NekkoDroid
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- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
yes
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
IIRC Mono was mostly used for WASM as it was optimized for smaller builds than the full fat CoreCLR
- Comment on Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers 3 months ago:
The kernel modules usually are signed with a different key. That key is created at build time and its pubic key is discarded after the build (and after the modules have been signed) and the kernel uses the private 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 reproducable).
- Comment on Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers 3 months ago:
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
sbctlcan do it and thesystemd-bootbootloader both can enroll your own custom keys. - Comment on To what extent, if at all, would have CrowdStrike's faulty update have been made easier to deal with with an immutable distro? 3 months ago:
I did hear that one of their newer versions does use eBPF, but I haven’t even remotely looked into it.
- Comment on To what extent, if at all, would have CrowdStrike's faulty update have been made easier to deal with with an immutable distro? 3 months ago:
I don’t think any of the major distros do it currently, 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.
- Comment on GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- Season Pass 4 Teaser Trailer 3 months ago:
I also didn’t expect Luci, I expected some other FGC character but I am not too too surprised considering they have RWBY in BBTAG
- Comment on Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory 4 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory 4 months ago:
I dont think home directory files should handled by something named tmpfiles.
The only reason its still called tmpfiles is because of backwards compatibility
- Comment on EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones 4 months ago:
This is a proposal by people funded by companies that would provide the services for this.
A lot of actual politicians oppose this tbbacherle.eu/2024/06/18/open-letter/
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 6 months ago:
Sometimes (almost always) I wish that the refunded money wouldn’t come out of Steams pocket…
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Fun fact: open source has a definition: opensource.org/osd
I don’t know much about Grayjay, but how you are describing it, it at best is “source open”
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
But the funny thing is that even with a larger user base, Spotify has NEVER posted a profit
I honestly doubt if you’d isolate Apple Music it’d be any different for them.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Lossless is pointless
I wouldn’t say its pointless, but it really doesn’t help much considering the quality of your average headset/earpieces.
- Comment on Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required 6 months ago:
It’s incredibly easy to fuck your partitions to hell and back, especially through Windows.
Fun fact: Windows won’t allow you to delete any EFI partition (that is the only one I know of/tried) unless its through
diskpartwith a specific override/force option.But then again, I somehow nuked my recovery partition by accident at some point as well.
- Comment on Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required 6 months ago:
bless the drive with a boot loader that doesn’t suck, like Grub
Ah yes, I need a whole separate OS just to boot my actual OS…
I would in no world call GRUB a bootloader that doesn’t suck.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 6 months ago:
Sure, the other option is having it tied to an email, which is reliant on your single vendor and is also an easier way to create an army of spam bots. Phone numbers at least are transferable between carriers.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
You should see the comments on the Phoronix forums…
- Comment on World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true 6 months ago:
Overwatch
Don’t worry, the person behind Overwatch 2 left in 2021 and is still held in high regard by a lot of people :)
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 7 months ago:
Got myself an IFixit Mako a while ago, really nice even if I mostly just use the philips head ones
- Comment on Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? 7 months ago:
The EU already has one for anyone interested social.network.europa.eu
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new $8,990 lizard-embossed leather jacket, also says something about AI GPUs | Tom's Hardware 7 months ago:
I genuinly hate NV as a company and their propriatary software, but I can say that the software they provide is decent/good. Like… good cards and software, terrible company and philosophy/moral
- Comment on Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs) 7 months ago:
they probably made more money from OW1 lootboxes, overall
I really doubt it considering how many boxes you got thrown after you, with coins for dups with which you can just buy skins. Was a great system for the player, but probably terrible monitarily.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 season 10 will make all new heroes free, Blizzard announces 7 months ago:
The actual reason is to hide the fact they’re probably not gonna have much if any pve content soonish
They literally out right said multiple times that PvE content is mostly shelved and to not expect anything.
- Comment on ifn't 9 months ago:
It’s not
ifn’t - Comment on queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban 10 months ago:
Wouldn’t that need them to get the
fudomain itself? I have a feeling that is already used by someone else, but there currently isn’t any website at that domain (doesn’t mean it isnt used) - Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
IMO my favorite launcher to use out of all is probably Battle.net, even over Steam. This is probably mostly because Steam is terrible unresponsive and its startup is still kinda ass (I just tested the start and noticed its 3 fucking loading screens: Verifying installtion, Logging in and finally loading the page. All as separate windows).
- Comment on Microsoft Wants Game Pass On PlayStation, Nintendo, And "Every Screen" Possible 11 months ago:
At this point it wouldn’t even surprise me if they wanna end Xbox in its current form. To my knowledge it’s very low margin if it’s not a net negative, so using other platforms instead to host it would end up with them making more in the long run.
- Comment on Right-wing influencers pledge to bail out Elon Musk after Apple, Disney, others suspend advertising on X 11 months ago:
Do NOT associate Mastodon stuff with that shit
- Comment on How much does it matter where my domain registrar is located? 1 year ago:
Apparently google doesn’t even offer new registrations anymore