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• Post #2030400

  I felt bad for having written a blog post that says that pidfd's are basically useless, because they definitely are not anymore. So a wrote a follow up where I explain how they solve a pretty big architectural issue for (sanboxed) apps, when combined with modern cgroup features. https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/so-peerpidfd-gets-more-useful/

• Post #1887764

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116459585811044061 Someone wrote a postmortem on the security issues uncovered in uutils, "the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils" https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/ It is an interesting read on its own. The author praises Rust for managing to entirely eliminate memory safety issues in uutils. My view here is unfortunately closer to that of Lennart: the remaining class of bugs are to a large part the fault of the Rust st...

• Post #1887760

  LTS is a scam and always has been

• Post #1887759

  GNOME OS on an ePaper panel driven by @modos glider at 75hz over USB C. The cursor feel smoother than on some shitty 60hz LCD displays and scrolling around works surprisingly well. Absolute game changer for working on the balcony.

• Post #1628883

  Trying to answer a question no sane person ever had to ask: How Hard Is It, To Open a File? This one is about the great POSIX idea of a filesystem, and why you could not play your games and open chrome for a few days. https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/

• Post #1032202

  Now that libdex supports dbus, and I could play around with it for a while, I thought it's a good time to talk about ownership in GLib, and specifically about how fibers affect it. https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/glib-ownership-best-practices/

• Post #993742

  From "we're doing this to free the people" to "actually we just want to oil" to "this is a crusade against the wrong religion" to "we don't care about war crimes" to "we will bomb them to the stone age" to "we will wipe out the entire country". The only way in which Trump is different than his predecessors is that he's without a filter and can't help himsel...

• Post #738584

  Instead of taking any part in the monthly wayland bashing bullshit, you could just read about how electron, one of the last X11 bastions, has adjusted to wayland. Super important work! https://www.electronjs.org/blog/tech-talk-wayland

• Post #652358

  Wrote a bit about some of my work around the definition of wayland content updates, which recently landed in the core protocol. https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/wayland-content-updates/