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  Ach was, haben wir also doch ne sirene hier

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  I have a request for all the #GNOMEOS users: please update to the latest version, and try to get your system to lock up because it's running out of memory. Report back how it went, compared to the usual experience on the same hardware. #GNOME

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  @alice@mk.nyaa.place GNOME OS 🙃

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  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/

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  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...

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  LTS is a scam and always has been

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  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.

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  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/

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  @pojntfx @alatiera The German versions is surprisingly good. Tried to watch the Les Douze Travaux d'Astérix a few weeks ago but that level of French is just not in my reach...

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  @pid_eins oh, and with varlink and appd it can be exactly two because no more dbus-proxy, no more frontend/backend split, and no call for the creds/permissions.

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  @pid_eins should have counted the context switches of a portal call for maximum effect :p

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  @rmader also just boarded my first train!

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  Also why the fuck is no one even talking about how he fucked over the Kurds again? Usually it takes decades for the fucked up US ops to get public but this time they admitted to trying to send small arms to Iran after the deadly protests like two month later, helping both the Iranian regime with their propaganda and giving Turkey, Syria and Iran even more reasons to crack down on the Kurds.

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  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/

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  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

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  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/