#desktop (2 posts)
Is Linux (as a desktop) normie friendly already?
Written on: 2023-04-27
Updated on: 2023-04-29
we are not there yet and maybe for a long time
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Status update, May 2025
Hi! Today wlroots 0.19.0 has finally been released! Among the newly supported protocols, color-management-v1 lays the first stone of HDR support (backend and renderer bits are still being reviewed) and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 enhances the previous screen…
via emersionMay 14, 2025An Abstract of a real P2P Electronic Cash System
We have P2P Electronic Cash Systems at home Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Sounds familiar? This is the title of the whitepaper of Bitcoin, which starts with a strong claim: A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow…
via Christian Visintin BlogMay 05, 2025The British Airways position on various border disputes
My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while. To get here, we flew on British Airways from London to Tokyo, and…
via Drew DeVault's blogMay 05, 2025Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made awa…
via Dhole MomentsMay 04, 2025Reading Zanzibar
Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization – enforcing who can do what – which maxes out both flexibility and scalability. Google has lots of different apps that rely on Zanz…
via macwright.comMay 02, 2025Get Weird And Disappear
Pre-script: Reader and now close friend Phil Giammattei could use some help with a horrible brush with cancer in the family. You can support him here. Update: You all crushed Phil's goal, thank you so much for your generosity. Things are obviously Extremel…
via LudicityApril 29, 2025Body::poll_progress
This describes a proposal for a cancelation problem with hyper’s request and response bodies. hyper is an HTTP library for the Rust language. Background: what is the Body trait? The Body trait used by hyper is meant to represent a potentially streaming (…
via seanmonstarApril 22, 2025CVE-2025-32433 - State Machine Err-ly RCE in Erlang/OTP SSH Server
CVE-2025-32433 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the SSH server implementation within Erlang’s OTP libraries (affecting versions legendary CVSS score of 10.0 and became known as a vulnerability for which AI-assisted exploit development process wa…
via GreyNoise LabsApril 22, 2025AI-powered search summaries led to less clicks to websites
Google claims that links beside AI summaries get more clicks. This goes against intuition. Ahrefs did some analysis on this recently. Who is right?
via Rob O'Leary | BlogApril 21, 2025The IndieWeb & that blog roll
The IndieWeb's something I've known about for a while, but never really engaged with. I mean this is very much part of The Indie Web, the very thing, you're reading it right now. But in terms of the camel cased movement, not so much. To me they seemed a bi…
via Mike KreuzerApril 16, 2025LLDB's TypeSystems: An Unfinished Interface
Well, it's "done". TypeSystemRust has a (semi) working prototype for LLDB 19.x. It doesn't support expressions or MSVC targets (i.e. PDB debug info), and there are a whole host of catastrophic crashes, but it more or less proves what it needs to: Rust's de…
via Cracking the ShellMarch 28, 2025Backup Yubikey Strategy
After a local security meetup where I presented about Webauthn, I had a really interesting chat with a member about a possible Yubikey management strategy. Normally when you purchase a yubikey it's recommended that you buy two of them - one primary and one…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logFebruary 28, 2025The Adrian Dittmann Story
the evidence, from A to Z, and righting the wrongs
via maia blogJanuary 05, 2025Awesome Fish functions
Some awesome fish functions that I have accumalated over the years.
via Ishan WritesJanuary 03, 2025Physics Simulations in Bevy
Bevy is the most popular and powerful game engine in Rust. Because of its flexibility, it can be used not only for games but also for (scientific) physics simulations. In this blog post, I will share my experience using Bevy for physics simulations from sc…
via mo8it.comJuly 19, 2024Defending myself against defensive writing
I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites li…
via pcloadletterMay 27, 2024The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines
This essay was edited out of a chapter of my book, The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI, with minor alterations. “See the choice of dreams”, and then worry about it Very well. This book – this side, Dream …
via Out of the Software Crisis (Newsletter)October 13, 2023Regex engine internals as a library
Over the last several years, I’ve rewritten Rust’s regex crate to enable better internal composition, and to make it easier to add optimizations while maintaining correctness. In the course of this rewrite I created a new crate, regex-automata, which expos…
via Andrew Gallant's Blog on Andrew Gallant's BlogJuly 05, 2023Generated by openring-rs