more.


  • This actually reminds me of that modified hellfire the US made in which they basically removed the explosives and installed a metal slug with blades, which they used to kill Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in the last few years in Afghanistan.

    The idea being that the kinetic warhead would greatly reduce the collateral and allow pinpoint precision on targets in a dense area.

    Of course Israel could never. They decided to go with fitting bombs onto pagers & walkie talkies, and their age old strategy of leveling entire buildings hoping the target is inside. Gotta win that maximum civilian death trophy at any cost.