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• Post #4110099

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@whack/116983168997530856 Oh my, I didn't realise the state of develop-for-Wayland was this bad. As a sometimes hobbyist developer I can feel the pain. It really does feel like one of the Linux non-profits could usefully somehow "take ownership" of the protocol level to at least standardise on one way to do things like virtual keyboard input. You'd think at least Gnome and KDE could have saved both their selves some time by co-operating on these thing...

• Post #3585415

  Anyone happen to know what's going on with kernel.org today? First my RSS reader thought there were some new releases, but they were old 6.15 series ones. Then I checked the www.kernel.org - it was originally only showing outdated (no longer listed usually) kernel series, e.g. no 6.18. Now it's gotten up to showing `longterm: 6.18.37 ...` again (after showing earlier 6.18 revisions for that), and *also* shows a `mainline: 6.18 ...` line. 7.0 and 7.1 have gone MIA. I'm hoping thi...

• Post #1000852

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116368745849070518 The lesson to users here is: DON'T BYPASS TLS ERROR DIALOGUES TO CONNECT ANYWAY. If no-one did that this attack wouldn't have succeeded. This article basically only mentions this at the end, and the Krebs On Security article 'hid' that information in an image.

• Post #974978

  @RogerBW@discordian.social @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Also .. What the banks thinks it's getting: Their app running on a phone that is 'secure', because its bootlocker is still locked. What the bank may well be getting: Their app running on a phone that is definitely not secure, because despite the locked bootloader, and passing SafetyNet (or whatever Google are calling it now)... it's no longer receiving updates, has multiple vulnerabilities, and has spyware up the wazoo a...

• Post #835433

  @tomasekeli@plud.re @beko The term I see for it is JSONL (JSON, Linebreak-delimited). The point is that it updates live with the game events, so it *can't* be an array of lines, as that would require replacing the closing "]" with ", { ... }]" each time. The documentation for the Journal (and associated files) is quite clear: "The Player Journal is written in line-delimited JSON format (see json.org and jsonlines.org), ...". But, yeah, after any restart of c...

• Post #772585

  @paninid@mastodon.world @KimCrayton1@dair-community.social The full press release is: https://press.un.org/en/2026/ga12755.doc.htm

• Post #526309

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/116171975075730495 What are the chances we'll manage to not feed this to all the cattle, sheep etc, causing bacteria to mutate to become resistant ?

• Post #526177

  @bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de Ahem, "Pawlot" is right there ;) (Not my invention, it was mostly as "co-pawlot" when Elite Dangerous players had a cat hanging out with them.)

• Post #491125

  One of the things I use Discord for is the Heroic launcher server, mostly for the channel where "Gaming on Linux" news is posted. They're investigating Fluxer as an alternative. So, I popped over, created an account, muted everything but that one equivalent channel... ... and, hmmm, I'm not sure how ready Fluxer is for this. I mute "until I turn it back on" an entire category and yet still get activity dots for the channels. And they seem to have somewhat limited...

• Post #416846

  @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Before I switched to BitWarden for my passwords I was storing them using kickpass. kickpass gives you an encrypted file per thing/site, and there's no requirement to actually be storing a password in that part of the data. The metadata just opens up in $EDITOR. I've not looked at it closely, but I assumed it was doing a better job of handling things like "don't leave a plain-text temporary file lying around if you crash" than my previous hom...

• Post #406535

  Finally getting around to upgrading my home server from Debian bookworm (12/oldstable) to trixie (13/stable). `apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs` went smoothly enough, just a few config files with local tweaks. Currently wishing I had FTTP for the `apt full-upgrade` downloads. I'm "languishing on only 80Mbps FTTC". I expect to have some issues to sort out once this bit is done, and I still need to re-activate/update my third-party repositories.... #Debian #Debian13 #FTTP #FTTC

• Post #388689

  *click* Until Firefox devs screw something up that's absolutely no AI functionality for me, thanks. Oh, it's in its own new section of the settings, "AI Controls". #firefox #mozilla #noai

• Post #375713

  @Epaphus@mastodon.lo0.uk I was literally getting `SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument` for anything below 1500 with `ip link set eth0 mtu 1500` in the telnet shell.

• Post #374935

  @Epaphus@mastodon.lo0.uk Nope, the telnet interface doesn't allow setting an MTU above 1500 on eth0. Ah well, and it would only have been an extra 8 octets/0.536% anyway.

• Post #319144

  @ktims@nonexistent.ca I just had an epiphany. This whole thing actually has nothing to do with TLS. That was a rabbit hole I went down due to my initial web searches hitting upon things like openssl 3.5 introducing the post-quantum protocols. No, this thing is *purely* about IPv6 PMTU failing in this use case. I mistook my "server has a different MTU, because it's talking on ppp0 directly, and the desktop has 4088 MTU due to its LAN NIC" for "server has openssl 3.0, deskto...

• Post #318759

  @neverpanic@chaos.social Yes, Debian is using: `ii openssl 3.5.4-1~deb13u2` But I've looked very closely at the two sets of negotiations, and there were only very minor differences. I *had* tried configuring off the hybrid post-quantum ciphers/etc, but it made no difference. It's just something about openssl 3.5 negotiation causes Azure to generate larger packets, and only IPv6 had this cause an issue. As else-thread, likely because something in Azure is eating the...

• Post #317908

  @FoxVK@mastodon.sandwich.net The idea is out allows for e.g. larger NFS packets between my server and desktop, so greater throughput on large file accesses.

• Post #269683

  @benjohn@todon.nl Well, sure looks like the performance of the M1s holds up: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-late-2020 versus https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-13-inch-2025-10c-cpu-8c-gpu