Keen observers of the panel we did this evening called "The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know" can spot that both @foosel and @icing got questions snuck in and answered 😀

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Re: last boost (mastodon.bsd.cafe/@nuintari/11…), I know that nostalgia, or saying things were better in the good old days, is dangerous. But when I read something like this, it's hard not to feel that software really has gotten much worse in some ways.


I went to U when the access network, before that was even a term we ever used, was X-Terminals on 10base2, connecting to UNIX and OpenVMS servers. Performance was amazing, even when the VAX 25 mhz big iron was under load. Logins to the Digital UNIX server with 90 students trying and failing to learn about linked lists in C, and performance was snappy as hell. X fucking worked, and it worked well.

years later..... (decades later, I'm old, get off my lawn)

I was contracted to assist with a <redacted> deployment of a VDI, to replace the need for two workstations on each desk. Yes, I know this really narrows it down who this was.

40gbit core, 40 or 10gigE to the access layer, and 1 gbe to each workstation.

Performance was ASS, because it was all Windows RDP.

The project was scrapped, because modern VDI is shit. We had working VDI in the 1990s with X, and we threw it away.

Fuck Wayland. Wayland is yet another example of, "but this is modern, so it must be better!"

Nothing modern cares about efficiency.


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This is a pretty weak argument against Wayland because the whole "network transparent" part of x11 hasn't been relevant for many, many years either, because it turns out x11 primitives are absurdly inefficient on modern computers. DRI was first added to x11 in <checks notes> 1998, because of this inefficiency. You really don't want to be doing IPC per-draw, and especially not over the network like that.
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1 #Magisk module was updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk (StevenBlock)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

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The Game Accessibility Guidelines have been put together by game studios, specialists and academics. While they are not an official set of standards or documents, they are a collection of tips and techniques to help developers make games more inclusive.

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I chatted with @bagder about #Curl and the recent #AI happenings

It's always fun talking to Daniel, and I think there's a lot of good ideas in this one, especially on how to approach AI fueled contributions that aren't slop. And even suggestions on how to deal with slop contributions :)

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We might have a world first on a proper and just DRM implementation :flan_hurrah: Signal has implemented DRM to protect against the adversarial functionality dubbed Recall :flan_molotov:

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Aus datenschutzrechtlicher Sicht ein „Desaster“: #Patientenakte ohne Selbstbestimmung. Neues Gesundheitsministerium verneint Zugriffskontrolle netzpolitik.org/2025/epa-ohne-…
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Der Abschluss trifft so ziemlich in's Schwarze, scheint es:

Das Bundesgesundheitsministerium habe die ePA beworben wie ein iPhone 16. „Erwartet haben wir ein Nokia. Was wir bekommen haben, ist ein Telefon mit Wählscheibe.“

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lol they're gonna try to pillage Canadas economy now too

What is modern monetary theory? An economist explains how it could help Canada
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hmm, I don't find it to be particularly great. It's mostly referencing other standards which could be used to implement some aspects but doesn't really scope what needs to be done in particular to satisfy the regulation. Don't get me wrong, there is good reference material in there, but if people are already overwhelmed and uncertain how to satisfy CRA they are now trying to figure out how to apply BSI, NIST, etc. standards of which only a small subset would be needed to fulfill CRA.

No, ještě posečkám.
Ale už si dělám srovnání a vybírám jinou značku.
Sere mne u TOP značek ta uzavřenost systému. Když mám hodinky Garmin musel jsem koupit hruďák Garmin, pak cykloGarmin atd.

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@archos
Tak cena, na to co to umí a kvalitu, odpovídá. Ale ne u všeho.
Třeba cyklo mapy a navigace podle nich, to je to samé co umí můj Garmin eTrex, vlastně první model, monochromatický na tužkovky. Nulový vývoj za ty léta. Podle toho se dá jezdit možná po silnici, ne v terénu, v horách, kde to má přesnost pozice horší než +-150m a pak to naviguje na prd.

@computer_zive

Tohle jsem nevěděl, strašné:

Zdravotní sestra Marie Navarová automaticky poskytla Heydrichovi první pomoc. Viděla zraněného člověka na chodníku, napřed si ani neuvědomila, o koho jde. Dostala za tu první pomoc odměnu, kterou dala na charitu. Pracovala ale pro odboj, tak skončila v koncentráku. Kvůli pomoci Heydrichovi a odměně ovšem byla braná jako kolaborantka, tak po válce pro změnu skončila na šest let v komunistickém vězení. Její manžel spáchal sebevraždu.

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