The_Decryptor
@The_Decryptor@aussie.zone
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 4 hours ago:
Should be possible, as it’s a normal VM you can already install flatpak apps in said VM as normal, you’d just need a Windows side bit to invoke the install within WSL when you opened the flatpak bundle, and then something to add a start menu shortcut from the app inside the VM (Which I actually assume already exists, I never actually ran WSL2 when I was on Windows)
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 13 hours ago:
Why have a laptop or a dual boot with Linux when you can now more easily stay on the proprietary OS ?
This is called market retention.
Preventing migration to another OS, another software ecosystem.
The ‘Embrace’ and ‘Extend’ parts of EEE.
That’s stretching the definition to the point it’s nearly unrecognisable.
What the term meant was for things like Internet Explorer, where MS adopted an existing standard (Embrace), started changing it in incompatible ways (Extend), while using their market power to lock out competitors (Extinguish)
e.g. IE used an incompatible method for sizing and laying out elements than any other browser, so a site that laid out properly in NN4 looked broken in IE6, and vise versa. So most devs targeted IE6 as it was more popular, and NN4 users got more and more broken sites.
ACPI was similar, Windows had an extremely lax implementation of it, so motherboards often shipped with bugs that Windows would ignore but would stop anything else from booting. Intentional? Doesn’t really matter, since it sure was helpful in slowing the adoption of things like Linux, that had to come up with workarounds for all the broken hardware.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 13 hours ago:
Not like you can fork it to run on a different OS.
For WSL1? yep that’s effectively impossible.
WSL2 is effectively just a wrapper around the kernel virtualization support and a bundling format, as long as whatever image you run talks to the host properly (like any other virtualised OS would) it’d run.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 1 week ago:
Web rings may make a big comeback.
I’ve got great news for you
- Comment on Indian Government orders censoring of accounts on X 1 week ago:
He could have tried to fight the order, that’s what the previous management used to do.
- Comment on Indian Government orders censoring of accounts on X 1 week ago:
- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 3 weeks ago:
I remember one of the modders behind a UI overhaul talking about the response to paid mods, when users kept saying that a donation system was better, that in the entire time they’d been making the mod they’d only gotten like $50 in donations total.
- Comment on TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I think they’re generally regarded as a mistake, browsers have removed all the UI signifying an EV cert these days.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
I wish the tooling around Secure Scuttlebutt wasn’t so annoying to use, more attention might have had some of the rough edges filed off.
On one hand you can have an offline first replication method (Phones syncing messages over bluetooth, etc.), but then you can’t post from multiple devices without moving your account between them.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 4 weeks ago:
It’s also not a progressive JPEG either.
- Comment on Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices 2 months ago:
Yep, this lets somebody use the ESP32 as part of an attack, not actually attack them remotely.
- Comment on Small study suggests dark mode doesn’t save much power for very human reasons 2 months ago:
“Fans claim it may offer an improvement” isn’t exactly a definitive statement.
From what I understand the research does actually show little to no improvement for either mode, which is actually a bit odd because we know the eye performs better the brighter the surroundings (Since it causes the pupil to contract, increasing the depth of field)
Maybe it’s a sign that we just need more research into the effectiveness in interfaces.
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 3 months ago:
I think it’s a good thing that telcos NAT their customers. The last thing we want is for the Internet to be able to easily connect to those devices.
That’s the job of a firewall, not a NAT.
That a NAT also blocks connections is incidental, it’s blocking them because it just has no idea how to handle them.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 3 months ago:
Both 4G and 5G support low frequencies.
Yep, and they’re in use too. Telstra/Optus/Vodafone all run 4G at 700MHz (compared to 850/900MHz for 3G). It’s slightly different for 5G, Telstra use 850MHz while Optus/Vodafone use 700MHz.
Australian Mobile Network Frequencies (Whirlpool)
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 months ago:
I imagine the stones would survive it, just fall out of the vanishing gauntlet. It’s not like the stones were a part of it, they were just being held in place by it, but then there’s the question of whether or not the contents of people’s pockets got snapped as well, we know the pager Fury had didn’t count as “part of him”.
And no, they used the ant man tech to go back in time, no stones there.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 6 months ago:
It’s a tad out of date, but the Second Doctor claims he received a medical degree after studying under Joseph Lister in 1888.
- Comment on Australia's youth crime rates have plummeted despite what politicians would have you believe 7 months ago:
I think it’s unfortunately a given at this point.
And they’ll take credit for “stopping” it once they no longer need to hype it up of course.