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Wayland Protocol 1.38 released
  • What’s wrong with rendering?

    Oh I dunno, maybe something with almost 700 comments? (HDR).

    However session saving is very important for any work, especially office tasks. It’s becoming critical now when all major DEs make Wayland the default.

    If apps don't want to save their state when they close there isn't much a window manager can do about that. The only part the window manager would be involved in is with positioning its window and that is hardly something very critical to the functionality of an app.

  • Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  • IIRC Mono was mostly used for WASM as it was optimized for smaller builds than the full fat CoreCLR (talking about .NET non-Framework Mono)

  • Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
  • It really wouldn't change anything in the long run. Any company that creates a browser is gonna need some form of income and people aren't willing to pay for a browser. What would be their incentive to continue to work on the browser when they aren't being paid?

  • Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
  • The kernel modules usually are signed with a different key. That key is created at build time and its private key is discarded after the build (and after the modules have been signed) and the kernel uses the public key to validate the modules IIRC. That is how Archlinux enables can somewhat support Secure Boot without the user needing to sign every kernel module or firmware file (it is also the reason why all the kernel packages aren't reproducible).

  • Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
  • And technically you can whitelist other certificates, too, but I have no idea how you might do that.

    When you enter the UEFI somewhere there will be a Secure Boot section, there there is usually a way to either disable Secure Boot or to change it into "Setup Mode". This "Setup Mode" allows enrolling new keys, I don't know of any programs on Windows that can do it, but sbctl can do it and the systemd-boot bootloader both can enroll your own custom keys.

  • To what extent, if at all, would have CrowdStrike's faulty update have been easier to deal with with an immutable distro?
  • I don't think any of the major distros do it currently (some are working twards it tho), but there are ways (primarily/only one I know is with systemd-boot). It invokes one of the boot binaries (usually "Unified Kernel Images") that are marked as "good" or one that still has "tries left" (whichever is newer). A binary that has "tries left" gets that count decremented when the boot is unsuccessful and when it reaches 0 it is marked as "bad" and if it boot successfully it gets marked as "good".

    So this system is basically just requires restarting the system on an unsuccessful boot if it isn't done already automatically.

  • GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- Season Pass 4 Teaser Trailer
  • I also didn't expect Lucy, I expected some other FGC character but I am not too too surprised considering they have RWBY in BBTAG

  • GNOME June 2024: C'mon you can do better
  • Accent colors are coming with GNOME 47.

  • Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory
  • I dunno, I don't have a camera feed into your life. But considering that is the first thing you respond to a clarification it most certainly wouldn't surprise me if you did.

  • Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory
  • I dont think home directory files should handled by something named tmpfiles.

    The only reason its still called tmpfiles is because of backwards compatibility

  • “Systemd is the future”
  • The BSOD really isn't something to be mad at, it actually in theory is good but there is only so much you can do when a kernel panics. What you should be mad at is shitty drivers causing BSODs

  • “Systemd is the future”
  • which definitely seems out of scope.

    Doesn't seem out of scope for a system and service management suite. Like, the timeperiod where systemd was "just an init" was relativly brief (like half a year).

  • Debian 10 LTS reaching end-of-life
  • The case is: You switched to it before it was "old-old-stable" and haven't updated.

    Causes for this are likely:

    • Software hasn't been tested on new version
    • Software hasn't been updated to work on new version
    • Needs revalidation for some specific certification
    • Lazy
  • YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers
  • (I think that's their goal, either ads or no watch)

  • Issue for GTK to make their window decorarions clickable at the corner
  • It's been a thing I personally have been wondering why this is how it is for a while. Personally I like most of the GNOME stuff, but this decision has always stood out as odd.

    But then again I almost always use ctrl+w or alt-f4 to close apps, so I am mostly unaffected.

  • Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries
  • Sometimes (almost always) I wish that the refunded money wouldn't come out of Steams/Valves pocket...