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[–] eah@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's the new Quora?

 

Luis Villa writes about the recent ruling in the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL-violation lawsuit against Vizio, wherein the judge refused to agree that the SFC lacks standing to sue.

[–] eah@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I've been reading this for a few weeks now.

There's a section talking a bit about the history of unix that I quite liked. I'm young and don't know the whole story. According to this handbook, unix was used and taught in universities, so when students went out into the world they preferred unix systems. As a result, tons of companies started offering their own versions of unix touting portability with the other unixes but with their own differentiating extensions which sort of contradicts the claim of portability. People would write for one system and frustratingly find that their software doesn't work on a different vendor. I'm curious where linux fits into the story. This must have been before linux because the handbook makes no mention of it. Did linux and its free software license immediately kill off these other unixes? How much role did copyleft play?

[–] eah@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It seems Mullvad has the OpenVPN option tucked away as the very last option even though OpenVPN seems to be the easiest method. Why is that?

[–] eah@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Here's a good discussion on HN about this, including comments from lawyers.

[–] eah@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

https://blog.wolftune.com/p/software-recommendations-and-more.html

If anybody knows what you're looking for, the author of this blog does.

[–] eah@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

How do Debian and other distros feel about Rust? It's a fantastic language that can improve security, but it doesn't have a stable ABI and they don't really do the whole dynamically linked library thing.

[–] eah@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have the issue that the snap version can't browse files whose path includes a hidden dot file/directory in my home directory. It doesn't seem there's any clean way for me say "no, I give you explicit permission to read these files." My workaround was to sudo mount --bind ~/.foo ~/bar and then browse from ~/bar instead. I'm not sure what they think they were preventing me from doing but they failed.

[–] eah@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some day you may find your machine booting into linux without displaying a grub menu. You were promised a menu giving you boot options. Where is it? The problem may be your grub timeout is 0. Set the timeout in /etc/default/grub and then run update-grub. See section 6.1 of the info grub manual.